Link Wray - s/t 1971 comeback recordCaptain Beyond - s/tseveral Groundhogs records - Thank Christ For The Bomb - Split - HogwashAerosmith - RocksAlice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
All good stuff - I remember hearing many from family members in the 70s - now I know why they had smiles on their faces ...
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Michael Gibbs - Tanglewood 63
― Muttley vs. Mumbly (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead and American BeautyREM - ReckoningMiles Davis - Bitches Brew
― o. nate, Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
recently bought a stack of dollar Stevie Wonder and pulled them out of the pile thanks to thread so
Talking BookFulfillingness' First FinaleJourney through the Secret Life of Plants
I need Innervisions
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
― o. nate
Seconded - had to dip in and out of it for about 10 years before it finally made sense. The fact that it was a daunting double cd didn't help. Now I can play it all the way through with my eyes closed.
― sam500, Thursday, 26 May 2011 04:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ut - In Gut's House
(is this a classic? i hope so, it's slaying me right now..)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 26 May 2011 04:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sign 'O' The Times
I just finished the Matos' 33 1/3 book.
― sofatruck, Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
over the past year or so, i've been enjoying softly psychedelic mood music from the late 60s and early 70s, with an emphasis on orchestration, light funk and ambient sound. suppose this sort of thing was a hip crush 15 or 20 years back, but i didn't pay much attention at the time and am now catching up. of these, only contact and vampyros lesbos (kind of a joke, but lots of fun) were previously familiar to me:
danger: diabolik - ennio morricone (1968)an electrical storm - white noise (1968)songs of innocence - david axelrod (1968)contact - the silver apples (1968)music to moog by - gershon kingsley (1969)the electric lucifer - bruce haack (1970)valerie and her week of wonders - lubos fiser (1970)"vampyros lesbos" sountracks compilation - manfred hübler and siegfried schwab (1971)sonic seasonings - wendy carlos (1972)le planète sauvage - alain goraguer (1973)
― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
...had to dip in and out of it for about 10 years before it finally made sense.
― sam500, Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
sam's talking about bitches brew, but i recently had just this experience with captain beefheart's trout mask replica. between 1987 and 2010, i tried several times to get into it, but never made much headway. i enjoyed several songs, lyrics and interludes, but the whole thing remained more maddening than enjoyable. finally, a month or so back, it just clicked! kick ass album, sounds kind of like the minutemen. can't now imagine what made it seem so "difficult" in the past.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Have you heard United States of America and the American Metaphysical Circus?xpost to contenderizer
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had that same experience with Trout Mask but it was only about a year after I bought it that it clicked.
and finally, yeah, electric miles from the late 60s and early 70s. tons of it. in a silent way and bitches brew up through the compilations and live stuff released in the mid 70s. get up with it (so great!), dark magus, that kind of thing. especially on the corner. especially jack johnson.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Have you heard United States of America and the American Metaphysical Circus?
no! will check them out. have always meant to get around that USA album...
oh, and the wicker man soundtrack from '73 belongs on that first list.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I would say it fits right in with that stuff.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was fortunate that TroutMaskReplica clicked with me immediately.
I did get the 2CD version of "Sketches of Spain", and mmmmmm it's nice. but that's it.
I see Bitches Brew around, it's like 'cheap' for the 1CD version, and 'pricey' for the deluxe edition.
Should I? Which?
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
4-disc "complete sessions" version of bitches brew is wonderful, well worth owning. is that the deluxe version you mean?
― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Recollections" may be my very favorite Miles Davis song, it's on the four disc "complete sessions."
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh man contenderizer lots of the stuff on yer list is awes but electric lucifer is so mind blowing good
there was a pretty decent 3 disc (one was remixes iirc but whatever) perrey/kingsley comp out several years ago which is also essential, although goofier, if you dont have it
― just malorted a little bit in my mouth (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Sound-Way-Perrey-Kingsley/dp/B000055ZE1
― just malorted a little bit in my mouth (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
4-disc "complete sessions" version of bitches brew is wonderful, well worth owning. is that the deluxe version you mean?― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:21 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:21 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yeah, that one. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
My Brother persuaded me to listen to the first album by The Left Banke the other day which blew me away. Perfect timing as there's a new reissue out in a few weeks.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 26 May 2011 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Check your local library! Thats pretty much the only way I've gotten to hear a lot of those super pricey Miles box sets.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 May 2011 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cream--Disraeli GearsHowlin' Wolf--Moanin' in the Moonlight/Howlin' Wolf
― she rub A LINK in your poke (Neanderthal), Thursday, 26 May 2011 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Word. However, sometimes the album itself is all you need as umpteen takes on each track really fries my interest.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
contenderizer, search "Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos", electronic tribute that is faithful to the original but fresh and contemporary!
― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Friday, 27 May 2011 02:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fingers Inc - Another Side
So classic why is it out of print?
― blank, Friday, 27 May 2011 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
A mist sensual album
― blank, Friday, 27 May 2011 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
most
― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel)
thx for the heads up, looks cool. expected more pop-leaning trip hop for some reason, as this sort of music was an influence on that style. thievery corp, early portishead, that kind of thing.
― contenderizer, Friday, 27 May 2011 03:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey trip: thanks for the USofA recommendation! "all you see of yesterday are shadows in your mind / shadows on the pavement but no bodies do you find" goddam.
― contenderizer, Friday, 27 May 2011 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hell yeah!I found an original pressing of it in the (rare!) brown paper bag and got it for a good price, too (12 bucks, maybe?) right after I started collecting vinyl when I was 18.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 27 May 2011 19:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies record (The American Metaphysical Circus) really does feel like a sequel (different female lead singer and other personnel changes iirc) but it's not up to the same standard. Still very much worth hearing, tho
― Trip Maker, Friday, 27 May 2011 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
coo
― contenderizer, Friday, 27 May 2011 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
van morrison - 'veedon fleece'
― Michael B, Friday, 29 July 2011 03:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Actually I got this several months back, but I've been listening to it a lot lately. The first song is so bad and atypical that it kind of throws you for a loop, but the rest of the album holds up with their other work just fine.
― o. nate, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Boo! "Who Loves the Sun" is awesome.
― Ben D Housing Things (thewufs), Friday, 29 July 2011 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's like a bad joke - I guess if you like bad jokes it's okay.
― o. nate, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I picked up 'Veedon Fleece' a good few months back and was blown away. Until then I entirely disregarded Van Morrison aside of 'Astral Weeks' and 'Moondance'. On the back of enjoying 'Veedon Fleece' I picked up 'Tupelo Honey' which was ok, the early live record which I half liked and 'Common One' which was suprisingly good, especially the longer tracks. Still, I find myself drawn to Van's hypnotic stuff the most, 'Astral Weeks' has always floored me. The big suprise on 'Veedon Fleece' was "You Don't Pull No Punches' which is up there with the best on 'Astral Weeks'. I did hear good things about 'Saint Dominic's Preview' but the last I checked it was still to be reissued.
― AnotherDeadHero, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm a big fan of Moondance, Tupelo Honey, and St. Dominic's Preview, but I haven't been able to get into Astral Weeks that much. I guess I prefer the country/R&B Van to the folk/jazz Van. My impression of Veedon Fleece is that it's more like Astral Weeks, so I haven't checked that one out yet.
― o. nate, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yup, that's the two divides illustrated right there so far as Van Morrison fans go.
― AnotherDeadHero, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
st dominic's is great -- it's maybe the best mix of van styles. poppy stuff, jazzy stuff, country stuff, long hypnotic tracks like listen to the lion and independence day...
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I agree. I would say St. Dominic's kind of straddles the border between the two Vans.
― o. nate, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's what I've heard about it. Ominously missing from Van's reissue series.
― AnotherDeadHero, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's not that hard to find on vinyl at reasonable prices, if you do vinyl. I got it at a record fair for about $10, IIRC.
― o. nate, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good stuff. I absolutely do do vinyl. I'll have a look. I went through a period of listening to Van a while back and kind of lost my way. This seems like a good motive to get back in.
― AnotherDeadHero, Friday, 29 July 2011 21:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Who loves the sun is great.
― bamcquern, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
totally
― could've been a baller (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Never understood the hate for "Who Loves The Sun." I first heard it about a month after I first heard White Light/White Heat and, well, it's pretty obvious that it's the same band, telling a similar kind of story. Never really heard much of a difference. It wasn't until decades later that I had any idea there were Loaded (and primarily "Sun") haters.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a track on the Yule/VU "Squeeze" album that has the exact same odd chord change as "Who Loves The Sun," and I sometimes wonder if Yule wrote or helped with the latter, as it's a kind of un-Lou melodic trick. Though probably Yule just stole the chord change, but you never know.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 30 July 2011 03:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
This one:
― dlp9001, Saturday, 30 July 2011 03:54 (1 year ago) Permalink