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

Renaissance - "A Song For all Seasons": I don't know what it is with this album, but it doesn't jibe with me outside of the first couple of tunes. I mean, I know "She is Love" is absolute pants, but the rest...what's up with me?

St Vitus - V

Meltdowner wrote: ^ When life gives you lemons, make a playlist

ha! nice one

Kraftwerk - "Autobahn"
Kraftwerk - "Trans Europa Express"
Kraftwerk - "Die Mensch-Maschine"
Kraftwerk - "Die Mensch-Maschine"
Lemon Demon - "Spirit Phone"

Tuesday...

Tonight's selections, although likely one or two more to go.

Edgar Froese – Pinnacles
Harald Grosskopf – Synthesist
Reale Accademia di Musica – s/t
Corte dei Miracoli – s/t
Cherry Five – Il Pozzodei Giganti
Cosmic Ground – III
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra

Klaus Schulze – Cyborg – I notice this gets a constant spin from many of the regulars in this thread! Freaking slays me every time, this album, just impossibly good and way ahead of its time, still sounds beyond time even now...or something like that!

Tangerine Dream – Green Desert – I just cannot relax for long with this album. It’s apparently a 70’s album (essentially their fifth album, so recorded before `Phaedra’) given a `slight re-recording’ in the mid-80’s...but to my ears, almost nothing about the opening title track sounds like a 70’s piece of music at all, and sounds like nothing they recorded before or after the apparent period it originates from. Nothing about the drums or the guitars sound right to me on that track. I don’t know...seems like it was extensively re-recorded in the 80’s to my ears. The second side (2nd track onwards) sounds more authentic.

Catafalchi dei Cyber – Il Bis - Eclectic Italian group’s latest album, mostly knockout beginning to end with the exception of the full-blown rap song thrown onto the final stages of the album that kills the disc stone-dead. I get that the band like kind of f*cking with listeners perceptions of what makes an album `progressive’, but when common sense doesn’t prevail and it lets their own work down, surely a bit of a rethink should have been in order!

Renaissance - "Azure D'Or": This one's not bad. The synths instead of orchestration give them a chillier vibe, but the drums remain organic. Opener and closer are cool (despite hammy lyrics) and "Kalynda" is really sweet.

Lemon Demon - "Spirit Phone"
Kraftwerk - "Die Mensch-Maschine"
Chatterbox for Earthworms - "Little Bugs"
New Order - "Low-Life"

Wednesday...

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Tangerine Dream – Green Desert – I just cannot relax for long with this album. It’s apparently a 70’s album (essentially their fifth album, so recorded before `Phaedra’) given a `slight re-recording’ in the mid-80’s...but to my ears, almost nothing about the opening title track sounds like a 70’s piece of music at all, and sounds like nothing they recorded before or after the apparent period it originates from. Nothing about the drums or the guitars sound right to me on that track. I don’t know...seems like it was extensively re-recorded in the 80’s to my ears. The second side (2nd track onwards) sounds more authentic.

It's not essential but still better than a lot of their 80's output, in my opinion.

Edited by Meltdowner - November 24 2016 at 05:09

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: `Green Desert' is plenty OK, Sam, I probably sounded a bit too hard on it. Besides, I do like most of their 80's output anyway, so it's not like I'll be hurling it out the window! Man, `Blackdance' I used to overdose on, and even though I've listened to plenty of KS lately, I haven't even thought of playing this one, and you know how highly I rate it. Might have to dig it out for the car joruney home tonight. For me, an all-modern Italian night: Catafalchi dei Cyber – Il Bis Yugen – Death by Water Marchesi Scamorza – Hypnophonia Nathan – Nebulosa Panther & C – L’epoca di un Altro Promenade - Noi al dir di Noi Psycho Praxis – Echoes from the Deep