Robert Wyatt "Shleep" (1997)
If you were giving points just for longevity, Wyatt would be doing
well. His last entry in this list "Rock Bottom" (day 325)
was released in 1974. If you were just going based on fun song titles
he'd be doing well with doozies like "Free Will and Testament" and "the
Whole Point of No Return". If you were going based on the respect of
other musicians, he'd be doing well as Brian Eno helps produce and
guitars are provided by Paul Weller and Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera.
The fact is that, beside all of the above, the music is damned good too. From the naive 60s-esque pop of "Heaps of Sheep" and "Maryan"
to the jazzy experimentation of "the Duchess", the extended fusiony jam
of "Alien" to the jazzy beat poetry homage to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean
Homesick Blues" this is just a great collection of songs. The music
brings to mind everything from the Kinks, early Pink Floyd, and Frank
Zappa to later interesting and inventive bands like Ween and XTC.
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