I am pretty sure he owns or had own every single one he posted.
I can also name at least a dozen albums that i would call influential to me, or maybe even a dozen per life stage.
And also, many album covers are a treat just to see, bring back memories, or for the pure aesthetics of it.
Also referencing known sites is a hell lot easier than to having to scan them
Also with some postings, like the link he provided to wikipedia about foetus is helpful for those that just dismiss
it as ugly music, when in it's time it influenced a whole music genre: the music genre that bands exactly like NIN are
now collecting the fruits of.
The Stevie Wonder one is terrific
Also music diversity is not a sign of weak character, I really like a lot of music directions, the main thing is always for me, how
sincere the music is played, how well the music is played, originality, vibe and spirit.
It can be soul, punk, minimal, new music, rock, folk or experimental, it's how it is delivered.
Sticking to one genre is ..., well, you get to listen to lot of crap too
You yourself mentioned Harvest, an album I could have posted myself. One that I like equally is
Neil Young Sleeping with angels
The sound on the album is incredible, very soft over the top distortion combined with fragile playing, driftin' away,
maybe the only Neil Young I still put on once in while since last century.
Things I still listen a lot:
Kletka Red Hybrid
YoutubeBerlin based band, mixing up east european and jewish music with punk, surf and experimental.
Ne Zhdali Hey, Driver, Cool Down The Horses
Russian Avantgard Rock type of thing, blending punk energy with the complexity of true progressive rock (think Henry Cow), occasional
funk rhythms and Balkanese folk melodies.
The Necks Townsville /
Drive ByEach record is a great one, here my favorites. Somewhere between jazz, improvisation, minimal music and rock, each concert, as well as most of their albums consist of one long (40 min - 70 min) set, based on a theme which develops from there.
Townsville is in my opinion their best live record, listen to it on a good stereo, the sounds, especially the piano sounds amazing.
Drive By is a studio album, and is much more conceptual. Thats a 60 min slow groove, and a lot more electrical than most of their stuff.
websitewikipediaKilt Maker on youtube (pretty old registration of one of their concerts)Phil Niblock
wikipediaMusicQuote: Phill Niblock's third release on the Touch label. Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's barricade hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V. Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. Touch Three is minimalism in the classic sense of the word, if that makes sense. Niblock constructs big 24-track digitally-processed monolithic microtonal drones, and the result is sound without melody or rhythm. Movement is slow, geologically slow. Changes are almost imperceptible, and his music has a tendency of creeping up on you.The Ex scrabbling at the lock
One of two albums they recorded with Tom Cora. The Ex is a band from Amsterdam, Holland, formed in 1979, but are still very busy today.
Influenced bands like Sonic Youth and Tortoise, the guitar player from The Ex, Andy Moor has collaborated on many albums with members from sonic youth and others.
Maybe Lava knows them :-)
band websitewikipediamyspaceEx Orkest een rondje holland
Big band orchestra playing The Ex songs comprising of The Ex members plus several dutch musicians known
from the classical/avantgard music environment in holland.
Edit 1: fixed intro message, added a statement here and there.
Edit 2: Added the Ex
Edit 3: Its hard sometimes to add a link to music, especially with bands that produce albums, where no album is like the previous one,
the music linked to is not always the music from that album. Still, it should give an idea.
But that's what I like in some bands, where every album is completely different, many groups just produce one album after the other with just similar stuff.
