Imago Listening Club

Poo Group came up in another similar thread a few years back. You may have been there, seashell; I was just following up...

Sarahell *'_'*

like that's the best typo in that post

More like Plop Group amirite?

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

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'.

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?

As cher out of clueless would say, are you talking about drugs?

almost certainly

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

background and foreground are the same thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTzWu2ys2s

oooh 'ten years gone' by a zillion miles the best thing so far

^^^
My favourite on the album, some days my fave Zep tune.

If you're into that you should check out 'Rain Song' off Houses of the Holy.

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

Yeah side C is the best side. In the Light, Down by the Sea and TYG all amazing.

yeah. sides b and c the best tbh, release them as a single album and I'd get reasonably enthusiastic

I'd throw in Custard Pie at the beginning, such a funky riff.

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)

o days, this is force divine

i do wonder what music i'd find most enhanced by substances.

Have you tried the early 90s dance music/mdma combo?

nah but takayanagi/lsd combo is now high on agenda

dub kind of works really well with a smoky smoke.

You don't say.

funny that.

Almost as startling as the ecstasy/rave revelation.

The Rover is my fave song on PG, and is probably my fave led zep song period

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

me or imago? I've owned the cd for 20 years but never got into it. Same with that grateful dead cd

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

)

xpost well, this thread is for imago but yeah id recommend it to anyone else who hasnt heard it. never could get with the grateful dead, not that they have anything to do with van morrison. actually "astral weeks" is more jazzy knottiness than proggy knottiness tbf

Have the 2013 album results been done yet?

imminent

O god yeah y'all shd listen & comment to anything posted here, lemme be yr mere conduit

its just that on branwell bells thread i was talking about astral weeks

If you haven't heard Octopus by Gentle Giant I would definitely say, give it a gander

frogbs mixing his animal metaphors

Thee Oh Sees is one of the worst bandnames in history, by fkn god

i am boycotting this thread until you listen to that fucking foetus album all the way through

me too

cool ok well I'll do that when normal service resumes after the EOY albumzpoll

J Barwick - Nepenthe: ummm I can't make my mind up about this after 2 and a bit trax - it flirts with the sublime, perhaps at points achieves it, but at other moments appears to be prettily blathering its Sigur Rossy way to dirgeville. Give it a couple more trax

imago have you changed your mind on blindly dismissing led zep then?

consider me in the 'ok they had their moments' camp, which is quite a big step tbh

yes indeed it is. I feel I succeeded in something!

i think you may be ready to dive in to tracks like No Quarter now

led zep suck

kinda done with J Barwick tbh - getting a similar vibe from this as from - hold yr noses - God Is An Astronaut

-_-

she purveys what I'd call cheaply-won bliss, and I don't find it blissful, sorry

oh, Eluvium is another example of this sorta thing, except I think Eluvium v occasionally had better songs

ahahaha omg this Fall Out Boy

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)

imago, has anyone made you listen to 'mud' off the GABI album entitled 'sympathy' yet and if not, why not?

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

this is cool, like if someone decided to make slowdive's 'pygmalion' into an opera

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!

do you like this shit? I feel like maybe you'd like this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMj8Y56WmfU

yes that sounded quite promising thank you

weird art rock usually a fruitful line of enquiry

I don't wonder if you might dig Japan's Vampillia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqKNmIl_k4

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

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.

OK I fucked up that first video

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.

XXXP - wildo LJ, no worries :)

Homeboy Sandman

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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpvztXgGzYSHHac4VPLofaPc7cZmVLKYU

(^^ Skeptics - Amalgam)

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...)

oops those weren't meant to embed

I've heard good things about Foetus-Nail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vI-dbV4D9k

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-Kb0TD1sALBlp9h4fuJ
https://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-9872674
https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/gu-yan-album

Also you probably saw Siegbran repping Lingua Ignota's two EPs, which are excellent.

whoa cheers for all this! let's dig in...

ok ie crazy is kind of wonderful

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...

It was very pleasant!

But yeah, i.e. crazy. Incredible. Would have threatened my top 5 if I'd known about it

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

AHEM

https://tful282.bandcamp.com/album/strangers-from-the-universe

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