What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.

[Rabshakeh]

Gong – Flying Teapot

[soulpope]

Con Funk Shun „Secrets“ (Mercury)                                                                              1977 …. 

[mjazzg]

Galliano - Halfway Somewhere

They're back! It's 1991 all over again 😄

[soulpope]

12 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Galliano - Halfway Somewhere

They're back! It's 1991 all over again 😄

Acid Jazz revisited 🧐🤔 .... ?

[BFrank]

On 8/29/2024 at 5:45 AM, mjazzg said:

Now listening to this. It's aged very well. Such a "clever" album with all its influences and parts working towards such a satisfying whole. It sounded both of and out of its time on release and to some extent still does 

Thanks for encouraging me to reinvestigate after 20+ years 

Sylvian has such a unique voice, too. I don't love everything he does, but you always know it's him.

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, BFrank said:

Sylvian has such a unique voice, too. I don't love everything he does, but you always know it's him.

Me too. There's a handful of his albums I really like, the rest less so by quite a bit. I really respect how he's ploughed his own furrow so determinedly 

[soulpope]

L.T.D. "Something To Love" (A & M Records) 1976 .... 

[soulpope]

Being young in the 70`s granted a wealth of superb music .... took it for granted back then and only later I realised the ingenious of Earth, Wind & Fire ....

[mjazzg]

56 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Being young in the 70`s granted a wealth of superb music .... took it for granted back then and only later I realised the ingenious of Earth, Wind & Fire ....

That's a special album for me. I listened to it a lot in the summer of 1977 along with Grover Washington and War. It was the very start of a journey away from Metal through Jazz-Funk, Britfunk to this comment today.

EWF, essential

[mjzee]

[BFrank]

23 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Me too. There's a handful of his albums I really like, the rest less so by quite a bit. I really respect how he's ploughed his own furrow so determinedly 

This one is pretty excellent

[Rabshakeh]

Popul Vuh - Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte

[soulpope]

Booker T. & The M.G.'s "McLemore Avenue" (Stax Records) 1970 .... quite a risk to tackle an instrumental only Beatles cover album .... but it paid off ....

[soulpope]

Tremendous compi ..... and at the same time  proving the sad truth how little Atlantic managed to get out of this roster .... btw great transfer via Rhino Records ....

[GA Russell]

[soulpope]

Interesting period covering the gradual transition from Soul to Funk ....

[Aggie87]

Happy the Man - Crafty Hands

[Rabshakeh]

Magma - 2: 1001° Centigrades

I am by no means a fan of classic era Magma, which seems to me to represent the worst of every known kind of music. But I do occasionally stream their first two records, which, along with Canterbury bands like Soft Machine, are among the more successful attempts to merge jazz and European style progressive rock. 

[Rabshakeh]

3 minutes ago, rostasi said:

If not the first two albums, then which albums do you consider their classic era?

My understanding is that its most "beloved" record is their third, Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh, when Vander's excessive "Zeuhl" sound really gets going, and then the records that follow through to the end of the 1970s.

That seems to be the period that Magma fans like the most. 

I had thought that the first two records were regarded as the albums when Magma was finding its feet and hadn't yet developed its signature sound, which may also be why I like them.

I should add that all of this is just going by the internet. I have never met a real life Magma fan.

I've been streaming a lot of prog rock this past fortnight, listening to records that seemed legendarily inaccessible to me as a teenager, but which are now easily available.

Mostly I am being reminded that I don't like progressive rock very much at all, but there have been lots of cool finds at the same time, and particularly at the jazzier end of things.

[mjazzg]

Prog Rock's greatest achievement was surely Punk Rock...

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

Prog Rock's greatest achievement was surely Punk Rock...

May well be. 

My six year old is currently requesting the Sex Pistols and the Clash a lot, whilst we are driving. Can't say I like that music much either. To be honest I might prefer it if he were to request Van der Graaf Generator.

[soulpope]

4 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

My six year old is currently requesting the Sex Pistols and the Clash a lot, whilst we are driving. Can't say I like that music much either. To be honest I might prefer it if he were to request Van der Graaf Generator.

😂😂😂 ....

[Rabshakeh]

Caravan – If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Having just finished:

Kraan – Live

 

[soulpope]

V.A "The Birmingham Sound - The Soul Of Neal Hemphill" (Rabbit Factory) 2006 .... indispensable Southern Soul from the 70`s ....

[BFrank]

Better than I expected