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

The Rolling Stones - "Beggars Banquet"
Elvis Costello and The Attractions - "Armed Forces"
Patti Smith - "Horses"
Roy Orbison - "16 Biggest Hits"
The Rolling Stones - "Out of Our Heads"

Magma - Udu Wudu. A very good Magma album, although I like the group at their jazzier. This is more like a continuation from where Kohntrakosz left off. As always - very well written and well performed. That throbbing bass is also something that I love.
Agitation Free - Second. Had not listened to Agitation Free for a while then and thought how many great musicians passed through its lineup (Michael Hoenig, Lutz Ulbrich, Harald Grosskopf etc.) I like this one a lot more than their debut, because I don't find Eastern and African influences to sit well in their mainly jam-oriented style.
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra. One of my favorites from Tangerine Dream. What is there to say about this album? Nothing short of a masterpiece. In terms of composition, it could very well sit alongside works by Philip Glass or Terry Riley.
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon. This one pictures Tangerine Dream shifting towards a less ambient, more Berlin School-esque direction, and although Phaedra is my fave from them, I seem to like that sequencer-dominated type of sound a bit more.
Art Zoyd - Musique Pour L'Odyssee. This was, I think, my second encounter with this one and quite a revelation to me, in a sense that I had remembered it much differently. In reality, it was not as dark, ominous, Univers Zero-like as I had remembered it to be.

Yesterday:

ALotOfBottle wrote: Michael Hoenig - Departure From the Northern Wasteland. Even better! After looking for my "perfect" Berlin School album for a few weeks now, I think I've found it. This music cannot be really put to words. This takes all of the best elements of Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, and Ashra, mixes them in a blender, and the result is the tastiest possible sauce one could imagine! Ever! Sometimes you're in a great mood and when you pair it with incredible music, you nearly feel as if you were a part of the sonic landscape it creates.

Nice save, buddy!

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - "Imperial Bedroom"
Patti Smith - "Horses"
Dain Bramage - "I Scream Not Coming Down"
Patti Smith - "Banga"
Public Image Ltd. - "First Issue"

That Locanda Delle Fate album is just one I can barely get through, Tom, I'm so sick of it after about the third track. It's too damn pretty and swooning - ALL THE TIME!

I think I could name dozens of Italian discs I'd place ahead of it.

How did you go with Greg Walker's latest update, mate? Any titles got your interest?

If you don't already have it, there's a cool Italian disc called `MO.DO - LA SCIMMIA SULLA SCHIENA DEL RE' on the LP section available, I'd highly recommend that one!

Also, there's a modern Zeuhl album called `RHÙN - FANFARE DU CHAOS (WHITE VINYL) (HAND-NUMBERED EDITION OF 300) (SOLEIL ZEUHL) $30' that you should absolutely snap up. It's a dark one, and quite short, but it delivers the goods. I remember Sagi and I both overdosing on it when it came out a few years back. I also recall a friend listening to it and she said `Man, I get such a bad feeling from that album, it really digs at your skin'!

Didn't like `Temple of Doom'?!

Heh, a lot of people would replace that with `Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', but even that isn't nearly as bad as a lot of people seem to think!

Meltdowner wrote: Locanda Delle Fate - Forse le Lucciole...

Uh oh....

Hope you went and rolled around in the dirt afterwards, Sam!

I still can't make it through more than half that album....too sweet, it would actually make a fine soundtrack to that `Candy Crush' game!

OK, I'm overreacting and being snarky, but you know what I mean!

aglasshouse wrote: Sagichim wrote: Mike Oldfield - Hegest Ridge I'm curious to how that was. Is it in any way similar to Bells?

I concur with Sagi.  Hergest Ridge is better than Tubular Bells.  And Ommadawn is great also, probably his most accessible recording of those early ones.