What albums did you listen to today?...continued

Thanks everyone for so much awesome back-and-forth conservation over the last few days. You're all an awesome bunch.

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Glad you dug that Mansun album, Sam, it IS good! Ha, but speaking of Oasis, consider checking out their third album `Be Here Now', so fuelled by ego and cocaine that almost every track goes for between five and nine minutes, just endlessly overblown and bombastic! So many of the pieces have reprises over and over and never know when to end, it's freaking hilarious. But it's also actually rather good in parts, some decent tunes buried in there as well

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My choices last night:

Renaissance – Prologue

The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile (great bent psych album, love it way it unravels in several spots, total album career suicide, but some impeccable moments of beauty and cohesion as well)

The Beach Boys – Wild Honey (charming and classy pop album)

The Byrds – Notorious Byrd Brothers
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Aphrodite’s Child – 666 (first disc)
Robert Rich – Filaments
Steve Roach & Robert Rich – Strata

King Crimson - Live in Hyde Park

ALotOfBottle wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Future Days is like summer condensed into this fever-like psychedelic calypso gallop. Aaahhh, missed that. Another excellent description.

I first “got” Future Days (several years after buying it) while I was high on Ny-Quil. Same kind of feverish, nervy, oddly relaxing haze.
Not that I’m condoning such things

Edited by HolyMoly - May 02 2018 at 16:39

Guldbamsen wrote: Future Days is like summer condensed into this fever-like psychedelic calypso gallop.

Aaahhh, missed that. Another excellent description.

HolyMoly wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: HolyMoly wrote: Goodcstuff lately David! Sorry about yer back. Today: Greta Van Fleet | From the Fires John Maus | Songs Colouratura | s/t The Sonics | This is the Sonics Algiers | The Underside of Power John Zorn | The Big Gundown Thanks buddy. Please feel free to donate a new one if you’re thinking about spending the rest of your life sitting comfortably in a chair I’ve been spinning the newest Maus album a lot lately and am digging the hell out of it. Touchdown as well as the last couple of tunes are among the finest I’ve heard from him. Bit disappointed about that Algiers album, but I did love the debut to bits. It was always going to be a tall order to top. Yesterday: Igor Wakhevitch - Docteur Faust Warm Digits - Wireless World Aktuala - s/t The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits Bauhaus - Mask Franco Battiato - Clic Miles Davis - Big Fun I just got the Maus box set - all his albums on coloured vinyl with a book of lyrics, some musical scores, etc. i preordered it last summer at the same time I preordered the new album. Thing is, I like what he does but I don’t understand it at all. It’s intriguing, his style. It was his connection to Ariel Pink that got me interested, and I’m still trying to figure him out. He’s a pretty deep guy. I’m entirely new to Algiers (though I think they’re from my town), I picked up that CD in a used bin based only on the fact that Anthony Fantano (of “the needle drop”) liked it. Not that I trust him entirely, but now and then I like to blindly experiment with new music outside my usual buying habits, so if I see something used, I’ll sometimes take a blind chance. Hey, with The Knife’s Shaking the Habitual, that impulse buy resulted in one of my favorite albums. So it’s worth the risk. I do enjoy this Algiers album but wasn’t even aware of any other albums, so I’ll ck the prior one out. I listened to Battiato ‘s Clic album recently, and I’m still tempted to get the vinyl reissue. But if I got one of them, I’d have to get all of them , and I’m not sure I want to spend that much on stuff I already have on CD. But....damn.

That's a bit odd actually, but then again I got into Ariel and Maus almost simultaneously and have always felt a kindred spirit and sound. That slightly psychedelically tinged 80s hypnagogic pop style with weird fittings, cartoonish brushstrokes here and there and the occasional rock bursts. Maybe I'm mad. I had the same experience when I started listening to the brothers Tame Impala and Pond - though nowadays I vastly prefer the latter. They still share 'a sound' though just like I think Ariel and Maus does.

The Algiers debut is pretty much a more...erm direct? Nahh...it just seems to share all of the same ingredients as the sophomore album but arranged altogether differently...and better to these ears. There's more snarl to the dynamics - especially between the keys/electronics and the main vocalist. I find the style refreshing to say the least. Sorta like industrial post-punk gospel. Hah that sounds insane!

I think I have Shaking the Habitual somewhere in my folks' garage (one of these days I really should do an inventory count or maybe just sell some of the old stuff I don't listen to anymore. Maybe I could get more room to fill up with music katjing!

I am still on the fence about those Battiato lps. Damn why did you have to remind me?
I am actually listening to Fetus right this minute. I love how raw and naive it feels. So compliments the overall theme when looking at the cover art.

Yesterday:
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
Faust - Fresh Air
Steve Hauschildt - Strands
The Orb - COW/Chill Out, World!
The Heliocentrics - A World Of Masks (Real jungle panther music. Great for canooing. I tried it)
Alain Goraguer - La Planete Sauvage (Everytime I listen to this I wonder why I don't spin it more often. It is brilliant. Sorta like Ennio Morricone going psych rock. Recommended to just about everyone. It's addictive.)
Thundercat - Drunk
David Bowie - Low

Edited by Guldbamsen - May 02 2018 at 11:56

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Mansun – Little Kix – Sam, did you ever listen to this follow-up to `Six’? I think, seeing as how you’re currently on a synth-pop/New Wave/New Romantic bender, you would dig the heck out of it, because it always sounded more influenced by those styles. At the time it came out it was a bit of a disappointment and kind of felt like the band giving out (actually the final track even kind of seemed to hint that it was all wrapping up) and it seems quite straightforward in comparison, but...it’s a fine little indie-pop album!

I never heard it but I'm curious to hear now. I'll report back.

Prog Sothoth wrote: Mortte wrote: the Damned: Live Shepperton 1980 Haven't played this in decades, so I gave it a spin. Still holds up as my favorite by them alongside The Black Album. Side 2 I especially dig. It cranks and it's punk, but with a lot of cool spaced-out guitar solos. I especially like "Plan 9 Channel 7", moreso than the studio version even.

Noticed in the end of the listening that those live tracks in Black Album was taken from the same gig. But anyway great to hear to whole gig!

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Is that a new album from Dirk? I've been listening to the live album of his and it's been really helpful on nights where my back feels like a clenched fist. So soothing and yet still menacing in all the right places much thanks to the ol Tangerine Dream snarl from the sequencers. It's a fairly recent Cosmic Ground release from 2016, essentially two side-long pieces recorded during the third album sessions but ultimately offered up as a free download, but it did get an LP release. It's on its way to me right now. Sorry to hear about your back, man, I totally relate. I'm actually literally right now about to depart to do 30 minutes of stretches before bed to help strengthen up my back, which has been getting a little creaky again! Mate, you should definitely look into this release, I just bought the LP of it, Scattered Purgatory's `Sun-Hiam-Zun' from late 2017. A stunner of a modern Krautrock disc (although very short!), they're a Japenese duo that craft hypnotic, ethnic flavoured psychedelic drones with thick electronics ala Cluster/Popul Vuh, with a rough around the edges stripped-back production. I think it would be just your thing https://scatteredpurgatorygggb.bandcamp.com/album/sua-hiam-zun

I had no idea about that 2016 release of his. Thanks for the heads up!
Creaky back? Arghh man. You need to oil the hinges buddy. No getting around that. I guess stretches can do the trick, like yoga or tai chi.

Never heard of Scattered Purgatory (insane name right there) but the way you describe em makes me look forsard to the meeting:) Thanks again.

Mortte wrote: the Damned: Live Shepperton 1980

Guldbamsen wrote: HolyMoly wrote: Goodcstuff lately David! Sorry about yer back. Today: Greta Van Fleet | From the Fires John Maus | Songs Colouratura | s/t The Sonics | This is the Sonics Algiers | The Underside of Power John Zorn | The Big Gundown Thanks buddy. Please feel free to donate a new one if you’re thinking about spending the rest of your life sitting comfortably in a chair I’ve been spinning the newest Maus album a lot lately and am digging the hell out of it. Touchdown as well as the last couple of tunes are among the finest I’ve heard from him. Bit disappointed about that Algiers album, but I did love the debut to bits. It was always going to be a tall order to top. Yesterday: Igor Wakhevitch - Docteur Faust Warm Digits - Wireless World Aktuala - s/t The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits Bauhaus - Mask Franco Battiato - Clic Miles Davis - Big Fun

I just got the Maus box set - all his albums on coloured vinyl with a book of lyrics, some musical scores, etc. i preordered it last summer at the same time I preordered the new album. Thing is, I like what he does but I don’t understand it at all. It’s intriguing, his style. It was his connection to Ariel Pink that got me interested, and I’m still trying to figure him out. He’s a pretty deep guy.

I’m entirely new to Algiers (though I think they’re from my town), I picked up that CD in a used bin based only on the fact that Anthony Fantano (of “the needle drop”) liked it. Not that I trust him entirely, but now and then I like to blindly experiment with new music outside my usual buying habits, so if I see something used, I’ll sometimes take a blind chance. Hey, with The Knife’s Shaking the Habitual, that impulse buy resulted in one of my favorite albums. So it’s worth the risk. I do enjoy this Algiers album but wasn’t even aware of any other albums, so I’ll ck the prior one out.

I listened to Battiato ‘s Clic album recently, and I’m still tempted to get the vinyl reissue. But if I got one of them, I’d have to get all of them , and I’m not sure I want to spend that much on stuff I already have on CD. But....damn.