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

Meltdowner wrote: AEProgman wrote: Finally getting back around.  I have similar issues with it to IDV also Sam.  I sort of discovered by accident a way I listen to that and other albums I have difficulty with.  I listen to it in chunks over multiple listens instead of trying to push myself through it in one listen.  Anyway, it helps me digest it more and come to appreciate it (unless I totally hate something ).  Anyway, that album has some fantastic moments in it that I have come to like.  Nice score with signed copy! I did that with FEM's "Sulla Bola Di Sapone" and now I can listen to it in one sitting. I never did it with IDV because it's not practical with vinyl. I know Panna Fredda is a very early RPI album but I don't remember how it sounds. Man, I should start a full RPI week one of these days HolyMoly wrote: Yes | Going for the One - nothing sucks about this one. Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel (2nd, with “scratch” cover) - always been a bit ehh about this one, and this spin didn’t really change my mind Curved Air | Air Conditioning - debut album. Pretty strange for 1970 or any time. They should be regarded more highly for that. Scorpions | Lonesome Crow - debut 1972 album. Always loved this one. Like a more psych/jazz take on early Sabbath. Propaganda | Wishful Thinking - remix album based on 1985’s “A Secret Wish”. German synth pop produced for Trevor Horn’s label. That's the one album Steven Wilson should have remixed. I never really liked it because of the mixing, it sounds so distant and blurry. Not even Fripp could save it I only have their second, the debut album I keep finding on vinyl but always very expensive. The first release by the great Brain label. I was very surprised the first time I heard it, I didn't know I could like their music this much "A Secret Wish" was one of the albums I sought after on my crate digging in Germany but I wasn't lucky. I could only find maxi singles. This week: Nemo - Barbares Reis da República - Fábulas ABC - Beauty Stab (A bit heavier than I expected and the arrangements/production are not on the level of the debut (hard to beat Trevor Horn) but it's still quite good.) Yellow Magic Orchestra - s/t (Bob Ludwig's 40th anniversary remix. It's so pristine (even on Spotify), there were quite a few overdubs I never heard before. It won't substitute the original but it's a different listening experience.) Ange - Caricatures GRIOT - Elisabeth (Twice. Very Prog Metal, unlike their debut, but the vocals are much smoother than before. Quite an unusual combination.) Lankow & Brückner - Segmented Vision

I’m surprised Wilson hasn’t remixed Going for the One yet. Definitely some room for improvement he could apply his expertise to.

Re Scorpions. The first release on Brain? Wow. Great trivia, there.

Re Propaganda. I first heard them via their “Duel/Jewel” 12” single. Played it in the record store I worked at back then. Made customers slightly uncomfortable. Not as uncomfortable as the first Suicidal Tendencies record, though, which we often put on while closing up at night.

Asia - Alpha

HolyMoly wrote: MFP wrote: Cosmiclawnmower wrote: MFP wrote: Grateful Dead - Europe '72 Vol. 2   Ah ha! that version! Fantastic all round album.. 'Playing in the band' in its various versions from 72 are just superb "Playing in the band" is one of my favourite songs, from an album full of highlights . I love it too. But for some adolescent emotionally-stunted reason, I like to sing along substituting “Farting in the Car” for the title phrase.

Today:

Moteur! - s/t
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Bernhard Wöstheinrich & Leander Reininghaus - Live in Gütersloh 2017

MFP wrote: Cosmiclawnmower wrote: MFP wrote: Grateful Dead - Europe '72 Vol. 2   Ah ha! that version! Fantastic all round album.. 'Playing in the band' in its various versions from 72 are just superb "Playing in the band" is one of my favourite songs, from an album full of highlights .

I love it too. But for some adolescent emotionally-stunted reason, I like to sing along substituting “Farting in the Car” for the title phrase.

Tatran - Two Days

Ahh so you literally meant something like a garden hose? My bad.
(Btw I always loved that expression ‘hosing down’...but I often get images of overheated cattle or a small fire )

Yesterday evening and this morning:
The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery (Holy fish! I already own and love another album of theirs but this one really kicks things up a notch for me. Jazz..but not really...electronic psychedelic klezmer music perhaps..yet that doesn’t quite capture the essence of what’s going on here. It’s like an ancient sun ceremony performed by a futuristic jazz act (presumably from somewhere between Balkan and Botswana?))
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness’ First Finale (I’ve been living under a rock! Man.. I actually consider myself a pretty big Stevie fan, yet somehow neglected to realise that he has a whole slew of 70s albums missing from my collection. This one is the follow-up to Innervisions and it sounds like A game Stevie )
Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind (Ditto)
Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis (Maybe if Neurosis decided to do a black metal album with an old school prog musician playing wild synths from behind a great big wall of marmelade-distortion..it’d sound like this? It’s intense that’s for sure)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Bird music. Literally. Try opening up all the windows and play this whilst birds are singing. Suits the album beautifully)
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Foxygen - ...and Star Power
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hyæna
Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift
Algiers - The Underside Of Power
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac - s/t (I am really digging this one..and can’t for the life of me understand how it’s possible to have owned a cd for over 2 decades without noticing it. I have spun it from time to time, but maybe I was in the mood for something different? Either way, this really smokes! Blues rock doesn’t usually sound this ‘authentic’ to me)
Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
Pond - The Slow Rush (Sounds like a mix of art rock/pop combined with 70s funk, disco rock, electronic and yet there’s still that melodic psych twist somewhere in there)