quoted 5 lines Listening to Skylab's first album last night I was getting pretty damn enthused, and > Listening to Skylab's first album last night I was getting pretty damn enthused, and it dawned on me that I'd heard very little that they had done subsequently. I have the 'Oh Skylab!' ep, which I also enjoy, and heard 'The Trip', which I didn't like at all.
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> Can anyone fill me in on other releases, and whether they're worth it? (Please explain a bit about what they sound like alongside the latter :)
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> As a side note, I remember when I first heard 'Skylab #1', that I used to think of it as treading a fine line between cheesey kitsch and "sincere music", while now none of it sounds tongue in cheek to me. Thanks, ironic 90s. ;)
I asked a while back the grand question, "Whatever happened to Skylab?"
and got no useful answers. What I do know is that they've done a few other
singles/EPs, I've seen ads for "Judas", and I own the creatively titled,
"?" record, which is much in the vein of "The Trip" (which was a cover if
you didn't know). I thought "The Trip" was kinda cool, and "?" continues
that kind of 60s/70s groove beatnik feel (or something) but isn't as
obvious as "The Trip" was. I may yet try mixing it into a set.
What are they up to now? I remember for a while, _#1_ was in constant
rotation in my CD player, in part because all my friends even liked it
because it was so offbeat and mellow. I need to get on the ball and find
the rest of their work.
Oh, and it's the post-ironic 90s, thank you very much. What's this
sincerity I keep hearing about?