TS: Incredible String Band:5000 spirits or the layers of the onion vs. The hangman's Beautiful Daughter

i have the hangman's beautiful daughter. my wife finds this music extremely "lol @ hippies" kinda stuff.

Jeez I haven't listened to either of these since I was like 6... should I?

"The hangman's beautiful daughter" is a more awesome name.

whoa wtf. I listened to both of these albums for the first time around the time this thread was started.

also played a track from Hangman's Beautiful Daughter on my show tonight

Hangman's easily--I don't think it's really that "ambitious", but 5000 Spirits kind of drags in places.

damn this is a hard choice. i liked 'hangman' before i liked '5000 spirits', but find little to complain about in either. two of the best acid folk albums ever recorded, imo

Yeah, I'm going to have to think about this, but leaning towards 5000 Spirits at the moment.

Can't choose. The leap from 1st album to 5000 Spirits is much greater than the leap from 5000SotLotO to THBD, I would say.

Oh no, I've just remembered coupla irritating Mike Heron songs on 5000SotLotO... "Hedgehog Song" *gag*

Rowan Williams' pick on Desert Island Discs that was.

Crikey

In 2002, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, chose "The Hedgehog's Song" for his appearance on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs. He described the chorus - "Oh, you know all the words, and you sung all the notes / But you never quite learned the song she sang / I can tell by the sadness in your eyes / That you never quite learned the song" - as "a powerful summing-up of life and relationships".

Bleedin' hippy

for me the first LP beats both of these out, but between the two, Hangman (barely.)

Clive Palmer's playing here next month. Have never heard the first album, but I do like the COB stuff.

all FREAK-FOLK can be distilled into "koeeoaddi there"

^^^ annoying

i mean not the song

Hangman's by a paraffins-'n'-pomegranates mile

Clive Palmer's playing here next month. Have never heard the first album, but I do like the COB stuff

He doesn't really do all that much on the first album!

Definitely "Hangman" for me -- one of my fave psych-folk albums ever. I like everything on it, but especially the closing track "Nightfall." That sitar-y line at the end never fails to stun. Robyn Hitchcock mentioned it recently: "This is a dreamy song that just builds up; it always makes me want to cry. It makes you think of a colourful night sky that's peaceful, sad and slightly threatening."

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I always found "5000 spirits" to be more accessible, but then I only have the other one on vinyl and never listen to it.

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was totally floored by "Little Cloud" showing up at the end of Olivier Assayas' "Summer Hours" when I watched it last night. Such a weird choice, but perfect, absolutely perfect.