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

New Wave! I’ll skip Tears for Fears and Talk Talk since they’re already well known around these parts.

On the more “art rock” side:
Wire (154, The Ideal Copy)
The Cure (The Head on the Door)
The Fall (This Nation’s Saving Grace)
Bill Nelson (Red Noise and solo) (Sound on Sound, The Love that Whirls)
Propaganda (A Secret Wish)
Julian Cope (some very poppy albums but some very heavy conceptual ones too) (Saint Julian, Jehovahkill)
Nina Hagen (the female Captain Beefheart?) (Unbehagen, Nunsexmonkrock)
Crime and the City Solution (similar vibe to Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds but I actually like them more) (Shine, paradise Discotheque)

On the more poppy side
Level 42 (Level 42, World Machine)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Architecture and Morality, Crush)
Eurythmics (Sweet Dreams)
New Order (Power Corruption and Lies, Low Life)
ABC (The Lexicon of Love)

And a good chance to plug a great new band I’ve been into (if you like the gothic side of new wave):

Drab Majesty (Careless, The Demonstration)


Edited by HolyMoly - June 13 2019 at 18:28

Prog Sothoth wrote: Led Zeppelin - IV: Normally when I'm driving with my two kids in the back seat, they fight constantly and drive me nuts while I drive them around. Strangely enough, during "Stairway to Heaven" I suddenly realized that it was dead silent in back. I looked and the kids were just sitting there listening to the song, transfixed. As much as I burnt myself out of that tune decades ago, I have renewed appreciation for its sheer power, and for making the car ride less aggravating.

That whole Led Zep IV album just has a mystique that is hard to resist. It just makes you look up at it in awe. I remember a small handful of albums like that (the White Album is another).

Yesterday and today I had the honor of carpooling my daughter and 3 of her friends to a summer day camp downtown, an improv comedy theater we’re longtime fans of. So they got to hear the first of these:

Guided by Voices | Earthquake Glue
R. Stevie Moore & the Marlborough | Grease
Nina Hagen | Nunsexmonkrock ( Just recently, inspired by my remembrance above. What a shocking album this is. She’s nuts)
Black Flag | My War
Spirit | Spirit (mono mix)
Chris Rea | Auberge
Bob Dylan | New Morning (maybe the best “comfort” Dylan album out there. Wounded but on the rebound and hopeful)
Esmectatons | @Domingo Cinza
The Knife | Shaking the Habitual
Queen | Queen

Black Flag | Damaged
Flipper | Generic
Lou Reed | New York
Soft Machine | Fourth
Sonic Youth | SYR3: Invito a Cielo

Lou Reed | Metal Machine Music — great for an occasional listen.

Spoon | Telephono — again. One of my favorite 90s indie albums. About half the songs are so awesome I can’t pick a favorite.

L. Shankar | Touch Me There — Electric violinist pop/jazz fusion, produced by Zappa, who also co-wrote 2 songs. One such song, Dead Girls of London, was also frequently performed on stage by Zappa and his band from 1979-1982 or so.

Klaus Schulze | Cyborg — great space music, using only a couple of organs and a tape machine. This is the Klaus album I return to most

Big Dipper | Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology — really fun/rockin’ power pop band from the late 80s. Boston I think.

Black Flag | In My Head — their last studio album. Pretty weird in that they seem to be complex guitar-based instrumentals, but with Henry on top.

Jade Warrior | Kites
Spiritualized | Royal Albert Hall October 10, 1997

Alan Parsons Project, I, Robot

Last 2 days

Lou Reed | Coney Island Baby — very easygoing Lou. He was in a mellow mood when he made this.

The Dead C | Tusk — New Zealand noisemongers at their noisiest.

Black Flag | Slip it In — much better production than My War, and about 1/2 of this ranks with their best

Funkadelic | America Eats its Young — double album. Musically, it may be their best. No eyebrow-raising novelty tunes, no Eddie Hazel guitar workouts, but it seems Bernie Worrell (organ) is in control and the result is heavy, epic R&B with a lot of variety

Jandek | On the Way — a pretty bluesy effort from Captain Corwood. Better than I recalled.

Belle & Sebastian | How to Solve our Human Problems — recent CD compiling 3 EPs from early 2018. Pretty good but I fear their best days are behind them (10 + years ago with “The Life Pursuit”)

Big Black | Atomizer — Kerosene and Jordan Minnesota are pretty cool. I remember loving the former back in my college days. At least there’s some good bass too. Lack of bass in the mix hurts the early stuff.

Quicksilver Messenger Service | Happy Trails — Bo Diddley jams til the cows come home (Who Do You Love, Mona) plus a weird spaghetti western instrumental turned avant-garde (Cavalry). It’s kind of a single-album analog to Live-Dead, and well worth a listen if you like that one

Jandek | Interstellar Discussion — one of the first Jandek albums I got, and it’s great. The first part is all chaotic electric tunes with crazy singing and drums that seem barely able to keep the beat, followed by 9 acoustic tunes with cocals on a detuned guitar and with a very deranged vocal delivery, always somehow in control.

The Fall | Slates EP — best EP of all time, in my opinion. On different days The Fall is either in my top 5 or top 10 bands, but they’re up there. This one seems to be the break point between their earliest phase and their most fruitful period. A fulcrum, if you will.

Finnforest wrote: OMD - Architecture and Morality

I had my copy in hand the other day but went with Omega instead. How do you like it?

Meltdowner wrote: Finnforest wrote: OMD - Architecture and Morality I had my copy in hand the other day but went with Omega instead. How do you like it?