noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
I have an abiding memory of a bunch of people sitting around coming down from strong pills and listening to the first Spirtiualized album. Sounded lovely, not sure if it's a repeatable effect though.
Cosmic American Rock, Yacht Rock, Gene Clark
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Yeah, I think I must have heard it under the same circumstances (OMG internet drug confession!!!!) at one time or another - my point was that it sounds airy and ethereal in a spacey and generally 'high' way, as opposed to more 'traditionally' psychedelic music, viz. freak-out '60s psych rock or weebly-wurbly old-skool acid house.
Oh yeah noel i agree and am not afraid to admit it, i remember hearing that as a kid when it came out and liking it in spite of myself and then looking forward to it on the radio
Rumours is a stone cold classic for a reason
, "Dreams" is the very definition of a '1970s radio sublime' (in the US anyway), and there are others on that record saw Brightblack Morning Light earlier this year, terrible stuff live, have no idea what they sound like in recorded form tho
I think I know what Yacht Rock is, having lived through it the first time on AM radio in the 70s and 80s lol, and having been officially exposed to it in the spring of 2006 by a fan (puke), but I'm not sure how exactly to comprehend the 'cosmic' part . for some reason when i hear the words "Yacht Rock" I hear REO Speedwagon, Jimmy Buffett, and Loverboy ... :grimaces while laughing:
Gabba Flamenco Crossover
High Sierra Skullfuck
Early 70s country is pretty cosmic, Emmylou Harris and all that. Psychedelic just by nature of being ridiculously well produced.
Benny Bunter
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Didn't the term 'Cosmic American Rock' originate from a Gram Parsons quote?. I always think of the Byrds' more psychedelic stuff when I hear it.
Flying Burrito's 'Gilded palace of sin' is a great record in that vein.
Flying Burrito's 'Gilded palace of sin' is a great record in that vein.
heroesandvillains
Lono ̴
It's basically a 'roots' type American music fused with a strong PSYCHEDELIC influence over a religious one.
95% of the time it was made by dudes who took lots of drugs that amplified sensitivity to 'soind', hence the 'smooth' nature of the music, that when it's good - like all great music - sounds better on drugs!
echevarian
babylon sister
Some favorites of mine loosely within this genre.
Fleetwood Mac's Brown Eyes sung by Christine McVie.
Seriously just one of the most soul wrenching and utterly eerie things ever recorded.
She reminds me so much of Jarboe on that track.
Lots of the aforementioned Emmylou Harris' stuff is great, the song she wrote about Gram Parson's death is probably the best.
Boulder To Birmingham off of Pieces of the Sky
That and the Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town LP, which has the gauzy ethereal Defying Gravity on it.
Whoever mentioned David Crosby was right on track, the song Laughing he did with Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh has got one of the most brilliant solos I've ever heard.
Its mindblowing without any need for any substances, although they wouldn't hurt.
I'm not sure if its cosmic exactly but I'm a big fan of the song Border Lord by Kris Kristofferson as well.
Its mindbending, but more in a too much whiskey, too hard a road sort of way than a couple grams of shrooms.
What I'm searching for is where that decadent late 70s arty yacht rock sound crossed over with dance music.
Thats where a lot of modern balearic seems to be drawing its reference points from.
People like DJ Harvey playing soft rock mixed with disco to crowds on Hawaiian beaches.
Fleetwood Mac's Brown Eyes sung by Christine McVie.
Seriously just one of the most soul wrenching and utterly eerie things ever recorded.
She reminds me so much of Jarboe on that track.
Lots of the aforementioned Emmylou Harris' stuff is great, the song she wrote about Gram Parson's death is probably the best.
Boulder To Birmingham off of Pieces of the Sky
That and the Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town LP, which has the gauzy ethereal Defying Gravity on it.
Whoever mentioned David Crosby was right on track, the song Laughing he did with Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh has got one of the most brilliant solos I've ever heard.
Its mindblowing without any need for any substances, although they wouldn't hurt.
I'm not sure if its cosmic exactly but I'm a big fan of the song Border Lord by Kris Kristofferson as well.
Its mindbending, but more in a too much whiskey, too hard a road sort of way than a couple grams of shrooms.
What I'm searching for is where that decadent late 70s arty yacht rock sound crossed over with dance music.
Thats where a lot of modern balearic seems to be drawing its reference points from.
People like DJ Harvey playing soft rock mixed with disco to crowds on Hawaiian beaches.
Chris Rea - Josephine kind of fits that description, though there's a much more disco-y, Balearic sounding version that I used to have on another computer before it crashed. Might have it on disc somewhere though... damn I hope, perfect yacht-rock/disco crossover.
echevarian
babylon sister
After doing some research I think you're talking about the longer "La Version Française" cut of Josephine.
Which you're right, is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for.
Too bad he never got popular over here (in the US) I'd love to have that on vinyl.
Which you're right, is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for.
Too bad he never got popular over here (in the US) I'd love to have that on vinyl.
Like Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'wake up and make love to me'????
Or George Benson doing 'on braodway'
or Diana ross's 'upside down' ???
but didn't the Bee Gees do 'yacht rock disco' with Saturday Night Fever??
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echevarian
babylon sister
Yeah, maybe.
You could say they were doing their level best to imitate Philly Soul,
but it kind of came out sounding relatively whitebread.
Not knocking the Bee Gees or Abba, its just something I'd play at a wedding, not a nightclub.
Good call on the George Benson, need to give the records I've got of his another listen.
You could say they were doing their level best to imitate Philly Soul,
but it kind of came out sounding relatively whitebread.
Not knocking the Bee Gees or Abba, its just something I'd play at a wedding, not a nightclub.
Good call on the George Benson, need to give the records I've got of his another listen.
Leo
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Not sure if this is quite the same thing being discussed but...what do people think of A Mountain of One? Some of the stuff on "Collected Works" seems kind of cosmic/dancy, although sometimes bordering on a jam band. Kind of similar to Studio.
Not quite sure what to make of this stuff. i find it both slick/cheesy/blah and slightly enjoyable. But what the hell do I know, my current fav listen is an old Peel Session by Seething Wells!
Not quite sure what to make of this stuff. i find it both slick/cheesy/blah and slightly enjoyable. But what the hell do I know, my current fav listen is an old Peel Session by Seething Wells!
echevarian
babylon sister
A Mountain of One and Studio were two of the artists I meant when I mentioned modern Balearic.
They do seem to sit in a weird space between more electronic sounding stuff and a sort of rhythmic jam band sensibility.
I'm just waiting for people to start editing Little Feat or Shakedown Street by the Dead.
Then the end times will surely be nigh, when dance DJs truly embrace their inner hippie-ness.
Tim Finney did a short little piece on this stuff in his 2007 end of the year wrap up on ILX.
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=60937
Scroll down till you get to the Balearic section, lots of awesome stuff in this vein.
They do seem to sit in a weird space between more electronic sounding stuff and a sort of rhythmic jam band sensibility.
I'm just waiting for people to start editing Little Feat or Shakedown Street by the Dead.
Then the end times will surely be nigh, when dance DJs truly embrace their inner hippie-ness.
Tim Finney did a short little piece on this stuff in his 2007 end of the year wrap up on ILX.
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=60937
Scroll down till you get to the Balearic section, lots of awesome stuff in this vein.
Gabba Flamenco Crossover
High Sierra Skullfuck
Been massively feeling early Hall & Oates on this tip recently. 'Had I Known You Better Then' is seriously one of the greatest songs ever written.
Thing about this kind of stuff is that the albums are all over the place - you get absolutely georgeous songs next to excretable rubbish. The Hall & Oates album with the above song on it ends with a kind of west coast faux-hoedown that's just ear-wrenching. Steely Dan albums are the same.
Thing about this kind of stuff is that the albums are all over the place - you get absolutely georgeous songs next to excretable rubbish. The Hall & Oates album with the above song on it ends with a kind of west coast faux-hoedown that's just ear-wrenching. Steely Dan albums are the same.