Music For Middle-Brow Snobs:The Old Gospel Ship

Here’s the playlist for this week.

1. Country Gentlemen — Where No Cabins Fall (Calling My Children Home)
2. Aborted — Odious Emanation (Slaughtered & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture)
3. Vader — Testimony (The Ultimate Incantation)
4. Enslaved — Heimdallr (The Forest Is My Throne)
5. Satyricon — The Forest Is My Throne (The Forest Is My Throne)
6. Drudkh — The Distant Cry of Cranes (Microcosmos)
7. Six Organs of Admittance — Invitation to the SR for Supper (Six Organs of Admittance)
8. Sian Alice Group — White (Troubled, Shaken, Etc.)
9. St. Vincent — Just the Same But Brand New (Actor)
10. Mandy Moore — Everblue (Amanda Leigh)
11. Ciara — I Don’t Remember (Fantasy Ride)
12. Ruby Vass — The Old Gospel Ship (Southern Journey vol. 4, Brethren, We Meet Again)

Download: The Old Gospel Ship.

Album titles are in parentheses so you can purchase the whole thing if you like a song and feel so inclined. Also, if you enjoy the set (or loathe it), do let me know in comments. Middle-brow snobs thrive on positive reinforcement.

0 thoughts on “Music For Middle-Brow Snobs:The Old Gospel Ship

  1. Uland iPod on "shuffle" playlist:

    1. Capture of Fire, Sentenced,North From Here
    2. Blackout, Scorpions, Blackout
    3.Where No Light Hath Shone, Catacombs, In the Depths of R'yleh
    4.Warrior, Thin Lizzy ( unkown album)
    5.The Great Curve, Talking Heads, Remain in Light
    6. Clouds in my House, Voivod, Angel Rat
    7. Beast, Brian Eno, Headcandy
    8. Modul 39, Nik Bartsch's Ronin, Holon
    9. Still Point, Andy Summers and Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked
    10. Advanced Corpse Tumor, Necrophagist, Epitaph
    11. Guide Vocal, Genesis, Duke
    12. Second Home by the Sea, Genesis, St
    13. Destroying Angels, Bohren and Der Club of Gore
    14. Prisoner of Love, Tin Machine, st
    15. The Garden, Guns n' Roses, Use your illusion 1

  2. Ha! That's great, Uland. Thanks.

    That Catacombs album is great. I haven't thought about Genesis in a long time; that's Phil Collins era, right? I don't know that I'm ready to revisit that…though I like some of the Peter Gabriel stuff….

    I've embarrassingly never listened to Voivod; I need to do that. And Tin Machine…wow. I really disliked that album, but it was a long, long time ago….perhaps I"d like it better now….

  3. Hey, it was a random draw! There are like two good songs on the Tin Machine album, and I am genuinely embarrassed over liking mid-period Genesis. The Phil Collins solo albums are on every hipster playlist, but Genesis? nope.

  4. Voivod is the greatest. Angel Rat is a weird album though. Fans love or hate it. They tapped into prog roots. I love it.

  5. I somehow never realized you were super into prog. That's great. Do you like the Ruins at all? I love that side project Koenjihiyaki….

    Solo Phil Collins is hip now? Good lord. I guess everything comes back around again….

  6. "I am genuinely embarrassed over liking mid-period Genesis. The Phil Collins solo albums are on every hipster playlist, but Genesis? nope."

    I guess between the two I'd prefer Collins w/ Genesis over solo Collins. There was a very early '90s Genesis single called something like "We Can't Dance" that I remember was really catchy, and a couple of other good Genesis tunes from the 80s, though I don't remember them now.

    Liked solo Collins ok: some good ones, some clinkers, some in between. Back then (the 80s), if you turned on the radio, you got Phil Collins solo material coming out of it. So I heard a lot of him.

  7. Okay, cuts 2-6 made me want to high, but I took the others and have made myself a nice playlist with favorites from the second batch you sent. From the second batch, I've assimilated the Silvester Anfug song and the Beastie Boys song, plus "translucent carriages".

    Drudkh I might be able to get eventually. But that Heimdallr and the other loud stuff — good God, what is it? Is that death rock too?

  8. Oh yeah, I meant cuts 2-6 made me want to hide, not "high." I don't think those songs would do me much good if I were on drugs.

  9. Track 2 (by Aborted) and 3 (by Vader) are death metal; track 4 (by Enslaved) and 5 (by Satyricon) are old school grungy black metal.

    Of them all, though, Drudkh is the one with Nazi leanings.

    Glad you liked the rest of it, though!