The Boredoms: Super AE (1998) *****the mind...
expanded
manipulated
fucked
...ever since my friend Randy hooked me onto the incredible Japanese noise bands, Acid Mothers Temple & The Boredoms.
This album takes you on a wild trip...
a roller coaster ride through the cranium.
The best advice I have for a "noise-experimental-avant garde-krautrock" music newbie is to....
ACCEPT!
Forget your preconceived notions of music...music is whatever you want it to be! It can be found anywhere and everywhere. Appreciate the beauty (AND ugliness) of sound.
I actually found a translation of whatever the hell they're singing about on the net...click on the Boredoms link above. Now that's dada (or is it mama
mama
it's S U P E R !everything!
[aside: doing a bit of searching on Japanese Noise Bands, has brought up a couple more bands to explore: Melt Banana and Merzbow. Musical discoveries never stop...yeh!!!]
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Random Thoughts
I put on The New Faggot Cunts right after The Boredoms, and it felt like a very linear progression. Very impressive stuff. Free download at Puzzling Music Archive. Nice name, huh?
hahahahaha....certainly stands out like a motherfucker!!
Silver Apples: Silver Apples (1968) / Contact (1969) *****
I'm listening to this right now, and it's freaking me out...once again!
These guys were so far ahead of their time...
mind blowing
intense, wild, experimental
playful, thought-provoking
highly enjoyable...highly recommended.
thoughts from a silver apple ("You and I")
we don't have time for little things
there is no room for little things
because life is full of important things.
My friend Mole has a blog where he puts up the playlists for his radio show on...
ta..da!!
CFMU
McMaster University
my hometown of Hamilton Ontario...."a long long long time ago!!!"
There are links to his radio show on it...check it out, lots of good old fantastic weirdness. Mole's blog.
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Kevin Coyne with Achim Goettert: Opera for Syd (1999) **** bootleg
This was a stage presentation put on by Kevin and Achim, and the Syd in question is none other than...Syd Barrett.
"Ain't this weird?" category
I pick out around 10 cds to take to work each day [aside: I don't listen to them all...I just like choice!], so I picked out this cd.
While driving to work I heard on the radio that Syd Barrett had died at the age of 60! Of course, I put this on immediately.
This record is fucking great!
I'm not sure why, but I had low expectations for this album.
No idea why...a feeling.
I was W R O N G!
It's blowing me away.
depraved and disturbed
energy and intensity
Another thing about Kevin Coyne -
when it comes to writing
singing about the mentally ill /
no one does it better / more attuned / sensitive
true or honest
than Kevin Coyne
(Born: January 27, 1944 Derby, England
Died: December 2, 2004 Nurnberg, Germany)
[aside: "House on the Hill" is probably my fav song about the mentally ill. Find it on Marjory Razorblade (1974).
Case History (1972) is my fav album about mental illness.]
This should be released immediately!!!
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Cool web site alert
NPR Music Mavericks.
Play Harry Partchs' instruments and more fun!
I thought I sounded good on the "Metal, glass and bells"!! almost
You can even listen to the whole series (13 parts) on RealPlayer if you want and various interviews with oddball composers.
I'm listening to some interviewer trying to get Lamonte Young a chair. It seems to be taking them a bit of time to get their shit together! Hilarious!!
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Walter Wegmuller: Tarot (1973) ****
This 2 cd set involves favs of mine: Ash Ra Tempel / Cosmic Jokers!
Walter introduces the 36 or so (actually 8!) people that co-wrote each song on the album to kick it off.
rockin' elements
jazzy elements
folk elements
space elements...sometimes o v e r t h e t o p ....
throw together in a vat of acid
(or other mind-altering substances)
and...record baby record!
cd2 starts off on another
planetary dimension and I feel like I'm in a gypsy tent...
I can't find the door
the walls are invisible.
unknown corridors
more dark
more ominous
the end is nearing
the tarot
reveals
t r u t h...
whatever you want it to be!
Great stuff as is everything I've heard Ash Ra involved in. Walter on AMG.
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Parliament: Osmium (1970) ****
Different from the more familiar and famous Parliament albums. More Funkadelic-like in tone and feel.
Lots of Eddie Hazel...lots of gospel singing...lots of acid...lots of EVERYTHING!!
Let the party begin!! The greatest funkers of all-time are here!!
I Call My Baby Pussycat - awesome start...a classic!
Put Love in Your Life - psychedelic gospel baby and we all need a little love in all our lives...great singing, great guitar.
Little Old Country Boy - this is awesome...what a hook! who put the acid in my cornflakes?
Moonshine Heather (Takin' Care of Business) - not bto...mercy...just funky bizness
Oh Lord, Why Lord / Prayer - back to church for healings after moonshine heather
My Automobile - very cool song...i wouldn't think that driving with Mr. Clinton would be the brightest of ideas...
"George, look out!! Flying spaceships!!!!"
"Shaadap and have more of this...fucking white boys!"
There is Nothing Before Me But Thang - fucking right!!! great rawkin' song.
Funky Woman - reminds me of the old days...
Livin' the Life - gospel psychedelic jesus acid guitar
[aside: hey...great name for a band: "Jesus Acid Guitar"...feel free to steal]
The Silent Boatman - Bagpipes. There are fucking bagpipes in this song!?!
This album moves between genres fast and quick, which some may cite as a weakness...
not necessarily me...
This is the most underrated, ignored CLASSIC album by the funkers. If you love the psychedelicized acid guitar work of the early years (as I do)...what are you waiting for?? Get this album NOW!!
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