TS: Psychedelic Underground vs. Super Roots 7

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i got two albums in the mail yesterday, amon düül's Psychedelic Underground, and the boredoms' Super Roots 7. both are dleone favorites IIRC, both employ tribal drumming, and i JUST GOT BOTH YESTERDAY!

so - whaddaya think? futuristic primitivism or primitivistic futurism? whats your pleasure?

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Psychedelic Underground = the Emperor's Neu Scheisse.

Boredoms = not interested.

You did ask.

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

SR7 in a landslide, though Psych-U is charming in its way. (maybe Boredoms were smarter by realizing you only needed to play for 20 minutes to make your point.)

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I need to listen to SR7 more. Something about it keeps it on my shelf, so I'm gonna say Psychedelic Underground -- it may be a lot sillier, but I throw it on a lot. Perhaps I'm not serious enough. If we were talking Super AE or Vision Creation Newsun, I'd have a whole different answer, for damn sure.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

when SR7 cranks into the super fast stuff at 10 minutes and then at 13 minutes, it annihilates me entirely. i value that. that said, i cant really make up my mind. "im garten sandosa" is just a fucking brilliant track, whether or not its just an excerpt of some 30-hour long jam session. it has basically everything i look for - repetition, distortion, noise...

im stuck. i refuse to choose.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe you should hook up two CD players and try one record in the left channel and one in the right. go to sleep wearing headphones. whichever side of the bed you fall off in the middle of the night, that's the one you like better...

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, wait a minute; maybe the one you're trying to escape from is the better one -- more fear! Reverse my prior diagnosis.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, my bedtime is pretty full of "curb your enthusiasm" these days...

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

but ill try to make some time for this seemingly worthy experiment.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ILM reviewers on the AMG fite!

Mark R.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

which do you prefer, ned?

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Still haven't heard SR7, alas. Doubtless it's dreamy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Psychedelic Underground is such a touchstone for the way the Boredoms went in the late 90's, it's tough to choose SR7 over the blueprint even if improvements have been made.

SR7 rocks harder & more precisely, but Psychedelic Underground is much more vividly 'who the fuck were these maniacs and who gave them a tape recorder'

Refuse to choose, they are both great.

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

IM Robot.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hapshash and the Coloured Coat

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

when SR7 cranks into the super fast stuff at 10 minutes and then at 13 minutes, it annihilates me entirely. i value that.
so true.

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

hey willem! you get yours yet?

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

pete, can you imagine how great it'll be when annie hits her psych-drone freakout phase? whew, boy.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

hi pete. no, nothing yet, it'll take a few more days i think (big ocean) :-)

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

I've just bought the only copy of Super Roots 7 in the entire city, in perhaps my most blatant attempt yet to curry favour with the Noize Board. Imagine my non-surprise, then (given their awesomeness on VCN, PT, SA) upon discovering that it's actually one of the most brilliant half-hours of music I've ever heard, although I'd argue that the best moment, the bit where it clicks into outright majesty, comes at some arbitrary point between 2:30 and 5:00 of the main song. It probably varies for different listeners, but at some point during that stretch, one realises. And then rejoices.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 20 May 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Are there any stereolab tracks like this?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Sunday, 20 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I may have to give 'Jenny Ondioline' another go now you've said that. Although I'm sure it won't compare.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 20 May 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 18 January 2008 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

OK seriously, anyone who doubts that SR7 is one of the crowning achievements in modern music needs to go do one

― Robin van Injury (country matters), Monday, 9 February 2009 13:08 (seventeen years ago)

Don't think I've recommended any other track as much.

― ogmor, Monday, 9 February 2009 14:16 (seventeen years ago)

The way it gets going in the first 3 minutes is a bit like a process by which numerous keys have to be turned and numerous codes sequenced before the device that explodes the Sun can be put into gear

― Robin van Injury (country matters), Monday, 9 February 2009 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

i saw this thread and was like WHOA WHATTA QUESTION LOL

um so in the 4+ years since starting this thread, ive drifted away from listening to either of these things! i think ive drifted farther from boredoms, so ill go with amon duul today.

― 69, Monday, 9 February 2009 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

but now im gonna go on ebay and see how much they both cost on LP

― 69, Monday, 9 February 2009 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

a lot

― sleeve, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

"Psychedelic Underground" is still one of the scariest, ugliest things ever nailed to tape.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 11:30 (seventeen years ago)

It creeps slowly toward Hell hand in hand with that Moolah lp.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 11:33 (seventeen years ago)

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