The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135541 Message #3091725
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
09-Feb-11 - 08:59 AM
Thread Name: Desert Island Disks
Subject: RE: Desert Island Disks
Eight! Doh! Ah well, I suppose I could live without The Fall & Soft Machine...
All this stuff has deep personal significance; it's weathered a lot of transitions in taste & remains constant because it touches something deeper than merely liking it. Mayan Temples, for example, is (as far one can ever establish these things) the last studio album the Sun Ra ever made & quite possibly his finest. Dare one say definitive?
I've only recently discovered the pre-Autobahn Kraftwerk in the form of three albums (and a radio session) dismissed by Ralf Hutter as 'archaeology' and excluded from the re-release catalogue accordingly. Volume Three in particular is as perfect as music gets for me and whilst I might wish I'd heard it in my adolescence, it nevertheless touches the adolescent in me, inspiring that wonderment that maybe Camus was thinking about when he wrote about those great and simple images in the presence of which our hearts first open.
I could go on, but I won't, although it might be nice for anyone bothering with this thread to say why they choose these things.