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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 August 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
^nice, thanks! have been on a b.o.b (& alumni) kick all this morning.
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 12 August 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 12 August 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 August 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 19 August 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 19 August 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Monday, 20 August 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 August 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
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 - AmericaLonnie Holley - I Woke Up In A Fucked-Up AmericaStevie Wonder - Jesus Children of AmericaSimon & Garfunkel - AmericaByrne & Eno - America is WaitingBruce Haack - The American EagleBill Parsons - The All American BoyCaetano Veloso - Soy Loco Por Ti, AmericaLa Femme - Welcome AmericaLa Santa Cecilia - Mexico AmericanoHaram - American PoliceIdeal Free Distribution - The American MythThe Butthole Surfers - American Woman (alt version)V3 - American FaceWilco - Ashes of American FlagsLucio Battisti - La Nuova AmericaVyto B - New America
Summer
Mike Taylor - Summer Sounds, Summer SightsThe Cosmic Rays - SummertimeLes Paul & Mary Ford - In The Good Old SummertimeKool & The Gang - Summer MadnessShelleyan Orphan - Midsummer Pearls & PlumesMichael Giles - Midsummer DayJoni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer LawnsNariaki Obukuro - Summer Reminds MeThe Dramatics - Hot Pants in the SummertimeBertrand Burgalat - This Summer Nightthat dog. - One Summer NightThe Doors - Indian Summer (8-19-66)Mark Eric - Where Do The Girls Of Summer Go?Margaret Berger - I'm Gonna Stay After SummerSmile Down Upon Us - Two Weeks Last SummerWaves - Summer SundayPeter Hammill - Summer Song (In the Autumn)Peter Laughner - Summertime Blues
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
That's lovely.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 31 August 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 2 September 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
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
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 8 September 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
oh, and krock is right, that synth solo is fucking amazing
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 8 September 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
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
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
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
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
this album makes me wish i understood portuguese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFq3xqHAfNQ
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
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
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 17 September 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
oh hey here's a spanish-language knockoff cover of "i'm not in love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-17C_RvPc8
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 17 September 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
:/
fwiw I never really liked that song anyway. Also "Herve" is a name I always find a little funny.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 17 September 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
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".
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 17 September 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
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
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
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"
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 September 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
yeah it's super-stylin'. the preview screenshot really says it all.
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Thursday, 20 September 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
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 marionetteraccomandata ricevuta ritorno - un palco di marionettehoracee arnold - puppett of the seasonscharlie looker - puppetalport astazio and the kwana-moto band - odoli (puppets)amy x neuberg and men - naked puppetsmetallica - master of puppetssleepytime gorilla museum - puppet showdendo marionette - dendo marionettebernard estardy - marionettes clubakina nakamori - marionetteeternal void - pirates puppetbob drake - funeral march of the marionetteharmonic 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
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Saturday, 22 September 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
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!
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 September 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
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
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 September 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
have spent many long hours just trying to hear that '74 TM record :/
― budo jeru, Sunday, 23 September 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
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
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 24 September 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
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
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 October 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
sorry i haven't been updating this thread much lately, last couple of weeks i got too worn down to listen to music and started reading books instead. i've started listening to music again but mostly just old phish bootlegs, which, you know what, i think i'll spare you.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 8 October 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
BUT! i will post this record by a side project featuring roly wynne of the ozric tentacles. i would not blame you at all for refusing to listen to this on principle - i would not ordinarily subject myself to a record called "feelin rooti" by a band calling themselves "the cheapsuit oroonies". i mean that is basically worse than phish, linguistically speaking, isn't it?
the thing is, somewhere around the time i got a copy of what was purported to be a demo of roly wynne's last band "escalator" i became convinced that roly was in fact both deeply underappreciated and extremely talented, and since that time i will listen to just about anything with roly wynne on it. this, this i consider to be a pretty nice ethnological forgery series. i recommend it to anybody who would like to hear inauthentic european folk music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2v7pD0O9h8
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
here's a playlist that showed up in my recs, it might have 500 million views for all i know but it looks good. i mean it's got happy the man on it, so fine by me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sivp99wzzNk&list=PL5gN34OzHyU6vhL4V-kjTI2tkQDKG3m_s
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 19 October 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
well that didn't work at all. maybe it'll work later? youtube's been super flaky lately. anyway here's a composer from la paz, sounds good, i'd like to hear more of his stuff because he sounds interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4YNHT8q-aI
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 19 October 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
i'm still mostly focusing on things other than music, but i had a rare slow day and i picked up one of the occasional recommendations i get from wikipedia. i was reading about tritones and from there got to pages about other chords, such as the "petroushka chord", which this late '70s romanian prog instrumental apparently uses extensively. sounds good to me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ctRmalcns
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
here's a nice oud jam by a dude who used to play the oud in embryo, i am going to check out his 1980 album "your head is a sleeping car"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcgtae1wmg
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 29 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
oh my fucking god this is an amazing soul record, gospel choir, fuzz bass, the whole deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv4lqU08BWU
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 November 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
ok, mostly i stay away from posting modern stuff here, because seriously you can probably hear about the new sleepwalkers record elsewhere, but damn i'm loving this indonesian psych folk record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kws_sgGKluw
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 November 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
oh hell yeah
an archival cd of the complete recordings by girl group The Paper Dolls has just come out
this interests me because one of their members, tiger sue, released a solo single in '70 or '71, totally flopped, but it turns out to be the first recording of lindsay cooper
she would shortly thereafter go on to join pagan folk band comus, and after they broke up henry cow
there's not a lot of direct continuity between girl groups and overt feminism, but this is one i'd say
anyway, i've been trying to find a copy of "burn burn burn" for years and it was worth the wait. a great song about burning down the school with cooper's bassoon driving the song, who needs alice cooper?
bolo.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 November 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
Enjoyed hearing Stubblefield and Gardner on the new Mingus live set and wanted to check out what else they'd done. Frankly this veers a little too close to fuzak for my tastes - Reggie Lucas (who I didn't know died this year, RIP) in particular sounds not a damn thing like he did with Miles - but I enjoyed this track anyway. I think I should check out more Cecil McBee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0JLVb33d5g
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 16 November 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
Well OK. I guess there is a song about Cecil McBee. It's pretty good!
https://pams.bandcamp.com/album/phasers
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 16 November 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
oh fuck yes apparently lesbian sea shanties are a thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUldplPSHq4
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
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
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 August 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 26 August 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 August 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
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
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 February 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
"you can't say tupperware on television!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvj0i463wQ
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 24 March 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
https://deluxebias.bandcamp.com/album/tupperware-american-underbelly-db-9
― budo jeru, Friday, 24 March 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
good shit!
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 24 March 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
truly! love the stump clip, by the way
― budo jeru, Saturday, 25 March 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
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 mirrormystic siva - supernatural mindpop masine - kiselinafraction - come out of hercrystal chandelier - suicidal flowersthe loose enz - the black dooromnibus - the man songone st. stephen - dash in the rocksthe maze - armageddonallmen 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 throughrobyn hitchcock - the crystal ship (1989-04-28 kroq)shibusashirazu orchestra - light my fire (2003-05-04 bonus cd)the feelies - take it as it comesgaznevada - when the music is overgnarls barkley - who scared youjohn oswald - o'hellla lupe - touch mesaccharine trust - peace frognico - the end
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:01 (eleven months ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Friday, 31 March 2023 17:20 (eleven months ago) link
oh this is rad, thanks
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:45 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 13 July 2023 21:13 (eight months ago) link
hi, wow!
anyway you can try to send it my way? ilx mail works; can't remembered if we've emailed in the past.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 July 2023 21:33 (eight months ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 13 July 2023 22:50 (eight months ago) link
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".
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:25 (eight months ago) link
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 BreakmixDuster - Capsule Losing ContactThe Supremes - Floy JoyTigran Hamasyan - MockrootMr Sterile Assembly - It's All OverMuqata'a - InkanakuntuChakra - SatekosoLos Jaivas - La Voraigne 5: Que HacerWuja Bin Bin - The Best Planet EverMy Morning Jacket - It Still MovesDavid Grubbs - The ThicketGame Theory - The Big Shot ChroniclesV/A - Screamers, Bangers, and Cosmic SynthsV/A - Gabber Gabber Hey! - A Loud and Fast Accelerated Tribute to the RamonesThe Circle Jerks - Wild in the StreetsClare Fischer - ThesaurusWire - Pink FlagHammer Screwdriver - s/tBehavior - Spirits & EmbellishmentsChristopher Rousset - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Complete Harpsichord WorksRodrigo Gonzalez - HurbanistoriasAlex Chilton - Dusted in Memphis (and Elsewhere)The Simple Carnival - Girls Aliens FoodDandy Livingstone - Dandy ReturnsBoole - The Vital FewNick Drake - Five Leaves LeftDuke Ellington - The Chronological Duke Ellington 1932-1933END - Splinters from an Ever-Changing FaceFairport Convention - Liege and LiefSimply Saucer - Cyborgs RevisitedJames Brown - Funky ChristmasFumaca Preta - s/tJack Ruby - Hit and RunSatan's Host - By the Hands of the DevilLalo Schifrin - Starsky & Hutch OSTThe Work - The Worst of EverywhereTalking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Headsv/a - Synths from the SaharaGiuni Russo - EnergieMatt Elliott - Howling SongsSviatoslav Richter - The Sofia Recital 1958Ted Hawkins - Watch Your StepUncle Acid & the Deadbeats - WastelandChristina Vantzou - No. 4Arthur Russell - Sketches for World of Echo: June 25 1984UJ3RK5 - Live from the Commodore BallroomSylvester - StarsFeu Chatterton - Ici le JourGrand Orchestre du Tricot - Atomic SpoutnikWanda Sa - Wanda Vagamente
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:48 (seven months ago) link
love to see Simply Saucer included - "Illegal Bodies" rips
― c u (crüt), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 15:02 (seven months ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:18 (seven months ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:57 (seven months ago) link
heh -- cheers :)
― budo jeru, Thursday, 24 August 2023 02:30 (seven months ago) link
fuck it here's an actual list, random-ish, i tried to stay away from
Leak Bros - WaterworldOcto Octa - Resonant BodyMilton Brown & His Musical Brownies - Complete RecordingsLuiz Eca & Sagrada Familia - Onda Nova do BrasilBob Drake - L'Isola dei LupiSlauter Xstroyes - Free the BeastTed Lucas - The Om RecordEssential Logic - Beat Rhythm NewsZelda - s/tBauer - On the MoveSuper Freego - Pourquoi Es-Tu Si Mechant?Nonlocal Forecast - Bubble Universe!The Great Tyrant - The Trouble With Being BornGastr del Sol - CamofleurThe Chrysanthemums - Little Flecks of Foam Around BarkingAlaska y Dinarama - Deseo CarnalMatia Bazar - AristocraticaPeter Thomas - Sound Music Album 5 (Golden Ring)Melt-Banana - FetchJosef Hassid - The Complete RecordingsGorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd TimeRaging Slab - Black Belt in BoogieHammer Screwdriver - s/tJoe Raposo - Joe Raposo (Fan-Made) Tribute EpisodeMaschina - Purple Finger SyndromeMidday Veil - This WildernessBrotherhood of Breath - BBC Session (unreleased w/Mongezi Feza - "You Ain't Gonna Know Me"/"Wood Fire")Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static CoutureMasashi Kageyama - Gimmick!Presage - s/tJohann Joseph Fux - KaiserrequiemLyra Pramuk - FountainBen Monder - Day After DayBPM15Q - All SongsChrista Lee - Welcome to the Fantasy ZoneAbigail Washburn - City of RefugeThe Toms - SimplicityStuff Smith & Robert Crum - The Complete Rosenkrantz Apartment Transcription DuetsPadraig O'Keeffe - The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle MasterAlexandre Reverend - Chansons d'une grande banane alitee The Lewis Sisters - Way Out FarClothilde - s/tRamsey Lewis - Mother Nature's SonHildegard Knef - KnefBill Fay - Time of the Last PersecutionNight Sun - Mournin'Relatively Clean Rivers - s/tWinterhawk - There and Back AgainBoris Midney - The Empire Strikes BackOpus III - Mind Fruit
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 24 August 2023 06:01 (seven months ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 August 2023 06:38 (seven months ago) link
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...
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 24 August 2023 20:17 (seven months ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 28 August 2023 17:39 (seven months ago) link
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.
― budo jeru, Monday, 28 August 2023 18:27 (seven months ago) link
Lots of excellent stuff, I’m intrigued by all the rest I don’t know - so much to discover
― Siegbran, Monday, 28 August 2023 22:20 (seven months ago) link
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...
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 00:36 (six months ago) link
Enjoying your descriptions a lot! Loads of stuff I hadn't heard of
― vexingvexillologist, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 12:26 (six months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 12:46 (six months ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 13:03 (six months ago) link
i could be confused on that one, i don't speak the language at all!
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 14:11 (six months ago) link
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 tombsails - the unravelinganubi - kai pilnaties akis uthmerks mirtisarkha sva - gloria satanaebatushka - litourgiyableeding black - personal helldamaar - triumph through spears of sacrilegedarkspace - iiidaudadagr - nordanland (i'm sorry that band name looks like someone just smashed the homerow keys)deathspell omega - paracletusdisguster - split tapedodheimsgard - a umbra omegadressed in streams - swaraj: or, "self rule"the end of six thousand years - isolationevil - iron and thunder (these are probably fash but it sounds so shitty i can't help it)feminazgul - no dawn for menfleurety - min tid skal kommefrozen moon - legend of east dan i and iifunereal presence - achatiusfuria - ksiezyc milczy lutyhail spirit noir - oi magoijordablod - the cabinet of numinous songjute gyte - discontinuitieskrallice - s/t, go be forgottenkvist - for kunsten maa vi evig vikelugubrum - de ware hondlurker of chalice - s/tmastery - valismora prokaza - by chancemyrkur - mausoleum (pretty sure she's fash? i should probs delete)nahvalr - s/tnargaroth - geliebte des regensnecromantia - scarlet evil witching blacknegative plane - et in saecula saeculorumnutrition - hyperdimensional awakeningoranssi pazuzu - muukalainen puhuuorganium - the ragepunaterrori - the fascists are dead (probably not fash, might be tankies tho)sabbat - the dwellingself harm - adapt to self-inflicted chemical tortureskaphe - skaphe squaredstigma diabolicum - luna de nocturnusstilla - synviljorstrid s/tsvartidau?i - revelations of the red swordtengger cavalry - ancient call (lol)thorns - stigma diabolicumtrepasser - (cyrillic title)vargrav - neverstormved buens ende - written in watersvermilia - katkytwhite ward - love exchange failurewmlrd - pentagonzuriaake - afterimage of autumn
you know what that's enough typing for now, maybe "death metal" next time
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 20:35 (six months ago) link
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
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 20 October 2023 14:39 (five months ago) link