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Oct 20, 2020, 12:52 AM
#2561
Originally Posted by
tribe125
The Penguin Café Orchestra were excellent. Influential too.
Thanks, I'll check them out.
Originally Posted by
crownpuller
I discovered them through a film called 'Malcolm', and I can/would recommend 'Preludes Airs & Yodels' as a good introduction.
Pulled it up, thanks, will listen tomorrow.
Originally Posted by
mlcor
I can see that it requires one to really sit and get into it for a while. Something I am constitutionally unable to do most of the time.
I love Nick Cave, and I can see similarities there, too. But to me this requires the kind of attention you need to listen to Phillip Glass (for example). I used to do that on planes when I had the time and was electronically cut off from the internet and phone calls (those were the days!). I could definitely see doing that with these guys.
Exactly - and doing what I do, that's how I listen all the time - completely focused on the music with zero distractions.
I first heard this when driving from NYC to Boston one evening on a little independent channel in CT, and after I almost drove off the road blown away as I just heard something that moved me so much, I called the station and spoke with the DJ about it for 45 minutes - with interruptions while he changed things up, of course.
I had to really pull off the highway when he started giving me names of other artists i should check out as he is an underground, alt music DJ in NYC - very informative and lots of great things to listen to based off that convo.
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Oct 20, 2020, 08:07 AM
#2562
Originally Posted by
Rdenney
And next up in the needledrop pile ... is Koyanisqaatsi.
I love Koyanisqaatsi, but can't 'do' it without the associated imagery, it just doesn't work for me. Probably because that's how I first saw/heard it (on VHS ) and that's what my brain is expecting.
Originally Posted by
wschofield3
I called the station and spoke with the DJ about it for 45 minutes...
... he started giving me names of other artists i should check out as he is an underground, alt music DJ in NYC - very informative and lots of great things to listen to based off that convo.
Ah, a rare thing: A DJ that knows their stuff and doesn't just like the sound of their own voice.
Some people have opinions - The rest of us have taste.
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Oct 20, 2020, 04:13 PM
#2563
Originally Posted by
crownpuller
I love Koyanisqaatsi, but can't 'do' it without the associated imagery, it just doesn't work for me.
Probably because that's how I first saw/heard it (on VHS
) and that's what my brain is expecting.
Ah, a rare thing: A DJ that knows their stuff and doesn't just like the sound of their own voice.
He is a radio jock on that CT station, but in NYC, it is - was at this point, in clubs only.
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Oct 24, 2020, 10:59 PM
#2564
It was too windy for the fire pit but I’m still drinking the bourbon while listening to the first Dead show my wife went to; 6/25/1991.
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Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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Oct 25, 2020, 12:12 AM
#2565
Rick “the whole album—Selling England by the Pound—of course” Denney
More than 500 characters worth of watches.
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Oct 25, 2020, 05:01 PM
#2566
LOVE the older, more prog-rock, Genesis. The wheels started to fall off that bus after the Abacab (1982) album, but the shift away from prog-rock started with And Then There Were Three (1978). I like the late 70s to early 80s stuff, but I like it differently from, and less than, the prog-rock Genesis. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) is a gift from the gods.
Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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Oct 25, 2020, 09:08 PM
#2567
I never listened to Genesis in the day—my introduction to them came after Peter Gabriel’s departure and I’m no fan of Phil Collins as a lead singer. And my introduction to Gabriel was even later—Sledgehammer. The earlier Genesis stuff has been a late revelation.
Today’s blast from the past has been Point of Know Return.
Rick “who has that one on original vinyl” Denney
More than 500 characters worth of watches.
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Oct 25, 2020, 10:55 PM
#2568
Similar story here except mine started when I was in high school; mid-1980s. So was the first album I knew was Peter Gabriel, but I had preveiously heard the song "Solsbury Hill" without knowing the artist. Abacab was my introduction to Genesis and I then worked backward. I went back to the first album, From Genesis to Revelations, and fell in love with their early stuff. I appreciate it all differently, except for the last two albums because those are unlistenable, but I prefer the early- to mid-1970s, prog-rock era.
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Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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Oct 31, 2020, 10:21 PM
#2569
Saw another thread's title and this started ringing in my head:
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Nov 1, 2020, 01:09 AM
#2570