Fuck it, I know I bang on about this lot all the time, and have posted this probably more than once before. But this is one of the few things I can recall hearing and thinking that it appears to be absolute genius coming from out of nowhere, completely different to what anyone else did before or since.
exciting music in your lifetime
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Darkness_Fish
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Re: exciting music in your lifetime
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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echolalia
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Re: exciting music in your lifetime
Darkness_Fish wrote:Fuck it, I know I bang on about this lot all the time, and have posted this probably more than once before. But this is one of the few things I can recall hearing and thinking that it appears to be absolute genius coming from out of nowhere, completely different to what anyone else did before or since.
Post more of them. I love that album!
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Bent Fabric
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Re: exciting music in your lifetime
The Ivy League Spiritual Gonad Orchestra wrote:
For me - in real time - it was the Glider EP, quickly followed by the Tremolo EP.
So much of what electrified me in real time now seems like "Would this even translate to ANYONE 25+ years down the line?"
To wit:
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Bent Fabric
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Re: exciting music in your lifetime
Bent Fabric wrote:
So much of what electrified me in real time now seems like "Would this even translate to ANYONE 25+ years down the line?"
It's like trying to describe obsolete technology:
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Mike Boom
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Re: exciting music in your lifetime
Ziggy Stardust
Jean Genie
Rebel Rebel
Fame
Sound and Vision
Heroes
Golden Years
Metal Guru
Its Only Rock n Roll
Virginia Plain
Street Life
Out of the Blue
Love is the Drug
Thick as a Brick
Passion Play
Close To The Edge
In France They Kiss On Mainstreet
Hello Its Me
Superstition
Living for the City
Benny and the Jets
Black Dog
The Song Remains The Same
Kashmir
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Money
Have A Cigar
Dogs
Get Up Stand Up
Mind Games
#9 Dream
Band on the Run
Dark Horse
Tangled Up In Blue
Hurricane
Tonights the Night
Cortez The Killer
My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Satellite of Love
Born To Run
Rhiannon
Gloria
Charlies Girl
Marquee Moon
Blitzkrieg Bop
God Save The Queen
Southern Girls
Get A Grip On Yourself
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Hong Kong Garden
Christine
London Calling
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Blue Monday
Love Goes To Building On Fire
The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
Watching The Detectives
Boys Don’t Cry
A Forest
Outdoor Miner
Waterfront
Denis
Hanging on the Telephone
Gangsters
Radio Free Europe
This Charming Man
Pearly Dew Drops Drop
When Doves Cry
Pop Life
Kiss
Sign of the Times
Wrote For Luck
Made Of Stone
The Only One I Know
Come Together
Soft As Snow But Warm Inside
Vapour Trail
Star Sign
Jean Genie
Rebel Rebel
Fame
Sound and Vision
Heroes
Golden Years
Metal Guru
Its Only Rock n Roll
Virginia Plain
Street Life
Out of the Blue
Love is the Drug
Thick as a Brick
Passion Play
Close To The Edge
In France They Kiss On Mainstreet
Hello Its Me
Superstition
Living for the City
Benny and the Jets
Black Dog
The Song Remains The Same
Kashmir
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Money
Have A Cigar
Dogs
Get Up Stand Up
Mind Games
#9 Dream
Band on the Run
Dark Horse
Tangled Up In Blue
Hurricane
Tonights the Night
Cortez The Killer
My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Satellite of Love
Born To Run
Rhiannon
Gloria
Charlies Girl
Marquee Moon
Blitzkrieg Bop
God Save The Queen
Southern Girls
Get A Grip On Yourself
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Hong Kong Garden
Christine
London Calling
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Blue Monday
Love Goes To Building On Fire
The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
Watching The Detectives
Boys Don’t Cry
A Forest
Outdoor Miner
Waterfront
Denis
Hanging on the Telephone
Gangsters
Radio Free Europe
This Charming Man
Pearly Dew Drops Drop
When Doves Cry
Pop Life
Kiss
Sign of the Times
Wrote For Luck
Made Of Stone
The Only One I Know
Come Together
Soft As Snow But Warm Inside
Vapour Trail
Star Sign