Burned CDs, Vol. 1.

[braudimusprime]

So a while back I decided to start burning CDs of classic, seminal, or otherwise interesting albums that I would never be able to afford purchasing. There's no single rule for what I would burn or what I wouldn't, except no "rock" allowed. so this is what I ended up with

Comments

[leftyjlad]

sean. what is the Tropicalia movement??

[braudimusprime]

Hi Jen,

Tropicalia was a mid-to-late 60's movement in Brazillian music which incorporated socially/politically aware lyrics with an American/British pop sensibility--particularly the later Beatles and other "psychedelic" music of the time. Think of like Sgt. Pepper's with Brazillian lyrics and a slight samba feel.

[eyeofra94]

Whoa...two posts from Sean in one day...this wouldn't be so weird if I weren't totally wacked out from studying for the last 6 hours...

[braudimusprime]

Yeah, I don't really get it either.

[cantstopconnor]

This is the first time i've seen Commander Cobra in a while.

[braudimusprime]

He shows up when I'm being pretentious about music.

[daminutu]

He's around a lot.

[the_zoo]

greg is funny!

[wileypeter]

Check out the album Money Jungle by Duke Ellington. It's a trio album, with Duke on piano, Charlie Mingus on bass and Max Roach on drums.

And if you're putting Forever Changes on there you may want to check out Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies. By the time you get to "Time Of The Season" you will have forgotten they were the band that did it. Wonderful baroque chamber-pop album.

If you can stomach the odder end of prog (e.g. Henry Cow, The Art Bears, etc.) you might want to check out either Sleepytime Gorilla Museum or Idiot Flesh. Odd time signatures, weird structures, homemade instruments, shifts from beautiful, tinkly music to cookie monster vocals. IF broke up in the late '90s, leading to SGM. An ancillary band was Charming Hostess, who used IF to back up a trio of women singing in Bulgarian, Yiddish, English and Ladino.

...and maybe Halber Mensch by Einsturzende Neubauten...

[braudimusprime]

Ha! I downloaded Halber Mensch like yesterday. I surprised myself by finding it pretty good. I've thought about the Zombies too, so I'll definitely do that (although I guess both kind of break the no rock rule), and the Ellington album sounds sweet.

I've never heard of any of that other stuff, but based on the above I'll look into it. Thanks man.

[caithness]

few people can post an lj like this and not make me hate them for being a pretentious bastard. for that, i applaud you.

alright, its time for me to come home and hang out with my boys!

[braudimusprime]

Yeah. Where the hell have you been anyway?