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Evening, Justin. Dave here, at the Dimming Of The Day. I have you to blame, Justin! Since you started playing tracks, I have become hooked on this album, and have since bought it. I am now addicted to their crazy, perverse world, that all now seems to make sense. I think I am spellbound and hell-bound! Btw, Andy Edwards on a rival channel includes Sing To God as one of his Top Ten Double Albums of all time.
I love your honest reviews of Cardiacs. I am a great fan of theirs. There are elements of collage in their work (think 'Eat it Up Worms Hero') with distinct musical sections coming up against each other with little in the way of conventional transition. For me this is not a problem and I enjoy the movement from the lush psychedelic opening to the treated vocals (the lyrics are meant to be funny ha-ha and peculiar) and the whole thing works for me as its own created world. I can see why it may not appeal to some, but it is worth spending time to appreciate Cardiacs' aesthetic. It took me many listens to really appreciate them, but having spent that time the rewards are more than worth it. Laudations for plugging on with the album.
Woah didn't think you'd revisit these guys but I'm very happy you are! You probably should have started with their earlier stuff, it's more accessible IMO
Although I do predict you will enjoy the next track, Bellyeye
This album may be their most unaccessible album by far but it also can be one of the most rewarding if you give it the time. Heavy first experience, though, haha! If you HAVE to listen to one song here it would be Dirty Boy which is a transcendental masterpiece.
Fairy Mary mag is like a "filler" track for me. Except that the part at the end is revisited later in the album. Cardiacs made something that I think was imposible: dethrone van der graaf generator, Jethro tull and Frank Zappa from the first three spots of my favourite bands/artists. Sing to god is probably my most listened album.
What you said about "organic transitions" is so true I read somewhere that cardiacs "throw" you the sounds without any sort of warning. I agree with that claim and in my case I love that.
Thanks Justin for your reaction, don't give up on cardiacs yet I'm sure you will find gold
Their transitions are like twists and turns in a surreal, convoluted movie plot. You're confused the first time but every subsequent time you enjoy it more and more and they start to make sense in their own unique idiom
'Awkward' is probably descriptive of Cardiacs' entire output. But that's a good thing!
Thank you for continuing to chip away at this album. Though, as others have said, as good and interesting as many individual tracks are on it, it's one of those "greater than the sum of its parts" affairs, so scrutinising it song by song perhaps lessens the impact as you're not being swept into its bizarre orbit in quite the same way. But regardless of approach, please do persist. Cardiacs are a tough nut to crack, but you've managed it with Gentle Giant, Zappa, etc. so I've no doubt they'll click for you one of these days.
This is a song that I think functions well on the album as a bit of a breather between louder and more frenetic tracks. Regarded on its own, its parts don't hang together super well, but amid the larger 90 minutes of insanity, the disjointedness becomes part of the vibe.
I do like this band but find some of their stuff a bit hard to listen to, and that's from a dedicated Van der Graaf Generator fan. Spell with a Shell and Whole World Window are my faves. Sad end for Tim but no one can say they didn't produce some unique music.
Thanks for hanging on in there with this album, Justin. I thought you may like the bass on this one. You seem to be gradually disliking Cardiacs less with each track. I agree with BigMcLargeHuge that you may actually like Bellyeye, it's psychedelic in a more classic way. However, I don't agree that the earlier Cardiacs stuff is more accessible. Some of it is, but a lot is just as weird, but more punky. I would definitely steer clear of Jibber And Twitch, and as for The Duck And Roger The Horse...!😵💫
You should check out Kevin Ayers. Don't Let It Get You Down and Song for Insane Times are great tracks
Agree with some other folks here that this song works better in the context of the whole album, as a kind of breathing moment, but I love it on its own as well (especially that last weird half minute). And "If I were a bad dog you'd all be dead" is such a great line. Who cannot relate?
Btw: Claire Lemmon made an excellently weird solo album called Cleaner. Well worth reacting to a track or two. (And her vocals there sound nothing like what she's doing here.)
I think the singer here might be Sarah Smith (Tim's ex wife, and once a member of the 7 piece Cardiacs of old, and of the Sea Nymphs offshoot of that band). She's physically small, and has a "small voice" that's unusual and very clear. It's not the kind of voice the industry standardized on that time (that's really what makes it unusual). If it's not Sarah singing, I'm guessing that Claire Lemmon is "singing like Sarah" for the track, because in her own bands she sings a bit lower and stronger (and wrong word, but "standard"). You might find that what's throwing you is the qualities of her voice?
The sound levels on these Spotify Cardiacs tracks sounds a bit low - so that some of the little details get lost. Tim almost inaudibly counts in the harpsicord/ phone tone part at the end, for instance.
One thing to try is the fan video by Plaluch Bon that I've recommended before, which I think has better sound, for one. And it's subtitulado. And there's a dancing baby trying to keep up with the bit at the end. (He also provides characters for each of the voices in the song, so there's a picture of Tim, or of a Corgi at times, and then there's one of those little girl plays the piano to a cat animations the old TH-cam had for Sarah's bits.)
Anyway, the next song might be closer to the comfort zone, after which A Horse's Tail will have something a bit more Worm's Hero to it. Then if you one day get to Manhoo after that, you need to make sure you don't listen to the Greatest Hits version, which skips the album's sharp change in the middle, and makes the song a bit too normal.
I can confidently predict at least one part of this that you definitely will like: The end of Wireless. (I don't know if you'll take to the story of Action Fish in the middle, but you might also enjoy this if you can hear it well enough on these Spotify tracks.)
It has scissors in it. Not a lot of songs have scissors in them, so there's that to look forward to.
One thing you could do if you have time is to run the whole thing up to the point you've reached as a whole. The album's parts all mesh together. Sonically you could say it's almost a "concept album", then. And maybe try the Bandcamp tracks? They might be fuller than the Spotify ones. (Maybe someone decided to upload a lower quality compressed format to Spotify when they went back on there?)
Interesting. Sounds like they listened to Gentle Giant.
Sometimes I get overcome with sadness when I think of how Timmy spent the last tortured years of his life. He had so much to offer. Zappa may have been right when he said the only bands worth listening to were Cardiacs and Gentle Giant.
Pretty sure Zappa never even knew of Cardiacs' existence, much less said that about them. He did briefly namecheck GG in an interview once (alongside Queen).
He had much love and support. He completed the second Sea Nymphs album and was awarded Dr of Music (honorary) by the Scottish Conservatory. Sadness, pain and joy.
Cardiacs went from "never heard of them" to one of my top 5, maybe top 3, bands with this album. Once you get it there are many thrills to be had. The comparison to Gentle Giant is not misplaced, or Zappa at times. Eccentric, awkward, intense but compelling. I wouldn't bother trying too hard to interpret the words though!
Please react to Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes. This one is also great. You have not reacted to Little Earthquakes yet. Thank you.
I don’t know who is suggesting these Cardiacs songs but I think they’re doing a really bad job if they’re trying to leave a good impression. Working through their most complex album one song every six months just isn’t going to work.
I think JP is going through one song at a time slowly. It is his decision what to programme. Honestly, he has a ton of great content so I'm satisfied with his efforts
Arty avant garde band trying to be clever and weird. Its a mess. Cant write a good tune and it shows.
👍Yep! For me, this band tries too hard to be weird for the sake of being weird. It's weird!😉
Meh... I remain unimpressed by this lot.
I guess they were better than most of the cro magnons around at the time, but it's like choosing between a selection of different stone tools, one of which is slightly less crap than the rest. 😁🙃
@@pentagrammaton6793 Know what you mean. There are some flashes of good stuff at times. But overall I find them bitty, and a little inconsistant.