"A Very Cellular Song" has become one of my favourite weird '60s songs the past few years. Actually inherited this album from my parents' pile of records my dad brought home from his milk store (and never ever listened to).
― clemenza, Monday, 30 September 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
dunno, i might vote "nightfall" -- that sitar riff at the end is one of my fave things ever.
― tylerw, Monday, 30 September 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
swift as the wind!
― ian, Monday, 30 September 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
I've played this album to a few folk and they've all seemed to enjoy Witches Hat and Cellular Song most.
― Project Witch (I am using your worlds), Monday, 30 September 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Waltz of the New Moon for me
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 30 September 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
The only album with sitar that I can enjoy probably
― nostormo, Monday, 30 September 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
That Live at The Fillmore East recording is pretty cool too, still capturing the band as a 2 piece live. Not heard the officially released cd yet but got it as a torrent a few years ago.
& great to get the 1st 2 2-piece ISB's in the Joe Boyd remaster was great a few years back.
Clive Palmer's C.O.B. are really worth looking into too. Moyshe McStiff has some really haunting stuff on it.
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 September 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
"A Very Cellular Song"
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 30 September 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
song about celullar, so ahead of it's time..
http://www.prlog.org/10718004-see-which-cell-phones-are-rated-as-best-unbiased-reviews.jpg
― nostormo, Monday, 30 September 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Waltz of the New Moon - great tune, so many hilarious & quotable lines
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 30 September 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
I have a weak spot for the Minotaur's Song. I know what's right and what's wrong (he knows what's right and what's wrong)
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 30 September 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
we are the tablecloth and also the table - so Zen..
― nostormo, Monday, 30 September 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Probably be boring and vote "A Very Cellular Song"
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 08:03 (ten years ago) link
Torn between the opening and closing tracks. Such a great album though.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 5 October 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 6 October 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
good spread, though too bad mercy i cry city didn't get any votes -- love that song.
― tylerw, Sunday, 6 October 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
i love the ones with no votes....how are the albums before this one?
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 6 October 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
the one immediately after it, the big huge, is even better imo. "maya" off of it is one of my favourite songs ever, such a slow burn. it's part of a double lp but for some reason the copy of mine is separate from wee tam, the other lphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRVkyt74Ig
― flopson, Sunday, 6 October 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
Wee Tam is my favorite. 'Ducks on a Pond' surpasses Cellular as their greatest epic IMO.
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 6 October 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link
Lovely JEsus nailed to a TREE-EE-E-EEEEEE
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 6 October 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
HIGHLY recommend watching "Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending". Lots of Wee Tam on that.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 October 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
this is cool! www.nts.live/shows/timeisaway/episodes/time-is-away-a-very-cellular-song-18th-april-2016
"This month’s programme is an exploded view of one of our favourite pieces of music, The Incredible String Band’s ‘A Very Cellular Song’. The track, from the band’s 1968 masterpiece The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, is the loose inspiration for an hour of amoebas, early music and the mid-century Edinburgh literary avant-garde. With contributions from the ISB, David Attenborough, David Monrow and the Pinder Family."
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
emperor of china wore iron boots with ease iirc
― JoeStork, Friday, 22 July 2016 06:22 (seven years ago) link
Almost never had such a viscerally negative reaction to an album as this, to the extent that it's kind of interesting
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
definitely one of the best albums
― tylerw, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
It just creeped me the fuck out, and not in a cool way like Comus
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
slithering and squelching on
― JoeStork, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
I've just recently re-immersed myself in all things ISB and, well, love them love them love them. There's a lovely live version of "Cellular" by Mike Heron and his band on Youtube. 2013, I think. Don't have the link handy but worth searching for. Anyhow - bless these folks.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
LJ, you disappoint me.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
It wasn't necessarily that I thought it was bad music. It was an almost irrational reaction, like I was in the presence of evil
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
LOL, evil not normally a word associated with ISB.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
You probably shouldn’t hear the Scientology albums then
― JoeStork, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
Actually I would like to hear your reaction to “Bad Sadie Lee”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StCa1GF07o8
― JoeStork, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
one vote for three is a green crown is a fucking travesty.
― ian, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
"Pictures in a Mirror" is enough to give anyone the willies.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
(xp)
that is some proper mind-into-mush prion activation shit right there
the vibe I get from this lot is that of seemingly kindly and eccentric hippies who drug and kidnap women and force them to sing
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
among other things
the male energy is gross with this lot, I'm sorry. darkest hippie music
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
You may be projecting!
― timellison, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
"A Very Cellular Song" for me (don't know if I voted in this or not), but Williamson's childhood song second for sure. That is one amazing song.
― timellison, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
I never knew this album actually made it all the way to number five on the British album chart. And was nominated for a Grammy!
― timellison, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
yeah, it's funny to realize how popular they were for a minute there!
― tylerw, Monday, 12 February 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HN9y1z1Z9A
Incredible String Band "Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending"
must see TV
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
imago should listen to "U" which even ISB lovers like myself must find a bit disquieting
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
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Watching that is what got me on this recent kick!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
― timellison, Monday, February 12, 2018 12:16 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark
otm
ISB can definitely be annoying but I don't get a gross/hostile male vibe at all and if there were one, I have faith that I would feel it
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link