Crispycat Recordings: Crucial Music Playlist No 1

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Crucial Music Playlist No 1

I was asked to create a list of ten seminal (to me) albums - and here's the result. As you can see, I've called this "No 1" so more may (or indeed may not) follow...

These are ten important (to me) albums, from 1967 to 1989, which have had an influence on my musical life...

1967 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
1970 King Crimson - Lizard
1971 Alice Cooper - Love it to Death
1971 Yes - Fragile
1973 Fripp & Eno (No Pussyfooting)
1975 Pink Floyd - Wish You were Here
1977 David Bowie - Low
1978 UK - UK
1982 Brian Eno - On Land
1989 The Blue Nile - Hats

I hope you enjoy them...

Cloudland Blue Crucial Music Playlist No 1 by Cloudland Blue Quartet on Mixcloud

2 comments:

Prog Dog said...: Hi David,

Very good list and pleased to see Lizard given a placing. That has always been one of my fav king Crimson albums. Hugely undervalued.; 12:13 pm
Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: Cheers Barrie - Glad you liked the list - as for Lizard, it was the first King Crimson album I bought so holds a special place for me too...; 7:51 pm

Crispycat Latest Release

David Reilly AKA Cloudland Blue Quartet, created his first soundscape, "The Drone Effect" back in December 1977. 46 years later, he finally gave two live soundscape performances, in Edinburgh on 4 November 2023 and in Newcastle on 18 January 2024, playing the 40 minute piece available here on Bandcamp as "Live Suite 2023/24". On 30 August 2024 he premiered a new 40 minute suite for 2024/25 at Fopp in Edinburgh and this piece was performed again at the Switched On Electronic Music Festival in Whitby, Yorkshire on 9 November 2024. This album, "Live Suite 2024/25" was created specifically to be performed at these last two events and, like "Live Suite 2023/24", may well be performed again in the future. Free to Stream/Name Your Price to Download, the download bundle contains the studio mix of the live performance version of "Live Suite 2024/25"

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!