Quite simply we take turns to suggest to imago album or songs (that is kinda out his wheelhouse but can also be something you think he might or should like)
He then will give his rundown (either liveblogging or a 'review' at the end then someone else will give their recommendation.
Volunteer below to take a turn.
My recommendation is this - http://i.imgur.com/G9Lue6a.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/1lZahjeu4AhPkg9JARZr5Fspotify:album:1lZahjeu4AhPkg9JARZr5F
Imago oftens posts revulsion of them but I dont think he realises that there's a LOT more to them than bluesy heavy rock. For such a big band they were pretty damn weird at times and I do think he would like them if he gave them a chance.
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
some of their songs are pretty "undeniable"
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
volunteer for a turn and once he's finished one suggestion he can move on.
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
nah, i'll just post recommendations here as they come to me, and he can listen or ignore as he wishes -- as he has done for the last 5 years.
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah can this not be turn-based. pitch in more or less as you please, although a profusion of too much stuff will probably mean it takes longer to get around to.
going to sleep now, will check that out on the morrow though
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
I think you would enjoy disc 2 of PG more than the first.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
don't we do this every year
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 January 2014 01:24 (ten years ago) link
because you like complexity and expressed an interest in jazz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUd0SbegdMQ
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
probably best not to embed
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link
What did you end up thinking of the Pop Group, imago?
― stop ingesting (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 January 2014 01:55 (ten years ago) link
apologies if you've already heard this stuff:
Biota - Bellowing Room (Side B)
Morton Subotnick - The Wild Bull (Side A and Side B)
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Monday, 27 January 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
ftr:yes! There's a song by The Pop Group, that I thought the lyrics were "Don't call me baby" (I think it's actually "don't call me pain") ...
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:51 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think I also have issues with "baby" as a term of endearment.
Hahaha! I've recently asked a few female friends of mine whether this bothers them and it doesn't for the most part. I think it should.
― cockles (country matters), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:52 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
xp -I don't hate all songs that use "baby" as a term of endearment, but if a romantic partner were to call me that, I'd have problems with that.
The Pop Group song is still a really good song.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:57 PM (4 years ago)
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I'd hope it isn't my lack of a penis that makes LJ less likely to follow my recommended listening than other male ilxors
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Monday, 27 January 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
et tu sarahell
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 09:22 (ten years ago) link
Imago I recommend the pop group
― LADsy (wins), Monday, 27 January 2014 10:41 (ten years ago) link
I recommend this little known singer called Beyonce. You might like her.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2014 10:49 (ten years ago) link
Shouldn't ilxors be recommending pop to Joey? I thought he was a stan for avant-garde experimental and so was going to always enjoy the soothing sounds from Takayanagi's guitar.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2014 11:05 (ten years ago) link
imago i have a hunch that if you set preconceptions aside, you'll appreciate how majestic physical graffiti can be
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
imago do you interest yourself in dub / reggae?
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
lol I made a beeline for Biota and found it entirely to my liking. quite proud if that's my comfort zone tbh, but a million cheers for the recommendation unreg
jul10 you might be amused to know that thanks to nakhers I've also been listening to quite a lot of Ferneyhough over the last couple of days - the guy's a bloody genius and perhaps quite an important philosopher of composition
okok well, physical graffiti it must be now. then takanayagi.
ooh good question dog latin - not as such, although I don't hate it - there's just so much, I never know where to start
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
o this is the one with 'kashmir' - that's their only smashhit I actually sorta like. ok cool
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:33 (ten years ago) link
Poo Group came up in another similar thread a few years back. You may have been there, seashell; I was just following up...
― stop ingesting (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:51 (ten years ago) link
Sarahell *'_'*
― stop ingesting (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:52 (ten years ago) link
like that's the best typo in that post
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
More like Plop Group amirite?
― keiji cretins (NickB), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:55 (ten years ago) link
yes, there's a lot of stuff and a lot of it's great and quite a bit of it's useless. judging by what i think you might like, i'd be interested in seeing what you think of The Congos' 'Heart of the Congos', Lee Perry & the Upsetters' 'Super Ape' or Joe Gibbs 'Majestic Dub'.
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
physgraf is q a pleasant background jammy thing for now. 'in my time of dying' and 'trampled under foot' so far making for the best ambience. is this music meant to be listened to while doing other things, i now wonder - like the traxpoll dance music, best experienced socially?
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
As cher out of clueless would say, are you talking about drugs?
― LADsy (wins), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
almost certainly
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
with the right substances, this cd become the spiritual ecstasy 'differentology' was for yow
actually i sincerely doubt that, although now i do wonder what music i'd find most enhanced by substances. probably something i already like, such as magma
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
background and foreground are the same thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTzWu2ys2s
― cog, Monday, 27 January 2014 13:28 (ten years ago) link
oooh 'ten years gone' by a zillion miles the best thing so far
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
^^^My favourite on the album, some days my fave Zep tune.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
If you're into that you should check out 'Rain Song' off Houses of the Holy.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
yeah have heard the whole album & that was comfortably the standout. side c so much better than side d you wonder why they didn't just end it there
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
Yeah side C is the best side. In the Light, Down by the Sea and TYG all amazing.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
yeah. sides b and c the best tbh, release them as a single album and I'd get reasonably enthusiastic
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
I'd throw in Custard Pie at the beginning, such a funky riff.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
Perhaps. Side A didn't really grab me but it wasn't the worst opener
Jul10 otm, obv - this Takayanagi clearly belongs on the J0rdan S Listening Club thread, not this one. Obviously it's awesome and imma listen to the whole thing in gleeful joy, wishing I was watching it all unfold live (o god, heaven)
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
o days, this is force divine
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
i do wonder what music i'd find most enhanced by substances.
Have you tried the early 90s dance music/mdma combo?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
nah but takayanagi/lsd combo is now high on agenda
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
dub kind of works really well with a smoky smoke.
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
You don't say.
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
funny that.
― he said, smarmily (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Almost as startling as the ecstasy/rave revelation.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
The Rover is my fave song on PG, and is probably my fave led zep song period
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
im surprised to see that youve never listened to "astral weeks". personally, it took me a long time to get under my skin. but i love it now (i do prefer "veedon fleece" a bit more tbh which theres a youtube link for as well) and i think its got the right amount of proggyish knottiness and eccentricity for you to like it right off the bat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfhF7ZyURsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1vYs5LBC3c&list=PLWLQDGsdAqlZVnsHI9f9YKnHgjbP5aBMY
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
me or imago? I've owned the cd for 20 years but never got into it. Same with that grateful dead cd
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
Ahaha someone actually read that terrible post (Oasis thread, k3rr). On a bus rn but will check later along with unreg's other suggestion. Also, had the brainwave of recording my responses to the albumzpoll here (unless it's an album I love, in which case I'll loudly and obnoxiously declare my love in the thread obv
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
eh that's ok, got some surprisingly beautiful moments but probably not gonna disturb my ballot even if ilx is voting en masse ;)
esben and the witch song was nice
um
eyvind kang! oh god so much music though! been ploughing thru the list, so hard to know what to vote for now
― rae sredrum (imago), Thursday, 15 January 2015 08:24 (nine years ago) link
one that got nowhere in the poll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TW49X2G_Ss
― Germane Quip (NickB), Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
you should listen to the jlin album, it is excellent
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Saturday, 4 April 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
rad ok
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Saturday, 4 April 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is great
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Saturday, 4 April 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
yep
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Saturday, 4 April 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
imago, do you like Punishment of Luxury? they sometimes make me think of early Cardiacs covering John Foxx era Ultravox, or maybe vice versa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTQNmNJHuM
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Thursday, 4 June 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
I meant to post that to the vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop thread, but what's done is ddone
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Thursday, 4 June 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
hey this is cool
― strangled whelps (imago), Thursday, 4 June 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
it doesn't quite have the cardiacs melodic sensibility & hence the sublimity, but it is p wired in a good way
― strangled whelps (imago), Thursday, 4 June 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
progge-poppe-landfill interzone bubbler seems relevant to your interests
― smoke weed listen to Satie (wins), Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
(I love this)
― smoke weed listen to Satie (wins), Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGAwp5syXyE
Will get on that later
Is the Carly Rae Jepsen album something I might appreciate?
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Do you like Carly Rae Jepsen?
― smoke weed listen to Satie (wins), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
ahem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmdci-fGLk
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
can scarcely believe i'm saying this but that FFS is almost TOO progge - the bit that kicks in after the intro and returns at the end is awesome but there's a but too much (arch and intentional) noodling for me. might well investigate further
this TFUL album is the fucken nuts :D
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
star trek -> tell me = XDDDDD
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
oh fuck, this has turned into the most intense fever dream
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
'tuning notes' is where it leaps off the cliff and becomes a classic album maybe
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
haven't listened to tful since college, happy to rediscover (& enjoying yr take)
― drash, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
I was thinking a little bit more today about those "difficult" pieces on MOAS. Although I appreciate the pared-down song-oriented tracklist someone posted in this (or the other) thread, the spacing of those tracks really helps with the sequencing and overall epic flow of the record.. I think that at the time there was some criticism of teh "practice room" pieces in the press but it was also kind of a statement of purpose by the band. At any rate, "Tuning Notes" has perversely become one of my fave tracks from that record as the years have gone by. It's just such a perfect window into their world, a distillation of the practice room experience.
― sleeve, Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:40 AM (4 years ago)
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 June 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
imago, has anyone made you listen to 'mud' off the GABI album entitled 'sympathy' yet and if not, why not?
― Ray Chard (NickB), Thursday, 1 October 2015 08:58 (eight years ago) link
i'm listening in the minutes before leaving for the doctor's with severe tonsillitis. the fact it's choral is making me plain envious if anything
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 1 October 2015 09:20 (eight years ago) link
this is cool, like if someone decided to make slowdive's 'pygmalion' into an opera
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 1 October 2015 09:25 (eight years ago) link
i'm listening in the minutes before leaving for the doctor's with severe tonsillitis
oof, maybe not the time for creeping queasiness then. good luck!
― Ray Chard (NickB), Thursday, 1 October 2015 09:42 (eight years ago) link
do you like this shit? I feel like maybe you'd like this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMj8Y56WmfU
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Monday, 12 October 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
yes that sounded quite promising thank you
weird art rock usually a fruitful line of enquiry
― twunty fifteen (imago), Monday, 12 October 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link
I don't wonder if you might dig Japan's Vampillia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqKNmIl_k4
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 10:46 (eight years ago) link
apologies my man but that doesn't quite do it for me…a bit lol random w/o much in the way of memorable songwriting or sonic intrigue…but you are encouraged to keep chucking 'em down
― twunty fifteen (imago), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 10:57 (eight years ago) link
Vampillia are frustrating because they can be brilliant but can also be sort of irritating. I like that they're kind of multifaceted but their mix of sincerity and wanton goofball tendencies don't really gel. I have to say that personally I think Ice Fist is a great track though.
They remind me a lot of another band from Japan, Mutyumu, who came a bit before. They're less polished but more refined if that makes sense.
One of their "pop" songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atOGv14hLys&index=4&list=PL18F216634676A0D5
Epic post-rock blowout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RoegQvn7Ak
They had/have some more black metal-tinged material as well. It might be worth pointing out that I despise opera but for some reason I like the voice in this context.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
OK I fucked up that first video
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
Thanks UUG, never heard of those guys. A couple of friends and I have just started a little radio show playing non mainstream music from Japan, from the last few decades, it's been fun researching lot's of different crazy bands to play.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
XXXP - wildo LJ, no worries :)
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Homeboy Sandman
― ♫ as we get older and stop making threads ♫ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 16 January 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
ty
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Saturday, 16 January 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpvztXgGzYSHHac4VPLofaPc7cZmVLKYU
― etc, Saturday, 16 January 2016 07:36 (eight years ago) link
(^^ Skeptics - Amalgam)
― etc, Saturday, 16 January 2016 07:37 (eight years ago) link
chris weisman - the sweetest flags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWiEJaRyNA
chris weisman - hand sign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxufwTBtGak
(but two...)
― linee, Saturday, 16 January 2016 07:49 (eight years ago) link
oops those weren't meant to embed
I've heard good things about Foetus-Nail
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Saturday, 16 January 2016 08:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vI-dbV4D9k
― MaresNest, Saturday, 16 January 2016 11:03 (eight years ago) link
Yes indeed! Well, I might check out some of your solo votes. Everyone else, check out Re-TROS, a band only denied a place in this poll because they had the ghastly temerity to release more than one excellent song last year
xp
― imago, Thursday, 25 January 2018 22:58 (yesterday)
Just so I'm not cluttering up the singles ballots thread - not sure if any of my other singles votes are particularly LJ-aligned apart from "The Doctrines Of Swedenborg" & "Que Du Bon", but there's a few bits & pieces you might find interesting:
i.e. crazy - non compos mentis (hysterical industrial folk)
https://muzai.bandcamp.com/album/non-compos-mentis
Some vaguely recent Chinese stuff that I'd cluster w/Re-TROS:
Beijing's Chui Wan:
https://chui-wan.bandcamp.com/album/chui-wan
Chengdu's STOLEN: https://site.douban.com/stolen/http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJLuT0Pmg_qaL1-Kb0TD1sALBlp9h4fuJhttps://mimixingdong.bandcamp.com/
Shanghai's Mirrors:https://separatemirrors.bandcamp.com/album/separate-reality
& if you squint a bunch you can vaguely compare this to Jute Gyte...
Shandong black metal band Zuriaake:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/lake-of-buried-corpses-chinese-metal-band-digs-out-ancient-9872674https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/gu-yan-album
Also you probably saw Siegbran repping Lingua Ignota's two EPs, which are excellent.
― etc, Friday, 26 January 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
whoa cheers for all this! let's dig in...
― imago, Friday, 26 January 2018 07:55 (six years ago) link
ok ie crazy is kind of wonderful
― imago, Friday, 26 January 2018 08:26 (six years ago) link
yeah that was really amazing. wish i'd discovered it before the albums poll deadline! ah well. really strong songwriting all the way through and a wickedly delirious atmosphere.
chui wan closing track 'beijing is sinking' was wonderful
mirrors seem fun, loved the 3rd track. they're one to watch. is there a thread for chinese psych?
diving into the zuriaake now...
― imago, Friday, 26 January 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
It was very pleasant!
But yeah, i.e. crazy. Incredible. Would have threatened my top 5 if I'd known about it
― imago, Friday, 26 January 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
Funnily enough, I'd been half-thinking of recommending you Baby Zionov's Henrietta but I unexpectedly stumbled across you repping it on Twitter! There's a nice out-of-flux-y scene in Auckland at the moment with lots of side projects (including their dungeon synth project Gayblade).
There's new i.e. crazy singles trickling out, and you might like Grecco Romank - acid-friend bogan industrial:
https://greccoromank.bandcamp.com/album/red-tower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EEu__Cf-JM
― etc, Friday, 5 August 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
AHEM
https://tful282.bandcamp.com/album/strangers-from-the-universe
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Friday, 5 August 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
oh hello yes yes this is all nice. i have a sleeping ill person here but will check this all tomorrow
i am pals with Baby Zionov on RYM - been mutuals for about 5 years, v thrilled she is finally turning her taste in weird stuff into weird stuff
i forgot that this thread was where i learnt about i.e. crazy too. her new stuff is sounding killer, the comeback single had a great run on the latest peoples_pop poll too
― ban, buddy (imago), Friday, 5 August 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link