Imago Listening Club

opening track, just over breakup, gonna 'have us a good time', can see where this is going

i guess the fact it has a *concept* (according to this quick interpretation) means i'll have to listen to all of it

think i get this more than i once might have

'so turnt up' is kinda amazing

yeah that was a super solid album with elements of euphoric self-celebration that I won't deny

told a nice li'l story there has ciara, a story of her heart

parquet courts, o rlllly

this halfasses the raggedy garage-indie thing. needs to me muuuch raggedier. way too zine-ready, too prepackaged. eugh. enough.

i think i would find this music less loathsome if i wasn't listening to it; hence, bring on k michelle

Interested in this one.

lol hai spottie. what's allthis bs DiS indie doin' in the ILX poll lol

k michelle is pleasingly off-kilter so far, the first two tracks have both got weird production elements that play against her relatively straight vocal bat rly intriguingly - waiting to see how she develops. comes off as delightfully schizophrenic (sorry if that's an insensitive use of language erryone)

lol this next track is a fkn quasi-beatlesy chamber rnb thing :D

also her lyrics are much weirder than her delivery - kinda mad, but deadpan

also a bit mad @ u spottie as despite knowing me a li'l bit u did not send me email after email with 'danny brown' as subject and no other text at all

predictably, 'pay my bills' :D

um XD

'sometimes' was fkn epic, but then this

awesome

matt dc not otm

ah so she's a reality tv star from outside the usual canon, or at least her star has been made unconventionally

it shows, and i think it's to her benefit - this follows no formula except her own extremely idiosyncratic dream-logic

well, that was...something. faded a bit in last 2 trax but had already made its point. good record!

right, so...haha fuck listening to the arctic monkeys :D

nah ok, one song...but if u displease me then by god

*slumps face into hand* ok you guys, seriously now

right, so, i won't be doing this tomorrow. might just do one round-up on the actual pollthread. today's albums have been of terrifyingly and unexpectedly high quality & i'm fairly certain lightning won't strike 2ce in that regard

lol hai spottie. what's allthis bs DiS indie doin' in the ILX poll lol

i don't even know, I've displaced myself so far away from anything (new) with a guitar of late. Just don't care enough to even get mad about it you know. List is pretty cool so far tbf. Some metal, some r&b, some indie, some pop, some raps.

also a bit mad @ u spottie as despite knowing me a li'l bit u did not send me email after email with 'danny brown' as subject and no other text at all

SORRY. Wouldn't think it would be up your street but excited now cos I feel like this expanded pallet of yours is a good opportunity to make some good recs I woulda kept quiet about in the past.

What did you think of K Michelle VSOP?

Also not sure if you'll go backwards on Danny and get XXX but at least listen to this http://youtu.be/J--rO7FP16U at some point. Maybe his hardest raps and the production has so much tension, not sure it ever really releases.

imago have you heard the Darkside record yet

its got a dece chance of placing in albums poll so i dont want to scoop it too hard but seems like something you'd enjoy

imago since I'm always accusing you of only listening to metal that fits your art school aesthetic ima gonna recommend you a few albums and Id love to see you live blog the results in your own time. I think even smithy would approve of this selection.

80s Edition.

Hellhammer - Demon Entrails http://open.spotify.com/album/0KJJaXqklxda4srO9islax
Venom- Welcome To Hell http://open.spotify.com/album/416frNecRqcMLBExg4Yimj
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales http://open.spotify.com/album/1PAHTFExKX69ftvv1s14bg
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus http://open.spotify.com/album/3BHQVxQ9W2uqQM4zMf9CGo
Trouble - Psalm 9 http://open.spotify.com/album/36EQco7PmBiG0rDEm2gidh
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late http://open.spotify.com/album/6CyKigkGRtW3xTDZczqlRC
King Diamond - Abigail http://open.spotify.com/album/06f2VhemmvKLbch3JvFM6p
Death - Leprosy http://open.spotify.com/album/0WDuNDxOkxdTBwo3drhFY1

yeah uh maybe I'll get around to that

listening to the Morton Subotnick that unreg posted upthread; it's off the fkn chain :D

in your own time dude. But its *important* albums that more or less invented sub-genres and what a purist might say you need to know.

Oh and I forgot
Bathory - Under a Sign Of The Black Mark http://open.spotify.com/album/450O7sJi2GTzmLqHS03T88

Might have missed one towards the top of the thread

I'll get round to all of them, don't worry! Yours included...

Heard it now - vibezy and all w/ plaintive guitar/synth hook but not rly my thing

I couldnt think of any albums and a 7 hour cdv mix seemed a bit unfair so have a go at this lil charmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZmXp0_hbkg

Since I'm thinking about them and their now pretty official demise as a band. This should be within your hard edged comfort zone, I think.

Company of Thieves - Gorgeous/Grotesque

(Much of what they play sounds nothing like this, incidentally.)

And from a very different direction. Perhaps I should come up with proggier Eddie Palmieri (it does exist), but this is so great and you can't deny there's quite a bit happening in it:

Eddie Palmieri - Puerto Rico

(I think dog latin's reggae/dub made me think ok how about some salsa.)

Actually that CoT might be too bluesy for you now that I think.

I would really like imago to listen to this album.

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Black & White too

Black & White is the best Stranglers album

I love Black & White, but it's my least favourite of their first six albums (The Raven and La Folie being the two 'desert island' picks)

I'm really keen on seeing what imago thinks of The Gospel According To The Meninblack, though. It's by far the weirdest album The Stranglers ever made, and definitely not for everyone. Their record label (United Artists) had been bought out by EMI and had become Liberty Records, and reportedly the attitude of the record label people The Stranglers were now dealing with was "we don't have a clue what this band are doing or what to do with them, but they seem to sell albums whenever they release one so we'll leave them to it". So the band indulged themselves: fucked their heads up on hard drugs, recorded at the most expensive studios they could (including Startling Studios, Musicland Studios, Pathe Marconi and several others), had no less than four engineers working on a rota so they could work around the clock (and because all the band members were under the influence of different drugs at different times), and because of no record label interference, basically did what the fuck they wanted without even caring whether or not it would be understood. Just as well really, because it wasn't understood at all.

All the drums were tracked individually(!) for maximum separation, and so they could apply effects to one specific drum at any one time without it fucking up the mix, as well as drums being recorded through condenser mics to fuck up the sound... as a result some of the stereo panning on the album is a bit crazy and headphone listening is an experience. None of the songs are all that accessible, and the ones that could possibly be accessible have something odd going on with them. It's quite jazz-influenced in places, and definitely a highly, highly indulgent record. It flopped massively, was misunderstood by pretty much everybody, and The Stranglers would never have the opportunity to be that indulgent again.

It's actually singer Hugh Cornwell's favourite Stranglers album, and bassist JJ Burnel cites it as one of his favourites alongside The Raven, probably because they had such a blast making it.

and I recommend listening The Gospel while reading this exhaustive PDF about the album...

http://www.strangled.co.uk/PDF/but_issue_02.pdf

(There's one on Black & White too on the same site)

I've written my own (IMO quite wittily-observed) spoof review but I'm not sure how I could post it here...

― l0u1s jagg3r (Haberdager), Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:30 PM (7 years ago)

just for posterity

wittily-observed.

quite

Time to listen to some dub, Imago.

i dunno but i kinda think this might be imagoish

http://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/the-mother-of-virtues

cool :) and will check that out once I've finished watching La Belle Noiseuse but this thread is essentially defunct and I would like it to remain so - send all subsequent recommendations to Unknown, vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop that only MaresNest and I actually like

oh, well, this is not cardiacsy prog-pop, and anyway, you're not the boss of me

you should listen to roky erickson, i'm jamming the evil one right now, this light in the attic reissue is off the meat rack

"stand for the fire demon!" dun dun dun dun dun *rock*

after you do that, let me know what you think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc

You're the prog-not-prog guy right? Try Butter by Hudson Mohawke