check out in utero too(nobody cares about that criterion)
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 11 April 2021 13:07 (two years ago) link
lol
― peace, man, Sunday, 11 April 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
Speaking of Coltrane, I just discovered Blue Train <3
― Vinnie, Sunday, 11 April 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
JUst had teh 13th Floor Elevators' Bull Of The Woods reappear in my consciousness after not really listeningto it for a few years.& finding it pretty magical while still far fro perfect soundwise.Really muffled in places.BUt wow shows how good Stacy's guitar is and if it wasn't preceded by 2 lps taht are considered genre classicsit might be much better sung.
Also just had the Misunderstood's london era recordings represented to me in a different way.Guitars are really something else. Corrosive. Don't think I've listened to my other versions of this material in a while though do still love it from my early teens.PLus it has some bits taht haven't really appeared before. Some masterful guitar stuff at teh end of teh version of I'm nOt Talking might have been a structural guide for a number of people if it had been known before now. Really is some very 'other' stuff and now there's a full disc of this stuff of somewhat similar quality together. previous collections of their work may have had teh Riverside recordings too close to this otherworldly stuff. While the Riverside is still pretty fanbtastic it's not as trepanningly great as this.
Abbey lincolnVarious solo recordings I think most notably Abbey is Blue and People In Me.Jazz vocalist who may be best known in work with her onetime husband Max Roach. Abbey Is Blue is her in a band with Roach and several other great jazz players who may be better known fro slightly later work. People in Me is recorded in Japan in 1973 with a pick up band with a Japanese bassist and pianist and 3 members of Miles Davis' band and possibly Miles himself. THey happened to be playing Japan at the same time as the recording. IT's a little looser than the early recording.
Solomo Burkenow onto the 3rd disc of the recent Atlantic set. Guitar is still pretty strong and vocals are sublime.Disc 2 has the guitar doing things i think were very innovative at the time and may have been credited to white players as innovations. But are really effective here which is probably more of a source.3 just has really fluid guitar which probably would have been a great example for rock players of the time
― Stevolende, Sunday, 11 April 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
xpost nicely done
― Mule, Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
Sparklehorse, «It’s A Wonderful Life» (ymmv re «classic», of course)
― Mule, Sunday, April 11, 2021 5:24 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's a classic
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
Thin Lizzy - Nightlife. I don't know what I was expecting exactly, maybe an album full of rockers like "Boys Are Back," and I knew about Lynott's Van Morrison-isms, but I guess I wasn't prepared for how subtle and how folk and soul inspired much of it is. Beautiful record.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, April 7, 2021 7:36 AM
I need to revisit this one. I remember it being the only album of the band's classic period that I thought was underwhelming. It also features one of their worst songs ("Frankie Carroll") and a tossed off instrumental. But I'll admit it's been many years since I listened to it and I remember really loving "Showdown" and the last song, so I think I'll pull it out tonight
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
Nina Simone - Pastel Blues ~ played this 3x in a row and was just floored. The marriage of old and new; it is both super traditional, easy listening and also very progressive. Need to dig deeper into her catalog if anyone has any suggestions.
Her whole mid-60s Philips catalogue is good-to-amazing but if you enjoyed Pastel Blues I'd really recommend In Concert, released a year earlier, and Wild Is the Wind, released a year later.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
The compilation Sugar in my Bowl was my introduction to that eraof Simone's work. it used to be around teh local chain record shops in the cheap multibuy offer for ages.Odd how much white singer songwriter she covered for somebody so heavily involved in the black power movement. Or so it struck me at the time I was listening to it heavily. Has some really good stuff on anyway.
― Stevolende, Monday, 19 April 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
Thanks!
― Indexed, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 03:08 (two years ago) link
somehow i'd never listened to "the idiot" by iggy pop??!?!? even though i've listened to "lust for life" a million times? anyways, the idiot is amazing while also making me feel seasick
― na (NA), Monday, 26 April 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
omfg
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 26 April 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
"The Idiot" >>>>>>>> "Lust For Life"
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Monday, 26 April 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
I don't think they can really be compared. The Idiot is a Bowie album with Iggy on vocals; Lust for Life is Iggy and his road band, with Bowie as keyboardist but not dominating the sessions the way he did the first time. If you like Bowie more than Iggy, The Idiot is always gonna be your pick, but for me it's the exact opposite. I like almost every Iggy album to one degree or another (and Fun House is the greatest rock album ever made), and don't really listen to Bowie at all anymore except for Low, "Heroes" and Blackstar.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 26 April 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
Also they are both thought of as Berlin albums but The Idiot was only mixed there, it was recorded in Switzerland and Munich. Lust for Life is a total Berlin album made in the same room as "Heroes."
― Josefa, Monday, 26 April 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
i've always thought of iggy as having at least two distinct musical personas: proto-punk rocker dude and art school dropout. it was always a little blurred in the early and mid-70s, but with the idiot and lust for life —to me anyway— it feels like he was distinguishing them for the first time.
i also revived the penguin cafe topic to say this, but it's relevant here too: that first penguin cafe orchestra record is all kinds of awesome.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 26 April 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
Jim Hall did a couple of records on the CTI label with Chet Baker called 'Concierto' (75) and 'Studio Trieste' (82) that are excellent records. Bands are great on both records as Steve Gadd is drummer on both but the first one has Paul Desmond and Ron Carter and the later one also features Hubert Laws. Beyond the music, the production on those records is immaculate. I wish you could hear Ron Carter on those old Miles Davis records like you can on 'Concierto'.
'Concierto' features "Concierto de Aranjuez" by Rodrigo, which was also one of the main parts of Miles Davis/Gil Evans 'Sketches of Spain'. The version by Hall/Desmond and Baker is very beautiful.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 00:51 (two years ago) link
Yeah I had an epiphany with The Idiot some years back too. I wish someone had played me peak Iggy at 17. I knew nothing by him at all except the 80s pap; first time I heard Lust For Life was in the Trainspotting trailer.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
Same deal, Pisces, though I had his "Nude Rude" best of since the mid-90s. I didn't get around to hearing all of "The Idiot" until I was almost 50! It's clear who the idiot was. Still, it's never too late!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
maybe the wrong place for this, but
does iggy have any undisputed classics in his solo catalogue, outside of those two albums?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
because i'm in the mood to get knocked out again today.
imo New Values is prime Iggy
― Josefa, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
Yeah, New Values is killer, but be prepared for the last two tracks, which are prime "you could never get away with that today" stuff.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
Don't get any of the old versions, but the late mix of 'Kill City' puts it up pretty close with Ig's other 70s records. I did not check that out for a long time as I had one of the old Bomp versions and it kinda makes Charlie Patton sound like Dark Side of the Moon.
"The Endless Sea" off 'New Values' is a track fans of 'The Idiot' should search out if they don't know it. That one reminds me of the Doors quite a bit.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
hey this *is* really good. any idea where i might have heard "i'm bored" before? definitely recognize it.
also "don't look down" holy shit iggy goes stax!!??!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
xp I like Kill City a lot… I have that Bomp! version you mentioned, lol (on a single disc w/the “I Got a Right” single). New Values is also good.
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
Agree about Kill City. It's Iggy in 70s Stones mode, and it really works a lot of the time.
"Bang Bang," from Party, is an incredible single, but there's nothing else on the album that's remotely its equal. This TV performance is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcUa65cgX9c
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
Kill City has been my go-to Iggy record for a few years.
― visiting, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
I like it a lot too, probably better than any of the proper solo records, but it's a real case of stretching the material (which was only supposed to be a demo) to fill out the record: ending both sides with an instrumental (plus Iggy mumbling), the first of which is reprised at the beginning of the second side. I mean, it's all listenable and it adds to the sense of utter dissolution.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
Austin you're in Oz or an expat, right? "I'm Bored" is the jumped-up gyrating Countdown performance which follows The Ig's legendary amphetamine interview with Molly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtH58M3HXA
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
Hum Dono by Joe Harriott and Amancio da Silva
― mahb, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 07:50 (two years ago) link
yeah picked that up a few years ago when it was reissued. I think I'd already meant to get some Harriott and saw some great reviews of that. It is pretty lovely.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 08:20 (two years ago) link
Yonin BayashiGreat japanese prog lp from the early 70s. I think i'd heard bits of this some years ago but just found a cd copy so listening to that on my 3 changer this week. great guitar which is pretty US psychy. & the rest of teh band is pretty decent too.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 09:59 (two years ago) link
which one, stevo? I'm listening to Ishoku Sokuhatsu right now and it's hitting the spot.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 29 April 2021 09:50 (two years ago) link
that one.yeah forgot it wasn't s/t cos it was in another room.BUt yeah saw that Dodax had some copies so picked it up and yeah its really something .Not sure if the later ones are as good.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 29 April 2021 09:53 (two years ago) link
I have a 1978 UK issue of Kill City on Radar and I think it's great, no idea if there's any different to the Bomp! versions but I don't think so?
New Values obv good but I also like Zombie Birdhouse a lot.
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 29 April 2021 10:44 (two years ago) link
just watching this video now and yeah its amazing. when those ping pong balls fall, waht is happening lol
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 29 April 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
Not to overly de-Iggify the thread, but
The Clientele - The Violet Hour
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Thursday, 29 April 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/digify.jpg?w=1200&strip=all
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
The net's forgotten site
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
baby detonate for me
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
another in a long line of good jazz albums ruined by vocals
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
yeah singing, who ever thought that was a good idea
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
whaaat? It's Norma Winstone!
― mahb, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Thursday, April 29, 2021 8:51 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Some of the greatest music ever. So much atmosphere.
― Evan, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
matthew! that's it! such a classic clip. right up there with lou reed's "i don't do drugs" interview.
another one for me today and another reminder of the collective i've underrated so much through the years:paul kantner's blows against the empire. just the scope of that stuff is wild enough, but it's like a british psych folk album in its execution. maybe not good for every day listening, but it's way better than i expected. is it considered a classic album?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 29 April 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
it should be! That is one rad kinda fucked up album, glad to hear you’re digging it.
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 April 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
best part was: i went into barnes + noble to get the newly reissued / remixed plastic ono band (not the big boy version tho) and they had blows against the empire in the $4.99 bin! it's the legacy edition too, with the bonus tracks!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 29 April 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
is it considered a classic album?
I figured maybe it had to be older than 20 years or so to be a classic, but someone listed jessie ware's "what's your pleasure?".A lot of these are also pretty obscure (Yonin Bayashi? Amancio da Silva?), so we're not exactly sticking to 33 1/3 canon.
But then again, I think you kinda answered your own question:
maybe not good for every day listening, but it's way better than i expected.
― enochroot, Thursday, 29 April 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
yeah, makes sense. i worked in a used record store for several years and i just recall seeing it all the time; very common record. so, i always just assumed it was at least considered a classic of the period.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 29 April 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link