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

King Crimson - Live in Chicago
Vladimir Konovkin - Rain Circling Around God
Anathema - A Fine Day to Exit

HolyMoly wrote: Phish | Joy -one of my favorite bands of the 90s, I went to close to 20 concerts in the space of 5 years (1993-1998). But I outgrew them. Or the band (and their audience) outgrew me. This is a fairly recent album that I have zero connection to, but to listen to it here and there is akin to having lunch with a girl you used to date seriously, but you’re both married now and have separate, happy lives. Pleasant, but the magic is gone. Gino Vannelli | Nightwalker — 1981 album. Around this time he fronted some really fine pop albums with exceptional arrangements and musicianship. Vinnie Colaiuta drums on this one, and he just kills. Gino Vannelli | Black Cars — full-on mid-80s synth pop, this one, but a very good album. Good songwriting and hooks. Typical 80s moves but they’re not a mere crutch. He still had his skills in good shape. Pablo Cruise | Worlds Away — “Love Will Find a Way” is one of my favorite yacht rock tunes. The album as a whole is surprisingly good. Even my 14 YO daughter noticed and asked about one of the songs, saying it was “really good” (if a jaded teenager is moved to say that... wow) The Dead C | Trouble - double trouble album of noise n’ stuff. I bought the “fan pack” when it was released, which included notonly a t-shirt but a coffee mug and a Sharpie. Love those guys at BadaBing Records. United Waters | Coma to Coma — new 4th album from this band I’ve been unable to adequately describe, except that they sound like they’re underwater. Zopp | Zopp — CD arrived! Lovely Canterbury effort. Very Egg-y. The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Revelation — 2014 album, one of my favorites from them. I was doing cataloging today and realized I have 23 CDs by this band. Holy schnikeys.

 

Nice post Steve
Seems like you have overtaken me in BJM albums there. I should look into that. The Zopp album is one of those I’ve listened to maybe a couple of times over the netski, but I have never stumbled across it while shopping music. I love adding Canterbury music to my library though here lately, it has mostly consisted of newer bands tapping into the ‘sound’. Bands like The Winstons, De Lorians, Magic Bus, Klaus Johann Grobe (more of a poppy take on it though), Needlepoint and some others I forget this minute.

Yesterday:
Pink Floyd - 1969 / Dramatis-ation
Caribou - Swim
David Bowie - Blackstar
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (Really enjoying this album’s quirky nature and all the weird sonics thrown in, presumably for pleasure and kicks..odd as they sound they still come off beautifully when joined with the piano and zooming bass lines)
Die Wilde Jagd - s/t (I gotta be careful I don’t overdose on this debut but man it is just so seductive of a listen to these Danish ears. It’s like contemporary electronics but funnelled through the mindset of the German 1970s)
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues (This is a Madonna-free zone baby!)
Elephant9 - Greatest Show On Earth (Funny how every album off the Norwegian elephant seems to be a grower with me. It’s not that I don’t like them right off the bat, not at all...but there is always a second or some times third wave of appreciation down the road. I love that about this band)
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (Lonely gorgeous music. Like a secret song from a distant mountain plateau)

Sagichim wrote: ^ David I also get that with Elephant9, I think Silver Mountain is the one I started with and it took me ages to get my head around it, later on every album I got after putting it aside for a while I came back to it and somehow it would be a lot better. It happened to me with Ozrics a few times too.

I think it was John the mellotron (bless his boots) that originally introduced me to them, some time around Walk The Nile I believe. Oddly enough it was the Krautrock-like trance I got from the title track that really helped me get onboard...or well maybe not so odd really
There is also something about their sound - something raw like an unpeeled potatoe that just comes out through the frontdoor swinging like some deranged heavyweight fighter. Schwiiing indeed

Quite apropos, I too have begun to notice something..err ‘different’ when I spin the Ozrics. I strongly suspect my recent exploration of the headphone world has been vastly instrumental in this change, because I used to use the Ozrics as ‘glorified background music’ for cleaning house/cycling/working out...yet the last few years have had me lying down most of the time because of my back. Nowadays the Ozrics have become genuine ‘head-music’ as in a whole new world opens up outside of the incessant beats and fiery Steve Hillagey guitars; all the exotic instruments twirling in and out of these beautiful open Goa Trance sounding electronics. I particularly love Waterfall Cities and consider the titletrack some of the finest music to combine rock with trance electronic.
But yeah...stuff like Pungent Effulgent and Arboresence is also tickling my fancy. In truth I am seeing/hearing this band in a whole new light these days.
I could almost say the same about Eloy actually
I used to have a big problem with the tainted English but only because I grew up on horrendous sounding Danes trying to be internationally seductive by manhandling the lingo...but ever since I started paying more attention to Matziol’s bass playing...well everything changed. That man is a genius. Sooo melodic and imaginative..in his rather unique way that is. What’s perhaps even weirder is that it is the three albums from the early 80s that seem to get the most playing time. I really dig the synths as well, soap and all

Edited by Guldbamsen - April 22 2020 at 08:41

Guldbamsen wrote: Sagichim wrote: ^ David I also get that with Elephant9, I think Silver Mountain is the one I started with and it took me ages to get my head around it, later on every album I got after putting it aside for a while I came back to it and somehow it would be a lot better. It happened to me with Ozrics a few times too. I think it was John the mellotron (bless his boots) that originally introduced me to them, some time around Walk The Nile I believe. Oddly enough it was the Krautrock-like trance I got from the title track that really helped me get onboard...or well maybe not so odd really There is also something about their sound - something raw like an unpeeled potatoe that just comes out through the frontdoor swinging like some deranged heavyweight fighter. Schwiiing indeed Quite apropos, I too have begun to notice something..err ‘different’ when I spin the Ozrics. I strongly suspect my recent exploration of the headphone world has been vastly instrumental in this change, because I used to use the Ozrics as ‘glorified background music’ for cleaning house/cycling/working out...yet the last few years have had me lying down most of the time because of my back. Nowadays the Ozrics have become genuine ‘head-music’ as in a whole new world opens up outside of the incessant beats and fiery Steve Hillagey guitars; all the exotic instruments twirling in and out of these beautiful open Goa Trance sounding electronics. I particularly love Waterfall Cities and consider the titletrack some of the finest music to combine rock with trance electronic. But yeah...stuff like Pungent Effulgent and Arboresence is also tickling my fancy. In truth I am seeing/hearing this band in a whole new light these days. I could almost say the same about Eloy actually I used to have a big problem with the tainted English but only because I grew up on horrendous sounding Danes trying to be internationally seductive by manhandling the lingo...but ever since I started paying more attention to Matziol’s bass playing...well everything changed. That man is a genius. Sooo melodic and imaginative..in his rather unique way that is. What’s perhaps even weirder is that it is the three albums from the early 80s that seem to get the most playing time. I really dig the synths as well, soap and all

Some Dixieland I spun today......just missing a good bowl of gumbo!

Nice to see some love for Eloy’s 80s albums. I was indeed refering to Colours, Planets and Time To Turn - a kind of pseudo-psychedelic trilogy drenched in 80s keyboards. Though listening to the likes of Metromania and Performance it is obvious that the band was doing an interesting job of mixing their original Floydian n hard rock vibes with the decade of cheese and soap.

Ozrics: I need to look into Spirals In Hyperspace Sagi! That was a great review and it reminded me that it indeed is one of the few ‘older’ albums of theirs that I don’t own.
Spice Doubt is another one of those
Here the other day though I went for the newest double album, Technicians Of The Sacred. Now I remember liking it the last time I span it but was somewhat taken aback by how much I enjoyed it this time around.

I had a rare day yesterday with almost no music at all. 8 hours together with one little girl that sounded like an electric goat in heat was pretty much all the noise I could take. She loves me and trusts me completely..yet that only escalates the goaty sounds.
When I got home I merely wanted to sit quietly in a sunbeam and listen to my breathing
I may have snuck in some Tangerine Dream just before turning in..believe it was Green Desert.

Guldbamsen wrote: Nice to see some love for Eloy’s 80s albums. I was indeed refering to Colours, Planets and Time To Turn - a kind of pseudo-psychedelic trilogy drenched in 80s keyboards. Though listening to the likes of Metromania and Performance it is obvious that the band was doing an interesting job of mixing their original Floydian n hard rock vibes with the decade of cheese and soap. Ozrics: I need to look into Spirals In Hyperspace Sagi! That was a great review and it reminded me that it indeed is one of the few ‘older’ albums of theirs that I don’t own. Spice Doubt is another one of those Here the other day though I went for the newest double album, Technicians Of The Sacred. Now I remember liking it the last time I span it but was somewhat taken aback by how much I enjoyed it this time around. I had a rare day yesterday with almost no music at all. 8 hours together with one little girl that sounded like an electric goat in heat was pretty much all the noise I could take. She loves me and trusts me completely..yet that only escalates the goaty sounds. When I got home I merely wanted to sit quietly in a sunbeam and listen to my breathing I may have snuck in some Tangerine Dream just before turning in..believe it was Green Desert.

Electric Goat in Heat. Bravo, mein amigo.

The B-52’s | The B-52’s
The B-52’s | Wild Planet
The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Third World Pyramid
Marc Ribot | Rootless Cosmopolitans
Simple Minds | New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Simple Minds | Sparkle in the Rain
Rush | Caress of Steel
Re-Flex | The Politics of Dancing
The Electric Prunes | I had too much to dream (last night)
The Electric Prunes | Underground
Various Artists | The End of Music (as We Know It)
Citizen Fish | Free Souls in a Trapped Environment