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

Steve, regarding your mention of Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water a few posts back, I love that album.  Got the Japanese CD version of that and you are right, a great addition to the Yes catalog!

Today.

Grace Jones— Nightclubbing

Artificial Intelligence— Vol. 1 (1992) . Some of the very best electronic music I’ve ever heard is on this disc. A great revisit.

Arena— The Visitor

David Bowie— Outside ( now I gotta say. When David Bowie goes goth, it bloody well works! Excellent concept album. One of his best for sure. )

Vangelis— Soil Festivities ( I have such fond memories of this album cause I’d always play it for my son to get him ready for his bath time. Adorable and a great way to close out a music listening experience. )

Hey guys, have not been around in awhile.

Today

Camel Rain Dances
The flower Kings Banks of Eden
Arena Contagion
Big Big Train Grimspond
Big Big Train Far Skies Deep Time

Negativland | Live Brain - live album (digital only) accompanying their newest (physical) release, The World Will Decide, which itself is a companion to the prior year’s TrueFalse. I recently heard that none other than Laurie Anderson listed TWWD as one of her 5 favorite albums of all time! Whoa. They are really in a creative renaissance of sorts. For a band whose entire purpose has always revolved around truth and illusion in the mass media, these days must provide no end of ideas. Still impressive how they can piece hundreds of soundbites together into a conceptual whole much greater than the sum of its parts.

GY!BE | Yanqui UXO — my perfect album to accompany strung-out depression. I’m fine now.

Guided by Voices | Suitcase (box set) — 100 otherwise unreleased songs on 4 CD. Just the tip of the iceberg for ol’ Bob Pollard.

Viagra Boys | Welfare Jazz — love these guys. High energy Swedish post-punk with a great sax player, skillful keyboards, amazing drummer, colorful guitar work, distorted bass overdrive, and a singer who sounds like every song is the last rageful rant he’ll ever make.

Jandek | Los Angeles Friday
Jandek | The Ray
Jandek | Dallas Thursday. — the last 2 of these were not too familiar to be and were just ok (he puts out so many albums I don’t expect all of them to be that good) but the first of these might be among my favorites. Live improvised guitar (by Will Toledo, of Car Seat Headrest, guesting for this show), with a bassist, maybe some keyboards, a drum machine (corny but somehow the dated “handclap” effects are charming), with either Sterling or his significant other Sheila reciting and/or singing lyrics of theirs. An acquired taste.

King Crimson | Lizard - been very hooked on the title suite lately. Damn it’s majestic. Where did Fripp pull that from? Nothing else in their catalog sounds remotely like it.

Moody Blues | Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - an old favourite

Sebadoh | The Freed Weed — lo fi acoustic stuff from a couple of good indie songwriters. They went electric shortly after. I would be surprised to hear that any of these 40-odd songs were NOT recorded under the influence of weed.

Chris Squire | Fish Out of Water — fantastic album every Yes fan should own. Equal quality to the great Yes albums of the mid 70s.

Edited by HolyMoly - April 27 2021 at 19:08

HolyMoly wrote: progbethyname wrote: HolyMoly wrote: @Nick - I actually know very little about Skinny Puppy, but thought I’d probably like them so I picked up that album when I had the chance. Definitely good stuff, quite dark, how I like it. Amazing Steve. Nice plunge. I recommend 1990’s Last Rights and 1985’s Remission. You really get a terrific scope of what they are truly capable of. excellent... thanks bro! On the wish list they go. And Eliminator? Holy moly - that album sounds incredible even after all this time. Such a great fusion of guitar power and 80s sound that few bands could match. I love how even the guitar solos are so well thought out you can sing along with them too.

It sure does. Has that skillful Bob Ludwig mastering on it.
Pretty cool and still sounds state of the art.

progbethyname wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Yesterday: Vangelis - Antarctica (been spinning this at work when I’ve got the early shift. Seems to gel well with my little ginnypig guy that otherwise tend to swing from the lamps. This music though keeps him completely calm..and he looks like someone watching a brilliant movie) Waste Of Space Orchestra - s/t Circle - Pharao Overlord Crucis - Los Delirios Del Mariscal Aktuala - s/t Arbete & Fritid - Andra Serge Bringolf - Vision Nice buddy. Vangelis is the true warrior of creating music that turns into love and peace. Know what other album I really like from ? direct. Very underrated. Some extremely clever arrangements done by the autodidact. :)

I’m constantly reminded of why I love him whenever I jump eras within his discography...though granted I’m not reaching for his more classical adventures as I tend to find them a tad too err..wafting or something. But between the rest of his outings there’s at least some 5 or 6 different genretags we could slap on them. He’s about as eclectic as they get. Direct is a bit under the radar, I agree. Though...and I’m sorry if I’m stepping on your toes here buddy, but there are a couple of tracks on here that literally sound like the kind of muzak I’d hear at a Greek beach side restaurant with white plastic chairs and everything else painted deep satisfying blue. Man I love (and MISS!) those places...but yeah the cheesy 90s electronic-like muzak always got to me...and there are (just) a few tracks on here that sound like that
The opening cut though always sends me straight off to another place. So gorgeous.

Edited by Guldbamsen - April 27 2021 at 09:41

Last night I put my metal boots on.

Threshold — For the journey
DELAIN — Human Contradiction
Paradise lost— Draconian times ( 25th Ann RM)
Dream Theater— 6 degrees ( disc 1 only.)

Yesterday:
Vangelis - Antarctica (been spinning this at work when I’ve got the early shift. Seems to gel well with my little ginnypig guy that otherwise tend to swing from the lamps. This music though keeps him completely calm..and he looks like someone watching a brilliant movie)
Waste Of Space Orchestra - s/t
Circle - Pharao Overlord
Crucis - Los Delirios Del Mariscal
Aktuala - s/t
Arbete & Fritid - Andra
Serge Bringolf - Vision