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mingtp
mingtp
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 6 December 2009 CE
Dec 11, 2009, 00:12
thesweetcheat wrote:
T&C is one of my favourite ever albums, with Impurity and Hopeless Causes not far behind



With you there - T&C and Monster Magnet's Spine of God would head my top 3 of all time I think.

Hopeless Causes and Impurity are total winners (especially Fate) but my number 2 NMA soft-spot has to be Ghost of Cain. I can't think of a better 3 or 4 minutes than 51st State meself.
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 6 December 2009 CE
Dec 11, 2009, 21:40
mingtp wrote:
my number 2 NMA soft-spot has to be Ghost of Cain. I can't think of a better 3 or 4 minutes than 51st State meself.


Ooh, yes "51st State" is a great track. Love "Ballad" off that one too.
Stevo
Stevo
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 6 December 2009 CE
Dec 12, 2009, 11:02
pretty west coast sounding jams.
1st lp Malesch is very arabic influenced including soundbites recorded over there. think they must have taken a trip to North africa cos there's a video of them somewhere there.

2nd has become more completely instrumental. Very nice blissful stuff well worth checking out.

I think those were the only 2 recordings released at the time. think the band split in about '74 then a French label stuck out Last in '76.

20, possibly 30 years later Garden of Delights put out a few titles of material discovered in Radio station vaults and label archives. I haven't heard these but they seem to be highly regarded.

Stevo
Hunter T Wolfe
Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 6 December 2009 CE
Dec 13, 2009, 12:49
The Sea Cat wrote:
Squid Tempest wrote:
The Sea Cat wrote:
Squid Tempest wrote:

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
I'm a bit stuck on this again at the moment. Not quite sure why!

Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud
This has really grown on me. One of the best jazz albums I've heard in yonks. Can't wait to play it to my dad, I think he'll love it.


Tubular Bells is wonderful, as indeed Ommadawn. Don't play them much these days, but when I do.... Yes. Mike gets full coolness for those two albums regardless. And Ptah is simply one of the greatest albums, ever. :-)



I actually quite like Hergest Ridge too. I don't listen to them very often either, but I do get the urge every now and then.


Should I check out Hergest Ridge then ? I prefer Ommadawn to TB, because I love the celtic mystic vibe. Woodehenge sounds nice and pagan-y. That would be right up my street. What do you reckon.

( When I hear TB, funnily enough, I don't think of 'that' film like a friend of mine always does, and a lot of others I imagine. As we know, it was conceived and recorded comnpletely unrelated from, and before the film. Mike Oldfield had no personal involvement in the decision behind it's use in a film soundtrack whatsoever. It reminds me of the many awesome and inspiring facets of Nature -I recently saw an Old Grey Whistle Test B & W promo clip that depicted skiers etc. which re-affirmed that feeling )


Whenever I hear Tubular Bells I think of Blue Peter.
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