Stoner... Bit Of A Spin Off From The Music Thread But..

I have a really eclectic taste in music and I like everything from Mozart to Magma, depending upon what mood I'm in and I love being introduced to new bands.
As a genre, 'stoner' could be seen as a somewhat ambiguous or subjective label but it does kind of describe the overall mood of a piece perhaps, rather than its actual structure.
I do love ambient music and I've been hugely into Eno since my early teens, as well as more recent artists like William Orbit and Shpongle... and, despite the dismissal by some as being as aimed solely at 'stoners', a great deal of it is very well composed, complex, extremely well produced and I imagine will be looked back upon as being as valid as any other musical genre.

 

I think I've just stepped into a parallel universe.

 

Indeed.

I think I might post up a couple of examples to demonstrate what I see as the breadth of the genre...

.. starting with Eno and Byrne:

 

@Looby&Lew me too, whatever happened to that nice new pop group, i think they were called Abba or something

 

... through Shpongle (an excellent collaboration of Simon Posford and Raja Ram):

 

I remember them too! Weren't they around at the same time as the Brotherhood of Man.

 

... and here's something that isat the very dark end of the genre, De Furura by Magma (an amazing combination of fantasy, rock, jazz and opera - sung in the language of the Orcs):

 

In that case I prescribe something deeply facelessly silly...

 

Suzy quatrro singing can the can mmmmmm brings back memories

 

depends what type of munchies? chocolate or..........

 

Debbie Harry Pans people legal and co need I go on

 

hmmmm @ rug - whats one of them

 

I've had a quick listen but I don't think it's for me. I need a bit more disco and glitter ball! Then again it wouldn't do for us all to be the same

 

Ah happy memories of sitting in the back of various vans jamming and partying with the Ozrics and Nick Turner.

 

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Ooops, probably let slip a little too much there... word might spread.