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

Good to see you Dave!

The Dead C | Repent — classic instrumental noise rock from Nu Zealand

Oh Oh Ecstasy | RIP OOX — final album from my online friend’s band, just released, and a real doozy. Great dreampoppy postpunk music. Ends with the most noisy, intense track I’ve ever heard from him.

King Crimson | The Night Watch (live ‘74) — such a polite, quiet audience. Fine performances. Fracture!

VR Sex | Human Traffic Jam — recent postpunk-inspired release, interesting stuff

Steve Miller Band | Your Saving Grace — classic pre-Joker SMB. Yes, once they were really wonderful.

Chinaboise | The Greatest Story Ever Told — pre-MX-80 project (not a band exactly), lots of goofing around on a 4-track. Rich Stim is the man behind this - he later was the vocalist for MX-80 and he never fails to crack me up.

Julian Cope | Self Civil War — brand new! And his best album in a long time. Wow. Lots of Mellotron even. (Prog fan baiting, sorry)

Todd Rundgren | Initiation — just found on CD after owning the vinyl for decades. This is definitely a Todd album you don’t want on vinyl. I could finally listen to the extended suite on side 2 and actually hear it like it’s supposed to be heard. It’s 36 minutes long and that’s just too much for one side of vinyl. Always sounded like sh*t until now.

Edited by HolyMoly - February 01 2020 at 16:53

Jandek | Brooklyn Wednesday
Amboy Dukes | Marriage on the Rocks/Rock Bottom
John Cale | Slow Dazzle
Talking Heads | Speaking in Tongues
Jimi Hendrix Experience | Axis: Bold as Love
The Voidz | Virtue
Steve Roach | Dreamtime Return
Chicago | VII
Electric Light Orchestra | ELO II
Polvo | Exploded Drawing
Embryo | Rocksession
Swans | The Seer
Trio | Da Da Da
The Fiery Furnaces | Bitter Tea

Edited by HolyMoly - February 03 2020 at 21:29

Anathema - Hindsight

Soup - Remedies

HolyMoly wrote: Ryuichi Sakamoto | Thousand Knives

Great album! Have you heard the live version of the title track with YMO (live at the Greek, I think)? It's way better :D


Just three albums in the last few days:
Laurent Thibault - Mais On Ne Peut Pas Rêver Tout Le Temps (Magma related album, the production is similar but the music is very different, quite soothing. I very much liked the acoustic guitars with accented fretless bass (played by Francis Moze).)
Harmonium - Les Cinq Saisons
Maneige - Les Porches

Mystery - The World Is A Game

Aw. Wrong link to the album, but it can be heard on Spotfy: http://https://open.spotify.com/album/5LV8VTlQZ143ILLcfkecJQ?si=p_wK0iE1Rj6-S7DgeBsmKQ

^Oh boy you’ve got one of those new Floyd archival releases. I am absolutely bummed out about completely forgetting about them when I ordered cd’s this friday
Now I have to wait until next month! Nuts.
The Trans album from Neil is one of the only ones missing from my collection. Is it good?

I have been connecting my little XDuoo dap to my tube amp for a long while, only really spinning vinyl and cd over the stereo..and my apartment is anything but soundproof, so music almost needs to go down over headphones if I want to crank my weird sh*t But I just received some cds from a good friend of mine (thanks again Samuel ) and decided to hook up the ol Rotel cd player to the tube amp..and boy have I been listening to music ever since!
Hmm let’s see:
Loosense - Saloon (Close to being AOTY for me. These guys absolutely nail the difficult balance between chops and feel in a genre such as jazz-rock. Their passion and pure thrill whilst playing literally jumps out of the record. It’s that good)
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll (Lately it’s been my go-to Cocteu album. Just something very fluid and serene about the whole thing..and I really like how ‘blue’ the soundscapes sound like)
Embryo - Father, Son & Holy Ghosts (Quite possibly my favourite Embryo studio album...until the next time I spin Rocksession of course!)
Deep Purple - Deep Purple (I love and prefer this leg of the group to anything that came after. This album in particular is just brilliant. Love Paice’s drumming during those early years)
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live (Fantastic headphone music! My HE500 got the job of playing this and it was truly goosebumps city)
Kraftwerk - Trans Euro Express (I haven’t listened to the more wellknown electronic phase for a while as I slightly prefer the early Krautrock albums...but man this listen was sweet! Cold and clinical yes...but also beautiful in a mosaic and serene kind of manner)
Herbie Hancock - Thrust (Head-Hunters pt 2...and it’s not a letdown)
COS - Viva Boma (One of my fave Canterbury albums with a slight touch of the more melodic side of RIO...think Stormy Six level)
Bruno Pernadas - those who throw objects at the crocodile will be asked to retrieve them (Exotic styled pop with everything from synths and clever indie-rock to Carribean themes)
King Crimson - Islands (I love this record..I just have a bizarre habit of forgetting about it)
Jorge Palma - Acto Contínuo (Classy, funky, warm, melodic, incredibly well-played and well-written art-rock from Portugal. I am really smitten by this guy. Again thanks Samuel)
Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of (Must’ve been over ten years since I last heard this one. Hot damn it rocked my socks off! Vincent Crane is an often overlooked keys man, but boy can he play like the best of em. That hammond organ )
Camel - Camel (Perhaps my fave from the band. I love how fluid the whole album sounds...like a river)
Beach Boys - Smiley Smile / Wild Honey (Hah! It’s been a while since an album (or two to be more precise) has made me laugh this hard. Just the general loopiness of Brian Wilson that seems to beam out of the recording. I am completely hooked on the track Vegetables! Gotta get that crunch into the song. Also some really great song-songs like in merely well-written songs with beautiful chord shifts and those inventive BB vocals)
Next up is In The Court Of The Crimson King

Edith because of Danish autocorrect
Now listening to Love’s Forever Changes

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 09 2020 at 12:39

Guldbamsen wrote: progbethyname wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Hi Nick I’m doing just fine and dandy - good to hear from you...although you gotta pump up the music listening cowboy! That stuff is just mandatory for the innards I haven’t really investigated much of Alan Parsons Project after..well Pyramid I should remedy that at some point. I’m spinning the debut tonight though. Only seems appropriate. Dave!! Yeah my friend! Boy, you couldn’t be more right. I need my sonic time every single day, however that is incredibly wishful thinking when you have a 1-year-old. Having a kid or kids is soooo demanding of your time and once the nighttime rolls around when the kid finally goes down for the count you’re exhausted. I think 2018-2019 have been my biggest and most sacrificial years of all time, but hey that is what a good parent does. Anyhow my good man. I’ll keep trying. Guess I gotta pump the coffee a bit more cause no music makes Nick a dull boy. The trick is to put on some gentle electronic stuff whilst toiling with the 1 year old Some times naps can materialise out of nothing...or maybe just some velvety synth lines. I feel you buddy....and just wait until the ‘terrible-two’ era sets in Coffee is paramount. I work like that too. I generally hit work right around 8 in the morning, and the autist kids there all seem to have either drunken a couple of coffeepots in one go or similarly have snorted some white powder. Literally feels like that every morning...so if the coffeepot isn’t full...oh mama you’re in for an uphill battle. Most often though I drink some before I leave my apartment meaning I’m full-on karate prepared when the kids see me. Starting the day with a stroll through the forrest though usually helps calm down the early bird Speedy Gonzaleses Plan b is dancing with Mr D...and I happen to love dancing so no worries.

Dave!! Hey my good man. Yup. The coffee has been brewing via French press this past weekend. My son has been so kind to my musical needs lately. Been putting on Klaus Schulze’s Mirage and Kontiium. Vangelis’s Soil Festivities and the Metroid prime video game soundtrack has been an Ace in the hole to get my son to count sheep.

Life is good and my weekend has been very plentiful with my headphones.

Anyhow. Great advice, Dave. You are a true friend.

Hi Nick
Nice to know that you’re getting some tunes in here and there

I really love that Stevie Wonder album and consider it my personal fave of his together with Innervisions. Those two albums are just perfection