jb lamptoast-morsley
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Re: Soundtrack to our lives: 12th March 05
Mar 15, 2005, 23:58
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Does anyone else listen to Stuart Maconie's 'freakzone' on sunday evening? It's on bbc6 and I use the listen again feature. They had a great feature on german psychedelic jazz - stuff like wolfgang downer, roland kovak and barney willun. Probably spelt them wrong but that is how they sounded. Anyone heard any of them? Been listening to tracks by
joanna newsom - particularly the sprout and the bean which is gorgeous
electrelane
vashti bunyan
saul williams - he's got a new single coming out called grippo which I'm liking
death in vegas
Then its the usual rotation of stuff like
Massive Attack - mezzanine
krust - coded language
jungle brothers - raw deluxe
david holmes - lets get killed
Herbaliser - something wicked this way comes
woody guthrie - pastures of plenty (compilation)
Funkadelic - The electric spanking of war babies
Brian Eno - Ambient 2. What is ambient 3 called by the way? Never seen it around
The Faces - First Step
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Lascivia
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Re: Soundtrack to our lives: 12th March
Mar 16, 2005, 03:52
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Soft Machine - Third [1970; sides 3 & 4 only]
Amon Düül II - Yeti [1970]
Jaga Jazzist - Magazine [1998]
Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land [1967]
Gong - You [1974]
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam [1991]
Glenn Branca - The Ascension [1981]
Brainticket - Celestial Ocean [1972]
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Trout Mask
Replica [1969; sides 2 & 3 only]
Comments later if I have time. Or ask directly about one, and I 'll answer sooner.
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Five
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Bruce-track to our lives, yo
Mar 16, 2005, 03:59
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Well, yeah, I've had an earful this week
first off my soul-brother Marc flew in from Vermont & dropped a buttload of mad funk on my harddrive: Meters, Daktaris, Funkadelic, Parlet, Nino Nardini, Dave Fuszinski, etc. So the groove is on
second I've been filling his head up with Acid Mothers and attendant spinoffs, Royal Trux (esp new Neil Hagerty "All Night Fox" which is bad freakin' ass), Sonny Sharrock with Milford Graves, and other strange noises
third, we played our first shows together (as the band called "Bruce") in four years: a 2-hour improv at a local coffee house, then a solid set at Seattle's Experience Music building, truly an epic night, and the lofi minidisc recordings thereof have graced my eardrums ceaselessly since making room only for
"Gusty Winds May Exist," a 35 minute "song" that Marc threw to my band Underground Weather for recording purposes in the Seattle Arts Instsitute Studio A, where Lindsay Vari made our mutual looniness sound all sparkling and lovely
so that's my soundtrack, folks, and a joyous one it is
love
-5-
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Five
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Re: Soundtrack to our lives: 12th March
Mar 16, 2005, 04:00
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why sides 2 & 3 only, in particular?
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Stensil Head
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Re: Broadrick -Jesu
Mar 16, 2005, 14:38
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Yeah, was Shark something? White Shark ? Shark Bait ? or maybe i'm just getting confused with Slug Bait ?
Think that project was pretty short lived, had Dave from Head Of David on bass as i recall.
Had the album years ago, but sadly it's been lost/mislaid or nicked over the years (as have a lot of my reords if i think about it,used to know some dodgy f**kers : (
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Stensil Head
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Re: Soundtrack to our lives: 12th March 05
Mar 16, 2005, 14:43
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Yeah, think Toxsin was my fave, esp 'Mondlicht'. Oooh Anja Huwe, now there's a teen fantasy i'd forgotten about :) Saw em' live around that time, and i couldn't keep me eyes of her, much to my girlfriends chagrin (think she 'earoled me the whole way home in fact, tsk wimmin eh!).
Mind you, i was listening to an old cassette copy of Garlands by the Cocteau's yesterday....Xmal deffo ripped off that sound big time. What was it with the early 80's and chorused basses? they were everywhere !
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Joolio Geordio
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Re: Soundtrack to our lives: 12th March 05
Mar 16, 2005, 19:35
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Ouch ouch
not got the reissue meself - great record but not so great to pay £166 though.
Joolio
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Lascivia
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Re: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Mar 17, 2005, 03:47
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I'm sure you're right. I was misremembering Crepuscule (who did yet another, later, version of "Titanic") instead of Obscure. Sadly, I've only seen the Point issues. Supposedly, the Obscure LP was reissued on CD by Virgin but went swiftly out-of-print.
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Lascivia
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Re: Soundtrack to our lives: 12th March
Mar 17, 2005, 03:59
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I've never really appreciated the album but plenty of people I respect rate it as the best rock album ever recorded, or at the least right up there at the top. I thought taking it one side at a time and giving each side several days and listens to soak in would help. Now that I've gone through side four this week, I can say that it has to some degree, but I still don't quite get it.
Plenty of the tracks are amazing or at least bloody good, but there are others that seem like throwaway comments or have flaws. For example, just how much depth is there to "China Pig"? What exactly is the stunning achievement of the seemingly aimless horn soloing in "Hair Pie: Bake 1"? (The second bake of "Hair Pie" is great, without all the extra blather laid on top.) To me, it seems like the best album ever should be damn near flawless.
P.S. I only listened to sides 3 and 4 of Soft Machine's "Third" because that was the second side of the tape I had started in the car the week before (when I listened to sides 1 and 2). I don't do that much driving.
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Five
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Re: trouttrack to our lives: 12th March
Mar 17, 2005, 06:29
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I don't fully get it either, but I am compelled to try from time to time... There are recordings on the Grow Fins box of the same songs and arrangements recorded in the band's house which I feel come across much better - you can hear the birds and the breeze and such... The arrangements and performances are I think more noteworthy than profound... If it is the greatest rock record ever (or even rock at all) it would be for busting out the walls of possibility
There is other Beefheart that I like - the Mirror Man album especially, which is largely the same band but in a looser format
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