I like these choices! For years, Colour Haze/Ufomammut/Motorpsycho have been my chupacabra trio of bands I've been into for 10 to 15 years, but never got to see live, until Ufomammut finally did their first U.S. tour two years ago. Still haven't seen the others, but I've listened more to their deep catalogs than most any other band.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 30 December 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
Well they did it. Album #5 just under the wire!
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/gumboot-soup
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
nice! i've been waiting for that. and good call on the ufomammut
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
sweet dude
― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
Psych Lovers Top 10:
https://psychinsightmusic.com/2017/12/18/psych-lovers-top-ten-albums-of-2017/
1. The Cosmic Dead – Psych Is Dead 2. The Myrrors – Hasta La Victoria3. Lamagaia – Lamagaia4. Earthling Society – Zen Bastard5. Blown Out – Superior Venus 6. The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Cosmic Curios7. The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Elevator8. Dead Sea Apes – Sixth Side If The Pentagon9. Kungens Män – Dag & Natt=10. Electric Moon – Stardust Rituals =10. Here Lies Man - Here Lies Man
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 31 December 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
That Lamagaia album is p cool
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 December 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
We seriously jump almost a cool hundred points from Ufomammut's 8 album on Number 3 to reach the album that receives The Silver Medal for ending up on the Number 2 spot of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2017. Can you guess which? Of course you can, everybody could. And after this everyone will know which album ended up on the Number One spot. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. For this tasty slab of heaviness deserves every bit of attention. There is no denying the fact they reigned supreme on the Doom Charts for a few months. And their 2014 album ended up on Number 14 of that year's Top 20 Countdown. This one takes all the goodness of that album and the one that came after to new heights. This is Doom of a higher plane. A universe of slow psychedelics and meticulous metal repetition. The sludgy atmosphere surrounding the entire record is perhaps what's most addictive about this band. It's thick, juicy and drenching in its grandiose epicness. Oh, yes, we have to go overboard with the accolades and superlatives again. More leads, even more groove and riffs that immediately nestle themselves in every fiber of your being. They sound large, they sound huge and they seem to get better and better with every album they release. They give themselves no rest and there is no rust to the sonic onslaught that is their thundering signature... The Silver Medal goes to...
2. Monolord – Rust
We have arrived at the Number One spot. The Gold Medal. The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown that started on December 13th ends today, on the First of January of 2018. We jump another seventy points from Monolord and their amazing Rust album on Number Two to reach the top position. An album by a band that has made the Number One position every year they released an album. (Well, since 2011) So, they must be doing something absolutely right for all you lovely freaks out there. You gals and guys voted this album to be the best one released this year. As you did back in 2011 and in 2015. Well. There is no need to beat around the bush here, we all know what is coming. The Boston trio released another thrilling album that kept us spinning the record until the needle ran through the groove. Their mixture of psychedelic rock, heavy stoner and epic metal has you soaring through all the marvelous dreams they evoke. The progressive nature of the music they create has them searching for new boundaries every time again. Hence, guest spots were filled during the making of this album and the trio became a quartet or even a quintet. Adding extra guitar, keys and pedal steel to the sound, and adding vibrancy and lushness to a sound that already seemed to have everything. It is riff-awesome, tasty melodic, soulful and catchy metal. But above all, the tectonic tension arcs that we know this band to deliver have evolved into something other worldly. It seems to reflect something completely different and perhaps upside down. So yes, there can be only, and now, right before everyone around the globe has celebrating the coming of 2018 we present to you the Number One Spot, The Gold Medal according to all the lovely freaks that voted... Here it is...
1. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 05:53 (six years ago) link
https://doomcharts.com/2018/01/02/doom-charts-for-december-2017/
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
Reflections... is a great album, it's what I wish Mastdodn sounded like nowadays. Loses a bit of steam towards the end imo but it's pretty epic.
― queens of the stonage (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
Boris didn't even make your top 100, fastnbulbous? That's harsh, Dear has some truly great moments.
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Don't worry, Boris was in my overall top 100, which outranks most of the list I included here. I just didn't put them in the psych list.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
Oh, I didn't realize there were multiple lists, my bad. Carry on!
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 07:05 (six years ago) link
This Melbourne band has a new album out next week, and entire catalog is available for name yr price: https://thecitradels.bandcamp.com/album/god-bless
So for the new thread I was thinking "Into the void we have to travel" from Hawkwind's "Space Is Deep," but maybe someone else has something better?
Space is dark, it is so endlessWhen you're lost it's so relentlessIt is so big, it is so smallWhy does man try to act so tallIs this the reason, deep in our minds?
It does not feel, it does not dieSpace is neither truth nor lieInto the void we have to travelTo find the clue which will unravelIs this the reason, deep in our minds?The secret…
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
I just lurk this thread but I like it. Might I offer this Amon Duul II lyric, "Give me a lamp, it's going to be weird."
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 4 January 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
I need a job in Melbourne.
― alpine static, Thursday, 4 January 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
Is that a title suggestion? I like the "...it's going to be weird." Anyone else? Ned?
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 4 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
Maybe “as the planets re-align”
― calstars, Thursday, 4 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
no, not a title suggestion. just lots of great bands in Melbourne.
― alpine static, Friday, 5 January 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
Another thread title suggestion, this one a Linda Perhacs lyric, "I'm spacing out, I'm seeing silence between leaves." Maybe just the second part?
― Yelploaf, Sunday, 7 January 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
I pulled the trigger:
Give Me a Lamp, It's Going to Be Weird: Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Rock Thread 2018
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 13 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link