Museum Musica

rostasi · 11-16-2018, 08:29 PM

Oriphiel · 11-17-2018, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

My most explicitly silent track.

I wish they were all so silent

Zhanteimi · 11-18-2018, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

The challenge was that most of the content I've played when entertaining has been dinner jazz, modern classical, study music, field recordings, and other sonic wallpaper while my guests paint, read, or write.

I love this. You have guests over for the specific purpose of doing silent activities? Not talking (yelling) and dancing and drinking? I love this idea so much but don't think it would ever work with my friends.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I thought about this a little bit more about this and realized that I have a few examples of silence in my work.

Is that a neighbor's dog barking among the crickets?

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Originally Posted by rostasi

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It's Frown's track minus the dog.

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

I wish they were all so silent

I'm going to assume the above is a compliment and not someone bringing negativity into my journal.

Zhanteimi · 11-19-2018, 08:22 PM

0058 Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
(UK, 1975, hard rock)

I’m sorry. I just can’t find it in my heart to give Zep any of the shit they often receive from the haters. I love their albums, and I love what they did with their “borrowed” material. I guess I just let the music be my master. The band has so much raw sexual energy that as a man I just can’t resist them. The opening of “Kashmir” gets me every time, like something big is coming and I better get ready!

Zhanteimi · 11-20-2018, 05:15 PM

0059 Hawkwind - In Search of Space
(UK, 1971, space rock)

A documentary is what got me into Hawkwind. I mean, I like space rock well enough, but that documentary was wild. What a crazy bunch of idiots! I love it. This one is nice and clean, before the epic showdown of Booze vs. Acid.

Spoiler for the documentary:

Zhanteimi · 11-20-2018, 05:42 PM

Review of Mumford & Sons' Delta

(UK, folk pop, 2018)

What a terribly bland album that's so inoffensive it's offensive! On a couple of their tracks, it's like they're looking through a window at their old ways of playing and songwriting and trying to imitate it but failing. Wow, how much do you have to suck to fail at failing? This album is so shockingly bad I don't know where to begin. Every song sounding the same? Every song sounding like a bad copy of Coldplay ten years too late? The banal lyrics not matching the tunes? It's like one guy brought in a shitty song, and another brought in shitty lyrics and they just threw them together in the most awkward way imaginable. I actually grew angrier as the album progressed.

Fuck this album, and fuck this band.

**Frownland** · 11-20-2018, 05:56 PM

I saw a review with a headline that touted it as "their most experimental to date"

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Zhanteimi · 11-25-2018, 04:25 PM

0060 Andrew Hill - Compulsion
(USA, 1967, free jazz / post-bop)

I’m writing this little entry on very little sleep. A typhoon kept me up all night—and then the power went out. Trees being uprooted. I ran to the store in the middle of the night and bought a lot of ice so I could throw my perishables into a cooler. I’ve got the sound of that typhoon ringing in my memory, so this album’s first track is par for the course. A pretty wild ride that eventually settles into something—though not predictable—at least calmer than before. There is a kind of placidity after the storm.

Zhanteimi · 11-26-2018, 12:41 AM

Purging Albums

This topic is more for those of us who curate their collections, not just stream or playlist music.

My current listening project is having an unintended side effect on my collection. I'm coming across albums and/or bands that are in my collection and...I'm not sure why they're there. I guess I liked them well enough at one time, but now I just don't care. I've moved on, outgrown them, or have refined my tastes. The most recent casualties are Explosions in the Sky, Mastodon, Ozric Tentacles, Soen, Judee Sill, The Byrds, Lambchop, The Frames, and Dire Straits. I just found myself shrugging and thinking "no, not really, no".

This goes hand-in-hand with my reason for listening to music: I am creating a virtual Museum, a place where I can "walk" the halls and whatever I hear is amazing to my ears. And thus, anything that doesn't rise to that level gets cut.

I did a huge purging a year ago (EDM, mostly) and thought I was done, but this random listening thing is now calling up albums and bands that slipped through the cracks. So, I'm making brutal cuts as I refine, prune, and make things perfect.

Zhanteimi · 11-26-2018, 07:32 PM

0061 Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
(UK, 1971, Canterbury scene / progressive rock)

Canterbury scene artists just don’t do catchy love songs well. I think it’s because a lot of the blokes are, at least in part, brains in jars. They’re very good at tongue-in-cheek love songs like “Golf Girl”, but that’s because they approach love as a kind of curious puzzle. At least that’s my impression. This album is the farthest thing from hot blood, so Caravan is at its best when they stick to mellow, quirky optimism.

11-19-2018, 08:22 PM	#984 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	0058 Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (UK, 1975, hard rock) I’m sorry. I just can’t find it in my heart to give Zep any of the shit they often receive from the haters. I love their albums, and I love what they did with their “borrowed” material. I guess I just let the music be my master. The band has so much raw sexual energy that as a man I just can’t resist them. The opening of “Kashmir” gets me every time, like something big is coming and I better get ready! __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

11-20-2018, 05:15 PM	#985 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	0059 Hawkwind - In Search of Space (UK, 1971, space rock) A documentary is what got me into Hawkwind. I mean, I like space rock well enough, but that documentary was wild. What a crazy bunch of idiots! I love it. This one is nice and clean, before the epic showdown of Booze vs. Acid. Spoiler for the documentary: __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

11-20-2018, 05:42 PM	#986 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	Review of Mumford & Sons' Delta (UK, folk pop, 2018) What a terribly bland album that's so inoffensive it's offensive! On a couple of their tracks, it's like they're looking through a window at their old ways of playing and songwriting and trying to imitate it but failing. Wow, how much do you have to suck to fail at failing? This album is so shockingly bad I don't know where to begin. Every song sounding the same? Every song sounding like a bad copy of Coldplay ten years too late? The banal lyrics not matching the tunes? It's like one guy brought in a shitty song, and another brought in shitty lyrics and they just threw them together in the most awkward way imaginable. I actually grew angrier as the album progressed. Fuck this album, and fuck this band. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic Last edited by Zhanteimi; 11-20-2018 at 06:10 PM.

11-20-2018, 05:56 PM	#987 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I saw a review with a headline that touted it as "their most experimental to date" . __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

11-25-2018, 04:25 PM	#988 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	0060 Andrew Hill - Compulsion (USA, 1967, free jazz / post-bop) I’m writing this little entry on very little sleep. A typhoon kept me up all night—and then the power went out. Trees being uprooted. I ran to the store in the middle of the night and bought a lot of ice so I could throw my perishables into a cooler. I’ve got the sound of that typhoon ringing in my memory, so this album’s first track is par for the course. A pretty wild ride that eventually settles into something—though not predictable—at least calmer than before. There is a kind of placidity after the storm. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

11-16-2018, 08:29 PM	#981 (permalink)
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11-26-2018, 12:41 AM	#989 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	Purging Albums This topic is more for those of us who curate their collections, not just stream or playlist music. My current listening project is having an unintended side effect on my collection. I'm coming across albums and/or bands that are in my collection and...I'm not sure why they're there. I guess I liked them well enough at one time, but now I just don't care. I've moved on, outgrown them, or have refined my tastes. The most recent casualties are Explosions in the Sky, Mastodon, Ozric Tentacles, Soen, Judee Sill, The Byrds, Lambchop, The Frames, and Dire Straits. I just found myself shrugging and thinking "no, not really, no". This goes hand-in-hand with my reason for listening to music: I am creating a virtual Museum, a place where I can "walk" the halls and whatever I hear is amazing to my ears. And thus, anything that doesn't rise to that level gets cut. I did a huge purging a year ago (EDM, mostly) and thought I was done, but this random listening thing is now calling up albums and bands that slipped through the cracks. So, I'm making brutal cuts as I refine, prune, and make things perfect. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

11-26-2018, 07:32 PM	#990 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	0061 Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink (UK, 1971, Canterbury scene / progressive rock) Canterbury scene artists just don’t do catchy love songs well. I think it’s because a lot of the blokes are, at least in part, brains in jars. They’re very good at tongue-in-cheek love songs like “Golf Girl”, but that’s because they approach love as a kind of curious puzzle. At least that’s my impression. This album is the farthest thing from hot blood, so Caravan is at its best when they stick to mellow, quirky optimism. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

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