Nowt but a common tealeaf

[chaffinch]

On the flip side, could this band Atoms For Peace be common tealeaves? This sounds like Radiohead doing 'Let Alone My Plastic Doll'. A bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJzkxhVvx0

[Fugazi]

On the flip side, could this band Atoms For Peace be common tealeaves? This sounds like Radiohead doing 'Let Alone My Plastic Doll'. A bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJzkxhVvx0

It sort of is, its Thom Yorke on vocals (with Flea from Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich in the band too), and first time I heard it my ears pricked up, those synth-y bits do sound like Let Alone...

cheers

Steve

[Made Of Worms]

Yeah, been meaning to post same.

[Fugazi]

The first time I heard The Whole World Window it reminded me of this old Procol Harum shanty :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweIiICisag

Still does, a bit. Lovely, lovely songs, both.

cheers

Steve

[Fugazi]

Someone on Cardiacs FB page spotted this 1984 XTC gem :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsH_ZlTv0A

I recorded the opening, sped the tempo up about 30% and raised the pitch two semi tones, and voila : Fiery Gun Hand!

Nothing wrong with having XTC as an influence. In fact one of the things I love about Cardiacs is spotting the little musical nods and homages Tim slips in... never mind all the lyric Pilfering from old hymns, poems and Moby Dick!

cheers

Steve

[Fugazi]

I did once say

I'd picked up some other "Cardiac-y" bits in various Van der Graaf Generator tracks, can't remember which ones at the moment, I'll have to hunt them down.

And I bloody meant it!

"A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDVpGqjOLlE

from 16:36 for a couple of minutes. Knew I'd find it eventually.

cheers

Steve

[abade]

On this very subject, It only just occurred to me recently how similar the instrumental bit of Duck & Roger is to the one in Return Of The Giant Hogweed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTuJQL8G ... age#t=414s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKQuh_RZ ... age#t=152s

See what I mean? Bladdy thieves!

If only Snardbafulator was still around to explain it in terms few of us can barely comprehend

Speaking of him... I just came across that old post.

Speaking of early Genesis, for the sake of making this post only slightly less useless and self-indulgent (nods to schlep ) than a correction, I can't resist noting that the intensely dissonant, non-diatonic chord progression in the Mellotron/organ outchorus of "Return of the Giant Hogweed" from Nursery Cryme seems to have served as some kind of template for the development of an important aspect of Tim Smith's harmonic language. Anyone else notice resemblances to the staccato chord sections of "The Duck and Roger the Horse" and "A Horse's Tail," not to mention other strikingly dissonant/out of mode chordal movements all throughout Cardiacs music?

[Pheeel]

Another one for the swipe file! I was just listening to "Faith Healer" by the Sensation Alex Harvey Band, and the opening line caught my ear - "If your body's feeling bad/and it's the only one you've had..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aabojNSensw

[schlep]

Another one for the swipe file! I was just listening to "Faith Healer" by the Sensation Alex Harvey Band, and the opening line caught my ear - "If your body's feeling bad/and it's the only one you've had..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aabojNSensw

And it's in my car.
Nice one! Good clip too. Hard to believe the SAHB actually existed in our universe.

[Fugazi]

Spotted by Marina Organ on that Facebook, another little bittie bit of thievery, perhaps :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSMCRD35ch4

...the start of Big Ship..? No surprise that Gong have influenced Timmy.

cheers

Steve

[Bubby]

Not likely, Miaow Miaow was a Bill Drake song

i believe you may have posted the wrong link.

[Fugazi]

Doh! Wrong bloody link. I'm like a stupid thing.

It was a Gong track I meant to post. I'll put up rhe correct link when I find it again.

cheers

Steve

[Bubby]

Not at all, 'meow mix' was great. Bob would love it!

[Fugazi]

It's this one :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADEQukHxtqk

Gong - Zero The Hero And The Witch's Spell, just the first 10 seconds or so.

cheers

Steve

[spanstick]

the middle bit of "food on the wall" is basically egg's "contrasong". just spotted that the other day.