The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

lol at cosmology at 1:00 in dark star video

Just thinking about San Frandisco's question.

I suppose I see Yacht Rock as upper class because that was its image I guess, rock stars sailing out to international waters to have parties. And as poor as I am the Balearic islands might as well be on Mars. I've never been to Europe and unless the factory I work at suddenly gives me a 6 dollar an hour raise I very likely will never go there. Cheap dollar bin records (or very obscure psych ones) are a readily accessible commodity where yachts and international vacations are out of reach.

Rural america on the other hand is something I have a far too intimate a knowledge of to think of as escapist. A couple of years in the country gave me a great Southern rock collection, but it almost drove me out of my mind. I've got no desire to go back to living with ex Meth addicts so that I can round out my Americana collection.

Here's some Shawn Phillips.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/50154308677b8d28/

For a folkie, he sure brought the funk sometimes.

the shawn phillips album Spaced is a bunch of his outtakes that are all jazz funked out. tons of rhodes and breaks. even has a dj shadow sample on it

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Sounds tasty.

Someone needs to do a Venn diagram so I know how this all fits in with rare groove, acid jazz, etc.

For example, is the Azymuth album Balearic?

Is it Rare Groove? Is it Cosmic Disco?

I guess its definitely not hippie Beardo, but it fits in a lot of these categories.

Oops misspelled that, I meant the Azimuth album. Not the stuff that they did as Azymuth.

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Is Shuggie Otis a hippie? Balearic?

he's from la so i guess so

Tusk, obv

I'm kinda interested in the Scandinavian/Kraut/European side of this spectrum

mebbe a couple of the less psych-y more rockin' Pekka Streng tracks.

in that regard, what about that alf emil eik guy that's on lindstrom's late night tales?

I'd also be interested in any Australian suggestions coz i got nothing.

I had a great pizza and bottle of wine tonight and the restaurant played tusk and I thought of this thread. so tusk.

Flash and the Pan have already been suggested, wilter.

oh yeah!

I actually downloaded the self-titled Dingoes album just to see if it fit in here, it doesn't really lol.

brennan green played a mental as anything track on beats in space once

Whatever the first track is on the Västkustska Ryggdunkarsällskapet mix for 'Cool in the Pool' is pretty fantastic for this thread.

I guess the whole mix is, actually. Pure Scandinavian beachy beardo bliss. Emphasis on the beardo

Also, for some reason I had never heard this until someone mentioned it in a related post...

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I didn't know Can got so Polynesian ha. It's so great because they fail at the Steely Dan thing but in their own amazing way

maybe (ahem) jan akkerman's oil in the family?
middle eastern guitars vs disco beat etc etc

back home I listened again to it and, under the carelessly flat production and the cheesy sound, there's still beautifully summery in it - but maybe its just me.
big in turkey, apparently.

dude, listen to some earlier akkerman. gets rid of all that shitty smooth production

I have this one too: but in that case, shitty smooth production is okay for me! : )

Really love that Pekka Streng and Tasavallan Presidentti album, looking forward to finding more from Streng-- thanks for the reccomendation.

From a completely different angle...

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this is the kind of thread that my wallet can't stand!

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I would say yes, esp. the title track.
And what about Gary Burton's "Vibrafinger"?

Surely a bunch of ECM stuff (Metheny, Tibbets, Eberhard Weber)

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^^^^ JJ Cale's "Naturally," (among other LPs by him)... it's perhaps a little obvious, but necessary

oops

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this is the kind of thread that my wallet can't stand!

...isn't most of this stuff in the dollar bins? I thought that was kind of the point, but I guess it's all relative to your region/local record stores

also, where should I start with the ECM albums? Never was too big on Jarrett, but ECM has huuuuge and intimidatingly awesome-looking catalog.

I guess Azimuth was mentioned

Pat Metheny - First Circle

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Plus, the whole Laurel Canyon-beach vibe you're going for just doesn't make sense to me. Guess I just don't see how the 'beachy' side fits in, especially in "If I Could Only Remember My Name," which has always been about the mountains for me (who cares what the cover looks like).

Well, I think that record concerns both beach + mountain. Mt. Tamalpais, Big Sur, that whole vibe...and l.a. winding canyons

For that matter, where do nineties+ revivalists like these guys and their offshoots fit in?
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As far as ppl consciously making very explicitly "beach" vibe records, ya gotta take these guys into account, right?

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oh goddamnit, i need to fix this balls image link. fucking internet

For that matter, where do nineties+ revivalists like these guys and their offshoots fit in?

As far as ppl consciously making very explicitly "beach" vibe records, ya gotta take these guys into account, right?
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Cool thread, though. The geography+music thing, which I'm assuming must have been discussed previously on ilm, is something that I think about often.

Quick thoughts along those lines:
a. I always thought sixties l.a. scene (beach boys, byrds, love, etc.) blew away its bay area counterpart, but in recent years i've come to soak up and more fully appreciate northern ca goodness like sly stone, grateful dead, the jefferson airplanes...
b. maybe much of l.a. music wow-dom is due to the ambition factor- ppl historically have gone there to "make it"...and/or some of them end up playing in highly "professionalized" environments as studio musicians-- hence you end up with yr "yacht rock" acts, etc...by contrast, nocal is more "laid-back" for real, and so stuff comes out of there that lacks the chart-making urgency that l.a. stuff has. this is a theory with millions of holes in it, but i'm throwing it out there nonetheless
c. when i lived near the beach i paradoxically had less interest than usual in the kind of music that is the subject of this thread, but both before and after, being fairly landlocked back east i have found myself with a renewed appreciation for this kind of stuff
d. i never delved properly into rickie lee jones' catalog until i moved back east, but now that i'm here, without exception every time that i listen to her, i am immediately transported back to california. that seems weird to me
e. i have been reading lots lately about the history of seventies porn films in southern california/sf/nyc. i'm wondering if there are musical analogues to this phenomenon? i'm inclined to think "yes"-- the way ppl talk about the nyc films vs west coast reminds me of ppl talking about vu vs golden state "hippies"

Well, I think that record concerns both beach + mountain. Mt. Tamalpais, Big Sur, that whole vibe...and l.a. winding canyons

omg i have hella listed to that album so many times on highway 1. the beach + mountains equation seems to be a large part of what this thread is going for

That's awesome. Seriously.

Yeah, I've always been a passenger when I was on journeys along those lines, and it was always some situation where I was in a car in which the stereo was busted or the equivalent thereof.

That being said, as unlikely as it may sound, early Scott Walker served me well traversing the Marin headlands...and also, one of my best memories of hearing "Eight Miles High" was when driving south towards SFO airport territory and seeing a huge bank of fog eclipsing the water.

In short, I am deep green with envy as far as it concerns being able to soak in these musics in their proper contexts. Like, smoke up and drive across the Bixby bridge or go do it up on some beach thereabouts while listening to "Draft Morning" or some such. I think it's worthwhile to do, even if only in the spirit of experimentation as far as concerns these music/geography nexuses.

i'd like to know more about what those crazy hippies were listening to in Ibiza or Goa before the whole balearic style emerged...

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Alt-F "Danny O'Keefe"

:(

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I heard the great whales crying,
saying, "Brother, brother, we are dying."

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Does this thing fit in here somewhere?

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I can't really look at the thread title without the pictures of the freaks in the gatefold popping into my head to the tune of 'Pali Gap'. There's that whole globe-trotting jetting-off-to-a-hippie-beach-party vibe in the (terrible) film too.

maybe much of l.a. music wow-dom is due to the ambition factor- ppl historically have gone there to "make it"...and/or some of them end up playing in highly "professionalized" environments as studio musicians-- hence you end up with yr "yacht rock" acts, etc...by contrast, nocal is more "laid-back" for real, and so stuff comes out of there that lacks the chart-making urgency that l.a. stuff has. this is a theory with millions of holes in it, but i'm throwing it out there nonetheless

OTM I think - one of the things that links IICORMN and No Other (see poll thread), as well as Forever Changes (Beach Boys too, come to think of it) is the odd disjunctive MOR associations you get with each - The odd Anita Kerr harmonies on Tamalpais ....on the Crosby records, the no quite schmaltz of Strength of Strings, the Herb Alpert-ness of Clark and Hilldale....

Maybe those associations only seem odd because we've been fed this myth about the 60s, about how them cool hippies and folkies were against pop and Hollywood schmaltz. But in reality, American folk and pop have always been inextricably linked.

That said, I don't think this applies to the Beach Boys. They grew up in the pop realm.

Good point.
The individual Byrds pre- careers are exemplary in this respect