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

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"accesible" vs. "ambitious"

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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter 12
The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion 3


Zeno, Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:38 (seventeen years ago)

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

velko, Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

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

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:34 (seventeen years ago)

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

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:35 (seventeen years ago)

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

blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:50 (seventeen years ago)

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

blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:51 (seventeen years ago)

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

C0L1N B..., Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:55 (seventeen years ago)

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

all-seeing eye of horus (psychgawsple), Thursday, 12 February 2009 08:48 (seventeen years ago)

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

Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 12 February 2009 09:10 (seventeen years ago)

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

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

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

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:05 (seventeen years ago)

Rowan Williams' pick on Desert Island Discs that was.

Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:27 (seventeen years ago)

Crikey

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:29 (seventeen years ago)

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".

Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:40 (seventeen years ago)

Bleedin' hippy

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:41 (seventeen years ago)

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

ian, Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

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

Frank Sumatra (NickB), Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

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

69, Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ annoying

69, Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

i mean not the song

69, Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

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

Joe, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

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!

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

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."

tylerw, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 16 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

u s steel, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

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.

tylerw, Sunday, 10 January 2010 17:24 (sixteen years ago)


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