Recommend me some Muffins...

[zombywoof]

Hi,

Looking to become acquainted with The Muffins. What is a good album to put on my Christmas list?

[Scott Bails]

Blueberry, Chocolate chip, I usually love a good Lemon Poppy Seed.












Sorry - couldn't resist. :D

[nosebone]

Manna/Mirage for 70s Muffins and Bandwidth for 00s Muffins.

[markwoll]

Manna/Mirage

mark

[zombywoof]

Blueberry, Chocolate chip, I usually love a good Lemon Poppy Seed.


Some people like cupcakes better, I for one, care less for them...

[NogbadTheBad]

Manna/Mirage

[UnephenStephen]

Blueberry, Chocolate chip, I usually love a good Lemon Poppy Seed.
Sorry - couldn't resist. :Dyeah, and you beat me to it.

[Udi Koomran]

Chronometers

[Progbear]

<185>. It was my first taste, and I never looked back.

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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

"That's my purse! I don't know you!" --Bobby Hill

N.P.:“Flamenco Bay”-Mythos/Concrete City

[jazzcat]

Manna Mirage AND 185 and then keep going from there...:up

[Hobo Chang Ba]

<185>
Manna/Mirage
Open City
Double Negative
Chronometers

My top 5.

[aplodon]

Manna/Mirage
<185>
Chronometers

These are probably my favorites, but it's a hard pick. If you get these, I think you have a bit of everything from their output.
Then get the rest. Bandwith is my least favorite.

[zombywoof]

Okay, seeing lot of Manna / Mirage. Can you tell me a bit about this album?

[nosebone]

Okay, seeing lot of Manna / Mirage. Can you tell me a bit about this album?

Its a late 70s moody Canterbury/Zappa influenced work with two short tracks and two long tracks.

Manna/Mirage reminds me of early Supersister, with lots of flute and Rhodes piano.

Lo-Fi recording, but don't let that dissuade you, its a charming piece of art.

[zombywoof]

Its a late 70s moody Canterbury/Zappa influenced work with two short tracks and two long tracks.


Sounds fantastic.

[Steve F.]

Lo-Fi recording.
I think it's more like 'mid-fi', but your point is certainly correct.



but don't let that dissuade you, its a charming piece of art..

:)

happy to agree with that

[ohiomark]

Okay, seeing lot of Manna / Mirage. Can you tell me a bit about this album?

Try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9i5Z6LMHgI&playnext=1&list=PLUXl043M6v4P9oRwAlJ-xOgVI0Of2ozVG&feature=results_main

[zombywoof]

Okay, everyone. I got Manna / Mirage for Christmas and I'm loving it. Thanks!!

[Scrotum Scissor]

I got Manna / Mirage for Christmas and I'm loving it.

You'd probably want to hear either Chronometers (pre-debut demos and outtakes of very good sound quality; the lengthy title track in particular shows the path directly towards M/M) or the outtakes/live/leftover comp Open City. The latter features two of my fave recordings by an American progressive band ever, namely the anarchically structured frenzy of "Boxed and Crossed" and the 13-minute "Not Alone", containing some of the most death defyingly bold live performances I know (with some of the gutsiest drumming imaginable from a "rock" group).

I love 185 as well, but it's perhaps a bit more, er, "deliberately" out there as far as pure weirdness goes. I couldn't say which of these albums are still in print on CD, though.

[zombywoof]

^ I'll probably end up getting it all at some point. The Muffins are my kind of band!

[nosebone]

I love 185 as well, but it's perhaps a bit more, er, "deliberately" out there as far as pure weirdness goes.

185 was the Fred Frith takeover album....right?

[Scrotum Scissor]

185 was the Fred Frith takeover album....right?

Right. It's edgier and more angular and aggressive, but still very much The Muffins IMHO. Still, the Cuneiform CD reissue retained both the original LP Frith mix and the raw (or unaltered/untampered, "live") mix, and both are great.

[Harbottle]

English Muffins are the best, not those horrendous blobs of fat and sugar Starbucks sell as 'Muffins'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_muffin

[NogbadTheBad]

English Muffins are the best, not those horrendous blobs of fat and sugar Starbucks sell as 'Muffins'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_muffin:):up