I think he may have played it a few times. You would enjoy the collection, i think. Avant-garde for sure but very listenable and variations in mood and style to keep things interesting. The nice box-set is a plus too. You can tell it was a labor of love. I'm sure they lost money but just wanted to do it anyway. Cheers! Shawn
@@the-vinyl-dreamscape5084 I often miss first part of his LS so perhaps that’s why I don’t remember it. Boxset looks very neat and well put together. I’ll definitely keep an eye for it. Thanks again Shawn for great recommendations.
Shawn, the 1990's was the real flowering of the compilation album concept. After the '' Nuggets'' comp. of 1960's garage rock, the compilation album seemed to disappear, or to be poorly curated. Loren Connors' cd, '' As Roses Bow'', collected airs from 1992- 2002 is one of my favorite solo guitar collections, when I listen to it, it reminds me of the writings of James Joyce.
That’s an interesting observation about compilations after Nuggets. I’d never really considered that matter. But you’re correct. Nobody was able to capture and identify a period in music like Nuggets or the Anthology of American Folk Music. Certainly the Harmony set was able to identify and change the perception of music. Thank you for watching and commenting. Cheers. Shawn.
Hey Shawn. I bought Bad Moon Rising when it came out and it didn't do anything for me, unlike Daydream Nation, Evol, Sister, etc. I listened to it recently and now I love it! so I think there’s something to the idea that our ear palates can change with age, more open maybe? That contradicts the idea that tastes get more narrow with age. Flying Saucer Attack definitely fit with the noisy guitar drone you’re talking about, so glad you mentioned them/him. I need to check out that Harmony of the Spheres box. Thank you!
Hi Russell. I’ve had very similar experiences with certain albums. Hüsker Dü is the band that comes to mind. Their album Everything Falls Apart just didn’t click with me. It took several years before I could really get into it. Or the band Laibach took me a while before I realized how amazing they really. As far as our ears maturing; I think that’s true for some people but not for others. You take music seriously and are open to new ideas so the evolution is natural. I know you’ll dig the Harmony/Spheres, sure it’s experimental music but it’s highly likable too. Thanks for watching. Cheers! Shawn
I am a fan of drone that I find in Shoegaze. I like if there is a melody that is going along with it. There is some classical that deals with drone and of course what Cale did in VU I am a huge fan of.
I was pretty much coming from that same point-of-view. What happened to me was the more I heard, the less of the melodic aspect I needed to enjoy the piece. Eventually, the melody started to get in the way of the purity of sound. If that makes any sense. “Sound” became less about a song (verse and chorus) and more about the texture and tone and color of the sound. Minimalism is all about this reduction of all the elements that prevent us from feeling that core. Once you begin listening in this way two things happen to me; a new world of music, sound and noise opened to me. But also…it was more difficult to listen to the sugary music that relied on the usual structures of music. Music I once found interesting and complex and enjoyable was less appealing. Not sure all that makes any sense. But you have an adventurous ear for music. So be careful you’ll end up listening to music that will make your friends wonder what happened to you. Lol. Hope you are well, Steve. Cheers!
This is an important box, very crucial for its time with some very key bands of the era. Been really into Jessamine lately. Hoping to come across it as you have at a shop. Great stuff Shawn, love these bands.
I think “important” is the right word this box set. It really came along at just the right time for me. I had come to associate the exploration of music and sound with electronic music. But there is a music larger spectrum of sounds to be heard than just electronic music. But I had started to look at guitar-based music with a certain amount of….suspicion. Or even dismissing it entirely. Harmony of the Spheres takes guitar based avant-garde music seriously. The label creating a unique/beautiful package as a platform those explorations.
@@the-vinyl-dreamscape5084 Totally feel you on the suspicion of guitar bands. When it comes to playing the instrument, I am kind of anti-technique in a way. I don't like showiness. Probably why I like bands like this on this boxset. Guitar was used as a textural instrument and that's what I love more than anything.
@@seekingathread I completely agree with you Dom, I'm from the same school on the guitar, and these groups were super important. I think I've basically spent a lot of my life playing guitar to try and make it sound like anything but a guitar! When I made music more my friends and I thought of ourselves as multi-non-instrumentalists! No instrument was off limits, as long as we could get some fascinating sound out of it
@@nevermodern Yes, that's what it's all about to me. Seeing where you can go with it and what sounds are possible, not just re-treading the same ole guitar solos. Not to say I don't sometimes go into those territories as well but mostly I like the textural possibilities of the thing.
@@seekingathread Of course, I think I had an intense dislike of so called 'fret w@nking' since I was 16 but I loved the dexterity of Fugazi, math rock et al. When it's adding texture/feeling, I'm all there, just never for showmanship 😆 Thanks for the John Lurie Orchestra tip a month back, you said you'd been spinning it, I've been listening to it on BC so much since! It's like Phil Cohran and some of the gentle, mediative P Sanders, it's just wonderful. I wish there were copies available in the UK! But prices for that one are just going up, I'm going to keep my eyes peeled on that 🎯👀
Sonic Youth is a band I’ve usually liked or even really enjoyed when I hear them but have yet to be compelled to go get any of their albums. Not familiar with this comp, but I mentioned in my stuntys tag video that I was going to go deeper on Roy Montgomery this year, so might look out for it. However, I got his newest album a few weeks back and I can’t really get through it. Not a fan of the vocals.
Hey Thijs - I think you would really enjoy exploring some of the earlier albums; they are filled with alternative tuning by Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo - they came from the New York No Wave and Noise Rock scenes of the late 70s and early 80s. The made noise and sound exploration a tradition on those Sonic Youth records. People always recommend the more rock orientated album but I think Confusion is Sex, Bad Moon Rising, EVOL and Sister are the albums you would enjoy. Full of lo-fi, screechy noise that flirts with dismantling the rock form from start to finish. The Later records are great too; they embrace rock sound but always subverting the traditional sound with avant-garde technic; Daydream Nation is the best of the bunch imo but all their records are worth a spin. Only becoming familiar with Montgomery through the Harmony of the Spheres album, I can only say that the included track is amazing. No vocal. Btw - everything on these three album is exclusive.
Don’t remember seeing that on SC LS but I’ll certainly look for it now. Thanks Shawn, great showing and fk Starbucks. 😉
I think he may have played it a few times. You would enjoy the collection, i think. Avant-garde for sure but very listenable and variations in mood and style to keep things interesting. The nice box-set is a plus too. You can tell it was a labor of love. I'm sure they lost money but just wanted to do it anyway. Cheers! Shawn
@@the-vinyl-dreamscape5084 I often miss first part of his LS so perhaps that’s why I don’t remember it. Boxset looks very neat and well put together. I’ll definitely keep an eye for it. Thanks again Shawn for great recommendations.
Yahoo. The-vinyl-dreamscape! yo- incredible drone~ =))
A drone isn’t always a drone! Lol. Thanks for the comment. Cheers.
BJM and Shoegaze Forever!❤🔥🌎
Lol. You saw that shirt? Amazing band, of course. Saw them live twice over the last couple of years. So good. Cheers!
Shawn, the 1990's was the real flowering of the compilation album concept. After the '' Nuggets'' comp. of 1960's garage rock, the compilation album seemed to disappear, or to be poorly curated. Loren Connors' cd, '' As Roses Bow'', collected airs from 1992- 2002 is one of my favorite solo guitar collections, when I listen to it, it reminds me of the writings of James Joyce.
That’s an interesting observation about compilations after Nuggets. I’d never really considered that matter. But you’re correct. Nobody was able to capture and identify a period in music like Nuggets or the Anthology of American Folk Music. Certainly the Harmony set was able to identify and change the perception of music. Thank you for watching and commenting. Cheers. Shawn.
Great vidéo as usual mon ami
Thank you kindly. Appreciate you watching. Have a great week. Cheers!
Hey Shawn. I bought Bad Moon Rising when it came out and it didn't do anything for me, unlike Daydream Nation, Evol, Sister, etc. I listened to it recently and now I love it! so I think there’s something to the idea that our ear palates can change with age, more open maybe? That contradicts the idea that tastes get more narrow with age. Flying Saucer Attack definitely fit with the noisy guitar drone you’re talking about, so glad you mentioned them/him. I need to check out that Harmony of the Spheres box. Thank you!
Hi Russell. I’ve had very similar experiences with certain albums. Hüsker Dü is the band that comes to mind. Their album Everything Falls Apart just didn’t click with me. It took several years before I could really get into it. Or the band Laibach took me a while before I realized how amazing they really. As far as our ears maturing; I think that’s true for some people but not for others. You take music seriously and are open to new ideas so the evolution is natural. I know you’ll dig the Harmony/Spheres, sure it’s experimental music but it’s highly likable too. Thanks for watching. Cheers! Shawn
I am a fan of drone that I find in Shoegaze. I like if there is a melody that is going along with it. There is some classical that deals with drone and of course what Cale did in VU I am a huge fan of.
I was pretty much coming from that same point-of-view. What happened to me was the more I heard, the less of the melodic aspect I needed to enjoy the piece. Eventually, the melody started to get in the way of the purity of sound. If that makes any sense. “Sound” became less about a song (verse and chorus) and more about the texture and tone and color of the sound. Minimalism is all about this reduction of all the elements that prevent us from feeling that core. Once you begin listening in this way two things happen to me; a new world of music, sound and noise opened to me. But also…it was more difficult to listen to the sugary music that relied on the usual structures of music. Music I once found interesting and complex and enjoyable was less appealing. Not sure all that makes any sense. But you have an adventurous ear for music. So be careful you’ll end up listening to music that will make your friends wonder what happened to you. Lol. Hope you are well, Steve. Cheers!
This is an important box, very crucial for its time with some very key bands of the era. Been really into Jessamine lately. Hoping to come across it as you have at a shop. Great stuff Shawn, love these bands.
I think “important” is the right word this box set. It really came along at just the right time for me. I had come to associate the exploration of music and sound with electronic music. But there is a music larger spectrum of sounds to be heard than just electronic music. But I had started to look at guitar-based music with a certain amount of….suspicion. Or even dismissing it entirely. Harmony of the Spheres takes guitar based avant-garde music seriously. The label creating a unique/beautiful package as a platform those explorations.
@@the-vinyl-dreamscape5084 Totally feel you on the suspicion of guitar bands. When it comes to playing the instrument, I am kind of anti-technique in a way. I don't like showiness. Probably why I like bands like this on this boxset. Guitar was used as a textural instrument and that's what I love more than anything.
@@seekingathread I completely agree with you Dom, I'm from the same school on the guitar, and these groups were super important. I think I've basically spent a lot of my life playing guitar to try and make it sound like anything but a guitar! When I made music more my friends and I thought of ourselves as multi-non-instrumentalists! No instrument was off limits, as long as we could get some fascinating sound out of it
@@nevermodern Yes, that's what it's all about to me. Seeing where you can go with it and what sounds are possible, not just re-treading the same ole guitar solos. Not to say I don't sometimes go into those territories as well but mostly I like the textural possibilities of the thing.
@@seekingathread Of course, I think I had an intense dislike of so called 'fret w@nking' since I was 16 but I loved the dexterity of Fugazi, math rock et al. When it's adding texture/feeling, I'm all there, just never for showmanship 😆 Thanks for the John Lurie Orchestra tip a month back, you said you'd been spinning it, I've been listening to it on BC so much since! It's like Phil Cohran and some of the gentle, mediative P Sanders, it's just wonderful. I wish there were copies available in the UK! But prices for that one are just going up, I'm going to keep my eyes peeled on that 🎯👀
Sonic Youth is a band I’ve usually liked or even really enjoyed when I hear them but have yet to be compelled to go get any of their albums. Not familiar with this comp, but I mentioned in my stuntys tag video that I was going to go deeper on Roy Montgomery this year, so might look out for it. However, I got his newest album a few weeks back and I can’t really get through it. Not a fan of the vocals.
Hey Thijs - I think you would really enjoy exploring some of the earlier albums; they are filled with alternative tuning by Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo - they came from the New York No Wave and Noise Rock scenes of the late 70s and early 80s. The made noise and sound exploration a tradition on those Sonic Youth records. People always recommend the more rock orientated album but I think Confusion is Sex, Bad Moon Rising, EVOL and Sister are the albums you would enjoy. Full of lo-fi, screechy noise that flirts with dismantling the rock form from start to finish. The Later records are great too; they embrace rock sound but always subverting the traditional sound with avant-garde technic; Daydream Nation is the best of the bunch imo but all their records are worth a spin. Only becoming familiar with Montgomery through the Harmony of the Spheres album, I can only say that the included track is amazing. No vocal. Btw - everything on these three album is exclusive.