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

I went back an album and span Angel’s Egg. Double score! The teapot trilogy tends to be forgotten about in my household. Enough of that!
As for 2019 and prog I too have been completely out of the loop, but these last weeks have proven to me that great music has a way of hiding from you until you make an effort to go look for it
Bands that all made albums I think you’ll dig (and consequentially also a fair account of what I have listened to the last two days...plus some Gong):
Swans
The Winstons
Secret Chiefs 3
Kayo Dot
Charlie Cawood
A Formal Horse
Waste Of Space Orchestra
The Worm Ouroboros
Fly Pan Am
Jambinai
Loosense
oG Musique
Hooffoot

Edited by Guldbamsen - January 22 2020 at 03:53

My pleasure Steve
Btw speaking of albums that took a while to click, that Liars album TFCF fits the bill. Last time I span it I couldn’t believe that it was the same album I’d listened to some 2-3 times before.

Yesterday:
AIR - Pocket Symphony
Embryo - Live Bremen (talk about a wild and almost transcendant live album! No guitars but violin, flute, bass and those caveman drums from Christian Burchard. He’s one of those who is impossible to play like. Ask any skilled drummer to play like Palmer or Peart and they get quite close..because it’s meters and counting and so forth...not so much with the likes of Burchard....but man does it ever cook! and does things to the surrounding musicians that basically sets them free.)
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Julius Vanderbilt - Heavy Weather
Eloy - Time To Turn
The KLF - White Room
Ochre - Lemodie
Gong - The Peel Sessions
Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Fläsket Brinner - Fläsket
Terry Riley - In C

Toto - Through The Looking Glass

GPS - Window To The Soul

The Embryo 2 disc set covers the whole 40 years, including some pre-Embryo jazz stuff. I’ll take a look when I get home. It’s a great package with a detailed booklet, well worth seeking out.

Yesterday’s sheet:

Arthur Brown | Dance
Style Council | Confessions of a Pop Group
The Cure | Seventeen Seconds
Edgar Froese | Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come | Kingdom Come
Meat Puppets | Meat Puppets
Neil Diamond | Tap Root Manuscript
Owen Maercks | Kinds of Blue
Owen Maercks | Teenage Sex Therapist
Scorpions | Tokyo Tapes
Phantom Tollbooth | Power Toy

Stream of consciousness- on some days, no one but Neil could follow the Pups.

Here’s another bunch, sanitized somewhat because I was listening with me wife for a few of these:

My Bloody Valentine | EPs 1988-1991
DQE & Jad Fair | s/t — DQE is an Atlanta duo that works at one of the CD stores I frequent, though it took me years to realize the people on the CD were the same people I saw in that store all the time. Big “whoa” moment when that happened.
Yes | Tales from Topographic Oceans (sides 3 & 4)
Chicago | XIV — I’m generally pretty lenient with Chicago but the Cetera tunes on this one stink to high heaven
Pierre Moerlen’s Gong | Gazeuse! — great work by Holdsworth on this one
My Bloody Valentine | Isn’t Anything
The Fixx | Reach the Beach — certain 80s pop bands are well respected in musicianly circles these days (TFF, Talk Talk, etc) but these guys still seem to be misunderstood. They were quite good and original.
Joe Jackson | Body and Soul — great atmosphere on this one, appropriate to the jazz-style album cover.
Blur | The Magic Whip — their reunion album from a couple of years ago. Really good. I hadn’t played it in a while but it really impressed.
Ohio Players | Fire — nifty funk with sweet ballads mixed in
Malo | s/t — Cuban progressive rock. Not entirely unlike Santana.

Edited by HolyMoly - January 25 2020 at 17:39

HolyMoly wrote: Stream of consciousness- on some days, no one but Neil could follow the Pups. Here’s another bunch, sanitized somewhat because I was listening with me wife for a few of these: My Bloody Valentine | EPs 1988-1991 DQE & Jad Fair | s/t — DQE is an Atlanta duo that works at one of the CD stores I frequent, though it took me years to realize the people on the CD were the same people I saw in that store all the time. Big “whoa” moment when that happened. Yes | Tales from Topographic Oceans (sides 3 & 4) Chicago | XIV — I’m generally pretty lenient with Chicago but the Cetera tunes on this one stink to high heaven Pierre Moerlen’s Gong | Gazeuse! — great work by Holdsworth on this one My Bloody Valentine | Isn’t Anything The Fixx | Reach the Beach — certain 80s pop bands are well respected in musicianly circles these days (TFF, Talk Talk, etc) but these guys still seem to be misunderstood. They were quite good and original. Joe Jackson | Body and Soul — great atmosphere on this one, appropriate to the jazz-style album cover. Blur | The Magic Whip — their reunion album from a couple of years ago. Really good. I hadn’t played it in a while but it really impressed. Ohio Players | Fire — nifty funk with sweet ballads mixed in Malo | s/t — Cuban progressive rock. Not entirely unlike Santana.

I feel the same way about Cocteau Twins and Area. Some times I just need a little mermaid music after some wild circus rides.

I have that Blur album but can honestly say that I can’t remember anything off it. I think it has to do with me purchasing some Gorillaz albums around the same time...and well the latter seemed to align with my tastes better. I still listen to their Plastic Beach record on a weekly/monthly basis.
Yesterday:
Diagonal: Arc (Great retro-psychedelic Canterbury thing with all the appropriate sidedishes ie mellotrons, jazzy whimsical beats, airy carefree vocals and a bootful of jam-like textures)
Kayo Dot - Blasphemy (Continuing down the experimental 80s route via Gothic Rock, Bowie-like avantguarde wizardry and a mix of the stark black beauty of metal and the cold embrace of electronica. Not sure it has clicked yet..but there’s something there.)
Plat Du Jour - s/t (Magma teams up with Stevie Wonder and makes an album specifically taylored for jolly Danes)
Pharaoh Overlord - 5 (The Fins go the motorik NEU! route with lots of laserbeam synths)
Alameda 5 - Eurodrome (More Kraut for your inner aura’s catwhiskers)
Laboratorium - Quasimodo (Polish fusion to woo peculiar women with)
Blue Effect & Jazz Q - Coniunctio (Hot Rats on mescalin!)
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Trojan Horse - Fukushima Surfer Boys (Been a while since I last heard this. Wowza)
The Cosmic Jokers - s/t (Spike my drink, bootleg my wild and eclectic musical trip and release without me knowing about it? Check. Such an unorthodox birth this album series have...but man am I ever glad they got to see the light of day. One of those rare instances where acid actually works in a “recording session”)

Hi Nick
I’m doing just fine and dandy - good to hear from you...although you gotta pump up the music listening cowboy! That stuff is just mandatory for the innards
I haven’t really investigated much of Alan Parsons Project after..well Pyramid
I should remedy that at some point. I’m spinning the debut tonight though. Only seems appropriate.

In Absentia finally clicked with me today. Have a few things in mind for when I go home. Perhaps Images and Words, Court of the Crimson King, Aja, Nude, UK's debut. Hmmm maybe someone should pick one for me.