Cyborg is great too.
― koogs, Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Cant go wrong with any of his early-ish albums.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I've only ever heard "Irrlicht" and "Picture Music" and didn't like either of them
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
.. and "Black Dance", didn't like that either
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
You're fae Paisley though.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
They didn't like modern sounding stuff there. It was all C&W clubs round there when you were a lad, admit it!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
You saying Chou Pharot weren't modern sounding?
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Chou Pahrot even
hah, I remember you ysi-ing that once.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Gotta support yr local artists!
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
other famous sons of Paisley: Andrew Neil, Paulo Nutini, my dad.
― Neil S, Thursday, 10 June 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I had no idea paulo nutini was from Paisley.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Sadly true. Also Tom Conti. But, in our defence, there's Fulton Mackay. And David Tennant.
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Gerard Butler too, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley#Notable_people
― Neil S, Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yes, I think his maw lives in near my maw
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Still, Krautrock, eh? Ye cannae whack it!
isnt steven moffat from paisley too?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
hey tom was Krautrock popular in paisley when you were a lad?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
In my household, for sure. My sister had "Neu 2", and Faust "So Far" (think she borrowed that one).
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
When did you leave Paisley?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Not soon enough... also remember a guy at school bringing in one of his big brother's Amon Duul II albums to play
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
See, yer wrong, it was a veritable hotbed of Krautrock!
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I started primary school in East Kilbride in 77 then moved to Blackwood march 78, and I dont recall any krautrock at all funnily enough :). Most of us boys were into Madness in about 1980-ish. Dont recall anything before that musically tbh.
EK has had a few famous folk too.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I bet the Reid brothers had Krautrock lps.
I bet they didn't. Older brothers and sisters required - the older the better.
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Tago Mago, certainly.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Was there record shops in Paisley that sold krautrock? or was that glasgow only?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
More than one. Stereo One, for instance, that's where I bought "Bruder des Schattens, Sohne des Lichts".
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember the Kraftwerk double album being in our local Newsagent's Lp racks. This'd be just after Autobahn was a hit.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus that second hand shop where I got "Live at the Crypt" by AMM (not Krautrock, but you get the idea) and countless others (xp)
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Got this in Paisley:
http://www.feelmybicep.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/R-793715-1163194517-500x525.jpg
Lots of stuff
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
TBH, there was as prolly much K/rock available in Paisley as Glasgow, later on Stereo One opened up an upper floor that was absolutely crammed with new + 2nd hand 70s albums - over-priced because people had started collecting stuff by then
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
was paisley as good in the 80s for buying music as the 70s?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno, there was a branch of Listen in Paisley in the 70s. Not my era though. Record collecting, as a LOL-U-Nerd hobby, didn't really take off to the mid-to-late 80s, I think?
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I thought you had bought all this Krautrock in the mid-late 70s , lol.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Cheers for that
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought you were of marcello's age and was buying stuff as a young teen, before you think I thought you were ancient!
xp
too late!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
its your own fault, you kept talking about 70s stuff, i assumed that was when you were buying it all.
Marcello was buying Stockhausen when he was 9 and shit tho! In his local Woolies.
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, in the 80s and 90s!
Funnily enough, that woolies was where I was buying my Madness singles!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
never heard this popol vuh before. took like a second and i knew i loved it.
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Big in Paisley in the late 80s and 90s apparently!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, no, I'd never heard that one then. This stuff was still next-to-impossible to find, you might occasionally luck out tho.
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Sort of surprised you don't hear more about this particular Vuh record, actually.It sounds of a piece with their epics "Letzte Tage, Letzte Nacht" and "Einsjager und Siebenjager."That is Renate I hear, right?
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Djong Yun
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
^ Opening track on "Hosianna Mantra"!
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I also bought all of this stuff (IE krautrock, also lesser-known UK progressive rock and folk rock) in the '80's. I remember getting into Klaus Schulze, not knowing shit about him, and winding up with three copies of "Irrlicht" all with different covers becuase I kept forgetting I had that one/went on the record cover rather than the title.
"Timewind" is I guess kind of typical of KS albums from the time and probably interchangeable in places with "Moondawn" and maybe bits of "X" which I was listening to the other day. I like all this stuff loads but I must admit I rarely sit through a whole piece, he did tend to go on a bit. I like the musical primitivism of his approach at this time, all cool-sounding synthi noises and pounding sequencers (the latter moreso on "X" than "Timewind") but sometimes the uh tunelessness of it all gets to me.
"Yeti" is I think not just a fantastic album, but a fantastic whole package, the cover is great in its own right and matches with the music perfectly. The music is great, totally driving feel and sonically intense. this is one of those albums where no matter how loud you turn it up, you still want to turn it up one louder. I went through a phase of digging heavy rock w/electric violin and bits of this are second only to High Tide for "that" sound. I dig some other ad2, but I don't think anything else they did even came close to this.
Popol Vuh link to KS and AD2 because KS bought Florian Fricke's big Moog off of him and also Danny Fischelsher used to drum for AD I think. My favourite kind of Popol Vuh music is this period - layered electric guitars, splashy, cymbal-heavy drums, other-worldly female vox, and I think this is the best one. I try to think of why I like this so much, but it's really hard to explain. The music just sounds magical and "other" to me in some way, I can't really put it any other way than that.
― dead flower :( (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 June 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I need to play this one now. not heard it (popol vuh)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 11 June 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link