TS: Aphex Twin: Selected ambient works 85-92 VS SAW Volume 2

Okay, does anyone here actually find nothing at all remotely disturbing about these tracks? Yes the record is in some sense quite beautiful, but god how some of those sound worlds get under my skin! Maybe it's good I've never done acid...

Yes. I listened to SAWII while shrooming one time. Everyone went to some godawful bar to celebrate someone's birthday so I was all alone. I eventually had to turn it off because it was 'giving me bad vibes, maaan.'
I do wish there were more hauntingly beautiful tracks on there, such as the one Clarke just mentioned (Disc 1, Track 3--which to me isn't lonesome, but instead evokes the feeling of lying in bed in the arms of a lover)(but it does have that 'all is right w/the world, too bad I'll eventually die' mood too)

Clarke B's story about his dad and Disc 1, Track 3, aka One Of the Most Beautiful Songs Ever = genius.

"Selected Ambient Works 85-92, 2x12" (R&S)
Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Distance)
Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Apollo)
Selected Ambient Works 85-92, CD (Apollo)"

i dont remember it ever being on warp either.
the warp site shows the 'on' ep to be the first aphex record out on warp, 15.11.93

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my beats to have at least a minimal sense of rhythm.

SAW1 makes me immensely happy and brings make too many good memories of being in London and my conversion from serious student to clubber; SAW2 is rewarding, but not immediate in the same way as SAW1.

I listened to both this week, and SAW1 wins.

Strangely that sentiment also neatly describes how I feel about Nirvana's Nevermind and In Utero.

I never found out when the songs were recorded but Xtal gives the impression of being quite old, doesn't it?

I'm going to play this now.

I know, I know ILM. Hold your breath.

Tha always makes me feel like I'm in my high school gym. Not cause I played it in there either...

Anyways, Killian Murphy was OTM in his initial remark that the first two tracks were the best thing on the album.

Finally got 'Ambient Works 85-92'. Absolutely loving it. Need Volume II as soon as possible.

SAW2 is soul-ambient

― pipecock (pipecock), Wednesday, November 8, 2006 9:41 PM

*cringe*

haha

soulbient

http://www.lastfm.es/music/100dBs/_/Poppa+Large+In+The+US

Loving this mashup of IZ-US against the Ultramagnetic's Poppa Large.

Selected Ambient Works II > Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Even though Selected Ambient Works II is twice as long, I find it a far more engaging listen than Selected Ambient Works 85-92. I particularly like the track that sounds like snake charmer music, which sounds to me like a track Robert Smith could have come up with in 1984 or something if he had to come up with an ambient B-side for a Cure single.

Richard D. James Album > Selected Ambient Works II > Selected Ambient Works 85-92

probably about equal

Drukqs > Selected Ambient Works II > Richard D. James Album > Selected Ambient Works 85-92 > Syro > ...I Care Because You Do.

I have a hard time rating SAW II. It's a tough album to compare to anything, really. Either you want to hear 2.5 hours of dreamy surreal synth stuff or you don't.

funny, nobody rated Drukqs back then.. do people still think it's a bad album?

I particularly like the track that sounds like snake charmer music,

This one gave me a serious full-on audio-sensory nightmare once upon a time.

xp Druqks is a bad album with some outstanding tracks. It's basically four different mini-albums on shuffle, innit? But yeah, I have trouble with it and always have.

I remember when Drukqs came out it wasn't well received by some, but I reckon that was mostly down to people thinking it was just thrown together or something, which of course it wasn't. For me, it's about the sprawl and the experience and the way the acoustic piano tracks rub up against the more frantic beat-driven stuff. His best album, IMO.

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