The bored bassist’s name is G.C. Green. Did you happen to catch the video for Mothra? It’s pretty cool.
The bored bassist’s name is G.C. Green. Did you happen to catch the video for Mothra? It’s pretty cool.
Yeah, I was watching the video while listening to the song. Pretty cool, indeed.
Dude… THESE are the songs to check…
Godflesh - Everything Us Mine
GF - Toll
GF - Witchhunt
GF - Gift From Heaven
GF - Us & Them
jesu - Ruined
SOLAH is easily my fav GF album but man Circle Of Shit IS the weakest track on it and it always amazes me that folk suggest that tune as a fav when you have Gift From Heaven, Hunter, Time Death & Wastefulness (best tune ever!) and GFs all time epic classic Frail!!!
Gunner is a metal head and you guys are offering all the WRONG tunes to listen to…
Gunner…do my list. It’s probably the only tunes which may float ya boat.
All righty, then. I got pretty worn out from my last session. I’ll make my way through Akbar’s set next since he knows me best anyway. We’ll see if that nigga knows how to touch my soul with Godflesh’s blackety black emohopcore tuneage . . .
Dude… THESE are the songs to check…
Godflesh - Everything Us Mine
GF - Toll
GF - Witchhunt
GF - Gift From Heaven
GF - Us & Them
jesu - Ruined
SOLAH is easily my fav GF album but man Circle Of Shit IS the weakest track on it and it always amazes me that folk suggest that tune as a fav when you have Gift From Heaven, Hunter, Time Death & Wastefulness (best tune ever!) and GFs all time epic classic Frail!!!
Gunner is a metal head and you guys are offering all the WRONG tunes to listen to…
Gunner…do my list. It’s probably the only tunes which may float ya boat.
Everything Us Mine?? You mean Anything is Mine? If you think my list is WRONG you are out of your fucking mind…Love is a Dog From Hell and Avalanche Master Song are about as METAL as you can get…fuck all this song list shit anyway…listen to the fucking albums…!!!
By the way SOLAH(and it’s dub companion) is always going to be a different sounding album because of the live drummer…the mighty Brain…so yeah,after this go listen to some PRAXIS!!!
The only Praxis you really need is Transmutation, but it is a must have.
The only Praxis you really need is Transmutation, but it is a must have.
I love Metatron and Sacrifist also…and any of the Live stuff…especially the Bonaroo show of 2004…I was there and it’s still the greatest live show I’ve ever seen…
hmm, actually haven’t heard Sacrifist. i’ll have to grab that one later. the live stuff is good.
[reply]Dude… THESE are the songs to check…
Godflesh - Everything Us Mine
GF - Toll
GF - Witchhunt
GF - Gift From Heaven
GF - Us & Them
jesu - Ruined
SOLAH is easily my fav GF album but man Circle Of Shit IS the weakest track on it and it always amazes me that folk suggest that tune as a fav when you have Gift From Heaven, Hunter, Time Death & Wastefulness (best tune ever!) and GFs all time epic classic Frail!!!
Gunner is a metal head and you guys are offering all the WRONG tunes to listen to…
Gunner…do my list. It’s probably the only tunes which may float ya boat.
Everything Us Mine?? You mean Anything is Mine?[/reply]
Yeah…mobile phone posts always come out remixxxxed.
Love Is A Dog From Hell IS without a doubt Godflesh’s crowning glory…and Gunnar may (should!! haha) dig it…but I reckon the list I posted will be more up his street. As for albums…Gunnar isn’t really an album type of guy…he’s a tune type of guy.
Gonerville is another beast of an album with Brain AND Bill Laswell not to mention a few other crazy ass artists.
Oh yeah and DO check Baby Blue Eyes…that’s an excercise in pure unadulterated precision in 1990s Industrial Metal music.
Yeah, I’m totally NOT an album guy . . . Unless said album happens to contain all songs that I dig and make kind of a complete picture or story as a whole (OLD Wall of Voodoo and OLD Danzig albums are good in this respect).
So, yeah, IF I was to get turned on to a GF album I would first have to dig a few of the tunes enough to actually want to attempt the whole package. When discovering new stuff I’m usually far MORE dismissive than I was yesterday. I’ll just click on a YouTube clip, give it 20-30 seconds, skip forward a minute or two, decide it’s crap, and move on.
If I buy an album nowadays (very rare) I’m happy if I end up liking 2 or 3 songs on it. When I’m driving is when I do all my listening and I’m changing discs all the time like a damn mobile DJ or something. Occasionally, if it’s an album I actually like completely, it’ll stay in rotation for a day or two.
So, yeah, if there’s a particular ALBUM anyone thinks I need to experience, I hope that it starts strong and carries my interest through. I typically have the attention span of a 2 year old.
Fag
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Then you might not like the S/T. That ones my personal favorite. But do check out the song Godhead. Other Godflesh songs to check out:
Spite
Bittersweet
Nail
Wake
Sterile Prophet
Nihil
Slavestate
hmm, actually haven’t heard Sacrifist. i’ll have to grab that one later. the live stuff is good.
Sacrifist is fucking awesome, easily my favorite album by them.
[reply]hmm, actually haven’t heard Sacrifist. i’ll have to grab that one later. the live stuff is good.
Sacrifist is fucking awesome, easily my favorite album by them.[/reply]
Yeah,Sacrifist was actually going to be called something else initially…and Laswell decided to use the Praxis moniker at the last minute…it has a lot more guests on it…it’s chaotic and noisy and a hell of a lot of fun…
Godflesh “Love Is A Dog From Hell”: I like the depressive intro to this one. It creates a nice tension where you’re waiting for something to happen. The melody and tension actually reminds me of an old NoMeansNo song from way back (“Real Love”). This one is certainly a “heavy” track.
Grey Machine “Vultures Descend”: Definitely my favorite of the Grey Machine tracks sampled up to this point. It’s got the experimental soundscape noise thing going, but it is worked into a melodic groove with some backing beats and structure and just seems to better to create an atmosphere and feeling, as opposed to just making aggravating noise for the sake of being noisy and aggravating. A bit long for my taste, but, this stuff isn’t really geared for me anyway so that’s alright.
Godflesh “Anything is Mine”: This track is pretty cool. Pretty devastating bass and I like the breakdown at the end.
Yeah, I’m totally NOT an album guy . . . up liking 2 or 3 songs on it. When I’m driving is when I do all my listening and I’m changing discs all the time like a damn mobile DJ or something.
Then you are the polar opposite of me. An album is a journey. I hate selecting certain songs off an album like I’m going shopping or something. If a bunch of songs don’t work as a WHOLE (um…ok, I hate to mention Tool and bring back the whole “Tool is great / Tool sucks” debate but…well, like Tool’s albums for instance) then forget it. The album is not worth bothering about.
And for me, personally, Godflesh DIED IN THE ARSE after Selfless (1994) and Jesu are hanging on by a thread, which is why so much is resting on this new release. If it’s no good then it’s CURTAINS for that band if you ask me. The last couple of Jesu releases have been shithouse.
And I didn’t like the sound of that 1 minute sample, so that does not bode well…
I fucking hate that hiphop beat/ shouted vocal shit that Godflesh started with Songs Of Love And Hate. It’s like…not even the same band - all angry and “tuff” sounding. Awful shit.
[reply]Yeah, I’m totally NOT an album guy . . . up liking 2 or 3 songs on it. When I’m driving is when I do all my listening and I’m changing discs all the time like a damn mobile DJ or something.
Then you are the polar opposite of me. An album is a journey. I hate selecting certain songs off an album like I’m going shopping or something. If a bunch of songs don’t work as a WHOLE (um…ok, I hate to mention Tool and bring back the whole “Tool is great / Tool sucks” debate but…well, like Tool’s albums for instance) then forget it. The album is not worth bothering about.[/reply]
I like when an album works, but I think that sadly we’re in an era now when the format is neglected as cohesive work. Now that kids buy their crap digitally and careers are built on hit singles, I think artists are pushing the importance of the “album” to the margin.
Back in the 70’s and 80’s you HAD to have a good album. We’d listen to these on record players or on cassette players and both formats were tedious an inconvenient to skip tracks on. And a record had typically, what? 20-25 minutes on a side maybe? A band would put the best of the best on those pressings and put forth something that they were proud of and worked as a body.
Then CD’s came along . . . great for convenience, but that convenience also was the first bullet, in my opinion, to the format. First off, they held like 80 minutes of play so bands felt obligated to throw more filler on there and the quality dropped. But that was okay, because we could easily skip it all anyway. Track 5, boom. Skip the next 3, boom. And done. Next!
With iPods and MP3 players and such, it’s even worse now. Heck, if we were hanging out as homies in the 80’s having this conversation I wouldn’t have the convenience of clicking through 20 tracks on YouTube even. You’d tell me how awesome Godflesh was and give me a tape or record to borrow for a while (or you’d make a cassette copy, haha) and I’d actually listen to the album.
The convenience of today’s modern technology has also been a serious poison to the art of an album itself.
[End of bitter old guy babble for now.]
I only listen to albums…I don’t own an ipod and I have never downloaded anything ever…I never put anything on shuffle…I play the album in sequential order and then take it off and move to the next one…I have a massive system with a nice turntable and tube amps…I still play vinyl all the time…archaic,yes…but it makes me happy…
I’m an ipod guy. I’d lose my mind if I didn’t. Shitty day at work, and I need to keep it together before choking someone, I’ll resort to my phone. No problems yet. I very rarely shuffle. I still prefer listening to actual albums from start finishing. Occasionally, if I do shuffle, it’ll be the same band. It drives me crazy when people shuffle everything on their players. In one friend’s case, it goes from slipknot, to rap, to country, to house music, and repeat cycle. It’s annoying. Especially, when you walk into a store, pay your 13 bucks on a disc, but don’t ever actually listen to it from start to finish.