Steven Wilson is the front-man for prog-rock band Porcupine Tree, half of Blackfield, producer of like every single Opeth album, collaborates with Robert Fripp from time to time, and has a bazillion other side-projects, all of which, are incredible.
In reference to my recommendation of Cardiacs...
Steven Wilson's cover of a cardiacs tune from the recent "leader of the starry skies" tribute/benefit album... all proceeds go to directly Tim Smith who is still in incredibly poor health after suffering a massive stroke in 2008 http://www.thegenepool.co.uk/items/597.htm
imami wrote:i put secret donks in all my tunes, just low enough so you can't hear them
one for the hiphop heads... This is one of MF Doom's earliest before he released any solo shit, with his (now deceased) brother Subroc. Its basically just Rhymes upon rhymes upon rhymes, two wordsmiths going fucking ballistic on the mic. Beats are raw, organic and orchestral with healthy helpings of bassweight. One of my favourite underground albums ever, the one of the only vinyl lp's I have two copies of...was banned in UK for ages (only cos of the Artwork)
Thanks for the KMD recommendation. Listening now, never been able to listen to hip-hop or rap or anything before. Bassline on Constipated Monkey though, fire!
2006 album on Warp, electronic with some beautiful synthwork, but its the samples which do it and in particular the percussion, all stuttering and so live sounding which does it for me
Albums got it all, theres the melancholy, the happy bits, the cheesy bits, the mad bits, it really takes you on a journey
apmje wrote:Thanks for the KMD recommendation. Listening now, never been able to listen to hip-hop or rap or anything before. Bassline on Constipated Monkey though, fire!
n.p. - nice one for checking it out, its pretty much unrecognisable from 90% of hiphop nowdays. Theres some interesting albums posted in this thread, i'll check the Napalm Death one, the only heavier guitar albums I own are a couple of Deftones Albums and Serj Tankian...
@soulkids yea, theres another album too (Mr.Hood) but it's even older, and not as raw as this one...
sorry last post, another track of the album, this one still gives me goosebumps...
particle-jim wrote:
In reference to my recommendation of Cardiacs...
Steven Wilson's cover of a cardiacs tune from the recent "leader of the starry skies" tribute/benefit album... all proceeds go to directly Tim Smith who is still in incredibly poor health after suffering a massive stroke in 2008 http://www.thegenepool.co.uk/items/597.htm
This is really good!
I downloaded the Seaside, which is absolute insanity!
particle-jim wrote:I want to recommend Cardiacs but i'm struggling to decide which album as they are all so bloody majestic, I fucking love this band so much, with all of my big heart and shiny twinkling eyes, I can't really recommend 1 single album above any other so i will just say go and listen to any/all of them, if i was pushed hard enough i could narrow it down to 3 albums (on land and in the sea, a little man and a house and the whole world window, sing to god) but i cannot pick a favourite amongst them... just go and listen to them, it may possibly change your life but i can't be certain it will be for the better
seeing as i am unable to chose 1 album to recommend, instead here is a very informative live review from the NME in 1988 and a really old video:
"I though the bloke standing next to me best summed it up: he was sick all over his feet!
The Cardiacs are the worst band in the world, and I HATE them. This is a critical response of such negativity, that I’m sure The Cardiacs will revel in it.
They are the band that punk forgot to invent: a grotesque marriage between the Sex Pistols, XTC and Devo. If anyone needs persuading that reviving the tacky theatrics of the ’70s is a redundant exercise, then they should take themselves to a Cardiacs gig and be appalled.
Frontman, vocalist, and most obnoxious member of The Cardiacs, Tim Smith congratulated us for coming out of our "shitty little houses" to see him. I wish Smith had stayed in his shitty little house, because I don’t find insane people entertaining. The entire band ponces about as if they have had frontal lobotomies. Ha ha ha, mental illness! Tell that to MENCAP, you jerks.
The Cardiacs have to rely heavily on the visual element of their act as their music sucks: a repetitious and pretentious mess of a diet of watching children’s television programmes. All the best riffs from Watch With Mother have been well and truly nicked.
One can call The Cardiacs every name under the sun, and it doesn’t hurt them. They won’t go away, for, they have cult following worthy of Psychic TV. Except, Cardiacs devotees are the types who lap up Tim Smith’s verbal abuse and leer at saxophonist Sarah Smith’s cleavage.
Lambs to the slaughter of live entertainment."
Quite simply the best band there has ever been
I agree, what I've heard of this band are awesome. Their early albums are sick (but I can't find them to buy) Also personally I find their videos distract from how technically good their music is to be honest.
I mean listen how awesomely fucked this is (to anyone who isn't yet converted to being a fan in this thread).
particle-jim wrote:
In reference to my recommendation of Cardiacs...
Steven Wilson's cover of a cardiacs tune from the recent "leader of the starry skies" tribute/benefit album... all proceeds go to directly Tim Smith who is still in incredibly poor health after suffering a massive stroke in 2008 http://www.thegenepool.co.uk/items/597.htm
This is really good!
I downloaded the Seaside, which is absolute insanity!
What other albums byt them would your recommend?
haha where do i begin? my personal faves are "sing to god" both 1 and 2, "on land and in the sea" and "little man and a house and the whole world window" but to be honest i think everything they have ever released is fantastic... get on youtube and watch "seaside treats" which was a video accompaniment to the seaside, also watch the maresnest concert, fucking majestic
imami wrote:i put secret donks in all my tunes, just low enough so you can't hear them
soulkids wrote:
a soul album doesn't get much better - 'by the time I get to phoenix' is one of the most wonderful tracks I've ever listened - even though it's mostly just talking and almost 20 minutes long!!
music doesnt get much better... walk on by best cover version ever?
This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's a hiphop album by the American group CunninLynguists. The beats by Kno are just top notch. The lyrics are also very good. It's basically a concept album with all the track titles and the track order referring to the Bible.
One of the greatest Hip Hop albums of all time, nothing they have done since comes close despite making some decent solo stuff but even when they guest on each others albums it doesn't have the El-P production which is, along with the different but complimentary styles of the rappers, what makes this album worthy of the tag seminal
