LJ and JJ swapmoosical youtbes thread - you can play too!

ok dude school me on this cardiacs business. also, i need to know right off the bat if yer already listening to art bears/gentle giant/sparks, because lets not waste time otherwise.

skeleton key (RIP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVAISeroizA&feature=related

barkmarket (RIP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciw093BhHeA

oh yay loud engines uh its the best i can do

Peste Noire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoJUgl-tKWM&feature=related

black metal that manages to be legit creepy while still being totally over the top and ridiculous.

Art Bears? Just received a consignment of 'em in the form of emil.y's Dagmar Krause retrospective!
Gentle Giant? Link some here. I'm all ears. Ditto Sparks.

SKELETON KEY: Fucking christ this is AWESOME, really manic hard-prance with MELODIES! Needless to say, the drummers funk like a stoat on Viagra. Crap, vocal harmony!! This is beautiful.

WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP sorry BARKMARKET: OK, I've not heard this shit done to a slide-guitar before. Consider me in approval. I take it *extremely heavy slide-guitar* is kinda their thing?

PESTE NOIRE: I have some Peste Noire on my computer which I've never really listened to, maybe this will change things? Ooh I like the drums/guitar intro. Lots of dissonance, tremelo, filth in the mix...good. Four minutes later and I'm still very much absorbed. The guitar-tone for the solo-y bit is lovely. Oh and then it's joined by an even awesomer guitar-tone and loads of horrible bassy grunting - excellent. Whoo!

Now to respond in kind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQH6INQnNbI&feature=related

Sorry, I know I'm not JJ, but I love GG. Carry on. :)

Chipping in..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3eVIFzN5g

Going by that first clip, GG have a really crisp sound - the instrumentation is very clear - and a strong, unconventional sense of melody...I like it! Also they groove (yes, GROOVE, MaresNest) really hard. Really strong sense they're doing what they set out to do. Can't go far wrong with 'em, I suspect, as long as they don't wibble too much elsewhere.

Do you know this LJ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlro_VNRViI

On Reflection begins with an awesome layered vocal bit - not full choral work but getting on that way. OK, now the song proper has begun...(I was really enjoying the choral bit!) yeah it's v v pretty btw and they're not done with the harmonies just yet! The verse melody is lovely. Shame about that 'Acquiring The Taste' album-cover. You guys, seriously. Oooh and now there's a kickass bit at the end with keyboards, drums and everything kicking off inna prog-out style. Nice.

I don't know that corey...but I will do in a second!

Oh I like this already!!

Considering the worship I have for Soft Machine's 'Third' I really should have discovered this sooner. NB JJ if you haven't heard Third yet you are in for a treat.

Right, to begin. Lapsus Linguae (RIP...?)

I can't find any studio recordings of theirs on Youtube, so a dodgy-quality live recording will have to do. Fortunately, their ass-kickingness is evident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQCkuSuTnNY

II. Here is 'this Cardiacs business'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZ_x3rDspo

III. Here is a slice of something whiffy from Plymouth's finest, The Monsoon Bassoon (RIP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3BMnrCOxg

^^^that video cuts off the last half-second of the song, let me fill in the gap: song ends with curt and fabulously atonal screech

fuck it, I'm out in a second so you're getting another MB

on my deathbed, they will ask me 'what is the greatest outro in musical history' and I will say 'Commando by The Monsoon Bassoon'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aILIW0qIi0

ok maybe the outro to 'moon in june' by soft machine is better but that's like my favourite song ever (alongside 'dirty boy' by cardiacs and 'fanny' by spratleys japs (a cardiacs side-project), which shall be revealed in time)

dirty boy's outro ain't bad either. but enough. enjoy these tunes.

will do once i escape from work

Here is a Max Tundra remix of Commando.

http://soundcloud.com/maxtundra/the-monsoon-bassoon-commando-defghi-otto-max-tundra-remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9s-CYn9mZ4

Lapsus Linguae - I am unsure about this, but i think a lot of that comes from the kinda muddled vocal burying going on in the mix. It seems at times a bit blurry - but this slow piano break thing in the middle is kinda a welcome surprise hmmmmmm, and the appeal of the post break is working for me.

might have to track down some studio stuff somewhere here before i really make a judgement tho

it's two songs segued - the second is kickass

I will sendspace you their most astonishing song though - in fact their album is really short so you might get it all

btw lj how zorned up are you? im kinda assuming that you know naked city stuff, but if not let me rectify yer zorn problems.

thinking tho that painkiller is a little less likely so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jhbQX_HSLs&feature=related

skronkgrind time

be sure to give it the full 6 minutes btw

not zorned. zorn @ me face

has started like godflesh being deprogrammed in a giant steelworks

ok this is the fearsome shit

oh and to continue the foetusing - oh look its wiseblood which is kinda swans + foetus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2zAdQcpwiA&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=islOlR1Lykw

oh aggghhh apparently theres a fear factory cove of where evil dwells icky

painkiller was tremendous

first wiseblood is ominous and moody

ok listening to cardiacs atm but i need to go fetch u some naked city then xpost

oh hah the first wiseblood will TURN ON YOU

this is slowly brewing up into something very tasty indeed

and now the drums come in at exactly the right moment

thirlwell, you tremendous and beautiful tease

this was the cardiacs that made me go "hmm this band, yes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jhBoM0_As

my doubts both ironed out as well as made complicated by the ridiculous popsicle eating sequence

lol at the Painkiller clip -- it's good but it does not slay as much as the 16-17 i posted before it.

ok uh i think i just got sold on cardiacs - i think i listened to the first 30 seconds of this song once and didnt give it all the time it needed holy shit i mean it is spazzmo galore but theyre pulling it together really fucking well and oh shit the stutter stop keyboards ok must fetch cardics albums soon. any tips to where to start albumwise cuz i thought they had like thousands or something

arby's that is VERY early cardiacs when they were all silly and hadn't really worked out their music properly - the song I linked earlier is the first one (IMO) where they completely fucking nailed it

havent listened to the 16-17 yet so i reserve judgement but holy shit seeing painkiller live with napalm death dude blastbeating away while bill laswell used a whammy pdeal to flip between basslines on an SVT and guitar lines on a marshall full stack w/zorn screeching away was fucking headcrushing let me tell you. xpost

jj that is superb news! they have a mere 5 proper studio albums (3 sorta homemade things beforehand but they're not so great) and every single one of those albums is crushingly good - also the side-project Spratleys Japs album 'Pony' is as good as any. so that's six albums. start with 'on land and in the sea'. this is one of its crowning glories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwvlM4aTjEU

^^^mind-expanding

gonna just assume that youve already seen me post g4y witch abortion and bondage goat zombie youtubes before and not turn this into a sterotypical jj thread

ok the first monsoon bassoon left me totally cold but the second one is fucking ace so

this is working out well.

or maybe start with their most astonishing album, Sing To God!

warning: completely fucking bonkers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dd4fMUhAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdeJD0L3GvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFliGc1D_EU

also awesome - I was thinking of posting just the second, should've really :P but all's well that ends well. that's me commenting on the youtube saying it's one of my 10 favourite songs ever!

xposts WRT the cardiacs, well i'm not up on their catalog enough to really argue with you that so i won't, tho i do gravitate a bit more toward a struggling-to-keep-it-on-the-rails spazzmong kinda vibe a-la my video than what little i've heard of their later stuff, which in passing impression seemed in a too comfortable spot to me?

anyway more schooling needed on my end to personally take stock in anything i'm saying right now so without further ado, your thread sir...

(oh man so many youtubes)

here's another one you guys might like (if you're not already familiar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okG8mlvAKT8

ok naked city 4 u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iGBGRdHWUI&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHQX7SwF1w

like billions and billions of xposts btw

also lj what do u know about klaatu

absolutely nothing! will chew thru some more of these in a sec. but yeah enlighten me

we are tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime

triffic

16-17: also very godfleshy and kickass. probably slightly preferred painkiller but it's good stuff for sure

the pop group: pretty cool, morricone-esque maybe? ditzy mantras for all the family

oh dude LJ: The Pop Group contains multitudes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjTW5uUest4&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkib-F9n5HU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VnwL4-Ghn0

Huh, never been that into Cardiacs but I've been enjoying what I've heard so far tonight. Same with the second Monsoon Bassoon, actually, I saw them years ago and wasn't that interested, but that outro kicks ass all over town.

oh hey its klaatu - prb the best known thing they ever did but also a good entry point imo. pretty prog - album gets pretty weird in spots in a good way, little neutrino and sir boddington wigglesby which sounds like its sung by rolf from the muppets for example

carpenters covered this which i find completely odd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CdjZbWu98A&feature=related

ah man there's a bit to get through! will start w/ klaatu and work backwards

klaatu then - holy shit uppers prog twee synth blissout and that's just the first two minutes, this is gonna be epic isn't it - am surprised it's 1976 though - sounds about 10 years earlier - well, the synths don't - but yeah it's a 60's song with 70's synths and literally more flower power than I thought existed in the world - ok but it's just getting a bit unfocused now, it better have a payoff - hmm, too stop-start, not sure about this really - oh, klaatu - it's kinda cool I guess, will need more convincing

here's another song from 1976 that I just eulogised on another thread and which is completely good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFVSgNNslo

will discuss zorn and pop group tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNlSfMylzU

'american psycho' by naked city is fucking boss, like, completely brilliant

'batman' is also amazing and I have got the 'naked city' album playing on spotify now - do yr worst, zorn

good lord Reanimator into Snagglepuss XD XD XD XD XD

which album - there are more than one

the one called naked city

i always felt naked city is kinda a bit too "pastiche-y" - might have to relisten

it is quite pastichey and also kickass

i think i would have liked naked city a lot more 20 years ago, when the collage aesthetic seemed more radical/revolutionary - now it just feels kinda lazy?

20 years ago Naked City was basically like staring into the Ark of the Covenant and surviving the face melting

probably - i just didn't get around to hearing it until 5 or 6 years ago.

well also assembling that crew of musicians is just straight up o_O not to get all rockist or what the fuck but we're talking srsly kinda the best of the best across the board really esp in that post no wave scary jazz contingent

but we're talking srsly kinda the best of the best across the board really esp in that post no wave scary jazz contingent

we could argue the specifics of this - but let's not

hmmmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93SSuKs4fQ

this super oop album is one of my top treasures btw (shhh its those nomeansno peeps)

Widget is my flat-out favourite NMN track! Awes!