@confused I've got The Searchers one as well plus "The Best of Donovan".
I've even got "The Sounds of the Ivy League" although I can't claim to have played it much in recent years! Strange but I really enjoyed listening to "Funny How Love Can Be" again.
@confused The Kinks on the budget-price Marble Arch label - wow that brings back memories!
I’ve still got my “Well Respected Kinks” album bought in 1966 for 12s6d and treasured ever since!
Me too!! Can't play it though as I have no turntable
Back in the day that Marble Arch series was a good way to buy LPs for 12/6 (52 1/2 p) when most LPs were around 35/6 (£1.76). They were basically a collection of a handful of singles with a few assorted album tracks to make up the number. I remember one by the Searchers too
Well, I do have a spare turntable- another benefit of meeting my wife. Our stereos are out of the Stone Age but they do include cassette and CD players. 1985 Koko Taylor - Queen Of The Blues
Another lesson in the benefits of non-comparative listening. My memory of when this came out is that I liked it less than the album that came before it (Burning Off Impurities). Listening to it fresh from a long break from Grails material, it sounds pretty good!
@Germanprof I am likewise a big fan of Grails. I have most of their albums and my pick for today (thanks for the prompt) is "Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1 - 3".
A German shoegaze band Monoland and their album Cooning. The album starts out very much in My Bloody Valentine territory before going in an ambient dub direction. Both these albums c/o sharity blogs - yes they still exist.
A long 20 track double cd of minimal, seemingly relentless(it isn't quite) techno which shades into ambient despite the beats. Good for a deep headphone dive.
I'll be playing my favourite Frank Zappa album "Freak Out" today to celebrate Melbourne Footy Club into the Grand Final by 125-42, Emma Raducanu winning the US Open in two sets and Crystal Palace (supported them since I was 4 years old!) beating Spurs 3-0! The best of best weekends.
Frank Zappa reminds me of one of @Brighternow's best posts, this great quote of Frank's. So simple but so apposite for the world today.
AMG says "One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that question assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half".
Thought I'd posted this yesterday but it looks like I messed something up. Minimal techno out of Austria which despite the beats somehow enters ambient territory.
And catching up right now
This is a monster drone album with lots of wordless vocals, early '70's synths, Floydian percussion and of course Yoshi Wada's bagpipes. Needs to be played loud, you will submit!
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I've even got "The Sounds of the Ivy League" although I can't claim to have played it much in recent years! Strange but I really enjoyed listening to "Funny How Love Can Be" again.
Me too!! Can't play it though as I have no turntable
Back in the day that Marble Arch series was a good way to buy LPs for 12/6 (52 1/2 p) when most LPs were around 35/6 (£1.76). They were basically a collection of a handful of singles with a few assorted album tracks to make up the number. I remember one by the Searchers too
1985 Koko Taylor - Queen Of The Blues
1987 Laibach - Opus Dei
2019 Lapis Trio - The Travelers
Thanks to @Plong42 for the introduction.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/black-tar-prophecies-vols-1-3-mw0000581941
2019 Larsen - Arrival Vibrate
Emusic, Bandcamp
Also listening thanks to my label suscription.
Least Carpet
2010 Least Carpet 2010 II
2014 Back Alley 2015 Shahi Baaja
https://www.allmusic.com/album/paranoid-cocoon-mw0000806706
Frank Zappa reminds me of one of @Brighternow's best posts, this great quote of Frank's. So simple but so apposite for the world today.
AMG says "One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that question assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half".