What albums did you listen to today?

Friday...
Phideaux    Snowtorch    2010            1461    6/8/11
Metheny, Pat Group    Imaginary Day    1997            464    1/1/97


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 10 2015 at 02:09

Back on after several days sojourn, only a few titles from the last few days!

Harmonium – Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquième Saison
Banco – Darwin!
Tangerine Dream – Underwater Sunlight

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - October 10 2015 at 23:45

TeleStrat wrote: Weedpecker - Weedpecker ll

Knockout album, Tele! Sam and I both really like that one and have discussed it several times! A very mellow laid-back take on psych/stoner-rock.

Hmmmm, fellas, do you think they'd have a place on the Archives? Or maybe not enough `proggy' elements in their sound?

I've already pre-ordered the Vinyl LP of this one!

^^ From my first listen it didn't seem Prog enough, but I'll have to listen to it again.

Yesterday:
Blues Pills - Live at Hammer of Doom 2013
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
Gazua - Convocação
Di Meola, McLaughlin, De Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco

^^ Di Meola, McLaughlin, De Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco  

Sunday...

I really like `Trespass’, Sam! It’s not as consistent as the next few albums, but I don’t dislike any of it, even if some moments are just a touch bland and polite! It’s that debut `From Genesis To Revelation’ that would probably have the same effect for me, even though I don’t think it’s a bad album as such.

Tonight's choices:

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso – Darwin!
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso– s/t
M. Efekt – Svitanie
Schicke Fuhrs Frohling – Symphonic Pictures
Finch – Glory of the Inner Force
Finch – Beyond Expression
Ars Nova – The Book of the Dead
Glass Hammer – The Breaking of the World
Glass Hammer – Ode to Echo
Ozric Tentacles – Technicians of the Sacred

You bugger, Sam, see what you did to me?! After I read your post, I switched `Trespass' on from my Ipod, and I was enjoying the heck out of it, especially those first two tracks! I was thinking `Man, I really love this album...' and then my shift ended, and I don't have the CD burned for my car, so I now had to end my wonderful latest spin of that album! Funny you mention the sound, it certainly never sounded as lavish as the next album onwards, it did always have a kind of murkier sound in parts, so perhaps it's not just your copy? An older vinyl, I'm assuming?

OK, I actually cheated, I was listening to that Ozrics album on the drive home, so I just posted early! Tonight was the latest spin of the second disc, and I am more sure than ever - `Technicians' is a massive return to form for the group, and certainly their strongest overall since `The Hidden Step'. The second disc is even better than the first, and even if there's moments on the album where the melodies and tunes are not so strong, they make up for it with endless tasty sexy grooves, just over and over! I honestly don't believe there's a lousy spot on the entire album.

Now - Schulze's `Dig It'! I've got one of the last local record fairs for the year this coming Sunday, and one of the vendors there who is a good friend that I always chat to has had the remastered CD/Live DVD set of that particular album on his stall table for....about two years now, and I never take the plunge and buy the damn thing! I think his price is a bit rich ($30 Australian), but what I want to know is - do you feel the album is good? I don't expect it to be much like his 70's stuff, but do you feel it is worthwhile with its own merits?

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - October 12 2015 at 08:24

Budgie-Impeckable

Meltdowner wrote: I hate when that happens too  I know, I remember reading that even the first UK pressing isn't that good either, but there's a new vinyl reissue that's supposed to sound great. My vinyl copy is in good condition, but early 70's Portuguese pressings are generally not very good. It's still better than my Wind & Wuthering popcorn machine  Yeah, I didn't find it disappointing, even though it's not as groovy as previous works. It's a transition album, it has the classic Schulze sound but he added some percussion on foreground and vocals. Not great but not bad either... I think the rating here is appropriate.  I saw the other day a copy of his latest LVE compilation, but I didn't buy it, I would have to get the previous 15 volumes

Thanks, mate...not sure if I'll grab that Schulze one yet. I heard one track that had vocals all the way through it, and that really put me off it. Apart from that, I still think the $30 tag holds me back. If it was even $20 I'd probably snap it up.

I only have the first volume of `LVE', and I'm still getting to appreciate that one! It's three discs, and each one pretty much stands as its own work, so it's like trying to get through three albums! At this rate, I probably won't even get to the second volume for a few years yet!