Albums Chock Full of Ear Candy! (w/Martin Popoff)
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Talking Heads - Remain in light
Nine Inch nails - The Downward Spiral
Pink Floyd - Wish You were Here
The Cure - Disintegration
Mr Bungle - California
Probably the best sounding albums I have (and love).
Not quite in the realm of SoT, but ABBA is pure ear candy. From the hook filled songs and melodies to the fantastic vocals and arrangements. Pretty sweet stuff.
Agree 100 %. In terms of ear candy, my favorite song is probably "Eagle"; Benny's big synthesizer swells, Janne Schaffer's brilliant guitar soloing, Agnetha and Frida's harmony vocals... a majestic song!
Yes! Abba is the definition of ear candy, which to me means strong hooks and melodies, well arranged and produced! A lot of power pop is ofen described as ear candy and Cheap Trick is a band I think of when listing artists who put out a lot of ear candy! Beatles (obviously) Tom Petty, Badfinger, Raspberries, Big Star etc. Ear candy could also include bands like Steely Dan, whose music is just packed with tasty musicianship, incredible arrangements and stirring melodies, with production that constantly dazzles!
@@treff9226 Yeah, Steely Dan was one of the first to come to mind as well.
@@jeffreyrobinson9120 I had to blast some mutant creazoid the other day who actually typed these words: Steely Dan sucks and their music is shit! Cool if their not your bag, but in NO multiverse do Steely Dan suck......now Limp Bizkit.....suck the chrome of a trailer hitch! 😁 Cheers to our good taste, Jeffrey!
@@askoholli9306 mine too, Eagle is everything great about ABBA, encapsulated in one song. Gives me the feels every time I hear it, aural beauty with those amazing vocal harmonies and heaven sent synths! Sweden amazes with the musical talent they share with the world! Finally picked up ABBA's comeback album from a few years ago - sure it will deliver! Dig your taste in music!
The first 4 records by the original line-up of 10CC is total ear candy to me. The songs, the mix, everything. Also, early Brian Eno...China My China with the typewriter solo! Great video guys!
Gentle Giant are ear candy to me. Their arrangements, lush symphonic sounds, blending of musical genres. The title track of ‘Three Friends’, the final song on that album, epitomises this just as one example but there are many more from that band. Barclay James Harvest and the Moody Blues also give me a similar audio feeling.
I have to add one album to the ear candy mix, and that would be "A Night At The Opera" from Queen. This album is just full of sound effects, operatic harmonies and guitar trickery; it's a text book on how to be creative in the studio. I don't think there is an album that I have listened to more in my life, and it's still a thrill every time I put on the headphones and crank it up. Every song is different from every other song on the album in groove, style and feel. I remember reading an interview with Brian May in an old issue of Guitar Player from the early 80's where he described how he laid in the "jazz band" horns on "Good Company" on tape note by note from his guitar. Just amazing work and so creative; pure ear candy.
You have to consider early Queen, particularly with their regular use of choral/backing vocals which for me lifted the music even higher.
Ear candy is all personal taste. Queen's vocals are like nails on a chalkboard for me
Breakfast in America has a bunch of ear candy too
I consider "Ear Candy" those albums that grabbed you from day one, and can still give you goose bumps to this day. Something that you don't have to be in the mood for to listen to. There are more than 10 that do that for me, but here or some of the top ones....
1. ELO - Out of the Blue
2. XTC - Skylarking
3. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
4. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. Chicago VII
6. Yes - Going For The One
7. Donald Fagan - The Nightfly
8. Elton John - Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy
9. The Grays - Ro Sham Bo
10. Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Some great selections there! I've always got time for Sgt Pepper and if you throw in Rubber Soul and Revolver it's Ear Candy Central! I used to listen to Trick of the Tail on vinyl a lot as a kid and recently picked it up cheap on cd. It's fantastic, one of those albums that you can put it on, listen all the way though and always enjoy every minute of it!
I know and like Ro Sham Bo but I would go for the two Jellyfish albums and, most of all, the Jason Falkner solo albums.
Great picks, ear candy indeed!
How about Bat Out of Hell?
You've got the famous "motorcycle" guitar from the title track, the spoken word intro to You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth, and so many different things from Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
Great call!
First album that came to mind for me when thinking of this topic. The entire album is total ear candy from the hooks to the riffs to the sing along lyrics and effects. A true masterpiece of "ear candy"!
The bass guitar part alone on "The Real Me" on Quadrophenia qualifies doesn't it??
Yes indeed!
No.
My favorite Elvis Costello album - "Imperial Bedroom" - contains sonic treats courtesy of producer Geoff Emerick that really enhance the already stellar material.
Nice pick! Lush production, great album from Elvis!
Martin, I LOVE that you picked You Are What You Is!! My favorite Zappa album and it's the perfect answer for this.
What about Full Moon Fever and No More Tears and Sometime/Anything ?
My fave too. The lyrics, the concept, the seamless blending of songs, the guitar solo in Dumb All Over, soooo much good singing, and the production! Boy oh boy, the audio quality is dynamite. But it hardly gets mentioned in Zappa lists. Funny old world.
Alice Cooper (band!), Billion Dollar Babies: Castinets and bullfight noise (raped and freezin), dental drill (unfinished sweet), Donovan's spoken word (title track), piano outro (marianne), among other things.
Thanks for the great entertainment this year guys. Happy New Year to you and all SoT contributors and watchers.
It's not the type of thing typically discussed on SoT, but for my money the album SUBMARINE BELLS by NZ group The Chills is pure ear candy from beginning to end. Soaring melodies, chiming guitars, warm, bubbly keyboards, and gentle reverberations all over the place. And the title track is arguably a prog song!
Soft Bomb, the followup, is another great one; it was the last time they had a reasonably big studio budget to work with.
Love this band! Saw them earlier this year
Just listened to this album; Effloresce & Deliquess love that one
Great fun episode! But surprised no one mentioned Moody Blues, especially from rhe classic 7, specifically Days of Future Passed.
Nice contributions guys. So many of my smack me down sounds of the seventies - none more than Quadrophenia and Caravanserai, reaching for the pinnacle of music with the effective and not overused "ear candy". Thanks guys!
A Night At The Opera. A number of Queen albums have ear candy, but this one has so much of it. Quite aside from the operetic vocals on the album's most famous song, there's it's multi sections and the way they blend together
There's the piano intro on the album opener which sounds like something from a dramatic moment in an old silent movie, leading into Brian's doomy powerchords. There's the treated vocals on Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon,, the car starting and revving on I'm In Love With My Car. The electric piano riff on You're My Best Friend. There's Roger and Freddie performing a vocal jazz band on Seaside Rendezvous, which itself is a novelty music hall pastiche. There's the wind effects and Japanese instrumental intro to The Prophets Song, then the acapella section in the middle of the song with voices swinging from speaker to speaker, a real headphones moment, the fade out into the beautiful Love Of My Life, then there's Brian's guitar jazz band effects and finally the final track, the play on the band's name with their version of God Save The Queen.
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I immediately thought Sgt Peppers by The Beatles
The Pink Floyd ear candy started all the way back with Syd and Piper at the Gates of Dawn, that album is full of ear candy (and they were also doing stuff like that live too.)
Wishes to Pete and Martin for a happy new year! Looking forward to more content at the Funhouse on Friday!
Great show guys... My favorite ear candy albums:
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced?
Flaming Lips - Yoshemi Battles Pink Robots
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Electric Light Orchestra - Time
Genesis - Abacab
The Cars- Debut
Rush - Hemispheres
The The - Soul Mining
Great picks!
Somewhat surprised that Pete didn't mention Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star. I'm exaggerating a little bit, but the sounds ("ear candy") on the album are almost as captivating as the compositions themselves. Very 'liquid', for want of a better word.
Also surprised that Martin left out Abacab by Genesis (his fave, right?). There's a lot of ear candy on that one, mostly by Mr. Tony Banks and his synth sounds, like the title track, "Keep it Dark" and "Dodo/Lurker", but most of all "Me and Sarah Jane" with its zillion different sections; especially the "first I'm flying going round round round" part has given me huge goosebumps ever since I was a kid.
Original Soundtrack by 10cc also deserves a mention. The wall of sound/multi-tracked vocals on "I'm Not in Love" are of course legendary, but e.g. "Une Nuit A Paris" and the rest aren't too far off.
Check out the ranking the albums show Sunday for that…
I love that Martin picked “Permant Vacation.” I could hear every bell and whistle as he described them. That was my favorite part of this episode.
My one pick is White Zombie - “La Sexorcisto,” because of all the cool, well-placed old horror movie samples. Dig the track, “Cosmic Monsters,” where on the bridge after the solo, it goes:
Dunna-dunna-dun
“They come from the bowels of hell!”
Then:
Dunna-Dunna-dun
“Zombies! Guided by a master plan!”
That sample came from the trailer (not the movie) “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”
Best metal ear candy I know.
Great show, SoT!
There's so much out there:
The storm brewing in front of "Black Sabbath."
Orson Welles intro to Manowar's "Defender."
The medieval round played while the dwarfs dance on Spinal Tap's "Stonehenge."
The helicopter prelude to Aldo Nova's "Fantasy."
"Prelude to Madness" orchestral in front of Savatage's "Hall Of The Mountain King."
Primoridial's "Where Greater Men Have Fallen" the entire song.
AC/DC-Highway to Hell
Black Sabbath-Sabotage
The Who Sell Out
Wire-Pink Flag
Mink DeVille-Cabretta
Talking Heads-Fear of Music
Pere Ubu-The Tenement Year
John Cale-Paris 1919
XTC-Drums and Wires
Ozric Tentacles comes to mind for me. Their new album, Lotus Unfolding, is beautiful. Olias was a great pick as well. Another one that comes to mind is Steve Hillage : Rainbow Dome Music. Happy New Year!
It is a really good album , they never seem to have a bad one . All good in some way ...
Great show! One that pops-up for me is Script for a jester's tear by Marillion. (phone call, prayer etc)
Cool topic for sure.
One that came to mind for me right away, and it's an album taht is kind of off the normal scope of this show and I guess the channel as a whole, is The Downward SPiral from Nine Inch Nails. It's not one of my favourites exactly but listening to it always does leave me a bit in awe. Therea re so many layers and interesting sounds going on through much of it, even the "hit" songs. it can also be sparse and cold. I think he really knew what he was doing with botht eproductiona nd the layering of keyboards, electronics and various sounds and vocals on the album.
David Bowie "Heroes" is another one. SO many interesting things going on and lots of different soundscapes to sink into.
Loved listening to Max Webster Mutiny Up My Sleeve on headphones when it came out. Especially the song Hawaii. Great pick Martin.
Boston- S/ T
Impera- Ghost
Candy - O- The Cars
The Wall- Pink Floyd
Flaunt It- Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Spring Session M- Missing Persons
Freedom of Choice- Devo
It may be kind of low-hanging fruit to call attention to concept albums for this topic, but Operation Mindcrime and 2112 are two ultimate examples of ear candy. Another one, and an all-time favorite of mine, is Spilt Milk from Jellyfish. I've probably listened to this record 200 times, and I am still finding previously unheard little nuances with every spin.
I’ll say QTSA - Lullabies to Paralyze/…Like Clockwork: all the instruments, vocal cadences.
Jimy Hendrix - Live at Filmore East- Guitars and Bass, especially the bass.
Yes! Queens for sure…Songs for the deaf totally
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin - sure great candy album .
And Yoshimi... ?
@@gmegbertOf course . 🙂
As soon as I think the “ oh probably not my kind of show” you start listening and these two guys keeps it interesting, whether they re talking about the style you like or not. Just good stuff and good shows with SOT. I think Pete has started a trend date I say to all these musical buffs to do the same.
The guitar work on Lips in the Hills from Cult Erectus is pure Ear Candy !
There a was a recording technique or studio in the early 90s called Qsound, it was popular for video games but artist like Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Paula Abdul, Sting, Madonna and even Europe and Fates Warning used it on their Parallels album, gave a cool surround effect with 2 speakers
Todd Rundgren vocal harmonies. Dave Greenfield keyboard playing on the Stranglers albums.
Happy holidays and Happy New Year guys thanks for the amazing shows every Friday.
Take care and looking forward to seeing you in 2024 for more fun .
A Farewell to Kings-2122-Riders on the Storm-Plague of the Lighthouse Keepers-Echoes- Amused to Death-Sailors Tale-Devils Triangle-Fragile-Welcome to the Machine-Cherry Blossum Clinic-Baba O'Reily-Lizard-Blinding Light Show-
Pink Floyd-Dark Side,Wish,Animals,Wall(obvious choice for me).Some Doors stuff when Jims spoken word is placed properly,Sabbaths SBS album is one big ear candy for me.Beatles-Sgt.Pepper has some ear candy.I could go on.Unique topic,good vid👍The middle crescendo in Welcome to the Machine is my definition of ear candy.
Great choices by both of you .
I'll throw in a few examples of my own , starting with an album that was entirely constructed along the lines of your parameters for ear candy :
Mike Oldfield : Tubular Bells. ( adding one instrument and sound effect after another as it goes along )
XTC : Black Sea. ( starting with the old scratchy record sound at the start of Respectable St. )
The Cars : Heartbeat City. ( could have picked the debut as well , with Greg Hawkes provides all kinds of ear candy to the songs )
Be Bop Deluxe : Modern Music. ( starting with scanning the radio dial at the start of the Modern Music suite )
Moody Blues : On the Threshold of a Dream. ( the great. sequence of Are You Sitting Comfortably , the Dream , and Have You Heard bookending The Voyage )
10CC : Deceptive Bends. ( or really , any of their albums , provided by vocals and instrumentation )
Genesis : Selling England by the Pound. ( Tony Banks' keyboard solos throughout this album , and Gabriel's vocal effects )
Jethro Tull : A Passion Play. ( with great instrumentation of flute , keyboards , acoustic and electric guitar , plus spoken word )
Cheers !!!!
Great picks !
@@glenfinston704 Thanks !
When you mention ear candy from Rush up to "Signals", I think we forget the tons of it on those albums that followed that a lot of us love to step on. The swirling synthesizers and electronic drums hit us with ear candy that drives the purists away ain't it? Sorry to any mid 80's Rush music fans out there.😉
I wss thinking Rush as well. From 2112 to Moving Pictures as well. Xanadu by itself is incredible ear candy.
@@Rmesick-hm6yq now that's the good ear candy right there!! I was just tripping on them albums that came out in the mid 80's. Too much damn ear candy in "Power Windows" perhaps?? But hell yeah, I feel you about "Xanadu" though.
Mystic Rhythms off Power Windows was simply glorious, just a beautiful song! Rush can do no wrong with me, I have grown to appreciate the synth heavy albums more and more, a lot of interesting sonic soundscapes going on, with just enough Alex guitar involved.
@@treff9226 I feel you. Good stuff.
I gotta give a shout out to Bill Nelson. Basically any album, start to finish, is a motherlode o' sonic wonderment. How 'bout The Wondermints? Same thing. 'N gotta love Porcupine Tree-Signify-a masterwork in creative layering from start to finish. What do Bill Nelson 'n Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) have in common? Perhaps the two busiest people in the music business. Project after project year after year. Absolutely amazin'...!
Ear candy to me is comprised in simpler terms. Examples : Layne Staley's vocals, crunchy distortion guitars, Iommi's tone, double kick bass drums, KK Downing's leads in Sinner, cool profound lyrics, clever phrasing...
Lizzy Borden's "Master of disguise" is loaded with ear candy. And a concept album to boot.
Also, Swedish 90s melodic death metal in the Gothenburg style is loaded with guitar harmony ear candy.
Yes! Lizzy Borden's are truly one of the best American bands of the last forty years.
The Zombies "Odessey and Oracle" is full of ear candy, hooks, harmonies and excellent melodies. Rod Argent provides so much coloration from his arsenal of keyboards (organ, Mellotron, harpsichord, pump organ and piano). I saw mentioned in the chat section the band Jellyfish, and I hardily agree with that. I suppose "Spilt Milk" should be given the ear candy edge (although I prefer their debut "Bellybutton" as my favorite album overall).
01. iron butterfly - in a gadda-da-vida
02. jimi hendrix experience - electric ladyland
03. the beatles - white album
04. jeff beck - wired
05. pink floyd - animals
06. frank zappa - zoot alures
07. weather report - black market
08. supertramp - crime of the century
09. miles davis - amandla
10. chick corea - return to forever
11. santana - carvanserei
This all so good! I am an Anthony in mind so I will highly praise Pete for picking Olias! And everything else is spot on right.
Best New Year to you guys and all SOT.
I absolutely agree about Pete's comments about Anthony Phillips' 'The Geese and the Ghost'. Great music and great cover art by Peter Cross!
My favourite ear candy album is Animals. There’s nothing else like it.
Some others are;
Gong - You
Rush - Hemispheres
King Crimson - Larks Tongue’s In Aspic
McDonald & Giles - S/T
Miles Davis - On The Corner
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Every Enslaved album since Below The Lights
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Hey January 5th is my birthday as well. I also took that day off from work.🎂 I'm also a big fan of Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs". Quadrophenia is definitely ear candy. The title itself suggests you listen to it with headphones which is definitely a sonic blast. Nothing beats "Doctor Jimmy and Mister Tim" when it comes to virtuoso drumming.
The Flaming Lips are in my opinion the greatest post-alternative purveyors of Ear Candy.
Do You Realize? (yes, I do!)
"Oczy Mlody" Seriously! Their masterwork it tells the story of my life in sonic Kandy gloss paintScheme with peppermint diamonds too.. @@gmegbert
"Red River"- Tom Petty. The guitar solo in the middle is one of the most beautiful and strangest sounding
guitars I've ever heard. What kind of guitar is that?
"Carouselambra"- Led Zeppelin. Jimmy's angry guitar tone in the middle section, before the disco
style ending of that song, shakes the house. One of his best.
"Bullet The Blue Sky"- U2 Live Go Home DVD. Edge's choice of sounds, chords, and moods make this
the ultimate version of that song. Perfectly done.
"La Villa Strangiato"- Rush. Alex's solo, then the quiet change with the bass synth foot pedals. One
of the band's best musical moments.
Electric Ladyland from Jimi an outstanding pick Pete!
The first 7 Queen albums
White Zombie brought the ear candy big time when they hit the mainstream in the early 90's, which Rob Zombie continued as he went solo.
I consider Imaginary SOnicscape from the Japanese band Sigh to be an ear candy album. There's heavy metal riffs, organ, synth and guitar solos flying everywhere, funky parts, samples, vocoders, orchestral sections. You're always wondering what sounds are going to come next, and they do it all pretty damn well.
1983 ( A Merman I Should Have Turn To Be) is my favorite song of all time 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😊😊😊😊
Jellyfish's "Bellybutton', and 'Spilt Milk'; The Posies' 'Dear 23'
Boston has cranked out some incredible ear candy (ear candy to me is music with sublime hooks, melodies and harmonies, with top shelf musicianship!) and their eternally dazzling debut album is in my mind, total ear candy! I am most familiar with the term ear candy being used with regards to power pop music, due to strong hooks and melodies, combined with excellent Harmony vocals - a la CHEAP TRICK. STEELY DAN is also ear candy to me, with stellar musicianship, arrangements, songwriting and production. Great episode Pete and Martin!
Look forward to your review of Geddy Lee's book Pete. I loved it and the Brian Johnson books thus year.
Greatest Ear Candy Album-Lark's Tongues-Best Ear Candy Song-Easy Money!
Phil Lynott’s Solo in SoHo was my first thought. Opening with a radio sample, plus lush strings, synthesizers, horns, Moog synthesizers, funky bass, it’s a real treat for the ears.
Great choice
From David Bowie's Lodger album: African Night Flight. Amazing example!
Yes! 'African Night Flight' was years ahead of its time.
Ear worms to me are hooks that just wont get out of your head. Could be a synth line, guitar riff, solo or even mimicry of a drum fill or rhythm - but thats an ear worm. Ear candy 🍬 I find harder to define. Things that make you feel warm and fuzzy ✨️ ☺️ or things that give you that saccharin feeling. For me, this tends to be on records that had an impact on my life so the production is almost like a sonic blanket to wrap myself up in. Genesis Traffic. Extreme II Pornograffiti. Van Halen's brown sound. Slayers South of Heaven. Faith No More's the real thing. Love/Hate's Wasted in America. Queensryche's Mindcrime....
AJA by Steely Dan sure is a treat for the ears
Alice Cooper Welcome to my Nightmare has all the elements discussed on this episode. GONG You the same for me.
Two albums that are ear candy to me are ones that I can just drift away listening to.
On The Beach Chris Rea and Welcome To The Cruise by Judie Tzuke
Any album involving Brian Eno or Robert Fripp basically. The ultimate ear Candy album has got to be
Brian Eno-Another Green World
Great choices by both gentlemen. For me, there are many ear-candy albums. But if I had to choose one artist it would be Hans-Joachim Roedelius the German electronic musician. The albums that spring to mind are his Selbstportraits Volumes 1 to 3. Also, his Durch Die Wuste and Lustwandel albums. His music with Mobius in Cluster is also laden with ear-candy. Sowiesoso is a prime example. Cheers and Happy New Year.
Thank you guys for a great year of entertainment and knowledge
I just watch these videos for the weather report in Toronto and upstate NY
A great, maybe lesser known example
James Gang - 'Yer Album (1969)
Whatever the guys had for breakfast 😅 but the album is full of weird stuff. And basically Joe kept doing all these quirky things throughout his career.
Peter Gabriel 3 has ear candy from eye candy - Kate Bush.
My first PG album was So. I bought it on cassette so I popped it in my walkman and the opening of "Red Rain", That quiet opening, adding an instrument one at a time and them that swell of keyboards right before the lyrics. It's like getting hit by an ocean wave.
Great choices, I don't agree with all but most...especially Peter G, Floyd and David Bowie.
Might have added Mike Oldfield -Tubular Bells(simply amazing 50 yrs later); Kate Bush- Never Forever (or any album as her voice is eye candy) and Roxy Music - Siren....
Pete Geddy Lee book is awesome.
He was a guest on a daytime news and current affairs radio show a couple of weeks ago here in Uk .
The synthesizers on quadrophenia are beautiful. It’s a shame they lowered them in all the remixes. Get the original MCA cd from the 1980’s.
Queensryche Rage for Order. Best Queensryche album as far as I'm concerned. And yes I heard Operation: Mindcrime and yes I love it. But I still like Rage for Order just a little pinch more. Lots of ear candy on both, by the way...
Just re-Listened to Sabotage and after 25 years all I can say.. Sabbath meets Hawkwind in a really really great way! Such a masterpiece, always my fav Sab album as a youngling! Now I remember why! Best Rock Ever !!! Ear Candy Maximosus!
For Ear Candy songs, Ace’s Five A Side and The Outfield’s Play Deep are full of them. Strong albums from start to finished.
I'm going to elect Spike Jones as the first ear candy guy. To my limited knowledge.
Quadrophenia was the first album that came to mind.
Did anyone consider anything ELO ever did? Out Of The Blue was totally ear candy along with all their albums!
I totally agree. And the later Move albums, sometimes, too.
I picked Eldorado.
@@seaoftranquilityprog sorry about that Steve, I somehow missed that
Vacation from the holidays ~ Pete Pardo
I recall Pete making a video last year telling us he was going to be easing off on making more videos in 2023. That hasn’t really happened.
Queen II is choke full of ear candy.
Not a football fan? Pete.....
Great show.
Kings X. Ear candy
I Would say asia asia. 90125 and nevermind honorable mentions for trick of the tail and boston boston.
I have a question for Martin and Pete. Is there a band or artist that either of your significant other/spouse may say "please not now" or do you either of you guys with your spouses say "I won't complain about ____ if you don't complain about ____." I agree with Pete, Bridge of Sighs brings it's own atmosphere.
Tune in to the first 2024 episode of the UK Connection for that topic!
@@seaoftranquilityproglooking forward to Steven and Uncle Simon discussing this topic 😊.
Thanks for sharing your literary pursuits, guys! I have a big stack of books to read my own self! Martin, I’d like to recommend The Great Airship Mystery: A UFO of the 1890s by Daniel Cohen. Nice to know other writers are out there into the obscure “paranormal” subjects! Keep rockin, guys!
Siouxsie & the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse. Luscious!
And ... Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World. Also luscious.
"Peepshow" is a really strange sounding album too. So different.
ABBA and anything produced by "Mutt" Lange certainly qualify.
Larks Tounges In Aspic
(King Crimson)
Easy money is a god example
Ear candy can be dependent on the mode of listening. The first time you hear music on panel exciter omnidirectional speakers or IEMs, you will hear things in a way you haven’t before.
Tim Buckley’s Buzzin’ Fly comes to mind; there’s some very subtle bells and chimes you don’t hear through traditional box speakers or most headphones.
Listening to Eddie Hazel’s Maggot Brain on IEMs and you will hear little scratches, pops, and crackles…along with incredible individual instrument separation and left right separation that can’t be achieved with anything else.
**Be careful with IEMs; they can negatively affect your hearing if not careful with volume amplification levels.
Doesn't anyone here like Guided By Voices and/or the (incredibly numerous) Robert Pollard side projects? Endless songs that are so so memorable. And such fun lyrics! Try the song "Your Cricket Is Rather Unique", for example, or their album "Under the Bushes Under the Stars". And member Tobin Sprout puts out pure ear candy in his solo projects!
I love Isolation Drills
Hmm. When I think of ear candy, I heavily lean towards great production, great sound etc., not necessarily towards great songs or great ideas. ELECTRIC LADYLAND is certainly a valid choice if you prefer to go with the latter, but I feel it does suffer from sounding too muddy throughout the whole record. Really too bad, cos just think of how it would’ve sounded just a few years down the road… But it is what it is.
My personal favorite record in pure regards to „best sound“ would be The Cure’s DISINTEGRATION: It really doesn’t get much lusher and fatter in the best possible way than this.
When it comes to the perfect rock sound on an album, late 70‘s new wave and power pop productions, in my mind, deliver exquisitely: GET THE KNACK for example is exactly what I consider a perfect sounding rock album.
What else- AJA, obviously; anything by Nick Drake, cos his voice is the most soothing and comforting in the history of recorded music; SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON, my favorite record of all time for multiple reasons, one of them being that it manages to incorporate synth sounds as balanced and as tastefully as no one else at the time; and let’s throw in BLOODSUGARSEXMAGIK here for its perfect flow, sound, attitude and ideas. ❤
Popoff and Pardo are at it again and wrap up 2023 in the Funhouse with a discussion of album ear candy. Thanks once again, gents, for a fascinating topic and presentation of your choices and how they fit the topic. Definitely showing my age by saying the Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys was the first album that came to mind upon hearing of this topic. And for those of us who were around to buy the first Santana album when it was released, the use of all the additional Latin rhythm instruments seemed like ear candy for that album. In any event, a great year in the Funhouse and looking forward to more time with Martin and Pete in 2024. Thanks again, gents. There ya go!
Martin ZZ Top El Loco also has some good ones as well
1. Ten Foot Pole
2. Don’t Tease Me
3. Groovy Hippie Pad
4. Heaven, Hell or Houston
Maybe too obvious....The Beach Boys Pet Sounds? Also Jellyfish Bellybutton and Spilt Milk.
Proto-Kaw’s Nevermore, the first tune on The Wait of Glory and The Fury from AD’s Art of the State. They both start and continue with some great ear candy. Sorry for another Livgren reference.