don't you just hate posting something you already said months ago on the same thread?
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
Me too Gaz. What a disappointment.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 July 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 July 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Clarke B., Thursday, 17 July 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
er, piano is a percussion instrument?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:12 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:22 (twenty years ago) link
Okay, does anyone here actually find nothing at all remotely disturbing about these tracks? Yes the record is in some sense quite beautiful, but god how some of those sound worlds get under my skin! Maybe it's good I've never done acid...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link
Yes. I listened to SAWII while shrooming one time. Everyone went to some godawful bar to celebrate someone's birthday so I was all alone. I eventually had to turn it off because it was 'giving me bad vibes, maaan.' I do wish there were more hauntingly beautiful tracks on there, such as the one Clarke just mentioned (Disc 1, Track 3--which to me isn't lonesome, but instead evokes the feeling of lying in bed in the arms of a lover)(but it does have that 'all is right w/the world, too bad I'll eventually die' mood too)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:46 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 17 July 2003 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
Clarke B's story about his dad and Disc 1, Track 3, aka One Of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever = genius.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 July 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
"Selected Ambient Works 85-92, 2x12" (R&S)Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Distance)Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Apollo)Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Apollo)"
i dont remember it ever being on warp either.the warp site shows the 'on' ep to be the first aphex record out on warp, 15.11.93
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 July 2003 09:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 17 July 2003 10:20 (twenty years ago) link
Call me old-fashioned, but I like my beats to have at least a minimal sense of rhythm.
― Ben Williams, Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Clarke B., Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 17 July 2003 18:30 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
SAW1 makes me immensely happy and brings make too many good memories of being in London and my conversion from serious student to clubber; SAW2 is rewarding, but not immediate in the same way as SAW1.
I listened to both this week, and SAW1 wins.
― Nik (Nik), Friday, 9 April 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
― don, Friday, 9 April 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 9 April 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
Strangely that sentiment also neatly describes how I feel about Nirvana's Nevermind and In Utero.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 April 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 April 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I never found out when the songs were recorded but Xtal gives the impression of being quite old, doesn't it?
I'm going to play this now.
― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I know, I know ILM. Hold your breath.
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Tha always makes me feel like I'm in my high school gym. Not cause I played it in there either...
― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyways, Killian Murphy was OTM in his initial remark that the first two tracks were the best thing on the album.
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 November 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer: none of th movies make scence but they r good. (latebloomer), Monday, 6 November 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― All The Furniture Is In The Garage (Bimble...), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― pipecock (pipecock), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Finally got 'Ambient Works 85-92'. Absolutely loving it. Need Volume II as soon as possible.
― krakow, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
SAW2 is soul-ambient
― pipecock (pipecock), Wednesday, November 8, 2006 9:41 PM
*cringe*
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― won't you be my GAPDY / come and make it rain down on NME (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
soulbient
― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lastfm.es/music/100dBs/_/Poppa+Large+In+The+US
Loving this mashup of IZ-US against the Ultramagnetic's Poppa Large.
― Moka, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Selected Ambient Works II > Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Even though Selected Ambient Works II is twice as long, I find it a far more engaging listen than Selected Ambient Works 85-92. I particularly like the track that sounds like snake charmer music, which sounds to me like a track Robert Smith could have come up with in 1984 or something if he had to come up with an ambient B-side for a Cure single.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
Richard D. James Album > Selected Ambient Works II > Selected Ambient Works 85-92
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
probably about equal
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
Drukqs > Selected Ambient Works II > Richard D. James Album > Selected Ambient Works 85-92 > Syro > ...I Care Because You Do.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
I have a hard time rating SAW II. It's a tough album to compare to anything, really. Either you want to hear 2.5 hours of dreamy surreal synth stuff or you don't.
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link