I never heard any of Luna's music until today (I recently bought their greatest hits album), but now I want to start going through their catalog. No songs on this collection are bad. And most of them are great!
Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual: I love Marquee Moon that has to be one of my favorite albums of all time!
Yeah, please don't misunderstand. I like the album, too. But when I see, say, Pitchfork, list it as the No. 3 album of the 1970s -- ahead of Bitches Brew, Loaded, Who's Next, Unknown Pleasures, Blood On The Tracks, Led Zepplin IV, There's A Riot Goin' On, Fear of Music, Third/Sister Lovers, Superfly, and so forth -- I am puzzled. But maybe it's better than all those albums. I'm no expert, music taste is subjective, and I do like Marquee Moon.
No, I totally understand. Actually I may be overrating it but I'd give it No.1 of the 70's if I could. But I respect your opinion and you do have good taste. I just have a special relationship with that record. It's indescribable for me. I mean I'm assuming that you have a significant relationship with a album. What suprises me is that Low was placed at numero uno! I mean it's great but in my opinion it's definitely not the greatest record of the 70's.
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I finally got around to listening to "fake train" by unwound. Holy cow. What a record. I had only heard "leaves turn inside you" and one song from "repetition" before.
Although Frank Sinatra isn't new to me anymore (I am a relatively new convert. I only really started listening to his albums in the last two years) I just piced up his album September of My Years and it's fantastic. Not a surprise by any means, but still, he is in excellent voice on this album even by his own standards and the string arrangements are outstanding. Really, really good.
Moondog - A (blind) composer who had his first album record in '56. More modal than tonal, but never skronky or abrasive. Some say he was a precursor of minimalism. When he was young he played flute and drums with Native Americans. You can definitely hear the wild west americana in his music. It would go nicely alongside Morricone's tGtB&tU soundtrack stuff. Well worth checking out.
Moondog's just great. Did you pick up The Viking of 6th Avenue collection that came out earlier this year? m.leland, keylimetrev, and crazed did and it sounds great. Personally, I've not, but I intend to sooner than later. His stuff's been only so sporadically in print over the years, so it's nice to have a collection that comes as close to definitive as we're likely to get.
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I've never seen his music available anywhere legally. I'll have to look that up. I heard about him on a scaruffi.com 60s best of list and found both of his self titled albums on slsk.
Im not sure how I missed this one. Perhaps a bit derivative, but I love their blues/rock sound. On first listen, I enjoy this record as much as anything the White Stripes have released.
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Originally posted by vitunkrapula: I've never seen his music available anywhere legally. I'll have to look that up. I heard about him on a scaruffi.com 60s best of list and found both of his self titled albums on slsk.
If those are the Prestige and Columbia self-titled albums, you've got the core of his best work. Nice!
Best not to assume anything, do you listen to Sun Ra?
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Since my last post, I checked ebay out of curiousity and the one moondog album up there was the CBS issue from '69 (one of the ones I found). looks like it goes for $70 and up. sheesh
And about Sun Ra - I've only heard a smattering - Space is the Place is on my 'to buy' list, but I'm definitely open to suggestions. What would you recommend?
Im not sure how I missed this one. Perhaps a bit derivative, but I love their blues/rock sound. On first listen, I enjoy this record as much as anything the White Stripes have released.
Black Keys > White Stripes. They just rock harder and more believably in my opinion, and you can't beat Auerbach's voice. I can't wait for Magic Potion.
Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual: What suprises me is that Low was placed at numero uno [on Pitchforkmedia's Best Albums of the 70s List]! I mean it's great but in my opinion it's definitely not the greatest record of the 70's.
Well then, opinions on Pitchfork's list of the Best Songs of the 60s, which had "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys at No. 1? I have no problem with that choice, at all.
Originally posted by vitunkrapula: Since my last post, I checked ebay out of curiousity and the one moondog album up there was the CBS issue from '69 (one of the ones I found). looks like it goes for $70 and up. sheesh
I guess I ought not to be surprised that original Moondog is going for so much, but $70 is pretty amazing.
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Originally posted by vitunkrapula: And about Sun Ra - I've only heard a smattering - Space is the Place is on my 'to buy' list, but I'm definitely open to suggestions. What would you recommend?
Sun Ra's catalog is nothing short of vast and the quality varies wildly from recording to recording, even on the same label. Space is the Place is a great place to start, though, and is pretty easy to find.
Last year around this time, though, klt picked up the Evidence collection Greatest Hits: Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel. I own a lot of the Evidence reissues, but not that one and I'm going to need to one of these days because it looks to be about as a good a single collection as may ever appear.
I think you're going to like Sun Ra a lot.
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Last year around this time, though, klt picked up the Evidence collection Greatest Hits: Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel
I really like that 'greatest hits'. I've picked up three or four of his albums in the last year or so, but I think I definately listen to the compilation more than anything else. The GH cd is fun because some of the tracks are relatively normal sounding, but they will be tucked between two songs that are unlike anything else I've ever heard.
Completely "new to me" it is certainly not, but I've been listening a lot lately to Hüsker Dü's double-album "Zen Arcade." It's much more textured and musically innovative than most hardcore music of its day (although I'm far from an expert). I love the folk and jazz and psychedelia flavors you can hear in some of the songs. And many of those songs -- e.g., "I'm Never Talking To You Again," "Hare Krsna," and "What's Going On (Inside My Head)," "Standing By The Sea," "Pink Turns to Blue," and "Turn On The News" -- are moving, intense and powerful. As the foregoing selections suggest, I've always been slightly partial to Grant Hart over Bob Mould, even though both are great songwriters.
And I've always liked those "heavy metal umlauts" in the band's name (the dots above "H" and "U," respectively), even though I don't think they really mean anything.
Completely "new to me" it is certainly not, but I've been listening a lot lately to Hüsker Dü's double-album "Zen Arcade." It's much more textured and musically innovative than most hardcore music of its day (although I'm far from an expert). I love the folk and jazz and psychedelia flavors you can hear in some of the songs. And many of those songs -- e.g., "I'm Never Talking To You Again," "Hare Krsna," and "What's Going On (Inside My Head)," "Standing By The Sea," "Pink Turns to Blue," and "Turn On The News" -- are moving, intense and powerful. As the foregoing selections suggest, I've always been slightly partial to Grant Hart over Bob Mould, even though both are great songwriters.
This band actually is "new to me." I have known of them and their influence for while, but I have only recently taken the time to listen to them. They have an impressive way of seemlessly combining genres. How many "hardcore" bands could blend in all those influences so effortlessly? Have I offically used up my allotment of "quotations?"
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I haven't listened to much blues lately, though I used to more so in years gone by. If I've heard anything from Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown before today, it must have been a song on a v/a compilation. But I was floored by one of Brown's final studio albums today- 2004's Timeless. A mix of vocals and instrumental tracks, featuring not only blues but country, R&B, swing and a funky, humorous spoken number that reminded me of Oscar Brown Jr. Sorry that the man is no longer among us though as I discovered today, his music is timeless and I'll be hunting down his back catalogue.
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Originally posted by Daniel, Esq.: And I've always liked those "heavy metal umlauts" in the band's name (the dots above "H" and "U," respectively), even though I don't think they really mean anything.
The umlauts are a derivation from the original source. Husker Du?, with macrons (I can't get the - symbol here), is a Danish memory board game. It means "Do you remember?" in Danish, and it was pretty common in Minnesota when I was growing up. I know I had a copy.
There were a few of the heavy metal umlauts out there at the time (Blue Oyster Cult, Spinal Tap, Motorhead) which may have had influence on the Du. Motley Crue put their umlauts out the same year as Husker, although Vince Neil claimed to have rocked the heavy metal umlauts in tribute to Lowenbrau beer.
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There were a few of the heavy metal umlauts out there at the time (Blue Oyster Cult, Spinal Tap, Motorhead) which may have had influence on the Du. Motley Crue put their umlauts out the same year as Husker, although Vince Neil claimed to have rocked the heavy metal umlauts in tribute to Lowenbrau beer.
The umlauts were the only similarity between Husker Du and the Crue. Motley Crue began around the same time as Husker Du? That surprises me.
