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Posted: June 18 2013 at 23:27
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Would Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock be considered adventurous beyond the band's progression?
I would say so. I probably would have included Spirit of Eden in my post if I'd thought of it. I remember when it came out, I was trying to figure out what it was - "jazz, but not jazz" is pretty much as far as I got.
I've only heard Laughing Stock, but based on what I know about rock music at the time, and about the band's history, I would definitely call it an adventurous album, and Spirit of Eden also if it's anything like it. They were, after all, one of the seminal bands of post rock, if I understand the history correctly.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 20:05
Not mentioned yet:
Henry Cow - Unrest (especially the second side, which was studio-manipulated improvisations)
Art Zoyd - Les Espace Inequits (mixing their previous freak-out chamber prog stuff with synths and drum machines for the first time, creating some incredibly weird yet timeless music)
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (an insane album with unpredictable and challenging music combined with some weird and sometimes disturbing lyrical content, not something you want to listen to relaxing on a Sunday afternoon or whatever)
Though not prog, I would like to mention Dan Barrett's project Have a Nice Life and the album Deathconsciousness. It's a great mix of shoegaze, post-rock, post-punk and drone. One of the darkest and most interesting albums I've ever heard. Here's the ending track if anyone's interested:
I would say so. I probably would have included Spirit of Eden in my post if I'd thought of it. I remember when it came out, I was trying to figure out what it was - "jazz, but not jazz" is pretty much as far as I got.
An incredible record. Though I prefer Laughing Stock, Spirit of Eden is certainly more innovative. Laughing Stock expanded on the sound they established on SoE and developed it further imo.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 17:41
Horizons wrote:
Would Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock be considered adventurous beyond the band's progression?
I would say so. I probably would have included Spirit of Eden in my post if I'd thought of it. I remember when it came out, I was trying to figure out what it was - "jazz, but not jazz" is pretty much as far as I got.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 16:59
I think there's a bunch here, I'm going to pick albums that stopped me in my tracks when I heard them, I'll go for:-
Amon Duul II - Tanz Der Lemminge (great genre stretching psyche) King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic (so angular, so heavy, so different from the earlier stuff) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History (avant metal unlike anyone else) Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (nuff said) MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (heavy heavy heavy) Art Zoyd - Symphonie pour le jour... (angular, dissonant, what the hell is going on?) Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness (how to make music bleed, it literally screams) 5UU's - Hungers Teeth (edgy, atonal, dissonant, me likey) Comus - First Utterance (Acid Folk, my god he sounds like he's suffering) Richard Pinhas - Metal / Crystal (noise that moves and flows, drives & throbs)
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 16:56
I agree with HolyMoly: Magma's MDK, Can's Tago Mago, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and Kayo
Dot's Choirs of the Eye all burst onto the scene with sound/music that was, to me, totally mind expanding. I will also add those posed by Queen By-Tor: King Crimson's Discipline and The Mars Volta's De-loused in the Comatorium as well as three others that I think fit the bill: Yes' Fragile, Cocteau Twins' Treasure and maudlin of the Well's Part the Second also blew me away with the freshness of their sounds, composing & performing. All amazing achievements in human creativity, IMHO.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 15:37
I don't feel Dark Side of the Moon is very adventurous, Ummagumma studio on the other hand...Today it seems rather incredible that they got away with it.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 15:30
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And you know... I find some of the avant-garde black metal out there to be some of the most adventurous music. I would say "La Masqurade Infernale" by Arcturus definitely feels like an 'adventure.'
Not sure if they're considered "avant-garde" black metal but I would point to Enslaved. I think their 2001 album "Monumension" would qualify as adventurous as it mixes black metal with Norwegian folk and viking influences to create something new.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 14:39
Smurph wrote:
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And you know... I find some of the avant-garde black metal out there to be some of the most adventurous music. I would say "La Masqurade Infernale" by Arcturus definitely feels like an 'adventure.'
Of Natural History is a great album, definitely adventurous!
on a somewhat related (not not really) note: Porcupine Tree's On The Sunday of Life is likely their most varied and eclectic. A favorite of mine
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