The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

she does live in hawaii if that makes it fit in the thread

great, great album btdubs

is "balearic" just the self-aware Other Music-goer's way of looking down on people that jumped on the "yacht rock" thing?

its a term we made up to make you annoyed

Does yacht rock presuppose dinghy rock?

There's a few Perhacs tracks that almost work, but that record is way too intimate to be included here, and I feel it has a certain English folk formalist vibe to it that is decidedly un-balearic. But it is a great record indeed.

nobody has used the word "oceanicity" yet :-/

played 80s trivial pursuit this weekend and had the question asker scoff and say "you are SOOOOO never going to get this,,, name a zurich born harpist that was listed in three US billboard charts in 1984."

i got up and threw my Andreas Vollenweider record in his face!

i can't remember the question, but the same thing happened when they asked about the william hurt film gorky park. the soundtrack's epic, assholes!

i'd also like to point out this jean michel jarre video. he plays a stack of synthesizers on the beach!

in my opinion the underpraised-in-recent-years Tranquility Bass album should be on this list

hahahaha jaxon i hope you stormed out after that

never got into the album, but the Tranquility Bass singles and comp tracks, the ones on the Exist Dance Transmitting from Heaven CD, are total classic.

http://www.starsend.org/graphics/mgtropicalheat.jpg

I've been avoiding this album for a long time since I kept on hearing that this was Ashra's low point, but given it's balearic sounding title (Tropical Heat) and it's Gottsching I figured it's worth a listen. It's not nearly as bad as I anticipated. I'm not sure if this would be the right thread to post this in, but I'm surprised this album hasn't been reconsidered (maybe it really is that bad) or at least mentioned*.

*the search function turned up nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennMD1fPtXA

This remains one of my favorite ILX threads.

On the Herb Alpert tip: his disc with Hugh Masekela has got some lovely stuff on it.

holy shit is that the sample on the beginning of Biggie's Hypnotize?

yess indeed... wasn't it the theme to general hospital or something as well?

http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks1e259DQJ1qzoj6fo1_100.gif http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks1e0d57MK1qzoj6fo1_100.gif http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks1efuT6kh1qzoj6fo1_100.gif

today is a good day for a desultory beach party

those are credit stephd.biz btw

http://stephd.biz/gifs/5/peacock.gif

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This record is so this thread......

Oops...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu2bT-yEiWc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9wbumIKJJ0

that batteaux record is great. this is the track of theirs to get. Mirror. so amazing
http://www.divshare.com/download/9846879-0a2

i have a paul horn record where they cover High Tide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxRvI6k4nPI

awesome revive. was hoping we could get this thread going with some recommendations again, feel free to disagree with the following...

steve winwod - arc of a diver. if you can get with his voice there are some great tunes on here, "spanish dancer" especially
http://p.dada.net/cspv/59-10-68-10-00-MetaPreview-Cover-JPEG256x256/steve-winwood/arc-of-a-diver.jpg

yello - claro que si. a lot of yello songs are just ott balearic, i think this record has more of that vibe than the others (disagreements welcome). they don't exactly scream 'hippie', but some of the early stuff might be cosmic enough to fit. also check "blue green" from the record before this one, also on ralph
http://www.musicline.de/cover/Yello_Claro+Que+Si_602498307564.jpg

little river band - s/t 1975. real surprised nobody has mentioned them here yet. "it's a long way there" is a pretty ideal fit for this thread imo
http://bigpondmusic.com/images/AlbumCoverArt/117/L/Little-River-Band2.jpg

does Roxy Music's "Like A Hurricane" fit here? Kinda?

ya, the 12" of Steve Winwood's Night train from that album has an instrumental and i've seen harvey and rub'n'tug play it

would like to hear that instrumental, you mentioned it once before iirc. are there any instrumentals of the joe cocker stuff on island? that would be similarly awesome.

and xp- i think roxy music fits, esp if we're talking about a neil young cover

yeah, it's the neil young song. sounds like Studio sort of.

http://robotsinheat.com/temp/Night%20Train%20(Inst).mp3

when this gets going, it kills me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUbw9fFEe4

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=u97jlruLKbk&v=9KJgs1ZlAKk

my record collection needs more tri atma, reminds me of my favorite kitaro tracks. tho maybe it's more fit for a revive of that 'global village syncretic fusionism' thread (which could use a revive anyway, imo)

btw i think this thread is the reason i got hooked on ilm. cheesy but true.

There's a copy of that Little River Band LP at a market stall near me.... all the encouragement i need.

has there been any john martyn posted in the thread? if not, there should be. i've been buying his later albums and they are always amazing and as they get smoother, get more balearic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLVM560Fok

^ not necessarily that one. that one's more on the hippy beach part of it. but he uses cheap drum machines and is produced at Compass Point and even worked with lee perry

"hole in the rain" is ill

i just watched that john martyn clip on youtube like 30 mins before jaxon posted. totally weird that he hasn't been mentioned much here

played 80s trivial pursuit this weekend and had the question asker scoff and say "you are SOOOOO never going to get this,,, name a zurich born harpist that was listed in three US billboard charts in 1984."

i got up and threw my Andreas Vollenweider record in his face!

i can't remember the question, but the same thing happened when they asked about the william hurt film gorky park. the soundtrack's epic, assholes!

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:50 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this story still makes me lol for some reason

man i must have been so stoned upthread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OY1OlKOIiU

jaxon, can you re-up the winwood track? if not here, then elsewhere...

reuploaded. for some reason my server was acting crazy yesterday

can't believe I never looked at this thread properly until now...really nice music thanks guys

loving Batteaux's "Mirror" and the Winwood track

I love that Ned Doheny song. Hard Candy and Prone are two albums worth tracking down. His self titled album is my favorite, but it's more west coast country rock than Balearic.

king of impossible to find, or so i've seen. there are also Tata Vega and Average White Band covers of that song.

nerve pylon posted the loggins messina album cover upthread, but this song is just so epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdVFQRn3Emo

also this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowuyzxgmtg