Albums you should listen to...

[Duffman]

The best stoner rock band and album of all time:

Some of the best guitar work I have ever heard on this album from Homme. Not many bands can come close to recreating the heavy sound on this album.

[nicenice]

Shigeto – Full Circle
Ghostly: 2010


Similar school of thought to FlyLo in terms of composition, loose beats etc. But whereas FlyLo takes a more jazz approach to things, Shiegto is more chilled & ambient electronica. There is still a jazz feel to it, and the drumming on tracks like Look At All The Smiling Faces is fucking next level.

If FlyLo is music for sitting around smoking to, then Full Circle is an album for lying on your back in the sun looking at cloud patterns.

Got lent this a month or so ago by a mates brother. One of the best albums I've heard come out of this scene. Y'all should definitely get on this.

[hubb]

I would recommend: Bogdan Raczynskis: My love I love, if you´re into atmospherical,instrumental, melancholic electronica a la some of the lighter Aphex, really catchy and nice.

Bjørk: verspertine. same , but a little more contrived.

Also Slum village: trinity, has some stoned out of their minds -bits

[phrex]

Bjørk: verspertine. same , but a little more contrived.

[bright maroon]

two greatly different style...

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place +/or Far Away Trains Passing By...
the drop at 3:00
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and Steel Pole Bathtub - Tulip

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[bright maroon]

I have a selection for all the BROSTEPPERS out there...

just a dash of rhythm away from juggalo..

Warlock Pinchers - Circus Peanuts

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[soulkids]

it's cool!

now this one is really cool!

tell I a lie /thread

one of the most soulful reggae comps I've ever listened. when ain't no sunshine drops I get goosebumps everytime!

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!!

[mondays child]

I was going to put up 'Spanners' by The Black Dog. But it's a difficult call between the two, so if I had to recommend one, it's this-

[upstateface]

it's cool!

now this one is really cool!

tell I a lie /thread

one of the most soulful reggae comps I've ever listened. when ain't no sunshine drops I get goosebumps everytime!

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!!

We have very similar tastes

[butt jolokia]

I was going to put up 'Spanners' by The Black Dog. But it's a difficult call between the two, so if I had to recommend one, it's this-

Indeed !

[Devry_Kaneda]

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

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.

But the reason why I like his only solo album, released in 09, is that this is the one record where his musical aspirations, alone, really shine through. This is his one project where all of his influences and musical styles come together. On this album, there are brilliantly melancholy tracks interspersed with really creative drone motifs as well as a lighter acoustic touch that is only present in some of his work. Every track is brilliant, breathtakingly sad, and takes you to a separate place, where the world is cold and full of sadness, but also hinting at angelic beauty just beyond your reach.


and my favorite track from the album:

[noam]

The best stoner rock band and album of all time:

Some of the best guitar work I have ever heard on this album from Homme. Not many bands can come close to recreating the heavy sound on this album.

this is superb, i agree completely



Tool - Lateralus

^^
one of the finest examples of an album constructed over time, such that each song, each section within the songs themselves and each technique, are formed from a cluster of concepts, which hold intrinsic values and idea's that are carried throughout the entire piece - leading naturally and intuitively to an ending that homogenises the whole.

basically its a concept album which took 7 years to make, and incorporates much like classical and religious compositions, elements of theology and mathematics, structured in a very deliberate way to take you 'on a journey' as you listen. the more you listen, the more you understand, the more you delve, the more you understand and the better the whole becomes. each full track has layers f meaning from the time-signatures used, to the lyrics, the order of the tracks is a religious journey. the beauty is in the details.

outstanding.

[kentnz]

The best stoner rock band and album of all time:

Some of the best guitar work I have ever heard on this album from Homme. Not many bands can come close to recreating the heavy sound on this album.

[apmje]

Since were kinda going on a rock/metal thing.


One of the earliest and greatest Death Metal records ever.

[pastie_b]

One of the greatest grindcore releases ever by the original Napalm Death. Profound, prolific and properly brutal. I think everyone should hear it...if you don't like it, then your ignorant.

i saw napalm death last night,along with desecration and mutant zombie fetus,was awesome to hear some old napalm

[apmje]

Last time I saw Napalm Death was at a festival in Czech Republic a few years back, wasn't too impressed but I remember the first time I saw them, blitzed the entire place.

[Badman Juice]

[Badman Juice]

[wub]

Shigeto – Full Circle
Ghostly: 2010


Similar school of thought to FlyLo in terms of composition, loose beats etc. But whereas FlyLo takes a more jazz approach to things, Shiegto is more chilled & ambient electronica. There is still a jazz feel to it, and the drumming on tracks like Look At All The Smiling Faces is fucking next level.

If FlyLo is music for sitting around smoking to, then Full Circle is an album for lying on your back in the sun looking at cloud patterns.

Got lent this a month or so ago by a mates brother. One of the best albums I've heard come out of this scene. Y'all should definitely get on this.

The remix album that's just come out is quality too.

[particle-jim]

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