First snowfall this season in Vienna today, so I had to think of Hoarfrost. Then I had it stuck in my head for the remainder of the day. Is it weird I really love and respect ATL as a collection of great solitary tunes, but not necessarily as an album? I mean, so many tracks with such a dreamy atmosphere on there, but the sequencing just seems really off to me - little cohesion, tonal whiplash at times. It just doesn't flow as nicely as some of my Youf-favorites do. It feels like it was spliced together from two very different albums. And still, it holds a special place in my heart - Sunday actually got me into their music, the aforementioned Hoarfrost is absolutely sublime in its introspective romanticism, Wild Flower Soul wonderfully playful, Female Mechanic Now On Duty and French Tickler are awesomely off-kilter, Hits Of Sunshine drifts into summery beat reveries and so on. Hardly any album out there I'm so split on.

I think I prefer it to Washing Machine. Yeah it’s a bit all over the place, but there are few off moments (“… He’s just a kitttttttennnn” notwithstanding), and all the songs basically climax in one way or another in a way that makes the whole journey quite worth it.

Plus, Hoarfrost is without question one of their very songs, and Heather Angel’s outro is as perfectly, effortlessly representative of Sonic Youth’s essence as any other musical moment I can think of.

Sorry, posted this one on a different thread. D'oh!

Harold Budd.
RIP

NOOOOO GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING SHIT! Fucking year. :(:mad:

I’m grateful I got to see him like 30 years ago and ask him a lame question during the question and answer session afterwards. What a career. I’ll never make a kind of impact.

recently i'm going through swans discography

R.I.P. LD Beghtol

With Jerry Harrison, Steve Mackay, Leo Kottke, Fred Frith... Wild times! :cool:

came back to the forum specifically to post this..

WYCH ELM - absolutely adorable, quirky short pop songs, think early breeders dosed with heavy millennial attitude.. the world needs more of them..

YARD ACT - you'll hear the fall for sure, somewhat updated and sugary.. ffine humored, good stuff...

VIAGRA BOYS - they grow on you.. familiar, yet very fresh...

also
IDLES - but i'd rather not admit too much

How did you find the new IDLES album?

Making an attempt to marathon Against Me!'s full discography today

I'm doing a Sault-athon.

Probably in a dumpster

They sound so much like the Pixies and Nirvana. Uff, catchy plagiarism: I feel an urge to tap my foot yet spit in their face at the same time

Ha ha. Very good.

Though I do like IDLES.

Goddammit, I had this stupid song stuck in my head for like two days and I didn't know what the fuck it was, only that it most likely had to be from the '70s, Macca/Bee Gees-influenced, and highly popular since they still play the motherfucker on the radio. Shit got old real quick and I thought the only way to exorcise it was to find out the "artist" (everybody's a fucking artist in the music biz, isn't it) and title. Turned out to be Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)". Now I want to shoot myself in the face.

The late, great Jonathan Demme sure had fine taste in music. To name a few: Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Colin Newman, The Fall, and... Fac 321...

Enjoying this a lot. I love bands that can rock and sound totally laid-back at the same time.

man i love when people post an album and don't even say who made it or how it's called!

Point taken.
The Strokes - The New Abnormal

^ Great selections!

ETA: I must spread some Reputation around before giving it to guest again.

100% gold, France 1978. Features Richard Pinhas!

Never heard of it

THE EX - "That's not a virus"

PLAY LOUD :D








and before that:
Christmas in Ireland four years ago with Low, Gaelynn Lea and Erik Koskinen. Recorded by me and never shared, maybe soon it will ...

Current 93 - I Have a Special Plan For this World

That’s a great one right there. It is, it is, it is, it is.

The Eroica? Wow, I grew up with it. Same conductor and orchestra, actually. (Fun fact: Lou Reed claimed there were bits of it on Metal Machine Music. To this day, very few people believe him. :))

On the other hand, there wasn't a REAL oldies station while I was growing up. Most of the blissful stuff you lucky sumbitches just took for granted, from Patty Duke's "The End Of The World" to the Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction", was something I started absorbing like a starved-to-near-death sponge when Al Gore invented the interwebs. Sure, there were stations playing "old" stuff, but not from the rock & roll & pop lineage/continuum; it was Spanish and Italian AM hits from the '60s and '70s, which, if you haven't heard, consider yourselves truly blessed - that shit makes ABBA sound like Merzbow on a seriously angry day.

Whatcha waiting for, dammit? :)

the thing with the eroica is to find someone who plays it with energy but doesn't play it too fast.

heavy > nervous

Your sarcasm detector needs a tuneup. I was kidding and giving symbols a ribbing akin to “deep cut, dude” because of its well known status.