Galaxie 500- On Fire & This Is Our Music. 1989 & 1990

Ah the magical heydays of the 90's. I mostly think of endless summer slip n' slides, crappy uncomfortable clothes, directionless excursions... These two albums unquestionably had an impact on the proceeding bands to its time. Ending up with a unique glimmering atmospheric twist of simple guitar, whiny vocals, and a lackadaisical style of songwriting helped turn this music into awesomeness. If you can handle enough reverb to drown cats... then this great seminal band will be just for you


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The Beach Boys- Surfer Girl. 1963

Alright, here's an extra present. Cuz i kinda like you all..

Hope everyone had an awesome holiday. Ride The Silver Rocket!


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The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds. 1966

Alright.. we have the beach boys. This album comes in a long lost top top list of something I made for myself in early high school when I was extremely polar about pretty much everything. This is some great elder music, even if its not the satan worshiping, psychedelic head fuck contest I've been settling with lately. This is a good example of balance between the ongoing battle of the good and evil in rock. In which case, neither really have to suck. Some of the beach boys songs are so goddamn corny you can barely recuperate to get another serving, but then realizing you have no free will beyond your conscious mind you are forced to dive deep into another round of #1's. Aside from those, I think there is a purity to their albums that is rarely attained with any other group. Its hard to think that these guys really made all these songs with influences they had at the time. I guess it makes sense.


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High Rise- Dispersion. 1992

Fucking sweet heavy psychedelic Japanese trio. In what looks like a huge attempt for an old psyche revival, High Rise got what they were looking for. With oozing bass lines, crunchy guitar chords, and a screeching lightning fire guitar the music actually sounds like it was recorded pre-70's. I really enjoyed the segments of the far reaching and drawn out amount of wah to the point of a self-image destroying air guitar reenactment. In a couple other places the singer, when he decides to sing, seems to be drowned out through much of the remainder of audial violence. Siiiiiiiiiick.


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Mellow- Another Mellow Spring. 2001

This grammofonplade ended up with a good conjuncture of an older rock aesthetic and a blissful sunshine kiss of electronic synth/pop to make it much less bumpy. Neither get in the way of one another and without doubt can be heard balancing the other out. Most of the vocals are translated through a vocoder with a plethora of different effects giving off the feel of being caught in a conversation with... lets say, this guy --->


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Arthur Brown- The Crazy World of Arther Brown. 1968

Arthur Brown. Having many outrageous and deeply theatrical live performances, careening music ensembles, a four octave vocal range, a witchdoctor getup, AND a tribal painted face threw this loon into stardom instantly. This album is extremely entertaining if you can get around the absurdity of it all. With the rest of the band dressed up as henchmen from the dark ages, he floats around the stage with a head full of fire. Musically, I'm a sucker for the classic electric organ which has a big role in almost every song. Flutes, brass, and strings all come in very appropriately forcing the scale of the whole thing into huge conflagration. This album most certainly has the best song intro ever with "Fire". Definitely great unique freak out music.


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Mojave 3- Ask Me Tomorrow. 1996

Making the terrifying jump from the former band Slowdive, to the latter band Mojave 3 took me an effort of great proportion. It was about a year and a half until I finally gave them a chance only to find that they sought out much of the same slow and pleasing feel as Slowdive. This time around the new lineup used slide guitars and ol' timey pianos in place of most of the effects pedals of Slowdive. I think the music is classified as dream pop/folk country, which listens better than it reads. The range from pleasant to somber is quite striking for their first album. This is a truly stunning bittersweet, and unbearably beautiful piece of music. Great album.


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Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation. 1988

Well, here's to the title of the blog. The 2nd song goes over it pretty well. This album remains an all time favorite for me. It was not only a great stepping stone when I was a stolid prepubescent, but easily one of the most influential, "you can do that?" albums. Maybe it just sounded like I felt, or the other way around, but cheers to forever being burned into the frontal lobes of my brain.

The entire thing goes into a very dissonant and messy reverberating ordeal. A few of the songs last for around seven minutes, which mostly consist of long segments of experimentation with an immense growing power. Daydream Nation is it, Ride The Silver Rocket.


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Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt. 2004

Dungen, pronounced dune-yen, is a good time warp back to the early years. Most of the music is extremely catchy at first, then drifting on into jam session land where the album really gets to take shape. The album's lyrics turn into a mesmerizing theme, especially after you have no idea what the hell he is saying, due to the fact Gustav Ejstes sings in his native Swedish tongue. Hopefully, he is saying something nice. The album left me with a very comfy and snug mood after the whole, 50 minutes of getting lost in a wondrous music coma thing. For die hard, psychedelic ragers out there, this won't disappoint.


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The Skygreen Leopards- Life & Love in Sparrow's Meadow. 2005

Lovely sunshine rock here. The album cover kind of reminds me of when my sister got a "How to Draw Fairies" book for her birthday when she was, well, way too old for that kinda crap. Like most things, it got lost in my closet until just recently. Picking up the book, and learning about the different types of fairies, including their eating habits, weaknesses/strengths, and most importantly, spells, threw me down a deep well of cloyingly saturated rainbow flavored candy cane happy time. Considering I'm not going to even try to draw a fairy, the book itself has actually been one of the most educating reads I've gone through in a long time. Long live Fen Yewfrost.

The album is full of dirty hippie smiles, and recorder riffs. Yes, that's right, recorder riffs. Just try to picture the fairies.


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