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Seyo wrote:

Here is my review of one of my hardest listening experiences.

FAUST The Faust Tapes
Review (Permanent link) by Sead S. Fetahagic @ 10:25:37 AM EST, 6/28/2005
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2 stars — "The Faust Tapes" is even more difficult to rate because it was and still is for me one of the hardest listening experiences. Probably THE hardest. The original vinyl record sleeve was a ordinary plastic bag depicting a saturated green photo of a ugly idiot-looking male face shouting (or yawning) with red eyes, perfectly matching the craziness of the sound contained therein. This is basically a pastiche of sounds and electronic noise, with one exceptional moment - "Flashback Caruso", which is quite listenable. The rest is a pure headache. As mad as it may sound, this album of nonsense has a sort of appeal and attraction, but you must be a bit deranged (like myself, ha, ha) to like it. Minimum 10 years of prog listening experience is prerequisite! Approach with extreme caution! Although I give only 2 stars, it is basically a category of its own and very much - unrateable (if this is a correct English).

Loved that album when I first heared it! Have to get it again!

Tangerine Dream: Zeit (Largo in 4 Movements)

In addition to most Krautrock and some experimental stuff (Henry Cow et al), I have always found it hard to listen to most of VDGG. It's not that I don't like it or respect it - I do, immensely - but I find it hard to take Peter Hamill's "on-the-sleeve" angst-ridden delivery (which I also very much admire and respect).

I also could not "get" Ozric Tentacles.

Peace.

Lateralus_64 wrote:

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

I still haven't been able to really enjoy it... I got better last time though, gotta listen some more to that one.

Another suggestion: Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe. Fusion-metal, intense and complex stuff. I was NOT used to this kind of music and I seriously got a headache the first time I heard it, and it took ALL my attention, it was simply not possible to concentrate on something else when I listened to it. Now it's one of my all-time favorite records, but I'm able to concentrate on other stuff as well now.. but still it's usually draining some of my mind.

"Music is a moral law - it gives wings to the mind, A soul to the universe, Flight to the imagination, A charm to sadness, A life to everything." - Plato

it took quite long to get used to captain beefheart's music and his strange vovals....but now i love most of his records.

His vovals are quite strange too, to be fair Hammill... I heard he keept them in plastic bags and fed them on pomegranates.

Amon Duul II- Dance of lemmings

felixxx wrote:

Amon Duul II- Dance of lemmings

And almost everything else from them and krautrock generaly

-Any album of the Velvet Underground.

-Faust`s "So Far".

-Hawkwind`s "Space Ritual"

-Van der Graaf Generator`s "Still".

-King Crimson`s "Beat".

-A whole album by Celine Dion (a very good singer, but too much "sugar" and "soft" for my taste).

-Peter Gabriel`s "Up" and "Us".

Avatar: Photo of Solar Eclipse, Mexico City, July 1991. A great experience to see. Maybe once in a lifetime.