Amon Duul II tap into some of the same feeling though the sound is a bit more avant and teutonic. Their first 5 or 6 lps are well worth checking out too.
― Stevolende, Friday, 12 October 2018 11:13 (five years ago) link
Yes, I prefer Amon Duul II and Fairport to JA.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Friday, 12 October 2018 11:31 (five years ago) link
a couple things that strike me about JA:
* it wasn't just the core band, they had some really talented people in their periphery - there's this rolling band going out playing JA songs now and I believe both Darby Slick and Peter Kaukonen are involved, and I feel like, man, they're both great and should be recognized for more than just hanging out with the Airplane
* there are basically a ton of bands who copied the Jefferson Airplane male/female vocal/electric folk model, most of whom are now forgotten - you know, bands like HP Lovecraft. definitely a really influential band back in the day
* when it comes to them as a live outfit, they might pale next to people from europe, but, i will be controversial here - i think as a live band they were the best san francisco psychedelia had to offer. except for the dead, that scene is a little bit out of vogue right now because rolling stone pushes it so hard, but i gotta say, in '69 i truly believe that the airplane were a better live band than the dead (see: "sweeping up the spotlight")
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 12 October 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
Link Wray's S/T 1971, mentioned up thread and covered extensively in Oxford American. Like Exile on Main St, and unlike a lot of other early 70s soul-rock, it brings the riffs, not just the depleted gaze and world-weary hooks.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Kleenex/LILIPUT, First Songs
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
some shit talk about this album itt but sweetheart of the rodeo by the byrds has been my album for about the last 6 months. play it about once a week.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
Whoever shit talks my sweetheart has a mouth that smells like shit - psalms 82
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
The Wipers, especially Youth Of America. no idea how I managed to avoid them until now, but I'm head over heels in love.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
yesss that's the best one
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
i think that overall YOA is the best, but once you're ready to explore them so more there are some reaaaaally good songs on their surrounding releases. i just mention it because i also missed out on the wipers for a really long time, and even when i finally got into YOA, i kept missing out on other great stuff.
in particular, the first three tracks from Over the Edge are just UNSTOPPABLE - Over the Edge, Doom Town, So Young. the rest of the album flags a bit imo (which is why YOA is still the consensus best wipers album as a whole)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
the title track of Over the Edge has one of the top 5 wordless choruses in guitar music of all time (i just made that list up and don't know what else is on it except for MBV's What You Want). i guess this advice goes for most wipers songs but it sounds particularly good when played at maximum volume
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
yeah that's some starting run. i never really listened to the wipers until i moved to vancouver, and then in the circles I'm around tire extremely popular and i feel like I've heard the title track to over the edge a hundred times since moving here and it's still awesome
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
can this be and pushing the extreme are so fucking great
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
right now the answer to this is Van Morrison's "Poetic Champions Compose" - much more loose and spacey than I expected
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Youth of America has always been my fave Wipers album. The quintessential Wipers song is When It's Over which is about the most transcendental piece of music I have ever listened to in my life. I wrote about it in my blog a while ago.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 20 December 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
I was knocked out by this one too when I first heard it almost 10 years ago. I had no idea Wray had made music that sounded like that.
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 14 January 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
Coming out of a five year relationship, discovering Hats by the Blue Nile makes a lot of sense.
― Lemon Kitten (Dan.S.), Monday, 14 January 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Natural-Essence-In-Search-Of-Happiness/master/233493"">guys
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 29 March 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
fuck.
album's an absolute spewing volcano of pure heat tho
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 29 March 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
Another for Kleenex/LiLiPUT. Only had "Madness" on a mix tape, and finally just listened to a bunch of others. Blows me away how good they were for early 80s.
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 29 March 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Drexciya and side projects, Der Zyklus II in particular
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 29 March 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
rajie - espresso
another mid-'80s record along the lines of akina nakamori's "fushigi", who knew there was more than one great cocteau twins-influenced j-pop record from the mid-80s?
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Friday, 29 March 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
sry, this is the album i was trying to link before i opened up a wormhole: https://www.discogs.com/Natural-Essence-In-Search-Of-Happiness/master/233493
it's a david axelrod / cannonball Adderley affiliated jazz / soul album
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 29 March 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
Kleenex First Songs 2LP on Mississippi/Kill Rock Stars sounds fantastic, for some reason much bigger than the 2CD version represented on Spotify. Definitely a favorite discovery of recent years.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
The Residents Fingerprince.Probably about tiime i was familiar with all that early run though.NIce weird stuff like I've been looking for for years. I have meet The , & Not Available not sure why I never really got into the band massively. Also used to have Third Reich & Roll and Commercial lp but not sure what I listened to heavily. I think bits of Commercial stuck in my head for years though.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 March 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
i liked "leapmus" on the fingerprince preserved edition, overall the bonus tracks have been hit and miss but man i've never heard a version of "diskomo" i didn't like
the 180 gs just did a cover of the commercial album, i think overall the commercial album doesn't quite work as a conceit for me, particularly since "ups and downs" is way better as a proper _song_, but i'm still a little curious
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Saturday, 30 March 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
Looks like the choice of bonus on a lot of these come from very different periods seeing a lot of 82 and 201-s. Would hope they'd keep things contemporary. Are things being released to the exclusion of things from the time or is there just little secretly stashed.Like this preserved edition otherwise though so may pick up the rest up to Eskimo. Really don't know after that.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 30 March 2019 08:05 (four years ago) link
they're releasing what they have, stevolende - a lot of it is later versions of the original songs on the album. you're not going to go wrong with '82 diskomo though, and some of the outtakes "contemporary" to the recordings are stuff that mostly deserves to be on the cutting room floor
was really enjoying what i heard of that 180 gs album, liked it better than the residents' version, i guess that's common for me though, i like the residents better as songwriters than as performers
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
side a of Tarkus totally blew me away recently. I mean, damn!!!
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
in a very good way
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
side a of tarkus is phenomenal (and i really dislike all other elp)
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 31 March 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
not sure it actually _needed_ to be a side-long epic but "eruption" bangs hard
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Sunday, 31 March 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
along the lines of akina nakamori's "fushigi"
thank you for bringing this album to my attention... what a remarkable pop record.
― visiting, Monday, 1 April 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
so a thing i like to do is go record shopping and buy classic albums / highly repsected cult classics i've never heard, load them up on my ipod and then hit shuffle and try to guess what i'm hearing.
on my last trip to amoeba, i picked up a couple glenn branca and cluster albums. when 'the acsension' came on i legitimately thought it was a deep cut off this comp. when a cluster track off sowiesoso came up, i was expecting adrian borland to start singing.
went back and listened to sowiesoso and zuckerzeit in full after being so awesomely stumped and, good god damn, those records are outstanding!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I only picked up those Cluster albums a couple of years ago and they still sound completely fresh to me, albeit you can tell how influential they were to our favorite post-punkers.
Speaking of which, the last classic album that knocked me out was listening to Neu!'s "1975", driving with the top down at night, coming back from a record run in Portland, ME. Utterly perfect.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 13 September 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
roman candle by elliott smith. that ringing acoustic guitar, his voice which sounds like a whole choir. the small guitar distortions. and those harmonies. divine.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 13 September 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
I'm going to pick Brian Eno's Ambient 4: On Land, which came out in 1982. I've heard bits of it on ambient mixtapes, but never the whole thing until I bought it recently - it has aged extremely well. It's creepy, nocturnal, and sounds a lot more diverse than his earlier ambient records.
After 1982 he discovered the "shimmer" sound that's plastered all over Apollo, the Dune soundtrack, his work with U2 etc, so it's not like his later records either. It really doesn't sound as I would expect an ambient record from the early 1980s to sound.
Also, Youtube's recommendations keep throwing up excellent albums from the 1970s and 1980s - Japanese jazz music, city pop, German funk, Lebanese psychedelic folk etc - but although individually some of the records are impressive, collectively they've started to wash over me. I'm worried that my brain has been subjected to so much stimulation it's no longer capable of extreme reactions to unexpected inputs.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 15 September 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Braziliana_(Luiz_Bonfá_album).jpg
as a hiphop head in the 90s, i always loved 'saudade vem correndo' but i never knew that bonfa and his wife had released their own album. it's obviously trying to cash in on the success of astrud gilberto, but i don't know, it's a much different kind of album. it alternates between luiz's instrumentals and orchestrated vocal numbers by maria. i love bonfa's guitar playing. he has a very "flat" style (if that makes any sense) in comparison to similar folks like charlie byrd, ac jobim, and laurindo almeida. and maria's breathy tenor range is the perfect match for it. braziliana is haunting and beautiful. it feels like the less schmaltzy counterpart to the albums astrud gilberto was releasing at the time. it's very quiet and subdued. absolutely perfect fall music.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny - I don't know if I've ever given this the time of day before, but it's sounding very good now. There are definitely some shades of other '70s boogie-metal acts like Blue Oyster Cult and Alice Cooper here, but the tight high operatic vocals and heaviness of the riffs set this apart.
― o. nate, Monday, 21 October 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
Gong Flying Teapot in its latest remaster.Not sure when I last heard the lp anyway but sound is now great.& 8ts otherness shines through beautifully.
Before that would probably be one of the Numero label releases.Probably the Willie Wright lp which is sublime and probably a bit anachronistic. Sounds like it should be about 72 not disco era.The Happy Rhodes compo I got is also lovely. Got some great great tracks on it far better than ersatz Kate Bush.
― Stevolende, Monday, 21 October 2019 08:46 (four years ago) link
I've heard it lots of times before but I put 'Avalon' by Roxy Music on last night after a long autumn walk and it was the perfect thing for a Sunday evening
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 21 October 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
black rose: a rock legend by thin lizzy. absurd chord progressions on 'waiting for an alibi'.
― meaulnes, Monday, 21 October 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
I'd never heard Tubular Bells, except for the intro theme, until recently. Good stuff, a lot more varied than I'd expected somehow.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Saturday, 30 May 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
― Mule, Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Son House – Father of Folk Blues
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Which is very very beautiful
― Mule, Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
I'd never heard Tubular Bells, except for the intro theme, until recently. Good stuff, a lot more varied than I'd expected somehow.― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Saturday, May 30, 2020 11:58 AM
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Saturday, May 30, 2020 11:58 AM
listen to oldfield's other albums from the era, too! they rule!
as for me, maybe not an all out across the board classic, but definitely a rare groove classic: marc moulin's mid-70s eurofunk masterpiece sam' suffy really knocked my socks off. it's an album i was certainly aware of, but never looked into, even with the reissue some years back. glad i did. what a unique and great record.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 31 May 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
Steve Hillage Fish Rising.Part of the Gong continuum as the guitarist went solo backed by the just post Allen and Smyth version plus Linda Cooper pre Henry Cow.Nice swirly stuff.Picked up after reading Mike Barnes A New Day Yesterday. Might grab a few more things from there. Still don't have any Egg for one. & may need to upgrade my Hatfield and the North.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 June 2020 07:52 (three years ago) link
No Pussyfooting (Fripp/Eno collab) has been getting a lot of play lately. It's pretty & ominous, and listening to it while out for a walk gives everything a surreal sheen.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 1 June 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
― pomenitul, Saturday, May 30, 2020 2:27 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
fuck yes to this, i listened for the first time last week and it feels like he's in the room with you.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 1 June 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link