Progarchives.com has always (since 2002) relied on banners ads to cover web hosting fees and all.
Please consider supporting us by giving monthly PayPal donations and help keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage") |
What albums did you listen to today?...continued |
Post Reply 
|
Page <1 159160161162163 551> |
| Author | |||
Larkstongue41 
Forum Senior Member 
Joined: July 07 2015 Location: Eastern Canada Status: Offline Points: 1360 |
 Post Options
 Thanks(0)
 Quote Reply
 Posted: November 18 2017 at 18:38 |
||
I picked up Eureka simply based on the goofy cover art and I think the album is worth it for that alone  . It's quite a fine pop (partially) record. Great instrumentation, good singing but somewhat cheesy lyrics.Like you said about the other Gastr Del Sol albums, Camoufleur was enjoyable but not extraordinary (on a first listen with crappy YT quality). It's a mostly acoustic minimalist take on post-rock (closer to The For Carnation than anything else I know). These days I'm all about American experimental music from the 90s and I think the Chicago scene particularly suits my taste. Any recommendation? Spot-on recommendation in The Books. I only listened to a few samples from their 2005 album and fell in love right away. At least 4 of their albums will soon be coming my way.
|
|||
|
"Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar."
|
|||
 |
|||
|
mechanicalflattery
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 08 2016 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 1056 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 18 2017 at 20:14 |
||
Well, all roads lead to Tortoise when it comes to 90's experimental American music. I haven't checked out either yet, but The Sea and Cake (named after a misinterpretation of a Gastr Del Sol song tite) and Isotope 217 (basically a jazz version of Tortoise, with the debut album even having an alternate version of Jetty) are supposed to be quite good. I've been sitting on their respective debuts for a little while actually (I move through new music more slowly than you, it seems). But honestly, you can practically pick a Tortoise member at random and just look at what else they've done. It's like playing six degrees of Tortoise. I assume you're familiar with Slint right? And for a heavier version of a similar concept, June of 44 is pretty good, albeit not stellar. And don't forget Storm & Stress if you haven't checked them out, basically a spin off of Don Caballero. The first album is perhaps a tad noodly and aimless (although I love it nonetheless) but the second album, Under Thunder and Fluorescent Lights, is freaking fantastic, and runs closer to the diffident post-rock of The For Carnation and Gastr Del Sol. Rachel's - Music For Egon Schiele Borbetomagus - Barbed Wire Maggots Hoahi - Ohayo! Hoahio! Lightwave - Tyco Brahe Melt-Banana - Speak Squeak Creak
Edited by mechanicalflattery - November 18 2017 at 20:15 |
|||
|
|||
|
Magnum Vaeltaja
Special Collaborator 
Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 01 2015 Location: Out East Status: Offline Points: 6777 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 18 2017 at 22:09 |
||
|
Amboy Dukes - Call of the Wild
Urban Nomad - Urban Nomad Battlestations - Vixit Kaula Spanda - Kau Pink Floyd - Animals Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah Opus-5 - Contre-Courant Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il Tempo Della Gioia
|
|||
|
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
|
|||
|
|||
|
Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2011 Location: Melb, Australia Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 19 2017 at 05:46 |
||
|
Last two days for me:
The Byrds – Ballad of Easy Rider Le Orme – In Concerto Novalis – Brandung Amon Duul – Yeti Hot Tuna – First Pull Up, Then Pull Down Le Orme – La Via della Seta – shockingly good modern RPI work from 2011 from an older band, quite a classic Le Orme album in many ways. Kaipa – Children of the Sounds Blues Pills – s/t Blues Pills – Lady in Gold (hmmm, more like a sleeping pill this second album, eh Sam? Quite an unengaging collection of tunes too. But I was just looking at their website, I bet their new live Bluray will be a treat) Ayreon – The Source (disc one) White Willow – Future Hopes – Absolutely one of the highlights of the year! Electric Orange – Wurzburg Cairo 2015 |
|||
|
|||
|
Magnum Vaeltaja
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 01 2015 Location: Out East Status: Offline Points: 6777 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 19 2017 at 08:53 |
||
Very subtly trying to rub it in PFM's face I see?
  |
|||
|
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
|
|||
|
|||
|
Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2011 Location: Melb, Australia Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 19 2017 at 09:01 |
||
HA!! I didn't consciously think that at all! But I like the way your mind thinks!  Mind you, Le Orme went on to remake `Felona e Sorona' a year or so back, and if anything that was a much poorer than PFM's newie - which at least was all new material (avoiding the fact that said new material isn't too interesting!  )
|
|||
|
|||
|
Squonk19
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 03 2015 Location: Darlington, UK Status: Offline Points: 4789 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 19 2017 at 16:06 |
||
|
Immortal? - Arena
|
|||
|
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
|
|||
|
|||
|
Magnum Vaeltaja
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 01 2015 Location: Out East Status: Offline Points: 6777 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 19 2017 at 21:06 |
||
|
Mike Oldfield - Incantations
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms Arti e Mestieri - Tilt Buon Vecchio Charlie - Buon Vecchio Charlie Gotic - Escenes
|
|||
|
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
|
|||
|
|||
|
mechanicalflattery
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 08 2016 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 1056 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 19 2017 at 21:35 |
||
How do you like that one? There's a scrappy, intrepid band of rebels who seem to view it as Oldfield's best work (an opinion I find increasingly tempting) but then there's the entirely coherent and understandable counterpoint that it's a bloated and self-indulgent mess. It's a mystifiying album, to be sure. Morton Feldman - Why Patterns? / Crippled Symmetry Volapuk - Polyglot Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff (sometimes you just have to break out the familiar classics) Lightwave - Mundus Subterraneus (
 ) |
|||
|
|||
|
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 25 2013 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 10273 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 20 2017 at 04:15 |
||
That's good to know, although it's probably not the most appropriate title.
Just one this weekend:
The Black Wizards - What the Fuzz! (Much better than Lady in Gold :D ) |
|||
|
|||
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 20 2017 at 07:47 |
||
|
Mjello
Been a while since I last popped by. I just get so frustrated with the captcha thing that I often need to take breaks from posting. Mostly because those posts that do occur before I take my break more than often sound horrendously negative...in a way that genuinely frightens me when I then come back with a more 'balanced' chi. It's not that I don't mean what I write...but there are a lot of ways to comment on music one doesn't like without sounding snarly in the process. If any of you cats ever felt like I shat all over your favourite piece of music, then please accept an apology on my behalf. Aaaanyway. Since the last time I posted in here I've probably listened to hundreds of albums, but yesterday sounded like this: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Sketches Of Brunswick East (this is still my fave from them. I dig the 100 miles an hour tricky surfer rock they normally do, but I genuinely feel their music improves the more laid-back it gets. Nuances and far more interesting tempi suddenly open up and as a result you get the musicians doing far more interesting things (imo).) Fire! Orchestra - Exit John Maus - Screen Memories The Horrors - V ( This was a huge surprise! A very nice one at that. Well-crafted neo-psych delivered in a delicious contemporary new wave fashion with added glacial and industrial sounding synths.) Wobbler - new one ( A friend of mine got me this after he fell head over heels for it. I reported back and told him it was the best Yes album I'd heard since Rites At Dawn. He didn't get the joke as he'd never heard of Yes before (yep). Yesterday though he told me he'd bought 8 of their albums and they indeed were his new favourite band...aaand that he finally got the joke Though to be completely honest; it does sound like John Wetton joined the band with that sawing buzzing sound of his ornamenting quite a few spots on the album. Always loved that.)Franco Battiato - Clíc Lalo Schifrin - Black Widow Deadmau5 - Random Album Title Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood |
|||
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
|||
|
|||
|
Larkstongue41
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 07 2015 Location: Eastern Canada Status: Offline Points: 1360 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 20 2017 at 18:52 |
||
|
Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland Chicago Underground Quartet - s/t The Books - Thoughts for FoodThe Books - Lost & Safe The Books - Music for a French Elevator Art Bears - Hopes and Fears Can - The Peel Sessions Fred Frith - Gravity Faust - Fresh Air A Silver Mt. Zion - This is Our Punk-Rock
|
|||
|
"Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar."
|
|||
|
|||
|
Barbu
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30855 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 20 2017 at 21:13 |
||
Il y a quand même un peu de positif, vieux...at least, looks like your bad mood scare that kepler nuisance away. More Soft Machine for me today. |
|||
|
|||
|
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 25 2013 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 10273 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 21 2017 at 03:25 |
||
|
Good to see you here, David! I didn't know it was possible to be a Wobbler fan without knowing Yes :P
Yesterday: El Círculo de Willis - Retales Hadal Sherpa - s/t Breidablik - Penumbra Himmellegeme - Myth of Earth |
|||
|
|||
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 21 2017 at 03:55 |
||
That was indeed what spurred me on to post the above. I still meant what I said to her...but yeah reading it back, no matter how positive the outcome was, still leaves me with a taste in my mouth comparable to licking an old coin. Soft Machine sounds like fun. Maybe I should revisit an album of their's I haven't heard for a while. Methinks Seven will do nicely. |
|||
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
|||
|
|||
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 21 2017 at 04:06 |
||
I guess it's understandable if you've only heard the first couple of albums. What came after though is pure Yes imo and very well done Yes at that. Kinda like Norway's answer to The Watch...only Yes is the preferred influence. The new album though is very good. While I find it hard to comprehend all the 5 star masterpiece ratings it is getting it's still a highly enjoyable album. Been meaning to check out those last three titles you listened to. How did they fare? The bottom two I already have filed under Tangerine Dream and Battlestations/Watter/Grails-type of post-rock psych with a bit of ambient shoehorned in for good measure. Am I completely off track or in the right general direction (he asks being too dull to sample their bandcamp addresses
 )? Hadal Sherpa rings a bell and then not really. I may have stumbled over the suggestion thread here on PA. |
|||
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
|||
|
|||
|
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 25 2013 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 10273 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 21 2017 at 04:24 |
||
|
The first two were very similar to ELP, right? It's understandable considering Yes haven't released something as good in decades :D
Right about Breidablik (a very progressive kind of PE) and I don't know any of the bands you mentioned :P Hadal Sherpa reminds me of Agusa and it's really great as well, it's a bit long though.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 21 2017 at 04:38 |
||
|
Yep ELP seemed to be their prime source of inspiration for the first couple of albums, but again done very well. To me personally I've always found it fun to play *spot the influence* with Wobbler albums. Pretty good prog rock but you will have to look long and hard for any traces of originality imho. It is what it is.
Agusa you say? Alright I will have to check em out. I also seem to remember noni commenting on them being 'too weird' which very much enticed me. Funny how some posts obviously written in a negative way can have the exact opposite effect on others. I know quite a few reviewers who have the exact opposite tastes in music as I have, so when a 1 or 2 star review is posted I'm all over the album
 The forum works similarly methinks. |
|||
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
|||
|
|||
|
ALotOfBottle
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: February 17 2016 Location: Lublin, Poland Status: Offline Points: 1990 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 21 2017 at 10:52 |
||
|
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - Strange Days |
|||
|
Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: November 21 2017 at 13:39 |
||
|
Today:
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere (I am really enjoying those interspersed flute parts) Can - Tago Mago Lalo Schifrin - Cool Hand Luke Soundtrack (Lalo. Mmm yes the name is brilliant. Just so happens his music is equally thrilling. One of the first cats to incorporate fusion into movies.) Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue Sun Ra - Space Is The Place Eloy - Ocean (I am addicted to that bass! Listening to Eloy a lot these days and find myself unusually drawn to the bass.) Faust - Fresh Air (One of the year's finest imo. Took me exactly two spins to 'get' the opening titletrack. Haven't looked back since. How did it fare with you Hubert? I saw you span it the other day;) |
|||
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
|||
|
|||
|
Post Reply
|
Page <1 159160161162163 551> |
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
Topic Options
mechanicalflattery wrote: