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
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
this halfasses the raggedy garage-indie thing. needs to me muuuch raggedier. way too zine-ready, too prepackaged. eugh. enough.
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
i think i would find this music less loathsome if i wasn't listening to it; hence, bring on k michelle
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
Interested in this one.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link
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
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
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
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
predictably, 'pay my bills' :D
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link
um XD
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
'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
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
well, that was...something. faded a bit in last 2 trax but had already made its point. good record!
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
right, so...haha fuck listening to the arctic monkeys :D
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
nah ok, one song...but if u displease me then by god
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
*slumps face into hand* ok you guys, seriously now
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:09 (ten years ago) link
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
― in fact, do read if you hate me (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
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.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
What did you think of K Michelle VSOP?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:14 (ten years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
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/0KJJaXqklxda4srO9islaxVenom- Welcome To Hell http://open.spotify.com/album/416frNecRqcMLBExg4YimjCeltic Frost - Morbid Tales http://open.spotify.com/album/1PAHTFExKX69ftvv1s14bgCandlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus http://open.spotify.com/album/3BHQVxQ9W2uqQM4zMf9CGoTrouble - Psalm 9 http://open.spotify.com/album/36EQco7PmBiG0rDEm2gidhSaint Vitus - Born Too Late http://open.spotify.com/album/6CyKigkGRtW3xTDZczqlRCKing Diamond - Abigail http://open.spotify.com/album/06f2VhemmvKLbch3JvFM6pDeath - Leprosy http://open.spotify.com/album/0WDuNDxOkxdTBwo3drhFY1
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
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
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
Might have missed one towards the top of the thread
― cog, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
I'll get round to all of them, don't worry! Yours included...
― imago, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Heard it now - vibezy and all w/ plaintive guitar/synth hook but not rly my thing
― imago, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
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
― cog, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
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
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
(I think dog latin's reggae/dub made me think ok how about some salsa.)
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Actually that CoT might be too bluesy for you now that I think.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
I would really like imago to listen to this album.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FndWVWa36Hg/SbPVStT97KI/AAAAAAAABo8/13mJTSdcbyY/s1600-h/StranglersMeninblackR.jpghttp://farm6.staticflickr.com/5267/5670316543_20a485aaaf_z.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FndWVWa36Hg/SbPVS-AWBvI/AAAAAAAABpE/EErE1acx-zA/s400/StranglersMeninblackV.jpg
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 6 February 2014 08:01 (ten years ago) link
Black & White too
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 February 2014 08:46 (ten years ago) link
Black & White is the best Stranglers album
― sarahell, Thursday, 6 February 2014 08:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 6 February 2014 09:56 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 6 February 2014 10:11 (ten years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
wittily-observed.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
quite
― sarahell, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
Time to listen to some dub, Imago.
― doglato dozzy (dog latin), Monday, 10 February 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
i dunno but i kinda think this might be imagoish
http://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/the-mother-of-virtues
― j., Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
oh, well, this is not cardiacsy prog-pop, and anyway, you're not the boss of me
― j., Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:27 (ten years ago) link
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
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
"stand for the fire demon!" dun dun dun dun dun *rock*
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
after you do that, let me know what you think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
You're the prog-not-prog guy right? Try Butter by Hudson Mohawke
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:27 (ten years ago) link
xxxp everyone should listen to Roky, and the 13th Floor Elevators too!
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Thursday, 27 March 2014 09:34 (ten years ago) link
I take it back j, but only coz this is extremely kickass :D
― imago, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGXIgz5hhzQ
― saer, Saturday, 5 July 2014 09:14 (nine years ago) link