"Cult" Albums I'd Like to Hear
Submitted by JohnnyW on Wed, 05/02/2001 - 01:33
Tags:
- Syd Barrett/The Madcap Laughs
- Skip Spence/Oar
- Neu!/Neu!
- Shuggie Otis/?
- Chris Bell/I Am the Cosmos
Author Comments:
OK, I don't know exactly what the Otis albums are, but they've been recently rereleased after 25 years or something, and I saw him perform on Letterman, where he was just great.
The Madcap laughs is a great album, and I'd think that you would really like it. Best tracks are Terrapin, Dark Globe and Octupus. You should get the Syd Barret box set - Crazy Diamond, which contains all of his three officialy released albums (no vegetable man or scream thy last scream, unfortunately, as these are only available on bootleg), and they are all good.
Best wishes,
Ed Sames.
Thanks for the recommendation; I actually did order The Madcap Laughs (the boxset may have to wait!), and I'm looking forward to it. This may have nothing to do with the music, but I love the album cover...
Johnny Waco
I found a used, expanded CD copy of Oar in my hometown. It's good. Very subdued in places, in others it's more light-hearted ("Dixie Peach Promenade", for example). The overall spirit of the record is spiritual heaviness. The guy was just out of prison when he recorded this, and the burden of his past and his desire to erase his debt, so to speak, are pretty srong on this record. I recommend you listen to it first (but you know that, or else this post wouldn't be here), but I think you'll find it worth a buy.
the other albums I would love to hear, as well. I just don't know the "right" people... heh.
I did finally get a copy of Oar a while back, and I really like it. I completely agree with you on the sense of heaviness; he truly sounds like a broken man even when he pulls a lighter song out. I can see why this album never really caught on.
My difficulties hearing these albums also stems from not knowing the "right people." Why can't I have friends with every conceivable obscurity out there?
Johnny Waco
ummm, if you like punk, i might add Germ-Free Adolescents by X-Ray Specs; the vinyl is worth loads, but it is now out on CD :)
syd barret, excellent album, buy now
Actually the Shuggie Otis is called "inspiration Information". It's his third album and it's really freakin' good. Right up there with "Songs in The Key Of Life" for 70's R&B albums.
The Madcap Laughs is okay.
Skip Spence is really great but you're gonna have to listen to it about 10 times to get anything out of it.
Neu! the bomb. Maybe you should check out Can as well if you haven't, I reccomend Future Days because it's pretty salsa prog electronica.
Tallyho
:?)