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

Guldbamsen wrote: Yesterday: The The - Dusk Franco Battiato - Pollution King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland Kate Bush - The Dreaming Witthüser & Westrupp - Trips & Träume Frankie Dymon Jr - Let It Out! Cream - Disraeli Gears Plat du Jour - s/t Between - And The Waters Opened Sahara - Sunrise Reve Générale - Howl

That Sahara album is one I bought at a regular store in the early 90s - when a few stores would stock these weird prog things that suddenly became available on CD. I haven’t heard it in a long long time. Need to revisit!
I remember buying that Frankie Dymon CD a few years back while shopping around with my dad. We listened and grooved together to it in the car afterwards.

Today/yesterday:

Camel | Rain Dances — one of their best, I think.

Ray Thomas | From Mighty Oaks — oof. A tad corny, but well produced.

Moody Blues | On the Threshold of a Dream — my ORIGINAL album. Where it all began for me.

Monks of Doom | The Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company — man these guys were great. Glad they reformed to do more (great) stuff

Husker Du | Metal Circus — on air pods in bi-weekly grocery trip today. White-knuckle music

Guerilla Toss | Twisted Crystal - also from bi-weekly trip. Listening to this band is like walking on the moon.

United Waters | Sunburner - a favorite from 2014. Abstract weird indie stuff.

UFO | Lights Out - 1977 hard rock old school. Good to revisit.

The Strokes | Is This It? - been in my car CD player for the past couple of weeks and plays during my infrequent car journeys. Gets better and better.

Ray Lambiase | Live Broadcast on Youtube - right now. An old friend of my wife & me (her former boss in fact) is a folkie classic singer/songwriter type (he was a contemporary of Billy Joel back in his pre-fame days). He’s playing acoustic and singing nice orig tunes while my wife is in the chat room with other friends. Nice times.

Edited by HolyMoly - March 28 2020 at 20:03

Got more in my ear holes. Having a great day.


Kenji Yamamoto— Metroid Prime Soundtrack ( incredibly atmospheric and adventurous. This is video game music at its very best. )

Depeche Mode— Violator ( 30 yrs young this incredible album is. The production still kills many many of today’s albums by a long shot. They don’t make’em like this anymore! )

Metallica— Ride The Lightening ( this album still has it all. Serious toe tapper. )

System of a Down— toxicity ( this is their best. Incredibly sophisticated. Loved revisiting this one. )

Rush— Permanent Waves (MFSL edition ) RIP mr. Peart. My ears love you!!!

HolyMoly wrote: Hesitation Marks.. i don’t have that one... i think I have most/all of the main NiN albums. Guess I should look out for that one. .

Not a bad album, however it is way down the list or totem poll as far as NIN efforts are concerned. This is just my opinion of course.

Yesterday:

The The - Dusk
Franco Battiato - Pollution
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Witthüser & Westrupp - Trips & Träume
Frankie Dymon Jr - Let It Out!
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Plat du Jour - s/t
Between - And The Waters Opened
Sahara - Sunrise
Reve Générale - Howl

HolyMoly wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: I really dig that cover of Born To Run too I like the combination of Wipers and the ambient selftitled from Battiato. Reminds me of a joke by Aussie stand-up Steve Hughes who after a whole day of Slayer often finds himself reaching for a little Enya. I don’t think i have any Enya, but I definitely mix things up like that

He describes Enya’s music as ‘silence coloured in’ which is just about THE best description I’ve ever heard
Take a peekaboo yourself - he is actually pretty damn funny (and smart):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=60VUtxmN1IE

Guldbamsen wrote: I really dig that cover of Born To Run too I like the combination of Wipers and the ambient selftitled from Battiato. Reminds me of a joke by Aussie stand-up Steve Hughes who after a whole day of Slayer often finds himself reaching for a little Enya.

I don’t think i have any Enya, but I definitely mix things up like that

HolyMoly wrote: Ah Nick, gotta love SRV. Been revisiting him lately. I remember Cold Shot was the first tune I heard, on “Friday Night Videos” which I would tape every week (we didn’t have cable, so no MTV). The video for that song is pretty funny, I’m sure it’s online somewhere if you haven’t seen it. Slayer! I play them on very special occasions (super-amped or super pissed) and have a decent selection of their CDs just in case. Reign in Blood is for when I need to set my stereo’s knob to Destroy.

Hey Steve. You got it my musical brother. SRV is a great listen and of course being the freak I am I splurged on all those MFSL recordings of SRV. Worth it.
As for Slayer. Yeah. Special circumstances must be applied! The lyrics for Reign in Blood are absolutely terrifying. My my. The image of the beast is insane.

Glad you are well and of course all we can do is enjoy our tunes. We need them more than ever! I’m officially off work because of Covid. I’m I mad about that ? No freaking way. I was born to isolate and enjoy my sonics and family.

I really dig that cover of Born To Run too

I like the combination of Wipers and the ambient selftitled from Battiato.
Reminds me of a joke by Aussie stand-up Steve Hughes who after a whole day of Slayer often finds himself reaching for a little Enya.

Thrice he posts!
Yesterday:
Die Wilde Jagd - s/t (Finally got my hands on the debut! Blind buy and I am not disappointed..even on the backbone of their magnificent follow-up Uhrwald Orange which I got first. Sounds like a contemporary take on old school progressive electronic, the germanic variant that is. Heavily psychedelic trance inducing soundscapes with an affinity for motorik beats a la paddling two-stroke engines on a small river raft. I’m completely hooked and so looking forward to the release of the new album Haut)
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
(I am somewhat of a latecomer to Kate - only really having listened to her debut as well as a good portion of her work for eval purposes here on PA...but never really REALLY gave her the time that she deserves. The three-punch combination of The Dreaming, Hounds Of Love and The Sensual World though made me a true believer...and slightly weak in the knees )
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Caribou - Swim (The track Bowls should please fans of pans...in a very literal manner)
Pond - The Weather (Love these guys. Instant feel-good vibes. Surfer-psychedelic rock band with art pop instrumentation of the 80s..or something to that effect)
Tangerine Dream - Logos (Also one of those instant feel-good vibes eliciting albums. Like jumping into a river that also happens to be a rainbow..or maybe that’s just the synesthesia talking)