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

^I fully agree with that Steve. You added to the party with that little Outlast anecdote though. Thanks for that btw
I always dug those guys...even back when Ms. Jackson should have been taken off the radio

Yesterday:
Syd Arthur - On & On (Great songwriting, youthful exuberance and meadowy psych rock aspirations)
Vangelis - Antarctica (Exploring the freezer head first)
Parquet Court - Wide Awake! (Wonderful music to marinade chickens in (I went the jerk-route aka scotch bonnets, onions, garlic, 5 spice, cumin, limes and thyme))
The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery (Quite simply one of my favourite new discoveries: jazzy, psychedelic, klezmer-like and electronic to boot)
Simple Minds - Empires & Dance (Another fave of mine)
Autechre - Amber (Some of that beep-beep music that sounds organic, elegant and still manages to tickle your collective sinusses)
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music (Neurotic and artsy dance music for fans of flightless birds, mismatching gloves and bicycles with roofs)

Edited by Guldbamsen - June 21 2020 at 02:19

Happy Father’s Day gents !!

Just one album today while my son bounced around.

Depeche Mode— Music For the masses ( 5.1 mix on low volume. Lol)


Catch you all later. Hope all is well.

Happy father’s day to all to whom that applies! Pretty low key day for me, but got randomly reacquainted with an album I’ve had for many years but had all but forgotten about.

Green Milk from the Planet Orange | City Calls Revolution

Japanese psych band that really goes all-out. I found myself watching a YouTube video of them live and it was great! If you have 38 minutes to spare and this sounds like your kind of thing, look up the track .... wait, I’ll just embed the sucker, it’s worthy. A 38 minute track that always seems to be building to something, a series of tension/releases.



Edited by HolyMoly - June 21 2020 at 21:44

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Structure Et Force

Most recent:

Black Flag | My War - for my Monday morning blues

Pip Proud | A Bird in the Engine - odd Australian acoustic+vocals guy, circa 1969. Compared to Syd Barrett by some

Allman Brothers Band | Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas - nifty double live album from the mid 70s. Chuck Leavell sounds great on electric piano

The Band | Rock of Ages - another double live. Not a huge fan but when I feel like hearing them this is the one

Bob Dylan | Street Legal - late 70s album, just before his Christianity phase. Usually considered one of his worst but I place it higher than that. Lots of horns and backup singers and really long songs.

The Kinks | Soap Opera - cringeworthy if you’re not ready for it, but kinda funny if you are. Ray at his flakiest.

Jefferson Airplane | Crown of Creation - a dark opus that keeps growing on me

Husker Du | Savage Young Du - amazing 3 disc box set covering their earliest days in their transition from an emo-type postpunk band into one of the most exhilarating hardcore bands around. Mostly previously unreleased stuff.

The Bevis Frond | Vavona Burr - a typical Bevis Frond album: over 70 minutes, and full of amazingly consistent psych/rock songs in various moods.

Magma | Bobino 1981 - i listen to this way more than I should compared to other Magma albums, but it really goes down nice. Like a Merci-era live show with the right proportion of epics - “Zess”’being the highlight.

Frank Zappa | Jazz from Hell - won a grammy I think. Pretty eccentric, but with some very mainstream moments like Night School (which I think was conceived as the theme song to a news TV program he was developing at the time)

Thin Lizzy | Vagabonds of the Western World - these guys had some amazing tunes, and several of them are on this one.

Tortoise | TNT - groovy jazzy Chicago post-rock. I like their use of vibes. I have a few albums but don't play them much

Peter Gabriel | Passion - kinda quiet in the background (I needed to chill at the time, having a tough work day)

Robert Calvert | Captain Lockheed & the Starfighters - cool stuff. I got a double LP reissue of this (though it’s not really longer than a single album, and wasn’t mastered at 45 RPM, so wtf? I guess some people like flipping the record every 10 minutes). It’s full of guest stars from Hawkwind and has a storyline with spoken parts by the likes of Vivian Stanshall. Need to listen closer.

James Ferraro | Last American Hero - lo-fi avant whiz kid with one of his 100 or so albums

Roger Daltrey | Best Bits - nice sampler of his 70s/early 80s albums. Or I assume it is, since I’ve never heard the full albums in question. But I’ve had this record since my teens, and it’s good.

Mercury Rev | All is Dream - orchestral pop. I wish they didn’t sing in such a falsetto all the time. Worse than Flaming Lips (though similar). Their first 2 albums were amazing btw, and I’m not saying this one isn’t good; justsounds like the Muppets sometimes

Melvins | Stag - one of their best. Got so weird in the middle I had to stop it. Just too cool to work to.

Edited by HolyMoly - June 24 2020 at 19:31

Finch - Beyond Expression
Peter Baumann - Trans-Harmonic Nights (This album is so uninspired. His next one was objectively worse but at least he tried something different, which makes it better in a way.)
Echorec - The Island
Lazuli - Le Fantastique Envol de Dieter Böhm
Diabo na Cruz - Virou!
Torga Ostera - Queda Ascendente
Il Tempio delle Clessidre - Il-Ludere
Ciccada - The Finest of Miracles (It was on my 2015 AOTY list but I totally forgot about it. It's still a classy retro Prog album as I remembered.)
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Tim Blake - Blake's New Jerusalem (That mouth percussion track on "Generator" cracks me up but it's so well mixed, it sounds like a synth if you don't pay much attention.)
Weserbergland - Sehr Kosmisch Ganz Progisch (I actually liked it this time, I think it's the fact that it's marketed as a Kraut album that rubbed me the wrong way. The stylistic comparisons are very subtle and the clean production takes it even farther away. It sounds more like a modern version of TFTO to my ears.)
L'Éclair - Noshtta
La Coscienza di Zeno - Il Giro Del Cappio
Esfera - Plano
Mildlife - Phase
Logos - L'Enigma Della Vita

Your Wilderness - The Pineapple Thief