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

I'm glad you enjoyed Acto Contínuo, David, I was afraid you might be bored with some of the acoustic stuff, since you don't understand the lyrics. But yeah, he had a great backing band on that album, it has a nice live in the studio vibe.


I spent the weekend with my turntable in 1981 ;)
The Human League - Dare!
Duran Duran - Duran Duran
Rush - Moving Pictures
Tangerine Dream - Exit

Meltdowner wrote: I'm glad you enjoyed Acto Contínuo, David, I was afraid you might be bored with some of the acoustic stuff, since you don't understand the lyrics. But yeah, he had a great backing band on that album, it has a nice live in the studio vibe. I spent the weekend with my turntable in 1981 ;) The Human League - Dare! Duran Duran - Duran Duran Rush - Moving Pictures Tangerine Dream - Exit

Understanding the lingo is the least of my concerns trust me
Most especially when the words are so beautiful..and I love Portuguese, also the faux-Brazilian take on it
Some times music is all the more powerful for being indecipherable. It can literally mean all and everything at once...just like you don’t need to understand the words to an Opera to get an emotional jolt.

Nice 81 selection btw...even if you forgot one of the best from that year
Alturas de Macchu Picchu:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=usjIBLWSU4I

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 10 2020 at 09:00

Speaking of vinyl, I saw an email last night from Superior Viaduct (a cool label) announcing a quick “spring cleaning sale” they were having (ending midnight last night) with 1/2 off selected items. So without a second thought I was able to snag vinyl repress copies of both The Faust Tapes and Battiato’s Clic album for $10 each. All this just as I was about to put my phone down and go to bed.

Hot diggity I am so looking forward to those Floyd cds They should be in the mail tomorrow (Also ordered the De Lorians cd but it’s taking it’s sweet time).
I think it’s one of those Neil albums that I will eventually buy because I come across it in some store. I had a wonderful time listening to Mirrorball earlier on (perhaps Pearl Jam’s best album )
The Faust Tapes and Clíc on vinyl for 10 bucks a pop is just a sweet deal altogether. I love both of those albums. The latter has become something of a go-to listen recently. It’s just so intricately weird in this almost serene Krautrock manner. I think it’s what some refer to as ‘head-music’ only far removed from what one normally associates with ‘stoner-bands’.

Funny thing about vinyl. I was hording that sh*t like there was no tomorrow..yet with my current apartment situation I almost exclusively listen to music over headphones..and vinyl over headphones is not my thing. I love vinyls over the stereo, but those cracks and pops are not cool when funnelled directly into my ears.
So yeah now I am buying more cds again and contemplating such madness as buying a dirtcheap Soft Machine boxset with albums I already own on vinyl..but almost never listen to because of the format.
Similarly also looking at a Kate Bush one

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 11 2020 at 05:36

That and the one with the parrot they made a little later are both albums worth investigating in with regards to Los Jaivas.
I’m really interested in the whole Floyd package as I see a lot of stuff that seems like embryonic versions of what was later to be...and with Floyd those alleyways, especially from around that time in their career, are deeply fascinating to me.

Last night was spent with a slew of 2019 albums looking much like the previous list I posted.
Then I I started putting on cds by chance. I have continued to do so this morning and afternoon

Jethro Tull - Benefit
Burial - Untrue
King Crimson - Lizard
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
Free - Tons Of Sobs
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Neil Young w/ Pearl Jam - Mirrorball
Tim Buckley - Hello & Goodbye
Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Going On
Elephant9 - Atlantis (I had to check out the original track ‘Psychedelic Backfire’ after hearing their newest live thang. The track itself is a monster! Like a weird and wonderful mix of ELP and National Health on mescalin)
David Bowie - Heroes
Area - Arbeit Macht Frei
Grails - Doomsdayer’s Holiday
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Joy Division - Closer
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom

Guldbamsen wrote: Hot diggity I am so looking forward to those Floyd cds They should be in the mail tomorrow (Also ordered the De Lorians cd but it’s taking it’s sweet time). I think it’s one of those Neil albums that I will eventually buy because I come across it in some store. I had a wonderful time listening to Mirrorball earlier on (perhaps Pearl Jam’s best album ) The Faust Tapes and Clíc on vinyl for 10 bucks a pop is just a sweet deal altogether. I love both of those albums. The latter has become something of a go-to listen recently. It’s just so intricately weird in this almost serene Krautrock manner. I think it’s what some refer to as ‘head-music’ only far removed from what one normally associates with ‘stoner-bands’. Funny thing about vinyl. I was hording that sh*t like there was no tomorrow..yet with my current apartment situation I almost exclusively listen to music over headphones..and vinyl over headphones is not my thing. I love vinyls over the stereo, but those cracks and pops are not cool when funnelled directly into my ears. So yeah now I am buying more cds again and contemplating such madness as buying a dirtcheap Soft Machine boxset with albums I already own on vinyl..but almost never listen to because of the format. Similarly also looking at a Kate Bush one

Edited by HolyMoly - February 12 2020 at 07:49

Steve Thorne - Emotional Creatures: Part One

More albums played

Julian Cope | Jehovahkill — a real stunner
Robin Trower | Long Misty Days — one of his best
T. Rex | Tanx — Bolan’s one wigged out dudester
Tim Buckley | Sefronia — underrated late-period album
Tim Buckley | Blue Afternoon — jazzy mid-period album
Paul Kantner/Grace Slick | Sunfighter — nifty transitional album on the way to J. Starship. Seems to be a common theme of being born and growing up in the moden world (China Kantner had just been born)
Stevie Wonder | Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants — ambitious synth-proggy detour that must have confused his fans
Peter Jefferies | Clutter (ltd ed of 150) — New Zealand piano/drum/singer/songwriter who’s been in a few underground bands. Like a more nasal John Cale.
Klaus Schulze | Mirage — the man, the myth, the legend. Let’s have a big hand for Klaus (*applause*)

progbethyname wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Hey if you dig Talking Book it’s fair to think you’ll dig Innervisions as well. Heck they could’ve been a double album for all I care Besides the actual music and clever lyrics I absolutely love the earthiness and warmth running through the production. A lot of my fave funk/jazz/soul albums from around that time sounded similar like Funkadelic, Shuggie Otis, Herbie and The Temptations. Paired with a warm yet fairly neutral headphone like the HE500 (as well as my Valhalla 2) and you end up with pure ear-sauce of the highest caliber. Oh and btw: After writing the looooong post yesterday I couldn’t quite escape the feeling of ‘missing out’ on those Floyd archival releases. So I look them up and see, to my horror, a pricetag of around 640€ ...but hang on a minute? If I buy each volume seperately I can get the entire thing for something like a 160€? Long story short: I’m waiting for Dramatis-ation, Devi-ation, Reverber-ation and Obfusc-ation to drop by. Rockin the schiit eh with 500’s. Very cool. Fantastically neutral is a real Harmon Target of frequency’ response. I really enjoy Talking Book, Dave. It has soul and it was recorded with some real and impressive life like energy. Love the album on my LCD XC. The HD 800’s I’ve sadly not been able to bring out of the stable due them being an open back. They wake the kid!    Anyhow I’m gonna check out innervisions next. Thanks a lot for the rec. Stevie has soul, brother! And yeah, those Pink Floyd sets are so grossly overpriced it drives me nuts. The worst is the “later years “ boxset. 486$ Canadian . Not only that the dvd and bluray crap of material duplication exists again. Talk about padding a boxset. It isn’t 18 discs. It is really 11. The whole thing is ridiculous and they certainly won’t get my money. They’ll have to break up the set.

Like I mentioned you’ll absolutely adore Innervisions if you love Talking Book. Those two albums are mandatory Stevie material.
Fantastically neutral is a tuning made specifically for the HE500 - I thought you knew
I do actually own a headphone with a Harman Curve response..in fact I’m wearing it right this minute because burly men in hard hats are tearing up the asphalt right down my window. The K371. Possibly the best bang for one’s buck if we’re talking closedbacks imho. Besides the actual SQ it is also remarkably comfy. Literally disappears on my head after 3 minutes.
(Maybe we should fire up the Dolly den again for this type of silly talk?)

I saw José mentioning the Later Years boxset and it having it’s own gigantic thread over on the Steve Hoffman site...but man I am not even prepared to go here yet
I mean I just got a truckload of Floyd in through the outdoor...and now folks are telling me about even more?? Nuts!
Oh well I may look into it later down the road if the price dwindles down a little..or similarly if they start making individual sets available for purchase.
I’m not too keen on boxsets anyway. I was considering the early KC ones for Larks and Red but then saw cd after cd with the same tracks ad nauseum...sure played live but errr...yeah..
The early years thing from Floyd though is different in that it delivers music that I never owned a hardcopy of before (Pompeii and BBC Sessions) as well as live gigs of stuff I’ve never heard before...and it’s from my fave period of the band.
With KC I already own so much live stuff from around their magic era..I hardly felt the need to splash out that amount of dough only to posses a beaitiful boxset ( ‘my precious’ it says).

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 14 2020 at 02:35

This week:
Hugo Alfvén - Dalarapsodi, Op. 47 ; En skargardssagen, Op. 20; Symphony no. 3
Hawklords - 25 Years On
Lou Donaldson - The Natural Soul
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge