Favorite Thurston album...
 

...that isn't PSYCHIC HEARTS or TREES OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY? Just curious. Discuss.

Mine is HURRICANE FLOYD followed by FUCK SHIT UP.

Fuck Shit Up is godly. Even the audience yelling at the start is Christ-like. "Skip Tracer!"

1. Piece For Jetsun Dolma
2. Klangfarbenmelodie... and the colorist strikes primitiv
3. Not me

Pillow Wand, if that counts.

Jetsun Dolma is very good.

And Yes! Pillow Wand counts. Excellent. Did you ever hear LIVE AT EAST HAMPTON TOWN HALL? (it's Zeena Parkins, Nels Cline & Thurston) Oh baby.

the only song i like of his is his cover of "sheena is a punk rocker" featured in the one and only gossip girl.

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b-b-b-b-but this HAS to be a troll attempt!

those are the only trolls i know of.

mmm, i think my favourite is Trees outside the academy.

"...that isn't PSYCHIC HEARTS or TREES OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY? Just curious. Discuss."


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Those wouldn't be my favorites anyway. It'd have to be sensitive/lethal!

I've never heard his solo stuff. I have Lee's Amarillo Ramp which is one of my favourite pieces of music ever. But i thought Thurstons was all poppy (nothing wrong with poppy, but..)

where should i go? Fuck Shit Up sounds interesting

I didn't say Thurston solo album. I said "Thurston album" denoting his work outside of SY really. If you look on the cover of HURRICANE FLOYD. Thurston's name is right there.

MOST of his freejazz/improv/noise albums will have 2 or 3 other people on them.

And yes, I love how "Alter Boy, Church Basement" turned into other songs later. Like I said HURRICANE is my favorite.

I really like Lost TO The City, too.

I dnt have that one, nic. Is that with Hooker & Shoup?

nope! Moore-Winant-Surgal !

Fun fact: I actually got lost in my city while listening to it in my headphones. Took me 1 hour to figure out where the hell I parked my bike.

dude, right before I checked yr post I thought "wait! Surgal played on that one!" that's right. I need to check that one. The Thurston/Beck/Surgal album is great.

Dream Aktion Unit - Blood Shadow Rampage

followed by the Winant/Surgal/Moore discs... I like those because they are to me reminiscent of those great energetic Cecil Taylor Unit free improv storms.

agreed. I've said before, I have little interest in Thurston's "noise" albums (BLINDFOLD for instance), but his freejazz performance amaze me for the most part. I remember there was a bootleg of a gig that Thurston and Cecil Taylor both played. I dont think together. I think T opened for Taylor. Or something like that. Could've been an awesome album.

hmm I like:
-pillow wand,
-piece for jetsun dolma,
-the promise,
-root,
-three incredible ideas.

(no order)

and yeah the one with beck and surgal is good too.