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10-04-2010, 12:55 PM | #1 (permalink) |
Melancholia Eternally
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It's Space Rock week!
Space rock, a term first joined in the 1970's, is a subgenre of rock music that generally contains elements of psychedelic and/or progressive rock. It is generally defineable by meditative, ambient qualities as well as lengthy, instrumental, psychedelic passages and often distorted vocals. A lot of bands in genres such as shoegaze and Noise rock can also often be labelled Space rock.
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10-04-2010, 01:25 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Yes! I am totally, incurably addicted to any kind of space rock.
Here's maybe the most obvious one, but it's obvious for a reason. And this is probably my most beloved Spacemen 3 song - Honey But, there's nothing like that German kosmische music: Cosmic Jokers
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10-05-2010, 06:49 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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Great choices, Monster Magnet don`t get anywhere near the credit they deserve, they`ve always been one of best rock bands around. "Superjudge" is a classic album, but their finest has got be their debut "Spine of God" and the title track, a homage to the Door`s "The End" which is the album `s highlight.
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10-05-2010, 05:28 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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i wasn't so keen on the more traditional hard rock angle Wyndorf originally headed in after Powertrip, but i gotta say i really liked 4-Way Diablo. can't wait for the new one later this month, hoping against hope i might actually be able to score a replacement copy of Superjudge at the same time though i'm 99.9% sure i'd have to order it online. |
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10-05-2010, 06:11 PM | #6 (permalink) | |
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I think the Vegas inspired "Powertrip" a great album too, but totally agree with you, that when the group started dishing out a more standard hard rock sound, they lost the essence of what they were all about. Luckily though, the "4-Way Diablo" was a great album and a return to form. |
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10-07-2010, 05:35 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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I really love that space rock of the 90s that was really close to post-rock and more ambient shoegaze like:
Labradford from their '95. album A Stable Reference Flying Saucer Attack from the album Further (1995) Jessica Bailiff - Even In Silence (1998) I couldn't find any video on youtube from this album (maybe I'll up it myself) And as for noise-rock turned space-rock, it doesn't get much better than Boredoms on their Vision Creation Newsun album This track is actually a really hypnotic dance music. Just great. But the other tracks on the album are more spacey.
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10-07-2010, 06:35 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Never have I heard another band rip off another band so much (Hawkwind) but because it's such a small genre I can forgive them.
Litmus: Obviously being a big Hawkwind fan I will have to offer this up: Germany's Electric Orange are really good too but I only have 2 albums from these and definitely want more. Their album Morbus is a space Rock delight:
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10-09-2010, 04:15 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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I was really hoping for more in this thread. I am always on the look out for some quality Space Rock and I have heard most of it here and I already know of Ozric Tentacles just in case someone decides to post one of theirs.
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