The Badfinger greatest hits CD is well worth buying, I think my favourite track is Baby Blue.
The Dandy Warhols, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, only a couple of pounds s/h. I bought it because the hit track, Bohemian Like You has become a bit of an earworm since I heard it on the radio a few months ago. I do like about half the tracks, I might have been better to buy the greatest hits CD, which I might buy.
I've been obsessing over Sovietwave and related subgenres. I wanted to start a thread on it, but I know its fate would not be a pretty one, darlings. The naive comments in some of the Sovietwave videos are hilarious. Why can't they just enjoy the music?
Karl Johans gate (Karl Johan's Street) is the main street of Oslo. Weird to see a Russian band name appropriate that. I'll check out these tracks of yours later!
The Residents - 80 Aching Orphans. Much to the chagrin of my wife, who has left the room. Oh well, I enjoy my own company anyway. Actually I have Whyte and Mackay as company.
Karl Johans gate (Karl Johan's Street) is the main street of Oslo. Weird to see a Russian band name appropriate that. I'll check out these tracks of yours later!
Glad you liked the tracks. This lo-fi/ambient/Sovietwave music is seriously displacing my usual listening habits! Normally, I'd be listening to Bix Beiderbecke and Bach! The Roy Budd connection you made is an apt one.
The Residents - 80 Aching Orphans. Much to the chagrin of my wife, who has left the room. Oh well, I enjoy my own company anyway. Actually I have Whyte and Mackay as company.
That is a GREAT compilation! Two thumbs up.
And thanks, Jim. The Russian stuff is right up my alley. No joke--it is exactly what I would want to have on in the background the next time I'm putting up drywall or painting interior mouldings. It takes your mind to another place.
Glad you liked the tracks. This lo-fi/ambient/Sovietwave music is seriously displacing my usual listening habits! Normally, I'd be listening to Bix Beiderbecke and Bach! The Roy Budd connection you made is an apt one.
Yes, I think I said in our meeting it felt like a combination of Budd, New Wave and Röyksopp. Certainly intriguing stuff.
Glad you liked the tracks. This lo-fi/ambient/Sovietwave music is seriously displacing my usual listening habits! Normally, I'd be listening to Bix Beiderbecke and Bach! The Roy Budd connection you made is an apt one.
Yes, I think I said in our meeting it felt like a combination of Budd, New Wave and Röyksopp. Certainly intriguing stuff.
I really should learn the names of all of those great old synths!
"Sovietwave is a subgenre of synthpop from ex-Soviet states that is audibly influenced by 1980s new wave, post-punk, and a hint of mellowed-out trance."
Sovietwave also reminds me of planetarium music, Tom Baker-era Dr Who, WPBT’s Star Hustler with Jack Horkheimer, early New Order, Tangerine Dream's score for The Soldier, and the world in general as depicted in David Cronenberg's Scanners.
And thanks, Jim. The Russian stuff is right up my alley. No joke--it is exactly what I would want to have on in the background the next time I'm putting up drywall or painting interior mouldings. It takes your mind to another place.
I've also taken a detour into what is referred to as "Russian Doomer Music." It's really just post-punk music, and much of it sounds like Michael Gira of Swans translated his lyrics into Russian and then hired Joy Division (minus Ian Curtis) as his backup band. So much "Doomer" music is low key and thankfully without the screaming often associated with punk. I think you, if no one else here, will like it.
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