BARDO POLLND

I can rarely get past the first couple tracks on the s/t. :(

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Sunday, 13 February 2011 22:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

those are like the two shortest songs. patience!

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

AMANITA
LAPSED
SET AND SETTING

― cellular nekomata (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

Exactly the same as 'a passing spacecadet' really, haven't heard anything from Ticket Crystals on. Voting confidently for Lapsed, what a beast!

― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 13 February 2011 23:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

Kinda wish I could vote for a live-in-concert option...

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 February 2011 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

if they could capture on record what they do on stage, that would be my pick too. isobel (and her flute) works better for me in person, for sure, riding that sound they build

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

They haven't toured the West coast in forever, considering I got into them big-time circa Dilate and still have never seen them.

My fav era starts with Set up till On The Ellipse, I've kept up with the main albums as much as I can, but they've have felt very hit/miss for me. I like Circuit VIII a LOT, though, since it's very much from the Set/Lapsed era psycho-crunch.

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

(though I might take either Hash Jar Tempo above any of these)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

― blond BBQ teen chipotle while angus bacon movies (crüt), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

Amanita will likely always be my favorite Bardo Pond album. It was in the right place at the right time.

― Trip Maker, Monday, 14 February 2011 03:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

Hey that's pretty much what I was going to say! But Amen 29:15 deserves some respect for being monumental.

― stately wang manner (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 February 2011 03:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

This is impossible.
I love this band so so so so much. I've seen them live maybe a half-dozen times. I love them. I haven't even heard all of these records due to my format prejudice, but i have never heard a bad record by this band.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 14 February 2011 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

BIG LAUGHING JYM

I have literally never seen a copy of this. Reissue time.

― stately wang manner (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 February 2011 03:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

It was the first Bardo album I owned! Pretty lowfi iirc.

― Trip Maker, Monday, 14 February 2011 03:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

(all my cd's were stolen out of my car senior year in high school. Pretty sure Big Jym was a casualty)

― Trip Maker, Monday, 14 February 2011 03:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

dilate. not real picky when it comes to these dudes tho

― adam, Monday, 14 February 2011 04:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

I have BLJ. (It's OOP? Explains why there's a new copy going for $50 on Amazon (used for $9 though).) Except for "Dragonfly," not much memorable on it.

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2011 05:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

Set & Setting or On The Ellipse for me...

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'd vote for the "LSD POND" thing they did with LSD March if I could.

― ryan, Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

not going to vote because I haven't heard many of these, but Ticket Crystals was what stuck with me. the only one I still play with any regularity. haven't been able to get into the s/t either.

― rockapads, Sunday, 20 February 2011 02:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

Leaving aside the early cassettes, I've heard ALL but 2-4 of these. (Also own LSD Pond, and a fistful of side/affiliated projects.)

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Sunday, 20 February 2011 02:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

thats a lot of albums

― billstevejim, Sunday, 20 February 2011 02:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

You're telling me.

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Sunday, 20 February 2011 02:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh man just saw this poll

gotta go dilate as hearing "two planes" as my first bardo pond tune just totally did my head in, instant fan for life. agree the hash jar tempo and lsd pond releases are worthy & missing. likewise w/ the tom carter collaborative live thing. used to have the prairie dog flesh, vapour theories, 500mg stuff too but then sold it. i think i had like 25+ bardo things on my shelf. went a bit overboard there for a while!

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Sunday, 20 February 2011 03:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

ahh dont forget -- alasehir/alumbrados, those are pretty good too

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Sunday, 20 February 2011 03:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

went a bit overboard there for a while!

Makes sense to go overboard with Bardo, hah. You got me beat, too: I only have 19 Bardo-related things on my shelf.

There's no Cypher Documents either, and that's straight up real Bardo. :(

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Sunday, 20 February 2011 04:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

(19 not counting various boots I have hidden everywhere.)

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Sunday, 20 February 2011 04:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

voting Lapsed and only own four albums, all from the mid 90's. need to listen to the new one.

― World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Sunday, 20 February 2011 04:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

These guys should win an Album of the Year Grammy.

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Sunday, 20 February 2011 06:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

I voted for the wrong one. :(

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

Of course they're all great, but a curveball vote for me this poll - 'Ticket Crystals'

― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

Wtf is up w people in this thread? New one is great. Fantastic, even. Making me regret once again not voting in the past end-of-year poll.

― kingkongvsbasedgodzilla (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

its great. just ignore leee..

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

Right on Algie!

― kingkongvsbasedgodzilla (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

I thought Lapsed would walk this

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

set and setting is the one i heard first and probably still my fav

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 21 February 2011 00:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 votes for the new one is kind of a shocker! who else voted for it???

― if music be the fuiud of love then piss off (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

i did. i don't know their catalogue real well—a couple-few of the late-90s ones that i heard then (ok) or revisited in recent years (to better effect), recent ones like 'peri' that i enjoyed a lot, and the new one. they've always struck me as pretty awesome when they're awesome and not-quite-heavy-or-messed-up-enough when not, a little inconsistent at what i was getting from them, but lately they've been more satisfying to me and the new one seemed to really hit a zone even on the kinds of songs i would have been impatient with in the past.

i think it's partly a drums and bass thing—have they sorted out their rhythm section a little better now?

― j., Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

sounds like i rly need to hear the new one!

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 03:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

have they sorted out their rhythm section a little better now?

God, I hope not.

― curation and dilletantage (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 03:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

P4k gave it a 6.5, which really got on my nerves...I dunno enough about them either but I think you're right j, the new one hits a sweet spot and stays there...

― if music be the fuiud of love then piss off (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 03:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

still love the new one, but if I had the chance, I would change my vote to "Set and Setting"

― schizophrenics think I'm hilarious (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 May 2011 02:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

solid line-up for lucky nyers

http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/2255

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 2 June 2011 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

that show is so goddamn early i'm gonna miss mtns & pond because of work. love metal mountains; one of my fave bands at the moment.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

I guess you're also gonna miss Guided By Voices, White Fence, Thee Oh Sees, Eleanor Friedberger and Spectre Folk who are all playing different shows that night.

Busy weekend.

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

i would rather see bardo pond than all those, although god bless robert pollard

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

I would too probably, that weekend is crazy though. Not to mention this Oneida thang:

http://enemyhogs.com/site/index.php?id=365

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

good interview w/ one of the Bardo guys on altered zones -

http://alteredzones.com/posts/1398/artist-profile-bardo-pond

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 3 June 2011 02:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

jason kourkounis is a monster

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 19 June 2011 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

their latitudes release from last month, yntra, is unbelievable

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 20 October 2012 19:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

wtf didn't even know about this, RIP their web presence.

― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Saturday, 20 October 2012 19:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

Don't even know how I can pick up their last vol. CD-R!

― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Saturday, 20 October 2012 19:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

seriously this is really great vintage stuff

http://blog.southern.com/2012/09/bardo-pond-grace-us-with-a-divine-latitudes-session/

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 20 October 2012 22:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

i listened to the first 2 tracks on youtube. its really really good so far

― skeevy wonder (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:12 (7 months ago) Permalink

two great (relatively) straightforward rock songs then a twenty minute hawkwind meltdown makoto kawabata would give his left nut to have been part of

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 21 October 2012 14:12 (7 months ago) Permalink

I would've voted Ticket Crystals, but I'm hardly a completist.

― Raymond Cummings, Sunday, 21 October 2012 14:50 (7 months ago) Permalink

Who's the lead vox on the second track of the new one?

― Leeezzarina Sbarro (Leee), Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

I don't know why it's taking me so long to get into these monster freakout jams now, but I'm finally digging on "A Crossing" now.

― Godspeed You Black Emperor Tomato Ketchup! (Leee), Monday, 19 November 2012 02:14 (6 months ago) Permalink

Man, Ticket Crystals sounding so good this morning. "destroying Angel" is my favorite Bardo Pond song right now. Isobel's voice reminds me of a (relatively) more tuneful Toody Cole, and when the flute comes in and you think it's just another vocal track at first, it's seriously a Fripp-guitar-solo-on-"Hammond Song" kinda moment

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 12:08 (4 months ago) Permalink

Yeah imo Ticket Crystals is the start of a major upswing for the Bardos

― x-gau, uncut gau, The Bomb! (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:03 (4 months ago) Permalink

attn bardo pond enthusiasts:
http://open.spotify.com/track/0aC2O1Md5jNf2xmeRfl7sQ

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 21 April 2013 13:39 (1 month ago) Permalink

going in...

― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Sunday, 21 April 2013 13:52 (1 month ago) Permalink

(thx lech)

― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Sunday, 21 April 2013 13:52 (1 month ago) Permalink

Holy shit this maggot brain gets really molten

― Trip Maker, Sunday, 21 April 2013 14:10 (1 month ago) Permalink

:)
the creator has but one demand: peace and happiness throughout the land

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 21 April 2013 14:11 (1 month ago) Permalink

<3

― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 21 April 2013 14:19 (1 month ago) Permalink

damn, that was a hell of a thing. and yeah, "molten" is the word, at least in the second half. can't touch the liquid precision and dialed-in emotional intensity of the original, but provides a spectacular platform for bp's sense-dulled flame & glide.

"the creator has a master plan" is proceeding v nicely, too. shades of spacemen 3's take on "transparent radiation". these are no shit two of my very favorite songs in all the world, and i can't imagine them channeled through a finer medium.

― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Sunday, 21 April 2013 14:27 (1 month ago) Permalink

this rules

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Sunday, 21 April 2013 15:13 (1 month ago) Permalink

listened to this on repeat for most of the morning. helps ease the descent.

― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Monday, 22 April 2013 15:30 (1 month ago) Permalink

Located a copy in St Louis!

― Trip Maker, Monday, 22 April 2013 16:32 (1 month ago) Permalink

Playing their side from Harmony of the Spheres in anticipation. I think I like them them most when they extend further.

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:17 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

then yr gonna love this

― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:17 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

that harmony of the spheres box is so great though. haven't played it in ages. wanna rectify, but it's 3,000 miles away :(

― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:19 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

What's going on for those of us without Spotify?

― R = J - L (Leee), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 01:41 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

isobel blowing pharoah sanders licks on her pipe rules

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 25 April 2013 20:52 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Aw man the copy that I thought I was getting fell through. Well...at least it is on spotify.

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:05 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

Isobel's flute on "Maggot Brain" makes it sound like an On the Ellipse outtake so far, though the production is a little grungier.

― Hoster Tulleee, Lord of Riverrun, Past Eve and Adam's (Leee), Sunday, 28 April 2013 05:21 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

this is great! I mean, I expected it to be, and it didn't disappoint. These guys are getting better imo...

― pink lady lemoncankles (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 April 2013 07:20 (3 weeks ago) Permalink