Anx said:

IT IS...
You just can't find good Greek prog rock these days.

Pink Floyd isn't even really complex, just long. I think they wrote some great pop tunes. The expanded on a side of the Beatles--I Want You, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Because--could have been Pink Floyd tunes

Yes, too many college stoners have made Wish You Were Here & Comfortably Numb into cliches, but those are great songs.

applekisses said:

Sounds cool.

applekisses said:

don't say that too loud, madonna might hear you.

Anx said:

She'd dig someone up, I'm sure.

(no knock against, Mads, God love her... )

GangstaFam said:

Orgnote me if you want a copy

Anx said:

See, you guys are way too hip for me.

applekisses said:

so do you consider this album "good" good, or guilty pleasure good?

minneapolisgenius said:

how so?

minneapolisgenius said:

residents? hip?

the eyeball heads are one of the geekiest bands ever, i think!

Meloh9 said:

I actually consider it "good" good. But, that could be just me. I think the musicianship is amazing, the production is excellent and the lyrics are on it.

i broke off an engagement because dude liked the residents a little too much.
but then, i really dig the sun city girls so who am i to say anything?

i refuse to believe there are no HUGE syd barrett fans here!
holy molasses.

DigUBetterDead said:

you broke off an engagement over THE RESIDENTS?

if he were obsessed with post-"god in three persons" residents, i can understand.

applekisses said:

well I never heard it I'm just really curious about it at this point.

GangstaFam said:

I just don't have those albums.

Meloh9 said:

I highly recommend it.

Anx said:

i hate to be a bitch or anything but after 3 residents show in a row i looked over to my boyfriend verily GLOWING with happiness and glee over something akin to cirque du soleil (only less tolerable) and said to myself "are you really willing to put up with this for the rest of your life?

the answer was invariably NO.

DigUBetterDead said:

well, i can kinda understand that...i've been there...though that one thing that breaks the camel's back is usually a symptom of a larger source of ennui with regards to the person i was with.

Anx said:

well that and the fact that, hi, he was a total cock knocking jerk.
symptoms of the disease.

the residents, man. SERIOUSLY.

the residents

wasn't that the retro sounding weezer spin off band?

Meloh9 said:

that's THE RENTALS

the residents do avant garde music and wear eyeballs on their heads.

Anx said:

oh snap that's right, the rentals!

applekisses said:

Big, big fan of Can here, that album in particular, and I love that Silver Apples record as well. I've almost picked up that Aphrodite's Child album a few times. They've had a few copies sitting in the prog section of my local indie shop for a while. I think you've just prodded me into taking the plunge on it.

damosuzuki said:

Can is amazing, although I've never had the pleasure of getting fucked up to them. I miss being young.

GangstaFam said:

I know the feeling...though I never listened to them in an ...errr... altered state either. Whenever I needed a soundtrack to my psychedelic excursions, I usually put Throbbing Gristle's Heathen Earth on repeat for the evening.

GangstaFam said:

Can are just incredible though...I'd even recommend them to people who claim to have zero tolerance for proggish noodling about (attn Moonbeam). I mean, is Aumgn the greatest psychedelic freak-out ever captured on tape or what?

damosuzuki said:

And you lived to tell about it!?

damosuzuki said:

I guess I don't think of Can as prog though, and that might help Mooners appreciate them.

I think of them as more avant garde art junk funk.

How can anyone not love that?

GangstaFam said:

I think I made it back alright, more or less...i think most of my synapses are firing

GangstaFam said:

fair enough. I think of them as prog, but at the least they and the other somewhat like-minded bands of their era comprise a highly distinct subset that didn't have a lot to do with Emerson Lake and Palmer.