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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Let's start a rumour Syd Barrett played on it.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 10:20 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
He's making spacey sounds.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 11:55 (one year ago) link
Also Symarip were a British band.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 11:57 (one year ago) link
whaaaat?!? things I was shockingly old when I learned
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 10 July 2023 12:10 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Oh hell yes.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 17 July 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
Thirded.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 19:42 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Karen Dalton - In My Own TimeOne of those albums that inhabit their own realm
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 13:24 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
oh wait by “get” you meant literally “obtaining” an album, lol me
― brimstead, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:04 (one year ago) link
Probably safe to say that no one buys a record anymore to see what it sounds like.
― o. nate, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:28 (one year ago) link
Hey Stevo, always enjoy your updates.
If you don't already have the debut album by Selda (reissued on Finders Keepers) you should get that one right away. And do you have Erkin Koray's Elektronik Turkuler?
Been digging Julius Eastman's "Stay on it". idk if "classic" enough to qualify, but very fashionable atm.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 28 August 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link
Have the 2nd Selda I think. Guerssen had a load of middle eastern psych or funk influenced titles going cheap a few years back soon grabbed a few. May still do under their sale section. Couldn't find 1st. & Spotify had that l.p. as a suggestion a few weeks ago then had all the tracks unplayable. Don't getvthatvand come across it semi frequently.
Do have Elektronik Turkuller and I think another title by Koray. Bought a number of titles from the area a while back. Had just forgotten I had this set among them.Which is now a recognised oversight cos its getting played a few times. Great stuff.I bought the book Anadolu Psych which I've also seen denigrated by somebody who lives there and knows the genre. But does seem an ok starter. Worth having a look at that Guerssen site if you like the area. Think they did still have some stuff at like €6 a pop last time I looked which is like 3 years after I bought mine. Think I had to wait for postal services to start back up after the initial lockdown to order my stuff.
― Stevo, Monday, 28 August 2023 08:27 (one year ago) link
just checked Guerssen and they do have a number of the titles I got on sale a few years ago still on sale it's worth looking through the whole sale area thoughhttps://guerssen.com/product-tag/oferta/
got a few other titlesnon middle eastern in there worth a look too Dave Bixby's 2nd lp for one. Bought a copy of that from there a couple of years back too.
― Stevo, Monday, 28 August 2023 10:44 (one year ago) link
not sure if this counts for a couple reasons-1. it's a song not an album.2. i've known it since i was a kid. just haven't heard it in 25+ years.
anyway, tara kemp's "hold you tight" is surely one of the definitive radio hits of my childhood and i support any retro love it receives.
― the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Thursday, 31 August 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link
I've never heard of that song or artist, but I've just added it to music videos featuring industrial exhaust fans and blowers
Anyway, that's a solid tune, Austin.
― peace, man, Thursday, 31 August 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
Prince, "Dirty Mind". God knows why I had never heard it before now.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
a couple recently, but with caveats
Japan - Quiet Life. i had a tape of some best of since 6th form ('86 or so) but never followed up. bought this and love the tracks that i knew from the best of, but everything else is a bit meh.
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One. great byrdsy jangle from 1967, except for the one where he's being a rock. this was in a box with two more lps and some outtakes but the second is much heavier and the titles and lyrics start to get dodgy in an underage girls kind of way, something he was apparently investigated for. only The Smell Of Incense gets anywhere near the quality of the first LP.
― koogs, Monday, 2 October 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
I decided many years ago I just didn't like David Bowie as his voice got on my nerves and I found the music a bit blah in comparison with a lot of the acts he inspired. But, having recently enjoyed a song I heard burbling away in an airport which then revealed itself to be Sound & Vision when it got to the chorus, I thought I'd try again.
Young Americans and Station To Station - whatever. But Low is not bad at all! Clearly this was the sole inspiration for about a thousand 80s bands on 4AD, Factory Benelux and Les Disques Du Crépuscule, rather than Neu! and Cluster like they all claimed.
So, 45 years after everyone else, I now like Low. Next up - Heroes.
― fucking beanie hat music (Matt #2), Monday, 2 October 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
I've listened to it many times on a crappy mp3 that was on my last iPod, but just bought it on vinyl and it sounds amazing.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 2 October 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
In re: Roxy Music - Siren.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 2 October 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
not an album per se but I've been going thru the early Dangerhouse catalog and really enjoying it. the bands usually have an arty edge to their punk, an identity. particularly love the expanded Eyes "TAQN" EP and the Deadbeats "Kill The Hippies" EP.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 2 October 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
Oh, I got a copy of "ABCD" / "Let's get rid of New York" in a chuckout sale from Good Vibrations recs (mystery pack - should have bought ten!)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
"Charlie" Mingus, Tijauna Moods
As my big Mingus phase was in the CD era, ran out of cash before I got to this one, though I'm familiar with everything else all around it. So rowdy! Especially the crazy flamenco fusion of "Ysabel's Table Dance"
Anyone know why the 1975 rerelease I just picked up is called "Tia Juana Moods"? Is that some late-life pun Mingus wanted for it?
― bendy, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
The Floating BowA collection of solo Donegal fiddle.Picked up in a charity shop a few days ago.
― Stevo, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
Milladoiro A Galicia de MaelocCeltic type folk band from Galicia. Percussion heavy plus various types of pipes etcI'd never heard of them until I hit that charity shop and bought this in the same purchase as teh Floating Bow.Pretty great, hope I didn't leave a cd by them there. THis was their first lp so will look out for others.
Unfortunately just seen them being lauded on stormfront which seems weird.
― Stevo, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
Classic albums I first heard in 2023:
Painted From Memory, Bacharach and Costello - at the time, I was put off by what he was doing after Spike, but this is beautifully textured and crafted without seeming overthought and overwrought.Big Plans for Everybody, Let’s Active - I heard and loved their other two records at least twenty years ago, I guess I kept this one unheard knowing I'd like it when I finally did. Long Division, Low - created out of almost nothing, the album is not perfect but the best songs are. The Natch'l Blues, Taj Mahal - "good-time" music where I actually had a good time listening to it.Everybody is Fantastic, Microdisney - it's so exciting to discover a new "voice" knowing there's an entire career to search out.Odyssey of Iska, Wayne Shorter - terribly ominous abstract instrumental exploration.I Spider, Web - late 60s blues-going-prog is usually kind of dreary - this is really spirited, passionate, imaginative and energetic.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 03:41 (nine months ago) link
did the usual back-catalogue cd rummage in the local shop whist home for christmas and some of those will qualify (2 for £10)
Blondie - BlondieSparks - Kimono My HouseBrian Eno - Another Green WorldTelevision - Marquee Moon
and the last one wins by some distance i think. i knew more of it than i would've thought (6/8ths), probably because radcliffe plays a track from it every month or so when he gets a free choice. not too sure about the voice for extended periods but...
(as for the others, the blondie wasn't punk enough for me, although i did enjoy rifle range. the sparks singles were great but the rest was a bit too musical theatre. the eno is pleasant enough and includes the Arena theme which is all-time)
previous to that i bought and listened to, for the first time, get this, Dark Side Of The Moon...
― koogs, Monday, 15 January 2024 12:19 (nine months ago) link
Surely you are familiar with at least 6/8ths of Dark Side?
― henry s, Monday, 15 January 2024 13:08 (nine months ago) link
yeah, but not as an lp, only as individual tracks, if that makes sense. (and it is meant to be listened to as two sides rather than n tracks because it's all sequenced together)
― koogs, Monday, 15 January 2024 13:53 (nine months ago) link
I think I've listened to the entire album, start to finish, once.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 15 January 2024 14:06 (nine months ago) link