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| REC ROULETTE PART 4 - Butcher Bucolic Bliss
bgill, Fripp, Unique.. | | 1 |  | Tom Waits
Franks Wild Years
PERFECTION CONFECTION// Rec me a perfect album with folk/cabaret/baroque/country/bluegrass and all such backwoods and theatre qualities running through it.. I want something soulful and shattering and/or cheekily wise.. | | 2 |  | Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Foggy Mountain Jamboree
bgill
I do love those bluegrass fiddles.. and that banjo is pretty fucking wild too..there's fantastic showmanship and easy displays of skill running through the entirety of Foggy Mountain Jamboree.. and the minimal singing also bumped it up a grade, since I was never a fan of that nasally affectation a lot of bluegrass singing carries.. however, it does hit the same snag a lot of this sort of genre folk music does, in that it doesn't take long for some songs to start bleeding into one another.. bluegrass is very prone to this sort of sameness, as well as Celtic folk music, slide country, Appalachian folk etc. So while I don't think I'll ever listen to this record as whole again, I did have a ton of fun plucking (he-he) the best of the bunch and dispersing them across playlists.. something I'll spin a dame to at some point for sure.. 3.5/5 | | 3 |  | King Dude
Sex
Unique
I mean, this is fucking lovely, but it's gothic post-punk with vague folk undertones.. Unique is right in the sense that this guy does audibly worship Nick Cave, Lanegan, some Cohen etc. Sex doesn't quite have the elegance or deft nuance that the artists it imitates do, but the end result is comely enough in its own right.. I really really liked this record, and a lot of these songs have also gravitated into their respective playlists in my library.. unfortunately, none of them except the closer Shine Your Light are actually what I was asking for.. if this was rec'ed in a post-punk category, it would be a serious contender for a winner, regardless of what else was in the running. as it is, it gets a 3.5/5 for being fucking rad.. 3.5/5 | | 4 |  | John Cale
Paris 1919
Fripp
I have a conflicted relationship with John Cale.. After first discovering and falling in love with the Velvet Underground, I started sifting through the work of its moving parts, and it was immediately clear that Cale was as much a driving force of VU's modus as Lou Reed was.. His experiments in drone and avant-garde have rarely agreed with me, especially the latter category, which always felt only a bit forced.. I've listened to a fair amount of his solo work, including this one, though I have no memory of it left in my head at all, which is why I took it on as a rec.. And this thing is fucking amazing.. it feeds into everything I adore about Brian Eno's first albums, early post-punk and new wave married into perfect, sophisticated formations.. Elements of folk, baroque and cabaret slice this album up at every other turn, so it also fits the criteria I asked for beautifully.. Easy WINNER here, and another Fripp rec that takes the cake.. 4.5/5 | |
butcherboy
08.14.17 | gimme.. | Papa Universe
08.14.17 | So basically, you just want Tom Waits again... | butcherboy
08.14.17 | do some research, plenty of this stuff floating around.. it doesn't have to encompass ALL of those aspects, just one or two.. also you must know I've listened to even Waits' most obscure b-sides by now.. | Papa Universe
08.14.17 | I mean, The Divine Comedy and Get Well Soon is theatrical and baroque, but nowhere near Country or Bluegrass (both of which are genres I lean more towards detesting), Scott Joplin could be described as cabaret, but again no Country or Bluegrass...if I'm being honset, I'm kind of lost, but gimme a moment | butcherboy
08.14.17 | like I said, you can go for all out baroque.. or all out bluegrass.. or a delightful combination of all mentioned genres.. as long as it's a perfect album.. haha | Papa Universe
08.14.17 | Will this work?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bluegrass-baroque/id252468942 | butcherboy
08.14.17 | yep, putting you down for this, too late to change it.. | Papa Universe
08.14.17 | Wait what? | Papa Universe
08.14.17 | Let me at least go with Get Well Soon's Sacrlet Beast o'Seven Heads... | butcherboy
08.14.17 | hahahaha, whatever you'd like, my love.. | Papa Universe
08.14.17 | Oh good...
*breathes out heavily with relief* | Divaman
08.14.17 | For "cheeky wise" and "theatrical/burlesque"
Threepenny Opera 1976 Revival Cast - Kurt Weill
For backwoods:
Lord Huron - Strange Trails
| bgillesp
08.14.17 | Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs- Foggy Mountain Jamboree | Papa Universe
08.14.17 | Wait now, I'll change my rec again to the Nick Cave/Johnny Cash/Mark Lanegan worshipping King Dude - Sex. | butcherboy
08.14.17 | noted for both, i'll update tomorrow.. Diva, sorry pal, you weren't around for the previous rounds, though I will check those recs! | Divaman
08.15.17 | That's OK, not competing, just rec'ing. | butcherboy
08.15.17 | starting these jams tonight.. | Frippertronics
08.18.17 | John Cale - Paris 1919 | butcherboy
08.18.17 | write-ups and results will be done by tomorrow.. | bgillesp
08.22.17 | Is it tomorrow yet? | Papa Universe
08.22.17 | I think we live in different time zones...and dimensions. | butcherboy
08.22.17 | Sorry, been a couple of busy days.. tonight, promise.. Is everyone else waiting on me? | Papa Universe
08.22.17 | You and Fripp | bgillesp
08.22.17 | It's all good. Fripp isn't done with his 3 songs yet eother | butcherboy
08.22.17 | done!! | bgillesp
08.22.17 | Cool. Earl Scruggs is from my hometown so figured I had to give him a shout here | Papa Universe
08.22.17 | King Dude's Our Love Will Carry On might be the best thing in history of everything ever. | butcherboy
08.22.17 | i really enjoyed that whole album.. pretty damn fantastic.. |
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