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Joined: September 30 2006
Location: Pearland
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Posted: July 11 2016 at 00:50
^ I wish I owned that many rare oddities; I tend to only purchase that which I will listen to (at least once in a while). I was listening to this today though, I might buy it as it was excellent --
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Joined: July 01 2015
Location: Out East
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Posted: July 11 2016 at 04:19
I think the album I have that could be best labeled an "oddity" would be Pictures by the Swiss band Island.
Not exactly warm and pastoral, or mellow and psychedelic, Island was uprooted from the absolute bowels of music. To quote a review I read on amazon, "these guys make Gentle Giant look like the Moody Blues". Highly technical, with a keyboard and saxophone-heavy sound, the members of Island were probably not the most stable, cerebrally. There's one song where they sing for minutes on end about gastric juices. On another one, they sing all of their words in reverse, as in, "walking across the sitting room..." would become "moor gnittis eht ssorca gniklaw...", which they'd then sing phonetically. Yeah. I know. Very odd...
But for all the weirdness and disgust associated with it, it manages to maintain some kind of morbid beauty.
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
Joined: November 28 2014
Location: Terra de Cabral
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Points: 790
Posted: July 12 2016 at 21:00
It's a avant-prog brazillian band, who mocks the Popular music from Brazil, destroying the structures from Samba, Bossa Nova, and even Black Metal in their covers and music titles, a really challenging band and very good too, i would say that is one of the best things that ever happened to modern music in Brazil...
Joined: June 02 2005
Location: Germany
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Posted: July 13 2016 at 02:21
We have the original vinyl of this:
Little known and a rarity today, but definitely deserves more attention. In my opinion the best album of 1978. Nice 24 page booklet included with lots of information about the Egyptian Gods.
I got this album from my brother who is ten years my senior. He gave all his rock recordings to me when he decided to listen to classical, jazz and ethnic music only.
Joined: December 30 2006
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: July 22 2016 at 11:26
I've got A Liturgy of Madness, the sole recording by a Russian band called Sepsis. This was originally released on LP in 1992 but probably recorded some time earlier. Not much seems to be known about them, but the record is certainly an oddity. You get two side long epics of guitar/bass/drums entitled "Mad Cucumber (Part 1)" and "Mad Cucumber (Part 2)". Sounds a bit like if the Magic Band was trying to record a Yes tribute album whilst high on mushrooms, and their attention kept wandering.
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