Radio Gnome

Gong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 23, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Plate Caroline
• ASIN: B000000HTZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #497,888 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Other Side of the Sky

2. Sold to the Highest Buddha

3. Castle in the Clouds

4. Prostitute Poem

5. Givin My Love to You

6. Selene

7. Flute Salad

8. Oily Way

9. Outer Temple

10. Inner Temple

11. Percolations

12. Love Is How y Make It

13. I Never Glid Before

14. Eat That Phone Book Coda

15. Ooby-Scooby Doomsday or the D-Day Dj's Got the D.D.T. Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Gong album..., May 24, 2000

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Worgelm "The Grumpy" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radio Gnome (Audio CD)

This is a neat little piece of jazzy space prog, french style. Hillage's guitar is sublime, Didier Malherbe is in full effect. Daevid Allen, a true pioneer of the psychadelic genre, is probably at his most tasteful (which isn't to say that he is...) Contains their only "hit", Flute Salad/Oily Way, which is one insanely intricate bit of neurotic rock lounge jazz. Also check out the world-class Moerlen bros. percussion ensemble on "Never Glid Before". (4-1/2 stars)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating!, June 25, 2002

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Kidamadeus "kidamadeus" (Warner-Robins, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radio Gnome (Audio CD)

I don't know what the members of Gong were smoking when they created this recording...but it worked! There is some deep music here, and it is recorded with a clarity of sound that rivals much of what came outin the early 70's. Fans of the progressive genre will find extraordinary playing (including one of the most amazing drummers you will ever hear), strange use of non-traditional instruments (including the mbira, an african thumb piano), and wildly shifting time signatures. Fans of psychadelic music will find "space-whispers" and "pot-head pixies" galore. I wouldn't recommend this as the first place to experience Gong -- that would be the "You" CD -- but this is as good as any of their recordings for experiencing the Gong sound. Progressive, jazzy, weird, and just plain fun. Recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album, January 25, 2002

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Anthony M. Borell (Does it matter?) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Radio Gnome (Audio CD)

First, let me say that I would rarely award an album 5 stars. But Angel's Egg deserves it. Gong really gives progressive rock a new dimension here.

While the album does have a couple 'filler' tracks (Givin My Luv To You and Percolations), the rest of the content is superb. Gong really does have a sense of humour (and were probably high throughout the album's composition). They combine the humour with some great song writing, some cool jazz soloing, and some trippy space synth work. I will say, though, that you probably will NOT like it on the first listen--give Angel's Egg a chance, and you'll wonder how you lived without it.