The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

I've got the Tata Vega one and also ones by Average White Band and Social Disco Club

the other cover version i have is by The Mob ... as featured on Bill Brewster's "Secret Weapons" cd

the other cover version i have is by The Mob ... as featured on Bill Brewster's "Secret Weapons" cd

I knew I had a fourth version! If I remember though there's no tracklisting with that Bill Brewster bonus cd although I think I've identified most of them.

ave white band yeah thats the other ive heard

$130!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????

what can i say? sometimes things slip by me. i'm only human. when did ned become hip with the beardo set? total dollar bin fare for years.

i put ned on my sexy sailor mix a few years back and i also did a list of similar albums that i like that people here might want to check out. i'll post my post here. not ALL appropriate for this thread, but the vibes are somewhat similar in many cases:

Skot's Sexy 70's Mix For Sailors, Searchers, and Seers

Just the tip of the iceberg, but I made a quick list of underheard albums that I go back to again and again for whatever reason. Some apply to this mix/thread, some don’t, but whatever. I’ve also talked a bunch about most of them on ilm or included them on a mix that I’ve posted here. These are all a part of my 70’s non-hard rock rock canon. didn’t include more obvious stuff. In 2009, my holy trinity would probably be ian matthews, michael franks, and poco! Who would have guessed? I used to listen to a lot of crass records. Anyway, for what it’s worth:

Allesi – s/t (a&m – 1976) (probably my favorite brothers of the 70’s. or maybe that title goes to the gurvitz brothers. can’t decide.)
curved air – phantasmagoria (wb – 1972) (really, everything by them in the 70’s. like babe ruth. or savage rose.)
curtiss maldoon – s/t (capitol – 1971)
jackson heights – king progress (mercury – 1970)
howard werth & the moonbeams – king brilliant (mca – 1975)
vance or towers – s/t (a&m – 1975)
gary farr – addressed to the censors of love (atco – 1973)
danny o’keefe – breezy stories (atlantic – 1973)
string driven thing – the machine that cried (charisma – 1973)
east of eden – s/t (harvest – 1971)
molkie cole – s/t (janus – 1977)
bloomsbury people – s/t (mgm – 1970)
redeye – s/t (pentagram – 1970)
danny o’keefe – american roulette (wb – 1977) (hell, really everything from the 70’s.)
trefethen – am I stupid or am I great?/it’s all mom’s fault (1980) (recorded in the 70’s though.)
gallagher & lyle – the last cowboy (a&m – 1974)
john randolph marr – s/t (wb – 1970) (also, bubba fowler’s album *and then came bubba*, but I think that might have been 69 or even 68. can’t remember. The marr album is essential for nilsson fans.)
country joe mcdonald – hold on it’s coming (vanguard – 1970) (i can’t even begin to describe how much I love this album. it is the end and the beginning of something wonderful. )
song – album (mgm – 1970) (essential.)
cowboy – s/t (Capricorn – 1977) (again, who am I kidding? I love everything they ever did. Possibly one of the top ten most underrated/underheard major label acts of all time.)
boxer – s/t (virgin – 1975)
george geddes – obituary (ua – 1971) (but, you know, everyone needs son of obituary from 1972 too.)
thomas jefferson kaye – s/t (dunhill – 1973)
mckendree spring – s/t (decca – 1969) (oops, 1969. But you can substitute it with *3* or *tracks* from the early 70’s.)
facedancers – s/t (paramount – 1972)
barnaby bye – room to grow (atlantic – 1973)
dane donohue – s/t (Columbia – 1978)
tim hardin – painted head (Columbia – 1972) (one of my heroes, and his 70’s stuff doesn’t get near enough praise. And it’s all worth people’s time. )
tim hollier – message to a harlequin (imperial – 1968) (1968? but it’s so good. and I can’t find a copy of skysail from 1971 and I can’t afford a copy of his 1970 s/t album which is also awesome.)
dave morgan - morgan (ampex – 1971)
mick greenwood – living game (mca – 1971)

i should really do an updated list too. heard so much great stuff since then.

quick you can still buy dane donohue and jess roden albums for five bucks on ebay get them while you can!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSeAem7PDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIKiNX1ChHo&feature=related

gr8080 is your youtube clip comprised of "people who've figured out how to live" photos?

Hey Scott I would like an updated list.

i'll see what i can come up with.

there's a pretty great soundtrack to They Call It An Accident. it has a few wally badarou tracks, a few steve winwood instrumentals, a track by marianne faithful from her broken english album, a song by Compass Point All Stars (badarou & sly & robbie). jess roden & peter wood have a track on there called "Some Vision". i guess this is their band?

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

^ this stdk sounds excellent. have you seen it around anywhere?

i love that mark e edit of the tata vega version

it's not even close to as good as the actual tata vega or the doheny but it's definitely worthwhile

iirc theo p did an edit of the vega too

gr8080 is your youtube clip comprised of "people who've figured out how to live" photos?

― Tim F, Monday, April 4, 2011 3:16 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

just my favorite photos from alohafriday.org

but to answer your question: probably!

gr8mix

http://www.mysterymix.com/mp3/TuTu_Mix.mp3

ha scott there are a number of bars in london where yr mixes get played pretty regularly. hope this is ok :)

cool! i wish i could get it together to make more. if i do upload more they will go on the vinyl board.

i never read that board so bump one of the old threads when you do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYT4Ut3dtY

Sort of fits here, I think....

this recently got reissued on 4 men w/ beards and is the bee's knees

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/stormbringer.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZuepQ0mFt0

also, can a mod find the image that's asking for a password in this thread? it's kinda annoying

the best part about beardo/balearic (as mentioned above), but also what adds to the confusion of what it is, is that you can make anything that has a certain vibe fit the genre. like this chill soul tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxc8Sf7RaYY

draggjn my heels has been my mellow morning tune of choice for the last few weeks

what about 'draggin the line'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skydln4BhDI

this has been my jam lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94x4Ezs_OVM&feature=related

woah that is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAP9qFHj6jE&feature=share

do you want to have kids?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxuAZictJ4

that nina version of 'baltimore' is a classic, first heard it on npr lol

i like this version a lot too tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lttEUZbK8

surprised no one's mentioned Eden Ahbez, the original Beardo beach bum proto-hippie (he looked like this in the late 40s)

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/edensisland.jpg

album is languid exotica with ambient beach sounds and Eden's spoken word extolling the Nature Boy way of life, the balearic urtext.

also, i passed out to John Martyn's 'Glorious Fool' the other night, the tracks I heard before sleep were gorgeous. don't let the 'Produced by Phil Collins' credit scare you off, it's a sign of quality.

^^^^^
Yes. The version of "Couldn't love you more" (first track I think) gets nice and balearic if you pitch it up

i'm interested in more sunny soul tunes, this is an obvious one that may or may not have already been mentioned:

http://youtu.be/M36OGCfYp3A

i guess "be thankful for what you've got" also fits this sub-category

oh and that youtube link is roy ayers, didn't mean to post it that way.

that psychemagik mix they're talking about on the nu-balearic thread is full of this type of stuff

ha, i'm wondering what kind of machine dane donohue put the title tracks from gaucho and aja through to make that thing scott posted up there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7f4BHHcW10&feature=youtu.be

don't let the 'Produced by Phil Collins' credit scare you off, it's a sign of quality.

― herbal bert (herb albert), Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:04 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

i want to hear this now. is there much drum machine/synth stuff?

More latter than former, if I remember correctly? Still very much has the mark of early 80’s Phil. Tuff drum sounds. Textural vocoder. Etc.

yeah, not really new wave but it has Phil on drums and the bassman plays a Chapman Stick and it's 1981 so has that 80s modern sound of Abacab, Face Value, Discipline, Security et al. higly recommended (esp for $1)

it's a beautiful album. def recommended. if you want full on balearic smoothness, check out Sapphire. i had it for one day, thought it was great and then dropped and chipped it and haven't been able to find it again.

cool, I'll def grab it if I see it about. i'm going through a bit of a John Martyn phase atm, Stormbringer! and One World getting a lot of play time

while i love Bless the Weather through Insides Out, i find that i reach for One World most often. will have to seek out Glorious Fool and Sapphire now.

BiS episode with Jonny Nash back in Januray finished with this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySmRL-Ey8mE

which i swear to god i heard in a movie i saw recently but I cant remember what

i put a track from that on one of my ilx mixes. can't remember which one.

was it that same song?

this one:

Macondo - Do It To Me

Francisco - Heal Yourself

Abe & Malka - Silver's Really Grey

Laurin Rinder & W. Michael Lewis - Anger

Neil Merryweather - Sunshine Superman

Smokey Robinson - Theme From Big Time

Jackson Heights - Sunshine Freak

Barrabas - Mr.Money

Michael Franks - Born With The Moon In Virgo

Don Fardon - Belfast Boy

Morning Glory - Even When I'm Up I'm Down

The Hues Corporation - All Goin' Down Together

Red Rhodes - Lunar Nova

Scott Bradford - Essential Horror

The Face Dancers - Let The Music Set You Free

Tropea - Tambourine

Spread Eagle - Piece Of Paper

The Turtles - Hot Little Hands

Charlie D & Milo - Om Sweet Om

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 5:50 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark