harold budd & brian eno - plateaux of mirror
one of the best piano records i know. moody, impressionistic stuff that touches something deep inside me. has nothing to do with ambient (which i don't like as it is empty). i really don't understand how this could be released in the ambient series. it's more similar to satie or durutti column than to music for airports or discreet music. both of those albums annoy me when i try to listen to them.
-- alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, September 1, 2004 7:12 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
oh look at that, upthread!! right on! :)
― stephen, Saturday, 18 August 2007 05:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
How similar is "Plateaux" to "the Pearl"?
― Trayce, Saturday, 18 August 2007 05:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
Suicide's debut.
― mulla atari, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- Trayce, Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:59 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I couldn't tell you as I'm unfamiliar with The Pearl -- in a collection of about 20-25 Eno CDs thus far, it's one of the last ones I'm still looking to buy, I've just never seen it turn up used :(
ebay, here i come?
― stephen, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
ditto for Fripp/Eno - No Pussyfooting, I have never ever ever seen it used, though I will attest that Evening Star (the second album by those doods?) is overflowing with goodness
― stephen, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
That's funny--I used to always see No Pussyfooting used and think "That record must suck since everyone sells it. And who is Robert Fripp anyway?" Now of course I know he's either Hall or Oates.
― mulla atari, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
al 1st post: not knocked out
― luriqua, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
oh alright then pre-2000 rather than 1990 i guess. i dunno what i was thinking of there.
― pisces, Saturday, 18 August 2007 09:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
I gave my new copy of Talking Heads "77" this morning - it's the no extras, no shite version, and it rocks. I've never heard it before, and it's interesting to hear the proto-afrobeat Talking Heads knocking around in there.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 18 August 2007 10:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
speak no evil - wayne shorter
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 August 2007 16:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
Speaking of Fripp: The idea of Robert Fripp's ambient music always appealed to me more than the actual music.
― rockapads, Saturday, 18 August 2007 17:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
I downloaded Paul Mccartney's Ram the a few months ago, and finally found a used copy of it yesterday. I love the entire first side The second has a few growly-voice-Mccartney songs, but ends strongly with the second Ram On interlude and The Backseat of my Car. Good stuff.
I didn't realize my girlfriend had a copy of the Congos' Heart of the Congos. I've listened to it exactly twice, but there are some true gems on there. I especially like "Can't Come In" right now.
― Z S, Saturday, 18 August 2007 18:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
I heard Radio Birdman's Radios Appear and Burn My Eyes for the first time yesterday. I was expecting more rip-roarin' feedback 'n' fuzz guitar assault, but wasn't at all disappointed with the complex and melodic rawk action I wound up getting. Didn't like the bonus-track version of "TV Eye" (too fast), but everything else was killer.
― unperson, Saturday, 18 August 2007 18:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
Innervisions
― chris.steffen, Sunday, 19 August 2007 17:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
Thriller
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 19 August 2007 17:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
todd rundgren, 'something/anything' van morrison, 'astral weeks' john martyn, 'solid air' and 'bless the weather' townes van zandt, self-titled
― derrrick, Monday, 20 August 2007 09:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
the kinks 'village green preservation society'
despite loving the singles (the production, the song-writing EVERYTHING) from aged 16, i waited another 17 years to hear this album. this is despite all the re-release hoo-ha and fuss/hype-o-rama 3 years or so back. am i stupid? it now appears so.
― pisces, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
listened to the entire village green alb for the fist time myself not so long ago. thought to myself, "wot the heck took me so long?" then remembered - i had tried to order it, as it happened, some time before the re-relese came out, and didn't get it then... song-writing goodness in abundance, yeh.
― t**t, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fairport Convention - Liege And Lief
― henry s, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
― Gavin in Leeds, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
tangerine dream - phaedra
well spooky.
― max r, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
Warren Zevon – The Envoy
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
Whoever said Tusk. yes yes and yes.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
randy newman - sail awway
― chaki, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
I discovered that one a few months ago, chaki, and Land of Dreams last week; I still don't know what to make of Newman yet.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
Gun Club, Fire of Love
― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
what u thinkin, alfred?
― chaki, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
amon duul 2 - yeti
― Zeno, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
His albums are uneven, and uneven in the same way! Some of those long songs are well-served by his ingratiating drawl, others just drift; then he does something like "Political Science" or "I Want You To Hurt Like I Do" and he just slays.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
(xpost)
i've been half-heartedly pushing randy newman and warren zevon to all the fleetwood mac and steely dan heads on ilm for a while now!
both too self-consciously 'clever' or writerly or something, though. i mean i acknowledge their flaws but i love them both.
alfred do you have 'stand in the fire"?
― ghost rider, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
oh, what I own by Zevon I love. I'd love to hear Stand in the Fire.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
zevon kind of sucks.
― chaki, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
oh and i agree with you alfred bout rn
― chaki, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
chaki don't you even like sentimental hygiene?
fave randy newman is prob good old boys, maybe his only album where there aren't really any of his trademark gratuitous cheap shots at easy targets (though many would argue that point) (also i totally love many of his trademark gratuitous cheap shots at easy targets)
― ghost rider, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
― stephen, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
Alfred you might love Newman's Faust as much as I do, it's got some of his best & darkest work though a lot of people can't tolerate the star-studded cast (Bonnie Raitt, Don Henley as Faust, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor as God)
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
james taylor is god.
― chaki, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 21:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
Emmylou Harris: Pieces Of The Sky
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 22:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
Alain Bashung 'Play Blessures'
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
J0hn D. OTM, re: Faust! Alfred, if you don't have it run out and get yourself a copy of 12 Songs immediately--it's his best by far, I'd say; Xgau was absolutely right in this case: "A perfect album."
― JN$OT, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 09:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
james taylor is god. -- chaki, teisipäev, 9. Oktoober 2007 21:15
o-oh, so it's him who started teh god-thread on ile, then?
― t**t, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 13:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
Go Betweens - Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express
― hugo, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 20:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
Radiohead - In Rainbows
― stephen, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 20:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Who Sell Out. Until tonight, hadn't heard this album in full for nearly, um ...since mofunkin' Brezhnev was still alive, or thereabouts. Wot's more, this Polydor reissue has a handful of bonus stuff - most of which, o wonder, is good. ..."Hall of the Mountain King" is crapturous, tho.
― t**t, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
well it's been 6 months.
― pisces, Thursday, 3 April 2008 01:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
yes - fragile
― winston, Thursday, 3 April 2008 01:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
Chris Bell - i am the cosmos never had heard before and it's pretty damn terrific
― outdoor_miner, Thursday, 3 April 2008 01:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
i never really cared for it too much but i love the cover!
― winston, Thursday, 3 April 2008 01:42 (5 years ago) Permalink