Just listening to this now. Oasis doing exactly what it says on the tin.
Actually intending to reach out to @Apiento and @Piers to see if TP wants to host some of these. I did an experiment with putting a couple tapes on Mixcloud and it reached no one while at the same time the notorious group of file stealing creeps all came and grabbed the mixes and will repost them at some point as theirs with no credit given.
any love for tack>>head, mark stewart & the maffia , 23 skidoo, material etc on the board? i was surprised not to see them in the post-punk threadā¦
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Love 'em, although Iām more of a This Heat guy.
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On that noteā¦I learned recently that the founding drummer of This Heat also played on this kickass fusion record, lead by Roxy Musicās guitarist:
So thereās that Roxy Music/early Industrial connection everyone was waiting for, I guess.
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and then thereās 801
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Yes, that band was next-level cool by mid-70s standards, a true supergroup, and the tracklist of their live debut is insane (what kind of band covers both Sombre Reptiles AND Third Uncle?)
Iāve never heard their one studio album, but it seems like it must be cool because they also looped in guys from 10cc and Split Enz.
i havenāt heard the 801 studio album eitherā¦
from what i understand, eno was a catalyst, pushing for collaborators after the interpersonal politics of roxy. similar to what you described in your conversation about miles davisā ābandā the artists concerned took their craft to another level without boundaries.
i also like the humour in their work; eno making ākingsleadhatā on before and after science (which included jaki leibzeit, moebius and roedelius and paul randolph from hawkwind) as an anagram of talkingheads and signposting his future work with them.
Yeah. Before & After Science is a good record, forward-thinking in a very concrete way because certain tracks literally sound like what the Talking Heads would later become, as you mentioned.
Still, it somehow misses the mark for meā¦even though itās cutting edgeā¦some of the tracks are overly stylized and bloodlessā¦side A especially suffers from aesthetic-over-songcraft issues (in my opinion), like Eno overworked the entire concept.
I always find myself returning to Another Green World instead.
i know what you mean about before and after science, itās far from my favourite. perhaps , it shows the limitations of all those collaborators in one āspaceā jamming into oblivion.
another green world is class! persoanlly, taking tiger mountain is up there too. suffice to say, iām a fan!
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While weāre down this late 70s/early 80s ex-prog/new wave mass collab wormholeā¦Iāve always felt someone needs to make a slightly pitched down/slightly more banging edit of this track, itās almost dancefloor ready:
Found a copy of the āraritiesā disc broken out from the box set.
The first time I left the house after shelter in place this was the first song I played and the beautiful/melancholy of it is what Eno does better than anyone IMO-
Also if anyone hasnāt yet tracked down the Eno and Fripp live album I urge you to do so. That shit is wowwwwwww.
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this?
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Amazing record. So much more powerful than the Fripp & Eno studio albums of the era.
The vinyl has a different cover which I cannot currently find but yes it is the same recording and it is amazing.
Just keeping going
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wonderful loved their first album on Church and this is just as nice
1990 Grooverider steelo is wild. This is so foreign to my 1990 musical experiences itās like heās broadcasting from another planet.
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The brilliant Bear from Space
Podcast #53 - Chris Bowen by Samo Records on #SoundCloud