Incredible String Band - The Half-Remarkable Question ('68)

Afraid this is only half of the item I'm attempting to respond to. But hope the slightly better video quality compensates.

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Music

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• heron
• williamson
• wee
• tam
• felix

[parfumedtree]

robin williamson is  leonardo da vinci of folk music

[teleroylichtenstein]

They are the best of all time

[petermatthew123]

Great original music from the 60's - it was one of the good memories of being there!

[ZippyClips]

This completely kicks ass! In an ISB way of course.

[medicinesocks]

i have always so loved this one. i can't even bear to follow conversations critiquing art of music. you either get it or you don't. you love it or you don't. that's how you can tell great poetry from terrible poetry. if you love it, that's good poetry.

[MrBlackjackdavy]

This was the first time I saw the ISB had heard original LP which was just so different, saw this and was taken to some sublime land that I dont think I ever left, seeing Robin on Thursday night at Barnard castle, May the long time sun shine upon him

[yukonnoka]

the fact that this does not have over 5,000,000 views makes me worry about the sanity of our species...

[sunnskyy]

@minwav Another way to frame it would be to start with the first album...basically straight folk...then go to Spirits/Onion...then HBD, etc...go slowly...listen to each over and over again...then go on to the next. By cherry picking out of chronology you might not touch the thread. And without the thread, you won't get the fabric....without the fabric, no clothes. "The Emperor has no clothes" you may think. ISB: "I hear that the Emperor of China used to wear iron shoes with ease.."

[dccyclist7]

Lovely, sweet, poignant, tender--I love ISB and this song. Ah, "The freckles of rain ... ."

[johntechwriter]

Surely the gentlest and most thoughtful music this relic of the sixties can recall. The make it look easy but they are tops in each category -- instrumentalists, singers and songwriters. The smoothness of their performance is the result of a lot of hard work. Don't ever think they don't take their music seriously.

[minwav]

@sunnskyy thank you for your obviously thoughtful reply. I've bought a few of their CD's now and am listening...I do like them but I get the feeling, sometimes, that with these lyrics, they're occasionally on the verge of stopping and laughing their heads off. I am a big fan of all things Witchseason and Joe Boyd as well - ISB represent an era in popular culture and I'm digging it - thanks again.

[sunnskyy]

@minwav ok....let's start here....what were you listening to in 1960,61,62,63,64,65,66 and 67??

We all had to progress from A to B...or A to X, or whatever.

If you asked John Renbourne, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson, the same question you'd get that the absorption of influences yielded "new" results.  The missing genetic material in your "not getting" ISB could be Donovan Leitch, who went from folk to hippy minstrel with jazz/blues/metal overtones. Joe Boyd's company name? Witchseason.