Off a link to that Rodellius double album, I notice they also had Inlandish, an excellent ambient album (w/ Tim Story) for cheap. I picked it off emu a while back, and for some reason didn't take my normal step of checking first on Amie before hitting the download button. Hmm, thinking about it, I wonder if it just wasn't up on Amie yet. Really good album, though, and I don't regret buying it from emu.
Also, that Leonard Feather album you mention is excellent. I only bought it because I got it free or dirt cheap, but I find myself listening to it often.
On that same theme, here's a couple albums that fit into your above category...
Thanks, Badthoughts. It has always amazed me why Bill Mallonee does not sell better. Great songwriter, prolific, thoughtful / deep lyrics, furious performer. If early / indie REM and Bob Dylan had a love child, it would be Bill Mallonee and the Vigilantes of Love.
Vigilantes of Love, Killing Floor is the highlight, but I have always been fond of Roof of the Sky
Bill Mallonee, Fetal Position, I love "Summer in Our Veins"
wandering rock from 1980 with an avant slant and some familiar feel; won't sauce your apples but its jagged edge might slice some peel.
currently free on amie.
this release also free: Chinese Puzzle-archeology
takes some well known tunes for a ride with the top down
fried folk and shroomgrass music with the occasional wave of an international freak flag or two.
this is pretty far off the path so not recommended for its sense of direction or structure.
i like to stretch on my satyr pants and hoof boots then play along on pan pipes while dancing a high kneed two step.
currently free on amie
left field folky and porn flick funky with a weeds-through-a-crack -in-the-sidewalk rootsy sway.
not afraid to turn up the amps or twirl the effects.
free on amie
some stuff i downloaded on emusic that is currently free on amie:
The Beefeater Project-stoked southwestern travel tunes for those trips down the small town streets of your mind. fuzz-beloved -Herbal reflections of a brontosaurus getting its groove on. Moore and Sons-Traditional organic instruments like banjo, fiddle and harp mingle with piano, xylophone and occasional brass on layers of the easy complexities woven by the mostly acoustic guitar and an understanding rhythm section. Bazza-This rolls and lolls like a long, lazy but interesting afternoon in a scarcely inhabited prairie saloon where Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, T-Bone Burnette and Doug Sahm are bellied up to the bar swapping truths and lies while the female barkeep and a few background stragglers provide beat and choir.
@selfrisinmojo: big thanks for posting all your great off-the-beaten path finds on amie! Lots of good stuff to explore.
@Bad Thoughts: thanks as well for your long list of amie bargains. More good stuff..
I'll have to post my own list to return the favor. With all these possibilities, I shouldn't even be thinking of booster packs or an extra annual plan sub. I'm not sure I'll be able to help myself though...
more stuff i downloaded on emusic that is currently free on amie:
Kentucky Snakehandlers-sounds like Pink Floyd if they woke up covered in smoky mountain morning dew Los Tailpipes-Texas gulf coast surf boogies and roadhouse blue garage grooves that smoke and roll like ZZ Top dancing barefoot on hot sand and asphalt. Ours To Destroy-Cosmic and organic, detached and tribal; cheap dime store reference: Flaming Lips after hip replacement surgery and I'm not talking about the one connected to the leg bone. Rambling Shadows-Simple,driving rock tunes with muscular guitar
Los Tailpipes-Texas gulf coast surf boogies and roadhouse blue garage grooves that smoke and roll like ZZ Top dancing barefoot on hot sand and asphalt.
dangling six string groovers with oddball maneuvers that skew the tunes just before they make some wrong moves down well worn paths.
the songs lope along at a toe tapping pace that is perfect for pondering the cob webbed yonder, that is until they break into "Strange Ways" by Kiss-damn near mobilized my bowels. They end it with a history of the symbolism of the pig.
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Also, that Leonard Feather album you mention is excellent. I only bought it because I got it free or dirt cheap, but I find myself listening to it often.
On that same theme, here's a couple albums that fit into your above category...
That Inlandish album for three and a half bucks http://amiestreet.com/music/hans-joachim-roedelius/inlandish/
Neil Halstead's "Sleeping on Roads", one of the prettiest albums I've ever heard, also three and a half bucks... http://amiestreet.com/music/neil-halstead/sleeping-on-roads/. Also, Halstead's EP from that album "Season" for a buck and change is very worth having too.
Vigilantes of Love, Killing Floor is the highlight, but I have always been fond of Roof of the Sky
Bill Mallonee, Fetal Position, I love "Summer in Our Veins"
Bill Mallonee and VOL
(not you, frogkopf)
Fatal Attraction to Superman!
Solomon was a Super Rapper!
What really scares me is that he apparently are very serious about it.
And I'll take it over Megachruch babble any day....
Craig
I had to pay 5.19 for it.
Chinese Puzzle-inside,outside
wandering rock from 1980 with an avant slant and some familiar feel; won't sauce your apples but its jagged edge might slice some peel.
currently free on amie.
this release also free:
Chinese Puzzle-archeology
takes some well known tunes for a ride with the top down
The question is, why does he sound like Eric Clapton?
Rainbow Crow
fried folk and shroomgrass music with the occasional wave of an international freak flag or two.
this is pretty far off the path so not recommended for its sense of direction or structure.
i like to stretch on my satyr pants and hoof boots then play along on pan pipes while dancing a high kneed two step.
currently free on amie
- First you smash them, then they rot.
Now I'm tempted to get it just to screw with it.
Backward Collective
left field folky and porn flick funky with a weeds-through-a-crack -in-the-sidewalk rootsy sway.
not afraid to turn up the amps or twirl the effects.
free on amie
Oxford Files-Clear Light Carnival
yeah it's silly as hell, but it's also psychedelic as hell; if liking this is childish, then pass me my sippy cup.
The Beefeater Project-stoked southwestern travel tunes for those trips down the small town streets of your mind.
fuzz-beloved -Herbal reflections of a brontosaurus getting its groove on.
Moore and Sons-Traditional organic instruments like banjo, fiddle and harp mingle with piano, xylophone and occasional brass on layers of the easy complexities woven by the mostly acoustic guitar and an understanding rhythm section.
Bazza-This rolls and lolls like a long, lazy but interesting afternoon in a scarcely inhabited prairie saloon where Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, T-Bone Burnette and Doug Sahm are bellied up to the bar swapping truths and lies while the female barkeep and a few background stragglers provide beat and choir.
@Bad Thoughts: thanks as well for your long list of amie bargains. More good stuff..
I'll have to post my own list to return the favor. With all these possibilities, I shouldn't even be thinking of booster packs or an extra annual plan sub. I'm not sure I'll be able to help myself though...
Nick Riff
kinda like Hawkwind with teeth
more here:
Nick Riff's Freak Element
all currently free on amie
Kentucky Snakehandlers-sounds like Pink Floyd if they woke up covered in smoky mountain morning dew
Los Tailpipes-Texas gulf coast surf boogies and roadhouse blue garage grooves that smoke and roll like ZZ Top dancing barefoot on hot sand and asphalt.
Ours To Destroy-Cosmic and organic, detached and tribal; cheap dime store reference: Flaming Lips after hip replacement surgery and I'm not talking about the one connected to the leg bone.
Rambling Shadows-Simple,driving rock tunes with muscular guitar
- Still almost free (0,14)
The rest of your rec's is N/A for me. :-(
curses!
it must be a cd baby thing, most of the stuff i am finding was originally distributed by them. (except Los Tailpipes)
Black Pig
dangling six string groovers with oddball maneuvers that skew the tunes just before they make some wrong moves down well worn paths.
the songs lope along at a toe tapping pace that is perfect for pondering the cob webbed yonder, that is until they break into "Strange Ways" by Kiss-damn near mobilized my bowels. They end it with a history of the symbolism of the pig.
currently free on amie
I'm liking what I hear so far....