That Manu Chao record - Clandestino or whatever it's called?
― sonofstan, Monday, 20 October 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/america.png
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
so America - S/T
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know if I totally understand the genre description but I could totally hear 'Uncle John's Band' at such a thing. So Workingman's Dead then maybe.
― NickB, Monday, 20 October 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/So_far.jpg
^^^^ this cover says beardo beach hippie album to me. Not so balearic though perhaps.
― NickB, Monday, 20 October 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/7151/b00000251ivw2.jpg
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 20 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
are we on Yacht Rock again?
― baaderonixx, Monday, 20 October 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, this is more than 70s soft rock
what about
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416W2ETG6TL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
or this
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2454512231_8f04a21c77.jpg?v=0
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Vangelis, yes
http://www.comebackrecords.com/Vangelis_Dragon.jpg
especially "stuffed aubergine"
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
that's not a dragon, that's mighty cthulhu!
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 20 October 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
you guys change what the word balearic means every day
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
audioslave = heavy balearic
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I think half the early suggestions on this thread have got the wrong idea
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
im not really sure what the idea is tbh, i wish tim had provided an example of what he meant besides p.o.b.
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
but i will suggest: http://www.dougpayne.com/hmiana.jpg
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2179/1565797393_e225068ceb.jpg?v=0
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ggFaXWbCL._SS400_.jpg
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.jeffbots.com/AlanParsonsProject-IRobot.jpg
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eDRS7vsyL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Sarah/ificouldonly.jpg
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EVZ1683PL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
jaxon, where to start with these? (apart from avalon, which I have solved)
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
get transfer station Blue it is dope as a rope
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
they're all equally amazing and solid albums, just depends on what you're looking for.
jan hammer - super funky fusion w/amazing songsvangelis - weirdo art rock w/great songs and eastern soundsalpert - funky jazz, spaced out synth arpeggios and great beachy melodiesparsons - funky pink floydshrieve - blissed out synth noodles w/moments of heavy light-jazz funk crosby - stoned out of your gourd folky mantrasflash and the pan - funky 10cc
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks for the pointers. funky 10cc sounds like good times.
I am down with vangelis (suggested him myself upthread)
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
the ambient eno box
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
alpert and crosby are good suggestions but jax ur list seems more like a general balearic canon and not necc "beardo beach hippie"
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
desultory beardo beach hippie
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
beck's sea change and modern guilt
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
so what makes something beardo beach hippy? is this like suggestions for balearock?
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i sort of think tim just threw "balearic" into the title of the thread so that more people would read it and post to it
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
jeez not everything is balearic, guys
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Tim, stuff from actual 70s? Or modern?
If the latter is allowed, o where to start.
The Beta Band and all their friends, for starters.
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
can we just put on cosmo galactic prism and dance around the campfire?
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
balearic is a state of mind man
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
jaxons mom is pretty balearic
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
smooth, easy, and perfect for getting down with after a night out
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
your mom's a beardo
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I know my thread title is confusing, but it was sort of deliberate: the idea is that there definitely seems to be a loose canon emerging which stretches from David Crosby (but perhaps not CS&N per se) through to say Arthur Russell. If "beardo disco" and "nu-balearic" are slightly distinct but overlapping revivalist scenes then this is the stuff that members from both stuff think is good stuff, dude. Albums that I would get laughed off djhistory.com for not having heard.
It's distinct from soft-rock or "California rock" or any other actual historical scene partly because it's broader than that, but also insofar as this needs to be stuff that either has been or very soon will be recontextualised by people currently or formerly into dance music. But it doesn't need to dance-like itself. Am i making more sense?
jaxon seems to get it.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
BTW jaxon is that the Alan Parsons Project album I should check out?
― Tim F, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm thinking this canon might even include stuff like this as an outlier:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/355/thumbnailhp5.jpg
― Tim F, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
― scott seward, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
oh ok tim u should have just called it "maxs favorite albums thread" then
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://onlinestorefakrounmusic.com/images/45singllayahob.jpg
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
um, the new Hatchback album, Colors Of The Sun. Any track by Studio? Maybe those are too obvious but I think they definitely fit
― Bomb Bomb Iran (san frandisco), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-436199-1118592662.jpg
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
andreas vollenweider maybe?
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
bordering on Harley and not beachy, but first three James Gang records.
Also, for similar reasons, first two Sugarloaf records.
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
chris rea is the king of the desultory beach party
― scott seward, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the "crazy" angle: Osmonds' Crazy Horses and parts of The Plan
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
sounds like I need that in my life
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
spike is the bomb
― the late great, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/finis-africae-a-last-discovery
― the late great, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
i cant remember if this album was ever discussed itt or any other thread:
http://i.imgur.com/ExYUOys.jpg
but its been going for $100+ lately and is finally getting a re-press
http://bewithrecords.com/product/nohelani-cypriano-nohelani-lp-180gram-bewith008lp/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1mwfX_5EY
― gr8080, Friday, 19 June 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
wow!
― example (crüt), Friday, 19 June 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
"Lihue" is a classic for sure. Never knew the rest of her stuff was so feted, though. Not really feeling the other soundclips on that link, tbh.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 20 June 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
really? not even "livin' without you"? that's a real pretty song IMO.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 20 June 2015 03:22 (eight years ago) link
when i was in hawaii about a decade ago, there were a few stations that still played a lot of local music, and more broadly a kind of hawaiian pop-music that included both hawaiian music like nohelani but also some "island-flavored" music of all kinds. was very refreshing to hear that unfamiliar mix of stuff (which still had plenty of familiar elements), speaking as someone from the 48 states.
i wonder how distinctive the musical culture of hawaii is today, and whether it's bucked the monoculture to any greater extent than most places.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 20 June 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
if you like this stuff you should check out the aloha got soul DJs (google it)
― the late great, Saturday, 20 June 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
here : http://alohagotsoul.com/category/dj-mixes/
I have a vinyl rip of that album, let me know through email if you want the files...
― skip, Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
i like a lot of stuff mentioned in this thread but like some other folks i'm a little confused as to what the parameters of this expanded notion of "balearic" are or why we need this enlarged category.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 20 June 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
this is what contemporary Hawaiian pop music sounds like mostly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5GUczT1vY
― gr8080, Sunday, 21 June 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
god bless this thread for leading me to Andreas Vollenweider's "AIR". this is like *just* what i needed in my life right now.
― Heez, Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
i also like that i can imagine richard simmons lulling me into blissful dreams.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5150UZ8NtZL.jpg
― Heez, Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
This is good, no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q00DOL2svl8&ab_channel=Drbellotus
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 September 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
Ah well. http://youtu.be/q00DOL2svl8
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 September 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
John Cale's Brian ode "Mr. Wilson" is smoother than a lot of his 70s, but intense, rolling through the deeps: I'd like to live in the strings break for a while...funky 10CC Reminds me: a friend mentioned seeing Carlos Santana getting way into "I'm Not in Love." Will have to look for that.Jimi's Rainbow Bridge soundtrack is fine as shroom wine---"Pali Grap" is one of my all-time faves, can imagine David Mancuso playing it at the Loft of Spiritual Discovery (I also have danced to it, I think)(Also watch the movie, incl. hashish in surfboards in Hawaii, where Jimi speaks of space brothers, before playing for them and Earth):
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Tjqw7T00L._SL1500_.jpg
― dow, Friday, 11 September 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
Amusing to see doheny’s “get it up for love” on this thread years before it’s yacht rock revival
― calstars, Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
Does gr80 still post on ilx?
― calstars, Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
djhistory's 100 best balearic tracks on spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/fingermag/playlist/1S4X40YzybVNS3KrHqPel5
― max, Saturday, July 30, 2011 6:55 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:58 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Most of the tracks on here are still available (for me, in canada),still a great mix
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
Oh cool, thanks!First tyme I saw this thread's title, I thought of Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas.
― dow, Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
The title of this doc doesn't inspire confidence, and I dimly recall finding RB entertaining enough, one way or another, but yknow more music so I'll prob check it out too, at least the audio version:Music, Money, Madness... Jimi Hendrix In MauiExperience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings announce a brand new feature length documentary Music, Money, Madness... Jimi Hendrix In Maui with the accompanying live performances on both audio and video.
Incorporating never-before-released original film footage and new interviews, the film chronicles the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s storied 1970 visit to Maui, and how the band became ensnared with the ill-fated Rainbow Bridge movie.
The deluxe Blue-ray and 2CD or 3LP collections will be released on November 20 and are available for pre-order now with exclusive merch bundles available at the Authentic Hendrix Store.
The video and audio for “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” from this historic concert is available today on digital services.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
this is getting reissued soon and the vocals are too over the top terrible for me but the instrumental tracks are quite nice
https://youtu.be/owqyDufJ05s
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
funny to see the rainbow bridge soundtrack ... chuck wein used to be a fixture at the cafe I hung out at every day 2000-2004. nice guy but he would go on ...
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, think he was around the Factory too, maybe trying to get some Daddy Warhol bucks for this or other flick---didn't Lou Reed say he was the Chuck in "Wild Child"?I was talkin' to Chuck in his Genghis Khan suitAnd his wizard's hatHe spoke of his movie and how he was makin' a new sound trackAnd then we spoke of kids on the coastAnd different types of organic soapAnd the way suicides don't leave notes,Then we spoke of Loraine, always back to Lorraine
― dow, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
you all might be interested in this quasi-Balearic type playlist I made https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ODDwMMpnatOm0LrKhJN8M?si=QC4yvr-lQN2KRUrR1cE4QQ
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
that djhistory playlist contains so many of my favourite songs which I didn't for a second think of as "Balearic"
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
im still kinda amazed that the dude from Empire of the Sun put out one of the best dreamy/funky Fleetwood Mac/buckingham rips of last decadehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LCQ_7BQla4
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
xp. balearic must be the fuzziest genre term ever by its very nature
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
I mean yeah, that playlist has pretty much no througline whatsoever
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
xxp tbh it's more kenny loggins
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
i think that djhistory list just reflects how it was more an approach to djing than a solid "genre" or whatever, like 'rare groove' etc, a focused eclecticism (ugh sorry), idk
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
I don’t agree theres “no throughline”
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 06:08 (three years ago) link
There's totally a throughline.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 07:01 (three years ago) link
If people are still going "lol what's a balearic", this piece I wrote more than 12 (!) years ago is probably still my take:
https://www.idolator.com/371805/mungolian-jet-sets-ostentatious-folk-rock-jazz-disco-and-the-return-of-balaeric
― Tim F, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 07:05 (three years ago) link
This has been playing in a local cafe recently and I had to ask them what it was, its pretty vibey hats off to them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40vnfkuetog
― saer, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
The piano break in Magic Man is so reminiscent of one of those loft records but I'll never remember what
― saer, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 07:27 (three years ago) link
That Riney album sounds like sped-up vaporwave
― calstars, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
Still love that MJS album Tim xps
Seem to remember seeing a social media post from them recently that looked like they were working on some new stuff
― groovypanda, Friday, 18 September 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
Maybe I'll have more luck pushing this here than on the Soviet Pop thread, although I think it would get my desultory ass out of the hammock for a late summer boogie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrelzl_FEaU
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 26 August 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
I was at the beach in Vama Veche today, which AFAICT is Romania's beardo hippie nudist mecca, and I started reaching the conclusion that there is actually a balearic cover version out there for every song. This was after hearing the balearic "no rain" (blind melon) followed by balearic "paranoid" (sabbath).
― enochroot, Thursday, 26 August 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
Sounds weird but hot
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 27 August 2021 02:59 (two years ago) link
pretty sure beyondmintvinyls has a copy for sale
― davey, Saturday, 28 August 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/beyondmintvinyls/
“As the 5AM city sleeps and the strobe lights are slowly turned off, we gather on the wrong side of town in a transcendental journey alone together. We are the late night disenfranchised holding on in various after parties, flats, lofts, random kitchens and basements into the outer cosmos with É Soul Cultura. Music from exotic tear jerkers, Afro-spiritual jazz, cosmic Brazilian celestial grooves, machine street soul, dark horses, lost B-sides, £1 bargain-bin bombs, hidden gems, late night Italo dubbing, deep velvet N.Y.C garage, bass buggin sonic futurism, wrong speed 33BPM pitched up +8 new beat, majestic sunset strings, sweet vocals from heaven, no half steppin jazz dancing in outer-space and odd numbers. Yes… magical moments, together, holding on in witness protection suburban cul-de-sacs and Castle Court flats. Cosmic É high, 3000ft above the city getting evangelical to murky, wonky timeless beautiful music. This thing of ours dreaming of better days. Fail we may, sail we must, the sun will come up again.”
https://mrbongo.bandcamp.com/album/luke-una-presents-soul-cultura
― gr8080, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link