2016: Five tracks from five albums that I like

David Bowie - "Girl Loves Me"

Thanks for taking the time to listen to that not known and comment on various selections.

I love all of these, not surprisingly. Off that Kosmischer Läufer album, my favourite track is "Jenseits des Horizonts" but that is also the longest. I really like the story behind the project and how evocative it is off past music (a style and era that I enjoy very much). I did a topic on
Retro-Music Pretending to be of the Past highlighting Kosmischer Läufer and Klaus Morlock. I had planned to include a track from Klaus Morlock's Penumbra here, but only found the whole EP on youtube rather than specific tracks to embed.

Bowie's Blackstar and Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool I got very soon after release, and I got very much back into Blackstar last year. I have not listened to the Radiohead nearly as much as the Bowie. Other than Blackstar, that Xiu Xiu album, Plays the Music of Twin Peaks, may be the album that I have most listened to over the last year (I did get quite obsessed with things Twin Peaks related).   While I have not seen anyone else make the comparisons/ association, music of Xiu Xiu is reminiscent to me in part of various Swans, Current 93, and Boredoms music. As for Swans, that track probably is my favourite of these right now. After hearing Soundtracks for the Blind, I got into Swans in a very big way. Then I got The Seer, To Be Kind, and Children of God (those Swans albums I have heard the most). I still haven't listened to The Glowing Man* much, which is part of the reason why I tend to favour Swans in this poll now.

Speaking of "glowing", the sky here was an odd purplish colour yesterday evening after the sun had set.

Edited by Logan - September 30 2021 at 08:09

^ An excellent choice, but then I would say that, and you remember correctly. I probably mentioned another track off the same Kosmischer Läufer album ("Jenseits des Horizonts") or possibly "Sandtrommel" from KL's Volume One, and I mentioned Xiu Xiu's "Blue Frank / Pink Room" in my Heaven Sent and Hell Bent interactive poll and nominated "Into the Night", both from the same Xiu Xiu album, in an interactive poll of cover songs. I love that Xiu Xiu album.

^ And that one doesn't work for me. Regions, shmegions.

Just to see them all get a vote, which is nice to see, I'll vote for "Packard's Vibration".

Edited by Logan - September 30 2021 at 09:15

Bowie, just over Swans.

Saperlipopette! wrote: I know and like/love them all. I voted for Der Traum des Jungen. It's simply just a (for me) timeless, stunning little instrumental that I find very uplifting somehow. Man, those gorgeous themes! I must have played it more than fifty times.

progaardvark wrote: So, of these, I like the Kosmischer Läufer track the best. Bowie is not far behind and Xiu Xiu would be my third choice. Coming into this I had only heard the Bowie and Radiohead tracks, so three new songs now under my belt.

I'm very pleased to see it get multiple votes and appreciation. I love it, and listening again since it had been a while, it still resonates strongly with me.

Glad to see someone who already knew and liked all of these and someone who discovered new music. Aside from exposure, I like doing these exercise because it gets me listening to and thinking about music I already knew again when I go through the process of thinking about which albums to mention when I think, "Hey, maybe I'll make another poll since I can't sleep" and in choosing tracks from them.

Will return to listen to the Losmiscer Laufer track, as all the others are a pass for me. 

^ Hope you appreciate those, John.

David Bowie - "Girl Loves Me"