Imago Listening Club

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?

As cher out of clueless would say, are you talking about drugs?

almost certainly

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

background and foreground are the same thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTzWu2ys2s

oooh 'ten years gone' by a zillion miles the best thing so far

^^^
My favourite on the album, some days my fave Zep tune.

If you're into that you should check out 'Rain Song' off Houses of the Holy.

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

Yeah side C is the best side. In the Light, Down by the Sea and TYG all amazing.

yeah. sides b and c the best tbh, release them as a single album and I'd get reasonably enthusiastic

I'd throw in Custard Pie at the beginning, such a funky riff.

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)

o days, this is force divine

i do wonder what music i'd find most enhanced by substances.

Have you tried the early 90s dance music/mdma combo?

nah but takayanagi/lsd combo is now high on agenda

dub kind of works really well with a smoky smoke.

You don't say.

funny that.

Almost as startling as the ecstasy/rave revelation.

The Rover is my fave song on PG, and is probably my fave led zep song period

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

me or imago? I've owned the cd for 20 years but never got into it. Same with that grateful dead cd

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

)

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

Have the 2013 album results been done yet?

imminent

O god yeah y'all shd listen & comment to anything posted here, lemme be yr mere conduit

its just that on branwell bells thread i was talking about astral weeks

If you haven't heard Octopus by Gentle Giant I would definitely say, give it a gander

frogbs mixing his animal metaphors

Thee Oh Sees is one of the worst bandnames in history, by fkn god

i am boycotting this thread until you listen to that fucking foetus album all the way through

me too

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

imago have you changed your mind on blindly dismissing led zep then?

consider me in the 'ok they had their moments' camp, which is quite a big step tbh

yes indeed it is. I feel I succeeded in something!

i think you may be ready to dive in to tracks like No Quarter now

led zep suck

kinda done with J Barwick tbh - getting a similar vibe from this as from - hold yr noses - God Is An Astronaut

-_-

she purveys what I'd call cheaply-won bliss, and I don't find it blissful, sorry

oh, Eluvium is another example of this sorta thing, except I think Eluvium v occasionally had better songs

ahahaha omg this Fall Out Boy

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

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.

yeah I'm...not minding this at all

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)

^hold that thought Jordan, coz FOB are getting real

(^^ Skeptics - Amalgam)

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...)

oops those weren't meant to embed

I've heard good things about Foetus-Nail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vI-dbV4D9k

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-Kb0TD1sALBlp9h4fuJ
https://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-9872674
https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/gu-yan-album

Also you probably saw Siegbran repping Lingua Ignota's two EPs, which are excellent.

whoa cheers for all this! let's dig in...

ok ie crazy is kind of wonderful

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...

It was very pleasant!

But yeah, i.e. crazy. Incredible. Would have threatened my top 5 if I'd known about it

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

AHEM

https://tful282.bandcamp.com/album/strangers-from-the-universe

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

Delighted to find you're into the Crocodiles! I'd always meant to start a "world famous in New Zealand" thread for all the stuff you hear at the supermarket/as hold music but has zero overseas profile compared to the trillion Flying Nun / Dead C threads on here.

This gets a little into the avant-theatre/jazz/etc ferment the Crocodiles emerged from (some parallels to Split Enz etc):
https://www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/the-crocodiles

Proto-vaporwave video from another NZ new wave group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxu0dM89Vm8

imago, have you heard the new Doctor Dark album from the Residents? It sounds like imagocore

New Baby Zionov singles are sounding fantastic, new Grecco Romank is great, and tropical-industrial maven Ron Gallipoli's operetta/"field opera" An Imposter features i.e. crazy and Billie from Grecco:

https://rongallipoli.bandcamp.com/album/an-imposter

I'm online pals with Baby Zionov and had no idea she had new stuff coming out soon lol. I reviewed the last one on RYM! Anyhow, thanks for keeping up me updated from the far side, will def give this linked thing a go :)

I'd always meant to start a "world famous in New Zealand" thread for all the stuff you hear at the supermarket/as hold music but has zero overseas profile

Did this never happen? I for one would read with interest!

The Baby Zionov preview stuff is incredible yeah, have told them so myself too :D

Field opera to follow soon...

Omg this is sounding great

https://95bfm.com/bcast/long-player-baby-zionov-raceways-of-my-heart

Baby Zionov album is out! Nice track-by-track rundown.

(time to dig into what you posted in the AOTY thread)

I've already heard and really liked the Baby Zionov! I'll return to it today though, it is truly the Happiest Hardcore :)

I feel like it's worth saying that beside the 108 albums from 2025 I've heard, there's a very large range of older stuff I've gotten into this year. I'll do a breakdown of that at some point