Can't ever go wrong with a bit of old skool Fields... and another band I can drift off to sleep to: I listen to Ozric Tentacles usually after playing a show to bring me back to terra firma
Alternate universe selection: And the first thing that came to mind: RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY - Monkeys On Juice; Bevis Frond - "High in a Flat"; Loop - Black Sun
@toothaction Liked that Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Not sure I've heard them before. Have just had an intention to check them out for a really long time.
OK, this a really good record. I'm not going to go into the whole spiel, 'cause maybe you're all aware of this one, but if you're any kind of early punk and/or post-punk fan, you need to know about this. Part of that is because of the story behind it, but the music definitely stands on it's own.
@Odibex ^ meant to share that way back but couldn't pick a favorite song. Man, did those kids ever blow our minds back in '09. Right damn under our noses all those years! Crazy cool that there's a doc about them, too. Today's indulgence: or or, as is probably the best way to go about it: Neu! 2 for me and you. Super.
I guess I circumvented that by posting the whole thing. Whoops! Actually, I didn't find out about them until about a year ago. Better late then never (not an unprecedented concept with this band!) I watched that doc about a week ago (and it's really, really good), which is why they were fresh in my mind. Love Nue!, too. Discovered them at a pretty awesome library I used to live near. I've only heard the first two, though. Have you heard any of their other stuff?
@toothaction Hmm... I was thinking AGW and TTM(BS) were Eno's only non-ambient albums. I've definitely heard the title "Here Come the Warm Jets" before, but I didn't know anything about it. I have to say, I find that particular song awful, but I'm definitely going to check the rest of the record out, because I adore the first two I mentioned.
Sorry you didn't care for the song, @Odibex. Maybe it will grow on you in the context of the full record. Hard to imagine being into Eno and not knowing Here Come the Warm Jets, I must say, but I'm jealous of you being able to hear it for the first time. Here's something you might like even less! Consider track 1 my SOTD. The Portsmouth Sinfonia are worth looking up. EDIT: Forgot a 'not'.
@toothaction It's those "oh no"s. They make me feel like I imagine what it would feel like to have tourettes. If that makes any sense. And I'm not sure it's entirely accurate to say I'm "into Eno" since the majority of his work I can't really listen to because I don't have the temperament for ambient. I think I was just kind assuming Warm Jets was an ambient record because I hadn't heard otherwise. I look forward giving it a listen. I made it to about 6:15 with the Portsmouth Sinfonia. Wikipedia says one of the founders was Gavin Bryars, who I became aware of when Tom Waits (who I pretty much worship) lent his voice to a composition of Bryars' called Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (which you may well be aware of). It would make sense to post here were it not so very long. I was not particularly aware of G.B.H. back when I was a punk rocker, but I did have this song on tape which I'd recorded off the radio (back when you could find the odd punk show on you local college station). It's a really stellar burst of punk 'tude coming in under three minutes.
Echo & The Bunnymen- Read It In Books (First Peel session) has been on repeat for two days in my car.
Ha yeah I posted that on my iphone from a Enterprise parking lot with planes flying over head this morning waiting for the team to assemble so I was lazy about the audio aid.
^ Too good a tune to leave it to just words. Something that happened in Detroit in 1981: Where my @rattanicus at? @Michael Beverage, come and play! Der ablum. Griot Galaxy - Zenalog Aintro . Kin
Haha, you know I love everything you post ~ It's just too easy to spend too much time listening to so much stuff! Here's some more happy sounds
I had kind of an interesting last couple of days (that is to say not interesting at all). My power was out and the only entertainment I could scrounge was portable CD player (I've never owned an MP3 player). and unfortunately, it just stopped reading CDs after a few hours. Luckily I had a cassette walkmen and a big box of tapes. I was pretty surprised to discover that the majority of the tapes were recordings of an old radio show I used to listen to called The Dick Spottswood Show (aka the Obsolete Music Hour). It was a four hour show where the very knowledgeable (he writes liner notes for reissues and stuff too) Spottswood would play all manner of very old music from around the world, but mostly the US. A lot of the time he'd present all the permutations and variations of a particular song, like Stagger Lee, and that would take up half the show. This was before I had internet and I really didn't have much $$$ to buy music, so I'd record his shows and listen to 'em over and over. Somehow, there was just very rarely a song I didn't like. I just looked the guy up and it seems he's still doing his show, which would be pretty remarkable, since he was pretty old way back then. Anyhoo. I jotted one artists name down to look up when I got back on line, because it was pretty amazing. So, this is a song by someone called Brother Claude Ely, and I just learned a few interesting factoids about it. One is that Tarantino used it in the trailer for Django Unchained, the other more interesting bit is that supposedly The Undertaker briefly used it for his entrance theme a while back. So, I'm off to try to hunt that down, 'cause that's something I gotta see.
Solid rant, Odi! One of the hundreds of tunes I don 't know that I would ever have come across if not for Spottswood: I wasn't hunting smoke for my big butt, Sweet Rei, I was hoping to scare up some more tunes from you and the 'bev! You Was Born To Die - BLIND WILLIE McTELL (1933)
@toothaction You know of Spottswood? I don't know why I'm always surprised by stuff like that. My appreciation of his show was kind of a solitary thing for me. I did run across a guy on Facebook a while back who knew him too. So, I'm guessing you listen/ed to him in the internet? I'm in Baltimore, so I was able to pick him up from his home station in DC (well, I had to run makeshift a wire antennae across the room to eradicate any static). So, hope this doesn't give anyone tonal whiplash, but I might as well get these guys out of the way, with my usual go-to selection from them. I dig them a lot.
