fiery jack wrote:Excellent, thank you x10
Ain't no thing, G.
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2142http://www.sendspace.com/file/dnj7q2
"Hard gigging schedules, nominal recognition in their home country, inadequate promotion by their label and untimely dissolution — such is the history of Egg, but I could be describing any one of dozens of English progressive bands from the early 1970s. Although that era was, from a commercial perspective, the best of times to be a prog band, there were lots of Eggs for every one ELP or Yes. Egg was an organ trio formed in 1968, led by keyboardist Dave Stewart (the one who would later play in Hatfield in the North and National Health, not the one who was in Eurythmics). Egg's existence was short: they recorded their debut album in October of 1969 and folded in 1972, though they would briefly reconvene in 1974 to cut a reunion album (The Civil Surface).
Egg is generally considered a Canterbury band, although despite the representative cheeky song titles, Dave Stewart has commented that Egg's Canterbury association had more do with geography than musical style. Indeed, Egg — on their first album, anyway — exhibited a classical music influence that gave them a sound much more in line with The Nice than Gong or early Soft Machine. The whole second half of the album, in fact, is titled "Symphony No. 2" and consists of four parts (five, on the latest CD reissue) wherein the band jams on a variety of classical music themes. With the exception of "Fugue in D Minor," the first half of the album is organized as a set of original songs, most of which have vocals.
This album has very good reputation among progressive rock fans. While I definitely don't like it as much as I thought I would, based on the reviews, I would at least say that it is basically good. There certainly aren't any songs here (at least, nothing from the original album) that strike me as being below average, but not much really grabs me, either. I think that "I Will Be Absorbed" stands apart from the rest of the vocal songs as being particularly good and "Fugue in D Minor" — a creative reworking of the Bach piece — slinks along provocatively and sticks to your ears.
The rest of the material is decent enough, but the whole project is infused with a decidedly dated self-fascination with its high-culture borrowings and I find this to be not only off-putting, but creatively limiting. "The music on this LP is not dancing music, but basically music for listening to," cautions the stuffy original liner notes, which then go on to summarize each song on the album by way of their time changes. This attitude comes to an embarrassing nadir in the form of "Seven is a Jolly Good Time," the band's first single, which appears on the 2004 reissue of this album as a bonus track. "Seven is a Jolly Good Time" is a song in 7/4 with lyrics about how great it is that the band is playing in 7/4. Perhaps some who are old enough will find this to be nostalgically charming and others simply may relish the notion of a band as openly excited about playing in different time signatures as they are in hearing them. I, however, find both the song and the attitude in general to be really annoying.
Egg's first album will likely be of interest to fans of the original Canterbury groups, and almost certainly to fans of The Nice. I wish that the band had spent more time on developing original material instead of settling for so much "rocking the classics," as it were, but I guess that was a symptom of the era. Anyway, I think that they do a decent enough job of it. The 2004 reissue of this album contains the previously unreleased third movement of "Symphony No. 2," which was withheld from the album due to fears of a copyright infringement suit by Igor Stravinsky. Apparently, it did not dawn on Egg's original label (Deram) that such a lawsuit could be a marketing windfall for the fledgling band, especially during the height of experimental rock music's popularity."
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6wtsap
"Egg's debut album suggested a band significantly influenced by The Nice; on The Polite Force, though, they sound more to me like a poor man's Soft Machine. Recorded in May of 1970 (just after the release of Soft Machine's Third), The Polite Force dispenses with the rearrangement of classical themes that was a focus of the band's debut album, and instead is comprised of four original pieces. The music doesn't sound drastically different from Egg's first album, but there is less of an emphasis on vocals (not a bad thing, as Mont Campbell's singing was not one of the band's strengths) and the compositions are even more complex and dissonant. The music sometimes bears a resemblance to what Soft Machine was doing in late 1969 and early 1970, if you were to eliminate Soft Machine's jazzier elements and add an ELP influence.
I like The Polite Force a bit more than Egg's debut, but it still sounds to me like a band too caught up in "progressiveness" as an end in itself rather than a means of making good music. When the album works — such as with "A Visit To Newport Hospital" and most of "Long Piece No. 3" — the music can be very good in spite of these objections. But when the album is less successful ("Contrasong" is a tuneless piece with guest players on horns that sounds kind of like a Gentle Giant reject, and "Boilk" is 9.5 minutes of psychedelic filler) I start to think about the talent being squandered. As with the debut album, the less impressive moments on The Polite Force aren't really bad, they just make you wonder because Dave Stewart didn't have many of those moments on his Hatfield and the North or National Health albums.
"Newport Hospital" and "Long Piece No. 3" are the real deal, though, and sequencing them on a home-made CD or an MP3 device along with a few highlights from Egg's first album results in a 40-45-minute stretch of music worth remembering by this often-forgotten early Canterbury group."
both recorded from the original vinyl.
Enjoy.
(quotes taken from www.progreviews.com)
realized I accidentally uploaded these as .rar's of .wav files, so they're much larger than they need to be, but, hey the sound should be better than mp3.
"Hard gigging schedules, nominal recognition in their home country, inadequate promotion by their label and untimely dissolution — such is the history of Egg, but I could be describing any one of dozens of English progressive bands from the early 1970s. Although that era was, from a commercial perspective, the best of times to be a prog band, there were lots of Eggs for every one ELP or Yes. Egg was an organ trio formed in 1968, led by keyboardist Dave Stewart (the one who would later play in Hatfield in the North and National Health, not the one who was in Eurythmics). Egg's existence was short: they recorded their debut album in October of 1969 and folded in 1972, though they would briefly reconvene in 1974 to cut a reunion album (The Civil Surface).
Egg is generally considered a Canterbury band, although despite the representative cheeky song titles, Dave Stewart has commented that Egg's Canterbury association had more do with geography than musical style. Indeed, Egg — on their first album, anyway — exhibited a classical music influence that gave them a sound much more in line with The Nice than Gong or early Soft Machine. The whole second half of the album, in fact, is titled "Symphony No. 2" and consists of four parts (five, on the latest CD reissue) wherein the band jams on a variety of classical music themes. With the exception of "Fugue in D Minor," the first half of the album is organized as a set of original songs, most of which have vocals.
This album has very good reputation among progressive rock fans. While I definitely don't like it as much as I thought I would, based on the reviews, I would at least say that it is basically good. There certainly aren't any songs here (at least, nothing from the original album) that strike me as being below average, but not much really grabs me, either. I think that "I Will Be Absorbed" stands apart from the rest of the vocal songs as being particularly good and "Fugue in D Minor" — a creative reworking of the Bach piece — slinks along provocatively and sticks to your ears.
The rest of the material is decent enough, but the whole project is infused with a decidedly dated self-fascination with its high-culture borrowings and I find this to be not only off-putting, but creatively limiting. "The music on this LP is not dancing music, but basically music for listening to," cautions the stuffy original liner notes, which then go on to summarize each song on the album by way of their time changes. This attitude comes to an embarrassing nadir in the form of "Seven is a Jolly Good Time," the band's first single, which appears on the 2004 reissue of this album as a bonus track. "Seven is a Jolly Good Time" is a song in 7/4 with lyrics about how great it is that the band is playing in 7/4. Perhaps some who are old enough will find this to be nostalgically charming and others simply may relish the notion of a band as openly excited about playing in different time signatures as they are in hearing them. I, however, find both the song and the attitude in general to be really annoying.
Egg's first album will likely be of interest to fans of the original Canterbury groups, and almost certainly to fans of The Nice. I wish that the band had spent more time on developing original material instead of settling for so much "rocking the classics," as it were, but I guess that was a symptom of the era. Anyway, I think that they do a decent enough job of it. The 2004 reissue of this album contains the previously unreleased third movement of "Symphony No. 2," which was withheld from the album due to fears of a copyright infringement suit by Igor Stravinsky. Apparently, it did not dawn on Egg's original label (Deram) that such a lawsuit could be a marketing windfall for the fledgling band, especially during the height of experimental rock music's popularity."
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6wtsap
"Egg's debut album suggested a band significantly influenced by The Nice; on The Polite Force, though, they sound more to me like a poor man's Soft Machine. Recorded in May of 1970 (just after the release of Soft Machine's Third), The Polite Force dispenses with the rearrangement of classical themes that was a focus of the band's debut album, and instead is comprised of four original pieces. The music doesn't sound drastically different from Egg's first album, but there is less of an emphasis on vocals (not a bad thing, as Mont Campbell's singing was not one of the band's strengths) and the compositions are even more complex and dissonant. The music sometimes bears a resemblance to what Soft Machine was doing in late 1969 and early 1970, if you were to eliminate Soft Machine's jazzier elements and add an ELP influence.
I like The Polite Force a bit more than Egg's debut, but it still sounds to me like a band too caught up in "progressiveness" as an end in itself rather than a means of making good music. When the album works — such as with "A Visit To Newport Hospital" and most of "Long Piece No. 3" — the music can be very good in spite of these objections. But when the album is less successful ("Contrasong" is a tuneless piece with guest players on horns that sounds kind of like a Gentle Giant reject, and "Boilk" is 9.5 minutes of psychedelic filler) I start to think about the talent being squandered. As with the debut album, the less impressive moments on The Polite Force aren't really bad, they just make you wonder because Dave Stewart didn't have many of those moments on his Hatfield and the North or National Health albums.
"Newport Hospital" and "Long Piece No. 3" are the real deal, though, and sequencing them on a home-made CD or an MP3 device along with a few highlights from Egg's first album results in a 40-45-minute stretch of music worth remembering by this often-forgotten early Canterbury group."
both recorded from the original vinyl.
Enjoy.
(quotes taken from www.progreviews.com)
realized I accidentally uploaded these as .rar's of .wav files, so they're much larger than they need to be, but, hey the sound should be better than mp3.
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2143For pudding, here's the 'Pea Green Boat' monologue Stewart Lee recorded for the BBC.
Unsettling, funny.
here.
Unsettling, funny.
here.
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2144Can someone upload something by Rifle Sport? I really can't find anything by them and it's a band I definitely would like to listen to.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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2145nihil39 wrote:Can someone upload something by Rifle Sport? I really can't find anything by them and it's a band I definitely would like to listen to.
Thanks.
Message zom-zom. He has Rifle Sport records for sale.
Rifle Sport is easily a favorite of mine. Well worth the money.
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2146Ballbreaker: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tsxaym
Let There Be Rock: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tk78c7
High Voltage: http://www.sendspace.com/file/amskoc
Dirty Deeds: http://www.sendspace.com/file/2hzowb
Flick of the Switch: http://www.sendspace.com/file/dlg1bc
’74 Jailbreak: http://www.sendspace.com/file/fv2z27
For Those About To Rock: http://www.sendspace.com/file/b65l3o
Stiff Upper Lip: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ggv7av
Fly On the Wall: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7lezcy
Let There Be Rock: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tk78c7
High Voltage: http://www.sendspace.com/file/amskoc
Dirty Deeds: http://www.sendspace.com/file/2hzowb
Flick of the Switch: http://www.sendspace.com/file/dlg1bc
’74 Jailbreak: http://www.sendspace.com/file/fv2z27
For Those About To Rock: http://www.sendspace.com/file/b65l3o
Stiff Upper Lip: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ggv7av
Fly On the Wall: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7lezcy
ABC Group Documentation>New Music For Working People
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2147abcgroupdocumentation wrote:Ballbreaker: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tsxaym
Let There Be Rock: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tk78c7
High Voltage: http://www.sendspace.com/file/amskoc
Dirty Deeds: http://www.sendspace.com/file/2hzowb
Flick of the Switch: http://www.sendspace.com/file/dlg1bc
’74 Jailbreak: http://www.sendspace.com/file/fv2z27
For Those About To Rock: http://www.sendspace.com/file/b65l3o
Stiff Upper Lip: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ggv7av
Fly On the Wall: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7lezcy
Woah. This is awesome.
I appreciate this. I'm not gonna be buying music from these corporate rock behemoths anyway...so this is great.
It is unsettling, however. All this free music...it might be a bit much. It would take a really long time to download all this anyway...
Gotta run...got an appointment that just walked in.
kerble wrote:Ernest Goes to Jail In Your Ass
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2148Can anyone hook me up the Swans debut ep? Thank you.
Marsupialized wrote:I want a piano made out of jello.
It's the only way I'll be able to achieve the sound I hear in my head.
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2149abcgroupdocumentation wrote:I hate this thread and I want the admins to lock it