Imago Listening Club

I...can't....turn....this...offffff

it's put together really quite skilfully - I won't go outta my way to rly listen to FOB but they're obviously a much, much, much better band than I may have lazily assumed they were

oh no little joeys on drugs

The Oh Sees were never never called "The OC's" -- the band was originally called OCS, and it was originally just Dwyer and a drummer.

looool I wonder why they changed THAT name

*grunts opening riff of Riverboat song, tosses back a Carling*

Hey Imago.

Some highlights from the three dub albums I mentioned:

Congos - Open Up The Gate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COSNHGTuFC0

'Heart of the Congos' is probably the best vocal roots album in history. As well as the ludicrously good harmonies, Scratch's dusty, jungly, otherworldly production makes it one of the best albums in the history of Jamaican music. Couldn't find a Youtube vid that was particularly good quality I'm afraid.

The Upsetters - Croaking Lizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdDlpQ-E7kE

Another Lee Perry production. A dub masterclass really. This track repurposes one of dub's fattest grooves. I sometimes get bored of reggae DJs, but Prince Jazzbo's (I think) delivery here is full of emotion.

Joe Gibbs - Edward the Eight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1GRjMupyEk

A bit of a change from Lee Perry's production. Joe's style is ultimately cleaner, slightly more disco oriented than Scratch's rootsy vibes. Think this might be one of my favourite vintage dub tunes. Always love the synthy effects he uses, and that bass line has so much character to it.

Ah cheers! Will come back and digest all of these after poll season's done. Maybe even during if you're all fabulously lucky.

o gosh the Bill Callahan track ciderpress linked...I was all ready to be all 'BOOORING' but this is frankly rly rly excellent music, superb wibbly freakout drone-folk

one to check out, clearly

oh, lorde's been @ the bladerunner soundtrack

I like that Eclipse set but this will always be my go to Takayangi, w/Abe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXm-v_4ENM

The Gradual is just as good but bcz its near silent no one will believe that.

o my, well i shall check both out. they will make for a fine palate-cleanser after this albumzpoll is done. lorde isn't too awful (dan otm, 'buzzcut season' the highlight) but i'm done with it

well, the gradual takes a while to build ... it's, you know, gradual

And the mass is just...mass.

Yeah I get that.

haha, that was just me being entertained that the titles are descriptive of the music

it's not JUST mass, it very clearly intensifies over its running-length, achieves nirvana abt 21 mins in

still listening to lorde, call it inertia, call it the album not being *too* bad rly

Heart Of The Congos has this eerie old testament quality where at times it sounds like sacred hymns from ancient times or something. There were a lot of essential re-issues like this on the Blood and Fire label in the 90's, this was probably the best one.

srsly I will honestly by blood and fire and everything else that's holy listen to all this stuff. right now it's Thee Oh Sees, but it won't be for long (zing!)

the sort of frantic faux-punk that's nervously checking to see if its drainpipes are tight enough. ban

ohhh they got lucky. was about to kill it and track 2 began, which was a gr8 improvement

I'm not generally a fan of garage rock, but Oh Sees is a really solid band and I end up liking everything they do.

track 4 best yet

hmm, no clunkers so far in albumzpoll

yeah not bad, but next

o gosh the Bill Callahan track ciderpress linked...I was all ready to be all 'BOOORING' but this is frankly rly rly excellent music, superb wibbly freakout drone-folk

― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, January 27, 2014 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so your boring appraisal might be closer to the truth

i like it a bunch but i am a mellow person

well, worth it for that one song tbh

follakzoid are nay bad but k3rr how the flaming fuck did u allow this in the metal poll :D

he allowed Melt Banana in the metal poll, which to me is o_O

M-B feature extremely loud guitars, noize, yelped vox...it fits

this just isn't metal in any way at all, my god! but it's not bad for a completely derivative krautabout

M-B feature extremely loud guitars, noize, yelped vox...it fits

So we can vote for punk bands in metal polls now?

fair call tbh

bit bored of follakzoid - strikes me as excellent background music but doesn't reward intense listening too well for me

like, circle do this stuff wayyy better

Kelela - some v interesting production on this! She's not a v engaging presence at all tho. Listening for the beats, everything else just kinda washes over me

Fun fact: the building on the cover of Physical Graffiti is also featured in this classic video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKLVmBOOqVU

sorry kelela, u ain't doin' it for me any more

u never rly were altho u got some dece production contacts clearly

Cut Copy - *vomits blood, dies*

going to play the first 10 seconds of every song on this album

did they just sing "shine brother shine on, shine brother in the sun"

permaban

oh this music makes me ill

y'know that when something is permabanned, you stop listening to it, right?

i just had to make sure

you tempbanned it in other words

or yellow carded it

unless cut copy created a sock account and snuck into your ears pretending to be a new band?

f(x) give me the idea of bandname mashup f(n+x) and tbh i think that this would also sound kinda rad :D

obviously the music is much better than bloody cut copy (who are *now* permabanned), gonna give this a good few trax

i'd know cut copy in a millisecond. actually no i wdnt, so much 80's-actin' bilge out there. shit.

f(x) are p good fun i gotta concede, and the music's well put-together, got a bit of depth n craft, not all major-key harmonisin'