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

Soft Machine: Fourth

Today. I’m kind of new to Van Morrison but he really comforted my melancholy soul today.

King Lizard and the Wizard Gizzard | 12 Bar Bruise
Style Council | Our Favourite Shop
Ghost | In Stormy Nights
Steely Dan | Two Against Nature
Van Morrison | Astral Weeks
Van Morrison | Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Traffic | When the Eagle Flies
Sloan | Smeared
Sloan | 12

Let me just add that Sloan is one of the best power pop bands of all time that I’ve heard. I’ve made several efforts to get into Cheap Trick but this band is superior in every way except historical placement (ie shift their catalog back in time a few years and they’d be household names today). They have accomplished so much and have such great consistency and breadth I’m just awestruck.

Edited by HolyMoly - May 17 2018 at 18:06

HolyMoly wrote: Mortte wrote: Soft Machine: Fourth the Raincoats: the Kitchen Tapes I have a special place in my heart for Fourth. It was the first Soft Machine album I heard & bought, and its weird jazz vibe is still really potent. Last weekend I was invited to compose a short setlist for a portion of a radio show, using a prescribed list of genres as a guide. I chose “Teeth” to represent jazz. The DJ hadn’t heard it hefore but seemed to really like it.

I prefer first, volume two and third to their later, more fusion stuff. But anyway I am going to listen their later albums too, got Soft Machine album collection from Third to Seven from the library.

Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Klaus Schulze - Blackdance
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs

The last day or so....

Sight of Day - Mostly Autumn
Essence - Panic Room
If - Glass Hammer
Only Human - Vega
Burn it Down - The Dead Daisies
Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth - The Mute Gods
The Second Brightest Star - Big Big Train
Live in Gettysburg - Strawbs
From Silence to Somewhere - Wobbler
BCCIV - Black Country Communion
Adverse Camber - The Reasoning
We are Legend - Magenta

Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn

HolyMoly wrote: Mortte wrote: HolyMoly wrote: Mortte wrote: Soft Machine: Fourth the Raincoats: the Kitchen Tapes I have a special place in my heart for Fourth. It was the first Soft Machine album I heard & bought, and its weird jazz vibe is still really potent. Last weekend I was invited to compose a short setlist for a portion of a radio show, using a prescribed list of genres as a guide. I chose “Teeth” to represent jazz. The DJ hadn’t heard it hefore but seemed to really like it. I prefer first, volume two and third to their later, more fusion stuff. But anyway I am going to listen their later albums too, got Soft Machine album collection from Third to Seven from the library.   What do you like the Raincoats? Also, if not listened the Deviants yet what I talked about in my earlier post, I believe it would be your stuff.   About radioshows I start own show in small local finnish radio this sunday, going to make one show also from prog. i do like the Deviants. Mick Farren’s solo album is quite good too. I have the first Raincoats album but I’ve had a hard time getting into it so far.

Maybe you should try their "Odyshape"-album, it´s their best, much more acoustic than the first one. I love also that first one.

Yesterday and today

Dire Straits | Communique
Adrian Belew Power Trio | e
Ghost | Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet
Dire Straits | Making Movies
The Strokes | Is This It?
Negativland | A Big 10-8 Place
Robert Calvert | Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
Brian Jonestown Massacre | Take it from the Man!
fIREHOSE | fROMOHIO
The Smiths | The Queen is Dead
Queen | Greatest Hits
Frank Zappa | Civilization Phaze III