Quite simply we take turns to suggest to imago album or songs (that is kinda out his wheelhouse but can also be something you think he might or should like)
He then will give his rundown (either liveblogging or a 'review' at the end then someone else will give their recommendation.
Volunteer below to take a turn.
My recommendation is this - http://i.imgur.com/G9Lue6a.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/1lZahjeu4AhPkg9JARZr5Fspotify:album:1lZahjeu4AhPkg9JARZr5F
Imago oftens posts revulsion of them but I dont think he realises that there's a LOT more to them than bluesy heavy rock. For such a big band they were pretty damn weird at times and I do think he would like them if he gave them a chance.
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
some of their songs are pretty "undeniable"
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
volunteer for a turn and once he's finished one suggestion he can move on.
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
nah, i'll just post recommendations here as they come to me, and he can listen or ignore as he wishes -- as he has done for the last 5 years.
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah can this not be turn-based. pitch in more or less as you please, although a profusion of too much stuff will probably mean it takes longer to get around to.
going to sleep now, will check that out on the morrow though
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
I think you would enjoy disc 2 of PG more than the first.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
don't we do this every year
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 January 2014 01:24 (ten years ago) link
because you like complexity and expressed an interest in jazz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUd0SbegdMQ
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
probably best not to embed
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link
What did you end up thinking of the Pop Group, imago?
― stop ingesting (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:55 (ten years ago) link
apologies if you've already heard this stuff:
Biota - Bellowing Room (Side B)
Morton Subotnick - The Wild Bull (Side A and Side B)
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Monday, 27 January 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
ftr:yes! There's a song by The Pop Group, that I thought the lyrics were "Don't call me baby" (I think it's actually "don't call me pain") ...
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:51 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think I also have issues with "baby" as a term of endearment.
Hahaha! I've recently asked a few female friends of mine whether this bothers them and it doesn't for the most part. I think it should.
― cockles (country matters), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:52 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
xp -I don't hate all songs that use "baby" as a term of endearment, but if a romantic partner were to call me that, I'd have problems with that.
The Pop Group song is still a really good song.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:57 PM (4 years ago)
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I'd hope it isn't my lack of a penis that makes LJ less likely to follow my recommended listening than other male ilxors
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
et tu sarahell
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 09:22 (ten years ago) link
Imago I recommend the pop group
― LADsy (wins), Monday, 27 January 2014 10:41 (ten years ago) link
I recommend this little known singer called Beyonce. You might like her.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2014 10:49 (ten years ago) link
Shouldn't ilxors be recommending pop to Joey? I thought he was a stan for avant-garde experimental and so was going to always enjoy the soothing sounds from Takayanagi's guitar.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2014 11:05 (ten years ago) link
imago i have a hunch that if you set preconceptions aside, you'll appreciate how majestic physical graffiti can be
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
imago do you interest yourself in dub / reggae?
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
lol I made a beeline for Biota and found it entirely to my liking. quite proud if that's my comfort zone tbh, but a million cheers for the recommendation unreg
jul10 you might be amused to know that thanks to nakhers I've also been listening to quite a lot of Ferneyhough over the last couple of days - the guy's a bloody genius and perhaps quite an important philosopher of composition
okok well, physical graffiti it must be now. then takanayagi.
ooh good question dog latin - not as such, although I don't hate it - there's just so much, I never know where to start
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
o this is the one with 'kashmir' - that's their only smashhit I actually sorta like. ok cool
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:33 (ten years ago) link
Poo Group came up in another similar thread a few years back. You may have been there, seashell; I was just following up...
― stop ingesting (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:51 (ten years ago) link
Sarahell *'_'*
― stop ingesting (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:52 (ten years ago) link
like that's the best typo in that post
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
More like Plop Group amirite?
― keiji cretins (NickB), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:55 (ten years ago) link
yes, there's a lot of stuff and a lot of it's great and quite a bit of it's useless. judging by what i think you might like, i'd be interested in seeing what you think of The Congos' 'Heart of the Congos', Lee Perry & the Upsetters' 'Super Ape' or Joe Gibbs 'Majestic Dub'.
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
physgraf is q a pleasant background jammy thing for now. 'in my time of dying' and 'trampled under foot' so far making for the best ambience. is this music meant to be listened to while doing other things, i now wonder - like the traxpoll dance music, best experienced socially?
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
As cher out of clueless would say, are you talking about drugs?
― LADsy (wins), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
almost certainly
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
with the right substances, this cd become the spiritual ecstasy 'differentology' was for yow
actually i sincerely doubt that, although now i do wonder what music i'd find most enhanced by substances. probably something i already like, such as magma
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
background and foreground are the same thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTzWu2ys2s
― cog, Monday, 27 January 2014 13:28 (ten years ago) link
oooh 'ten years gone' by a zillion miles the best thing so far
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
^^^My favourite on the album, some days my fave Zep tune.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
If you're into that you should check out 'Rain Song' off Houses of the Holy.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
yeah have heard the whole album & that was comfortably the standout. side c so much better than side d you wonder why they didn't just end it there
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
Yeah side C is the best side. In the Light, Down by the Sea and TYG all amazing.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
yeah. sides b and c the best tbh, release them as a single album and I'd get reasonably enthusiastic
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
I'd throw in Custard Pie at the beginning, such a funky riff.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
Perhaps. Side A didn't really grab me but it wasn't the worst opener
Jul10 otm, obv - this Takayanagi clearly belongs on the J0rdan S Listening Club thread, not this one. Obviously it's awesome and imma listen to the whole thing in gleeful joy, wishing I was watching it all unfold live (o god, heaven)
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
o days, this is force divine
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
i do wonder what music i'd find most enhanced by substances.
Have you tried the early 90s dance music/mdma combo?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
nah but takayanagi/lsd combo is now high on agenda
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
dub kind of works really well with a smoky smoke.
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
You don't say.
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
funny that.
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Almost as startling as the ecstasy/rave revelation.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
The Rover is my fave song on PG, and is probably my fave led zep song period
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
im surprised to see that youve never listened to "astral weeks". personally, it took me a long time to get under my skin. but i love it now (i do prefer "veedon fleece" a bit more tbh which theres a youtube link for as well) and i think its got the right amount of proggyish knottiness and eccentricity for you to like it right off the bat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfhF7ZyURsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1vYs5LBC3c&list=PLWLQDGsdAqlZVnsHI9f9YKnHgjbP5aBMY
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
me or imago? I've owned the cd for 20 years but never got into it. Same with that grateful dead cd
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
Ahaha someone actually read that terrible post (Oasis thread, k3rr). On a bus rn but will check later along with unreg's other suggestion. Also, had the brainwave of recording my responses to the albumzpoll here (unless it's an album I love, in which case I'll loudly and obnoxiously declare my love in the thread obv
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
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xpost well, this thread is for imago but yeah id recommend it to anyone else who hasnt heard it. never could get with the grateful dead, not that they have anything to do with van morrison. actually "astral weeks" is more jazzy knottiness than proggy knottiness tbf
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Have the 2013 album results been done yet?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
imminent
― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
O god yeah y'all shd listen & comment to anything posted here, lemme be yr mere conduit
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
its just that on branwell bells thread i was talking about astral weeks
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
If you haven't heard Octopus by Gentle Giant I would definitely say, give it a gander
― frogbs, Monday, 27 January 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
frogbs mixing his animal metaphors
― schlager top (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 January 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
Thee Oh Sees is one of the worst bandnames in history, by fkn god
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
i am boycotting this thread until you listen to that fucking foetus album all the way through
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
me too
― sleeve, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
cool ok well I'll do that when normal service resumes after the EOY albumzpoll
J Barwick - Nepenthe: ummm I can't make my mind up about this after 2 and a bit trax - it flirts with the sublime, perhaps at points achieves it, but at other moments appears to be prettily blathering its Sigur Rossy way to dirgeville. Give it a couple more trax
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
imago have you changed your mind on blindly dismissing led zep then?
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
consider me in the 'ok they had their moments' camp, which is quite a big step tbh
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
yes indeed it is. I feel I succeeded in something!
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
i think you may be ready to dive in to tracks like No Quarter now
led zep suck
― wins, Monday, 27 January 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
kinda done with J Barwick tbh - getting a similar vibe from this as from - hold yr noses - God Is An Astronaut
-_-
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
she purveys what I'd call cheaply-won bliss, and I don't find it blissful, sorry
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
oh, Eluvium is another example of this sorta thing, except I think Eluvium v occasionally had better songs
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
ahahaha omg this Fall Out Boy
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
such ridiculous synth-orch heavy-handed disco-mallpunk emo - I think I can respect the humour of it all at least, doesn't appear to be taking itself remotely seriously. goodness what if I end up *liking* this stuff in 2 or 3 trax time
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
Fall Out Boy really stand out from their competitors mainly by dint of having much sharper melodies, and the guy's got a decent voice.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah I'm...not minding this at all
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
i'm curious what you think of this warped, one could say 'proggy' beat scene track: http://droppinggems.bandcamp.com/album/gem-drops-three (really starts switching up at 2:20)
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
^hold that thought Jordan, coz FOB are getting real
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
I...can't....turn....this...offffff
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
it's put together really quite skilfully - I won't go outta my way to rly listen to FOB but they're obviously a much, much, much better band than I may have lazily assumed they were
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
oh no little joeys on drugs
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
The Oh Sees were never never called "The OC's" -- the band was originally called OCS, and it was originally just Dwyer and a drummer.
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
looool I wonder why they changed THAT name
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
*grunts opening riff of Riverboat song, tosses back a Carling*
Hey Imago.
Some highlights from the three dub albums I mentioned:
Congos - Open Up The Gatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COSNHGTuFC0
'Heart of the Congos' is probably the best vocal roots album in history. As well as the ludicrously good harmonies, Scratch's dusty, jungly, otherworldly production makes it one of the best albums in the history of Jamaican music. Couldn't find a Youtube vid that was particularly good quality I'm afraid.
The Upsetters - Croaking Lizardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdDlpQ-E7kE
Another Lee Perry production. A dub masterclass really. This track repurposes one of dub's fattest grooves. I sometimes get bored of reggae DJs, but Prince Jazzbo's (I think) delivery here is full of emotion.
Joe Gibbs - Edward the Eighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1GRjMupyEk
A bit of a change from Lee Perry's production. Joe's style is ultimately cleaner, slightly more disco oriented than Scratch's rootsy vibes. Think this might be one of my favourite vintage dub tunes. Always love the synthy effects he uses, and that bass line has so much character to it.
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Ah cheers! Will come back and digest all of these after poll season's done. Maybe even during if you're all fabulously lucky.
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
o gosh the Bill Callahan track ciderpress linked...I was all ready to be all 'BOOORING' but this is frankly rly rly excellent music, superb wibbly freakout drone-folk
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
one to check out, clearly
oh, lorde's been @ the bladerunner soundtrack
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
I like that Eclipse set but this will always be my go to Takayangi, w/Abe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXm-v_4ENM
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
The Gradual is just as good but bcz its near silent no one will believe that.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
o my, well i shall check both out. they will make for a fine palate-cleanser after this albumzpoll is done. lorde isn't too awful (dan otm, 'buzzcut season' the highlight) but i'm done with it
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
well, the gradual takes a while to build ... it's, you know, gradual
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
And the mass is just...mass.
Yeah I get that.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
haha, that was just me being entertained that the titles are descriptive of the music
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
it's not JUST mass, it very clearly intensifies over its running-length, achieves nirvana abt 21 mins in
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
still listening to lorde, call it inertia, call it the album not being *too* bad rly
Heart Of The Congos has this eerie old testament quality where at times it sounds like sacred hymns from ancient times or something. There were a lot of essential re-issues like this on the Blood and Fire label in the 90's, this was probably the best one.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
srsly I will honestly by blood and fire and everything else that's holy listen to all this stuff. right now it's Thee Oh Sees, but it won't be for long (zing!)
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
the sort of frantic faux-punk that's nervously checking to see if its drainpipes are tight enough. ban
ohhh they got lucky. was about to kill it and track 2 began, which was a gr8 improvement
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
I'm not generally a fan of garage rock, but Oh Sees is a really solid band and I end up liking everything they do.
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
track 4 best yet
hmm, no clunkers so far in albumzpoll
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
yeah not bad, but next
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
o gosh the Bill Callahan track ciderpress linked...I was all ready to be all 'BOOORING' but this is frankly rly rly excellent music, superb wibbly freakout drone-folk― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, January 27, 2014 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, January 27, 2014 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ciderpress, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
so your boring appraisal might be closer to the truth
i like it a bunch but i am a mellow person
well, worth it for that one song tbh
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
follakzoid are nay bad but k3rr how the flaming fuck did u allow this in the metal poll :D
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
he allowed Melt Banana in the metal poll, which to me is o_O
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
M-B feature extremely loud guitars, noize, yelped vox...it fits
this just isn't metal in any way at all, my god! but it's not bad for a completely derivative krautabout
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
So we can vote for punk bands in metal polls now?
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
fair call tbh
bit bored of follakzoid - strikes me as excellent background music but doesn't reward intense listening too well for me
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
like, circle do this stuff wayyy better
Kelela - some v interesting production on this! She's not a v engaging presence at all tho. Listening for the beats, everything else just kinda washes over me
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
Fun fact: the building on the cover of Physical Graffiti is also featured in this classic video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKLVmBOOqVU
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
sorry kelela, u ain't doin' it for me any more
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
u never rly were altho u got some dece production contacts clearly
Cut Copy - *vomits blood, dies*
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
going to play the first 10 seconds of every song on this album
did they just sing "shine brother shine on, shine brother in the sun"
permaban
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
oh this music makes me ill
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
y'know that when something is permabanned, you stop listening to it, right?
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
i just had to make sure
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
you tempbanned it in other words
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
or yellow carded it
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
unless cut copy created a sock account and snuck into your ears pretending to be a new band?
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
f(x) give me the idea of bandname mashup f(n+x) and tbh i think that this would also sound kinda rad :D
obviously the music is much better than bloody cut copy (who are *now* permabanned), gonna give this a good few trax
i'd know cut copy in a millisecond. actually no i wdnt, so much 80's-actin' bilge out there. shit.
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
f(x) are p good fun i gotta concede, and the music's well put-together, got a bit of depth n craft, not all major-key harmonisin'
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
somewhere, somehow, frank k0gan is otm abt this lot
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
so they didn't pull a meowsy mcdermott on you?
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
no, they did not farcottonloco inspector slade this shit up & end up being f(x)
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
so this danny brown album is 2 weeks long
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
oh shit
what the hell :D
this isn't yer pop-rap ilxfodder, this is hard & tite
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
now it is yer pop-rap ilxfodder
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
hmm idk actually. there's something brilliant about this. everything i'm reading about danny brown persuades me i'd go apeshit over the previous album
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
You might.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:18 (ten years ago) link
actually am rly rly rly getting to enjoy this
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:19 (ten years ago) link
"Adderall Admiral" builds an entire track off of different segments of This Heat's "Horizontal Hold," with a Hawkwind sample thrown in for good measure.
i am listening the shit out of this album @ some pt
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
rme at "pop-rap ilxfodder" but you might enjoy the source of the 'Torture' beat's amazing sample:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxfBg_m4-2o
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
ooh ty, think Torture was where the album went into overdrive
this is brilliant, yeah completely sold on D Brown, wda made my ballot easily (lol I haven't reached the 'pop' 2ndhalf yet tho lol)
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
actually forget my earlier suggestion, listen to some arty/confessional rap by my man:http://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/track/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc-for-schopenhauer
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:35 (ten years ago) link
am forgetting no suggestions, as intimated earlier, but thanks
Danny Brown album not quite challenging Clipping as my number one rap of '13 but it's giving Death Grips a real tussle for second
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure danny brown appreciates your support.
(i found Clipping unlistenable tbh)
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:42 (ten years ago) link
whole album - masterpiece. if anything gets stronger near the end
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:01 (ten years ago) link
factory floor - can't follow up danny brown
and reeks of james murphy
and uh
no
^^^the sort of post that demonstrates why I'm posting all this here rather than on the albumzpoll thread
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
'fall back' as feat. in the traxpoll definitely the best thing here by a fair way on a rapid skimthru
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
is this ciara a concept album about her new romance
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link
opening track, just over breakup, gonna 'have us a good time', can see where this is going
i guess the fact it has a *concept* (according to this quick interpretation) means i'll have to listen to all of it
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:31 (ten years ago) link
think i get this more than i once might have
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:39 (ten years ago) link
'so turnt up' is kinda amazing
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was a super solid album with elements of euphoric self-celebration that I won't deny
told a nice li'l story there has ciara, a story of her heart
parquet courts, o rlllly
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
this halfasses the raggedy garage-indie thing. needs to me muuuch raggedier. way too zine-ready, too prepackaged. eugh. enough.
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
i think i would find this music less loathsome if i wasn't listening to it; hence, bring on k michelle
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
Interested in this one.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link
lol hai spottie. what's allthis bs DiS indie doin' in the ILX poll lol
k michelle is pleasingly off-kilter so far, the first two tracks have both got weird production elements that play against her relatively straight vocal bat rly intriguingly - waiting to see how she develops. comes off as delightfully schizophrenic (sorry if that's an insensitive use of language erryone)
lol this next track is a fkn quasi-beatlesy chamber rnb thing :D
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
also her lyrics are much weirder than her delivery - kinda mad, but deadpan
also a bit mad @ u spottie as despite knowing me a li'l bit u did not send me email after email with 'danny brown' as subject and no other text at all
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
predictably, 'pay my bills' :D
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link
um XD
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
'sometimes' was fkn epic, but then this
awesome
matt dc not otm
ah so she's a reality tv star from outside the usual canon, or at least her star has been made unconventionally
it shows, and i think it's to her benefit - this follows no formula except her own extremely idiosyncratic dream-logic
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
well, that was...something. faded a bit in last 2 trax but had already made its point. good record!
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
right, so...haha fuck listening to the arctic monkeys :D
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
nah ok, one song...but if u displease me then by god
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
*slumps face into hand* ok you guys, seriously now
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:09 (ten years ago) link
right, so, i won't be doing this tomorrow. might just do one round-up on the actual pollthread. today's albums have been of terrifyingly and unexpectedly high quality & i'm fairly certain lightning won't strike 2ce in that regard
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
i don't even know, I've displaced myself so far away from anything (new) with a guitar of late. Just don't care enough to even get mad about it you know. List is pretty cool so far tbf. Some metal, some r&b, some indie, some pop, some raps.
SORRY. Wouldn't think it would be up your street but excited now cos I feel like this expanded pallet of yours is a good opportunity to make some good recs I woulda kept quiet about in the past.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
What did you think of K Michelle VSOP?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
Also not sure if you'll go backwards on Danny and get XXX but at least listen to this http://youtu.be/J--rO7FP16U at some point. Maybe his hardest raps and the production has so much tension, not sure it ever really releases.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:14 (ten years ago) link
imago have you heard the Darkside record yet
its got a dece chance of placing in albums poll so i dont want to scoop it too hard but seems like something you'd enjoy
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
imago since I'm always accusing you of only listening to metal that fits your art school aesthetic ima gonna recommend you a few albums and Id love to see you live blog the results in your own time. I think even smithy would approve of this selection.
80s Edition.
Hellhammer - Demon Entrails http://open.spotify.com/album/0KJJaXqklxda4srO9islaxVenom- Welcome To Hell http://open.spotify.com/album/416frNecRqcMLBExg4YimjCeltic Frost - Morbid Tales http://open.spotify.com/album/1PAHTFExKX69ftvv1s14bgCandlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus http://open.spotify.com/album/3BHQVxQ9W2uqQM4zMf9CGoTrouble - Psalm 9 http://open.spotify.com/album/36EQco7PmBiG0rDEm2gidhSaint Vitus - Born Too Late http://open.spotify.com/album/6CyKigkGRtW3xTDZczqlRCKing Diamond - Abigail http://open.spotify.com/album/06f2VhemmvKLbch3JvFM6pDeath - Leprosy http://open.spotify.com/album/0WDuNDxOkxdTBwo3drhFY1
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah uh maybe I'll get around to that
listening to the Morton Subotnick that unreg posted upthread; it's off the fkn chain :D
― imago, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
in your own time dude. But its *important* albums that more or less invented sub-genres and what a purist might say you need to know.
Oh and I forgot Bathory - Under a Sign Of The Black Mark http://open.spotify.com/album/450O7sJi2GTzmLqHS03T88
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
Might have missed one towards the top of the thread
― cog, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
I'll get round to all of them, don't worry! Yours included...
― imago, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Heard it now - vibezy and all w/ plaintive guitar/synth hook but not rly my thing
― imago, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
I couldnt think of any albums and a 7 hour cdv mix seemed a bit unfair so have a go at this lil charmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZmXp0_hbkg
― cog, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
Since I'm thinking about them and their now pretty official demise as a band. This should be within your hard edged comfort zone, I think.
Company of Thieves - Gorgeous/Grotesque
(Much of what they play sounds nothing like this, incidentally.)
And from a very different direction. Perhaps I should come up with proggier Eddie Palmieri (it does exist), but this is so great and you can't deny there's quite a bit happening in it:
Eddie Palmieri - Puerto Rico
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
(I think dog latin's reggae/dub made me think ok how about some salsa.)
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Actually that CoT might be too bluesy for you now that I think.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
I would really like imago to listen to this album.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FndWVWa36Hg/SbPVStT97KI/AAAAAAAABo8/13mJTSdcbyY/s1600-h/StranglersMeninblackR.jpghttp://farm6.staticflickr.com/5267/5670316543_20a485aaaf_z.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FndWVWa36Hg/SbPVS-AWBvI/AAAAAAAABpE/EErE1acx-zA/s400/StranglersMeninblackV.jpg
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 6 February 2014 08:01 (ten years ago) link
Black & White too
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 February 2014 08:46 (ten years ago) link
Black & White is the best Stranglers album
― sarahell, Thursday, 6 February 2014 08:48 (ten years ago) link
I love Black & White, but it's my least favourite of their first six albums (The Raven and La Folie being the two 'desert island' picks)
I'm really keen on seeing what imago thinks of The Gospel According To The Meninblack, though. It's by far the weirdest album The Stranglers ever made, and definitely not for everyone. Their record label (United Artists) had been bought out by EMI and had become Liberty Records, and reportedly the attitude of the record label people The Stranglers were now dealing with was "we don't have a clue what this band are doing or what to do with them, but they seem to sell albums whenever they release one so we'll leave them to it". So the band indulged themselves: fucked their heads up on hard drugs, recorded at the most expensive studios they could (including Startling Studios, Musicland Studios, Pathe Marconi and several others), had no less than four engineers working on a rota so they could work around the clock (and because all the band members were under the influence of different drugs at different times), and because of no record label interference, basically did what the fuck they wanted without even caring whether or not it would be understood. Just as well really, because it wasn't understood at all.
All the drums were tracked individually(!) for maximum separation, and so they could apply effects to one specific drum at any one time without it fucking up the mix, as well as drums being recorded through condenser mics to fuck up the sound... as a result some of the stereo panning on the album is a bit crazy and headphone listening is an experience. None of the songs are all that accessible, and the ones that could possibly be accessible have something odd going on with them. It's quite jazz-influenced in places, and definitely a highly, highly indulgent record. It flopped massively, was misunderstood by pretty much everybody, and The Stranglers would never have the opportunity to be that indulgent again.
It's actually singer Hugh Cornwell's favourite Stranglers album, and bassist JJ Burnel cites it as one of his favourites alongside The Raven, probably because they had such a blast making it.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 6 February 2014 09:56 (ten years ago) link
and I recommend listening The Gospel while reading this exhaustive PDF about the album...
http://www.strangled.co.uk/PDF/but_issue_02.pdf
(There's one on Black & White too on the same site)
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 6 February 2014 10:11 (ten years ago) link
I've written my own (IMO quite wittily-observed) spoof review but I'm not sure how I could post it here...
― l0u1s jagg3r (Haberdager), Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:30 PM (7 years ago)
just for posterity
― sarahell, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
wittily-observed.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
quite
― sarahell, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
Time to listen to some dub, Imago.
― doglato dozzy (dog latin), Monday, 10 February 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
i dunno but i kinda think this might be imagoish
http://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/the-mother-of-virtues
― j., Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
cool :) and will check that out once I've finished watching La Belle Noiseuse but this thread is essentially defunct and I would like it to remain so - send all subsequent recommendations to Unknown, vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop that only MaresNest and I actually like
― imago, Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
oh, well, this is not cardiacsy prog-pop, and anyway, you're not the boss of me
― j., Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:27 (ten years ago) link
you should listen to roky erickson, i'm jamming the evil one right now, this light in the attic reissue is off the meat rack
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
"stand for the fire demon!" dun dun dun dun dun *rock*
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
after you do that, let me know what you think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
You're the prog-not-prog guy right? Try Butter by Hudson Mohawke
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
xxxp everyone should listen to Roky, and the 13th Floor Elevators too!
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Thursday, 27 March 2014 09:34 (ten years ago) link
I take it back j, but only coz this is extremely kickass :D
― imago, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGXIgz5hhzQ
― saer, Saturday, 5 July 2014 09:14 (nine years ago) link
This video is private.
Sorry about that.
― which was retweeted by (imago), Saturday, 5 July 2014 09:23 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lALxW-8zvdc
new ooioo might be worth yr while if yer open to some gamelan prog punk
― john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 5 July 2014 09:41 (nine years ago) link
that was pleasant, if a little meditative for my current state (ill, distracted, tired) - might return to it later :)
― which was retweeted by (imago), Saturday, 5 July 2014 09:52 (nine years ago) link
LJ do you like Skeletons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcwMyIJ0Ob8
― MaresNest, Saturday, 5 July 2014 09:52 (nine years ago) link
think I've heard them before! they have some likeable elements. they remind me a little of the band Volcano! whom I've proselytised at length before - the latter are more frenetic, more vivid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxhg_fWEUcc
― which was retweeted by (imago), Saturday, 5 July 2014 10:13 (nine years ago) link
Yea, weirdly I was looking at a Volcano! CD on my shelf about an hour ago thinking 'I can't remember anything about this'
― MaresNest, Saturday, 5 July 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
did u listen to any arrigo barnabé yet
― Towards A New Novel (and it sucks and whatever) (wins), Saturday, 5 July 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
imago have you ever heard boogie down productions
― example (crüt), Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― example (crüt), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
you should really give Criminal Minded and By All Means Necessary a few spins
― example (crüt), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
cool! well i'm back at home on my own proper internet connection tomorrow - over the weekend I'll listen to them :)
arrigo too, wins :/
right now i'm trying to spotify-stream the pet shop boys from a second-storey hotel room with an already-slow wifi box in the lobby pulsing out weak rays of sporadic provenance to my ken. it's no way to live
― imago, Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
(but…you don't understand! ken is my interactive buttplug!)
― imago, Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
wait, is the wifi box roaming around the hotel lobby?
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
are you gonna listen to track 6 of every album on the noms list or whatever you did last time?
― Tanukious D' (wins), Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2r5yqjlVrI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
My 2nd attempt to get you to listen to this...
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
give me some minutes, am out of doors and hurt
coffins on io v good obv DAM, more soon
― NyQuil Made It (imago), Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
nice sn
― Tanukious D' (wins), Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
by some savage and beautiful coincidence, THAT is THE D'Angelo song I like best off the album - even more amazingly, my gf chose it as the representative track on our playlist of the ILM albums poll! it is brilliant and strange. I also like the opener, Charade and Prayer. so that answers your question too, wins - we're not on track 6 this year but the first 10 seconds of track 1, then more if it sounds any good (like D'Angelo)
― NyQuil Made It (imago), Sunday, 11 January 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Don't forget to give Eyvind Kang's latest album a good listen imago, it is extremely beautiful.
― xelab, Sunday, 11 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
1000 Deaths is my second favorite song of the year. Livid beyond measure that I failed to nominate it for tracks poll
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 12 January 2015 08:37 (nine years ago) link
it didn't get nominated? o dear.
― NyQuil Made It (imago), Monday, 12 January 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah listening to this again, it's insane and wonderful - when it explodes in the last minute, jesus. that groove
― NyQuil Made It (imago), Monday, 12 January 2015 09:30 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWmOoVJvIU
dunno if you know this esben & the witch song - might be something you'd enjoy? bit of a long one but not one minute wasted imo
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2015 09:50 (nine years ago) link
many a genial time is had by those who locate atmosphere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJkveJMNMSo
― saer, Monday, 12 January 2015 10:25 (nine years ago) link
Don't forget to give Eyvind Kang's latest album a good listen imago, it is extremely beautiful.― xelab, Sunday, January 11, 2015 9:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― xelab, Sunday, January 11, 2015 9:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, especially the track 'Variel' in all its Arabic Toyland 70s movie dream sequence-ness.
If you haven't checked out The Narrow Garden, then that's a must also.
― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 12 January 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
cool, will check these out
been playing the weyes blood album on repeat all morning. it is so so so so so good
― NyQuil Made It (imago), Monday, 12 January 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link
You vote yet?
http://sturgillsimpson.bandcamp.com/track/it-aint-all-flowers
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 15 January 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
eh that's ok, got some surprisingly beautiful moments but probably not gonna disturb my ballot even if ilx is voting en masse ;)
esben and the witch song was nice
um
eyvind kang! oh god so much music though! been ploughing thru the list, so hard to know what to vote for now
― rae sredrum (imago), Thursday, 15 January 2015 08:24 (nine years ago) link
one that got nowhere in the poll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TW49X2G_Ss
― Germane Quip (NickB), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
you should listen to the jlin album, it is excellent
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Saturday, 4 April 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
rad ok
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Saturday, 4 April 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah this is great
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Saturday, 4 April 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
yep
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Saturday, 4 April 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
imago, do you like Punishment of Luxury? they sometimes make me think of early Cardiacs covering John Foxx era Ultravox, or maybe vice versa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTQNmNJHuM
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Thursday, 4 June 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
I meant to post that to the vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop thread, but what's done is ddone
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Thursday, 4 June 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
hey this is cool
― strangled whelps (imago), Thursday, 4 June 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
it doesn't quite have the cardiacs melodic sensibility & hence the sublimity, but it is p wired in a good way
― strangled whelps (imago), Thursday, 4 June 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
progge-poppe-landfill interzone bubbler seems relevant to your interests
― smoke weed listen to Satie (wins), Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
(I love this)
― smoke weed listen to Satie (wins), Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGAwp5syXyE
Will get on that later
Is the Carly Rae Jepsen album something I might appreciate?
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Do you like Carly Rae Jepsen?
― smoke weed listen to Satie (wins), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
ahem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmdci-fGLk
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
can scarcely believe i'm saying this but that FFS is almost TOO progge - the bit that kicks in after the intro and returns at the end is awesome but there's a but too much (arch and intentional) noodling for me. might well investigate further
this TFUL album is the fucken nuts :D
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
star trek -> tell me = XDDDDD
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
oh fuck, this has turned into the most intense fever dream
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
'tuning notes' is where it leaps off the cliff and becomes a classic album maybe
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
haven't listened to tful since college, happy to rediscover (& enjoying yr take)
― drash, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
I was thinking a little bit more today about those "difficult" pieces on MOAS. Although I appreciate the pared-down song-oriented tracklist someone posted in this (or the other) thread, the spacing of those tracks really helps with the sequencing and overall epic flow of the record.. I think that at the time there was some criticism of teh "practice room" pieces in the press but it was also kind of a statement of purpose by the band. At any rate, "Tuning Notes" has perversely become one of my fave tracks from that record as the years have gone by. It's just such a perfect window into their world, a distillation of the practice room experience.
― sleeve, Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:40 AM (4 years ago)
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 June 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
imago, has anyone made you listen to 'mud' off the GABI album entitled 'sympathy' yet and if not, why not?
― Ray Chard (NickB), Thursday, 1 October 2015 08:58 (eight years ago) link
i'm listening in the minutes before leaving for the doctor's with severe tonsillitis. the fact it's choral is making me plain envious if anything
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 1 October 2015 09:20 (eight years ago) link
this is cool, like if someone decided to make slowdive's 'pygmalion' into an opera
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 1 October 2015 09:25 (eight years ago) link
i'm listening in the minutes before leaving for the doctor's with severe tonsillitis
oof, maybe not the time for creeping queasiness then. good luck!
― Ray Chard (NickB), Thursday, 1 October 2015 09:42 (eight years ago) link
do you like this shit? I feel like maybe you'd like this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMj8Y56WmfU
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Monday, 12 October 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
yes that sounded quite promising thank you
weird art rock usually a fruitful line of enquiry
― twunty fifteen (imago), Monday, 12 October 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link
I don't wonder if you might dig Japan's Vampillia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqKNmIl_k4
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 10:46 (eight years ago) link
apologies my man but that doesn't quite do it for me…a bit lol random w/o much in the way of memorable songwriting or sonic intrigue…but you are encouraged to keep chucking 'em down
― twunty fifteen (imago), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 10:57 (eight years ago) link
Vampillia are frustrating because they can be brilliant but can also be sort of irritating. I like that they're kind of multifaceted but their mix of sincerity and wanton goofball tendencies don't really gel. I have to say that personally I think Ice Fist is a great track though.
They remind me a lot of another band from Japan, Mutyumu, who came a bit before. They're less polished but more refined if that makes sense.
One of their "pop" songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atOGv14hLys&index=4&list=PL18F216634676A0D5
Epic post-rock blowout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RoegQvn7Ak
They had/have some more black metal-tinged material as well. It might be worth pointing out that I despise opera but for some reason I like the voice in this context.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
OK I fucked up that first video
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
Thanks UUG, never heard of those guys. A couple of friends and I have just started a little radio show playing non mainstream music from Japan, from the last few decades, it's been fun researching lot's of different crazy bands to play.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
XXXP - wildo LJ, no worries :)
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Homeboy Sandman
― ♫ as we get older and stop making threads ♫ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 16 January 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
ty
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Saturday, 16 January 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpvztXgGzYSHHac4VPLofaPc7cZmVLKYU
― etc, Saturday, 16 January 2016 07:36 (eight years ago) link
(^^ Skeptics - Amalgam)
― etc, Saturday, 16 January 2016 07:37 (eight years ago) link
chris weisman - the sweetest flags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWiEJaRyNA
chris weisman - hand sign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxufwTBtGak
(but two...)
― linee, Saturday, 16 January 2016 07:49 (eight years ago) link
oops those weren't meant to embed
I've heard good things about Foetus-Nail
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Saturday, 16 January 2016 08:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vI-dbV4D9k
― MaresNest, Saturday, 16 January 2016 11:03 (eight years ago) link
Yes indeed! Well, I might check out some of your solo votes. Everyone else, check out Re-TROS, a band only denied a place in this poll because they had the ghastly temerity to release more than one excellent song last year
xp
― imago, Thursday, 25 January 2018 22:58 (yesterday)
Just so I'm not cluttering up the singles ballots thread - not sure if any of my other singles votes are particularly LJ-aligned apart from "The Doctrines Of Swedenborg" & "Que Du Bon", but there's a few bits & pieces you might find interesting:
i.e. crazy - non compos mentis (hysterical industrial folk)
https://muzai.bandcamp.com/album/non-compos-mentis
Some vaguely recent Chinese stuff that I'd cluster w/Re-TROS:
Beijing's Chui Wan:
https://chui-wan.bandcamp.com/album/chui-wan
Chengdu's STOLEN: https://site.douban.com/stolen/http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJLuT0Pmg_qaL1-Kb0TD1sALBlp9h4fuJhttps://mimixingdong.bandcamp.com/
Shanghai's Mirrors:https://separatemirrors.bandcamp.com/album/separate-reality
& if you squint a bunch you can vaguely compare this to Jute Gyte...
Shandong black metal band Zuriaake:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/lake-of-buried-corpses-chinese-metal-band-digs-out-ancient-9872674https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/gu-yan-album
Also you probably saw Siegbran repping Lingua Ignota's two EPs, which are excellent.
― etc, Friday, 26 January 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
whoa cheers for all this! let's dig in...
― imago, Friday, 26 January 2018 07:55 (six years ago) link
ok ie crazy is kind of wonderful
― imago, Friday, 26 January 2018 08:26 (six years ago) link
yeah that was really amazing. wish i'd discovered it before the albums poll deadline! ah well. really strong songwriting all the way through and a wickedly delirious atmosphere.
chui wan closing track 'beijing is sinking' was wonderful
mirrors seem fun, loved the 3rd track. they're one to watch. is there a thread for chinese psych?
diving into the zuriaake now...
― imago, Friday, 26 January 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
It was very pleasant!
But yeah, i.e. crazy. Incredible. Would have threatened my top 5 if I'd known about it
― imago, Friday, 26 January 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
Funnily enough, I'd been half-thinking of recommending you Baby Zionov's Henrietta but I unexpectedly stumbled across you repping it on Twitter! There's a nice out-of-flux-y scene in Auckland at the moment with lots of side projects (including their dungeon synth project Gayblade).
There's new i.e. crazy singles trickling out, and you might like Grecco Romank - acid-friend bogan industrial:
https://greccoromank.bandcamp.com/album/red-tower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EEu__Cf-JM
― etc, Friday, 5 August 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
AHEM
https://tful282.bandcamp.com/album/strangers-from-the-universe
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Friday, 5 August 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
oh hello yes yes this is all nice. i have a sleeping ill person here but will check this all tomorrow
i am pals with Baby Zionov on RYM - been mutuals for about 5 years, v thrilled she is finally turning her taste in weird stuff into weird stuff
i forgot that this thread was where i learnt about i.e. crazy too. her new stuff is sounding killer, the comeback single had a great run on the latest peoples_pop poll too
― ban, buddy (imago), Friday, 5 August 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link