[MUSIC]What Are You Listening To?

I just tried Seadrum/House of Sun.

I have a thing for percussive music and drone-minimalism a la Terry Riley. So naturally I find this album awesome, maybe except for the vocal element. But thanks to the vocal, it's got some strong sense of ritual spirituality.

My immediate feels tells me Far-Eastern & Polynesian trace in "Seadrum," and Indian & Middle Eastern in "House of Sun" where I hear Terry Riley. Yeah, I can definitely see your point on the connection between this album and Sun Ra ("Seadrum") & some Krautrock ("House of Sun").

 

If you were in Denmark now, your dream might have been fulfilled.

 

FYI: They're gonna do a short US tour in August, promoting their latest album, Dear (2017), which is awesome. Some of the tour locations have been sold out already.

 

The best of "a flock of seagulls". Space age love song never gets tiresome. The synth and futuristic sounds are so impressive that you lose focus of the lyrics which for some can be a terrible thing, yet "A flock of seagulls" makes it work.
"I saw your eyes
And you made me smile
For a little while
I was falling in love
I saw your eyes
And they touched my mind
Although it took a while."

Listening to those words makes me believe in falling in love, all over again.
In 2009, Kanye West "sampled" Space age love song for his track "Paranoid" which I liked for that reason alone and Rihanna. But he never really gave credit. A flock of seagulls never complained as their work speaks for itself.

 

I was working my way through college at a record store in Nacogdoches from late 70's to early 80's and when the promo album for Flock of Seagulls arrived I thought to myself, "With a name like Flock of Seagulls they've gotta be good."

 

I don't know why, but A Flock of Seagulls reminded me of another group I saw a few times.

White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day, 1968



Sometimes they had an extended break in the middle, with the song lasting around 10 minutes. Loads of tasty electric violin. David Laflamme, also an original member of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, is an amazing jazz/rock/swing electric violin player. He's played with symphony orchestras, Jerry Garcia, the Airplane, Dan Hicks - saying he had eclectic tastes in music somehow seems inadequate.

 

I did 30 minutes of inverted jumping jacks with 'regulate' on repeat.

It's the great stand alone single from the 'Above The Rim' soundtrack, a soundtrack that had very lackluster efforts from everyone including 2pac.

The set up to the long beach narrative begins with a homage to Young Guns, which I consider to be one of Emilio Estevez's good films. It's not quite Mighty Ducks, Repo man and Breakfast club but still pretty good.
"Regulators. We regulate any stealin' of his property. We’re damn good too. But you can’t be any geek off the street. You gotta be handy with the steel, if you know what I mean. Earn your keep. Regulators, mount up!"

The tempo picks up as the sampled beat from Michael Mcdonald's "I keep forgetting" layers underneath harmonic vocals from Nate Dogg and warren G. In 1994, it was unheard of.
"I laid all those busters down, I made my gat explode now I switched my mind back to freak mode."
This stanza encapsulates the mindset of kill or be killed and human sexual instinct. Nate dog was a Marine, Semper Fi.
It truly was g funk era with a gangsta twist and the N word was used ZERO times.

 

i found this through a link on youtube as i was listening to a cub cover of daniel johnston's tell me now.

 

The art on the cover reminds me of h.r giger. maybe it's one of his.

 

You're right. Kosuke Kawamura, the artist who's done the album cover, is primarily a collage artist. He's also done the Japanese poster for a Giger documentary, Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (2014).

 

ELO - Can't get it out of my head
Hi-Standard - All Generations