Recommend me something by The Incredible String Band (+ upload a track or two please)

Ellestin · December 18th, 2007, 01:43 PM

this thread will go places, I can sense it!

Sanctums · December 18th, 2007, 01:50 PM

For why? A while ago, I bought "I looked Up"; Nothing to write home about.

Ellestin · December 18th, 2007, 02:05 PM

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irony detector off

keep the comments flowing guys!

Climb Thar Hill · December 18th, 2007, 02:22 PM

flowing into or out of the topic?

Sanctums · December 18th, 2007, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ellestin

^
irony detector off

keep the comments flowing guys!

Ellestin · July 18th, 2008, 10:12 PM

I can't resist linking a cool video from those guys. This band has been totally invaluable to me in the past few months, and certainly always will.

Also their music and lyrics are much deeper than meets the eye, it's not at all about mushrooms turning into pink butterflies or banging Nepalese mountain goats... In fact the hippie blueprint is probably what kept them from more deserved acknowledgement in the prog music circles. Anyway here's the answer to the Half-Remarkable Question. Or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xEaEALzyJo

Demilich · July 19th, 2008, 07:59 AM

You must listen to 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

edit: no uploads til later 'cause shit, I gotta go to work yo!

Ellestin · July 19th, 2008, 09:01 AM

doesn't this cover just scream "buy me! buy me!"

Wee Tam & the Big Huge has pretty ace songs too although I think at the time they has quit doing drugs so the totally surrealistic style changes and chord progressions that make Hangman's... so uniquely out there are less frequent.
Even the s/t is excellent, though plainly folk-oriented with their subsequent eclectism only embryonic in places, no sitar and no weird Morrocan instruments on there. On a side note they recorded it as a trio featuring banjo legend Clive Palmer who later went on to form C.O.B. (Clive's Own Band), whose Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart album is another must-listen of the acid folk smala.

Demilich · July 19th, 2008, 07:48 PM

Moyshe McStiff is one of the best albums ever, imho.

I'm now totally falling in love with Bread Love and Dreams (yeah, I know, what the fuck is up with this band name) album The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback from Gigha, which I'll upload samples from tonight if I don't forget / get too lazy.

Ellestin · July 19th, 2008, 10:18 PM

yeah Bread, Love and Dreams are totally awesome, too. Great fingerpicking, laid-back songwriting and a taste for faraway, longing atmospheres. They should have foreseen that their monicker wouldn't earn them much friendship beyond the 60's though

Even though both albums stem from the same recording session, I'm a bigger fan of Amaryllis (pretty fucked up cover too), especially the self-titled trilogy, which I mistook for an early Pink Floyd thing first time I heard it.

Guess we're pretty much on our own here Demilich, mind if I draw the curtains?

Ellestin · August 3rd, 2008, 02:26 PM

I'm not going to say I've found something similar to Comus because that would be misleading and so wrong, as always, but Germany's Hölderlin certainly deliver some of the most comely, meandering, dreamy prog/folk I've heard since first falling for/into The Herald... Absolutely beautiful. Download link on the pic if you like:

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July 19th, 2008, 09:01 AM	#8 (permalink)
Ellestin None more unmanly Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: 94 Posts: 4,526	doesn't this cover just scream "buy me! buy me!" Wee Tam & the Big Huge has pretty ace songs too although I think at the time they has quit doing drugs so the totally surrealistic style changes and chord progressions that make Hangman's... so uniquely out there are less frequent. Even the s/t is excellent, though plainly folk-oriented with their subsequent eclectism only embryonic in places, no sitar and no weird Morrocan instruments on there. On a side note they recorded it as a trio featuring banjo legend Clive Palmer who later went on to form C.O.B. (Clive's Own Band), whose Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart album is another must-listen of the acid folk smala. __________________ Last edited by Ellestin : July 19th, 2008 at 09:07 AM.

July 19th, 2008, 07:59 AM	#7 (permalink)
Demilich where the skies end Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 12,060	You must listen to 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter edit: no uploads til later 'cause shit, I gotta go to work yo!

July 19th, 2008, 07:48 PM	#9 (permalink)
Demilich where the skies end Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 12,060	Moyshe McStiff is one of the best albums ever, imho. I'm now totally falling in love with Bread Love and Dreams (yeah, I know, what the fuck is up with this band name) album The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback from Gigha, which I'll upload samples from tonight if I don't forget / get too lazy.

July 19th, 2008, 10:18 PM	#10 (permalink)
Ellestin None more unmanly Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: 94 Posts: 4,526	yeah Bread, Love and Dreams are totally awesome, too. Great fingerpicking, laid-back songwriting and a taste for faraway, longing atmospheres. They should have foreseen that their monicker wouldn't earn them much friendship beyond the 60's though Even though both albums stem from the same recording session, I'm a bigger fan of Amaryllis (pretty fucked up cover too), especially the self-titled trilogy, which I mistook for an early Pink Floyd thing first time I heard it. Guess we're pretty much on our own here Demilich, mind if I draw the curtains? __________________ Last edited by Ellestin : July 19th, 2008 at 10:26 PM.

August 3rd, 2008, 02:26 PM	#11 (permalink)
Ellestin None more unmanly Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: 94 Posts: 4,526	I'm not going to say I've found something similar to Comus because that would be misleading and so wrong, as always, but Germany's Hölderlin certainly deliver some of the most comely, meandering, dreamy prog/folk I've heard since first falling for/into The Herald... Absolutely beautiful. Download link on the pic if you like: __________________