Japanese was gonna be japanese psych but i dunno, i stopped half-way
― ian, Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:11 (eleven months ago) link
so racist
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:37 (eleven months ago) link
is this about which music sounds worse or which attracts the most obnoxious hipsters because there might be a different answer depending
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:40 (eleven months ago) link
Voting private press singer-songwriter because every singer-songwriter on earth should be dropped down a well (can be all the same well, as long as it's deep enough). But West Coast psychedelic rock can go on the bonfire too.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:46 (eleven months ago) link
Voted https://funnynamesblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/rrk.jpg
― enochroot, Thursday, 18 May 2023 01:09 (eleven months ago) link
free jazz fandom can definitely has a bit of a stick up the arse quality especially when it gets into euro improv more avant than thou territory (which is where the music gets really boring)
I think country blues takes it though for being built up into such a tedious reductive racist masculine heterosexual mythology and industry that has essentially swallowed (and killed) the blues as a whole in the popular imagination, erasing all the genuinely cool things about it. some of which if more widely known would make blues more relevant to contemporary audiences and less of a museum piece but that's the last thing the blues bros seem to want. the music on its own is fine but if this is about reception it doesn't get more obnoxious than mr keep britain white's musty old reverence over mr johnson for example
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 18 May 2023 01:15 (eleven months ago) link
leave rahsaan out of this
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 18 May 2023 01:16 (eleven months ago) link
TS: Robert Johnson vs Boris Johnson
― gucci meme (theStalePrince), Thursday, 18 May 2023 01:58 (eleven months ago) link
Drone in its various forms looms large the last 10 years-ish: drone rock, new age and minimalism,"composers" working with open ended scores, etc. not necessarily the worst but glaring omissions.
automated "cybernetic" music is another one.
― No, š'š® Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:32 (eleven months ago) link
it's not robert's fault he became an icon for all the most boring men in rock it's just an unfortunate part of his legacy xp
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:33 (eleven months ago) link
the band that opened for stereolab in brooklyn in october was like the end of 'unobtrusive music'. they were idk a smooth jazz/disco-funk wedding band, overly self-conscious with that mac tonight look. def one of the most nauseating things i've ever seen.
as a fan of most things psychedelic apart from the b.o. rife san fransisco variety this is not real hard for me. los angeles is also west coast tho, maybe i just hate the jefferson airplane.
― No, š'š® Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:43 (eleven months ago) link
leave rahsaan out of thisā your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, May 17, 2023 6:16 PM
ā your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, May 17, 2023 6:16 PM
fr i don't even think he falls into any of the styles mentioned. (maybe hard bop?)
i actually don't have much of a problem with any of these. ended up voting industrial/noise as a "least favorite."
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Thursday, 18 May 2023 02:58 (eleven months ago) link
Feeling torn between Private Press Singer-Songwriter (<0.01% strike rate?) & Musique Concrete...
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 May 2023 03:05 (eleven months ago) link
I woulde probablye go with English folk if you asked me which I would leaste like to listen to.
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 May 2023 03:11 (eleven months ago) link
These are all great except for private press stuff which letās be honest is variable. But it feels like a soft target. So can I just nominate GAPDY?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 May 2023 03:14 (eleven months ago) link
Guessing āGarageā means the ā60s rock and not the UK thing. Thatāa not my answer though.
Noise/Industrialā¦ Iāll take the Noise, you can have the Industrial
Private Press Singer-Songwriter sounds like something that would disappoint me 100% of the time
― Josefa, Thursday, 18 May 2023 03:18 (eleven months ago) link
Dancehall but only cos it ain't the stuff from 10 years earlier I would prefer.Garage cos it takes vital music and makes it an insular scene retrospectively.Does classic indie rock last til 2000 or did it drop off way earlier.
Country blues was shaped heavily at the time by record company pressure and expectation. Possibly even moreso down to the people sent out to record artists. Shame cos it killed off more idiosyncratic approaches being recorded.
Surely it all also has some pretty vital music included.
― Stevo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 03:33 (eleven months ago) link
gonna wait until imago weighs in on what a dying message board would choose
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 May 2023 03:43 (eleven months ago) link
I Love Music
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 May 2023 05:27 (eleven months ago) link
lol "Japanese" is almost a defensible option, the country's contributed a wide variety of genres all of which could apply here - psych, jazz, city pop, house all have pretty vocal tastemaker contingents.
the "private press" in front of singer-songwriter kinda makes it the only choice, I've heard some pretty terrible private press singer/songwriter stuff get hyped. but I'm sure there's plenty horrible private press stuff getting the same treatment in other genres.
is the garage referred to garage rock, UK garage or US disco garage?
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 18 May 2023 10:50 (eleven months ago) link
"free jazz fandom can definitely has a bit of a stick up the arse quality especially when it gets into euro improv more avant than thou territory (which is where the music gets really boring)"
Obnoxious, you say?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 11:05 (eleven months ago) link
Ok I bite, what is Boogaloo?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 11:06 (eleven months ago) link
60's latin music with soul/r&b influences. a lot of the fania types were doing it before salsa hit big.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 18 May 2023 11:08 (eleven months ago) link
Ah ok I am going to check a comp.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 11:09 (eleven months ago) link
"Classic Indie Rock (1980-2000???? argue w me here please)"
I think indie of the Siltbreeze probably has a place here. I would probably re-write it as the good stuff that would follow on the only tradition (classic Pere Ubu and The Fall, with drone stuff).
The UK equivalent would be Skullflower and 20 names I used to have at my fingertips. This is the stuff I listened to that was basically the road not taken. Instead we thought The Verve's Princess Diana anthems were psychedelic.
So: "Indie Rock from 1992-2000 (the road not taken)"
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 11:19 (eleven months ago) link
I guess shoegaze and post rock merit inclusion.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 18 May 2023 11:25 (eleven months ago) link
+ math rock!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:02 (eleven months ago) link
Psychedelic/Acid Folk is hardly ever as good as you hope it's going to be but it's not the worst here. I don't know any Boogaloo.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:13 (eleven months ago) link
I kinda wish Musique Concrete actually was beloved by critics & hipsters everywhere... or do I?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:16 (eleven months ago) link
My wife and I have a running gag where we invent an indie band and an indie label and talk about them as if they exist, but I harbor a secret fear that we will accidentally name something that really does exist.
Oh, 8fux? Yeah they are great, I heard they were recently signed to the Algae label, after a brief flirtation with SpaceDrawer Records out of Seattle.
I recall that they had some members who were originally with SpleenGodz, but then SpleenGodz left Algae and signed with Faucet instead.
Most of their early stuff was Neo-Plywood but then they kinda moved on to be a little more TaintCore.
(I literally just made up almost all of those words, but I am preemptively apologizing just in case there are real Spleen / Algae fans out there.)
― sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:21 (eleven months ago) link
Add New Age and IDM /Ambient to the list and PC music I suppose. Though not being a hipster I guess they may look down at this stuff.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:30 (eleven months ago) link
I laughed out loud at ājapaneseā
― treeship., Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:42 (eleven months ago) link
Not sure what Hard Bop is but sounds promising
― nashwan, Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:46 (eleven months ago) link
Nathan, here you go. You're welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RchygyAviYs
― sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:48 (eleven months ago) link
Sorry nashwan
― sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:49 (eleven months ago) link
I love all of this music btw.
― ian, Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:53 (eleven months ago) link
Industrial/Noise has the highest number of tedious provocateurs associated with it, although English Folk might be running it second for right-wing affiliations (maybe not the hipster end of it though). Ditto Classic Indie Rock (1980-2000) if that includes you-know-who.
Voted Psychedelic/Acid Folk in the end due to the existence of Devendra Banhart.
― john cooper mellencamp (Matt #2), Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:43 (eleven months ago) link
English Folk certainly does not have right wing affiliations in, er, England!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:45 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, English Folk revival basically started with a bunch of communist party members jamming in Soho beatnick cafes aiui.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:59 (eleven months ago) link
i love all of these inc English Folk which i don't associate with the right wing (Shirley Collins, surely not), except for the dreaded Classic Indie Rock (1980-2000???? argue w me here please) which is my eternal musical room 101, so an easy vote here.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:06 (eleven months ago) link
ā nashwan, Thursday, May 18, 2023 8:46 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Hard Bop is a subgenre of "Japanese"
https://i.discogs.com/SjrozDnbzxU2csabOXsAZy3D4UOEpSTimAaQhGC54NM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:586/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxNTc4/NDUtMTU4NzgxNTIw/MS02ODk1LmpwZWc.jpeg
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:13 (eleven months ago) link
Throw in dub techno and deep house and you've just got a list of the best genres
― bain4z, Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:15 (eleven months ago) link
Almost put deep house tbh.
― ian, Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:18 (eleven months ago) link
Some 'true European music' types tried to latch onto trad folk as 'pure' music a while ago, is what I meant. Guess there's not that many of them though. Although given the age of most folk fans you can bet that a lot of them are entering the Daily Mail phase of their existences, old socialists ending up railing against wokery/immigrants etc! Admittedly this isn't really the Alasdair Roberts end of things you might find at Supersonic festival etc.
― john cooper mellencamp (Matt #2), Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:26 (eleven months ago) link
Pvt press has a high swing and miss ratio, a lot of it loses its luster once some of the mystery about a rare grail being discovered is removed. But obv there is some gold in there. Some of the reissue labels are pretty reliable when it comes to finding the good stuff.
That's the one I would probably vote for just on overall merit, everything else is classic and pretty unassailable imo.
― omar little, Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:27 (eleven months ago) link
it would really suck to be the kind of person who can't even enjoy sleepy john estes or barbecue bob without having a brain aneurysm thinking about eric clapton's presentation of masculinity
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:36 (eleven months ago) link
It looks like this was ILM favorite Fievel is Glaque? Attn: imago. :)
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:48 (eleven months ago) link
what are some examples of hip salsa music?
― c u (crĆ¼t), Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:51 (eleven months ago) link
Maybe Willie Colon and '70s Fania reissues?
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Thursday, 18 May 2023 15:52 (eleven months ago) link
I like sorting things itās fun
― brimstead, Saturday, 27 May 2023 16:18 (eleven months ago) link
brimstead otm
― the late great, Saturday, 27 May 2023 16:21 (eleven months ago) link
Haha I think I have a reasonable handle on my twenty records overflow but I probably just have house clean out PTSD š
― omar little, Saturday, 27 May 2023 16:24 (eleven months ago) link
xp to paul ponzi
maybe if you organized yr records more often you would see the old ones more and then be reminded to play them. also reorganizing your records is an opportunity to move them around so they donāt get too dusty
― the late great, Saturday, 27 May 2023 16:25 (eleven months ago) link
those are two reasons iām constantly reorganizing, anyway
― the late great, Saturday, 27 May 2023 16:27 (eleven months ago) link
Northern Soul 3
Three of yall are crazy.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 28 May 2023 11:04 (eleven months ago) link
maybe if you organized yr records more often you would see the old ones more and then be reminded to play them
This is absolutely true, and I will admit that during those rare times I do a cull or a major move of some sort, I rediscover things I'd long forgotten about
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 28 May 2023 20:40 (eleven months ago) link
i took out some records for dusting today and it spurred me to listen to taj mahal travelers āaugust 1974ā. iāve decided to move it from the āexperimentalā crate (where it was next to ācatch waveā) to the ākrautrockā one.
i also gave steve lacy / yuji takahashi / takehisa kosugi ādistant voicesā a listen. prime ashtray rattling! itās moving to the āfree musicā crate, where it will sit next to roscoe mitchell sextet and human arts ensemble
― the late great, Monday, 29 May 2023 02:42 (eleven months ago) link
Industrial/Noise - is a wide spectrum of sounds ranging from amazing (Cabaret Voltaire are one of my favourite bands - surely this isn't what people were thinking of when they voted?) to terribly amazing (I saw Whitehouse once, the whole audience was screaming abuse at them, encouraged by Bennett; he dragged a particularly gobby audience member on stage, pulled his trousers down and spanked him like a naughty child. It was a spectacle) to amazingly terrible (there's an ocean of acts in this style littering discogs, RYM and Bandcamp that I have no desire to listen to or even know about).
Private Press Singer-Songwriter - I've never knowingly heard any private press Singer-Songwriters. As an aside: I find the phrase 'singer-songwriter' a bit confusing. Like, anyone who sings and writes songs in any style is a singer-songwriter. Sometimes if I Google someone I like, a soul singer or something, it'll declare them a 'singer-songwriter'. But I guess it tends to refer to solo artists who mainly play one instrument (probably a guitar, maybe a piano) to accompany their songs, which isn't something that particularly interests me. Get a band together ffs.
Free Jazz!!/Hard Bop - I got harrumphed at on the Maligned Genres thread for a throw away comment expressing my distate for free jazz, so let me elucidate: I like some jazz, I really like a lot of styles influenced by jazz (funk, afrobeat, latin). And I know people who think this means I should like Bop and Free Jazz, who think that these styles are objectively the best music due to complexity and technicality, who think my failure to like them is a personal failing on my part, that I've not tried hard enough, that I just haven't found the right 'in' to make me like it. I've been given books on Jan Garabek, I've been made to watch YouTube videos on the mathematical relationship of notes in 50s Jazz recordings. I've been recommended all kinds of things and I've tried. The history, the theory, the passion inspired is interesting, but whenever I hit play, the noise coming out of the speakers makes me cringe.
Garage - 60s garage rock = great. Music played by Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage = great. The early 90s Jersey Sound that gets called Garage in the UK = okay. UK Garage = great.
Country Blues - I know nothing about Country Blues.
Northern Soul - amazing.
Classic Indie Rock (1980-2000???? argue w me here please) - indie rock in 1980, 1990 and 2000 are so different, what counts as indie rock is so varied, that this category is almost meaningless. It ranges from excellent to awful.
Ska (original only) - is amazing.
Dancehall - I love a bit of dancehall.
Psychedelic/Acid Folk - not for me, but I've no problem with it.
Japanese - was this supposed to be Japanese psych-rock? What little I've heard is fine.
Dub - is one of the greatest creations in human history.
Salsa - I guess I count as a hipster Salsa fan. For years Salsa meant to me dance classes that the nice but boring woman in accounts went to on a Thursday evening. It didn't even register as a style of music worth investigating. It hadn't occurred to me that it could a vital, influential, political, force of nature every bit the equal of funk or reggae. Then I heard a Salsa comp on Strut records and it opened my eyes. I dived into Fania and Vampisoul reissues. So much amazing music.
West Coast Psychedelic Rock - is never psychedelic or rocking enough.
Musique Concrete - I like the idea of musique concrete. I never want to actually listen to it.
Tropicalia - I've never dug deeply into this, but the two Gal Costa albums Ive heard (her second one, Gal, and Ćndia) are both excellent.
Boogaloo - is great. Not as great as the similar Latin-Soul, but still great.
Krautrock - the best, well know stuff (Can, Neu!) is great. Beyond that is a world of variable quality. I know someone who's really into this and he loves loads of awful stuff.
English Folk - not for me, but i don't hate it if i hear it. My aunt and uncle were into folk festivals in the 60s, and still are in their retirement, so I've heard plenty. There was a bloke with a mandolin who used to sing sea shanties outside the library - he was amazing.
And since these got mentioned:
Italo disco - is, at its best, all kinds of fantastic.
Black metal - I was a metaller in the 80s. NWOBHM. Hair metal. The arrival of black metal is where I got off the metal train.
Disco rap - for all its musical limitations, if I get in the zone I can listen to this for hours.
Instrumental acoustic guitar music (here's a fun one to argue about) - I doubt I'd like it, so I've never listened to it. I may be wrong. I may be missing out. Maybe one day I'll discover it but there's too much music I know I'll like and so little time to listen to it all that it'll have to wait. Probably forever.
House music - all night long
― Spandex, Monday, 29 May 2023 10:14 (eleven months ago) link
Which comp are you referring to? Do you mean this one?
https://www.discogs.com/release/2471818-Various-Salsa-Explosion-The-New-York-Salsa-Revolution-1968-1985
I don't think this one is strictly salsa but I remember a friend playing this one a lot and thinking I should investigate further. I am almost totally ignorant about Latin music
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 29 May 2023 14:24 (eleven months ago) link
This is one of the best salsa compilations I've ever owned. Not a lot of instantly recognizable tracks but a bunch of amazing ones, especially the first, which has some incredible production from the fake "live audience" at the beginning on down.
https://www.discogs.com/release/3605291-Various-NYC-Salsa-The-Incendiary-Sound-Of-Latin-New-York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXDRz1JXzYI
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 29 May 2023 14:58 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, that's the one. Like I say, I had zero interest in Salsa before I picked it up (for a pound in a sale as a random punt). It opened my eyes (or should that be ears) to a new world of music and I went from there.
― Spandex, Monday, 29 May 2023 16:22 (eleven months ago) link
i've definitely been in hoarder homes before -- it's a really grim scene. one guy had records in the bathrooms, under the sinks, everywhere.
ā ian
this is one of the things that makes me grateful for technology, i absolutely would've been the person who had newspapers stacked to the ceiling and couldn't move in my apartment, instead i have a black box with unbelievable amounts of crap in it, and it's never going to run out of space. hoarder magic!
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 29 May 2023 16:27 (eleven months ago) link
West Coast Psychedelic Rock - is never psychedelic or rocking enough
thatās because itās made for psychedelic people, you are expected to bring your fair share of psychedelic vibe in order to complete the psychedelic experience
maybe you should get hi on the solstice at the beach, and then wade into the water just as the setting sun reaches the horizon, it might help you become a more psychedelic person
― the late great, Monday, 29 May 2023 16:58 (eleven months ago) link
I utterly adore both Industrial and Noise music. I realise theyāre not for everyone though š¤·š»āāļø.
― Kodanshi, Monday, 29 May 2023 17:26 (eleven months ago) link
That's a good insight, I like that thought
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Monday, 29 May 2023 17:49 (eleven months ago) link
also if weāre talking abt easy rider era west coast psychefelic country rock like david crosby or buffalo springfield you have to remember these ppl were already on the 70s comedown bummer trip before the 60s had even peaked
― the late great, Monday, 29 May 2023 19:26 (eleven months ago) link
if youāre talking abt strawberry alarm clock idk check yr ears
― the late great, Monday, 29 May 2023 19:27 (eleven months ago) link
Canāt believe I left shoegaze off this poll
― ian, Monday, 29 May 2023 21:00 (eleven months ago) link
<i>thatās because itās made for psychedelic people, you are expected to bring your fair share of psychedelic vibe in order to complete the psychedelic experience<i>
It was a glib comment in a very long post. For What It's Worth is obviously a 5 star classic that it's hard to understand anyone not liking. Strawberry Alarm Clock... less so.
But if you're expected to bring your fair share of psychedelic vibe in order to complete the psychedelic experience, then almost any music can be psychedelic. I've had acid moments to Swing Out Sister and Cyprus Hill. There's that Banco de Gaia album where Jerusalem rises out of the electronic soundscape. No-one describes Sir Hubert Parry as psychedelia.
I guess our understanding of what is psychedelic depends on time and place. My psychedelic era was the 90s, the place raves and festivals or hanging out around London, Sheffield and Manchester. In my personal conception of psychedelic music, compared with space rock, or Norman Whitfield in full flight, or rainbow trance, or shoegaze, David Crosby sounds as psychedelic as Frank Sinatra. If I'd been in San Francisco with flowers in my hair in 1968 I'm sure I'd feel differently.
― Spandex, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 10:12 (eleven months ago) link
But if you're expected to bring your fair share of psychedelic vibe in order to complete the psychedelic experience, then almost any music can be psychedelic. I've had acid moments to Swing Out Sister and Cyprus Hill.
this. I've had far more psychedelic acid and weed experiences listening to Freddie Hubbard than I ever did with Sleep
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 11:50 (eleven months ago) link
Iām shocking news weed and LSD can enhance enjoyment of all music, not just hippie shit.
― ian, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 13:21 (eleven months ago) link
xxp you sound pretty defensive! are you sure youāre actually a psychedelic person, or are you really just an uptight square?!?
― the late great, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 13:26 (eleven months ago) link
my most psychedelic track ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK3APtfqp5Q
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 14:23 (eleven months ago) link
ā ian, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 14:21 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Not all music. Pick the wrong tunes for your trip and you can end up jittery, spinning out or rolling on the floor hyperventilating with laughter.
― Spandex, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:16 (eleven months ago) link
ā the late great, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 14:26 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Not defensive. Rambling on semi-incoherently = propah acidhead*
* who am I kidding? I haven't done acid for years /middle aged dad/
― Spandex, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:19 (eleven months ago) link
ā Spandex, Tuesday, May 30, 2023 12:16 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sad but true. And it's rarely the albums you expect will give you a bad time. Music can be scarily unpredictable in these contexts
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:40 (eleven months ago) link
Spandyourmindex
― No, š'š® Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 18:05 (eleven months ago) link
xps I think i know what you mean about LP & Mary Ford, their recordings are full of ghosts. It's more paranormal activity music to me than psych and it's on the square side to modern ears. But i could see it as 'mom and dad unwittingly drank the acid-spiked tea'
Not a lot of instantly recognizable tracks but a bunch of amazing ones, especially the first, which has some incredible production from the fake "live audience" at the beginning on down.
this track is so good that it almost makes up for your awful takes on samba, tropicalia and AMM itt.
― No, š'š® Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 18:17 (eleven months ago) link
my most psychedelic track ever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK3APtfqp5Qā il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR)
ā il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR)
lmao WTF is this? this is about as psychedelic as the mf'ing BEACH BOYS!!!!
― the late great, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 18:43 (eleven months ago) link
Imo something about it feels āhyperrealā (more real than reality) that gives it a psychedelic edge. Like it comes from somewhere else that is reality, but where we have been living just aināt it. Also, there is some weird sound effect (maybe another guitar track) burbling underneath that reminds me of the electric jug in the 13th Floor Elevators.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:06 (eleven months ago) link
Also, nothing is lamer than gatekeeping psychedelia.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:07 (eleven months ago) link
fwiw all of my posts on psychedelia here are dry humor (maybe lame humor) but in general i agree, which is why iām not posting seriously!
i do think āgenre x does not appeal to me and here are my boring ass reasons whyā is at least as lame and probably worse. at least if youāre gatekeeping it means you care about something. usually when ppl complain about entire genres being bad it just means they havenāt engaged with it (or in the right mindset, which is the kernel of truth behind my lame jokes)
also for whatever reason that āsmoke ringsā track reminds me a lot of beach boysā āwind chimesā, which i consider to be their peak psychedelic moment, possibly because it reminds me of āat the watering holeā by louis and bebe barron, for the forbidden planet soundtrack (one of the all time great psychedelic films)
― the late great, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:24 (eleven months ago) link
Not at all directed at PBKR but a lot of āgatekeepersā are just fans who donāt like noobs barging in āteachingā them things they already know and calling Oasis āShoegazeā or whatever.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:46 (eleven months ago) link
Surprised (or not I guess) that I'm not seeing Deconstructed Club, or any rap/hip hop like Cloud Rap, Mumble Rap, Backpack/Conscious Hip Hop, etc on the list
― octobeard, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:47 (eleven months ago) link
Guess they're not hip enough
― octobeard, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:48 (eleven months ago) link
ā the late great
hahaha that's pretty funny because hendrix put down both "how high the moon" as being old hat and "heroes and villains" as being "psychedelic barbershop".
personally i think both are fucking great! but hendrix is good too. he was into roland kirk, who may or may not be psychedelic but who is fucking good!
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 20:18 (eleven months ago) link
the mary ford song reminds me of kay weaver's song-poem "junkies and monkeys" which is a fucking great song about getting high
a lot of those song-poems you know they're just phoning it in but the impression i get is that everybody involved in the recording of that song really did enjoy getting high
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 20:19 (eleven months ago) link
Song sounds hyppereal in the kind of way where you'd have to invent some kind of wacky new space-age technology like multitrack recording to achieve
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 20:31 (eleven months ago) link
I think this is the vinyl record collector/Discogs hipster poll, someone should do a digital era version. Should City Pop have been on this one though?
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 20:31 (eleven months ago) link
yeah i like a decent amount of rap but i barely listen to anything after the 70s much less 2010.
― ian, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 20:59 (eleven months ago) link
^^ only listens to disco rap
― the late great, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 21:09 (eleven months ago) link
hahaha that's pretty funny because hendrix put down both "how high the moon" as being old hat
see, he just wasn't engaging with it in the right mindset. the operative word there is "high"
― No, š'š® Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 21:26 (eleven months ago) link
the mary ford song reminds me of kay weaver's song-poem "junkies and monkeys" which is a fucking great song about getting higha lot of those song-poems you know they're just phoning it in but the impression i get is that everybody involved in the recording of that song really did enjoy getting high
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 22:08 (eleven months ago) link
always a little sad someone to see someone who's really talented but never really made it because they were also really fucked up, mind you. i relate to that kind of thing probably more than i should.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 00:11 (eleven months ago) link
ian - are there private press singer/songwriter records of people singing to their cats?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 00:34 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykxZtuttogc
― ian, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 00:41 (eleven months ago) link