"Marmite Records"

There I was, minding my own business and reading one of those "let's-reassess-a-forgotten-nutty-1980s-album" articles about Thomas Dolby's Aliens Ate My Buick (1988), when I came across the term MARMITE RECORDS.

I have always liked ELP's 'Love Beach'. 

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Edited by moshkito - June 18 2024 at 05:36

Comus' First Utterance and Tangerine Dream's Zeit are two polarizing albums that have elicited strong reactions, both negative and positive. I'm on the positive side even if I have some pessimistic tendencies. :)

And I love Marmite (a yeast extract) on buttered toast. It's good for my tummy (have IBS) and I have it very regularly. I trust that too much Marmite much won't result in a yeast infection. I know someone from PA who'd rather be hit with a Yeast, Cheese, and Jam Infection (a little Marmalade is good for the soul -- yum) than listen to the likes of First Utterance, Zeit and Trout Mask Replica.

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart.

Kyrie Eleison - The Fountain Beyond the Sunrise is a Marmite type record IMO. Whether you love it or hate it depends on whether you can tolerate the bootleg level production and Michael Schuberth's awkward English pronunciation or not.

For what it's worth, I've seen it referred to as the "best Genesis clone" just as much as the "worst Genesis clone".

Edited by Hrychu - June 18 2024 at 14:36

I am strangely drawn to Genesis s/t(shapes) record, I mean I love that album. I got nothing, other than it's sentimental for sure, it also takes me to a time in my life long forgotten until I push play and start listening to it. It's magic really.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ...Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts - I hate it but almost everyone else appears to love it.

You don't even like "Man-Erg"?

While I have come across more than you who does not like Pawn Herats, what you wrote reminded of this with Tom Baker as Captain Rum from Blackadder.



Lord Blackadder: I was under the impression that it's common maritime practice for a ship to have a crew?
Captain Redbeard Rum: Opinion is divided on the subject. All the other Captains say it is, I say it isn't.

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Steve Wyzard wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: I am strangely drawn to Genesis s/t(shapes) record, I mean I love that album. I got nothing, other than it's sentimental for sure, it also takes me to a time in my life long forgotten until I push play and start listening to it. It's magic really. Yes, that album is very underrated. It's always discredited for the two obvious hit singles/video opportunities, "That's All" and "Illegal Alien", but the rest truly can be described as "magical"!

"That's All" is the first Genesis track I recall knowing as Genesis and I immediately liked it (I was very into music videos at the time). It's one of the songs that stills plays in my head with such clarity when I think of it. It was not until after I heard The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway at the closing party for play in the 90s that I really liked Genesis (although I thought it was a Peter Gabriel released album at the time).

Anyway, it's quite thin and yawn, but nice song. Listened again, yep, still sounds just the same as in my head. It takes me back to watching music videos at a friend's house on Friday nights. I've never paid much attention to the Shapes album.

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For a couple of others that I have seen very polarised reactions: Magma's MDK and Soft Machine's Third. I would expect it more of MDK, and that's not a fave Magma studio album of mine (the debut is awesome, imo, and I prefer live versions of MDK).

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Thanks Jared on the IBS comments. It has become more manageable generally. And I too would not want Marmite for breakfast. Magma slopped over rock-hard stone milled toast for breakfast strangely sounds rather more appealing to me.

richardh wrote: Beatles - White Album Ahead of its time Tull - Warchild   It's just a patchy, uneven and slightly disjointed affair  Genesis - ATTWT  ELP - Works Volume One    The only bits that disappoint are on Lake's side of the album King Crimson - Discipline  Agreed, could never get into 80's Crimson Camel - Nude  Love it, significantly better than the previous two and the one after Yes - Drama  Dream Theater - The Astonishing  Life's too short....