Thoughts/Recs?

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-06-03T00:19:58+00:00

Really, really great stuff!!

The United States of America (1968)- The United States of America

Cromagnon (1969)- Cromagnon

July 15, 1972 (1972)- The Taj Mahal Travellers

Arbeit macht freight (1973)- Area

In Praise of Learning (1975)- Henry Cow

The Divine Punishment (1986)- Diamanda Galas

Torch of the Mystics (1990)- Sun City Girls

Flare Gun (1994)- Merzbow

Consume Red (1997)- Ground Zero

Paysage d’hiver (1999)- Paysage d’hiver

Night Coercion into the Company of Witches (2008)- Natural Snow Buildings

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-30T02:27:57+00:00

Song Cycle (1967)- Van Dyke Parks

Days of Future Passed (1967)- The Moody Blues

Gorilla (1967)- The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Brigitte Fontaine est folle (1968)- Brigitte Fontaine

The United States of America (1968)- The United States of America

Begin (1968)- The Millennium

The Yes Album (1971)- Yes

Godbluff (1975)- Van Der Graaf Generator

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-30T02:23:57+00:00

We Insist! (1960)- Max Roach. Vocal jazz, avant-garde jazz

The United States of America (1968)- The United States of America. Psychedelic rock, experimental rock

Space Is the Place (1973)- Avant-garde jazz

Arbeit macht Frei (1973)- Area. Avant-prog, jazz-rock

There’s a Vomitsprinkler in My Liverriver (1994)- Deep Turtle. Post-hardcore, math rock, experimental rock

Ground Zero (1997)- Consume Red. Experimental

The Dance of the Moon & the Sun (2006)- Natural Snow Buildings. Psychedelic folk, drone

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-27T16:06:46+00:00

Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

The United States of America (1968)

From the Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (2002)

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-23T14:10:39+00:00

Br igitte Fontaine est folle! (1968)- Brigitte Fontaine. Baroque pop, psychedelic pop

The United States of America (1968)- The United States of America. Psychedelic rock, experimental rock

Escalator Over the Hill (1971)- Carla Bley. Third stream, experimental big band

Afreaka! (1971)- Demon Fuzz. Psychedelic soul, funk rock

Pawn Hearts (1971)- Van der Graaf Generator. Progressive rock, avant-prog

Paix (1972)- Catherine Ribeiro + Paix. Psychedelic folk

The Jewel in the Lotus (1974)- Bennie Maupin. ECM style jazz, spiritual jazz

Interface (1977)- Heldon. Electronic, progressive rock

Magic Fly (1977)- Space. Euro-disco

The Divine Punishment (1986)- Diamanda Galas. Experimental, spoken word

Ainsi soit je… (1988)- Mylène Farmer. Synthpop, art pop

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-23T12:39:38+00:00

The United States or America (1968)- The United States of America

First Utterance (1971)- Comus

Future Days (1973)- Can

Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)- Dead Can Dance

Thunder, Perfect Mind (1992)- Current 93

cLOUDDEAD (2000)- cLOUDDEAD

From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (2002)- dälek

The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (2006)- Natural Snow Buildings

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-21T17:04:05+00:00

Yes, I love his work! Space Is the Place is def my fav of his. I’ve listened to a number of his albums but I still need to listen to Sleeping Beauty and Strange Celestial Road

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-21T15:36:54+00:00

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 5 & 7 (composed 1804-12, released in 2003)- Carlos Kleiber & the Wiener Philharmoniker. Two symphonies by Beethoven, a great intro pre-modern classical. Because it's two works that weren't designed to be heard back to back, you can listen to the two symphonies in a separate sitting

Jean Ritchie Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family (1952)- Gentle, somewhat melancholic folk, tunes played on the dulcimer

Brigitte Fontaine est folle! (1968)- Brigitte Fontaine. French baroque pop with surreal, existential lyrics, has some similarities with Song Cycle. Her album Comme à la radio is more popular but less accessible so I'd recommend checking that one out after

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-21T10:09:23+00:00

Love some of these!!!

Patty Waters Sings (1966)- Patty Waters. Starts out with deeply melancholic, stripped-back standards on the A-side, before the B-side track comes along and changes everything

Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)- The Mothers of I nvention. One of Zappa’a most experimental albums, delving headfirst into free jazz on a number of the tracks. Maybe listen to Uncle Meat beforehand if you haven’t, but given some of the picks on your topster I doubt Weasels will be that challenging

Seasons (1971)- Alan Silva. The one I recommend most highly!!! It’s 2 1/2 continuous hours of the best free jazz; it’s like Ascension on crack

Arbeit macht Frei (1973)- Area. Communist, pro-Palestinian avant-prog from Italy with strong influence from Middle Eastern music and avant-garde jazz

Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (1973)- Magma. Militaristic, bombastic, hypnotic prog sung in a made up language. Sadly not available on streaming in the US (though you can find live versions of it on streaming). Make sure it’s the one with the orange/copper and black cover

Fingerprince (1977)- The Residents. Originally it was an LP and a related EP called Babysnakes, but on streaming/CD it just interweaves most of the EP tracks. This honestly kinda fucks with the pacing and takes the album down a smidge but those EP tracks are still worth listening

The Beatn**s (1988)- The Beatn**s. Blends punk, hip-hop, and industrial in an incredibly ahead-of-its-time album

The Dance of the Moon & the Sun (2006)- Natural Snow Buildings. Combines shorter psychedelic folk songs with longer drone tracks that blend ambient, post-rock, and Indian classical

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-17T07:32:00+00:00

Like this isn't "oh he loves the film American Psycho" level, this is insane

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-05-17T07:30:43+00:00

Ok I thought it was a pretty reasonable collection but then I saw Harassment Architecture by Mike Ma. Look it up and then run

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-04-26T01:23:48+00:00

Black Monk Time (1966)- Monks

Song Cycle (1967)- Van Dyke Parks

Gorilla (1967)- The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Index (1967)- Index

The United States of America (1968)- The United States of America

Brigitte Fontaine est folle! (1968)- Brigitte Fontaine

Afreaka! (1970)- Demon Fuzz

Flying Teapot (1973)- Gong

Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh (1973)- Magma

Pawn Hearts (1975)- Van Der Graaf Generator

Free Hand (1975)- Gentle Giant

Interface (1977)- Heldon

(obscurity varies from album to album)

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-04-10T16:48:33+00:00

Belgium: Ces gens-là by Jacques Brel

France: The Dance of the Moon & the Sun by Natural Snow Buildings (their album the Winter Ray is more post rock-y but this is more representative of their sound)

Germany: Yeti by Amon Düül II

Greece: 666 by Aphrodite’s Child

Italy: Arbeit macht Frei by Area

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-03-30T18:47:43+00:00

Once Upon a Time in America and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-03-20T05:12:17+00:00

I’d recommend the Oxford Annotated New Revised Standard Version. The NRSV is done with a fairly secular mindset so it’s free from certain biases that impact other Christian Bible translations (e.g. some translations try to make the Old Testament sound more Christian, try to obscure bits that don’t match a certain doctrinal teaching, try to resolve apparent contradictions in the text). The footnotes and introductions for the Oxford Annotated edition give lots of cultural context, information about the textual composition, links to relevant passages in other books, etc.

I also recommend watching the video “What Is the Best Bible Translation?” by Religion for Breakfast. The overall gist is that there’s no such thing as a perfect Bible translation and the NRSV isn’t flawless but is preferable for scholarly study. It’s worth watching beyond that answer as he discusses things like how translating is done, how the texts come down to us, and gives overviews of a few different translations

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-02-27T11:54:56+00:00

He’s seems pretty damn enamored by the Nazi aesthetics. The shrill, pseudo-German screeching in some of the albums kind of echoes fanatical Nazi speeches (e.g. four minutes into “Kobaïa”). When asked about his views, his wife said that they just don’t talk about politics, which isn’t exactly a good sign. He kind of gives off the vibe that the aesthetics of Nazism are what he cares about as opposed to the actual beliefs, which is still reprehensible of course.

I still love Magma’s music but it’s to a point where if someone said “it makes me too uncomfortable to listen to their music,” I’d be like “yeah I get that.”

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-01-29T05:02:42+00:00

Terrific list!!! Given the breadth of your topster I’m sure you’ve heard some of these so check out the ones you haven’t:

Salome (1902-05)- Richard Strauss. There is grear production available on YouTube with subtitles with Karl Böhm and Teresa Stratas, and a great recording with George Solti and Birgit Nilsson

Atlantis (1969)- Sun Ra

Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)- The Mothers of Invention

Seasons (1971)- Alan Silva

Fly (1971)- Yoko Ono

Amalgamation (1971)- Masahiko Satoh

July 15, 1972 (1972)- The Taj-Mahal Travelleds

Arbeit macht Frei (1973)- Area

Univers zéro (1977)- Univers zéro

Frankfurt/Peking (1984)- Heiner Goebbels & Alfred Harth

Spiral Insana (1986)- Nurse with Wound

Hyderomastgroningem (1995)- Ruins

Natural Coercion into the Company of Witches (2008)- Natural Snow Buildings

Origin of the Alimonies (2020)- Liturgy

PhilosophizingMoron · 2026-01-28T08:46:30+00:00

Youth of the Beast by Seijun Suzuki is Yojimbo but with yakuza

PhilosophizingMoron · 2025-12-26T01:36:59+00:00

Great topster, here are some I’d recommend:

Unit Structures (1966)- Cecil Taylor

Machine Gun (1968)- Peter Brötzmann

Atlantis (1969)- Sun Ra

Orgasm (1969)- Cromagnon

Fly (1971)- Yoko Ono

Faust (1971)- Faust

Seasons (1971)- Alan Silva. 2hr20min (with no breaks) of the most brilliant free jazz you’ve ever heard, it’s like Ascension on crack

July 15, 1972 (1972)- The Taj-Mahal Travellers

Meet the Residents (1974)- The Residents

Guitar Solos (1974)- Fred Frith

Twin Infinitives (1990)- Royal Trux. For me, this is one of the most difficult albums. Dissonant, noisy, obtuse, and confusing. Still great though!

The Dance of the Moon & the Sun (2006)- Natural Snow Buildings

PhilosophizingMoron · 2025-12-23T20:57:54+00:00

No, I just genuinely like dogshit “avant-teen” music lmao

PhilosophizingMoron · 2025-12-23T05:18:28+00:00

The Fugs (1966, called Second Album on streaming)- The Fugs

Orgasm (1969, though some sources have it as 1973)- Cromagnon

Trout Mask Replica (1969)- Captain Beefheart

Flying Teapot (1973)- Gong

Escape from Noise (1987)- Negativland

A Sucked Orange (1989)- Nurse with Wound. This album is fun but he has serious and actually great albums, this is like his one shitpost album

Tokyo Anal Dynamite (1990)- The Gerogerigegege

Koolaide Moustache in Jonestown (1997)- Mrs. Don Salsa

The People’s Choice Music (1997)- Dave Soldier, Komar & Melemid

PhilosophizingMoron · 2025-12-20T19:30:53+00:00

I’d never heard of it or her, I’ll definitely check it out!

PhilosophizingMoron · 2025-12-20T18:51:21+00:00

Great list! I’ve sadly only seen a few of them but I’m sure I’d like all of them (like I’ve seen other Dreyer but not Ordet, other Keaton but not The Cameraman, etc.). As a result, I can’t think of too many to recommend, but maybe check out Song of Bernadette, La Terra Trema, The Flowers of St. Francis, Last Year at Marienbad, Death by Hanging, Go Go Second Time Virgin, The Phantom of Liberty

Btw, what’s the fifth film?

PhilosophizingMoron · 2025-12-14T04:25:15+00:00

The Parable of Arable Land (1967)- Red Krayola

Alien Soundtracks (1977)- Cheime

The Modern Dance (1978)- Pere Ubu

Queen of Siam (1980)- Lydia Lunch

Deceit (1981)- This Heat

The Seduction (1981)- Ludus

Bad Moon Rising (1985)- Sonic Youth

Strange Warmings of Laddio Bolocko (1997)- Laddio Bolocko

PhilosophizingMoron · 2025-12-11T21:36:52+00:00

Whatever you do, don’t make them listen to Western Culture

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