I bought Monster Movie as a teenager so my love of it is tinged with nostalgia and comforting familiarity. I was also reading Fantastic Four comics at the time, so the Galactus image went down well. Having said that, I’ve never heard Wolf City!
Ah, the overpowering effects of nostalgia. I know them well. I am not sure even hearing Wolf City now will be able to knock Monster Movie from its place of comforting familiarity. However, there is only one way to find out...
I need to pull “on the corner” and give it a go, been a while for me too(since I’ve played it) always enjoy your perspective on music as a whole....cheers and have a great week ahead- 🙏🏻✨😎🎶
Thanks, Lis. There is something about On The Corner which is hard to describe, but definitely unique. I hope your week is full of bike rides, sunshine, and mellow vibes. 😊
Hello Alan....i don't know much on classical music but that doesn't stop me appreciating you showing the good and rare staff...that's what the VC is all about....now after watching so many vids i can say that i know most of the hippy good and rare lps....Pussy plays sounds hillarious....best wishes....
Hi Kit. I like seeing people show stuff I'm not familiar with. It's all part of the learning, and as you say, what the VC is all about. I never understand people who just want to watch the same Beatles and Zeppelin albums shown over and over. P Plays is such a rare and sought-after psych record, but it is fairly average to my ear. I read an interview with the band members from a few years ago, and the lead singer said he couldn't understand why everyone raves about it. He said it was total rubbish. I'm inclined to agree...
As you say is OK....i have a bootleg that sound really OK haha....great talking to you amigo....all the best hope your used to the new place away from the big city.....
I miss London town too Alan....and not only the record shops ha....even thou' i see that it has changed a lot from the good times i was living back in the 90s....anyway life goes on i guess....
Well it is a strange world we are living in… for me a price is just a price.. not the same as quality… My best records is classical records from thrift stores, bought for around 2 pounds each… Great video by the way👍
Thank you so much. Yes, like you, my favourite record finds have been charity shop classical records, especially over the last few years. I get a bit tired of the same old classic rock stuff...
Always interesting and I always get to the end Alan. I remember John 6inchpianist found a copy of Pussy Plays at a boot sale not so long ago. I look out for those original stereo classical records but not found any real quality ones yet unfortunately...
Thanks, Dale. Ah, yes I remember that. I didn't think I would ever come across one myself and said so in a comment on his video- but voila! I am sure the classical records will pop up, but I am noticing even they are becoming harder to find...
There is room for both Can and Wolf City in my world, but Wolf City was to much of an extent an entry point into Krautrock so there is a special love for it.
Our first loves always retain a special place, Richard. Faust IV was one of my first entries into Krautrock, but there is a completeness to Wolf City which for me surpasses other LPs in that admittedly, very wide genre.
Loved your On the Corner thoughts, I have always felt there's something off kilter about it but you really nailed it. Wolf City I need to re-track down a copy of, I used to have a really beat up New Zealand pressing that I sold to an overseas buyer for a crazy amount due to it being an NZ press!
Thanks, James. On The Corner seems to hold you tightly in its grip but at arms length. I think all collectors are a little bit nuts. I have noticed trashed copies of obscure pressings selling for big bucks. Now, if I could find a way to corner the market selling trashed copies of Max Bygraves and Val Doonican.... Alas, as yet, no one is quite that nuts...
Hello Alan It’s not often I see you show records that I have in my collection. I’ve had that Can and Bolan for yonks. Very good albums. I have many four and five star records that others would just say meh. Cheers.
Great to hear from you, Jack. It's nice when we see others owning the same records and sharing an appreciation together. You know, there are quite a few of my own records I would grade as meh...
Wolf city is amazing pink space prog. Ibut Can and As do Faust just do their own thing without comparison to much. The iconic Can covers are still cool and culty
Hi Jeff. They are a lot fewer and further between now I live in the countryside of the frozen north of England... but still nice to come across them from time to time.
I never heard a thing about Pussy Plays until you held up the jacket. Fantastic illustration. Discogs shows the artist as Brian Nichols but none of his other 9 jacket designs look anything like that exaggerated cat on the patterned ground. I note the photo of the bandmates in 1969. These days, they’d be left of the cover. Do you know what I mean? That jacket is way ahead of that time but the photo keeps it vintage. That cat is something Thai or Indian folk art. Love it.
As always you have an astute eye for the art, Michael. The sleeve always makes me think it would make great wallpaper. Removing the band would make it a more pleasing image and it looks like the band pic was hastily pasted on afterwards. The photo would have looked nice on the bottom of the rear sleeve in place of the song titles. But where it is, it's quaint, and like you say, it keeps it vintage and that is no bad thing.
You're not the first person who has said that to me, Nico! I do like all of these records, except P. Plays is a bit average. I do find when I'm listening to records that I naturally play single tracks from albums rather than whole albums. I think a lot of albums are good, but very few are 5 star all the way through. Usually, one track suggests another, and I'll play that and so on. That's one of the reasons I collect singles. It might do me good to sit back and listen to whole albums again. I used to back in the day, but tend to be quite restless nowadays, which has an impact on the way I listen to music generally.
That restraint you talk about in respect of 'On The Corner' is a description I might associate with 'Tristan und Isolde' which, Alan, I'm sure you know well. Regardless, you've inspired me to give my own copy of the Miles a spin (sadly, on CD only). Also, nice to see Beckett's album. Doesn't appear around here, perhaps apart from my own 1974 vid.
I love the Prelude to Tristan. I think Wagner often gets passed over because of his long vocal works, but the instrumental passages throughout are some of the finest in all classical music. I wondered if anyone might comment on the Beckett album. Probably like a lot of people I came to it via Iron Maiden's cover version of Rainbow's Gold way back in the 80s....
@@statictraveller Now there's a thing. A Beckett cover I've never heard of. One to check out. Good to see you surfacing again here. Keep the videos coming. It's always good to see albums beyond the usual suspects.
Your comments inspired me to play one of my "appalling" US Angel pressings, picked out of the thrift bins, of a famous rarity, the original British pressing of which routinely sells for over a thousand dollars / pounds: the Ravel piano concertos with pianist Samson Francois and Andre Cluytens conducting the RTF Orchestra. While some of the US Angels sound like they were made with a bad copy of the master tape and are indeed appalling, this early one, with the original red label (and oddly enough an English-made inner sleeve clearly intended for the international market) sounds quite good, pre-dolby tape hiss aside. Perhaps you could do a video on the many versions of this record.
It sounds like you have a nice playable version. I actually do not own the record, as it is one I am holding out on for an original copy. I don't know why, though, as I am unlikely to find one! The man who could do a video on the different versions is probably Michael at Poetry On Plastic.
I think that would've been Richard who showed Zip Gun Alan, i don't own any later Bolan. This theme of valuable and collectable records seems to be popular in the VC at the moment. As i mentioned in my comment on Dans' video, i don't consciously buy records for investment, because if i started doing that i would end up with a collection full of records i would never particularly like or want to play.( as well as being broke!). I haven't got Monster Movie although i've heard it plenty in the past, it's a decent Can album, not a favourite. I'm picking up Amon Duul records as and when i see them, Wolf City is one i need. Another lesson from this video is that scarcity and value does not necessarily equal musical quality ..there are plenty of examples of rare Psych albums that i've been eager to hear and then underwhelmed once listed to .
I think Dan has always been a buyer and seller of records so he has always had an awareness of investment potential. I have found that since everyone and his dog began using discogs, monetary value seems to take more and more precedence over value of music. Even since I joined the VC, the last few years have seen a definite change. Everyone talks of first pressings, the shame of 'only owning an album on CD', upgrades, etc. I have noticed myself slip into it and have tried to get back to the enjoyment of buying music for music's sake. I like finding rare records in charity shops and in the past liked the idea of having them sat in the collection. Now, I just think that if I am not going to play it, it has to go. The Pussy album is a case in point. Like you say, many so called classic and desirable records are not really all that special. The hyperbole of music and record magazines wears thin after a while. I was just this morning talking to a young lad in his late teens serving at the post office who asked what was in my parcel. When I said CDs, he said how much he loved them and how he hated vinyl because you can never get it to sound good. He said that although CDs weren't as good sonically as FLAC, he enjoyed owning the physical product and really liked the way they look. Perhaps, the future of collecting is bright, after all...
@@statictraveller Interesting, I must admit that I keep hearing rumblings that CDs are on the way back into the premier league of physical media, I for one still buy them and love the convenience when I can't be arsed to put a vinyl record on.
Hello Alan - Wolf City is such an insanely great album that I would indeed choose it over most Can albums…but perhaps not Ege Bamyasi. I was planning to spend today’s listening time with ‘70s Herbie Hancock, but now I have to switch to On the Corner.
Hello Michael. I think Can are held in higher esteem amongst the cognoscenti because of their more unique approach, but there is something incredibly powerful in Amon Düül's music that has always resonated with me. Have fun with On The Corner. I suppose the question is, would you rather listen to that over any 70s album by Herbie? 😉
Got to ask Alan. Did you find Pussy Plays whilst you've been living up north? I've only ever found one solitary rare rock/psych lp in a charity over a 30 year period and that was just last year. You've just shown Linda Hoyle and Pussy within a week 😄. I dread to think what classical records I've left over the years. I actually bought my first last week...Falla The Three Cornered Hat - Philharmonia Orchestra (HMV stereo original). Not worth a fortune judging by Discogs but worth the quid I guess. I'm not that inspired to give it a listen unfortunately...I'm not sophisticated enough to appreciate the genre☺️. Cheers Nige
I got it a couple of weeks ago from an acquaintance of my wife who had a small collection of records she wanted rid of. She asked £150 for 20 lps. The rest was mainly 70s rock stuff. Nothing major. Yes, not all of us have the level of sophistication required to really appreciate classical music, Nige. One has to ask oneself whether one would rather listen to Wolf City over anything by Beethoven. I haven't dared to ask myself that yet for fear it might show up just how unsophisticated I really am...
@@statictraveller Great result there mate. Always fascinated how these odd rarities end up in people's collections where the rest is the usual mainstream bands. Haha, I see you as very sophisticated with an appreciation of music above my very simple tastes. All I need is funky drums and fuzz guitars to make me as happy as a pig in excrement 😁. I must revisit Wolf City to decide if it's better than anything Can ever did.
I don't have any Miles past Bitches Brew. I fell out after that. I was more ECM or spiritual jazz than funk. There's a couple of Can albums here and I played one, Ege Bamyasi, a few days ago. I don't know if I'll ever play it again. I had this weird but why feeling about it. Happy Mothers Day! Play Mothermania.
ECM and spiritual jazz are not bad places to find oneself, Ed. I always felt Can had a sort of hollowness to their sound and they always leave me wanting more. Hmmm, their biggest hit was called 'I Want More'. Mothers Day has been and gone over here- but, every day is a good day to play Mothermania...
On The Corner is probably the only Miles album anyone needs. I will be selling it, but Penge and Derrick want the proceeds to come and visit you. I think £1000 should cover a one-way ticket for them both.
@@statictraveller phew. I still don't get all the older classical ones right but it is about the music too. Thanks for showing us your Pussy BTW. A rare treat.
Alan, I never bought Can's ''Monster Movie'' just because of the cover art. I never liked clowns or robots and as a kid, images of them turned me off. I did make an exception for Amon Duul 2's album, ''Hijack " which has an image of Archie The Robot, on the cover art. That album is highly under-rated, I love the version of Ornette Coleman's ''Lonely Woman'' with new lyrics added to the tune, I also dig, '' Da Guadeloop'' which has a proto- Techno soundscape. You are 100% correct, ''Kind Of Blue'' is the greatest jazz album, because it's not Jazz and, ''On The Corner'' is the greatest jazz album, because it's not Jazz . Everything on ''On The Corner'' is sliced and diced. The instruments' sounds are mindfully edited. They are chopped off with no fading or decay, which leads the listener to surrender and enter a trance- state. Miles understood the benefits of sensory overload. Last week, I met a guy wearing a Miles Davis tee- shirt, we had a great conversation, he left me with a deep question, '' How many times did Miles Davis change the Face of Music ? "
I was never into clowns or robots either. i was strenuosly realistic in my games and pursuits. I liked soldiers and models and history over sci fi and would suffer no anachronisms. Though later, for a time, I did start buying 2000AD... People tend to write off the later Amon Duul albums but like you say, Hijack has some very strong material. Sliced and diced is a good phrase for On The Corner. The album somehow remains cool and aloof and yet completely enveloping and entrancing at the same time. I will not try to answer the tee shirt guys question, though am tempted to say 'Twice'. Once, with Kind of Blue and once with On The Corner ;-)
On The Corner first? It was downhill from there, then. 😉 I know what you mean about psych LPs. They are usually more exciting musically, even in parts, than a lot of other records.
@@statictraveller I actually like the 4 albums that follow On The Corner. I got rid of all my 80’s Miles except one. I don’t remember which one. Which means I might as well get rid of it.
Can are over-rated, become hipsterized (look that up!. Amon Dulllllll are under rated, in that they tend to be ignored, were they rated more often they should be rated just under Can, if memory serves. Not heard their noise since the early 90's. The dwarf needs restraining on the Davis cover, looks like he wants to bite her melons! Zip Gun Boogie influenced Chas and Dave, similar pub rockish lads singalong tune.
Pub rock remains the last untapped genre in the VC. Only Hedley shows any taste for it. I said to Dan at dots and loops that Can are overrated just a couple of days ago. It's not the sort of thing one says loudly among the hipster set, mind you. But they will one day have to unlearn all they thought they knew like the rest of us oldies.
@@statictraveller Being older, wiser and prettier than you I remember when Can were arguably underrated. Then the Krauty fan boys started hyping them up in the late 80's. Most of the Krauty stuff is at best average. Popol Vuh were my favourites, but without the films even their stuff could sound less than enticing. I think Hedley blocked me, another VCer who dislikes the urine being extracted at times. Just as well his 'taste' in music is indicative of a psyche that ate too many deep fried Mars bars at a formative age. Pub Rock, oddly, can work quite well in pubs, especially ones in Islington in my experience.
Always good to see and hear your perspective and thoughts on what your listening to.
I appreciate and enjoy yor presence here brother..much love chris
Thank you, Chris. That is very kind of you. (Though I did notice afterwards, I didn't even talk about the music on the Fournier record)!
I bought Monster Movie as a teenager so my love of it is tinged with nostalgia and comforting familiarity. I was also reading Fantastic Four comics at the time, so the Galactus image went down well.
Having said that, I’ve never heard Wolf City!
Ah, the overpowering effects of nostalgia. I know them well. I am not sure even hearing Wolf City now will be able to knock Monster Movie from its place of comforting familiarity. However, there is only one way to find out...
Great video Alan!........your summation of Zip Gun is SPOT ON..........I would love to find that Karajan PLANETS for a buck in a thrifty!!!
Thank you, David. That's how I found my copy! Still watch all your videos, by the way.
I need to pull “on the corner” and give it a go, been a while for me too(since I’ve played it) always enjoy your perspective on music as a whole....cheers and have a great week ahead- 🙏🏻✨😎🎶
Thanks, Lis. There is something about On The Corner which is hard to describe, but definitely unique. I hope your week is full of bike rides, sunshine, and mellow vibes. 😊
Hello Alan....i don't know much on classical music but that doesn't stop me appreciating you showing the good and rare staff...that's what the VC is all about....now after watching so many vids i can say that i know most of the hippy good and rare lps....Pussy plays sounds hillarious....best wishes....
Hi Kit. I like seeing people show stuff I'm not familiar with. It's all part of the learning, and as you say, what the VC is all about. I never understand people who just want to watch the same Beatles and Zeppelin albums shown over and over. P Plays is such a rare and sought-after psych record, but it is fairly average to my ear. I read an interview with the band members from a few years ago, and the lead singer said he couldn't understand why everyone raves about it. He said it was total rubbish. I'm inclined to agree...
As you say is OK....i have a bootleg that sound really OK haha....great talking to you amigo....all the best hope your used to the new place away from the big city.....
@hippydjkit9913 I have been here 2 years on the 1st June, and I still haven't adjusted. I miss all the charity shops!
I miss London town too Alan....and not only the record shops ha....even thou' i see that it has changed a lot from the good times i was living back in the 90s....anyway life goes on i guess....
Well it is a strange world we are living in… for me a price is just a price.. not the same as quality… My best records is classical records from thrift stores, bought for around 2 pounds each…
Great video by the way👍
Thank you so much. Yes, like you, my favourite record finds have been charity shop classical records, especially over the last few years. I get a bit tired of the same old classic rock stuff...
Good to see you back again, Alan. When you ‘took your hat off’ to us the autoplay on TH-cam started to play a Mazzy video!
He always looks better with his on ;-)
Always interesting and I always get to the end Alan. I remember John 6inchpianist found a copy of Pussy Plays at a boot sale not so long ago. I look out for those original stereo classical records but not found any real quality ones yet unfortunately...
Thanks, Dale. Ah, yes I remember that. I didn't think I would ever come across one myself and said so in a comment on his video- but voila! I am sure the classical records will pop up, but I am noticing even they are becoming harder to find...
There is room for both Can and Wolf City in my world, but Wolf City was to much of an extent an entry point into Krautrock so there is a special love for it.
Our first loves always retain a special place, Richard. Faust IV was one of my first entries into Krautrock, but there is a completeness to Wolf City which for me surpasses other LPs in that admittedly, very wide genre.
Loved your On the Corner thoughts, I have always felt there's something off kilter about it but you really nailed it. Wolf City I need to re-track down a copy of, I used to have a really beat up New Zealand pressing that I sold to an overseas buyer for a crazy amount due to it being an NZ press!
Thanks, James. On The Corner seems to hold you tightly in its grip but at arms length.
I think all collectors are a little bit nuts. I have noticed trashed copies of obscure pressings selling for big bucks. Now, if I could find a way to corner the market selling trashed copies of Max Bygraves and Val Doonican.... Alas, as yet, no one is quite that nuts...
@@statictraveller We could start a racket, I see Val Doonican NZ presses all the time!
Nice
@@jlc7841 Cheers. 👍
Hello Alan It’s not often I see you show records that I have in my collection. I’ve had that Can and Bolan for yonks. Very good albums. I have many four and five star records that others would just say meh. Cheers.
Great to hear from you, Jack. It's nice when we see others owning the same records and sharing an appreciation together.
You know, there are quite a few of my own records I would grade as meh...
That good looking Decca Planets, man! ❤
It's a beauty.
Wolf city is amazing pink space prog. Ibut Can and As do Faust just do their own thing without comparison to much. The iconic Can covers are still cool and culty
Yes, all 3 bands were certainly unique in their own ways and followed very individual paths in their music and their artwork.
Always the crazy finds... Cheers
Hi Jeff. They are a lot fewer and further between now I live in the countryside of the frozen north of England... but still nice to come across them from time to time.
@@statictraveller you and Dan always find the crazy stuff. It's harder these days for sure
I never heard a thing about Pussy Plays until you held up the jacket. Fantastic illustration. Discogs shows the artist as Brian Nichols but none of his other 9 jacket designs look anything like that exaggerated cat on the patterned ground. I note the photo of the bandmates in 1969. These days, they’d be left of the cover. Do you know what I mean? That jacket is way ahead of that time but the photo keeps it vintage. That cat is something Thai or Indian folk art. Love it.
As always you have an astute eye for the art, Michael. The sleeve always makes me think it would make great wallpaper. Removing the band would make it a more pleasing image and it looks like the band pic was hastily pasted on afterwards. The photo would have looked nice on the bottom of the rear sleeve in place of the song titles. But where it is, it's quaint, and like you say, it keeps it vintage and that is no bad thing.
I'm amazed at how many rare records you show from your collection which you don't seem to like that much. 🙂
You're not the first person who has said that to me, Nico! I do like all of these records, except P. Plays is a bit average. I do find when I'm listening to records that I naturally play single tracks from albums rather than whole albums. I think a lot of albums are good, but very few are 5 star all the way through. Usually, one track suggests another, and I'll play that and so on. That's one of the reasons I collect singles. It might do me good to sit back and listen to whole albums again. I used to back in the day, but tend to be quite restless nowadays, which has an impact on the way I listen to music generally.
That restraint you talk about in respect of 'On The Corner' is a description I might associate with 'Tristan und Isolde' which, Alan, I'm sure you know well. Regardless, you've inspired me to give my own copy of the Miles a spin (sadly, on CD only).
Also, nice to see Beckett's album. Doesn't appear around here, perhaps apart from my own 1974 vid.
I love the Prelude to Tristan. I think Wagner often gets passed over because of his long vocal works, but the instrumental passages throughout are some of the finest in all classical music.
I wondered if anyone might comment on the Beckett album. Probably like a lot of people I came to it via Iron Maiden's cover version of Rainbow's Gold way back in the 80s....
@@statictraveller Now there's a thing. A Beckett cover I've never heard of. One to check out.
Good to see you surfacing again here. Keep the videos coming. It's always good to see albums beyond the usual suspects.
Your comments inspired me to play one of my "appalling" US Angel pressings, picked out of the thrift bins, of a famous rarity, the original British pressing of which routinely sells for over a thousand dollars / pounds: the Ravel piano concertos with pianist Samson Francois and Andre Cluytens conducting the RTF Orchestra. While some of the US Angels sound like they were made with a bad copy of the master tape and are indeed appalling, this early one, with the original red label (and oddly enough an English-made inner sleeve clearly intended for the international market) sounds quite good, pre-dolby tape hiss aside. Perhaps you could do a video on the many versions of this record.
It sounds like you have a nice playable version. I actually do not own the record, as it is one I am holding out on for an original copy. I don't know why, though, as I am unlikely to find one! The man who could do a video on the different versions is probably Michael at Poetry On Plastic.
I think that would've been Richard who showed Zip Gun Alan, i don't own any later Bolan.
This theme of valuable and collectable records seems to be popular in the VC at the moment.
As i mentioned in my comment on Dans' video, i don't consciously buy records for investment, because if i started doing that i would end up with a collection full of records i would never particularly like or want to play.( as well as being broke!).
I haven't got Monster Movie although i've heard it plenty in the past, it's a decent Can album, not a favourite.
I'm picking up Amon Duul records as and when i see them, Wolf City is one i need.
Another lesson from this video is that scarcity and value does not necessarily equal musical quality ..there are plenty of examples of rare Psych albums that i've been eager to hear and then underwhelmed once listed to .
I think Dan has always been a buyer and seller of records so he has always had an awareness of investment potential. I have found that since everyone and his dog began using discogs, monetary value seems to take more and more precedence over value of music. Even since I joined the VC, the last few years have seen a definite change. Everyone talks of first pressings, the shame of 'only owning an album on CD', upgrades, etc. I have noticed myself slip into it and have tried to get back to the enjoyment of buying music for music's sake. I like finding rare records in charity shops and in the past liked the idea of having them sat in the collection. Now, I just think that if I am not going to play it, it has to go. The Pussy album is a case in point. Like you say, many so called classic and desirable records are not really all that special. The hyperbole of music and record magazines wears thin after a while.
I was just this morning talking to a young lad in his late teens serving at the post office who asked what was in my parcel. When I said CDs, he said how much he loved them and how he hated vinyl because you can never get it to sound good. He said that although CDs weren't as good sonically as FLAC, he enjoyed owning the physical product and really liked the way they look. Perhaps, the future of collecting is bright, after all...
@@statictraveller Interesting, I must admit that I keep hearing rumblings that CDs are on the way back into the premier league of physical media, I for one still buy them and love the convenience when I can't be arsed to put a vinyl record on.
Hello Alan - Wolf City is such an insanely great album that I would indeed choose it over most Can albums…but perhaps not Ege Bamyasi. I was planning to spend today’s listening time with ‘70s Herbie Hancock, but now I have to switch to On the Corner.
Hello Michael. I think Can are held in higher esteem amongst the cognoscenti because of their more unique approach, but there is something incredibly powerful in Amon Düül's music that has always resonated with me. Have fun with On The Corner. I suppose the question is, would you rather listen to that over any 70s album by Herbie? 😉
Got to ask Alan. Did you find Pussy Plays whilst you've been living up north? I've only ever found one solitary rare rock/psych lp in a charity over a 30 year period and that was just last year. You've just shown Linda Hoyle and Pussy within a week 😄. I dread to think what classical records I've left over the years. I actually bought my first last week...Falla The Three Cornered Hat - Philharmonia Orchestra (HMV stereo original). Not worth a fortune judging by Discogs but worth the quid I guess. I'm not that inspired to give it a listen unfortunately...I'm not sophisticated enough to appreciate the genre☺️. Cheers Nige
I got it a couple of weeks ago from an acquaintance of my wife who had a small collection of records she wanted rid of. She asked £150 for 20 lps. The rest was mainly 70s rock stuff. Nothing major.
Yes, not all of us have the level of sophistication required to really appreciate classical music, Nige. One has to ask oneself whether one would rather listen to Wolf City over anything by Beethoven. I haven't dared to ask myself that yet for fear it might show up just how unsophisticated I really am...
@@statictraveller Great result there mate. Always fascinated how these odd rarities end up in people's collections where the rest is the usual mainstream bands. Haha, I see you as very sophisticated with an appreciation of music above my very simple tastes. All I need is funky drums and fuzz guitars to make me as happy as a pig in excrement 😁. I must revisit Wolf City to decide if it's better than anything Can ever did.
very interesting
I would have said mildly entertaining, but I'll take it! Thank you, Elliott.
I don't have any Miles past Bitches Brew. I fell out after that. I was more ECM or spiritual jazz than funk. There's a couple of Can albums here and I played one, Ege Bamyasi, a few days ago. I don't know if I'll ever play it again. I had this weird but why feeling about it.
Happy Mothers Day! Play Mothermania.
ECM and spiritual jazz are not bad places to find oneself, Ed. I always felt Can had a sort of hollowness to their sound and they always leave me wanting more. Hmmm, their biggest hit was called 'I Want More'.
Mothers Day has been and gone over here- but, every day is a good day to play Mothermania...
on the corner is only miles record i need at this point. sell that psych record and go visit rob in spain, but that's just an opinion.
On The Corner is probably the only Miles album anyone needs. I will be selling it, but Penge and Derrick want the proceeds to come and visit you. I think £1000 should cover a one-way ticket for them both.
@@statictraveller there's a cozy spot between the toilet and the bathroom bin that would be perfect for them
Is the Holst same cover in mono collectable? I saw a copy last Saturday, thought of you and pondered too long and left it behind? Schoolboy error?
You will be relieved to hear that isn't, Martin. It is a cheap record.
@@statictraveller phew. I still don't get all the older classical ones right but it is about the music too. Thanks for showing us your Pussy BTW. A rare treat.
Alan, I never bought Can's ''Monster Movie'' just because of the cover art. I never liked clowns or robots and as a kid, images of them turned me off. I did make an exception for Amon Duul 2's album, ''Hijack " which has an image of Archie The Robot, on the cover art. That album is highly under-rated, I love the version of Ornette Coleman's ''Lonely Woman'' with new lyrics added to the tune, I also dig, '' Da Guadeloop'' which has a proto- Techno soundscape. You are 100% correct, ''Kind Of Blue'' is the greatest jazz album, because it's not Jazz and, ''On The Corner'' is the greatest jazz album, because it's not Jazz . Everything on ''On The Corner'' is sliced and diced. The instruments' sounds are mindfully edited. They are chopped off with no fading or decay, which leads the listener to surrender and enter a trance- state. Miles understood the benefits of sensory overload. Last week, I met a guy wearing a Miles Davis tee- shirt, we had a great conversation, he left me with a deep question, '' How many times did Miles Davis change the Face of Music ? "
I was never into clowns or robots either. i was strenuosly realistic in my games and pursuits. I liked soldiers and models and history over sci fi and would suffer no anachronisms. Though later, for a time, I did start buying 2000AD...
People tend to write off the later Amon Duul albums but like you say, Hijack has some very strong material.
Sliced and diced is a good phrase for On The Corner. The album somehow remains cool and aloof and yet completely enveloping and entrancing at the same time.
I will not try to answer the tee shirt guys question, though am tempted to say 'Twice'. Once, with Kind of Blue and once with On The Corner ;-)
On The Corner is the first Miles that I bought when it came out. I would rather have a 3 star Psych record than a 5 star classic rock or jazz record.
On The Corner first? It was downhill from there, then. 😉 I know what you mean about psych LPs. They are usually more exciting musically, even in parts, than a lot of other records.
@@statictraveller I actually like the 4 albums that follow On The Corner. I got rid of all my 80’s Miles except one. I don’t remember which one. Which means I might as well get rid of it.
I just read that Roger Corman has died. Time for a Roger-fest!
An amazingly full and long life he had.
Can are over-rated, become hipsterized (look that up!. Amon Dulllllll are under rated, in that they tend to be ignored, were they rated more often they should be rated just under Can, if memory serves. Not heard their noise since the early 90's. The dwarf needs restraining on the Davis cover, looks like he wants to bite her melons! Zip Gun Boogie influenced Chas and Dave, similar pub rockish lads singalong tune.
Pub rock remains the last untapped genre in the VC. Only Hedley shows any taste for it.
I said to Dan at dots and loops that Can are overrated just a couple of days ago. It's not the sort of thing one says loudly among the hipster set, mind you. But they will one day have to unlearn all they thought they knew like the rest of us oldies.
@@statictraveller Being older, wiser and prettier than you I remember when Can were arguably underrated. Then the Krauty fan boys started hyping them up in the late 80's. Most of the Krauty stuff is at best average. Popol Vuh were my favourites, but without the films even their stuff could sound less than enticing. I think Hedley blocked me, another VCer who dislikes the urine being extracted at times. Just as well his 'taste' in music is indicative of a psyche that ate too many deep fried Mars bars at a formative age. Pub Rock, oddly, can work quite well in pubs, especially ones in Islington in my experience.