I'm sorry to keep chiming in... but I forGOT about this band.
Yezda Urfa. Such a sad tale with this band. But holy cow they were adventurous.
I love "Sacred Baboon" - I never heard the story though...what sad thing happened to them
I'm guessing here, but I believe he's referring to the break up of the band, and that they couldn't get any record company to sign them. Their first album was self released, and the second got shelved for 16 years - only to be released with the help of the Syn-phonic man Greg Walker.
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Posted: June 20 2013 at 10:44
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Area are `adventurous', Dave?! More like `bat s**t freaking insane'!!
That band takes a lot of time to get your head around, but well worth it in the end. They that can take a lifetime to truly appreciate!
You want bat sh*t crazy.
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Dude. This is a tough one to listen to by yourself! Lol. Dare ya to listen to it with the lights off.
True. "Nature Unveiled" is pretty spooky as well.
Probably the scariest album in that vein that I've heard, though, is "Homotopy to Marie" by Nurse With Wound. I haven't been able to listen to it a second time.
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When speaking of the most adventurous in regards to rock music, it's almost impossible not to think of Faust - at least it is for me. These guys took rock n roll and deconstructed it completely. Just like modern chefs with their molecular cuisine serving food that looks very different from how it actually tastes. "Wow uhhhmmm I love bananas!!" -and then you get kebab meat with capers instead. That's Faust for ya.
This debut of theirs is among the most ground-breaking rock albums ever made imo. Conversely, I don't think it's anywhere near as good as what came after. Faust Tapes, So Far and IV are far better records.
Edited by Guldbamsen - June 20 2013 at 10:29
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
I think there are two measures of adventurous when it comes to music - there are those albums that are adventurous when you look back on them - the really wacky out-there ones that will be weird and bold and daring no matter when you hear them - Ys (Il Balletto di Bronzo, naturally), Pawn Hearts and Of Natural History will fit into that category for me in ways that so many well meaning albums never will. And there are those albums that are adventurous when you look on them for the first time, that when you've played them through once you mutter under your breath "What. The. F---. Was. That..."
Of course many of those albums may remain like that, and become one of those "looking back" adventurous albums, but other's don't - they are the ones that turned your head and you can never turn it back, and they're never quite as adventurous after repeated plays and some, after a long interval looking back on them leave you wondering what all the fuss was about. Tool's Undertow is an example of one such album for me - a jaw-drop album that seemed quite normal by the time Aenima was released and then by Lateralus and 10000 Days I'd almost forgotten how good it was - but when I first heard it - "W.T.F.W.T...". Other albums that fit into this category would be Tubby Bells, In Search Of The Lost Chord, A Farewell To Kings, Meddle, In The Region Of The Summer Stars and Future Days.
(I hope that all makes sense...)
Oh god sakes Dean! You ALWAYS make sense Also. Undertow had that aberance to it that made so appealing to me as well, but they (Tool) really did up the Anti in the 'I'm gonna blow your mind' department with AENIMA. Crazy German accents, creepy voice messages and seriously weird clown music. Oh boy. Talk about the Third eye really being opened up. The members of Tool did so much Ayahuasca it's not even funny.
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Posted: June 19 2013 at 18:33
Some great choices on this thread, many of which I wholeheartedly agree with, especially Darwin!, Larks’ Tongues, Danse Macabre, Sgt. Pepper, and even Dark Side. Nothing else like ’em at the time.
I think credit should be given to the major record labels that put this stuff out. I can’t imagine Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, an album that could be found in a supermarket in the small town where I grew up, being released a few years later, at least not by Atlantic.
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Always - it's literally always around this time where I get into the groove, speak to cool cats on PA and put some vinyls on the ol rack.......and then I have to go to bed!
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Posted: June 19 2013 at 18:21
Honestly, Dave...the vocals are all over the place on that one, sometimes really flat and painful, other times emotiojnal and effective!
But that album is very hard to love without a ton of plays. I was about to cash in my CD of it when I thought `You know, I'm going to listen to nothing else for the next week', must have played it about 20 times, and it finally clicked, even though much of the first half is quite fragmented and difficult to follow.
Smurph@ I used to do the same. I listened to all those mp3 lists too and subsequently found a lot of music that I hadn't heard before. Cool to take a chance sometimes and just listen to what the machine tells you.
Mike@ I own that Marsupilami album as well. It's so.............erm theatrical? is probably the wrong word for it, but it's irregular and overwrought and then again it works in a bizarre kind of way.
Edited by Guldbamsen - June 19 2013 at 18:17
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Posted: June 19 2013 at 18:10
Dave- That is because when I used to work for Chase- I could listen to music at work and I didn't have an iPod. The only website that wasn't blocked with music on it was progarchives.com. I listened to EVERY single mp3 that existed on the website while i worked there. Opened my mind to so many new bands that you can't believe it.
I have well over 50 post-it notes, each with over 25 names on them.
And YES I had listened to that album on youtube once before! Arena!! Ohhhh man.
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Posted: June 19 2013 at 18:09
Put it this way, Smurph and Dave, I remember when my buddy, fellow Archives member Tom Ozric, first got an LP reissue of Area's `Crac', and when he played it I thought `WHAT THE F**K?!?!?' lol! I couldn't get my head around a second of it! The music went in all directions, and then there were the inpenetrable vocals to deal with as well! Mind you, this was probably almost 18 years ago?
Another album I used to think quite little of that I know consider something of an unappreciated classic - and definately fits the `adventurous' tage here - is Marsupilami's `Arena'!
I can not explain properly how much I lose my s**t when it hits that opening passage a few seconds into the album:
"I've come here today, to rip the veil from your eyes, pull off your heads AND RIP OUT YOUR BLOODY MINDS!!!'
OH man I forgot about Area and Il Balletto Di Bronzo!!!!!
But... what really is interesting is the life of the singer from Area. Anyone interested in their music should check it out. He is actually one of the best vocalist to ever have existed. He literally studied on a higher plane of intellectual ideas when it came to the use of his voice.
Anyone who thinks Mike Patton is great needs only to check out the singer from Area to find out what probably is one of his biggest inspirations.
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And Stratos was just phenomenal. A prodigy really. His solo album is beyond insane. It's all vocals, and he bends em like warm jello. Adventurous yes, that's the word.
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Posted: June 19 2013 at 17:58
Guldbamsen wrote:
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Area are `adventurous', Dave?! More like `bat s**t freaking insane'!!
That band takes a lot of time to get your head around, but well worth it in the end. They that can take a lifetime to truly appreciate!
I've been catching myself recently whistling grooves off of the Crac! album at school The other day I was standing in line waiting to buy a cup of coffee from the nice lunch lady, and caught myself in the midst of L'Elefante Bianco while moving slightly funky about.
She looked at me like I was crazy. I asked her if she never danced to her own beats, and she gave me a smile plus a free fill-up (because of the dance, she said)
Maybe this music truly makes you loose your marbles? If so, then I'm definitely loving every second of it.
Area are `adventurous', Dave?! More like `bat s**t freaking insane'!!
That band takes a lot of time to get your head around, but well worth it in the end. They that can take a lifetime to truly appreciate!
I've been catching myself recently whistling grooves off of the Crac! album at school The other day I was standing in line waiting to buy a cup of coffee from the nice lunch lady, and caught myself in the midst of L'Elefante Bianco while moving slightly funky about.
She looked at me like I was crazy. I asked her if she never danced to her own beats, and she gave me a smile plus a free fill-up (because of the dance, she said)
Maybe this music truly makes you loose your marbles? If so, then I'm definitely loving every second of it.
Edited by Guldbamsen - June 19 2013 at 17:57
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