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Posted: January 11 2013 at 21:15
This is the first song all week to really make me feel at peace with myself. It takes me back to the summer of 1982, when I was 13, and my family somehow had the opportunity to spend 6 weeks living in Denmark. My father had a guest professorship at the University of Copenhagen I think. Anyway, my dad's Danish professor friend had a neighbor who happened to be leaving on vacation during the same time we were going to be there, and generously let us stay in his house. So we had our own house, in an actual Danish neighborhood, living with the people, for 6 awesome weeks.
This family had a record player too, and a few good records, one of which was Atom Heart Mother, and another of which was Relics. I was pretty familiar with Floyd by then, but had never heard either of those. So Atom Heart Mother was played pretty much daily for 6 weeks in this cool little house in a cool country where everyone was cool and all the girls were cute and friendly, and almost everyone spoke English too (it was required in school; so younger children might not have learned it yet, but high school age kids were usually pretty fluent).
So here's to you, Atom Heart Mother, my favorite Floyd track, and Song of the Day.
edit: oh, did I mention that my dad and I got to see Camel in concert while we were there? Talk about icing on the frickin' cake...
Edited by HolyMoly - January 11 2013 at 21:21
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Posted: January 12 2013 at 02:51
HolyMoly wrote:
This is the first song all week to really make me feel at peace with myself. It takes me back to the summer of 1982, when I was 13, and my family somehow had the opportunity to spend 6 weeks living in Denmark. My father had a guest professorship at the University of Copenhagen I think. Anyway, my dad's Danish professor friend had a neighbor who happened to be leaving on vacation during the same time we were going to be there, and generously let us stay in his house. So we had our own house, in an actual Danish neighborhood, living with the people, for 6 awesome weeks.
This family had a record player too, and a few good records, one of which was Atom Heart Mother, and another of which was Relics. I was pretty familiar with Floyd by then, but had never heard either of those. So Atom Heart Mother was played pretty much daily for 6 weeks in this cool little house in a cool country where everyone was cool and all the girls were cute and friendly, and almost everyone spoke English too (it was required in school; so younger children might not have learned it yet, but high school age kids were usually pretty fluent).
So here's to you, Atom Heart Mother, my favorite Floyd track, and Song of the Day.
edit: oh, did I mention that my dad and I got to see Camel in concert while we were there? Talk about icing on the frickin' cake... .
Yes ... I can already envision you as a boy in a green countryside on a sunny afternoon, with girls passing you by ... unless I'm wrong the details of the setting.
EDIT: You lucky duck. Floyd and Camel ... and you got to see Camel. Why would it be a bad idea for me to be born in the 50s or 60s?
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Posted: January 12 2013 at 16:24
I was cleaning up (a rare event) and I came across some cassettes I haven't listened to in forever. I don't have anything to play them on anymore but I came across this song on a mix tape. I went to see if the video was on YT and it are! I don't think they got much attention when they were around and I'm pretty sure this was the only song I ever really liked by them:
^I read that as Albert Tango. Brilliant! Thanks for that.
My favourite track(s) today is the goosebumps inducing combination of Hulloder and Dada was here off of Soft Machine 2. The way Robert Wyatt plays around with those vocal harmonies sounds absolutely beautiful. I get shivers.
Edited by Guldbamsen - January 12 2013 at 19:05
“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.”
Off of the Father Son and Holy Ghost album, this track juggles around with a steaming circus like fusion as well as some of the most caterpillary marmalade sticky krautrock known to man.
I have really come to appreciate this album much more with age.
“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.”
This is the first song all week to really make me feel at peace with myself. It takes me back to the summer of 1982, when I was 13, and my family somehow had the opportunity to spend 6 weeks living in Denmark. / My father had a guest professorship at the University of Copenhagen I think. Anyway, my dad's Danish professor friend had a neighbor who happened to be leaving on vacation during the same time we were going to be there, and generously let us stay in his house. So we had our own house, in an actual Danish neighborhood, living with the people, for 6 awesome weeks.
This family had a record player too, and a few good records, one of which was Atom Heart Mother, and another of which was Relics. I was pretty familiar with Floyd by then, but had never heard either of those. So Atom Heart Mother was played pretty much daily for 6 weeks in this cool little house in a cool country where everyone was cool and all the girls were cute and friendly, and almost everyone spoke English too (it was required in school; so younger children might not have learned it yet, but high school age kids were usually pretty fluent).
So here's to you, Atom Heart Mother, my favorite Floyd track, and Song of the Day.
edit: oh, did I mention that my dad and I got to see Camel in concert while we were there? Talk about icing on the frickin' cake...
Amazing post Steve
“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.”
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 20:46
Yesterday: I was thinking about picking a track from Roy Buchanan's Second Album, but ain't that excessive thinking? Besides, only two of those tracks are actual songs. So, I might just as well go with GG - "The Runaway".
Today: Well, I haven't heard anything today except for the things in my head, but I doubt that it counts. I wrote a little corny instrumental ballad a few days ago, but I doubt that would count either. So, ... I'm just gonna go with KC - "The Great Deceiver".
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 21:48
Played this at my band's show the other day, and got really emotional playing it; there's just something about that song, man. It's so chill, then it gets intense, and there's that soaring guitar solo...yeah man.
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 01:09
What a bonus track this is! Must have played this one several times today. A lovely song indeed but the instrumental bridge just blows me through the wall.
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HolyMoly wrote:
... unless I'm wrong the details of the setting.
