I thought they were weird comparisons too, but i guess it's because people think of PV as "mood music" -- I'm not sure I do, really, nor could I use any of their albums as background music while reading. I'd be too distracted.
I do recommend (as I have said what seems like 1000x) listening to PV while walking through a plant conservatory or museum (esp if it has a lot of dioramas) or aquarium or other indoors/outdoors sort of place.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
now i want a croissant
― ♨ (am0n), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Are Popol Vuh really the croissant of music?
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
in den garten croissant. but yeah as LL sez, being out and about with the vuh really does work -- the first time i "fell" for popol vuh outside of herzog's films was walking around government center in boston (with a walkman!) listening to a PV comp a friend had made for me. i think i was christmas shopping.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
It's the kitsch factor that puts me off that stuff. I have listened to a couple Vangelis albums lately so I'm not totally immune. Croissants are too buttery for my tender tummy :(
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
You were rocking non stop at a government center? In Boston?xpost
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
had to make those secretaries feel better
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
I've never used that comparison before (was just thinking about flour and butter mostly), but croissants are pretty transcendent so I guess I'll stick with it. For me, a delicious flaky croissant is a truly sublime baked good.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
I like the comparison the more I think about it--croissants truly are transcendent--but the problem is now my brain wants to compare other bands to baked goods (specifically wondering who would be the cheese danish) and that's just a terrible idea.
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
listening to Letzte Tage-Letzte Nachte this morning btw. not one i reach for often because of its more rock nature, but it is sounding croissantastic right now. is that Gila album good? i've never heard it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, it is. I do prefer the "rock" PV albums to the soundtracks and synth epics, though.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i think i'm coming around on the more rock stuff more and more.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
the end of Letzte Tage-Letzte Nachte's title track kinda sounds like the Dead.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Letzte Tage-Letzte Nachte is my favorite Popol Vuh. LOVE that album!
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
And I hope it never gets remastered because I love that muddy sound, whether intentional or not. :)
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
deplorable lack of PV on Spotify, but at least they have Tantric Songs, which I haven't heard elsewhere
― Brad C., Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
xp - oh god me tooand the cover is one of my favorite album covers of all time
― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
it is funny, whenever i start playing popol vuh record, i think, "man, they should have recorded this better," but by the end of it, i do not think that at all. <3 the mud!
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
damn it, the only Gila album I can find on mog
https://search.mog.com/v2/albums/38135579/image.jpeg?size=800
it's probably pretty good tho, right?
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
LT-LN is not as muddy on the Spalax CD as it is on the SPV CD.
I like Herz aus Glas a wee bit more than LT-LN if truth be told. It's kind of perfect. LT-LN doesn't quite live up to 'Grosse Krieger' IMO.
The Gila album (Wounded Knee, not the one above) is definitely worth owning. It's not going to overhaul your world but it's good.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
still don't have this oop pv album but someone put the whole thing on yootoob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3KFc1Uon-w
― ♨ (am0n), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
I've never been able to decide which one I like better. Every time I think it's one, the other one comes along and ~whoa~
― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 January 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
I think I consider my 2nd fave PV album to be Bruder des Schattens aka the alternate version of Nosferatu. When I want innigkeit piano chamber Vuh. LT-LN coming in a close 3rd.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 3 January 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
still think this is the high point of their rock side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQTOX8iokM
― ♨ (am0n), Friday, 4 January 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
See what I want is a whole album of track 1 of Einsjager... that's pure guitar bliss right there
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 January 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^^
― silver pozole (clouds), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
All my student neighbors are still gone for the break, so the other night I was playing Bruder des Schattens, Aguirre, and Das Hohelied Salomons really loud.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 5 January 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
You know how to live!
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Saturday, 5 January 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
I really like their rockin' stuff; it has this regal majestic flavor to it that is irresistible.
― 2am chopped top (brimstead), Saturday, 5 January 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
I think right now Hosianna Mantra and Seligpreisung are my favorite Popol Vuh records. I've been listening to them on the 45 minute drive to work as the sun is coming up and Oklahoma is frozen, it's nice.
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 5 January 2013 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
^^ that sounds wonderful
two things:
* i have some croissants in the oven (just the rise-overnight kind, nothing fancy) and they smell divine.* there's a goofy women's dance party thing that i dj'ed yesterday, and we have to do a warm-up and cool-down song and i chose "sing, for song drives away the wolves" as my cool down song -- i looked around the hot hot hot dance studio and there was stretching, meditating, yoga, eyes closed, eyes open. perfect and totally heavenly.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 14 January 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
every time I see this thread I think of Kevin Federline's "Popozao"
― frogbs, Monday, 14 January 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
you know, in Portuguese, it means bring your ass, on the floor and move it real fast
― frogbs, Monday, 14 January 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
hahai shoulda put that on my dance mix
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 14 January 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
u should use http://www.discogs.com/Popol-Vuh-Yoga/release/799452
― ♨ (am0n), Monday, 14 January 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
yknow, i don't have that one! i knew i bumped this thread for a reason.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 14 January 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
pv is gonna help this apartment get clean
― #YOLO magic orchestra (clouds), Monday, 14 January 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yoga's not an official release, Fricke disowned it... still worth a listen.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 14 January 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Not really Popol Vuh though
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
the cover art for In Den Garten Pharaohs always astounds me - the design looks so modern, like it's from a 2008 reissue
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'm on the train right now on my way to purchase, for better or worse, an Affenstunde reissue. I figure that's all that'll be left for nonmillionaires at some pt anyway. It's under $25.
It's dusk and the light is beautiful outside the train window. The woman next to me is wrapped in a plush blanket with cartoon bunnies and deer on it.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
you are an odd bird LL
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
a beautiful bird of paradise
― #YOLO magic orchestra (clouds), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
np at my desk: T Dream, Sorcerer sdtrk. Close enough.
You should get an affenpinscher to go with your affenstunde!
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks to my extensive AKC research as a child, I know what an affenpinscher is, and they are v cute. They're like mini-yetis.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
Also once I dressed up as a bluebird of paradise for Halloween so at the risk of sounding immodest, clouds otm ;)
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
hallo! http://puppydogweb.com/gallery/affenpinschers/images/affenpinscher_rydju.jpg
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
next assignment: picture of you in bluebird costume
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 06:24 (eleven years ago) link
have we posted this milan show? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEHm-rEMJ0what's the deal? is it actually popol vuh? someone upthread made the claim it was not. what the vuh?
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
In 1975 they visited again Italy for a concert at the University ‘La Statale’ of Milan, somewhere in september. The concert was promoted by the 'Gong' magazine (a magazine about progressive-experimental rock), after R.U. Kaiser established an agreement with the PDU label for licensing the Ohr/Pilz/DKK records in Italy.The concert was opened by a very young Roberto Cacciapaglia, who played a part of 'Sonanze'. For this occasion Popol Vuh consisted of: Florian Fricke (piano and voice), Daniel Fichelscher (guitars) and Renate Knaup (vocals and percussion).There exists a tape/bootleg from this concert.
― _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ (am0n), Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:53 AM
― ༼•̃͡ ɷ•̃͡༽ (am0n), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link