Nov 16, 2008
China Red
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“ Fleeting, like smoke. (No.2) ”
01. The Hollies – King Midas In Reverse
Butterfly (1967)
02. The Dead Science – Black Lane
Villainaire (Constellation, 2008)
03. Can - Vitamin C
Ege Bamyasi (1972)
04. Bert Jansch – Poison
Birthday Blues (Castle Music UK, 1969)
05. Moby Grape – 8:05
Moby Grape (Sundazed Music Inc, 1967)
06. Zombies – Time Of The Season
Odessey and Oracle (Big Beat UK, 1968)
07. Amon Duul Ii – Luzifers Gnom
Phallus Dei (Inside Out, 1969)
08. Faust – Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux
Faust IV (1973)
09. H.P. Lovecraft – Electrallentado
H.P. Lovecraft II (Radioactive, 1968)
10. Bo Diddley – Nursery Rhyme
Road Runner: The Chess Masters 1959-1960 (Hip-O Select, 2008)
note: Second part of series. I actually enjoy this. (more note later)
A beautiful blows, I stay at the corner, She is living in and out of tune. Hey you, You’re losing, you’re losing, you’re losing, you’re losing your vitamin C. [can] This list begins as simple construction looking for meaning. Put material together in 60′s style, fit them together in best MdM’s fashion, start with Black Lane. Let it all flow. Then things grew strange, everything sprout out of control the tighter I arrange them. A little like Lucid Dream. You are suddenly flow inside a whirlwind of strange images, yet you know everything is yours to control. Each turn and twist contains a segment of your imagination with completely different texture, but the voice and the actor are the same. There is unity, but the narrative is scattered despite coming from story book. It has time stamp, but no chronology. It has beat, but scattered rhythm flow…
So probably, it’s like a puzzle the series and mode are correct and controlled, but the lyrics and imageries are dramatic, fleeting, tightly wounded and dream like. “The Eight horses were wearing trapping as black as the night. ” [the Dead Science] Think, China Red. Heroin. So much for late modernism idea in rock n’ roll eh?
see also: Acadian Purple, Faded Love in Time of Malaise.
image: Siri by Chadwick Tyler
intriguing list/thematics.
going to hold you to that explication to come later :P
poison!
i love the ‘time of the season’ song, the snowden cover is good too! give it a try
I really love this 60′s rock playlists you make sq. They sound great on headphones. Production back then had such a clear definition of sound, the more current music I hear the more I keep going back to that decade for shelter. Prolly the ‘loudness war’ to blame? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war)
This article, imperfect sound forever, on stylus is perhaps a much more suitable and interesting read for music lovers than that wikipedia link I gave before:
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/imperfect-sound-forever.htm
A tad lengthy but concise, also check those links at the end of the article if you enjoy it for further reading. I learned a lot through them.
Material if anybody feels like it:
Paul Mattick. “Art in Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics”
http://freebooksource.com/?p=21864
http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7108&Itemid=64
There is a definite sense of the dramatic throughout the entire album, not only in the arrangements (including horns and strings), but in the somewhat operatic vocals of Sam Mickens that aren’t quite over the top, but close enough to the edge that it could be problematic if the lyrics weren’t so damn abstract to balance it out. The good-natured presentation of the disc is what prevents it from straying into the overly pretentious, but instead maintains a healthy absurdist sense of humor.
The Dead Science clearly have their own distinct sound that, oddly enough, isn’t out of place with their label-mates on Constellation. Post-rock might be the best way to describe their odd, abstract take on the traditional, but by augmenting it with a bit of jazz here and there, and the lush, almost cheesy 1970s pop instrumentation, an entirely different sound and sense is created. Mix in the bent towards the absurd and there’s a distinctly strange, but engaging combination there.
Moka said, November 17, 2008 @ 1:25 am
I really love this 60’s rock playlists you make sq. They sound great on headphones.
Several of those tracks are remastered I think. The TDS one is definitely louder than the rest.
Sam Mickens of The Dead Science- “One In A Villion” Lecture (excerpt)
Vitamin C
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