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Maggot Brain, of course.

The United States of America, self-titled.

Has anyone heard German Oak? I have one raw release by that 'Radioactive' label, and it is awesome. 'Rare', crazy, primitively-recorded psychedelia from the time...

Has anyone mentioned Plastic Crimewave Sound?

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mendoza wrote:Has anyone mentioned Plastic Crimewave Sound?

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Hey, yeah, these guys are awesome. Andy Ortmann, played 'noise' for them on some records...good stuff.

rayj wrote:Has anyone heard German Oak? I have one raw release by that 'Radioactive' label, and it is awesome. 'Rare', crazy, primitively-recorded psychedelia from the time...

Rayj, I've heard this. I didn't like it so much. I was quite excited by the prospect, but found it uninspired and lumpy -- which is a shame because I liked the idea of a krautrock band called Greman Oak. Maybe I'll give it another listen.

Sleeve note:

"We dedicate this record to our parents which had a bad time in World War 2"

Cranius wrote:

rayj wrote:Has anyone heard German Oak? I have one raw release by that 'Radioactive' label, and it is awesome. 'Rare', crazy, primitively-recorded psychedelia from the time...

Rayj, I've heard this. I didn't like it so much. I was quite excited by the prospect, but found it uninspired and lumpy -- which is a shame because I liked the idea of a krautrock band called Greman Oak. Maybe I'll give it another listen.

Sleeve note:

"We dedicate this record to our parents which had a bad time in World War 2"

Well, I'm admittedly easily amused. The album is pretty much one song...a long song.

rayj wrote:

Cranius wrote:

rayj wrote:Has anyone heard German Oak? I have one raw release by that 'Radioactive' label, and it is awesome. 'Rare', crazy, primitively-recorded psychedelia from the time...

Rayj, I've heard this. I didn't like it so much. I was quite excited by the prospect, but found it uninspired and lumpy -- which is a shame because I liked the idea of a krautrock band called Greman Oak. Maybe I'll give it another listen.

Sleeve note:

"We dedicate this record to our parents which had a bad time in World War 2"

Well, I'm admittedly easily amused. The album is pretty much one song...a long song.

Maybe talking about different albums...I've heard one that sounds like it was recorded in a draughty corridor and all the song titles are references to the Wagner's Seigfried.

Cranius wrote:

rayj wrote:

Cranius wrote:

rayj wrote:Has anyone heard German Oak? I have one raw release by that 'Radioactive' label, and it is awesome. 'Rare', crazy, primitively-recorded psychedelia from the time...

Rayj, I've heard this. I didn't like it so much. I was quite excited by the prospect, but found it uninspired and lumpy -- which is a shame because I liked the idea of a krautrock band called Greman Oak. Maybe I'll give it another listen.

Sleeve note:

"We dedicate this record to our parents which had a bad time in World War 2"

Well, I'm admittedly easily amused. The album is pretty much one song...a long song.

Maybe talking about different albums...I've heard one that sounds like it was recorded in a draughty corridor and all the song titles are references to the Wagner's Seigfried.

Oh, that's it. I liked it, but I smoke a lot of pot...

I want to contribute a couple albums that I've always felt to be extremely psychedelic, but which aren't at all "psychedelic rock" (man).

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - You can feel the weed as soon as they rip into "Sweet Leaf." Totally psychedelic.

PiL - Second Edition and/or The Flowers of Romance - Possibly Flowers more than Second Edition, because the drugs, the insanity, and the experimentalism are off the charts on Flowers - not that they weren't on Second Edition, but this is crazyass shit. The songs aren't as good on Flowers, though.

Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension - This album, to me, is the "Second Edition" of the '90's. Yeah, it's hip-hop, but A) who cares, and B) even people who don't dig hip-hop (and do dig challenging, great music) should like this. Or "trip-hop," if you want, but with Tricky, that label is misapplied, even if he was in Massive Attack. This is NOT music you can chill out to, but it's suffused with pot. It's weird - the lyrics honestly aren't too great, but the music itself is that good, genuinely innovative and difficult. The album's about as dark as an abandoned mineshaft, with arctic, truly evil electronics and beats offset by the warmth of Martina's lovely voice and the pot-blasted rasp of Tricky's hideous croak, lyrics full of drug-fueled paranoia and hatred, fucked-up guitar, keyboard, drums, and other instruments wavering in and out of the dubby mix (the album was recorded over four weeks in Jamaica during 1996), and weird moments a-plenty. To me, it's really psychedelic. Everyone should try and find this one - there are a couple numbers which aren't too compelling, but the best songs here map out territory for hip-hop which simply has not been explored before.

Bullwackie's All Stars - Africa Roots, Act I - A dub compilation from Lloyd Barnes, the Bronx dub impresario of the '80's. Perfect instrumental dub to mellow out to. I bet you could start smelling colors if you got high while listening to this.

The first two SRC lps are good (S/T and Milestones), and you can find reissues on eBay for cheap. Imagine the Amboy Dukes with Colin Blunstone on vocals.

Tons of great FUZZ guitar.

Good ol' Detroit RAWK.
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