The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

balearic is a state of mind man

jaxons mom is pretty balearic

smooth, easy, and perfect for getting down with after a night out

your mom's a beardo

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.

BTW jaxon is that the Alan Parsons Project album I should check out?

I'm thinking this canon might even include stuff like this as an outlier:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/355/thumbnailhp5.jpg

oh ok tim u should have just called it "maxs favorite albums thread" then

http://onlinestorefakrounmusic.com/images/45singllayahob.jpg

um, the new Hatchback album, Colors Of The Sun. Any track by Studio? Maybe those are too obvious but I think they definitely fit

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-436199-1118592662.jpg

andreas vollenweider maybe?

bordering on Harley and not beachy, but first three James Gang records.

Also, for similar reasons, first two Sugarloaf records.

chris rea is the king of the desultory beach party

the "crazy" angle: Osmonds' Crazy Horses and parts of The Plan

whenever i think of fool if you think it's over i think of miracles by jefferson starship and that makes me think of i'm not in love by 10cc. EVERY TIME.

A good chunk of The Free Design and Harpers Bizarre (it would have to be a bit of a twee beach)

"on the beach" has my favorite chris rea drum machine sound:

Lighthouse!

"all summer long" is great too:

"jax ur list seems more like a general balearic canon and not necc "beardo beach hippie""

max's point here is sound though: i sort of want the "beardo beach hippie" end of this continuum filled in more as I only know a little bit of this stuff, mostly at the more conservative end if/where my mother was a fan. But feel free to post anything along the continuum.

Stuff that would previously be considered as "rock" but now is considered genre-smashing avant genius (whether this seems fair or not) strikes me as interesting precisely for that reason, the way new ears "hear" something more than perhaps is even really there. The overreaching claims made on behalf of Pacific Ocean Blue are a good example (a great album despite not sounding like Remain In Light etc.). On the Dennis Wilson thread people were suggesting the following as canonical picks:

http://bp3.blogger.com/_aNTsUIQhmf0/SB8oGu7EW-I/AAAAAAAAATU/t-TxiAHZxwA/s320/Chris+Bell+-+I+Am+The+Cosmos+-+1992.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_BR-l63C-2iA/SAjBAsW2xQI/AAAAAAAAB7k/3UUYcibPvZU/s320/Gene+Clark+No+Other.jpg

http://bp1.blogger.com/_2U1VTXrO58c/RyGUgfK5L-I/AAAAAAAAAAM/OUgUCRhtwl8/s320/skip+spence+oar.jpg

http://www.valarock.com/starsailor.jpg

chris rea must be a huge jj cale fan. that's all i know. which is wonderful. cuz i love jj. who needs david sylvian when you can just listen to chris rea and jj cale? no fretless bass to distract either!

"i sort of want the "beardo beach hippie" end of this continuum filled in more as I only know a little bit of this stuff,"

well then seriously you should check that west coast thread again. there are only 4 million recommendations on there.

no other is the greatest album ever made. this year. for me. and maybe next year too.

"no other" is great but has more of a c/w vibe than "beach" vibe i think

david crosby is totally this tho! isnt there even a beach on the cover of "if i could only remember my name"?

My contribution: a band called Sea Level, also known as most of the Allman Brothers rhythm section.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/501033035f70b261/

Also Mcguinn, Clark and Hillman.

"looking for the summer" is the best chris rea summertime video though:

"no other" is great but has more of a c/w vibe than "beach" vibe i think"

really more of an undead hollywood goth pimp vibe if you ask me.

"david crosby is totally this tho! isnt there even a beach on the cover of "if i could only remember my name"?"

Yes! See upthread.

Scott the purpose of this thread is so that people like you and max can tell me that No Other, while amazing, doesn't fit into this canon. I haven't heard it so I don't know!

I want to check out everything on the west coast thread. give me a million years and a million dollars plz.

skot wolf king of la sounds more like that than no other does! i think.

So is it Ok for some vaguely rhythmic New Age to get thrown with all the Alan Parsons and Eno?

If so Kitaro, his first two albums mostly.

What is the best Santana album BTW?

i need more shadowfax albums.

oh jeez, where to start. santana have so many amazing albums. and so many different periods and sounds...

i spent a lot of time this spring with the first disc of this, but there is also a lot of crap in that box.

http://peelout.typepad.com/peel_out/images/wolf_king.jpg

^^ if this doesnt say undead hollywood goth pimp to you i dont know what does

buy LOTUS, i dare you. so amazing...

http://i.inlive.co.kr/alb/m00/d26/l0026439.gif

i like that john phillips record. i haven't heard it in years. i like almost everthing he ever did though. um, with group and on his own.

sorry, my last post was a confusing xpost re crosby.

u know what tim? im listening to no other right now with beach in mind and i think it might fit. title track in particular.

speaking of shadowfax, i always really dug tri atma too:

(first tri atma album is awesome, and sadly i no longer own a copy)

title track of no other fits everything that i am on earth. getting strength of strings tattoo one of these days.

Re No Other, I still plan to get it either way max.

I also liked the idea Jeff W proposed early on in the West Coast thread of a studio session musician artistry album canon (though he didn't put it quite like that) - something quite separate both to Gene Clark and balearic beardo beach hippies.

http://www.chaineux.de/kitaro/disco/clip/sm_astral_voyage_geffen_24082_cover.jpg
http://lh5.ggpht.com/MyJazzWorld/RoZecNHWxcI/AAAAAAAAAGU/KvTfovYGy-M/s288/SeaLevel_OnTheEdge.

Just to recap.

this is kind of hard cause some of this stuff--gene clark & john phillips say--doesnt necessarily scream "beach" (tho they do scream "70s LA" to me), but would totally fit in a mix sandwiched with 'beach party'-er songs. if that makes sense. so like "no other" doesn't necc work as part of this "canon" 'cause as an album its a little too c/w, i think, but individual songs given a chance would fit well

sorry i have to correct myself, "no other" isnt really all that country, im just using that as shorthand for like... "i was in the byrds and hung out with a bunch of LA cats in the 70s"

the new reissue of john phillip's "lost" jagger/richards record, pussycat, totally fits the wasted beach vibe, it's sleazier than wolfking

Obligatory shout out for On The Beach here.

I don’t agree theres “no throughline”

There's totally a throughline.

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

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

The piano break in Magic Man is so reminiscent of one of those loft records but I'll never remember what

That Riney album sounds like sped-up vaporwave

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

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

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).

Sounds weird but hot

pretty sure beyondmintvinyls has a copy for sale

https://www.instagram.com/beyondmintvinyls/

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