OT: The Semi-Annual, Taste Optional Music Thread: Post Your Mid-Winter Blues Music

[dogthateats]

 

[tom_servo]

I hate that the Ecstasy and Wine EP combo isn't on Spotify. Together it's my second favorite My Bloody Valentine album.

 

[Factorial]

I had never seen this Bowie performance on The Tonight Show before. His voice is at its height here:

 

[Factorial]

I absolutely love that album for many reasons.

1) It's just a fantastic collection of witty, smart, funny songs.
2) The production is all cheap amps, trashy guitars, weird drum machines, etc. Smokey amps and Danelectro masonite guitars.
3) It's like the Jesus and Mary Chain were writing Brill Building pop songs.
4) The secret to a great guitar sound is always distortion > tremolo > reverb.
5) FEEDBACK!

Also, this is gonna be in my head all morning:

Percy Jones and Phil Collins from this same era:

 

[Factorial]

 

[tom_servo]

This is my most listened to Brian Eno album. Can't really explain why.

(I'm just posting so all these pointless "hockey team roster" threads can get pushed back down.)

 

[Andy99]

My brother convinced me to get tix to Roxy Music’s 50th anniversary tour, coming in Sept to SF….cheap tix were $160 each…wtf…I’m old enough to remember spending $12.50 to see my favorite bands lol

 

[tom_servo]

My brother convinced me to get tix to Roxy Music’s 50th anniversary tour, coming in Sept to SF….cheap tix were $160 each…wtf…I’m old enough to remember spending $12.50 to see my favorite bands lol

Yeah and Roxy Music is old enough to not get off their asses for anything less

 

[HandshakeLine]

This is my most listened to Brian Eno album. Can't really explain why.

(I'm just posting so all these pointless "hockey team roster" threads can get pushed back down.)

Let's Beefheart this bitdch up.

 

[Andy99]

Yeah and Roxy Music is old enough to not get off their asses for anything less

I’m funding Bryan Ferry’s retirement 401k…

 

[tom_servo]

I’m funding Bryan Ferry’s retirement 401k…

"How much do you need to retire, Bryan?"

"More Than This."

 

[HandshakeLine]

"How much do you need to retire, Bryan?"

"More Than This."

Do you know how much a good bespoke suit costs these days? Bryan Ferry does.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Do you know how much a good bespoke suit costs these days? Bryan Ferry does.

Not to mention how much a tailored Secret Jungle Research Facility officer's uniform goes for. With attendant eye patch:

 

[Andy99]

Not to mention how much a tailored Secret Jungle Research Facility officer's uniform goes for. With attendant eye patch:

it’s amazing how the ‘70s disco moment caught every band in its trap lol…

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Devo is fun

 

[HandshakeLine]

it’s amazing how the ‘70s disco moment caught every band in its trap lol…

Disco gets a bad rap, IMO. But how much cooler would it have been if Suicide became the blueprint for disco instead of the Bee Gees?

 

[Factorial]

For all you Free Jazz/Aleister Crowley fans out there.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

 

[Deport Ogie]

 

[Factorial]

It was my birthday last week (57, ugh) and Factorial Jr came over and gave me this on green marbled vinyl:



I need to get my turntable out.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

That's killer. What a great album, too. You obviously raised an awesome kid haha

It was my buddy's bday this past weekend and he busted out "The Pod" at one point... hadn't heard it in years. What a trip. We came to the conclusion that it was kind of the proto-Mollusk.

 

[Deport Ogie]

I feel like I should think about becoming one of those "really into vinyl" dudes just because it would be a good fallback option when the wife asks what I want for my birthday. Being someone who's still really into the classics helps since back then "The Album" as a whole was so much more important.

 

[HandshakeLine]

I feel like I should think about becoming one of those "really into vinyl" dudes just because it would be a good fallback option when the wife asks what I want for my birthday. Being someone who's still really into the classics helps since back then "The Album" as a whole was so much more important.

Yeah, but they you also run the risk of being one of the rubes who can "hear" the differences between speaker cables and needs like $15K worth of home audio stuff and room treatment before you can listen to an album.

Vinyl is great. I love the format. It's fun to collect and hunt for rare records.

 

[Deport Ogie]

Yeah, but they you also run the risk of being one of the rubes who can "hear" the differences between speaker cables and needs like $15K worth of home audio stuff and room treatment before you can listen to an album.

Vinyl is great. I love the format. It's fun to collect and hunt for rare records.

Could be worse. I could be wasting all that pretension on wine or something.

 

[Factorial]

Yeah, but they you also run the risk of being one of the rubes who can "hear" the differences between speaker cables and needs like $15K worth of home audio stuff and room treatment before you can listen to an album.

Vinyl is great. I love the format. It's fun to collect and hunt for rare records.

It's a sickness that I almost was sucked into but being cheap saved me. $5K 5 Watt tube amps and super high efficiency speakers and $25K turntables...