also lol @ the guy saying "there's that one song that's really really cool, but then there are these clanging syncopated guitars that don't even sync up, does that really need to be there?" with respect to "Fiery Gun Hand" I believe
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
I think Vacuum Tree Head is an excellent band, actually. Bro.
― vacuumtreehead#1, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure we'll ever resolve whether that's true
― imago, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
You know why the bump, don't you?
The 180Gs' astonishing 'a capella' cover version of the entire Sing To God double album, "Singin' To God" was finally released yesterday (young Tim Smith's birthday I believe.)
David Minnick has recreated the album down to some very tiny details. At times you can almost forget it's not the original you're hearing, yet all the 'instrumentation' is created bodily (apart from a Kazoo on one track.)
Most songs are incredibly faithfully rendered and a few have been reinterpreted in inventive ways; Wireless and Bell Stinks / Bell Clinks in particular stood out on first listen.
https://davidminnick1.bandcamp.com/album/singin-to-god
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 08:36 (five years ago) link
oh my god it's here
― imago, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
Yay, I was hoping the bump would be about David..!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 11:34 (five years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing how he deals with Tim's Gran's appearance.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 11:40 (five years ago) link
Oh wait, it was his Mum...ah well.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 11:41 (five years ago) link
this is the most glorious undertaking
― imago, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
Just laughing my head off with pleasure at Flap off You Beak right now, it's so amazingly lush and he takes liberties on the fade with the melodies, little bluesy licks.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
this is unbelievable
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 July 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
Oh man... Sorry guys I find this revolting and even if I didn't I'd struggle to fathom what the actual point is.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 14 July 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
probably didn't need to post that
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 14 July 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
Not at all, I can completely see why it would provoke such a strong feeling and wondering what the use of such a project would actually be.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 July 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
I was listening to a Terrence McKenna recording and in it he started gabbing about an old science fiction tale concerning "angel worms," which he wrongly attributed to Robert Heinlein.
It is in fact "The Angelic Angleworm" by Fredric Brown, first published in 1943 and included in a 1954 collection called "Angels And Spaceships" that incidentally also includes a story entitled "Daisies."
― Wegmüller Fruit Corner (Noel Emits), Thursday, 22 November 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
Not from this album, but there's a Cardiacs song that takes it's title from a line in this 1972 Sesame St song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irCkaVmcWO8
― everything, Thursday, 22 November 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
25 years old today, I'm told!
― Maresn3st, Friday, 11 June 2021 10:37 (two years ago) link
play it loud play it proud
― imago, Friday, 11 June 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link
So many Dirty Boy covers surfacing recently, but I think my favourite is still the gender-flipped Cellular Chaos one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E27s9ZluDQ8
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Friday, 11 June 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link