What have you been listening to?

[Torgo]

KING CRIMSON  "THRaKaTTak"   

[Rev. Powell]

KING CRIMSON  "THRaKaTTak"   

I have that!  I have to confess I'm not too thrilled by it, though.  Noodling in the etxreme.

[Torgo]

KING CRIMSON  "THRaKaTTak"   

I have that!  I have to confess I'm not too thrilled by it, though.  Noodling in the extreme.

I haven't listened to it in quite some time. I remember picking it up thinking it would be like the studio album Thrak but boy was I wrong. While there's no structure and it's just jamming, it's still cool to listen to players of this caliber just noodling away.

[Torgo]

LES CLAYPOOL AND THE HOLY MACKERAL   "presents Highball with the Devil"

[Allhallowsday]

KING CRIMSON  "THRaKaTTak"   

I have that!  I have to confess I'm not too thrilled by it, though.  Noodling in the extreme.

I haven't listened to it in quite some time. I remember picking it up thinking it would be like the studio album Thrak but boy was I wrong. While there's no structure and it's just jamming, it's still cool to listen to players of this caliber just noodling away.

Gentlemen!  Trust me, try Lark's Tongue In Aspic for pointed kanoodling worth listening to. 


This is what I'm listening to, rather poorly received critically but commercially, a huge success.  TEARS FOR FEARS Songs From The Big Chair  The critics loved their Beatlesque followup. 

[Allhallowsday]

I really want to like this record but I just don't see much of the appeal.  There seem to be a few decent songs; I like Sunday Morning, I'm Waiting for the Man, All Tomorrow's Parties, and The Black Angel's Death Song.  Heroin is cool for a couple minutes.  I respect its historical importance, but what the heck am I missing?

Venus in Furs and Femme Fatale.  Try coming back to it every now and then.  I didn't think it was great at first, but it grows on you. 

I couldn't agree more, particularly with pointing out songs, 'cause the album is about the many songs, though I have to say, the last long track, 59 seconds in, "European Son" kicks the drums down the stairs... literally!!!  Love that explosion and the song only has six or so minutes to go... great album that must grow on you...
REV, don't know if you've noticed all of my BIG STAR posts in the past many months, but in any case the cover of "Femme Fatale" on Third / Sister Lovers alone is worth the price of admission and superior to NICO (blasphemy only 'til you hear ALEX CHILTON and his mumbling chorus).  Very unexpected, reverent, and superior!.  The most marvelously intriguing cover inclusion in a collection of nearly embarrassingly personal songs, the album is almost constructed around that one cover.    

I'm listening to MOBY Hotel    
  (the second, ambient, disk).

[Torgo]

THE BANGLES  "Doll Revolution"

[Torgo]

YES  "Fragile"  &  "Close to the Edge"

[Psycho Circus]

CINDERELLA - Night Songs (1986)

[HappyGilmore]

The Blue Album- Weezer

[Rev. Powell]

Gentlemen!  Trust me, try Lark's Tongue In Aspic for pointed kanoodling worth listening to. 

Agreed; that's my favorite King Crimson album.

[Rev. Powell]

REV, don't know if you've noticed all of my BIG STAR posts in the past many months, but in any case the cover of "Femme Fatale" on Third / Sister Lovers alone is worth the price of admission and superior to NICO (blasphemy only 'til you hear ALEX CHILTON and his mumbling chorus).  Very unexpected, reverent, and superior!.  The most marvelously intriguing cover inclusion in a collection of nearly embarrassingly personal songs, the album is almost constructed around that one cover.    

Don't think I'm a yahoo, but I feel about Big Star the way Pilgermnann feels about "The Velvet Unberground & Nico";  it's nice poppy-rock, but I just don't get what the big deal about it is.  I know, I need to give it another listen, if I can track some down.   

[Rev. Powell]

Harry Connick, Jr. - When Harry Met Sally...

Smarmy at times, but the arrangement of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" is one of my all time favorites.

Sample: Don't Get Around Much Anymore

[Pilgermann]

I've been coming back to Cluster & Eno after thinking it was kind of a bore, but now it sounds like a new record to me.  Very enjoyable.



Acid Mothers Temple etc. - Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness

[Allhallowsday]

REV, don't know if you've noticed all of my BIG STAR posts in the past many months, but in any case the cover of "Femme Fatale" on Third / Sister Lovers alone is worth the price of admission and superior to NICO (blasphemy only 'til you hear ALEX CHILTON and his mumbling chorus).  Very unexpected, reverent, and superior!.  The most marvelously intriguing cover inclusion in a collection of nearly embarrassingly personal songs, the album is almost constructed around that one cover.    

Don't think I'm a yahoo, but I feel about Big Star the way Pilgermnann feels about "The Velvet Unberground & Nico";  it's nice poppy-rock, but I just don't get what the big deal about it is.  I know, I need to give it another listen, if I can track some down.   

Not at all, you describe the first two records accurately as Pop Rock.  Though I really like the first and especially their second album (CHRIS BELL was already gone at that point) the third album is not much like the other two at all (except the superb songwriting).  The third album is more ALEX CHILTON, his chamber musician friends, and his producer (JIM DICKINSON).  Diehard BIG STAR fans revile this last entry routinely, but not being a diehard (just a convert) I think the third album is their runaway best.  If I had to pick one for the desert island, it'd be Third / Sister Lovers...
Here's more of my thoughts on Third unfortunately, there are no samples at Amazon from this record:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1RDO6YKNX3RB8/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort%5Fby=MostRecentReview

And I'm listening to GUSTAVE MAHLER's Symphonie #8 Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK, the recording misidentified by my computer, plus I can't find album art online.