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| MARCH of １９６０s (REC me)
Hello we are doing this thing again. My '60s knowledge is poor. My gripes with the canon are many. My love for certain '60s records is sporadic yet FIRM. Give me recs you dopes | | 1 |  | Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen
[I am taking the first three days off to recover from glitch month and sleep and things] | | 2 | | Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen
[I am taking the first three days off to recover from glitch month and sleep and things] | | 3 | | Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen
[I am taking the first three days off to recover from glitch month and sleep and things] | | 4 |  | George Jones
Trouble In Mind
March 4th
Rec'd by Drifter
Country
1966
INNOCUOUS HEARTY TWEE TWANGY SINGALONGS ...or, wait? Oh honey, no no! This one's got an edge to it - there's darkness all over these lyrics and Mr. Jones' good voice has lonesomeness down to a fine art. The man rides that superficial cheer well and found a whole lot of substantive pathos to latch onto here, and from there it's just one solid track after another. Decent start I guess.
3.6 | | 5 |  | Aretha Franklin
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
March 5th
Rec'd by Kompys
Soul
1967
Hahahahaaha yeah nice one Komp, this whole wing of soul is a style I respectfully stay the hell away from out of equal parts respect and indifference. It's not a question of quality, it's a question of resonance and, uhm, this record has done little to fix this. Aretha Franklin has a great voice (d u h shutup johnny) and I can definitely vibe with A Change Is Gonna Come in particular, but I regret to report that my efforts to get down to this as a whole have been largely fruitless// EDIT actually Do Right Woman, Do Right Man kinda slaps too fuckit, this can have a get-out-quicksharp 3.5 and I'm glad I checked it i am weak yes shutup
3.5 | | 6 |  | Buffy Sainte-Marie
It's My Way!
March 6th
Rec'd by Sloth
Folk
1964
Gonna take some more time with this, but definitely impressed at its levels of personality, adventurousness and (maybe) versatility hm EDIT this did not quite stick the landing, but I do respect most aspects of it a lot esp all heritage songs and that one banger about incest nice
3.5 | | 7 |  | Robbie Basho
Venus in Cancer
March 7th
Rec'd by DadKung
Folk
1969
Absolutely magical album and the first thing from this month so far that's felt more than educational. I ~like this guy's voice and absolutely adore everything he does instrumentally. Love that the instrumental/vocal on/off sequencing foregrounds the best of both worlds. Gonna be following up on this one for sure, have scarcely taken it off rotation since I first heard it. Love love love how much simplicity there is to his chords, how cyclical and straightforward his rhythms are, and just how much life and dynamism and contour and atmospheric smmmmmsh there is to this. Fantastic stuff.
4.3 | | 8 |  | Silver Apples
Silver Apples
March 8th
Rec'd by Demon
Cult meme album
1968
The fact that this exists is amazing and cool and cultclassictastic [12345], um is it good? Kinda! The bookends go surprisingly hard and I can see myself playlisting them for sure. The rest of this does largely hold up outside of novelty though - I admire the steadfast commitment to microtonal awkwardness, love the off-kilter blip-pssssz accents, am surprised at how many strong hooks the vocalist inserts into the midst of all this without disrupting the greyscale feverdream radiation_tone in the slightest, and the rhythm section is ! adequate ! There's been a lot written about how ahead of its time this was, which is obviously entirely valid for the aesthetic, but I think a lot of the songwriting here is surprisingly traditional all things considered - still forward-thinking, but there's a very grounded sense to how this is put together. It's aged well as such, in a kinda out-of-time way; it's especially remarkable that this came out in fucking '68, but I'd agree with whoever-wherever said that this would be a singular record whenever it dropped. Nice.
3.7 | | 9 |  | Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
March 9th
Rec'd by Asleep
Folk
1963
First taste of early Dylan - I grew up with Love & Theft and Blonde On Blonde on background family rotation, but never had particularly strong feelings for him either way. This was a bit of a revelation, a really engaging blend of (so, so, so) youthful whimsy and lyrical acumen. Loved it as an end-to-end, even if some tracks are plainly stronger than others by an unflattering margin. For all it's zany and inconsistent, it also carries such a strikingly wide range of voices that it rides out most of those hiccups. It's thoughtful, it's dead serious and furiously angry, it's silly and occasionally quite righteously hilarious. So much character on here - really glad to have come to this at last.
4.2 | | 10 |  | Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin'
March 10th
Rec'd by Asleep
Folk
1964
Hmmm coming off Freewheelin', this was much more in line with my preconception of what an 'average' Great Early Dylan record would sound like - mostly in a good sense! It's much more focused, much more consistent and a tad more 'mature' in the sense of reined-in. I think the average song on this is stronger than the average Freewheelin' song, but it doesn't have quite the same charm or character end-to-end. Boots of Spanish Leather and North Country Blues in particular are stunners and I've enjoyed this more the more I've heard it. Good record.
4.0 | | 11 |  | Eric Dolphy
Out To Lunch!
March 11th
Rec'd by Havey + yolo
Avant jazz
1964
I usually find at least something to enjoy in weirdojazz, and this wasn't quite an exception, but. Well. It has probably more than its fair share of personality and flourish (hats off to the vibraphone in particular), but damn this was all novelty and no fission to me for the most part. Surprisingly cartoonish, not in a way I'd call a full compliment. In the words of parksungjoon (RIP):
"Overrated/“jazz for people who don’t like jazz”-core but it’s very good and fun yeah"
cannot disagree
3.0 | | 12 |  | The 13th Floor Elevators
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
March 12th
Rec'd by con
Psych
1966
lol sorry con half of this is the labyrinth-of-sunshine--brained faff-psych that I do not vibe with and will not pay lip service to. some of this is pretty cool (especially big props to Roller Coaster), but most of it can join Jefferson Airplane in the expired daydream bucket. at least some of their writing instincts were faintly genius hm.
3.0 | | 13 |  | Herbie Hancock
Inventions And Dimensions
March 13th
Rec'd by hyp
Jazz
1964
I'm not enough of a diva to pretend my faith in jazz needed restoring after 11, but if it had, this would have done the trick nicely. I was only familiar with Empyrean Isles prior to this, and while I think that album was at once more adventurous and more melodically defined than this, there's a lot to love here. I don't have strong feelings either way about the Latin percussion, but the emphasis is almost entirely on Herbie Hancock's piano chops here. They are good and I like them! The way he carries "Succotash" in particular is a treat and I look forward to slipping this in and out of rotation in the next few months+
3.7 | | 14 |  | Jacques Brel
Ces Gens-La
March 14th
Rec'd by Stakaline
Chanson perfect sex death
1966
Thoughts:
1) Jacques Brel is an amazing performer and a bit of a god
2) My preconception of Brel was much more moody/intimate than the various chanson bells and whistles these tracks have pinned on them - not necessarily my preference, but I respect how he owns it
3) I enjoyed straining what's left of my French to follow this
4) So much of the personality here feels lyrically contingent that I wish I could follow it further. Was already acquainted with La chanson de Jacky thanks to Secret Chiefs 3's rather pastiched English-lang version, and the level of tasty detail and intrigue in those lyrics alone make me wish v badly that I had access to the same in the original
So all things considered, I'm not disappointed in the music or performance themselves, but I can't help wishing I'd gotten more out of this? Probably the biggest it's-not-you-it's-me oofs I've had in a while. Solid af album regardless.
4.0 | | 15 |  | Nico
The Marble Index
March 15th
Rec'd by porc
Nicoshit
1968
On the topic of it's-not-you-it's-me's, I'm sorry but I have too much self-respect to gaslight myself into believing that *I'm* the problem with Nico. My experience with TVU&N has always been choppy, yes, but I could dismiss her involvement with that record as a gimmick that didn't necessarily reflect her own output. 30 minutes of that same languorous deadpan over John Cale jerking it over as many intrepid legato nonhappenings as he could set to tape just ain't it though - there are only so many farts I'm prepared to sniff here.
I find it interesting reading what folks see in Nico - distant, charmingly charmless, icy, glamorous, enigmatic, inscrutable, bohemian, occasionally problematic, ultimately tragic. I get it - but I hardly hear any of it in this dull art project, pioneering and enduringly influential - by which I mean it reminds me of umpteen records I would far rather be listening to.
2.5 | | 16 |  | The Meters
The Meters
March 16th
Rec'd by widows
Funk
1969
Was already v familiar with Cissy Strut, and a whole album of the same was a no-brainer win. Deeply cool record, surprised at the low number of ratings. Great funk gateway record that I'll have right up my sleeve for whichever social occasions demand it - anyone skimming this for 2nd hand recs should consider this a chill universal must.
4.0 | | 17 |  | Monks
Black Monk Time
March 17th
Rec'd by phero + mort
LOUD???
1966
IT'S MONK TIME and hmm I did need to hear this! This shit has an edge and occasionally borders on pure dirty nastiness in ways I v i b e (I Hate You, Drunken Maria, Shut Up!, opener). These songs in particular are profane and a little unsettling and um, well, everything else you'd go to a bunch of weirdo 60s pioneers warping rock n roll into something louder and more freakish for.
That said, I wouldn't call this an end-to-end slammer - several of these tracks cling a little too closely to sweetnlow rocknroll mama tropes for my liking (We Do Wie Du ffs) and others (Hiddle Pog Die!!!) swing the other way and hit me in the irritation. You gotta break a few eggs to milk a subversion!!! in other news, is protopunk actually good? Don't answer that question for the answer is NO not really (but not bad either) and I'm grateful to have this on the curio cabinet next to The Sonics and The Velver Underpounds. Neat!!!
3.5 | | 18 |  | Gary Burton
A Genuine Tong Funeral
March 18th
Rec'd by dedex
Jazz
1968
Oh shit, I wrote this blurb in my head on like five separate occasions and have forgotten each and every draft as of right now :[ Short story, love this a lot a lot a lot a lot. It feels incredibly unspontaneous for a 60s jazz record (almost to the point that the improv passages feel tokenistic, but the clamour they bring is too raw for tokenisation!!!), and it nails a brand of noirish funereal mysticism with more than a hint of screwball chaos that caters to my every fetish and sparks tremendous joy. More specifically, it reminds me of three artists I (sometimes) adore for reasons that don't really reflect it much at all (John Zorn, Tortoise, Bohren and the Görings), and I'm hoping this can end up as a square-on Record In My Life now, great shit.
4.3 | | 19 |  | Andrew Hill
Black Fire
March 19th
Rec'd by Sniff
Jazz
1964
This, on the other hand, completely washed over me in a way that was a) enjoyable and b) firmly within whatever my conceptions of 60s modal jazz were before I pressed play. Good record but cannot claim to have been changed by it.
3.5 | | 20 |  | The Kinks
The Village Green Preservation Society
March 20th
Rec'd by Mort/Pang
Rock
1968
DISCLAIMER um I like the Kinks and their classic tracks and most of the Lola vs. Powerman record, and Ray Davies is a cool chap in my books, but
I have long harboured a quizzical eyebrow (can one harbour an eyebrow? shit yes!) ever since I subjected myself to ye olde infamous Scaruffi fartBeatlesessay in which he describes Ray boi as a far superior songwriter to Lennon/Macca - not at all in a "no way/fuck that guy!" way, but much more of a "how could someone profess so ardently to believe this [I am curious and open to Further Evidence!]?" I won't say my expectations for the rest of Klassic Kinks were any more positive/negative per se, but they did become heavy...
...and this is sad, because they rather crashed to the ground in the face of The Village Green Preservation Society!!sadface! These songs - a few of which are very good, a few of which are very bad - are all succinctly writerly and scribbling to the point that it's hard not to imagine their inspirations as some form of dextrous "here is a thought that is an arbitrary thing give me 10 minutes and I shall have words and a tune to it" enterprise.
I do not know what to make of a full album of this. That is a lie. It's like a very-very-extended version of that scene in the Yesterday movie where protag and Ed Sheeran have a songwriting contest, except this now lasts the entire evening and we are treated to a whole montage of the Sheeran reel and (this is unfair because Davies is funny and sly and wry and many other good things that Sheeran is not, *but still*) all it takes is one Beatles classic to put the whole lot to shame (although in this version Sheeran gets the decency of being shut down by something a little stronger by a mopey piano cover of the Long And Winding Road - we're talking at least Across the Universe). I should probably talk about the songs on the record more but fuckit they are all ephemeral and the point has been made.
It is also unspeakably English, less in a sexy erudite wow-he-can-do-words-and-has-self-awareness-how-can-any-other-country-that-isn't-Scotland/Ireland-compare? way, and much more in a turn-that-doodletongued-malarky-off Beatles "Lovely Rita" kind of faintly insufferable twee way.
But I do love the opener.
3.0 | | 21 |  | Jacks
Vacant World
March 21st
Rec'd by someone
Psych/enka??
1968
"The sound here is like early American rock and roll (think Phil Spector girl group melodies) combined with the feverish rock intensity that would find its most complete incarnation in Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha"
haha YES I love both those things what the fuck is this. Might do an enka month later in the year hmmm
REVIEW: my '60s psych pickings within and without this list are enormously hit or miss, but this morose set of deadpan slowburners for the heavy hearted are an easy and much appreciated win. And also phenomenally cool? Maybe a little slow-release and situational to posit a steady binge, but boy am I glad to have this in reserve from now on. Incidentally, rym is full of shit - I ain't hearing much enka and my gf says this leans more into kayokyoku. Huge scenes. Good thing the compositions don't really hinge on genre gimmickry at all - this thing is pared back to an excellent set of skeletal arrangements and hard to lay a claw on a such. Dope.
4.0 | | 22 |  | Isaac Hayes
Hot Buttered Soul
March 22nd
Rec'd by DadKung
Soul !
1969
Listen #1: heard the first two songs on the tube and immediately wanted to 4.5 the whole thing. Heard the second two songs in the supermarket/on the way home and became somewhat more sceptical. Hmm.
Listen #2: heard the whole lot in one sitting at home and my first half/second half opinion reversed. Confused.
Listen #3 (and onwards): this is a great record and I'm going back to my earlier take that the first two songs are the ones that make it. Love how it's at once maximalist as all hell in the sheer scope of musicians involved and the lengths that it draws its tracks out to, but that it never feels cluttered at any given point. The arrangements are smooth as icy salmony hell, the jams are delicious, and Hayes um yeah does kinda kill it in ye hot-buttered-soul dept. It does overreach a little towards the end - I don't think the 18-min By The Time I Get to Phoenix cover quite reaches the epic heartbreak supremacy it strives so protractedly for, but it's evocative enough that I'll allow this. Righteous scenes.
4.0 | | 23 |  | The Band
Music From Big Pink
March 23rd
Rec'd by Mort + Ryus
Folk rock country soul rock roots wha
1968
I am TRYING to have an opinion on this, but having never heard anything by the Band before, it sounds exactly like I would have expected a band called the Band to make? Pleasant, competent, tastefully but (not overly) emotional and personable, enjoyable while on (three times over at that!) and uh uh uh uh uh memorable??? Hmm. Nice stuff mmmhm
3.5 | | 24 |  | Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque de Hollanda - Volume 3
March 24th
Rec'd by rabidfish
Bossa nova
1968
This didn't leave as firm an impression as I'd have liked, but gawd it's smooth. Lovely stuff.
3.7 | | 25 |  | Red Krayola
The Parable of Arable Land
March 25th
Rec'd by z00sh
?????
1967
Hahahahahaha I don't know what's more entertaining between this containing seven zany as balls noise big rock band Freak Outs [sic] and these being sandwiched between seven equally spangled songs that barely qualify as such. I heard a lot of everything and a lot of nothing in this - it gets a little overbearing, but its silliness is so clearly of the extremely-cool strain that I shall 4 it on principle and probably never listen again. Bless these good free spirits and their wonderful disorienting mix wondersounds.
4.0 | | 26 |  | Scott Walker
Scott 3
March 26th
Rec'd by Stakaline
Huh
1969
Hmm this is the goods - velvety baroque pop, clearly morose but with a clear streak of romanticism underpinning it. Gorgeous arrangements, gorgeous deep vocals, lovely stately progressions that ebb and flow and never feel overly chorus-bound. I'm listening right now for I think the fourth time and it keeps getting better, to the point that I don't want to force out too many conclusions at this point. I do enjoy that this largely eschews percussion though - these tracks feel at once so much more confident and delicate for it, and I want a living room that I can have them on in always.
4.0 | | 27 |  | Scott Walker
Scott 4
March 27th
Rec'd by Stakaline
Hmm
1969
First things first - the Seventh Seal is an absolutely perfect opener and gives me a lot of righteous flashbacks to the source narrative. Love it. Probably my favourite song between this and Scott 4.
Beyond that, hmm - I'm not sure that I prefer the (comparatively) upbeat approach on the rest of these. I don't find Scott Walker's voice as stirring here as I feel I should (though don't get me wrong, I rate him as a singer!!) - I feel as though he took Jacques Brel's style, slightly downscaled the flourish and excess into something darker and arguably more refined, but ended up with no less performative disconnect (which Brel's maximalism balanced very effectively). I dunno. I'm not very attached to that theory (it doesn't hold up nearly as well for the sombre stuff on Scott 3) and I certainly don't want to go overboard criticising this record - it's great stuff all round, I just wish I enjoyed it more. Will not be surprised if my take here changes considerably.
3.7 | | 28 |  | The Incredible String Band
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
March 28th
Rec'd by Ryus
Psych folk
1968
This treads a very temperamental line between irritating hire-a-proper-singer hippy bullshit and full-on valley of enchantment magictimes. Fascinating? Infuriating? Charming! I'm impressed by how much it managed to polarise me from song to song: "Waltz of the New Moon" is a really fantastic piece, delicately arranged and underpinned by an incredibly engaging harp (?) melody, only for "The Water Song" to follow on and land (potentially) among the worst songs I have heard in all my days. I can respect this for sure, but think I'll content myself with grabbing "Waltz" along with probably "Three Is A Green Crown" and tipping my hat to all the rest.
3.0 | | 29 |  | Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica
March 29th
Rec'd by Milo
fuck off
1969
Won't lie my expectations for this were extremely low, and I have NO REGRETS about this! For this took all of about 5 minutes to induce the most ginormousest widest shiteating idiot grins on my sour chops - it is ridiculous as could be and I *get* it. The guitar assault, the jank, the mockery of Anglophone lyricism, the babyish absurdity oh yes yes yes. It's the kind of album that makes a largely successful joke at the expense of rock and songcraft and normalcy as whole institutions, all with a swaggering affability that couldn't be any further from malice - I get why it's had such historic appeal with (*eyeroll*) a certain kind of critic.
It is also too fucking much and too gettable too early. By the time the admittedly hilarious BULBOUS meta skit is up, the peak has been had and diminishing returns abound - this would have been an issue across a single side, and the fact that this is a double album is where the joke passes out of the realm of experience and starts to become a little academic. Red Krayola has an edge on this in that respect (and even that wears off a little through a full listen), but I can't knock too many points off given how squarely it does deliver while the going is Good!
3.8 | | 30 |  | Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady
March 30th
Rec'd by ur mum
Jazz
1963
Okay, gang it's time to drop some heavy bombshells. This is an occasionally engaging record, but it comes off as too superficial to amount to anything more and I don't believe that anyone who touts it as an alltime classic really understands jazz. It's all show and no spirituality - like, some of the refrains are catchy in a Mos Eisley cantina kinda way but it's hard to imagine anyone dancing to this with enough soul to burn any energy or, I dunno, fall in love. The performances draw on clear talent but you can tell the majority of the band felt underused here. The arrangements are quite clumsy in places, often packed with so many layers that it sounds like noise - but not in a cool Merzbow way, more of a bad football crowd way. I admire the ambitious concept and stirring backstory, but none of it really hangs off the notes like I wish it could. It's a shame that the album artwork looks so much like a bad movie poster, by which I mean lol who am I kidding this shit is absolutely perfect and makes me proud as could be to pretend to be qualified to wave goodbye to the '60s. Flawless record ten fucking stars (it's a four point five). | | 31 |  | Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate
March 31st
Rec'd by Ryus
Folk
NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE
One does not listen to a Leonard Cohen record once (or twice) and suddenly decide on a rating within a day.
Or even a week. Hmm.
There are a lot of tracks here that will have to open up to me, but the goods here are as good as it gets. Avalanche might just be a better opener than Suzanne, which is obviously one of the best openers ever written. Love Calls You By Your Name is probably the song I knew best and just packs so many great images in so mesmeric a fashion. Dress Rehearsal Rag is nuts, and Sing Another Song, Boys is the shot of rawness I never knew I needed from ol' boy Len. A book has been opened.
1971/5 | | 32 |  | Anathema
Judgement
Averages (no rating for Leonard Cohen yet)
Mean: 3.685
Median: 3.7
Mode: 4.0
Range: 2
Minimum: 2.5
Maximum: 4.5 | |
JohnnyoftheWell
02.28.23 | Give me '60s! Anything, but especially:
- Surf rock
- Jazz
- Folk
- Literally anything not in English
Tread l i g h t l y around:
- Any of that Sgt Peppers/Beach Boys/Love psych pop bullshit | Drifter
02.28.23 | George Jones - Trouble In Mind | Kompys2000
03.01.23 | Aretha Franklin- I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You | normaloctagon
03.01.23 | The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band | SlothcoreSam
03.01.23 | Buffy Sainte-Marie - It's My Way | gryndstone
03.01.23 | im halfheartedly doing 63 right now. Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan have good records from that year. For jazz: Charles Mingus' Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is a must listen. Also check Dexter Gordon and Cal Tjader | gryndstone
03.01.23 | also Simon and Garfunkel are some cool dudes | Conmaniac
03.01.23 | Wait no psych rock? | Conmaniac
03.01.23 | July - July
13th Floor Elevators | Hyperion1001
03.01.23 | herbie hancock - inventions & dimensions | MiloRuggles
03.01.23 | Hate to be that guy but uh
I note you don't have Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica rated. Feel free to swap this for Safe As Milk if you wanna go chrono, I won't judge | Sniff
03.01.23 | Yuck | YoYoMancuso
03.01.23 | Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch! | Sniff
03.01.23 | Andrew Hill - Black Fire | dedex
03.01.23 | ofc you already listened to Francoise Hardy - Comment te dire adieu.
Gary Burton - A Genuine Tong Funeral | AsleepInTheBack
03.01.23 | Apologies for going for the obvious but I am a jazz EXPERT now (officially) so…
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
or
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady | porcupinetheater
03.01.23 | Nico - The Marble Index
Dunno if you already heard cuz I know we discourse VU, but The Marble Index is unsettling and vacant and absolutely ice cold and one of the best records of the decade tbh
John Coltrane - Meditations
cuz peeps get scared about his post A Love Supreme works even though they’re calamitous rippers of spiritual architecture
Ruth White - Flowers of Evil
Early pioneer of electronic music making creepy bleepy spoken word occult poetry and I’ve never heard anything from the 60s at all like it. Ahead of her time af
Pick and choose, bb | Pheromone
03.01.23 | The Monks - Black Monk Time
fuckin batshit | Pheromone
03.01.23 | The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
check butcher's tale | Demon of the Fall
03.01.23 | outside of Mingus, Coltrane, Davis, The Doors etc. and what you already mentioned, this is essentially the extent of my knowledge, so idk I'll list five because you didn't set a limit...
Silver Apples - s/t
Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You
Pat Martino - El Hombre
Amon Duul - Phallus Dei
Gal Costa - s/t | Demon of the Fall
03.01.23 | due to my own lack of knowledge, I will be hanging around for selfish reasons | someone
03.01.23 | Jacks - Vacant World (1968) | AsleepInTheBack
03.01.23 | Also yo if you don’t want too much jazz check Dylan’s early stuff (Freewheeling (63), Times (64) or any of the others tbh) | Stakaline
03.01.23 | Getz/Gilberto
Frank Zappa (Hot Rats is a good starting place)
Captain Beefheart eventually
Jacques Brel (especially Ces Gens-là)
Scott Walker (Scott 4 & Scott 3)
Dr John (gris gris)
Early Neil Young is cool (everybody knows this is nowhere)
Tim Buckley
Os mutantes | Pangea
03.01.23 | i'm so excited for post rock april
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods (counteracting people who only know the black saint, which you should listen to but also listen to other Mingus!!!!!)
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
if you only do one of mine then make it tijuana moods | widowslaugh123
03.01.23 | The Meters-S/t | JohnnyoftheWell
03.01.23 | lovely stuff pouring in all round, am excited for this month!!
i have heard ALS, thank U, but happy to queue it up for a refresher + rating in advance of Meditations | DadKungFu
03.01.23 | John Fahey - Days Have Gone By
Robbie Basho - Venus in Cancer
Francoise Hardy - Comment te dire adieu
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul | Ryus
03.01.23 | the incredible string band - the hangman's beautiful daughter
cecil taylor - unit structures (asleep heard it now you get to as well)
the band - music from big pink | fogza
03.01.23 | Crosby, Stills & Nash debut | Ryus
03.01.23 | not 60s but there is a conspicuous lack of "songs of love and hate" by cohen in your ratings | z00sh
03.01.23 | Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land | JohnnyoftheWell
03.02.23 | "conspicuous lack of "songs of love and hate" "
"Robbie Basho - Venus in Cancer
"The Meters-S/t"
"Scott Walker (Scott 4 & Scott 3)"
YES (and also everything else but mmmm yeah i look forward to filling these gaps!)
| Mort.
03.02.23 | concept list
joan baez - joan baez
monks - black monk time
ennio morricone - good bad and ugly
the band - music from the big pink
the kinks - village green preservation society
| bgillesp
03.02.23 | https://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=273626
You’ll like this one I bet. Also check some blues from Muddy Waters
Cecil Taylor- Conquistador for jazz also in addition to the recs above | Ryus
03.02.23 | doubled up on cecil lets go
thank u for cosigning my big pink rec mort | Mort.
03.02.23 | yeah that album slaps ryus
chest fever is a 10/10 tune | rabidfish
03.02.23 | Chico Buarque de Holanda - vol. 3 | JohnnyoftheWell
03.03.23 | gonna take today off and queue this up to start tomorrow - been a drag of a week and i can't face anything beyond curling up and jamming Susumus Hirasawa and Yokota and Melvins on repeat rn
let's go!!! | JohnnyoftheWell
03.03.23 | okay there is a list and i'm actually very excited for most of it um yes!!!! | DadKungFu
03.03.23 | Damn, really varied and eclectic list sput well done | Kompys2000
03.04.23 | Nice nice ur listening to my rec on my birthday which means ur legally required to like it gl!?!?!?! | bgillesp
03.04.23 | dang, missed the cut again. Sultry french songs seemed right up your alley | protokute
03.04.23 | Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground (Psychedelic Folk)
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (Folk Perfection)
Bridget St. John - Ask Me No Questions (Folk)
Duncan Browne - Give Me, Take You (Baroque Pop, Folk)
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazzlewood - Nancy & Lee (Psychedelic, Country, Baroque Pop)
The International Submarine Band - Safe At Home (Psychedelic Country Rock)
The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Past (Psychedelic, Baroque, Orchestral) a fascinating conceptual album
Some brazilian stuff for u (a lot of awesome stuff came out in the early/mid 70's tho):
Guilherme Coutinho - Guilherme Coutinho e a Curtição (1969)
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (1968)
Vanusa - Vanusa (1969)
Ronnie Von - Ronnie Von (1969)
Jorge Ben Jor - Jorge Ben (1969)
VA - Tropicalia ou Panis et Circensis (Tropicalia movement manifest album)
| Ryus
03.04.23 | most of this list is great. best decade 90cels BTFO | suppatime
03.04.23 | Glad to Be Unhappy by Paul Desmond, one of the best cool jazz records of all time. His sax timbre is the best. | Conmaniac
03.04.23 | Nice you picked the first ever psychedelic rock album (13th floor elevators) hope ya dig!!! | someone
03.05.23 | Jacks seemed so much up your alley, yes | JohnnyoftheWell
03.07.23 | aight i have been *listening*, let's start some blurbs | Cimnele
03.07.23 | 8 is a possible 5 to me
sorry i have no recs, the 80s is the only decade that exists to me rn | fogza
03.07.23 | obs my rec was too psych pop 😥 | ArsMoriendi
03.07.23 | Nooooooo I missed this noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo | ArsMoriendi
03.07.23 | Bless Demon and Z00sh for picking albums I might’ve chosen | JohnnyoftheWell
03.07.23 | today's album is off to an extremely strong start | Ryus
03.07.23 | basho the goat | JohnnyoftheWell
03.07.23 | i don't want this record to end lol | Ryus
03.07.23 | are u familiar with john fahey | Kompys2000
03.07.23 | Lmao as per your EDIT I'd wager a dozen relistens to 5 would net you a dozen similar concessions to the rest of the tracklist (similar happened to me) but point is you are now 100% more equipped to tackle any one of a thousand singvoicegirl albums in that down-through-Mariah lineage | DadKungFu
03.08.23 | me, having died waiting for Johnny's take on Basho and Silver Apples | JohnnyoftheWell
03.08.23 | lol if it helps I'm still listening to Basho rn, will update v soon
and YAS komp, thank your for this education let's go GETTEM!! | JohnnyoftheWell
03.09.23 | okay update let's go freewheelin
and oops no i know no fahey | Ryus
03.09.23 | fahey is the greatest guitarist of all time and nigh on compulsory if ur diggin basho | ArsMoriendi
03.09.23 | Silver Apples is a hard 5 honestly | Ryus
03.09.23 | 22-31 would be an impeccable run of albums if not for captain queefheart fuckin things up. need to listen to 21 it looks cool | ArsMoriendi
03.09.23 | Beefheart is good
You just gotta get weird with it
Admittedly though that’s prob only my 4th fave album by him tho | protokute
03.10.23 | Silver Apples is a fascinating outing from the 60's, and apart from the more hook oriented songs, after you get over the novelty of it all, it unfortunately starts to drag a bit. But it's pretty cool for what it was at that time | Colton
03.10.23 | listen to Bringing It All Back Home instead of The Times They Are A-Changin | JohnnyoftheWell
03.14.23 | gotta catch up on yesterday, but here's an update on all we've got so far | Ryus
03.14.23 | the out to lunch take has wounded me | DadKungFu
03.14.23 | Bad and dumb take on 11 | AsleepInTheBack
03.14.23 | Fair and likewise take on 11
Glad you dug the Dylan. Full (shame ridden) disclosure: that’s as far as I’ve got with his discog. I Need to check the mid career classics but | widowslaugh123
03.14.23 | Dylan is a legend. Check other dolphy records Johnny lunch might not be your vibe no pun intended | DadKungFu
03.14.23 | Yeah check more Dolphy the man was a genius | AsleepInTheBack
03.14.23 | The way he died fucking sucks big rip | Ryus
03.14.23 | yeah its so fucked
honestly the "jazz for people who don’t like jazz" kinda makes no sense for that album sry park | porcupinetheater
03.14.23 | Yeah all these non-jazz heads calling it mid kinda disproves the theory | Conmaniac
03.15.23 | “ Bad and dumb take on 11”
Thank you!
It’s ok tho Johnny roller coaster def a jam and the electric gourd IS genius!! | Sniff
03.18.23 | Are you okay there bud? | JohnnyoftheWell
03.18.23 | yes sorry updates are incoming!
am not (very) behind on this jams-wise, but it's a lot easier and less clutchy to take a few days to reflect on these and do batch updates | JohnnyoftheWell
03.18.23 | update, it is now Monk time!!! | JohnnyoftheWell
03.18.23 | update update damn today's album is a big highlight | Mort.
03.18.23 | monk it | widowslaugh123
03.18.23 | Glad you liked the meters they a solid ass band | Stakaline
03.18.23 | I get your take on 14. Being familiar with the language makes a big difference. Glad you liked it anyway. Now I'm curious to see your reaction to Scott Walker, he's done a lot of Brel covers in english on his first records and takes a lot of inspiration from him on his originals. It'll probably be up your alley. | Mort.
03.19.23 | its monk time!!!!! | JohnnyoftheWell
03.19.23 | it's monk time. | Mort.
03.21.23 | u fallin behind son | JohnnyoftheWell
03.21.23 | am almost up to date jam-wise, the next WORDS are gonna catch you off-guard and um ultimately fucking destroy you get ready | Purpl3Spartan
03.21.23 | uhhhhh based | JohnnyoftheWell
03.23.23 | it is time for update | DadKungFu
03.23.23 | it's black monk time | Mort.
03.23.23 | JOHNNY WTF IS GOING ON | JohnnyoftheWell
03.23.23 | it's monk time | Pheromone
03.23.23 | i mostly agree with ur monks assessment
isn't it nice that u got it recommended by ur two guys tho ur two guys | JohnnyoftheWell
03.23.23 | it is kink time
my GUYS | Mort.
03.23.23 | 'It is also unspeakably English, less in a sexy erudite wow-he-can-do-words-and-has-self-awareness-how-can-any-other-country-that-isn't-Scotland/Ireland-compare? way, and much more in a turn-that-doodletongued-malarky-off Beatles "Lovely Rita" kind of faintly insufferable twee way.
But I do love the opener.'
the opener is the best track by far so fully acceptable | Sniff
03.23.23 | Very happy with a 3.5 tbh.
I should check 18? | MeatSalad
03.23.23 | Borderline (basically) 70's music but check Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei | z00sh
03.29.23 | is this thing on? | JohnnyoftheWell
03.29.23 | IT'S ON! sorry, was gonna update this today - am caught up to Scott 3 and will be cramming for then on. just got some admin/extra pieces/review obligations to shoot down grr | Ryus
03.29.23 | the band is gettin the 2.5 i can feel it | someone
03.29.23 | hey how come your entries don't have word limits? mine always do. is that a staff thing or some coding thing? | JohnnyoftheWell
03.29.23 | coding thing! little Inspect Element pokery on the comment box should open up magic for you | JohnnyoftheWell
03.30.23 | partial update - am caught up jam-wise, but want to dip into the remaining albums a little more before the scribble | Ryus
03.30.23 | WAAATER WAAATER SEE THE WATER FLOOOOOOOW | MiloRuggles
03.30.23 | Woah I figured you had already heard Trout Mask and hated it. Wonderful summation, but you forgot to mention that it also goes fucking HARD in spots.
Have already scoured this list for some goodies, and shall certainly be doing more. Next month nightcore? | widowslaugh123
03.30.23 | I love beefheart he’s got some great albums but for some reason I’ve never sat down and listened to all of trout mask in one sitting probably cuz it’s too long and something comes up or whatever
Anyways check other beefheart he’s a hoot and has a lot of solid albums (and sone not solid)
| dedex
03.30.23 | glad you liked good ol' Gary!! | someone
03.30.23 | yay for Jacks
seemed up your alley, glad you liked | Mort.
03.31.23 | johnny what do you think of Chest Fever by the Band? is my favourite track from that album | Ryus
03.31.23 | chest fever, i shall be released, the wait, and tears of rage are all S+ tier. probably not the most consistent album but a cherished young ryus classic | DadKungFu
03.31.23 | Doing Isaac Hayes dirty there smh | JohnnyoftheWell
03.31.23 | Isaac Hayes needed a third spin
and maybe he now needs MORE!!
Am on a train but one day, today, I shall get off and then this will be finished! Revisited a few of the remaining albums last night, but for the life of me I don't know how to start on writing about Scott Walker | AsleepInTheBack
03.31.23 | Isaac Hayes is bae | Mort.
03.31.23 | 'chest fever, i shall be released, the wait, and tears of rage are all S+ tier. probably not the most consistent album but a cherished young ryus classic'
interesting, apart from chest fever we have entirely different favourites
i only added to chest fever, tears of rage, to kingdom come and we can talk to my playlists. rest was good just didnt grab me
chest fever is genuinely one of my all time top 100 songs easy tho | JohnnyoftheWell
04.01.23 | okay UPDATED (will rejam Chest Fever imminently, still got Scott on atm) and WRAPPED
enjoyed this month a ton - been a really bizarre journey, but it didn't feel nearly as much of a perfunctory and a lot of these have opened doors to corridors I'm excited to walk down at some point. Basho, Dylan and Walker will all need follow-ups, as will jazz and soul.
been a bit of a pinch lately and I'm going to take at least the first half of next month off out of caution; this month brushed a little too close to turning great records into a frantic chore for my liking, and while i've offset that by stalling on some of these, I think this needs a longer timeout. bless y'all, bless the '60s | Ryus
04.01.23 | 30/31 is quite the double whammy | fogza
04.01.23 | Nice take on the Kinks and all that "the Kinks are better than the Beatles" fantasyland stuff | Mort.
04.01.23 | really scared me with that charles mingus opinion for a while oof | widowslaugh123
04.01.23 | Someone do a 70s list | DadKungFu
04.01.23 | I read only part of 30 and had a multi-paragraph screed all ready to go and then I read Mort's comment | Conmaniac
04.01.23 | 25 is dope nice | MiloRuggles
04.01.23 | Jesus Christ yeah you had me going on Mingus haha | Deez
04.01.23 | Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority | PotsyTater
04.01.23 | Some essentials not omitting obvious ones just in case
Zappa - Hot Rats
Amon Duul II - Phallud Dei
Cromagnon - Orgasm
Moondog - s/t
Axelrod - Songs of Experience
Ahmad Jamal - At the Top: Poinciana Revisited
Taj Mahal - s/t
Silver Apples - s/t
Axelrod - songs of innocence
Os mutantes - s/t
Art Tatum - piano starts here
Gap mangione - Diana in the autumn wind
Barney kessel - autumn leaves
Pandit pran nath - earth groove
Procol Harum - s/t
Love - forever changes
Art - supernatural fairytales
Jefferson airplane - surrealistic pillow
Velvet underground and nico
Coltrane - love supreme
Eric dolphy - out to lunch
Oum kalthoum - enta omri
Mingus - black saint and the sinner lady
Thelonious monk - monks dream
Mary Lou Williams - black christ of the Andes
Charlie rouse - bossa nova bachanal
Django Reinhardt - djangology
Miles Davis - sketches of Spain | GhandhiLion
04.01.23 | That parks comment about out to lunch has to be bait | GhandhiLion
04.01.23 | Check The Village Green Preservation Society (for real) | Mort.
04.01.23 | he did? | Mort.
04.01.23 | check my most recent list | PotsyTater
04.01.23 | ""Overrated/“jazz for people who don’t like jazz”"
"i have no point of reference for jazz critique"-core take away. virtually any jazz enthusiast or musician will tell you out to lunch is regarded as ahead of its time, a masterpiece, and that Dolphy himself was an underrated master-musician/prodigy if anything (a sentiment echoed by some of his highest profile peers including people like Charles Mingus) . being a good gateway to a genre does not diminish an albums merits. and tbh i don't even really agree with the sentiment that its a good gateway album to begin with. | PotsyTater
04.01.23 | big park "it has ratings so its bad" moment | rabidfish
04.01.23 | glad u enjoyed. might wanna check out other stuff from chico, some people think vol. 3 is not his best (they're wrong, but maybe you'd feel otherwise) | Ryus
04.02.23 | what pots said [2] | DadKungFu
04.02.23 | Check Construçao for more Chico Buarque | Havey
04.17.23 | rec me jazz for people who like jazz | JohnnyoftheWell
04.17.23 | gogo penguin and the kilimanjaro darkjazz ensemble | PotsyTater
04.17.23 | Ironically, Kilimanjaro is the epitome of jazz for people who don’t like jazz | Jasdevi087
04.17.23 | as far as I can tell, Johnny's standard-barer for jazz is John Zorn
use that information however you will | Havey
04.17.23 | jon hassell, seatbelts, john zorn, ryo fukui, vince guaraldi, the list goes on....
| JohnnyoftheWell
07.07.23 | many months late but
"Kilimanjaro is the epitome of jazz for people who don’t like jazz"
twas the joke babe | robertsona
07.07.23 | I got excited. very disappointed. didn't see "march". i don't see haters |
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