VT4J23 - Day 24 - A song, album, or artist with a number in it

rancidity9480@beehaw.org to Music@beehaw.org – 12 points –

Over in the vinyl sub at the Bad Place, u/Folk_nurse had been doing a Vinyl Tunes for June thing. When the blackout started, I kept adding to my own list each day, and I’d love to carry on with you all. Below is the calendar, I’ll start a thread each day.

The point is just to get us all looking at our physical collections and sharing music.

And seriously… ALL credit and thanks go to folk_nurse. I’m just not headed back there.

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Highway 61 Revisited, an all time great as far as I'm concerned.

Ice V - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

https://open.spotify.com/track/36XAknfUMQYgAPfIJkTed0?si=-YTyXVVkT2GPu82xIYCYTA

Great tune. I'm not a Giz devotee, but I really appreciate how they just seem to write whatever the hell they feel like. Stylistically, the new album was just not doing it for me this week, but then there's this and it could be a completely different band.

It took me a few attempts to get into them. Firstly the name just put me right off soo I dismissed them. Then I got desperate for something new to listen to and decided to give them a go. That was when I realised how many albums they’ve released over the last few years. It’s pretty overwhelming when you just want to do your toe in. What did it for me was watching a few of the KEXP sets on YT. They can really play!

The microtonal stuff is probably my favourite along with some of the more jam based tracks

Porcupine Tree - .3, from the album Absentia. And a few tracks have Phase I and Phase II in their titles.

  • Song - 32 Pennies
  • Album - Greatest & Latest
  • Artist - Warrant

Back to 80s rock today. Greatest & Latest features re-recordings of some of their songs with a few new ones mixed in. Generally, the re-recordings are a little looser, slower, and not as heavily produced as the originals. I quite enjoy them. Honestly hope that with Taylor Swift's "Taylors Versions" we see more full scale re-recordings by some artists. Time and experience can really be heard and lend something new.

Öröm - 8

Dark Ambient/Gothic Doom from Hungary. Incredible album with quite a unique ambience. Simultaneously melancholic and stoic. The textures between the chorused guitars, the synths with their emulated strings, brass, and piano, and the narrated vocal stylings vacillating between baritone spoken word and whispered rasps weave together an aural image of a remembered sorrow or a persistent longing for something always outside one's grasp. Slow and entrancing in its approach, not shy of sparse arrangements and repetitive passages.

It may suffer slightly from underproduction and less than perfect performances, but if you are so inclined you may find this to add to the character of the album. This was never destined for expensive studio time nor broad commercial appeal. This is niche music to fit the drear of the dark nights of a soul. A real gem for those receptive to its aesthetic.

Fun Boy Three - "Our Lips Are Sealed (12-inch)"
Sounding in places like Massive Attack, almost a decade before Massive Attack.

EDIT: I'm seeing an expando on the links in other comments but not on mine. I used the link function (chain icon) to post the YouTube video. Does anyone here know how to format the link properly so an expando appears in this comment?

EDIT2: Huh... now the expando is there. Never mind, carry on, etc.