imma just stop posting on this thread that's named after me lol
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
we agree usually! aw man it is nothing personal
― imago, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
this thread is for stuff we both like though, you also have power of veto ;)
― imago, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
You go in hard LJ, have a care :)
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
sea nymphs will wash away all this discord next week anyway
― imago, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, which reminds me, I must puchase
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
Joanna Wang has a new song and I think a new album on November 11 (or it might be an EP, I'm not sure):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew99FiYS9Q0
― MarkoP, Saturday, 29 October 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
It's very, very exciting :D
She's only gone and gotten more Cardiacsy
― imago, Saturday, 29 October 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
Of course she also released an EP earlier in the year that was very pop:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8GAfhUoME
So you can never quite tell what she's gonna do next.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 29 October 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I wasn't sold on that last EP - file under 'odd experiment' - but the new song is amazing
― imago, Saturday, 29 October 2016 00:37 (seven years ago) link
I get the impression she has to put out things like that EP occasionally to keep Sony happy so they'll let her keep doing her own stuff.
― Pheeel, Saturday, 29 October 2016 11:12 (seven years ago) link
I find it absolutely incredible that she's still on Sony, and able to release such music under their banner
― imago, Saturday, 29 October 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
It's a full Cardiacsy rock-opera! Not sure it's quite better than the amazing Bob Music, but wow, what a joyride :)
― imago, Friday, 11 November 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link
hah, it just popped up in my RYM feed, deal me in
― frogbs, Friday, 11 November 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
That is because I added it to RYM lol
― imago, Friday, 11 November 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link
my man
― frogbs, Friday, 11 November 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
just got your friend request...browsing the 5 stars and seeing so many records that I've only heard you talk about :)
― frogbs, Friday, 11 November 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
I've definitely tried to listen to your five-starred records before. A lot of the YMO-affiliated ones are quite hard to find, but I'll definitely give it another go. My list definitely skews British. Hope you can forgive my 0.5-star album :p
― imago, Friday, 11 November 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
Anyway, some highlights are emerging from this - aside from Isn't It Exciting, we have The Rightful Heir and When I Dream In Technicolor. And probably some others - it's hard to wrap my head around it all so far!
― imago, Friday, 11 November 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
Liar and the chicken calls are legit hilarious too
― imago, Friday, 11 November 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Sound of Silver 0.5 wow! What did that record ever do to you???
― frogbs, Friday, 11 November 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
It's a bit of an ILX in-joke tbh
― imago, Friday, 11 November 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
I never worked out that frogbs=JAMOOL ffs
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 11 November 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
The Art Of Bullying probably has the album's best Cardiacs impression (ending in its best Queen impression, lol)
― imago, Friday, 11 November 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
In fact,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQl3TZUmzYM
I've made her her own thread now too
― imago, Friday, 25 November 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
https://zofff.bandcamp.com/album/zofff-1
Zofff - longform psychedelic jam not really in the spirit of Cardiacs, but many familiar faces here including Jo Spratley and Bic Hayes.
― dance band (tangenttangent), Sunday, 22 January 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link
Popped up as a BandCamp advertorial today but their content is often kinda interesting, to me it's strongly reminiscent of Monsoon Bassoon or Thingy/Heavy Veg.
https://palmnewyork.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-expert
― MaresNest, Monday, 14 August 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
*caveat* this track at least
― MaresNest, Monday, 14 August 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
oh I like this! good find :)
― imago, Monday, 14 August 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
it fits nicely with my 2017 year of discovering cheer-accident vibe
― imago, Monday, 14 August 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
how has early oingo boingo not been mentioned in this thread? can't think of anything more "cardiacsy"
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
Idk, they had zero impact in the UK at the time though.
― MaresNest, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Scouring their first record on Youtube right now and it sounds like herky jerky new wave, Devo/XTC/Split Enz or Bill Nelson's Red Noise.
― MaresNest, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GrBkJIuKSkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6NmzOcWjw
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
there are superficial similarities, especially in instrumentation and tempo, but tim smith's composition is way more mindboggling than this, the key is so fluid, and that's a large part of what i understand by 'cardiacsy'
― imago, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
this isn't bad though! btw neil cicierega is a good example of someone who's equally influenced by oingo boingo and cardiacs :)
― imago, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
That Palm EP's very good. Definite shades of 90s Rob Crow bands with some of Battles' 1st album in there too.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
Derial:
Ultros, if you *are* working your way through all the Japan shows? I take my hat off to you sir!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
oh yeah glad to hear that palm ep getting some ilx love, they've been getting some well-deserved buzz lately.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 August 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link
This isn't pop but I'm figuring something this good will find some love here. Polish jazz/punk group Kurws:
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
― Doran, Monday, 9 October 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
nice! shades of Deep Turtle, except maybe a bit less pop
― imago, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 07:45 (six years ago) link
Like this thanks! Makes me think a little of NoMeansNo or Laddio Bolocko.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
Digging around and found this really cool old track by a Japanese band called the Moonriders, little echoes of Devo, Cardiacs, XTC the usual, not to mention Japan's P Model.
Frogbs do you know these guys?
Had to upload it meself , no trace of it online.
https://soundcloud.com/nowherians/moonriders
― MaresNest, Saturday, 28 October 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
that was fun
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 28 October 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
no trace of it? these guys are apparently super-well-known in japan. track title translates as "alphaville". here's the band doing it live in 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRClisLIp_Q
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 October 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
yes! I know the Moonriders. That's Keiichi Suzuki's band, I'm sure you've heard of him (he does the music for Earthbound). pretty cool stuff, kind of Zolo mixed with cabaret mixed with New Wave.
fun fact, Andy Partridge has a spoken word cameo on one of their albums (a reunion album called Christ, Who's Gonna Die First?). always wondered how the hell that happened.
their albums are a bit hit and miss for me, but they do have one I really love, called Worst of the Moonriders. it's a live one where they go through the stranger parts of their catalogue and radically rearrange some of their most well-known tunes. good stuff.
― frogbs, Sunday, 29 October 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
I recognise the name Kaiichi Suzuki from Satellite Serenade (famously remixed by The Orb). The original is a lovely ambient fourth-worldy prog enka ballad with that magic steel guitar part. Nothing to do with this thread but it's ace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIuogHN46U
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 29 October 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
Depression songs [Started by Week of Wonders (Ross) in October 2017, last updated forty-six minutes ago by JoeStork] 8 new answersUnknown, vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop that only MaresNest and I actually like [Started by that clitties version of "mr. que" (acoleuthic) in December 2009, last updated fifty-seven minutes ago by Noel Emits] 5 new answers
http://clipart-library.com/images/riLnAXK4T.png
― imago, Sunday, 29 October 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link
https://knifeworld.bandcamp.com/album/buried-alone-tales-of-crushing-defeat
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
XXXXXP - Yeah I read up about them a bit and it's a shame but a lot of the stuff on Youtube doesn't grab me, but I wanted that studio version of Alphaville, which I couldn't find anywhere.
― MaresNest, Monday, 30 October 2017 11:19 (six years ago) link