Ozric Tentacles, where to start?

Posted by: seagull on 20 November 2002

Last night I played out Live Herald by Steve Hillage, that took me back to my youth.

Having seen that Coma Divine has been delayed (again) I went on to Amazon to have a browse.
So I looked up Live Herald and went to the "People who bought this also bought..." bit at the bottom and found PT and Ozric Tentacles.

I listened to a few samples - what can you really tell from 30 seconds snippets? but they seemed interesting.

I have seen them mentioned here, but again the question is where would I start?

cheers

Seagull

Posted on: 20 November 2002 by greeny

Moved to PT thread

[This message was edited by greeny on WEDNESDAY 20 November 2002 at 14:58.]

Posted on: 20 November 2002 by seagull

is probably a very good word to describe what's happened to (at least) two of the replies on this thread

Thanks for the tips Alan, Amazon have Strangeitude and Pungent whatsit as a cheapo double CD so I'll try the faster swooshiness then I might try the Erpland for some slower swooshiness.

Its amazing what passes you by when you take your eye off the ball as I did from c. 1985, that's the year I go married, is there a link here?

Posted on: 20 November 2002 by Goose

Seagull
It's like any great band with a long winding history..some are better to some than others..

I think that 'classic' Ozrics, the best period iMHo is really condensed into the Ed/Joie/Merv/Roly ( then Zia) period...

Strangeitude
Erpland
Pungent Effelgent
Underslunky
Jurassic Shift
Arborescence

( IMHO - any/all of these should be in ANY space/ Phsyc / prog collection )

Lots of these ideas were recorded on the Ozrcis 'tapes' which are now a fiver each, and double on CD's for £8..

Newer ones are still good, but slightly different
Waterfall Cities ( still cuts the MUSTARD)
Become the other
etc

New live one is very good too.. But I am biased as I love them too much!!

Cheers
Goose