random stuff rushomancy is listening to

I really heard the Mills Brothers listening to Blues Before Sunrise radio show out of Chicago. It's on over night Saturday night/early Sunday. It's rare for me to know that many songs on any show, occasionally a track here or there or unless he is doing a set of Chicago blues from the 50s-70s. Even then, the guy plays a pretty deep well of stuff.

There is some other accapella groups out there from same era as Mills Brothers old stuff that is mind boggling. I've heard him do sets of that stuff a couple times over the years. Some of that is like music from another dimension.

god knows, so much great old stuff and the only way it surfaces is if it's just plain weird like the dezurik sisters.

ucla is putting this huge fucking collection of mexican and mexican-american music on youtube. there was this jazz violinist named emilio caceres on vol. 1 of the savory collection, and he's got this amazing performance of "dark eyes". god only knows what the hell else amazing is in this collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgcscxD2Ccw

a couple months ago i ran across a bandcamp recording by a doctor of something or other, where he asked the clerks at all the record stores in new york city what their favorite scream on record was and put them together. and that had me thinking about what my favorite scream on record was.

i eventually decided it would have to be by slauter xstroyes. i'm a little disappointed, as a zep stan from the age of 14, that the "belching" school of metal is more credible than the "screeching" school of metal these days. slauter xstroyes are firmly in the latter camp and it's exhilarating. singer here has a scream that turns into a laugh that goes about thirty seconds, and knowing full well what the people want, repeats it three times over the course of the song. ladies and gentlemen, i give you... METAL'S NO SIN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh5h35dYgD8

so my goal is to at some point like all music everywhere. it's a stupid goal, but human existence is stupid and absurd so i feel comfortable with it. to the point where i seek out music in genres i particularly hate to find something redeeming in it.

the music i hate more than anything else in the world is zydeco. i don't know why. i love the accordion and the bandoneon, but zydeco just drives me up a fucking wall. so i had to find a zydeco song i loved.

wasn't all that hard. "they call me good rockin'" by herbert "good rockin'" sam. fucking amazing tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zwLYaEKXPQ

oh, cool, here's a slauter xstroyes live video uploaded next than a day ago. it's not the best slauter xstroyes video on youtube but it's FRESH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR6TyENsTOE

here's a free download of a bunch of field recordings of snow and ice. it's a little uneven but i love the sounds of ice and snow, particularly when it's as fucking hot as it has been out here. good stuff to cool down with.

http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=107

sometimes i feel like too much of a gringo to listen to afro-cuban jazz. machito is great of course and i have a couple records of descargas but listening to this modern stuff i'm out of my element. "contrapuntistico" by yosvany terry though clicked with me immediately. maybe my avant-prog background; even if i don't have the technical understanding to explain exactly what terry is doing compositionally, i've listened to enough henry cow that it seems intuitive to me somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8x1F1AFIo

Rush all time poster

awww thank you ross

ok, i know it's a novelty cover, but damn this soul jazz organ trio cover of "enter sandman" is some hot shit. i've always liked the song myself, i don't care if it's a "sell-out" record or whatever.

https://cookinon3burners.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-baby-single

That is a cool arrangement on "enter sandman".

a song i wind up listening to a lot, because the artist is alphabetically near the beginning of my collection, is "badonse memela" by abafana bomjovo. i don't know what any of those words mean. but i found my way to an old blog called "electric jive", which points out that the single version of it for some reason starts with an argument between two men where they yell "fuck you, man" at each other. and it's also a good song, i think it's some sort of kwela which is as far as i can tell one of those styles of music better suited to singles than to albums. of course it got played on "give the drummer some" right after it came out but that was six years ago and i figure it's ok to mention it again on the grounds that everyone involved has since forgotten it existed except me. the album version without the cursing is on youtube but to get the single version you have to go to the blog.

http://electricjive.blogspot.com/2012/04/mine-jive-special-1975.html

I first heard South African jazz through Robert Wyatt and his work with folks from that scene, particularly Mongezi Feza. One of my favorite of the recordings I've heard is a BBC session by the Brotherhood of Breath that was uploaded to a Usenet binary group probably decades ago now. Whoever uploaded it had no more information on it than I do - the tape trading scene did not always have superbly high documentation standards - and I'm not aware of any subsequent documentation of the session either. All I can tell you is that it's almost certainly from sometime between 1970 and 1975. Looking around I did find some really nice versions of "You Ain't Gonna Know Me" by Viva la Black and Louis Moholo with Shabaka Hutchings, but I couldn't find this version - I'm not actually sure there are any officially released versions featuring the composer. The announcer, not heard here, notes that the solos were by Mike Osborne, Lol Coxhill, and Mongezi Feza. I like it enough that I feel like a couple more people should hear it before it vanishes forever into the ether, so I went ahead and uploaded it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3idg2nFyuTU

^nice, thanks! have been on a b.o.b (& alumni) kick all this morning.

i'm not a completionist but i've found covers i like well enough of all the beatles' songs except for like three - i think it's "what goes on", "yellow submarine" and one other from that era. (sufjan stevens has a good cover of "what goes on", but i don't like it.) anyway i did manage to find a number of pretty good covers while i was embarked on that project.

i absolutely love this live version of "old brown shoe" by the laughing dogs from around the time of their first album. the laughing dogs apparently appeared on a cbgb comp featuring all the bands nobody in their right mind would want to listen to, but as a power pop band they were pretty alright.

there's actually a u-matic video from this era out on youtube, but it doesn't sound as good, and watching washed-out u-matic video footage isn't necessarily my idea of a good time. your mileage may vary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8CU2Oc7a3c

occasionally youtube will recommend me videos that aren't of SJWs getting OWNED, though i still wish i could turn off its shitty "recommendations" altogether. still, as long as i have them, might as well get what i can from them. so it suggested me this piano sonata by carl vine, who is it turns out an acclaimed australian composer, and i like it, though i the phrasing on benjamin boren's recording is more to my liking. anyway i do think it's a good composition and i like the sense of drama it has.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89fz09pbHs

i was trying to explain "the white visitation" from one of the parts of "gravity's rainbow" i've read to one of my co-workers and she did a google on it and this guy's bandcamp popped up. apparently he's big in the mexico city electronic music scene, which is something i don't know shit about - i'm arguably really bad with electronic music because i don't dance but i think this sounds really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01QUdvBCvR4

Fucking hell this is a good one! Apparently a side project of the Diaphanoids? Who maybe I should also listen to? I didn't follow XLR8R or RA in 2010, even now I barely know what the hell is going on over there. It's got an absurd and ridiculously convoluted backstory based around the 1970s, which is also a plus for me, and it just sounds, well, cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41qVUa8n5io

Man I was a big fan of Brainiac in the '90s and have been off-and-on following John Schmersal ever since. I actually had a co-worker point out the Vertical Scratchers record to me after he heard it on NPR in 2014. Now for many people (including me) something being on NPR would be a pretty compelling reason to not listen to something, but nah man Schmersal is fucking good, he's got that sort of GBV thing going on, and he doesn't overstay his welcome. I love the Vertical Scratchers' sole LP and listen to it a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Ob8Io8i88

courtesy of my youtube subscriptions. i didn't realize rimarimba was putting out new material, but it sure sounds good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zufDLGMY4-w

I was reading about the Peterloo Massacre and Wikipedia mentioned in passing that this band did a prog-rock epic about it. This is the first track on the archival release with that epic. Apparently these folks were championed by John Peel, to little effect, which is unfortunate because he did have some fairly decent taste in music. It's a strange archival record because the band stuck around even after Peel's attempt to promote them flopped and did a fair number of tracks in a more commercial hard rock style, which are also stuck on the record with no indication as to their recording dates - absolute curate's egg. Anyway this reminds me of the better parts of, say, Fresh Maggots, and is ripe for rediscovery. I'll have to check out the record of theirs Peel did get released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbj3xJWlbEQ

ok, i'm digging deep into jimmie blanton's recordings. i recognize that i might be a slight bit late to the party on this one. good god, though, this version of "bakiff" is spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMPl1oDA5uk

today i've been hitting the '60s and '70s funk and soul pretty hard. ran across a '72 record by a group called "madhouse" dedicated to telling richard nixon to go fuck himself. frankly a lot of political stuff ages poorly - i listened to a fair bit this morning, including a record by a group called "boscoe" that's _correct_ about everything they say (also, for instance, have been listening to the works of a guy named darrell banks, great soul musician who was shot to death by an off duty detroit cop in 1970, quelle fucking surprise) but not all sermons are created equal. spending ten minutes repeatedly telling the listener "god damn you" for having hope for the future isn't necessarily a good one.

this, on the other hand, this is some good shit (once you get past the parody opening). the message is as relevant today as it was in 1972. i expect it to be about as effective too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpOVRb2VsA

Somehow found my way to one of Yuzo Koshiro's DJ sets today. I think Magfest is some kind of gamer festival so he starts out with "Actraiser", which you can't even remotely dance to, but shit gets pretty hot pretty quick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z2ujbw1OBA

matchess has a new one! so naturally, i'm listening to this russian space rock band called "vespero". they have a comp with multiple faust covers, but they sound better when they're doing their own thing.

https://raig.bandcamp.com/album/vespero-fitful-slumber-until-5-a-m

i'd never heard of this game before. nice music.

https://soundcloud.com/nitrome-music-nicklen10/lee-nicklen-skywire-main-song?in=nitrome-music-nicklen10/sets/skywire

I did this online radio show. Do. I guess. It's on hiatus. It's just for fun, nobody listens to it, playlists based on certain themes. Title words are easy enough because they're searchable and I have enough to work from that I can get an hour out of just about anything. I did an hour of songs based around kitchen objects once. It wasn't the best hour of music ever but it was fun.

Anyway they're not real "dj mixes" because I could never be bothered with beat matching, continuous play has just never been that important to me, but here's a couple playlists I put together today. The "summer" one turned out way darker than I thought it would. Darker than any mix with "Hot Pants in the Summertime" on it has any right to be.

America

Walt Whitman - America (excerpt)
Bekon - America
Lonnie Holley - I Woke Up In A Fucked-Up America
Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children of America
Simon & Garfunkel - America
Byrne & Eno - America is Waiting
Bruce Haack - The American Eagle
Bill Parsons - The All American Boy
Caetano Veloso - Soy Loco Por Ti, America
La Femme - Welcome America
La Santa Cecilia - Mexico Americano
Haram - American Police
Ideal Free Distribution - The American Myth
The Butthole Surfers - American Woman (alt version)
V3 - American Face
Wilco - Ashes of American Flags
Lucio Battisti - La Nuova America
Vyto B - New America

Summer

Mike Taylor - Summer Sounds, Summer Sights
The Cosmic Rays - Summertime
Les Paul & Mary Ford - In The Good Old Summertime
Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness
Shelleyan Orphan - Midsummer Pearls & Plumes
Michael Giles - Midsummer Day
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Nariaki Obukuro - Summer Reminds Me
The Dramatics - Hot Pants in the Summertime
Bertrand Burgalat - This Summer Night
that dog. - One Summer Night
The Doors - Indian Summer (8-19-66)
Mark Eric - Where Do The Girls Of Summer Go?
Margaret Berger - I'm Gonna Stay After Summer
Smile Down Upon Us - Two Weeks Last Summer
Waves - Summer Sunday
Peter Hammill - Summer Song (In the Autumn)
Peter Laughner - Summertime Blues

plate of goddamned shrimp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-HqcGo5SI

would've hit my "america" mix if i'd heard it twelve hours earlier

That's lovely.

Today I've been feeling shred music of the late renaissance and early baroque. So there was this guy Rognoni who came up with this style of music called "viola bastarda", which was a more shred-oriented variation on the viola da gamba music of the day. Interesting thing about this piece is that he actually wrote it with three different difficulty levels. It feels kind of like a late 16th century equivalent of "Rock Band"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkqCu1P9Qew

here's a band playing a soul jazz arrangement of a "streets of rage" tune in a new york city bar. great atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJc4lc6TT4

was digging around in the "freak folk" rym charts and this popped up. it's an '80s proggy avant garde brazilian record but it's not really vanguarda paulista. it's mostly just strange. a smidge tribal, but tribal in a way that doesn't stop them from doing songs in tribute to stravinsky. maybe reminds me a little of el polen? i don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No6gtee2tOo

i am not a musician but lately i find myself drawn to videos with titles like "Cadential Diminished Chords are So Dope!", not because i understand it but because i don't. so from there i found my way over to this super-hipster new york big band jazz using irrational time signatures. their album just came out, it's produced by darcy james argue. i'm a total sucker for this kind of shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esppn8m6f0Y

oh, and krock is right, that synth solo is fucking amazing

today i realized that the 5:4 website has recordings of pretty much all the prom premieres from the last nine years out there so i've been delving into it bigtime

which explains why i am listening to a mixtape of enoch light deep cuts

http://5against4.com/2018/08/01/mixtape-48-enoch-light/

i've been meaning to get more into enoch light for some time now, just what i needed.

but that just-premiered daphne oram piece is fucking great too, don't get me wrong

oh, cool, i somehow got youtube to recommend me this random pow-wow record after i spent a couple minutes looking up kyrgyz folk music. intense shit. more of this please and fewer videos attempting to explain to me the TRUE PURPOSE of the pyramids (i mean, we all know it's ufo grain storage, don't we?)

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

this album makes me wish i understood portuguese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFq3xqHAfNQ

here's a cash-in anonymous cover record of alice cooper circa "billion dollar babies", released on 8-track only, in case you wanted to hear these classic cuts at the wrong speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdBHFYy06sk

oh hey here's a spanish-language knockoff cover of "i'm not in love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-17C_RvPc8

:/

fwiw I never really liked that song anyway. Also "Herve" is a name I always find a little funny.

i'm in full agreement with you re: i'm not in love, man alive

i like some stuff by godley and creme, though. not their triple record bloat-fest. well, bits of their triple-record bloat fest. i'm more taken with their music for that benson & hedges ad. (have i posted that here?) it's more _concise_.

"lol" is a funnier name than "herve".

I decided I needed to listen to more Rumba Flamenca. Didn't like most of it. Thin, underproduced. Loved Los Chicos, though. Crazy ultra-'70s late-Franco shit. Up-front, punchy, thoroughly gauche - this is my jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1q0uU0sKs

I like that the song's all about she's going to leave him and the background dancers are all "yes, and we shall leave BY BIKE"

yeah it's super-stylin'. the preview screenshot really says it all.

here are 80 minutes or so of my favorite songs with the word "puppet" or "marionette" in the title, in celebration of my finding out that there was a super-expanded reissue of dendo marionette's ep last year

abba - i'm a marionette
raccomandata ricevuta ritorno - un palco di marionette
horacee arnold - puppett of the seasons
charlie looker - puppet
alport astazio and the kwana-moto band - odoli (puppets)
amy x neuberg and men - naked puppets
metallica - master of puppets
sleepytime gorilla museum - puppet show
dendo marionette - dendo marionette
bernard estardy - marionettes club
akina nakamori - marionette
eternal void - pirates puppet
bob drake - funeral march of the marionette
harmonic 33 - marionette

you should check out the metallica track if you haven't heard it, it's one of their better songs, kind of long though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Z2VG-XCoE

here's a song by Herbert Joos from his 1974 album THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FLUEGELHORN. great title, great cover, great music!

was doing one of my periodic searches for tommy marolda's 1974 private press prog record "me out for the first time" and found this great power pop song in tribute to him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-0WE_pcUSw

have spent many long hours just trying to hear that '74 TM record :/

me too, i know it's circulating, and i know one day it'll show up and then six months later i'll randomly learn that it's been posted to youtube. in the process of looking i did at least find some unissued stuff by an even earlier group he was involved with called cut glass, so it's definitely been worth the effort.

in the meantime here's a stream of a 2018 concert by the radiophonic workshop. great seeing folks like peter howell getting their day in the sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-37tTNQI0

i don't think i listen to that much jazz but it's always jazz i seem to wind up posting here! anyway i was saddened to hear of hamiet bluiett's passing this week. i have a wonderful duo gig by bluiett and the also deceased don pullen, one of my favorites since my uncle gave me a tape of his a few decades back. this is the only song from that gig i could find on youtube - it's mostly pullen playing but bluiett shows up towards the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WmGCRVgQOc

no worries, hearing a message from you is going to mean more to them than a video anyway :)

revive!

my answering machine message to john paluska above the Great Went: performing acapella rage

https://soundcloud.com/sidedooraudio/jon-fishmans-answering-machine-frankenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llao7sgI7BI

great revive!! ♥️♥️♥️🧟🎸

I didn't know zoo bombing was an actual thing! I just know that there was a band called the Zoobombs that did an amazing ripping version of "Waiting For the Man" on the a late '90s Rabid Chords Velvets comp. Spent decades looking for an uncut version of Ahh! Folly Jet's waltz-time remake of "Ferryboat Bill", which I did finally turn up.

Anyway, a friend of mine was asking what zoo bombing was, and I don't have an explanation but I _did_ look it up on Youtube and found some awesome live videos of them. Here's a fantastic cover of Television's "See No Evil" from a band called "dip", whose video is on a channel that also has some Zoobombs live videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkEWzcZyDQ

I always thought it was just some kind of a pun...
Because "zubon" in Japanese means "trousers"...

maybe it is! parallel development of zoobombing

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/step-on-step

oh fuck yes, thank you budo jeru

yw!

The thing I hate most about writing is that I work far too hard at it. After spending most of Monday writing _two_ 3,000 word essays that nobody will ever read instead of doing more important things like cleaning the kitchen or running reports (the reports themselves aren't terribly important but the fact that I'm paid to do it is), I figured I would write some light trivial fluff about an old prog song I like, and instead I wrote _this_:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2022/08/17/my-first-words/

I worked way harder at writing this than I had any reason to.

oh fuck yes apparently lesbian sea shanties are a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUldplPSHq4

ep by a friend of a friend, "collapsing avant garde country-prog" is how it was described to me and this works. bob drake guests on a cover of his own "what animal".

https://scribewolf.bandcamp.com/album/the-singular-power-of-my-very-own-ep

Ooh I didn’t know you had a blog rush, you’re in all the good music threads so I guess I’d better read it

there's some weird shit about bootlegs and so forth but it's mostly trans shit haha, there _is_ some non-trans shit mixed in and it certainly didn't start out as trans shit but it's kinda slowly taken over the blog

there is some music writing i'm really proud of in there, though. i think my post about mahavishnu orchestra bootlegs is still pretty good music criticism and helped me grow some as a writer:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2020/09/29/the-inner-mounting-flame-in-concert/

i have actually written a _staggering amount_ of shit on that blog over the past two years. that time i ghosted ilx for like 18 months? i pretty much spent it all posting shit to the blog. fortunately there's so much writing there it'll scare damn near anybody who might possibly be interested away from actually reading any of it.

I mean I'm just gonna troll y'all and revive this thread by posting a live Phish jam. I like Phish. I don't care what y'all say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJFUm6Y1Mmw

"you can't say tupperware on television!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvj0i463wQ

https://deluxebias.bandcamp.com/album/tupperware-american-underbelly-db-9

good shit!

truly! love the stump clip, by the way

happy friday y'all! (what? trans day of what? never heard of it)

i ever post the tracklist to the doors knockoff mix i made? this is kind of like an obsession with mine, i feel like people undersell how influential the doors actually were as a band, and a lot of times i like the knockoffs better than the actual band. i've developed a soft spot for the band by the way. yes jim morrison's poetry is shitty and pretentious and the cult people have of him is obnoxious. also i've come to realize since starting hormones that i don't actually think he's hot. ridiculous pouty skinny boy, even in leather pants he's... i mean i guess the tropey-example is draco malfoy but i'll have nothing to do with that entire franchise thank you very much. anyway there are lots of guys who look better in leather pants than jim morrison. also _most_ girls look better in leather pants than jim morrison, but i guess i'm biased considering i'm a lesbian. i look better in leather pants than jim morrison, i think. BUT i still like the doors, they have some good songs and i'm at the point in my life where jim morrison's bad poetry is funny rather than cringe.

ANYWAY. here's the doors knockoff bands i've heard. i have heard rumor of at least one more called, uh, stickler of the ultramundane or something like that? impossible to find and actually now that i've said their name this thread is probably now the top hit on google for that band. i'm definitely interested in anything more people can recommend on this tip. as you can tell classic period is my preference, latest track here is 1975 and it's kind of an outlier.

the stooges - down on the street (mono single edit)
children of the mushroom - you can't erase a mirror
mystic siva - supernatural mind
pop masine - kiselina
fraction - come out of her
crystal chandelier - suicidal flowers
the loose enz - the black door
omnibus - the man song
one st. stephen - dash in the rocks
the maze - armageddon
allmen joy - walk with me

oh and yeah i know about magma's "morrison in the storm" but i think that song kinda sucks even aside from christian vander being a shitty fascist.

also anybody who has recommendations of doors covers... here's my playlist of those

mission of burma - break on through
robyn hitchcock - the crystal ship (1989-04-28 kroq)
shibusashirazu orchestra - light my fire (2003-05-04 bonus cd)
the feelies - take it as it comes
gaznevada - when the music is over
gnarls barkley - who scared you
john oswald - o'hell
la lupe - touch me
saccharine trust - peace frog
nico - the end

i think wooden shjips - "we ask you to ride" (2007) is doors worship, but some people might not agree.

one of my very fav doors covers is "riders on the storm" by la mecánica popular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGe3X2Q6cw

oh this is rad, thanks

y'all quick thread revive to let you know i finally found a rip of tommy marolda's "me... out for the first time", i've been looking for a place to listen to this record for literally like a decade now. i'm so fucking hyped.

hi, wow!

anyway you can try to send it my way? ilx mail works; can't remembered if we've emailed in the past.

in #onethread news, "break from the caravan" is a fucking hilarious parody of toxic masculinity. i think. or else it's just a fucking terrible song. i'm gonna give marolda the benefit of the doubt here, it's like very nearly in pretty things "cause i'm a man" territory.

ok, i was hoping that i would finally be able to let go of my weird tommy marolda obsession but NOPE

so, um, this is one of his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJ7VZTFsow

i mean admittedly it's better than you'd expect from... i mean _this_. better than, you know, late-period bruce haack. i'd say.

but it's no "let's be friends again".

i can't think of my 50 favorite albums, so i just put my itunes library on random and picked 50 albums

also i mostly stopped bothering to update my itunes library at the end of 2020

i'm not making it as a poll because people are just going to vote for the ones they've heard of

i'm not proud of having these albums in my library, most of it is third-hand /mu/ shit, they're good records but, idk, music is weird for me these days

music was what i listened to because it was the only way i could emotionally connect with anything, after four years on estrogen i'm trying to kind of turn down the emotions a little bit. i don't know what to do with music when i just cry randomly now and most of my time is spent trying to be a functional human being.

but these are all albums that, at one point in my life between 2009 and roughly 2020, i enjoyed listening to.

DJ QBert - Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Music: A Preskool Breakmix
Duster - Capsule Losing Contact
The Supremes - Floy Joy
Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot
Mr Sterile Assembly - It's All Over
Muqata'a - Inkanakuntu
Chakra - Satekoso
Los Jaivas - La Voraigne 5: Que Hacer
Wuja Bin Bin - The Best Planet Ever
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
David Grubbs - The Thicket
Game Theory - The Big Shot Chronicles
V/A - Screamers, Bangers, and Cosmic Synths
V/A - Gabber Gabber Hey! - A Loud and Fast Accelerated Tribute to the Ramones
The Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets
Clare Fischer - Thesaurus
Wire - Pink Flag
Hammer Screwdriver - s/t
Behavior - Spirits & Embellishments
Christopher Rousset - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Complete Harpsichord Works
Rodrigo Gonzalez - Hurbanistorias
Alex Chilton - Dusted in Memphis (and Elsewhere)
The Simple Carnival - Girls Aliens Food
Dandy Livingstone - Dandy Returns
Boole - The Vital Few
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Duke Ellington - The Chronological Duke Ellington 1932-1933
END - Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
James Brown - Funky Christmas
Fumaca Preta - s/t
Jack Ruby - Hit and Run
Satan's Host - By the Hands of the Devil
Lalo Schifrin - Starsky & Hutch OST
The Work - The Worst of Everywhere
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
v/a - Synths from the Sahara
Giuni Russo - Energie
Matt Elliott - Howling Songs
Sviatoslav Richter - The Sofia Recital 1958
Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Wasteland
Christina Vantzou - No. 4
Arthur Russell - Sketches for World of Echo: June 25 1984
UJ3RK5 - Live from the Commodore Ballroom
Sylvester - Stars
Feu Chatterton - Ici le Jour
Grand Orchestre du Tricot - Atomic Spoutnik
Wanda Sa - Wanda Vagamente

love to see Simply Saucer included - "Illegal Bodies" rips

a really interesting list with lots of stuff i'm looking forward to exploring later. supremes, simply saucer, jack ruby, and sviatoslav richter all jumping out at me -- but i'd probably have to pick "pink flag" if i'm being honest

well, it's not a poll, and you didn't ask me to pick. just saying

picking is allowed! i just didn't make it a poll because the results probably wouldn't say much! personally i'm very fond of the hammer screwdriver.

heh -- cheers :)

fuck it here's an actual list, random-ish, i tried to stay away from

Leak Bros - Waterworld
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies - Complete Recordings
Luiz Eca & Sagrada Familia - Onda Nova do Brasil
Bob Drake - L'Isola dei Lupi
Slauter Xstroyes - Free the Beast
Ted Lucas - The Om Record
Essential Logic - Beat Rhythm News
Zelda - s/t
Bauer - On the Move
Super Freego - Pourquoi Es-Tu Si Mechant?
Nonlocal Forecast - Bubble Universe!
The Great Tyrant - The Trouble With Being Born
Gastr del Sol - Camofleur
The Chrysanthemums - Little Flecks of Foam Around Barking
Alaska y Dinarama - Deseo Carnal
Matia Bazar - Aristocratica
Peter Thomas - Sound Music Album 5 (Golden Ring)
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Josef Hassid - The Complete Recordings
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
Raging Slab - Black Belt in Boogie
Hammer Screwdriver - s/t
Joe Raposo - Joe Raposo (Fan-Made) Tribute Episode
Maschina - Purple Finger Syndrome
Midday Veil - This Wilderness
Brotherhood of Breath - BBC Session (unreleased w/Mongezi Feza - "You Ain't Gonna Know Me"/"Wood Fire")
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Masashi Kageyama - Gimmick!
Presage - s/t
Johann Joseph Fux - Kaiserrequiem
Lyra Pramuk - Fountain
Ben Monder - Day After Day
BPM15Q - All Songs
Christa Lee - Welcome to the Fantasy Zone
Abigail Washburn - City of Refuge
The Toms - Simplicity
Stuff Smith & Robert Crum - The Complete Rosenkrantz Apartment Transcription Duets
Padraig O'Keeffe - The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master
Alexandre Reverend - Chansons d'une grande banane alitee
The Lewis Sisters - Way Out Far
Clothilde - s/t
Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son
Hildegard Knef - Knef
Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
Night Sun - Mournin'
Relatively Clean Rivers - s/t
Winterhawk - There and Back Again
Boris Midney - The Empire Strikes Back
Opus III - Mind Fruit

Difficult to not pick Gastr del Sol, but I wanna single out that Clothilde comp for anyone who bought one late 60s French beat pop album and thought that was enough.

ok i'm gonna do some brief write-ups on these

leak bros - i don't know why i love this hip-hop concept album about pcp so much. i just do.

octo octa - big record for me during my transition year, big fuckin' influence on me. this is my Trans Record.

milton brown & his musical brownies - too-short career, along with bob wills one of the titans of western swing. you don't actually need to hear them all, i just don't know of a comp. bob dunn's steel guitar, fuck yes.

luiz eca - idk i think i just connected with this during the blog era, 2008 or so, and fell in love with it, kind of an mpb supergroup. haven't listened to it in a while. i also recommend the "a tribo" comp but there's no official album of theirs and the sagrada familia record is better.

bob drake - i mean anything of his, i got into his stuff through ths prog-rock connections but bob drake is something else, lovecraftian old-timey furry jon anderson, i can't help but love it

slauter xstroyes - idk mostly metal like this doesn't have a bruce dickinson-style vocalist i don't think? it just clicks with me.

ted lucas - just a sad, homey folk record. the instrumental side is good but the vocal side is better. i don't even get stoned but i love listening to "it's so nice to get stoned".

essential logic - the kind of post-punk that clicks with me

zelda - actually i think that's just an ep? probably just go with 1983's full-length "carnaval". honestly i like their early, punkier live stuff better than their later stuff, but carnaval is a good meeting point.

bauer - somebody posted a bootleg rehearsal of theirs to dime in the early days and it's the kind of chamber pop that clicks with me.

super freego - a holy grail of mine for years, imagine my surprise when i found the album and it turned out to be just as good as i'd built it up to be. kind of a cross between early b-52s and magma.

nonlocal forecast - fire-toolz side project, progged out weather channel vaporwave shit. i haven't heard anything i didn't like by fire-toolz.

the great tyrant - post-_yeti_ after one of their members died. later another member died and they became pinkish black? or something? anyway i dig yeti's "man with the lamp" slightly more but the deathcore influences added to yeti's zeuhl and the cioran namecheck in the title elevate this.

that's kind of all i feel like doing now, i have, like, work to do, if i get to it i'll write up more... figure it's worth it since a lot of people probably haven't heard many of these...

Love your taste, it’s somewhat removed from my own personal taste - safe from a handful of picks which I love - and a whole bunch of albums I have never heard but sound interesting. Hearing nonlocal forecast right now and digging it.

Ted Lucas record would likely make my top 50, and Ramsey Lewis my top 100. Have lots of time for Relatively Clean Rivers and the Toms. Most of this is unknown to me, though.

Lots of excellent stuff, I’m intrigued by all the rest I don’t know - so much to discover

k since we got faint stirrings of interest i'll do some more :)

gastr del sol - for me this record has a terroir to it... louisville, kentucky, late 1990s, a time and a place i remember fondly. great record, too.

the chrysanthemums - most batshit insane concept album ever... no idea what it's supposed to be about but the yes-style mid-section of "god and the dave clark five" hooked me. honestly just the track titles alone would be enough to sell me on this record. they have some connection to r. stevie moore. don't know how tho.

alaska y dinarama - i just learned that alaska was a host of the anarchist spanish children's show "la bola de cristal", which ran from 1984 to 1988 before being cancelled, apparently for excessive anticapitalism. kind of sad that i don't understand either anything that's going on in the tv show (fansubs plz!) or the lyrics of this record. the title track is apparently about necrophilia. anyway, it's a really good synthpop record.

matia bazar - this is an even better synthpop album but i don't know if it has any songs about necrophilia on it. not sure tho coz i don't speak italian either.

peter thomas - i'll be honest side a of this music is the killer, side B is more weird synth squiggles than anything else... they're cool synth squiggles but side a has the actual melodies. god just the _sound_ on this thing, fuzz synth funk for the ages. it's fucking heaven. i've had "astral snow" as my ringtone for probably a decade now. i doubt i'll ever change it at this point.

melt-banana - god dammit it's been ten years and they still haven't released a follow-up to this, are they retired now or something? on this they went from noise to noise-pop. i love noise-pop that puts the noise first, so long as the pop is good too, which it is here!

josef hassid - one of the tragic geniuses of the violin, god _damn_ i have never heard a violin tone like this guy had. well, he left some recordings behind at least.

gorky's zygotic mynci - got a copy of this import from the used bin at ear x-tacy in the '90s... all these years and it still holds up for me. unhinged welsh canterbury-influenced psych, it sold me when they massacred the singing elf chorus. they get mad props for doing a song about kevin ayers _and_ getting john cale to perform on stage with them... i'm assuming he didn't know about the song about kevin ayers...

raging slab - one of those records i feel like i might be one of the two or three fans in the world of... like, if you find someone on the internet talking about how great raging slab's _black belt in boogie_ is, there's pretty good odds it's me... '90s equivalent of black oak arkansas decides to get into the magic band and records this record for rick rubin... who doesn't release it because he thinks it sucks... they record another weird record, _sing monkey sing_, which does get released and which i also like, but it's _black belt in boogie_ i keep coming back to...

hammer screwdriver - i have no idea what the story of this is... seems to be like a guy made these cool home-recordings and then died without recording anything proper, and some friends of his came along and added some overdubs to kind of flesh it out... still a weird lo-fi thing mind you. this was from indianapolis during the decade or so i lived there... i didn't know the guy, didn't get out much, it doesn't have the terroir that camofleur does for me. just a great sound.

joe raposo - there's never been a official release of the songs he wrote for sesame street... so many great songs, soundtrack of my childhood, and all my faves are here... the deep cuts, not the well-known stuff like "sing", which is also great mind you, but this, this absolutely hits the sweet spot for me as far as his sesame street work goes. even stuff i didn't know about, like "rush hour song", a great piece from his second stint with the show in the '80s.

maschina - saw these folks open for magma at martyr's in '99... when they first got on stage i thought they were cringe, by the time they'd finished their 15 minute ode to finger-fucking they were my new gods... i got their lead singer queen maschina to sign the cd i got, i think they thought i was hitting on them... in retrospect i probably should have been... i think the band broke up a month later. i hope queen maschina is doing ok. they (it was 1999, they were queer and femme in a time and place where being queer and femme was _not_ the prevailing standard, i'm not going to even guess at their pronouns now, if they're around...) had a fantastic voice.

midday veil - sometimes things just grow on you, is all i can say... i think they broke up after this on, i don't get the sense that they were ever a huge band or anything, i just kept finding myself listening to the record... kind of synth-rock, i don't know why the synth stuff keeps coming back to me... probably a queer thing, everybody knows synthesizers are the transest instrument... i could rhapsodize about its limitless ability for self-creation but really i don't know why it is, it's just a thing.

brotherhood of breath - this was the first brotherhood of breath i ever heard, from a post to alt.binaries.mp3.bootlegs back in the day... i don't know anything about this recording or when it was recorded. someone uploaded it to youtube as being from "1980"... i doubt this very much, as my copy has a bbc announcer listing the band lineup, which includes mongezi feza... this is the only recording i've heard of feza playing his iconic composition.

that's all for now... more later maybe...

Enjoying your descriptions a lot! Loads of stuff I hadn't heard of

nice to see Midday Veil mentioned....I think I first heard of them on here. I picked up their 3 records very cheaply, I guess they never really caught on outside of Sheboygan, and it's too bad because they're a genuinely psychedelic band who I think channel the spirit of bands like Hawkwind and Gong without really imitating them. there's a band called The Utopia Strong (featuring ex-Cardiac Kavus Torabi and snooker player Steve Davis) which does the same thing, but Midday Veil is unique in that they actually have a really great singer, which even the bands back in the day didn't have. shame they busted up but hey, they gave it a go

Alaska y Dinarama are super iconic in Spain and latinamerica.

First time hearing about the title track being about necrophilia? I don’t quite interpret the lyrics as such or I’m not finding anything concrete in there. They do have a song about necrophilia in their last album called “mi novio es un zombie” (my bf is a zombie) which is one of their most popular songs.

i could be confused on that one, i don't speak the language at all!

little break

i'm just gonna make a list until i get bored of the records i have tagged as "metal"

if any of these are fash lmk and i'll delete them from my library, i'm bad at keeping track of this shit

also note my tags are _extremely imprecise_ and some stuff is just shit that was tagged that way randomly and i never changed

black metal:

abu lahab - as chastened angels descend into the thoracic tombs
ails - the unraveling
anubi - kai pilnaties akis uthmerks mirtis
arkha sva - gloria satanae
batushka - litourgiya
bleeding black - personal hell
damaar - triumph through spears of sacrilege
darkspace - iii
daudadagr - nordanland (i'm sorry that band name looks like someone just smashed the homerow keys)
deathspell omega - paracletus
disguster - split tape
dodheimsgard - a umbra omega
dressed in streams - swaraj: or, "self rule"
the end of six thousand years - isolation
evil - iron and thunder (these are probably fash but it sounds so shitty i can't help it)
feminazgul - no dawn for men
fleurety - min tid skal komme
frozen moon - legend of east dan i and ii
funereal presence - achatius
furia - ksiezyc milczy luty
hail spirit noir - oi magoi
jordablod - the cabinet of numinous song
jute gyte - discontinuities
krallice - s/t, go be forgotten
kvist - for kunsten maa vi evig vike
lugubrum - de ware hond
lurker of chalice - s/t
mastery - valis
mora prokaza - by chance
myrkur - mausoleum (pretty sure she's fash? i should probs delete)
nahvalr - s/t
nargaroth - geliebte des regens
necromantia - scarlet evil witching black
negative plane - et in saecula saeculorum
nutrition - hyperdimensional awakening
oranssi pazuzu - muukalainen puhuu
organium - the rage
punaterrori - the fascists are dead (probably not fash, might be tankies tho)
sabbat - the dwelling
self harm - adapt to self-inflicted chemical torture
skaphe - skaphe squared
stigma diabolicum - luna de nocturnus
stilla - synviljor
strid s/t
svartidau?i - revelations of the red sword
tengger cavalry - ancient call (lol)
thorns - stigma diabolicum
trepasser - (cyrillic title)
vargrav - neverstorm
ved buens ende - written in waters
vermilia - katkyt
white ward - love exchange failure
wmlrd - pentagon
zuriaake - afterimage of autumn

you know what that's enough typing for now, maybe "death metal" next time

so apparently hobbit oi! is a thing, here's "shire skinhead" by fellowship of the force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ0MMUL8yac

honestly i don't think much of it, but also i'm not super into oi

i preferred "transsexual hooligan" tbh