What Are You Listening To Right Now? Febus Mark 12

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Before:

People often forget how weird and off-kilter Blue Öyster Cult's early LPs could be, to the point their reputation as the United States' answer to Black Sabbath or Deep Purple isn't accurate at all. It's the kind of dark adventurous rock music that's difficult to pigeonhole into any specific subgenre and even more difficult to replicate today.

By far the BÖC album closest to the rest of 1970s hard rock/heavy metal, but still has a lot of the unique darkly surrealistic touches that placed them apart from that pack. Really shows how big a difference having some kind of unifying "band concept" can make, even when said concept is as incomprehensible as the entire bizarro sci-fi mythology Sandy Pearlman cooked up for the 'Cult.

Toaster Mantis wrote: By far the BÖC album closest to the rest of 1970s hard rock/heavy metal, but still has a lot of the unique darkly surrealistic touches that placed them apart from that pack. Really shows how big a difference having some kind of unifying "band concept" can make, even when said concept is as incomprehensible as the entire bizarro sci-fi mythology Sandy Pearlman cooked up for the 'Cult.

A cool thing about that one I've always liked (Tyranny & Mutation) is how it's divided roughly into a "hard" and a "soft" side.  And it's the softer stuff that really gives this album its uniqueness - like "Quicklime Girl" at the end, a very unusual song.  It's not a power ballad or anything, but it's got a subtlety that's lacking in most hard rock.
My favorite of the first few BOC albums, btw, is the one you'll probably play next - Secret Treaties.

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FLASH AND THE PAN - "Early Morning Wake Up Call" (1984)

Late 70s/Early 80s art pop/ new wave by ex-Easybeats George Young and Harry Vanda (also known as the producers of the first few AC/DC albums, as G. Young is Angus and Malcolm's older brother).  This is their 4th album, not quite as inspired as their first 2 albums, but still pretty solid.


Edited by HolyMoly - January 21 2014 at 09:12

THE BEVIS FROND - "Hit Squad" (2004)

Veteran underground psychedelic rocker Nick Saloman's long-running project.  Song-based with the occasional extended freakout.  For a guy with this many albums with this many songs, he's remarkably consistent.  I think Andy Ward (ex Camel) is his drummer, and Adrian Shaw (ex Hawkwind) is his bassist, or at least they used to be for a while.


Edited by HolyMoly - January 21 2014 at 10:04

1st listen.

HemispheresOfXanadu wrote: Just Elegy and the bonus tracks left.

Those bonus tracks are pretty good. "Kelpie" is actually my second favourite track on that album, after "Orion".

Me, earlier:


perhaps - Volume Two (2013)


and



Now, on Spotify:

First listen.

Edited by The Bearded Bard - January 21 2014 at 12:34