News From Babel
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Topic: News From Babel
Posted By: Logan
Subject: News From Babel
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 00:16
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Two superb albums to recommend to fans of Henry Cow, Art Bears, Slapp Happy (related projects) and for those into Canterbury Scene music (Kew Rhone etc.) It's very accessible music, and very enjoyable. Perhaps choosing one track is a silly exercise, but I like having polls to go along with appreciation threads, Sirens And Silences/Work Resumed On The Towerby ../artist.asp?id=1997 - NEWS FROM BABEL
Letters Homeby ../artist.asp?id=1997 - NEWS FROM BABEL
------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 07:45
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I went For Arcades, but Anno Mirabilis is superb as well.
Although I much prefer LETTERS with Wyatt singing. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 09:41
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I chose Waited/Justice, but already regret. I should have gone for Dragon at the Core. Letters Home really isn't an album where I haven thought about what my favorite track is. Haven't listened to Sirens... nearly as much (yet). ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 16:21
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^ both are so good, but I find all listed very good. I voted for Anno Mirabilis (so to vote for something, but almost went with Dragon at the Core and Waited/ Justice too. Incidentally, yesterday as Waited/ Justice was playing and Wyatt started singing, my wife started laughing. Arrghh, she knows I'm a Wyatt fan and must know his voice by now... I told her, well not everyone can sing like Celine Dion, in fact, nobody should.
------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 06:42
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^Ha-ha. Evil wife. Very frustrating when things like that happen.
------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 09:33
Just imagine her listening to Catherine Jauniaux...  ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Logan wrote:Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 20:45
Or Diamanda Galąs just to top it off
I haven't got any NFB albums yet, but Im working on it. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 21:13
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Bj-1:
I'm not that big a fan of theirs (or Art Bears for that matter) but for what it's worth, there's the "boxset" I have with their two albums and single which is worth getting: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=12992 -
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=12992 - Sirens & Silences/Work Resumed on the Towers/Letters Home http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=12992 -
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 21:20
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That's the one I've been looking for, Assaf, but I always end up getting something else ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 21:31
Oddly enough, not long after her comment, I did put on Aksak Maboul's Un Peu's first track loudly and asked her what she thought of it. She didn't comment. And I have played Diamanda Galas for her in the past -- not her cuppa.  Incidentally, I played much of NfB compilation album today in the car on a long trip. Noticed her tapping her feet to "Dark Matter", and she seemed to enjoy that, so I guess that would be her pick. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 21:36
| I mulled over this for a little while, but the only resolution I came to was my incapability of narrowing the choice down to just one. I've never been able to do this. I think Sirens works beautiful as a whole and find myself listen to it more than any of the Art Bears records. I cannot speak for Letter Home as I still have not heard this album. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 21:44
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I love both albums and every single song, but Dragons at the core blows my had really far away. Incredible band featuring a most talented bunch. Who will accuse also kills me... ”and it is at the beggining of the freaking album!. To my amusement, it went better and better from that point to the end. ------------- ”Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 21:47
Meanwhile, whenever it is that I try to talk over some Wyatt song, my girlfriend makes me shut up and there was this time in wich "O caroline" was on and I received a bland object in the head as a "sush!". ------------- ”Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 22:05
Really? Almost wish I could swap ladies. I had thought "O Caroline" might make her a believer, but it didn't work. Maybe I should have played her Wyatt's version of "I'm a Believer." My wife would have a theological problem with Wyatt. I rather regret having sung along with Matching Mole's "God Song" while she was around when I was going through something of a crisis. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |