Tracks
- Future Days
- Spray
- Moonshake
- Bel Air
Future Days is an aimless album. The music is ambient. Typified by Damo Suzuki's nonsense vocals, the music on each song just seems to meander from one idea to the next. The music is generally mellow and ethereal. Rather than finding a groove, except from Moonshake, the band finds a mood. The guitar is really what establishes the mood. And it has a Robert Fripp sound.
This album is decent, but it's not gripping. It's easy to zone in and out of the music. It's hard to know if that was intentional or not. In hindsight it's easy to say that was the intention. It's worth listening to, but I'm ambivalent about it being on the 1001 Albums list. Either they were pioneers in a new genre or they made a crappy album. Based on their previous work I think it's the former and this album was intentional.
All the songs are good. The stand outs are Future Days and Bel Air.
★★★★★★★★★☆
Tracks
- Paperhouse
- Mushroom
- Oh Yeah
- Halleluhwah
- Aumgn
- Peking O.
- Bring Me Coffee or Tea
Tago Mago is an unconventional album. The music is krautrock. There is no relation to rock in any of the songs besides the use of bass, guitar, drums and synthesizers. It's really quite an original style. It might be most closely related to jazz because it seems improvisational than anything.
The first few songs each start off resembling prog rock songs, but they eventually lose form and become very noisy and chaotic. Aumgn and Peking O. are exercises in noise and madness. What makes the music even more chaotic is the singing. The lyrics are nonsense sung in a non-sensical language. Eventually, the singing devolves into shouts and screams and other primal noises.
This is a fascinating, but trying album. The more structured songs are enjoyable to listen to, but the songs that are mainly noise can be hard to get through because they are very long. It does take a few listenings and patience to get used to this album. There is no doubt that this album should be listened to and it should definitely be on the 1001 Albums list. Like prog rock, Krautrock is not a popular style, so it's hard to say this album belongs in all serious collections, but I do highly recommend it, just to freak people out or to annoy the neighbors.
All the songs are good. The stand outs are: Paperhouse, Mushroom, Oh Yeah, Halleluhwah and Bring Me Coffee or Tea.
★★★★★★★★★☆
