Avent-garde MOR albums

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Me and my brother were listening to Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden recently, and he commented that it is one of those records that could be both MOR AND somewhat off-kilter and experimental. Oddly enough for my brother, he was actually right. Mark Hollis is a real lounge singer, there's no denying it. I suggest that Tindersticks and latterday Mercury Rev also fall into this bracket. Any more suggestions?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stereolab - The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"... the first song in particular.

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here are a few:

Blue Hile - Hats

Thomas Dolby - Astronauts and Heretics

Furniture - The Wrong People

It's Immaterial - Life's Hard and then you Die/ and Song

The Woodentops - Giant

― DJ Martian, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My God, the last M.Rev album is dull. Back to the shop it goes.

― Nick Southall, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gastr del Sol - "Camofleur" - for which I owe Tom a 102 Beats That response shortly ::gulp::

― Dare, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bobby Conn. Hardcore MOR?

― dave q, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Prefab Sprout's Swoon - I reckon it pretty much sums up the genre.

― Jez, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this would be a julio-baiting thwead about MOR albums in the "avant garde" genre. Stefan Jaworczyn = The Corrs!

anyways, carry on

― bob zemko, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robert Wyatt- Rock Bottom

― brg30, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

vangelis - heaven & hell & every tomita record

― bob snoom, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

vangelis - blade runner ost

― nik, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

Robert Fripp - Exposure
Phil Collins - Face Value?

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

TUSK

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

The answer to this is "A Wizard A true Star"

― bidfurd, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

any roxy music album

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

prog in general

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Playing fast and loose with definitions of MOR here?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618BJ%2BbgojL._SS500_.jpg

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FS0ZU3W3L._SS500_.jpg

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

I had that BarbStreis album out of a charity shop.

What utter bobbins it was.

That "household items" symphony was purely a product placement scam.

And the duet with Ray Charles was excised.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I'd had it out of a charity shop!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

How about Man Jumping? An MOR connoisseur friend of mine described them as Level 42 meets Steve Reich.

― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Grout my office 9 am sharp tomorrow.

http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/barryryanlptop.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/tomdom25/yard.jpg

http://www.diversionprojects.org/images/When_Sex_Leers_Its_Inquisitive_Head.jpg

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Don't have that Barry Ryan album, must check it out

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

First two albums now handily available on one CD thusly.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Looks interesting

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

It sounds generally like Meatloaf sings Lionel Bart except it unaccountably turns into Berg's Wozzeck midsong. Sort of a Pharaoh Sanders to Scott's Coltrane.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

kitsch.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

I was gonna post A Tramp Shining, but I suppose The Yard Goes On Forever trumps the Tramp...

― henry s, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

er, Went...I hate when I do that!

― henry s, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Some Scott Walker records probably qualify for this.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but I was trying to think of less obvious ones, for instance:

http://graveyardshiftshane.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/watertown1.jpg

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

And hence:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/35573.jpg

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

The White Album?

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

In terms of that's all I could see when I clicked on that link...anyway...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NKCSYEFGL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

maybe?

http://www.creative-native.com/images2/albums/illuminations.jpg

― henry s, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Not strictly speaking MoR. But of course there is always:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51887ZWW53L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I, for one, eagerly anticipate Having Fun With Scott Walker On Stage

― henry s, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

or The Walkerilla

― henry s, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

(when he needs to break out of that ball-busting 4AD contract)

― henry s, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Playing fast and loose with definitions of MOR here?

my first thought was: playing fast and loose with the definitions of avant-garde.

― rockapads, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Both I suppose

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

oxymoron

avant-garde=out ahead of everyone else
mor=middle of the road, not out front and not at the rear

So, yeah, but all the same, maybe Gorecki's 3 or whatever. I guess what the question is getting at is music that has stylistic elements associated with the avant-garde but is simultaneously pleasurable in uncomplicated ways and totally unthreatening (and therefore not avant-garde at all).

― These Robust Cookies, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

this might be my favorite genre

― jaxon, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

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