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HolyMoly
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Thanks for the condolences about my kitty. She was totally family, and I’m really feeling the void she left. Can’t believe yours is 21! Must have had a happy life to live so long. Re: Pretties for You. You HAVE to check out the live version of the album performed in NYC recently by Nick Didkovsky (Doctor Nerve) and a great band of likeminded fanboys. I bought it on DVD when Nick released it and it’s probably sold out but lots of it is on Youtube. Fields of Regret: https://youtu.be/jZsrDkvLCK8 Re: Killer. The ending scared the absolute sh*t out of me both times I’ve heard it. Been too chicken to listen again. I always shut it off. I’m such a wuss. I would encourage you to continue onward - with special attention paid to “Lace & Whiskey”, “DaDa”, and (much later) “The Eyes of Alice Cooper”. As a brutal metal fan, you should also dig “Brutal Planet”. Edited by HolyMoly - April 25 2019 at 20:13 |
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^ Man, you OD'd on AC on that binge!
Was a big time Cooper fan in the 70s as a young teen. Love it to Death through Goes to Hell era mostly. Loved them all, each in its own way. Have not listened to much after that. I do need to go back to the first two albums and give them listens again.
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This week:
Carlos Paredes - Movimento Perpétuo Steve Hillage - Green Susanne Sundfør - Susanne Sundfør Ozric Tentacles - Erpland |
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Deep Purple | Gemini Suite
The Feelies | Crazy Rhythms The Feelies | The Good Earth The Feelies | Only Life Golden Earring | On the Double The Fall | Re-Mit Badfinger | No Dice Ariel Pink | Early Live Performances (disc 2) Djam Karet | Suspension and Displacement Jethro Tull | A Passion Play R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner | Make it Be |
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^ No Dice is good stuff. I like the following several albums even more, up through Wish You Were Here. Great band. Saw the surviving half of them many times in the 80s/90s and they still rocked. Snuck back and partied with them once. They should have been bigger but they came a bit late. I think their material was better suited to the mid-late 60s than the 70s, but it was great material.
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Ah-ha! It is the weekend. Here we go.
Killing Joke— Brighter than a 1000 suns. ( slick as oil. Great Chris Kimsey production. Beautiful catchy songs on this one. ) Ah-Ha— Hunting high and Low ( one of the best pop albums of 1985. ) The Art Of Noise— Art Works “12inch” (Best of comp. ) Got inspired after watching the Breakfast club movie to give this a go cause John Hughes was a big art of noise fan. I can see why. Fear Factory— Soul of a new machine ( what a debut album. Such a statement of innovation. Fates Warning— live over Europe ( now this is a live album! Was so in the mood for FW. This did it for me. Oceans of slumber— Banished Heart ( best prog Metal album of 2018? Yeah. I think so. ) Simple Minds— New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Boxset Disc 5 Extended mixes ) glad you like this album Steve! Now you must treat yourself to the boxset. Join me. |
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Okay, that was cool! Pretties for You deserves more love like that (guy was channeling that vibe so well). ^I always liked Brighter than 1000 Suns, like British new wave MTV stuff but with added cojones on the guitars (the main riff on "Chessboards" is such a gas!). I first bought and heard Soul of a New Machine back in 1993; my buds & I never heard anything like it at the time (we were also...um...doing the hallucinogenics at the time...adding to the wildness). "Lifeblind" had that ridiculous time signature that really blew our minds. Jim...if nothing else concerning Alice Cooper, Love it to Death is a must listen; like Aerosmith before they existed but with a proto-punk, glammy 70's coolness factor. Way ahead of its time, and as AEProgman mentioned, great musical chops. Listened to: Fank Zappa - Apostrophe ('): Cosmik Debris, I swear, I'm always "feelin' it" when that one plays, like it's got some hidden real 'soul' going on. I see the light while I'm groovin' to this looniness. Always game for songs about pancakes too. And stinky feet for that matter. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti: "Flakes" has that Bob Dylan section that almost sent my car off the road due to laughter...I think it's the crap harmonica that seals the deal. "Baby Snakes" is the one I like singing along to the most...keeps my falsetto in gear. Aldous Harding - Designer: Time to chill, and this new release is perfect for that. Check out her lyrics, like indie-folk girl prose sent through the "Jon Anderson Grinder". No typical reverb overkill to mask them either; her voice is clean, stellar (she can go Nico-low to Kate B-high), and audible. I dig it.
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Love it to death....sounds good, I'll start there! Thanks!
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^ absolutely Steve! 1991-1992 was an incredible time for music. The budding of new and creative genres were on the loose! Fear Factory are huge innovators of the rough and melodic vocals bound together. FF will go down in history as one of my most beloved bands. The bad thing I can say is that they’ve never released a credible live album on disc. :( You also couldn’t be more right about Brighter than 1000 suns. MTV with an edge! The accessibility of ‘Adorations and Sanity’ are fantastic and videos were cool too!
Saturday. Round 2. Fates Warning— Live over Europe. ( had to have another go at this one. It truly is an awesome listen. FW are a true live act and my god Ray Alder can sing. He hasn’t lost any edge. His voice is not auto tuned on this record either. He really has it. ) Killing Joke— S/T. ( Dave grohl drums. Strictly badass. The whole record is cutting edge. ) Dead Can Dance— Dionysus ( short but powerful. Love it .) APP— Pyramid (getting geared up for AP’ s ‘The Secret’ which arrives Monday for me. ) |
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Stelvio Cipriani - Antla
Stelvio Cipriani - Femina Ridens Alice Cooper - Love it to Death Zombies - Begin Here Dave, right on the mark. Great "black coffee" rock album.
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Animal Collective | Campfire Songs
Boris | Attention Please Fairport Convention | s/t Jean-Michel Jarre | Oxygene Edited by HolyMoly - April 27 2019 at 23:23 |
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Well, my wife had a little more wine than usual with dinner yesterday as she is depressed because of her knee, small hairline fracture and the use of a cane has caused her rotator cuff in the shoulder to have problems. Anyway, she does not care for music much at all except when she has had a few too many (we are night and day). So I let her vent with her 10 to 15 songs she has downloaded on her iPad. 70s to 80s disco hits, Dire Strait hits, David Bowie hits (not bad), John Lennon hits (not bad either), and ZZ Top hits (ok with some of those). Over and over while I cooked dinner for her and served up on the deck.
After that and today: Colin Masson - Isle of Eight: Very symphonic, mostly instrumental with blends of Mediterranean, Spanish, and renaissance thrown in. Sun Ra - Secrets of the Sun: Other worldly jazz. Astra - The Dark Chord: Good stoner rock style to me with symphonic tendencies thrown in. Christopher Lee - The Metal Knight: Yes, that Christopher Lee. That God like voice to classical metal! Such a blast with I Don Quixote, The Impossible Dream, Toreador March, and My Way (ala Frank Sinartra). I smiled all the way through while pulling weeds in the flower garden. Oh, and I finally found a song that I have been searching for (not diligently mind you) since I saw them in concert in the 70s on the Taking It to The Streets tour. The Doobie Brothers had a part of a song that was border line, if not prog like. I thought it was only something they did live and did not think I would hear it again. I finally heard it on my Doobie Brothers - Stampede album. It is the end of the song "I Cheat the Hangman". I was absorbed with it when I saw and heard it at the show back then, but never found it until now. Beautiful sigh of relief ..........
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HolyMoly
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^^ I’ve been debating whether to get that Stampede album. The Captain & Me is a winner. I’ll be sure to pick that one up!
Todayish: Last night I saw a great, intimate blues show from a total pro, Bob Margolin, a veteran of Muddy Waters’ band (appearing in The Last Waltz). My neighborhood friend’s been asking me for months to check out live blues at this cool venue, and I’m glad I finally did. Sloan | 12 — Canadian power pop band, around since the early 90s. Can’t say enough good things about this band. Each of the 4 members writes and sings lead - in this case, they all did 3 songs apiece and most of them are fantastic. One of their strongest, most consistent albums, and quite far into their career. David Bowie | Heathen — first time all the way thru this one, and it’s definitely in the running for best album post-1983, so far anyway. Graham Central Station| s/t — Larry Graham of Sly & the Family Stone. A classy, sophisticated soul/funk album. Guapo | History of the Visitation — watch out for that tree! Little Feat | Waiting for Columbus — superlative live album. Expanded 2 disc version Plan 9 | Sea Hunt — 80s psych garage band I liked in college. Still sounds groovy today Jade Warrior | Last Autumn’s Dream — Unique band. I think I’ll be binging on this band this week. The Doors | The Soft Parade — in spots it sounds like they’re channeling Tom Jones, which isn’t a bad thing. Strange album, which is good news with The Doors. Shaman’s Blues and Wild Child seem to be the only tunes that sound like them. The title track could pass for a Mothers of Invention tune. Edited by HolyMoly - April 28 2019 at 20:26 |
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^ I don't get the hate for Soft Parade, it's a personal favourite of mine.
Last few days: Black Bombaim - "the new one" (As I suspected, this is a speakers album. A modern take on the exploratory side of Can and Ash Ra Tempel.) Miss Lava - Sonic Debris Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure (Always a good pick when I don't know what to spin.) Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel Germinale - ...e Il Suo Respiro... (Nice 90's retro RPI) Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil |
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Frank zappa | 200 Motels — yes, AGAIN...
Frank Zappa | Civilization Phaze III — sublime Frank Zappa | Freak Out — Suzy?? The Kinks | Are the Village Green Preservation Society — got the 3 disc deluxe version Phish | Vegas 1996 (4 CD + DVD) — this was close to Phish’s peak in my experience. I was so into them at the time, really fun to revisit them with a show I’m not familiar with. Really high energy and creative deviances from the source material. Thurston Moore & Loren Connors | The Only Way is Straight Through. RSD release from a couple of years ago. Improvisational guitar noisescapes from a couple of pros. Very nice. Edited by HolyMoly - April 30 2019 at 20:38 |
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Sorry to hear about the wife, Jim. That sucks! Loving the Alice so far - good suggestion for a review. Alice Cooper - Killers Alice Cooper - Pretties For YouJulie London - The End of the World |
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HolyMoly
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Blood Sweat & Tears | Child is Father to the Man — first album, and only one with Al Kooper. Arguably the birth of jazz-rock, and certainly the primary inspiration for Chicago
Cromagnon | Orgasm — I have David-bamsen to thank for this one. Come out, wherever you are! Jandek | Raining Down Diamonds — the most despondent, depressed album from the most depressing artist. Yep, I was in a funk today. Wolf Eyes | Human Animal — one of their better efforts. doesn’t seem to do them justice to call them a “noise band”, there’s a method to the chaos Xeerox | 1979-1981 Recuerdo Espectral de un Viejo Decorado Electrico — obscure thing I found on a music blog years ago. Faint, formless, and lo-fi. Again, I was in a mood. Al Kooper | New York City (You’re a Woman) — Koop pulled me out of my misery. He’s the man. This s is his 4th solo album, circa 1971. Al Kooper | You Never Know Who Your Friends Are — Al continues to elevate my mood. This is his 2nd, from 1969. He can do it all when it comes to bluesy/jazzy/R&B’y pop music too cool for the radio. Ty Segall | Sleeper — eh, not one of my favorites from him. Probably why I don’t play it a lot. He’s a noisy garage rock renaissance man, don’t really need confessional acoustic albums from him. |
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Automatism - Automatism
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs Hostsonaten - Mirrorgames (It's difficult to appreciate these early albums when I know what Fabio Zuffanti did afterwards. ) Né Ladeiras - Alhur Pan - Pan Mike Oldfield - Incantations Golden Earring - Eight Miles High (First listen to this band. Very cool music. ) |
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Mink Deville - Cabretta
Andy Williams - Wonderful World Ferrante and Teicher - Concert for Lovers That Mink album is pretty cool late 70s "first spin" for me. A little bit Lou Reed, a little Keith Richard, with just a touch of new wave cool. |
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^^ Ooh Eight Miles High, that’s a great Golden Earring album. Although I would say that the sidelong Byrds cover is the least attractive track — see the 1977 live album for the definitive version of that track. It easily rivals the best versions out there!
Today, Yoko spoke to me a lot. Along with Trey, Mike, Page and Fishman. An odd day. John Lennon & Yoko Ono | Unfinished Music Vol 1: Two Virgins John Lennon & Yoko Ono | Unfinished Music Vol 2: Life With the Lions Phish | Live 7/15/2003 Phish | The Road to Vegas (bonus CD with the Vegas 96 box) Yoko Ono | Fly |
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