C/D: Adrian Belew

Yeah, his 80s albums are generally strong all the way through. There's a comp of the first 3 albums called "Desire Of The Rhino King" that's ace.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 4 July 2011 16:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

God -- I heard "Pretty Pink Rose" today for the first time since, I dunno, 1991.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 00:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 7 May 2012 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

I don't care for the squealing guitar but it's hilarious how Belew does David Byrne vocal imitations while Bowie does Bowie imitations. Good goofy lyrics ("She tore down Paris on the tail of Tom Paine").

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

from FB:

hey world!
for more than 2 years now
Daniel Rowland and I have been working on my new solo project. all of us recording artists are charged with making yet another record, another CD, releasing another download into the massive download universe.
this is not that.
this is something which, to my knowledge, has never been done. that rare entity:
something new. a different way to enjoy music.

it's called FLUX: Music That Is Never The Same Twice.

think about that for a moment.
music that is never the same twice. how is that possible?
what will it sound like?

over the upcoming weeks I intend to tell you all about it but with the limited space of facebook I'll have to break into pieces (kind of like the music itself).
but for now let me say this.
FLUX will be a kind of listening
"experience". each time you hear it, the experience will be unique and surprising. even I will never know where it will begin, where it will end, or what will happen in between.
since FLUX is not meant to be
"commercial" it can and will contain literally anything which appeals to my ears. found sounds, guitar effects, snippets, and loads of bits of music and songs. every now and then a whole song play all the way through, but most of the time songs will come to you in ever-changing pieces like a giant jigsaw puzzle. even the pieces will not always sound the same.
for example, instead of a song having the same guitar solo each time, alternate solos may happen when you least expect it. or a different mix. a different vocal with new words. anything may happen!

FLUX will also be interactive so you the listener can affect the experience and personalize it more to your taste. over time it will include simple but random visuals which you may also have a hand in.

FLUX: Music That Is Never The Same Twice has one more serious difference to a CD/download. it will never be finished. I intend to add to it as often as possible to further insure you'll never hear it the same way twice. FLUX is in fact a living evolving entity.

to read about the genesis of FLUX go to www.elephant-blog.blogspot.com

sounds pretty crazy/perhaps excellent

― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:01 (1 week ago) Permalink

Sounds like Eno's generative experiments. Except not self-generating, it sounds like.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:59 (1 week ago) Permalink

remember when ageing art-rock musicians were really into cd-ROMs?

― too busy s1ockin' on my 乒乓 (wins), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 23:01 (1 week ago) Permalink

oh god

― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:07 (1 week ago) Permalink

belew i love you but seriously

― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:07 (1 week ago) Permalink

Headcandy is the name given to a series of kaleidoscopic, psychedelic videos, DVDs and CD-ROMs created by Chris Juul and Doug Jipson. The first volume was called "Video Kaleidoscope", the second was called "Headcandy with music from Brian Eno", the third, "Sidney's Psychedelic Adventure" and the fourth "Psychedelic Headcandy."[1]

The concept of Headcandy is this... kaleidoscopic, psychedelic visuals set to music and viewed while wearing a 3-D style pair of prismatic glasses. The film covering the lenses of the glasses refracts white light into a prism of color. When viewing Headcandy in a dark room it turns the monitor into a gigantic wall of color kaleidoscopic visuals.

Each program is approximately 60 minutes in length.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:18 (1 week ago) Permalink

― brimstead, Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:20 (1 week ago) Permalink

Oh.daddy daddy when you gonna make a million bucks

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2013 03:26 (1 week ago) Permalink

Laurie Anderson's one actually sounded pretty cool, I bet it wasn't though. My impression is that all there oldsters were excited by the possibilities without having much understanding of how the technology actually worked.

― too busy s1ockin' on my 乒乓 (wins), Thursday, 6 June 2013 08:55 (1 week ago) Permalink

just write a fucking song ok

― akm, Thursday, 6 June 2013 14:05 (1 week ago) Permalink

"Postmodern Prog Blues"

Woke up this morning
Wondering how I could put eighteen chord changes into a five second sequence reprocessed through a filter that's then remixed by your mind each time you breathe in a different way.
Oh lord.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 June 2013 14:15 (1 week ago) Permalink

Lol I genuinely can't tell if that's real, it's quite plausibly the kind of bollocks our ade would come up with

― too busy s1ockin' on my 乒乓 (wins), Thursday, 6 June 2013 14:19 (1 week ago) Permalink

_Headcandy is the name given to a series of kaleidoscopic, psychedelic videos, DVDs and CD-ROMs created by Chris Juul and Doug Jipson. The first volume was called "Video Kaleidoscope", the second was called "Headcandy with music from Brian Eno", the third, "Sidney's Psychedelic Adventure" and the fourth "Psychedelic Headcandy."[1]

The concept of Headcandy is this... kaleidoscopic, psychedelic visuals set to music and viewed while wearing a 3-D style pair of prismatic glasses. The film covering the lenses of the glasses refracts white light into a prism of color. When viewing Headcandy in a dark room it turns the monitor into a gigantic wall of color kaleidoscopic visuals.

Each program is approximately 60 minutes in length._

Eno on Headcandy:

"When I saw the result it was so awful and terrible and disappointing, I've never looked at it again. I looked at it for about a minute. The image is this big, [he says, measuring two inches in the air], and it looks like shit anyway. The music sounds like tin and every time the image changes the music stops. It was an absolute disaster. I really apologise to people if they bought that on the strength of my name because I tell you, I did everything to get my name off there. Oh, it was embarrassing. It's one of the only things I've ever been involved with that I feel really bad about."

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 6 June 2013 19:58 (1 week ago) Permalink

i really like the idea but IMO the more straightforward Belew gets the better

― frogbs, Thursday, 6 June 2013 20:02 (1 week ago) Permalink

I don't know, straightforward Belew gets us stuff like this --

I'm a lone rhinoceros
There ain't one hell of a lots of us
Left in this world

I stand alone in my concrete cell
Where people stare and toss me coke cans
I guess it's better than being poached
But I'd give my horn just to see my homeland

― Home Despot (WilliamC), Thursday, 6 June 2013 20:05 (1 week ago) Permalink

so weird that he is in Nine Inch Nails now

― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 June 2013 20:14 (1 week ago) Permalink

well now he isn't

― akm, Thursday, 6 June 2013 20:22 (1 week ago) Permalink

I thought he's on the new tour?

― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 June 2013 20:47 (1 week ago) Permalink

no he's not doing it now for some reason. he is on the album

― akm, Thursday, 6 June 2013 20:53 (1 week ago) Permalink

Trent: Welcome to the team, Adrian.
Adrian: Yeah, this is exciting.

[Trent hands Adrian a box]

Adrian: What's this? A present?!
Trent: No, it's your wardrobe.
Adrian: My wardrobe.
Trent: Yeah.
Adrian: Like, the clothes you want me to wear? On stage?
Trent: Well, not just on stage. Also, in photos and pretty much any time you're out with us in public.
Adrian: So, like, suits?
Trent: Well, more like ... costumes.
Adrian: Costumes?
Trent: Yeah. And make-up.
Adrian: Make-up?
Trent: Yeah. Also, we're going to need to shave off your eyebrows.
Adrian: My ... eyebrows?
Trent: Yeah.
Adrian: You haven't shaved off your eyebrows, Trent.
Trent: It's my band. Don't you want to open up the box?

[Adrian opens the box]

Adrian: This looks like black fishnets and shiny plastic shirts.
Trent: That's right.
Adrian: And you want me to wear this?
Trent: Yep.
Adrian: See you later, sucker.

[Adrian walks out]

Trent (calling after him): Wait, Adrian, don't go!

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 June 2013 21:11 (1 week ago) Permalink

belew has only ever been a mccartney-level lyricist though xxxxp

― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 June 2013 21:24 (1 week ago) Permalink

Not enough love here for the first Bears record. The second falls short but the debut features the best of Belew (guitar orgasms, irresistible melodies) without the worst of Belew (dumb lyrics, irritating mannerisms).

Wasn't there another more recently?

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:10 (1 week ago) Permalink

i would totally buy a no vocals mix of Discipline by King Crimson

― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:11 (1 week ago) Permalink

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:20 (1 week ago) Permalink

M@tt hella otm. The music on Discipline is so good that I just bite down on a rag and bear it, but fuck if I can listen to anything else he sings/writes lyrics on.

― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:28 (1 week ago) Permalink

And I listen gladly to every Police song with the exception of 'walking in your footsteps'

― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:30 (1 week ago) Permalink