It's on the US version, not the UK.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 4 March 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
_in the dark_ by toots and the maytals
yeah I finally heard this in its original form a few years back, so good
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Saturday, 4 March 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
well i got the maria toledo album. it's so good. nothing unexpected or surprising, just very beautiful music. i put it on youtube since it's not on spotify.― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, July 17, 2021 2:12 PM
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, July 17, 2021 2:12 PM
my yt upload of this earned me a copyright strike, but the assholes finally got their shit together and it's on spotify now. highly recommended.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
not an album but spotify's This is the Gap Band playlist has really been doing it for me recently as the weather turns warmer
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
Charlie Christian The Daddy of Them All.great cheap 2cd of work by jazz guitar pioneer with various bands.I might like thsi even more if there was room for him to stretch out instead of it all being 2 1/2 or 3 minute tracks. What is here is pretty atmospheric, melodic, groove bound but would be good to hear him truly jam. I assume this is partially down to recording ability at the time. He's surrounded by other instruments including a vibraphone or whatever specific variation taht is. Also looking forward to hearing this play clearly throughout.
Youssou N'dour Egyptpossibly even better discovery since this was a Euro from a charity shop and I had to go back to get it. Stupid should have grabbed it immediately since i love his earlier work with Etoile De Dakar.Here he is trying to tell his audience about his relationship with his brand of islam.Beautiful set with very rhythmic usage of strings. & his voice being great as per usual.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Re: eno according to his discreet music sleeve notes it was an album of 18th c. harp music that was playing too quietly, not miles, although I am pretty sure he called “he loved him madly” “proto-ambient” or something
― brimstead, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 18:02 (one year ago) link
When I was a kid, I went from 3 Feet High and Rising as a 5th-grade kid to Buhloone Mindstate as a stoned teenager. Totally missed De La Soul is Dead and I've been remedying that problem. I think it's my favorite.
― peace, man, Friday, 12 May 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
This week I listened to both of Alice Cooper (band)'s 1971 LPs: Love It To Death & Killer, borrowed from an old head in the hood. Huge blindspot for me.
Compared to my "canonical analogues" of this era (Sticky Fingers, Hunky Dory, Meddle, IV/Zoso, #1 Record, Every Picture..., et. al.), I was genuinely surprised at how catchy and genre-less both these records are. Definitely some Detroit (Stooges/MC5) microflora seeping through at times, some southern-fried boogie/glam, some post-Altamont proggy psych, but honestly a lot more proto-punk than the proto-metal I expected.
4 bags of popcorn and maybe a little spidery eyeliner to add some drama.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 May 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
Love it To Death is definitely great. I picked up a 5 classic Los set to get a decent CD version so should have Killer.Think I got a Billion Dollar Babies expanded set in FOPP too.Mainly been Love It To Death I loved though.I think Shotgun Wedding did a decent Black Juju. Lydia lunch & Rowland S Howard et al.
― Stevo, Friday, 12 May 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
There's a decent Detroit Tubeworka and a Midsummer Rock set by the original band worth checking out too.Birthday cake like
― Stevo, Friday, 12 May 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, May 12, 2023 2:26 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this happened for me some years ago, obv i knew the classic rock radio staples, his image, wayne's world, etc but yeah they were truly one of a kind, a weird thuggish damaged art rock band both proto-punk and broadway, i think the original band is one of the greatest bands of all time.
when people compare kiss to alice cooper i see red, not even in the same universe.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 May 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
Check out Billion Dollar Babies too, Steve. "I Love The Dead" is the only weak spot, and is a harbinger of the horror movie shtick he would do later.
― nickn, Friday, 12 May 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i87emyiiicg
― Stevo, Friday, 12 May 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
Wow, crazy. Does a beer hit him at 9:18?
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 May 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
A piece of cake?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 12 May 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
Wiki says cream pie!
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 12 May 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
I was just reading the Lester Bangs piece last night where he writes about this show, and for a recollection from a single viewing, it’s surprisingly accurate (moreso considering Bangs’ drug/alcohol intake at the time). The pocketwatch, “Bodies…need…rest…”, someone shouting, “So what?”, and then the cake/pie.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 12 May 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
I’ve had the record for probably 10 years but for most of that time my turntable was broken. I finally got a new turntable and so I’ve been playing it again. I don’t like Rumors as much as many people do, so I was skeptical, despite the reputation of Tusk as being their difficult album. Certainly some songs are weird: Buckingham’s trebly twitchy tracks especially. Nicks’s tracks on the other hand seem so mellow as to almost evaporate. In contemporary parlance, the vibes are off, the mood is tense and glum, and yet it’s never a dull listen. Much to the contrary. It’s strangely riveting.
― o. nate, Saturday, 3 June 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
Electric Light Orchestra - Balance of Power
This may be sacrilege, but I think this is as good as Out of the Blue.
― o. nate, Friday, 16 June 2023 18:42 (eleven months ago) link
lol i went through the exact same alice cooper journey described above several years ago. i believe it was la lechera posting this incredible live video of them playing "is it my body" that lead to me taking them more seriously. all of the albums with the original lineup are definitely worth checking out.
― na (NA), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:12 (eleven months ago) link
John Prine's self titled debut. Had never heard this dude or this album before for some reason. Pretty dope record! Illegal Smile is a hell of an opener.
― octobeard, Friday, 23 June 2023 03:25 (eleven months ago) link
i think that's still and always the best one, but Octobeard you have a wealth of Prine ahead of you if you like that style of songwriting. Seek Sweet Revenge, Bruised Orange, Jesus The Missing Years for starters
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 24 June 2023 13:58 (eleven months ago) link
I had friends in college who loved john prine but he never clicked with me.
When he died a whole lot of other people I know who normally didn't talk much about music posted about how much they loved him which kind of surprised me, and when I saw wilco in chicago last year I was shocked at how many john prine t-shirts I saw, by far the most common "band" shirt I saw that.
― joygoat, Sunday, 25 June 2023 16:03 (eleven months ago) link
that night
Heh I just realised it was listening to Elton that kicked this thread off 19 years ago and here I am watching what might be his last ever British gig. On telly like, I’m not there sadly.
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 June 2023 21:35 (eleven months ago) link
My favorite John Prine album has always been Common Sense; it doesn't get mentioned that much for some reason, but for me it's the Prine album that coheres the most, that I can play all the way through with no skips, and it's got a dark surreal moodiness that I love.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 25 June 2023 21:49 (eleven months ago) link
Prine's weakness is cuteness, and Common Sense avoids that without getting so dark it's no longer him.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 26 June 2023 17:05 (eleven months ago) link
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
I always liked the title track and of course Love Hurts but this whole album is just a righteous platter of '70s rock.
― omar little, Monday, 26 June 2023 17:15 (eleven months ago) link
Not so much album since this was a standout track on a compilation surrounded by decent music but nothing that stood out as much to me. I heard the guitar on Skinhead Moonstomp by Symarip which is really surprising. I must have heard it before so surprised i is hitting me as a surprise but it isn't what I would have expected, though not sure what that is.It's noisy , quasi psychedelic possibly and more about creating distortion with a clean guitar without pedals though possibly with a slide. I think it may sound like guitar of its time in 1970 when I think I might be expecting something more linear or rhythm oriented. I haven't listened to the lp in a while so not sure if there is more of this style elsewhere. Also not checked if this is the standard version or not. But really struck me as a bit other for the song it was a part of.
Had me thinking of Syd Barret or Blixa Bargeld or something . Though more compressed timewise and fitting within the music played but still like totally abstract.
― Stevo, Monday, 10 July 2023 09:46 (ten months ago) link
Let's start a rumour Syd Barrett played on it.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 10:20 (ten months ago) link
After listening to Chicken Merry where the guitarist is making clucking sounds I wonder if it is a literal take on the idea of moonstomp so he's making spacey sounds. But he is doing it in a coherent way that I would like to hear more of.I think his playing elsewhere is more linear. Surprised to hear psychedelic guitar coming from this group though. I did just read that they moved to Germany and started playing Afro Rock which could tie in more with that since I think that's one title for the genre cropping up across Sub Saharan Africa combining traditional sounds with more psychedelic contemporary western ones. Really not sure what specific guitar style I would be expecting from a West Indian band playing mostly ska in the late 60s, probably would be picking up on some contemporary stylings. Sounds like he is an interesting guitarist anyway. So would like to hear this later incarnation of the band. Think I was expecting something more blues based or soemthing. but this was surprising.
better than making trite smug comments really,
― Stevo, Monday, 10 July 2023 11:03 (ten months ago) link
He's making spacey sounds.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 11:55 (ten months ago) link
Also Symarip were a British band.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 11:57 (ten months ago) link
whaaaat?!? things I was shockingly old when I learned
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 10 July 2023 12:10 (ten months ago) link
British West Indian band, which I thought was pretty well known.I found the guitar part on that track notable.I don't really give a fuck about Tom's opinion he seems to have a lot of them that I find a bit misguided,
― Stevo, Monday, 10 July 2023 12:21 (ten months ago) link
What opinion have I given on this track that is misguided?
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 12:31 (ten months ago) link
THe band that had been Symarip turned up in a 1973 Sidney Poitier film>Sound of teh band had changed abit , they were more groove oriented and guitar more prominent.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx_ZkLUyjjU
From what I have read about the late 60s/early 70s the 2 factions that had split from mod had pretty much polarised. It took John Peel to popularise reggae with hippies because it had previously been so associated with skinheads. So I am finding it odd that psychedelic guitar is turning up on a skinhead anthem. I thought the focus of the music was elsewhere, more short sharp rhythic stuff (ska partially derived from the sound of a cat scratch like guitar) but it does seem like the individual players were more versatile. I was thinking of when I found out how good Ernest Ranglin was as a guitarist when I heard the track this morning. I did find that an interesting listen as I may have already said. Think I may pickup the cd if I get a chance had the vinyl for a short while when I was in my midteens and thought it pretty great but somebody broke it at a party thing. Looks like this later band only put out 2 singles and were successful enough to get into a film but didn't get great success at least with records.
― Stevo, Monday, 10 July 2023 19:01 (ten months ago) link
not sure if universally considered a "classic album," but
propaganda - a secret wish
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Monday, 17 July 2023 22:04 (ten months ago) link
Oh hell yes.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 17 July 2023 22:43 (ten months ago) link
Thirded.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 19:42 (ten months ago) link
idk if it's canonically "classic" but I had never heard Malcolm McLaren's Duck Rock album before, what a wild ride
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 19:45 (ten months ago) link
(like sure I knew a single or two, but the record is a journey man)
Duck Rock is a classic to me!have been listening to Japan and really digging Quiet Life - the title track is basically the template for Duran Duran isn't it?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 19:48 (ten months ago) link
Karen Dalton - In My Own TimeOne of those albums that inhabit their own realm
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 13:24 (ten months ago) link
Here’s the original Duck Rock VHS which really should come on a DVD with the new reissue but.. doesn’t oddly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXnUb5w9mcU
I can’t say enough good things about the McLaren albums, particularly Waltz Darling which is so crazily charming and I still play it a lot. Nothing else is quite like it.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 23:26 (ten months ago) link
Sir Victor Uwaifo Guitar-Boy Superstar 1970-76 Soundway compilation of African psych guitar player and bandleader who I hadn't picked up on for some reason a the time this came out when I think I was discovering a few other artists from the time and general location. Somehow took me getting hold of the Wire guide to West African psychedelia for the 2nd time to actually get hold of the set. So pretty great funky stuff which I should have picked up earlier, I think I do have a couple of tracks by him and co elsewhere hat are repeated here. So glad i have this now.
Cal Tjader Agua Dulce1971 lp by jazz vibes player that had a couple of tracks turn up on a mix Spotify presented me with. Hasa cover of Gimme Shelter which was one of those in that mix.pretty clean a bit electronically augmented and reflecting the time it came from or the previous couple of years.
a bunch of Proper box sets i foun in a charity shop for cheap mainly early country and bluegrass which is pretty great. Also had a copy of Farewell To Ireland the set of early recordings made by police and fire brigade bands in New England way before there was much recording being done back home in Ireland. So among the earliest recordings of traditional Irish music.Have had an earlier copy of this but a very cheap replacement couldn't be passed up.I was listening to some Bill Monroe earlier.
― Stevo, Monday, 31 July 2023 17:04 (ten months ago) link
Just discovered I have a copy of what appears to be a reshuffled version of Mogollar's first l.p. repackaged as Mogollar Efsanesi. Great grooves based on traditional Turkish sounds meet Western rock.Unfortunately no linernotes but seems to have semi decent sound. Whatever the bowed drone instrumentvis ceryainly adds layers of atmosphete.Glad I found this. Have a different set by the band plus some tracks by Silhueter or something similar so think I forgot I had this too. & I think this is much better.not sure how this would feel if it had the original track order, if that would change anything.But this is definitely what I was looking for when I started looking at Anadolu Pop and some of what i got from the US Kaleidoscope
― Stevo, Saturday, 26 August 2023 23:52 (nine months ago) link
"getting an album" - this turn of phrase is pretty obsolete now, isn't it? nobody "gets albums" anymore unless they're weirdy collectors like us. people listen to albums (sometimes), rather than "get" them. but they don't even do that very much.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:55 (nine months ago) link
idk a lot of music made much more sense to me when I got older, like pet shop boys
― brimstead, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:03 (nine months ago) link
oh wait by “get” you meant literally “obtaining” an album, lol me
― brimstead, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:04 (nine months ago) link