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

Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Ruth Copeland - Self Portrait
Ruth Copeland - I Am What I Am
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?

Stone Breath - Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis 

Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet 

Today was awesome. Got some new releases.

Fear Factory— Aggression Continuum ( well this is my new favorite album of 2021. I mean it is nothing different coming outside the FF camp, however it is still quality music. Sounds great as well. Incredible and slick production.

Queensrÿche— Operation Mindcrime 35th Ann Remaster. ( so is it worth buying this boxset even though one may have bought the 3CD 2006 deluxe edition? You bet. I can’t believe how much of an improvement sound-wise this remaster has. It is so fantastic I’m shocked. Ed Courage at Abbey Road studios gave this album a beautiful facelift it massively deserved cause the 2006 version is absolutely garbage. If one loves this album you’ve got to buy it. :)

Black Sabbath— Sabotage (2021 remaster ). Again. Another massively successful remaster. Jesus I think we’re finally getting way better at reissuing classic albums. :)

^^ Boredoms! Need to play that one again. I did spin Seadrum/House of Sun a month or so ago, and that really sounded great after all this time.

I’ve listened to this:

Don “Sugarcane” Harris | I’m on Your Case — R&B/blues from a guy you’ll recognize from Hot Rats, Weasels, & Burnt Weeny

Steve Hillage | Rainbow Dome Musick — newly acquired vinyl copy

Henry Kaiser | Hope You Like our New Direction — hilarious cheesy album cover, but the music inside samples nearly all of the strange directions his career has taken: live jammy covers of popular songs with his touring band, acoustic Americana, Synclavier pieces, avant guitar solos, complex jazzy instrumentals, songs from the Far East with Richard Thompson singing, etc.

The Lodge | Smell of a Friend — should be better known in prog circles. J Greaves & P Blegvad, with Jakko Jakczyk, Kristofer Blegvad (on most of the vox) & Anton Fier, late 80s. Writing and playing sophisticated thinking-man’s pop/rock.

Sonic Youth | SYR 6: Koncertas Stan Brackhage — one of the best of the SYR series, a live improvised performance of swelling and receding avant drones & feedback manipulation.

Roxy Music | Avalon — when my dad got his first CD player in ‘85, this was the first CD he bought. It’s long been a constant in my life, like all those Steely Dan albums. Feels good to listen to it every now and then.

Pink Floyd | Meddle — because why not

Genesis | Wind and Wuthering - speaking of my dad, I was at his house last night and he asked me to bring my CD of this. He wanted to compare it to the issue he has, and also compare to a vinyl copy (which we both also have). So we did a comparison of all three: vinyl, 90s CD (mine), and more recent CD (his). We agreed the new remaster was superior to the 90s CD. The vinyl was better than the 90s CD too.

Edited by HolyMoly - June 27 2021 at 08:22

Guldbamsen wrote: Hi Nick Still haven’t got around to spinning any of those TFF records Been house and kitty-sitting since friday seeing as my folks went to Rhodes and I just happen to have my vacation. This means DAP time instead of cds…and man I have been finding stuff I haven’t listened to for years. Very nice indeed. Hooffoot - s/t Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma Prosper - Broken Door Ozric Tentacles - The Hidden Step Osanna - Palepoli Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun Depeche Mode - Violator Magma - 1001 Centigrades Simple Minds - Sons & Fascination Genesis - Trespass

Hey!!! Love the Genesis and Flying Lotus pick. Nice man.

Take your time. TFF sowed their true last seed of lovely awesomeness in 1989. Enjoy your vacation. Next week I will have 4 days off for the Canada 🇨🇦 Day long weekend. Looking forward to that. Gonna dive into some great albums.

re: Boredoms 

Edited by Hiram - June 28 2021 at 12:01

Hiram wrote: re: Boredoms  Vision Creation Newsun and Seadrum/House Of Sun are great! I much prefer them to their hyperactive early stuff (which may have its moments, but not very often nowadays).  A few years ago I saw a Boredoms live video where they had literally dozens of drummers.

Agree with you there! Have to be in the right mood for that crazy early stuff.