Can't think of any off the top of my head atm. 3 Organic Experiences is very unknown. On RYM it has 10 ratings and two of them are sljiva and myself. Menindrag is also down as having contributed to the entry. This suggests it is known somewhat by listologists (I believe darktremor was largely responsible for this when he put it first in his ambient list) but otherwise is unknown.
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Slint - Don, Aman
The Doors - The End
Leonard Cohen - Master Song
Velvet Underground - Heroin
Faust - Miss Fortune (though I know the lyrics are short it is poignant)
Captain Beefheart - Well
Nico - Evening Of Light
I was interested to know which of Amon Duul II's albums you considered to be the best? Having just gone through Yeti and Tanz Der Lemminge (I've listened to the track Phallus Dei before as well) I thought both were extremely good albums. I thought they epitomised the extended psychedelic jam (both improvised and composed) in a far more effective way than The Grateful Dead did, despite the latter being far from a bad band.
Attached is indeed awesome it'd make my top 10 Orbital tracks. They would probably look something like this (in no real order after the first two): Remind, Walk Now..., Satan (Industry Standard), Are We Here?, Dwr Budr, Times Fly (Slow), Halycon + On + On, Attached, Out There Somewhere? and The Naked & The Dead.
Having watched Orbital in concert the other day (who were awesome) I've received the motivation I needed to continue this list. Expect to see reasonably frequent updates agin.
1. Frank Zappa
2. Velvet Underground
3. The Residents
4. Tim Buckley
5. Captain Beefheart
Songs
1. Phantasmagoria In Two (I'm still in the 'honeymoon period' for this song where I get shivers on every listen. Still I expect it to remain top 5)
2. Venus In Furs
3. Janitor Of Lunacy
4. Scavenger
5. The Becoming
Suites
1. Sister Ray
2. Alifie
3. Satz Ebene
4. Birth Of Liquid Plejades
5. Moon In June
Cool to see both Frances The Mute and Deloused on the list. The latter is actually one of those albums that falls on the wrong side of the Scaruffi '2000 threshold' and the ranking suffers because of it. I would be interested to see what its rating would have been had it been made in the 90s; I suspect a 7.5 by his standards. Frances I think might have scrapped an 8.5 from him if it had been in the 90s though I'm not as certain about that one. Joanna Newsom's Ys to me still seems like the obvious one that would have been an 8.5 had it been made earlier, despite the irrelevance of its conception date. I'm curious as to whether the high rating you have for Frances is including the track Frances The Mute. The band have stated it was intended to be included on the album before Cygnus but was not allowed to be put on by the record label because it would have made the album run to 2 discs. Therefore Mars Volta stuck it on The Widow EP. If you haven't already I recommend listening to it before the album as it provides the perfect introduction.
Well, Jean-Luc Ponty's King Kong basically is still a Zappa disk. Obviously King Kong is from Uncle Meat, Idiot Basterd Son is from We're Only In It For The Money and America Drinks And Goes Home is from Absolutely Free but the other two aren't on any other album. They were still written by Zappa and actually are the two longest on the album especially Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra, which probably ranks in the top 10 Zappa tracks. I would say it is as good as many Zappa originals, probably around the level of We're Only In It For The Money; so a high 7.5.
Last.fm comes up trumps as without that we may never have discovered the existance of the track Frances The Mute let alone that it was intended to be on the album. Another example of a major record label diminishing what should have been released as an even greater album.
Definately the greatest music broadcaster ever. I own some Peel Sessions of various artists and find him to have an awesome music taste. It's not surprising that some BBC radio executives over the years would have liked to have gotten rid of him. The sort of broadcaster who gives Trout Mask Replica radioplay is not going to have masses of fans, however he did have a strong cult following. I only wish that I'd been old enough to have bothered discovering him before he sadly passed away. To have listened to his radio show would have been awesome.
Thank you very much for asking me! That comment made me check out not available properly. Previously I'd only skipped through the album and only never known questions stood out for me. On the proper listen I think it's even better than their debut.
Thanks! Which Beefheart one to choose was one of the more difficult ones actually. Electricity was one of the other tracks I considered along with Zig Zag Wanderer, Moonlight On Vermont, When Big Joan Sets Up, Ella Guru and Tarotplane.
Can't think of any off the top of my head atm. 3 Organic Experiences is very unknown. On RYM it has 10 ratings and two of them are sljiva and myself. Menindrag is also down as having contributed to the entry. This suggests it is known somewhat by listologists (I believe darktremor was largely responsible for this when he put it first in his ambient list) but otherwise is unknown.
Aglaia - Three Organic Experiences?
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Slint - Don, Aman
The Doors - The End
Leonard Cohen - Master Song
Velvet Underground - Heroin
Faust - Miss Fortune (though I know the lyrics are short it is poignant)
Captain Beefheart - Well
Nico - Evening Of Light
I'd agree that Little House and Brown Shoes should be 9s if King Kong is an 8.5 and Music For would probably be an 8.5 or 8.
I was interested to know which of Amon Duul II's albums you considered to be the best? Having just gone through Yeti and Tanz Der Lemminge (I've listened to the track Phallus Dei before as well) I thought both were extremely good albums. I thought they epitomised the extended psychedelic jam (both improvised and composed) in a far more effective way than The Grateful Dead did, despite the latter being far from a bad band.
Certainly getting better at disguising the fact that really this is just spam.
Attached is indeed awesome it'd make my top 10 Orbital tracks. They would probably look something like this (in no real order after the first two): Remind, Walk Now..., Satan (Industry Standard), Are We Here?, Dwr Budr, Times Fly (Slow), Halycon + On + On, Attached, Out There Somewhere? and The Naked & The Dead.
Having watched Orbital in concert the other day (who were awesome) I've received the motivation I needed to continue this list. Expect to see reasonably frequent updates agin.
Artists
1. Frank Zappa
2. Velvet Underground
3. The Residents
4. Tim Buckley
5. Captain Beefheart
Songs
1. Phantasmagoria In Two (I'm still in the 'honeymoon period' for this song where I get shivers on every listen. Still I expect it to remain top 5)
2. Venus In Furs
3. Janitor Of Lunacy
4. Scavenger
5. The Becoming
Suites
1. Sister Ray
2. Alifie
3. Satz Ebene
4. Birth Of Liquid Plejades
5. Moon In June
Cool to see both Frances The Mute and Deloused on the list. The latter is actually one of those albums that falls on the wrong side of the Scaruffi '2000 threshold' and the ranking suffers because of it. I would be interested to see what its rating would have been had it been made in the 90s; I suspect a 7.5 by his standards. Frances I think might have scrapped an 8.5 from him if it had been in the 90s though I'm not as certain about that one. Joanna Newsom's Ys to me still seems like the obvious one that would have been an 8.5 had it been made earlier, despite the irrelevance of its conception date. I'm curious as to whether the high rating you have for Frances is including the track Frances The Mute. The band have stated it was intended to be included on the album before Cygnus but was not allowed to be put on by the record label because it would have made the album run to 2 discs. Therefore Mars Volta stuck it on The Widow EP. If you haven't already I recommend listening to it before the album as it provides the perfect introduction.
Well, Jean-Luc Ponty's King Kong basically is still a Zappa disk. Obviously King Kong is from Uncle Meat, Idiot Basterd Son is from We're Only In It For The Money and America Drinks And Goes Home is from Absolutely Free but the other two aren't on any other album. They were still written by Zappa and actually are the two longest on the album especially Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra, which probably ranks in the top 10 Zappa tracks. I would say it is as good as many Zappa originals, probably around the level of We're Only In It For The Money; so a high 7.5.
Last.fm comes up trumps as without that we may never have discovered the existance of the track Frances The Mute let alone that it was intended to be on the album. Another example of a major record label diminishing what should have been released as an even greater album.
Definately the greatest music broadcaster ever. I own some Peel Sessions of various artists and find him to have an awesome music taste. It's not surprising that some BBC radio executives over the years would have liked to have gotten rid of him. The sort of broadcaster who gives Trout Mask Replica radioplay is not going to have masses of fans, however he did have a strong cult following. I only wish that I'd been old enough to have bothered discovering him before he sadly passed away. To have listened to his radio show would have been awesome.
Thank you very much for asking me! That comment made me check out not available properly. Previously I'd only skipped through the album and only never known questions stood out for me. On the proper listen I think it's even better than their debut.
Thanks! Which Beefheart one to choose was one of the more difficult ones actually. Electricity was one of the other tracks I considered along with Zig Zag Wanderer, Moonlight On Vermont, When Big Joan Sets Up, Ella Guru and Tarotplane.