xpost - I've been listening to Of Cabbages and Kings and The Ark a lot lately. they made some of the most convincing post-Sgt-Pepper's pop I've heard (w/r/t their grasp of pre-rock melodies and the way their psych songs aren't too over-the-top oddball like a lot of Pepper pastiches) & those two albums remind me a lot of Curt Boettcher's productions from the same era.
Family used the 'rooms with many doors' trick a lot, actually (3 X Time, The Chase, From Past Archives, Peace of Mind). maybe they were the progenitors of %microprog% (to use an imago coinage)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
%<3%
will check out more by both artists for sure
― imago, Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
The Ark rules. I've always thought that if that was their only album, they'd be a lot more revered than they are.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it seems like a lot of people view C&G as bandwagon hoppers/dilettantes because they started off as such a square, conventional folk-pop act. but 'A Summer Song' is still a great song, and a lot of more respected lite-psych acts had similar career arcs.
%¯\(^o^)/¯% (xpost)
the examples in this thread and the recent poll make me want to hear more stuff by the Boo Radleys, who I'm not really familiar with at all.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3eVIFzN5g
― MaresNest, Saturday, 18 April 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Hooray, ILM has finally got round to discovering Family... after 15 years!
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 April 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
Talking of Chad & Jeremy, did anyone else used to enjoy this sitcom Jeremy was in?
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 April 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
So many rooms with so many doors, even more windows;; the damn ceiling gets peeled off towards the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLxPwdcuat4
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 19 April 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
Feel like Boards of Canada should get a mention in here. . .
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 19 April 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
most if not all of song cycle by van dyke parks
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 April 2015 08:08 (nine years ago) link
thinking feller union local 282's "cup of dreams" surely opens and closes and reopens a couple of doors in a room.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-QmYp4XDUY
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 19 April 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY1sBXjl0s8
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 19 April 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
songs that are 'apses with many chapels':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MO3WzA5aq4
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
How about ISB ? Koeeaddi There
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNKk-Itin64
― larry appleton, Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENw6co2BUc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obs9_APqt_o
― larry appleton, Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link
that mirrors song is great! they sound like a long-lost paisley underground band from the wrong era and hometown. I'll have to check out one of those posthumous comps.
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:32 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Sunday, 24 July 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
i.e. when will you diphsits realize that Laura Nyro is the soul-progge schnizzle?
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Sunday, 24 July 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Another early example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdeybxuS7tY
― dlp9001, Sunday, 24 July 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
I was just listening the the Eli album this morning, and thinking of this very thread.
― henry s, Sunday, 24 July 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
most of these aren't really rooms with many doors. they're more like railroad apartments. a bunch of rooms in a row.
Dancing about architecture.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 24 July 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
are throwing muses too obvious for this thread
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 25 July 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJeQf42c6c
― timellison, Monday, 25 July 2016 05:13 (seven years ago) link
Joni Mitchell's output from 1975-1979
― MatthewK, Monday, 25 July 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-90E9aPvM
― Lee626, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
I feel this kind of trait is definitely more psyche than prog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9VbJmbtMW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9atqqkUuY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUMj8Otywoc
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgjlBR--uA
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
do The Boswell sisters qualify as jazz age micro-prog? they were famous for their labyrinthine re-arrangements of jazz standards and contemporary hits, with lots of unexpected segues and key changes and tempo shifts. ex. 'It's the Girl':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOLQCSKkRw
(cf. Lee Morse's pleasant but utterly conventional version from the same year)
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
you're a scholar
this is great, reminds me of nothing so much as the bonzo dog doo-dah band. would be keen to hear more
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
Gotta be some Blur and Kate Bush examples too.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, March 23, 2009 3:53 AM (eight years ago)
'All We Ever Look For' has exactly 3 doors http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
Hop Along - Not Abel
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 August 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
Grateful Dead - “St. Stephen”
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 31 August 2018 05:02 (five years ago) link
(there are variable criteria being used in this thread; but to me that song literally sounds like you’re hanging out / wandering in & out of a room with multiple doors)
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 31 August 2018 05:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0Zu2B_kak
― MaresNest, Friday, 31 August 2018 10:33 (five years ago) link
This isn't very good but they certainly cram a lot into 3'15". There's even a drum solo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzkpUEPDJEc
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link