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Post by cblanger on May 9, 2010 20:07:20 GMT
1/ The New Blockaders "Reductio Ad Absurdum" LP Harbinger (UK), 2/ V/A MASK 400 LP SKAM Records (UK), 3/ V/A MASK 300 LP SKAM Records (UK), 4/ Current 93 / Nurse With Wound "Maldoror is Dead" Live in Moscow Russia, 30/08/2007 one sided LP Malapraxis (RU), 5/ The New Blockaders "Simphonie In O Minor" LP Harbinger (UK) ;D [this last one is the prefered one by the family]
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Post by brook on May 14, 2010 15:23:12 GMT
I've listened to almost unhealthy amounts of The Sisters of Mercy the last five days or so. I don't think I ever realised how good they actually are (or were, depending on how you look at it) before.
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Post by Joe Chip on May 14, 2010 20:26:38 GMT
I've listened to almost unhealthy amounts of The Sisters of Mercy the last five days or so. I don't think I ever realised how good they actually are (or were, depending on how you look at it) before. I am a huge fan of their Body Electric/Adrenochrome single and much of their other early material. Of their three albums proper the grandiosely overblown Floodland is my favourite but each have their plus points. They/he really did make a twisted kind of art from an absurdly self-limiting template - they were so far ahead of their fellow travellers in lyrics, concepts and intensity but are lumped in with that scene to the extent where it's faintly embarrassing to admit to liking them. I didn't even hear them when I was growing up in the eighties as I associated it with all that Goth shit, it's only in recent years their stuff made it to my ears...
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Post by brook on May 18, 2010 10:31:25 GMT
I've listened to almost unhealthy amounts of The Sisters of Mercy the last five days or so. I don't think I ever realised how good they actually are (or were, depending on how you look at it) before. I am a huge fan of their Body Electric/Adrenochrome single and much of their other early material. Of their three albums proper the grandiosely overblown Floodland is my favourite but each have their plus points. They/he really did make a twisted kind of art from an absurdly self-limiting template - they were so far ahead of their fellow travellers in lyrics, concepts and intensity but are lumped in with that scene to the extent where it's faintly embarrassing to admit to liking them. I didn't even hear them when I was growing up in the eighties as I associated it with all that Goth shit, it's only in recent years their stuff made it to my ears... Agreed, the early singles are their best material, but then I prefer the brilliant "First and Last and Always" to both "Floodland", which was almost as good, and the kinda-good-but-still-pretty-fun "Vision Thing". I do think much higher of "Under the Gun" than most people tend to do though. It was certainly not up to par with the early singles, but I'd say that it was almost as good as "Floodland", although you can hardly compare a song with a whole album very accurately. I like some other goth stuff though, in the first wave you can find some pretty great and original bands. Most of the second wave bands are just lame copies of the Sisters.
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Post by magnus on May 18, 2010 20:54:02 GMT
1. Mavado - his latest hitsongs, great stuff! 2. Brötzmann, Schlippenbach, Johansson - up and down the lion - revisited - brilliant liveshow from 79 3. Tetragon - Nature - pretty good organ-based krautrock 4. Alvin Lucier - North American time capsule 1967 (from "extended voices" lp) - still pretty much unmatched as far as noise goes! 5. Ättestupa - begreaven mot norr - well, haven´t actually listened to it yet, but judging from their previous two records it should be pretty good.
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Post by Joe Chip on May 19, 2010 14:36:27 GMT
I finally got The Worried Well 'Don't Get Aids' 12". A cloud of secrecy and silence seems to surround this obscure 1988 one-off collaboration between Philip Best and Gary Mundy.
It's a techno-pop indie-dance thing in the style of New Order/Section 25. Sounds very dated and of its time. Philip's attempts at singing are pretty poor. The sort of thing you'd pick up for 50p in a charity shop and play once from idle curiosity before giving away again...but of course, fascinating because of who made it. The idea of artists having pristine oeuvres belongs with the kind of idiotic mindset that lists Revolver, Pet Sounds and Exile On Main Street as 'the greatest albums ever' anyway. The backstory of the record - it's in the tradition of Marvin Gaye's 'Here, My Dear' - may well be of interest to future biographers.
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Post by Danhod on May 22, 2010 7:54:26 GMT
Whitehouse - Tokyo Halogen / Birthdeath Experience Consumer Electronics -Crowd Pleaser Sting and the Police - Best of Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me / Dead Again 3LP Defeated Sanity ~ Chapters of Repugnance
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Post by patrickhernandez on May 26, 2010 22:21:17 GMT
I finally got The Worried Well 'Don't Get Aids' 12". A cloud of secrecy and silence seems to surround this obscure 1988 one-off collaboration between Philip Best and Gary Mundy. It's a techno-pop indie-dance thing in the style of New Order/Section 25. Sounds very dated and of its time. Philip's attempts at singing are pretty poor. The sort of thing you'd pick up for 50p in a charity shop and play once from idle curiosity before giving away again...but of course, fascinating because of who made it. The idea of artists having pristine oeuvres belongs with the kind of idiotic mindset that lists Revolver, Pet Sounds and Exile On Main Street as 'the greatest albums ever' anyway. The backstory of the record - it's in the tradition of Marvin Gaye's 'Here, My Dear' - may well be of interest to future biographers. Highly intrigued to hear this myself after reading of it and seeing the lyrics in Philip's blog. Coincidentally, it was only recently that I noticed Gary Mundy played on Anne Clarke's proto-EBM mid-'80s student union disco floorfiller, 'Our Darkness' which, apart from a sax break as of its time as monkey boots & Flip jeans, has, to my ears, dated uncannily well.
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Post by still cruisin' on Jun 1, 2010 10:02:52 GMT
I finally got The Worried Well 'Don't Get Aids' 12". A cloud of secrecy and silence seems to surround this obscure 1988 one-off collaboration between Philip Best and Gary Mundy. It's a techno-pop indie-dance thing in the style of New Order/Section 25. Sounds very dated and of its time. Philip's attempts at singing are pretty poor. The sort of thing you'd pick up for 50p in a charity shop and play once from idle curiosity before giving away again...but of course, fascinating because of who made it. The idea of artists having pristine oeuvres belongs with the kind of idiotic mindset that lists Revolver, Pet Sounds and Exile On Main Street as 'the greatest albums ever' anyway. The backstory of the record - it's in the tradition of Marvin Gaye's 'Here, My Dear' - may well be of interest to future biographers. Care to elaborate on the 'Here, My Dear' comparison? It sounds very intriguing to these ears, but I have a hard time putting the pieces together. In other words, the lyrics still seem rather cryptic to me.
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Post by ljp on Jun 1, 2010 13:33:49 GMT
Well from what I heard, Marvin Gaye had to create the Hear My Dear album on condition of his ex-wife who would benefit from the proceeds according to a divorce case. So the result was Gaye made a purposely uncommercial, convoluted album mostly about the divorce itself that he'd figure no one would buy.
What that has to do with Don't Get AIDS I wouldn't know...
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Post by margaras on Jun 2, 2010 2:03:10 GMT
Care to elaborate on the 'Here, My Dear' comparison? It sounds very intriguing to these ears, but I have a hard time putting the pieces together. In other words, the lyrics still seem rather cryptic to me. it's a record about a break up. the lyrics on best's blogspot are not the full lyrics, although they are the most interesting and memorable.
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Post by Danhod on Oct 28, 2010 16:12:19 GMT
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao Bauhaus - Go Away White
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Post by Joe Chip on Oct 29, 2010 9:24:59 GMT
Jefferson Airplane - Good Shepherd (live version on Volunteers reissue) Grateful Dead - Goin Down The Road Feelin Bad (Dicks Picks 2 version) The Fall - Bury Whitehouse - Racket (the instrumental tracks) Brian Conniffe and Friends - 3 CD set Instrumental music on 'Rabbit TV' text/date channel Mark Stewart/Philip Quehenberger - Loner
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Post by cblanger on Oct 30, 2010 13:13:56 GMT
1/ Maurizio Abate Third Dimension Blues one-sided LP 8mm 2/ Zeitkratzer Whitehouse / William Bennett Electronics CD Zeitkratzer records 3/ Otto Muehl AAM1 LP Bootleg 4/ Cyclobe Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window LP Phantom Code 5/ Graf Spee LP Presto 6/ Sleep Chamber 666 vinyls boxset Vinyl-On-Demand
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Post by cblanger on Nov 27, 2010 16:01:46 GMT
1/ X-TG Live In Porto 05-11-2010 DL Bootleg ...(In Memoriam / RIP PC)... 2/ Fille Qui Mousse "Trixie Stapleton 291 Se Taire Pour Une Femme Trop Belle" LP Bootleg 3/ Sand "Golem" LP Rotorelief 4/ Christoph Heemann "The Rings of Saturn" LP Robot Records 5/ Marcia Basset & Helena Espvall "Lapidary" LP Alt. Vinyl 6/ Jazzfinger "This Small Space Where The Salt Glitters" lathe cut LP Classic English Womb
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