In parise of SUNDIAL!!!! OR S/D , whatever you want

Sonically adventurous reimaginings of classic psych rock didn't get much better in the 90s. Sundial's songs were emotionally potent, too.

i need more Sun Dial in my life. It's funny, the only albums I've owned are the ones on UFO from 1992 - Reflector and the Fazer EP - and apparently those are the ones that people like the least. And I was reminded of them by the shoegaze poll thread cuz they always seemed pretty gazey to me.

what is the newer stuff like? and what was the pre-Reflector stuff like?

also, what was the dude's 80's band like? The Modern Art. wikipedia lists a TON of releases and i'd never even heard of the band back then. or until recently actually. anyone?

just "spun" Reflector the other day...very Loop-y stuff...

Elvis T. to thread, of course. (And Dave, if he's still around here.)

Other Way Out is the one that a lot of people still hold up as a psych holy grail from their earliest days, thus Dave's comment -- I have one reissue of it but there's a more recent one with two disc (on Relapse I think?). Similarly, Acid Yantra = pretty mind bending.

Only heard the newest, Return Journey, once but really liked it. (Actually there might be a newer one since?)

"Tremolo" off of Reflector is a perfect slab of blissed-out instrumental drone rock. I like the rest of that album enough, and some of their other stuff too, but I could listen to that song ad infinitum and not get sick of it.

Hey, Gary's signed on to Myspace *right now*!

http://www.myspace.com/garyramon

Actually there might be a newer one since?

Zen For Sale came out in 2003 followed by the Shards Of God odds & sods collection. Two Pumpkinhead EPs were released last year but I haven't picked them up yet.

What I really need to get hold of is Libertine - Deprogrammed which is the original band/non-drum machine version of the album.

If you have DimeADozen access, there's a DVD of a French television performance a couple years back which is freaking great.