Beautiful Day
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Re: Ahead of their time / SPARKS
Jul 31, 2004, 12:14
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I'll will never forget seeing them on Top of The Pops in 1974 playing it. I was petrified of Ron Mael's stare (I was 4 years old lol). One of my strongest childhood memories that. They even looked ahead of their time how they dressed and wore their hair was more late 70's than early 70's.
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keith a
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Re: Ahead of their time / SPARKS
Jul 31, 2004, 14:04
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sorry to bring back that scary moment ; )
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Beautiful Day
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Re: Ahead of their time / SPARKS
Jul 31, 2004, 14:37
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Ranks alongside filling my pants behind the settee when John Pertwee did battle with the Daleks
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keith a
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Re: Ahead of their time / SPARKS
Jul 31, 2004, 16:01
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mine was the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the nazi's arriving in the Sound of Music!
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keith a
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Re: Ahead of their time / SPARKS
Jul 31, 2004, 16:05
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oh yeah, and Miss Havisham in David Lean's adaptation of Great Expectations (as played by Martita Hunt).
For some reason she scared the shit out of me!
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Beautiful Day
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Re: Ahead of their time / SPARKS
Jul 31, 2004, 17:00
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ditto on the child catcher as a kid and the witch off wizard of oz, still think the child catcher looks very creepy now,
but then I used to hide from the stick man on Rupert the Bear too
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Lascivia
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Picchio dal Pozzo.
Aug 02, 2004, 17:29
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Fitter, have you heard Picchio dal Pozzo's first album yet? They were VERY much influenced by Wyatt's work, and their debut is absolutely incredible. Read reviews of it at Gnosis ( http://gnosis2000.net ) or the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock ( http://gepr.net ).
You can also download an MP3 excerpt from
http://tinyurl.com/5xvvd
Anyway, did anyone else really show much influence from "Rock Bottom"? Not to knock the absolute greatness of the album, but it doesn't seem to me like it really anticipated a future trend.
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Lascivia
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Cluster/Harmonia, etc.
Aug 02, 2004, 18:01
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No one's mentioned Harmonia and Cluster (circa "Zuckerzeit" and "Sowiesoso")? Tracks on Harmonia's debut were structurally very close to later electronica, though not timbrally. "Watussi" is built from loops that are gradually mixed in and out like a DJ would on turntables. Rhythm stutters through echo on "Veterano" to raise the intensity near the end, reminding me of some Plastikman. The Cluster album "Zuckerzeit" is more electronic in timbre; I once played some for a friend who said, "If you had told me this was Mouse On Mars, I would have believed it." On the other hand, how many contemporary electronica features polymetricity?
In regards to Tangerine Dream: they weren't the only ones fooling around that way in the early/mid 70's. What about Klaus Schulze's work, or the echo guitar of Manuel Göttsching? "E2-E4" really anticipates chill-out house.
One I'm curious about is the bonus track on the CD reissue of Conrad Schnitzler's "Blau"; it sounds way more "advanced" (just from the 'tribal' rhythms) than his other pieces from the time, but was supposedly recorded in the same period.
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grimo
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Re: Ahead of their time
Aug 04, 2004, 14:49
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.bending/index.html
This has a couple of What?Noise things to download.
Cheers
Grimo
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grimo
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Re: Ahead of their time
Aug 04, 2004, 14:51
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.bending/index.html
This has some What?Noise clips to download
Cheers
Grimo
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