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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 11:15:46 GMT
My word, this thread is getting fantastically obscure, the Oatcake has never been so brilliantly left of field chaps. It's an education, keep it coming! Loving the SAHB stuff, i'm a new convert.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 14, 2015 11:32:46 GMT
Used to listen to Maconie's Freakzone on R6 far too much. Eventually I felt in danger of disappearing up me own musical jacksie. I brought myself from the brink by listening to nothing but Lily Allen for a couple of months. I approach the 'odd' shelf with caution these days.
Here's one of my favourite examples of 'not quite Funk'. I picked up the DisinHairited album in a junk shop many moons ago. Always intrigued, with the power of the web it's easy to put some context to such curios. Grooving when it hits it's stride.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 11:41:10 GMT
I'm the same but with Gilles Peterson, ive been listening to him for years. The guys a bloody genius.
This is a classic Gilles tune.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 14, 2015 12:12:09 GMT
Just before I go and make my dinner...
Pig Snoots - it"s taken me a while to figure out but she's singing "cured pork" at the beginning so I wonder if she later went on to invent the pulled stuff?
I try not to listen to it too much to be honest. It's like one if those "one hand clapping/tree falling in the forest" nonsense phrases or poems that Zen Buddhists use to short circuit your mind into a higher state of conciousness; and so a step closer to nirvana. Like a spiritual cricket bat upside your head.
Pig Snoots is a musical cricket bat upside my head and I haven't worked out if that is good or bad.
Next week more music that never got anybody laid.
Tata
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 14, 2015 13:59:34 GMT
I've been watching a few of the 'What's in my bag?' Amoeba records episodes on youtube. Good show. A few interesting guests who talk through their 'purchases'. There is a great one featuring a couple of the Acid Mothers Temple. Sandy Denny!
Test
I havn't read Julian Cope's books in full, but I came across this quote from him about the Temple:
"It starts off like every other psychedelically-styled band, but then it just unfolds and unfolds and unfolds. When I first heard it, it didn’t grab me immediately by the poo-poo or swing me out into the stars, indeed I was initially suspicious of any band which built its house on such apparently hoary cosmic rock cliches. Acid Mothers Temple music unfolds from its simple archetypal base into an infinitely intricate and wildly vibrant tapesty of ... genius sound collages that take your head and spin it round in an Exorcist-like ecstasy. The Bayeux Tapestry looks crude and simplistic until you realise that there’s about two miles of it — and so it is with Acid Mothers Temple. The five false endings at the end of your favourite western Live heavy metal double-LP are piddling underachieving drywanks compared with the 20-minute tailouts of the Acid Mothers."
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 15, 2015 0:54:45 GMT
I've also started to insist on this in the background if I'm travelling any distance.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 15, 2015 10:47:11 GMT
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 15, 2015 11:49:35 GMT
Right. Where to start?
I understand what you're saying, cheeesfreeex, re. Staggolee. I can't get past Mott's version of "Darkness Darkness" through to the Youngbloods original, which I am insistently informed is far superior in every way. I heard the Mott first. It doesn't always always follow though, I started with HP Lovecrafts version of "Get Together" but now prefer Youngbloods. Give the PGE "Bluesbuster" a chance. I like it's driven nature. PS "Get Together" was used in a TV ad recently.
Acid Mothers Temple: this sounds exactly like the back end of a live Hawkwind gig circa 1973. Which is no bad thing! Not entirely convinced it adds much to the sum total of human knowledge but as a live experience I'd probably love it. Incidentally, the drummer is class, he looks like he has been playing this non-stop since 1973!!!
Lightning Bolt: You might have put a warning on that! I want to be around to collect my pension FFS! The very opposite of Pig Snoots. I'm going to be reborn as a Vale fan now.
Blood, Sweat & Tears - ace. This album created a genre. I've got a bit more to say about them later.
Once I read Gong I had to go and make a cup of tea so Thimbletron, the Evolution Control Committee and Vidimasher 3000 et al. will have to wait.
The previous is a "period" joke and may not travel well.
Etruria I still can't get over the simple beauty of that Grant Green back there. that was excellent. Hope you enjoyed the Miles Davis. So much music so little time to listen. the Nuyorican Soul is deserving of a bit more time. I'll have a bit more of a listen. I'm glad you are liking the SAHB. There version of Next is a classic. I've got a few more of them in mind.
Enjoying this thread immensely. Anybody else any contributions?
For now I think a step back into the mainstream for me. That Lightning Bolt has smashed my rudder.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 15, 2015 11:52:13 GMT
Ex Jethro Mick Abrahams. These played our school "dance" in lieu of Supertramp............ Good.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 15, 2015 12:13:39 GMT
A couple of Fleetwood Mac related oddities now:-
This was the flip side to "Man of the World" and is ostensibly by Earl Vince and the Valiants. I came close to getting my face filled in once because of this.
Stretch:-
The band was put together in 1974 with help from Fleetwood Mac manager Clifford Davis and drummer Mick Fleetwood, to perform as Fleetwood Mac on a US tour because the existing Fleetwood Mac were not in a position to fulfil outstanding contractual obligations. However, Fleetwood did not join the tour as planned, and later denied any knowledge or involvement, and partway through the tour it became obvious to audiences that there was no original member of Fleetwood Mac in the band, and the tour collapsed.
That's Elmer Gantry ex of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera right there in the flesh.
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Post by harryburrows on Jun 15, 2015 13:38:11 GMT
Thanks mate , no frank Zappa ?
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 15, 2015 13:56:49 GMT
[quote author=" harryburrows" source="/post/4735225/thread" timestamp="1434375491" Thanks mate , no frank Zappa ? There's some Zappa further back harry. Anyway, put some of your faves up! I can't believe this Strawbs existed. It's surprising what you can find!
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Post by harryburrows on Jun 15, 2015 14:26:57 GMT
[quote author=" harryburrows" source="/post/4735225/thread" timestamp="1434375491" Thanks mate , no frank Zappa ? There's some Zappa further back harry. Anyway, put some of your faves up! I can't believe this Strawbs existed. It's surprising what you can find! You tube is a fantastic resource isn't it , always found the most obscure stuff I looked for , Strawbs is always a good listen if only to hear a very young Rick wakeman
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 16, 2015 11:53:27 GMT
Just this. Bit dark in more ways than one.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 16, 2015 12:38:17 GMT
I inherited a box of ex-pub jukebox 7"s from the early '70's. Mostly from Bennett's Cobridge. Some quality stuff from Ken Nordine, The Mixtures, and Lee Marvin to Chicago, CSS, early Slade and Sabbath. One of my favourite band names but I know next to fuck all about them. Whatever happened to: Atomic Rooster?
Strangely reminds me of Big Audio Dynamite.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 16, 2015 12:44:27 GMT
Skankmonkey likes this very much. Don't listen to Winter or Banstead if you have any rope handy though.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 16, 2015 13:25:34 GMT
Another pearler from that box of vinyl gems was Melanie 'Brand New Rollerskates', with the beautiful 'Some say I got Devil' on the flip. Knocks spots off the hit.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 16, 2015 13:36:19 GMT
Dory Previn. Great storyteller.
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Post by pretzel on Jun 16, 2015 19:24:58 GMT
Thanks for pointing me in this direction Skankmonkey This is the thread that's obviously going to keep me from doing all those things I should have been doing tonight!! Anyway, this is one I uploaded myself, maybe you could help me nudge it further towards 8 million views
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 16, 2015 20:12:35 GMT
Thanks for pointing me in this direction Skankmonkey Now we are cooking with gas Pretzel! Ace! "Charlie stole the handle and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down" Top Stuff!
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 17, 2015 11:24:27 GMT
I promised nuggets here are some:
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 17, 2015 11:26:53 GMT
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 17, 2015 11:29:41 GMT
and this Sky Saxon Is that Kasey Kasem?
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 17, 2015 11:38:13 GMT
Nuggets
You knew that you had graduated as a music bluffer in the seventies if you could successfully convince someone that you had either:
- Heard one of these records
- Owned one of these records
- Had seen any the bands live
- Or for the truly transcendental bullshitter;- slept with a member of one of them
There are domestic ones as well. I'll find them another time
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 17, 2015 11:51:05 GMT
Congratulations! I was blissfully unaware of the DisinHairited stuff!
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 17, 2015 20:54:50 GMT
Congratulations! I was blissfully unaware of the DisinHairited stuff! What did you think of it? Enjoyed the Nuggets picks. In fact there was a series of vinyl lps entitled 'Nuggets' & 'Pebbles' in the '80's I now recall. I think to cater for an interest in and demand for garage rock, partly inspired by the Cramps. I only ever had them on tape. Not sure if it was Peel of Kershaw who championed them. That Standells track is tops, best thing they did for me. I would have opted for 'Flower Seller..' by The Seeds, just nuts, but hey ho, that's a great tune too. So it could drift into Blue Cheer, 13th Floor Elevators, The Misunderstood and such. I like a couple of Box Tops tracks too. Less obscure but I'll have a trawl of some Zombies tunes as a result of this. Sometimes digging deeper uncovers things with more archival merit than intrinsic musical wonder. I'm currently listening to some Parson Sound from 1967. Psychedelic Swedish Jazz Folk Noise. Can't quite make up me mind whether listening to it is just a kind of 'intellectual' exercise or whether it's good stuff in itself. {I feel the same about Metal Machine Music. I'll probably never bother listening to that again.} Best played loud. 1967. Any thoughts?
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Post by Skankmonkey on Jun 17, 2015 21:17:53 GMT
Congratulations! I was blissfully unaware of the DisinHairited stuff! What did you think of it? Enjoyed the Nuggets picks. In fact there was a series of vinyl lps entitled 'Nuggets' & 'Pebbles' in the '80's I now recall. I think to cater for an interest in and demand for garage rock, partly inspired by the Cramps. I only ever had them on tape. Not sure if it was Peel of Kershaw who championed them. That Standells track is tops, best thing they did for me. I would have opted for 'Flower Seller..' by The Seeds, just nuts, but hey ho, that's a great tune too. So it could drift into Blue Cheer, 13th Floor Elevators, The Misunderstood and such. I like a couple of Box Tops tracks too. Less obscure but I'll have a trawl of some Zombies tunes as a result of this. Sometimes digging deeper uncovers things with more archival merit than intrinsic musical wonder. I'm currently listening to some Parson Sound from 1967. Psychedelic Swedish Jazz Folk Noise. Can't quite make up me mind whether listening to it is just a kind of 'intellectual' exercise or whether it's good stuff in itself. {I feel the same about Metal Machine Music. I'll probably never bother listening to that again.} Best played loud. 1967. Any thoughts? Nuggets was the bluffers lp of choice in the 70s came out about 72. Don't dig too deep for Blue Cheer mate, for me that is only interesting for historical reasons. The disinHairited is intrresting, like you say, I'll see if I can find a bit more for a listen. You mean to say you listened to MMM. What, to the end? For a bet? Have a go at that White Noise stuff<winky> the other stuff on YT by them is less theatrical. Magma and those German bands back there are worth a listen if you like Can. News and bed for me now. Back on in the morn. Night.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 19, 2015 0:34:34 GMT
MMM is some of the better musical shite I've put myself through in order to discover MUSIC. It's all a journey. With a lower case j.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 19, 2015 0:58:51 GMT
I'm currently of the opinion that this is the finest song ever written.
And I'm usually loathe to use superlatives.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jun 19, 2015 1:13:28 GMT
... or perhaps this...
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