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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Sunn 0)) - Black One - I like. Not for the disco though and I was kind of relieved when it was finished
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Carter Tutti - Cabal
Sturdy Wrists
Neo - reconstructivist
Ray Campi - Wildcat Shakeout
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Kate Bush 'Hounds Of Love'
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Orang Utan said:
That's a great compilation, isn't it; a real snapshot of a time and place.
After Me No Pop I, my favourites on there are probably Blame It On Disco and Encore L'Amore. So many other quality tracks on there too though (Kid Creole, James Chance, etc...).
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
My comp only came with the one CD!Sunspots said:That's a great compilation, isn't it; a real snapshot of a time and place.
After Me No Pop I, my favourites on there are probably Blame It On Disco and Encore L'Amore. So many other quality tracks on there too though (Kid Creole, James Chance, etc...).
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
chr
me - anthology 1979-83
There's a bit of a weird story about this one. Back in 1981 when I was 15 I taped some seriously out-there mentalisticationalist music off French radio that I'd never heard the like of before. Sort of art-metal-new wave with solarised ear-blinding guitar that would suddenly lurch midflow into broiling masses of heavily flanged backwards tapeloops before erupting into some of the most wacked out acid rock gone wrong... Coz it was French radio I had no idea who'd made this music. And in 1984 in an all-too-frequent outburst of spontaneous twattery, I taped over it. I've wondered on and off ever since what the fuck this music was, and was getting puzzled at my failure to ever discover it anywhere else - it was completely unique. Last year I tried googling the phrase "I saw you in the zoo/In the parking lot" which I remembered as a lyric from one of the particularly demented tunes I'd taped back in the distant summer of 81, but with no success. And over the years I'd occasionally wonder what this brilliant electronic/art metal/new wave/acid/psyche rock stuff was, and if I'd ever find it.
Then the other week I was reading Simon Reynold's (stunning) 'Rip it up and Start Again', wondering if I'd see a description of this music there. And in the section on Chrome I thought - "that's them". Reynolds is uncannily good at describing music after all (imo). So I got the above CD. And yes, it was them. Shortly after the start of the track 'Half Machine Lip Moves' I realised that I was hearing this music I'd last heard in 1984, 23 years later. It was like I got this weird aura of recognition almost immediately, accompanied by a wave of goosebumps, then subsequently felt something gradually surfacing from subterranean depths of my mind. Then there he was - a scary sounding Damon Edge intoning "I saw you, in the zoo...". Truly, memory is a remarkable thing. Thank you for reading this far. Yours sincerely, best wishes MysteryGuest x
ps - It's a really good CD and I like it.
me - anthology 1979-83There's a bit of a weird story about this one. Back in 1981 when I was 15 I taped some seriously out-there mentalisticationalist music off French radio that I'd never heard the like of before. Sort of art-metal-new wave with solarised ear-blinding guitar that would suddenly lurch midflow into broiling masses of heavily flanged backwards tapeloops before erupting into some of the most wacked out acid rock gone wrong... Coz it was French radio I had no idea who'd made this music. And in 1984 in an all-too-frequent outburst of spontaneous twattery, I taped over it. I've wondered on and off ever since what the fuck this music was, and was getting puzzled at my failure to ever discover it anywhere else - it was completely unique. Last year I tried googling the phrase "I saw you in the zoo/In the parking lot" which I remembered as a lyric from one of the particularly demented tunes I'd taped back in the distant summer of 81, but with no success. And over the years I'd occasionally wonder what this brilliant electronic/art metal/new wave/acid/psyche rock stuff was, and if I'd ever find it.
Then the other week I was reading Simon Reynold's (stunning) 'Rip it up and Start Again', wondering if I'd see a description of this music there. And in the section on Chrome I thought - "that's them". Reynolds is uncannily good at describing music after all (imo). So I got the above CD. And yes, it was them. Shortly after the start of the track 'Half Machine Lip Moves' I realised that I was hearing this music I'd last heard in 1984, 23 years later. It was like I got this weird aura of recognition almost immediately, accompanied by a wave of goosebumps, then subsequently felt something gradually surfacing from subterranean depths of my mind. Then there he was - a scary sounding Damon Edge intoning "I saw you, in the zoo...". Truly, memory is a remarkable thing. Thank you for reading this far. Yours sincerely, best wishes MysteryGuest x
ps - It's a really good CD and I like it.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Sunspots said:I was listening to Chrome yesterday...
A track called (-something like) You've Been Duplicated. Bonkers.
Synchronicity ahoy!
Yeah, "You've been duplicated" - a great title, and one which I was seriously thinking of making my tagline. Crazy tune, too. I'd happily burn you a copy of the anthology but my shitty piece of shit CD burner br0kened.
Some of their stuff is too bitty, and they sometimes waste brilliant, brilliant riffs in 90 second long tracks, but overall it's astounding music. Obviously influenced Butthole Surfers, praps Ministry, definitely the Thule that were signed to Wiija/Clay Records. It does have this scary aura of insanity about it sometimes, though - I can manage about 30 minutes of it at a time before I have to make it stop. Amazing stuff, though - they have a real mystique to them.MysteryGuest said:
Ahh, I feel your pain/mystery/joy.
The internet has (-with a fair bit of persistence on my part) answered most (-if not quite all) of my '-What-was-that-tune-I-taped-years-ago??' type questions.
I live in hope though of, one day, once again hearing a track about JFK/Dallas which was featured on a mini-LP by somebody called Ambrose Reynolds, who was a member of Pink Industry/Military...
MysteryGuest said:chr
There's a bit of a weird story about this one. Back in 1981 when I was 15 I taped some seriously out-there mentalisticationalist music off French radio that I'd never heard the like of before. Sort of art-metal-new wave with solarised ear-blinding guitar that would suddenly lurch midflow into broiling masses of heavily flanged backwards tapeloops before erupting into some of the most wacked out acid rock gone wrong... Coz it was French radio I had no idea who'd made this music. And in 1984 in an all-too-frequent outburst of spontaneous twattery, I taped over it. I've wondered on and off ever since what the fuck this music was, and was getting puzzled at my failure to ever discover it anywhere else - it was completely unique. Last year I tried googling the phrase "I saw you in the zoo/In the parking lot" which I remembered as a lyric from one of the particularly demented tunes I'd taped back in the distant summer of 81, but with no success. And over the years I'd occasionally wonder what this brilliant electronic/art metal/new wave/acid/psyche rock stuff was, and if I'd ever find it.
Then the other week I was reading Simon Reynold's (stunning) 'Rip it up and Start Again', wondering if I'd see a description of this music there. And in the section on Chrome I thought - "that's them". Reynolds is uncannily good at describing music after all (imo). So I got the above CD. And yes, it was them. Shortly after the start of the track 'Half Machine Lip Moves' I realised that I was hearing this music I'd last heard in 1984, 23 years later. It was like I got this weird aura of recognition almost immediately, accompanied by a wave of goosebumps, then subsequently felt something gradually surfacing from subterranean depths of my mind. Then there he was - a scary sounding Damon Edge intoning "I saw you, in the zoo...". Truly, memory is a remarkable thing. Thank you for reading this far. Yours sincerely, best wishes MysteryGuest x
ps - It's a really good CD and I like it.
they were a weird bunch. Always struck me as a midpoint, somehow, between the Buttholes (as you go on to say), Pere Ubu and - in a funny - way - some kind of American Hawkwind
oh yeh, and Rip it Up is stunning, innit?
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Dubversion said:
Fucking awesome, can't believe that guy's writing. I found it as page-turning as any thriller. And it helped me understand, and feel sympathetic towards, music I really couldn't stand at the time (Orange Juice, e.g.).
Also made me a bit worried as to how any Next Big Thing is going to happen, as he makes it very clear how socioeconomic circumstances played a huge part in bringing it all about. I was also really shocked to see quite what a massive role amphetamine seemed to play, even with the likes of Coil... very odd... 
thing with Reynolds is his tendency to overtheorise, but the reason RIUASA is so good is that all the bands did the over-theorising for him
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Dubversion said:thing with Reynolds is his tendency to overtheorise, but the reason RIUASA is so good is that all the bands did the over-theorising for him
Overtheorising is good. All we need now is for somebody to come up with a theory as to why.
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The Delgados - "The Great Eastern"
Brian Eno - "Ambient #1 Music For Airports"
PJ Harvey - "Is This Desire?"
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