Cardiacs--where to start?

[at least 100 dead]

Hmm. Someone on facebook posted that TS is back in the studio, working. Anyone know if that’s really true?

EDIT: Here's the exact message by some bloke named "Robin Webley", whoever that is:

Tim Smith is back in the studio. Can't begin to explain how happy I am for the fact that A) I'm going to hear his music (no matter how small an input) B) that he has recovered enough to do so. Tim you are the man . I'm so pleased you can do what you were put here to do. And thanks to the pondies who funded your recovery .

EDIT 2: Ah, now I know! It's in reference to the official press release, which unequivocally states:

Following Tim Smith’s accident in 2008 and subsequent health issues ever since, no new material has been released since 2007. Smith, however, was able to return to his studio in 2015 to supervise the additional recording and painstaking process necessary to complete this lost masterpiece (i.e. On the Dry Land).

[Sterbus]

Hmm. Someone on facebook posted that TS is back in the studio, working. Anyone know if that’s really true?

EDIT: Here's the exact message by some bloke named "Robin Webley", whoever that is:

Tim Smith is back in the studio .
Can't begin to explain how happy I am for the fact that A) I'm going to hear his music (no matter how small an input)
B) that he has recovered enough to do so.
Tim you are the man . I'm so pleased you can do what you were put here to do. And thanks to the pondies who funded your recovery .

Robin Webley is a good guy

"Smith, however, was able to return to his studio in 2015 to supervise the additional recording and painstaking process necessary to complete this lost masterpiece."

https://organthing.com/2016/08/26/or...ous-new-album/

[at least 100 dead]

^^

You beat me to it by a second! Awesome, thanks.

[Sterbus]

I posted another link from the same "Organ thing" on the Sea Nymphs thread, it's great, find it!

[aith01]

Something I was wondering, and thought could be fun, is what everyone's favorite bands/artists are (or were, if Cardiacs have since taken that spot).

All of our tastes seem potentially rather diverse, and yet we all like Tim Smith and his various musical morphologies, so it makes me really curious. Maybe a Top 5, if you folks are game for it?

I'll even go out on a limb and play first.

1) Genesis
2) Steely Dan
3) The Beatles
4) Yes
5) Cardiacs

[Phlakaton]

Something I was wondering, and thought could be fun, is what everyone's favorite bands/artists are (or were, if Cardiacs have since taken that spot).

All of our tastes seem potentially rather diverse, and yet we all like Tim Smith and his various musical morphologies, so it makes me really curious. Maybe a Top 5, if you folks are game for it?

I'll even go out on a limb and play first.

1) Genesis
2) Steely Dan
3) The Beatles
4) Yes
5) Cardiacs

Hmmm...

1) Zappa
1) Cardiacs (Yup... I cant decide but lately I'd have Cardiacs squarely in #1)
3) Egg
4) Gentle Giant
5) Henry Cow

Man...that is HARD. I'd have Mats/Morgan Band in that top 5 from time to time too.

[NogbadTheBad]

Univers Zero
Mike Oldfield
King Crimson
Henry Cow
Thinking Plague

[chalkpie]

Something I was wondering, and thought could be fun, is what everyone's favorite bands/artists are (or were, if Cardiacs have since taken that spot).

All of our tastes seem potentially rather diverse, and yet we all like Tim Smith and his various musical morphologies, so it makes me really curious. Maybe a Top 5, if you folks are game for it?

I'll even go out on a limb and play first.

1) Genesis
2) Steely Dan
3) The Beatles
4) Yes
5) Cardiacs

Oh boy - nearly impossible - and I am just going to list my fav's in some random order (as numbering them would make it even more impossible):

Cardiacs (are they listed here first for a reason....hmmmm?)
FZ
Hatfield and the North
Bob Drake
Tull

I apologize for excluding the Cow, Marcoeur, Magma, KC, Genesis, Anglagard, Necromonkey, Waits, Beardfish, Health, Egg, Soft Machine, PFM, GG, Can, This Heat, Sleepytime, and a few others.

-Now - if I have to cheat and go with orchestral composers:

Ives
Mahler
Sibelius
Ligeti
Ravel

It literally pains me to the point of bleeding leaving out other dudes such as Messiaen, Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich, Bach, RVW, Debussy, Morricone, Dowland, Varese, Partch, Webern, Schoenberg, etc but there 'ya go.

Nice idea, man

[Phlakaton]

Oh boy - nearly impossible - and I am just going to list my fav's in some random order (as numbering them would make it even more impossible):

Cardiacs (are they listed here first for a reason....hmmmm?)
FZ
Hatfield and the North
Bob Drake
Tull

I apologize for excluding the Cow, Marcoeur, Magma, KC, Genesis, Anglagard, Necromonkey, Beardfish, Health, Egg, Soft Machine, PFM, GG, Can, This Heat, Sleepytime, and a few others.

-Now - if I have to cheat and go with orchestral composers:

Ives
Mahler
Sibelius
Ligeti
Ravel

It literally pains me to the point of bleeding leaving out other dudes such as Messiaen, Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich, Bach, Debussy, Dowland, Varese, Partch, Webern, Schoenberg, etc but there 'ya go.

Nice idea, man

My apologies list - haha - King Crimson, Cheer-Accident, Soft Machine, Hatfield & the North, National Health, Magma, Thinking Plague, The Muffins -.... ahhhhhh!

Composers --- Bartok! Ligeti, Penderecki, Varese, Ravel

[chalkpie]

My apologies list - haha - King Crimson, Soft Machine, Hatfield & the North, National Health, Magma, Thinking Plague, The Muffins -.... ahhhhhh!

Composers --- Bartok! Ligeti, Penderecki, Varese, Ravel

That's a pretty nice 'apologies list' you have there - better than some 'proper lists'

[NogbadTheBad]

Univers Zero
Mike Oldfield
King Crimson
Henry Cow
Thinking Plague

Apologies to Hatfield, Sleepytime, Vezhlivy Otkaz, Guapo, Knifeworld, The Future Kings Of England, Leonard Cohen, Black Sabbath, National Health, Roy Harper, Samla Mammas Manna

[battema]

1) Pink Floyd
2) Johannes Schmoelling
3) King Crimson
4) Ulver
5) (Reserved for revolving door of awesomeness...this week it is SubRosa)

[Phlakaton]

Apologies to Hatfield, Sleepytime, Vezhlivy Otkaz, Guapo, Knifeworld, The Future Kings Of England, Leonard Cohen, Black Sabbath, National Health, Roy Harper, Samla Mammas Manna

That newest Knifeworld... pheeeww! A real good 'un!

[JAMOOL]

(gonna exclude Cardiacs from this list, cuz what's the point)

1) Susumu Hirasawa
2) Underworld
3) Autechre
4) Yellow Magic Orchestra
5) Echolyn

[loosefish]

Other than youknowwho:

Ween
Mr Bungle
Kate Bush
Robert Wyatt
Broadcast

summat like that.

Sad to be leaving outs: XTC, Foetus, Melvins, Magma, NoMeansNo, Fugazi, Ruins, Neu!, Už Jsme Doma, Zappa, Beefheart, Steve Reich, Aphex Twin, Swans, Joy Division, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Scott Walker, Stars In Battledress, NSRO, Morricone, Bjork, Henry Cow, Sparks, Faust, Boredoms... yes this has become a 'kin list. I'm probably the least prog person here.

Composers: Messiaen, Bartok, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Sibelius.

[JAMOOL]

Oh yeah. If I get 6 then Ween is definitely on that list

[polmico]

Crimson
VdGG/PH
FZ
Faith No More
Dylan? I could see Cardiacs/Tim Smith jump in there once I've finished collecting everything.

Nice to see Bungle make a list.

[thedunno]

VDGG/PH
Bartok
KC
Debussy
Aranis

[Mr.Flower]

Other than youknowwho:

Ween
Mr Bungle
Kate Bush
Robert Wyatt
Broadcast

summat like that.

Sad to be leaving outs: XTC, Foetus, Melvins, Magma, NoMeansNo, Fugazi, Ruins, Neu!, Už Jsme Doma, Zappa, Beefheart, Steve Reich, Aphex Twin, Swans, Joy Division, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Scott Walker, Stars In Battledress, NSRO, Morricone, Bjork, Henry Cow, Sparks, Faust, Boredoms... yes this has become a 'kin list. I'm probably the least prog person here.

Composers: Messiaen, Bartok, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Sibelius.

"I'm probably the least prog person here." .... possibly not.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Pixies
Husker Du
REM
Neil Young

[Mr.Flower]

Starting another Cardiacs jag after a quiet couple of months. Preparing myself for the new Sea Nymphs.

So difficult to identify a favourite track as there's so many, but Buds & Spawn retains its place at the top of the tree. It gets me every single time, particularly the second half of that song. I'm surprised it doesn't get more love on this thread, it encapsulates everything that's wonderful about Cardiacs.

[thedunno]

Starting another Cardiacs jag after a quiet couple of months. Preparing myself for the new Sea Nymphs.

So difficult to identify a favourite track as there's so many, but Buds & Spawn retains its place at the top of the tree. It gets me every single time, particularly the second half of that song. I'm surprised it doesn't get more love on this thread, it encapsulates everything that's wonderful about Cardiacs.

Buds & Spawns is always killer live but I have to admit that it is one of my least favorite tracks on 'on land'. Says more about the absurd high quality of the rest of that album though...

[chalkpie]

Buds & Spawns is always killer live but I have to admit that it is one of my least favorite tracks on 'on land'. Says more about the absurd high quality of the rest of that album though...

That's funny - I do love the tune - but that is one Cardiacs tune that almost leaves me aurally exhausted by the end. Its like an intense blast of energy on an already pretty hyped-up ride.

[Mr.Flower]

I know what you mean, it is an exhausting track ... one of many. Maybe it is because it's towards the end of OLaitS and you're in need of some respite. It's just one of them tunes that gets me emotionally when they crank it up towards the end. I recall Kavus mentioning (i think, forgive me if i'm wrong) that it was exhausting to play too.

[battema]

That might actually be my favorite track on OLaitS! Probably said it before, but when I listen to it (especially the latter half) it reminds me of what Syd Barrett might've been doing in the 80's had he kept at music and stayed uber-wild & whimsical.

[Mr.Flower]

Nice!