30 day music meme #5

[beer_good_foamy]

5. A song that needs to be played loud
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

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Literally. You have not heard MBV until you've heard them at ear-splitting volume. Kevin Shields writes songs that are supposed to harmonize with the screaming in your eardrums. Live, the breakdown in the middle of this song can go on for 20 minutes of blissful chaos. No, of course it's not healthy, but it's incredible.

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[petzipellepingo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmckWVPRaI

[beer_good_foamy]

No wonder the dad in that video went on to live in a church beneath Sunnydale... :)

[cjlasky7]

Loud? Loud?! LOUD?!!!!

(I'm sorry, where was I? Oh yeah...)

Loud? Metallica, Sabbath, AC/DC, Joan Jett....

Can we just say "The Who" and end this right here?

But if I have to pick one track here, one that has to be played at maximum volume so the vibrations can sink into your bones, I have to go with "Red" by King Crimson. It's one of Fripp's Escher-like chord progressions, elegant and symmetrical, but with a power that bypasses all your thought processes and goes right to your primitive forebrain.

I was going to go with the original 1974 version, but then I remembered Adrien Belew saying the Fripp/Belew/Levin/Bruford version of Crimson could "peel wallpaper from ten miles."

[Cjl nods head]

You win, Adrien.

https://youtu.be/bXJdoosrIiQ

[beer_good_foamy]

Oh, I see what you mean. For some weird reason I never got into KC and I keep meaning to. I really should finally do something about that.

[cjlasky7]

I'll tell you what: I've been thinking about Don Ellis ever since you posted that performance. Crimson also specializes in odd time signatures, so maybe we would both enjoy an exchange of album recommendations--three KC for three DE.

My end:

RED (1974)
DISCIPLINE (1981)
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING (1969)

[beer_good_foamy]

Sold! (And thanks!)

My Don Ellis intro would be three albums he put out in 1967-1968: Live At Monterey (that's the one that opens with "33 222 1 222"), Electric Bath ("Turkish Bath" is not only in 7/4, but it's in quartertones as well) and Autumn ("Pussy Wiggle Stomp" is sort of his hit).

Then I'll just toss in "Bulgarian Bulge" as well just because there are only so many jazz tunes in 33/16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYtWvavvYg

[thenewbuzwuzz]

That's not for me, but "supposed to harmonize with the screaming in your eardrums" is a hell of a description :))

[beer_good_foamy]

Thanks! It's as close as I get to explaining it. There's this weird thing that happens when you're getting hammered by 120+ decibels of noise where your entire body - and especially your head - turns into a resonating chamber and just starts feeding back.