[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by jasn

Thought I'd post the playlist I've been enjoying today from my music library, automatically culled courtesy of iTunes (Strike One!) and their latest Genius tool (Strike Two!). I clipped the image using the embedded but not well-known Snipping Tool from MS Vista (Strike Three! Yer Out!) ...

Really good list,wish I could play it..

All those were bands I listen to on a regular basis.
But,tell me about Pavement.

[Ashleyj]

Watching and listening to the Cream Reunion Concert.

[jasn]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

tell me about Pavement.

Pavement was a seminal, Lo-Fi guitar band from the 90's. For me they were an acquired taste, but once I found the groove of their layered, sometimes bombastic creations, I can hear many, many different levels of craftsmanship. Highly recommended (perhaps first in small doses?) I started with Brighten the Corners, which is a tad more accessible than more critically acclaimed Slanted & Enchanted.

Here's the All-music Guide Bio, which does a far better job describing them than me:

With their fractured songs, unexpected blasts of feedback, laconic vocals, cryptic literate lyrics, and defiant low-fidelity, Pavement were one of the most influential and distinctive bands to emerge from the American underground in the '90s. Pavement, along with Sebadoh, were the leaders of the lo-fi movement that dominated U.S. indie rock in the early '90s. Initially conceived as a studio project between guitarists/vocalists Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg in the '80s, Pavement gradually became a band during the early '90s. Along the way, their initial EPs and debut album, 1992's Slanted & Enchanted, earned a devoted following of musicians, indie fans, and critics. Before long, the group's aesthetics -- a combination of elliptic, cryptic underground American rock, unrepentant Anglophilia, a fondness for white noise, off-kilter arrangements and winding melodies, songs that frequently had shifting titles, and literate, clever lyrics -- were imitated by underground bands through America and Britain. By that point, Pavement had become an actual band, one with a notorious, acid-fried ex-hippie drummer called Gary Young. Young left the band in 1993 as the band made the move to clean up their sound, if not their sensibility, on 1994's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Their revampment resulted in a near-hit with "Cut Your Hair," but the mainstream decided Pavement were too strange for their tastes and the band decided it preferred the underground, leaving the group as one of the most popular -- and the most influential -- American indie rock bands of the '90s.

[Dave C]

Feel like spending a few day going back through all of my old 'classic' albums. Currently listening to Pink Floyd & Animals

[rolly]

Currently listening to Pink Floyd & Animals

Out of all the albums I have ,all the different genres,that is also one album I always seem to go for when I just want to sit back and listen to some tunes.
Wish You Were Here is also an excellant album.
After that it's Led Zeppelin IV.

Then I'll look at all the rest.

[jasn]

Originally Posted by rolly

Then I'll look at all the rest.

Like...
Crime if the Century?
Ambrosia?
Thick as a Brick?
Brain Salad Surgery?
Seventh Sojourn?
Close to the Edge?
I could go on...

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by Dave C

Feel like spending a few day going back through all of my old 'classic' albums. Currently listening to Pink Floyd & Animals

Close enough to a flying pig........

wait it is a flying pig..........

When I first saw Pink Floyd in the Garden,I wasn't a big a fan as my friends.
They got tickets for us at Madison Square Garden all the way up in the nose bleed section.This was the 70's and I was a bit lets say elibriated...lol..
when fom nowhere a Giant Pig goes flying by me.I said to my friends
"I don't know if that pig was there or not, but this is turning into a dam good concert" And indeed it was.....

[Gaucho]

Originally Posted by jasn

Like...
Crime if the Century?
Ambrosia?
Thick as a Brick?
Brain Salad Surgery?
Seventh Sojourn?
Close to the Edge?
I could go on...

Glad you mentioned Ambrosia there. They were a band who never made it big in the UK, which was unfair because their albums were excellent - quality soft rock.
I went to a concert by Michael McDonald many years ago and was thrilled that Ambrosia's David Pack was a member of his backing band. I don't think anyone else in the audience had heard of him.

[jasn]

Originally Posted by Gaucho

Glad you mentioned Ambrosia there. They were a band who never made it big in the UK, which was unfair because their albums were excellent - quality soft rock.
I went to a concert by Michael McDonald many years ago and was thrilled that Ambrosia's David Pack was a member of his backing band. I don't think anyone else in the audience had heard of him.

It's really too bad that Ambrosia followed the path into soft rock as they did, because I think their first, S/T release hits a lot harder. It's an Alan Parson's engineered 70's classic. The pipe organ in the last cut get's way too much gain from my receiver when it comes around...

[Damo]

Listening to Album "Point De Suture" by Mylene Farmer (pictures below). A seriously sexy and cool album.