Coincidentally, I too am listening to Current 93 - Christ & the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow.
Godlike Pudding , most fans agree that the best “starter albums” for Current 93 are Thunder Perfect Mind and All The Pretty Little Horses. I’d also add the more recent Black Ships Ate the Sky to that list. They’ve got a LOT of material, but those are probably their most accessible releases. The early stuff is very experimental, but good if you’re into that kind of thing.
Current 93 is great. ‘Dawn’ and ‘Swastikas For Noddy’ are personal favourites.
You’d have to agree tho’ that their back catalogue is VERY hit and miss - particularly anything released post 1990.
Someone mentioned Alice Cooper as well. Check out his first two albums ‘Pretties For You’ and ‘Easy Action’. Nothing like the Alice Cooper most of us love/loathe. More like Mothers Of Invention on bad acid. Listen and you’d never believe it was Alice Cooper you were hearing.
Virtually EVERYTHING Alice did up to ‘Raise Your Fist And Yell’ is essential. Everything after… forget it.
At the moment am listening to:
Fennesz / Sakamoto - Cendre
Namanax - Audiotronic
Various - Gummo O.S.T
KK Null - Ergosphere
Bastard Noise / Pain Jerk - split 7"
Nadja - Skin Turns To Glass
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - untitled
I can’t stop listening to Joanna Newsom.
Sure, she sounds like the love child of Ralph Wiggum and Lisa Simpson, but she’s also strangely haunting.
throbbing gristle - rafters
and
Rise above: 24 black flag songs to benefit the west memphis 3
and
the electric six
I usually dont listen to this stuff but my friend left his cd case in my car so i popped in and started listening to the following songs
Local h - deep cut
Death from above - blood on our hands
Tortoise “TNT” Easily my fave album by them guys.
Blues night on KJZZ right now, but I’ve also found myself in a Replacements mood lately, so Pleased To Meet Me has been getting some rotation. “The Ledge” - can’t get enough of that song.
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Buncha old-skool Foetus stuff. “OKFM” and “Today I Started Slogging Again,” for some stupid reason, paint this picture in my head of a Pee Wee Herman-esque guy riding a bike down a city street with a look of retarded, stoned wonder plastered across his face.
KMFDM - Angst
also Anarchy cos im soo excited about the new Skold collaboration. KMFDM truly are Better than the best!
Spinning “The Perfect Pair” religiously, along with a few recent purchases.
Sister Machine Gun: “The Torture Technique”
ANOTHER reason I wish I grew up in the early Nineties.
Frontline Assembly: “Tactical Neural Implant”
My first exposure to these guys, and I dig it. Like the bastard child of Skuppy and 242.
KMFDM: “Symbols”
FINALLY picked this one up, and “Megalomaniac” is fun as hell.
Butthole Surfers - Brown Reason To Live
[;)]
Going through a bit of a godflesh phase right now, but the main album in play in Songs of Love and Hate.
Jesu - s/t
Pelican - Australasia
Final - anything and everything
Neubauten - The Jewels
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Anarctica
Isis - Oceanic
On - Shifting Skin/Make Believe
Failure - Fantastic Planet/Magified
Ken Andrews - Secrets of the Lost Satellite
ohgr - Everything
Skinny Puppy - Back and Forth 6 and 7, Mythmaker
Flowering Blight
Killing Joke - Live at the Forum 3.10.08/4.10.08 (all 4 discs of it)
Spinning “The Perfect Pair” religiously, along with a few recent purchases.
Sister Machine Gun: “The Torture Technique”
ANOTHER reason I wish I grew up in the early Nineties.
Frontline Assembly: “Tactical Neural Implant”
My first exposure to these guys, and I dig it. Like the bastard child of Skuppy and 242.
KMFDM: “Symbols”
FINALLY picked this one up, and “Megalomaniac” is fun as hell.
These are all great albums, Tactical Neural Implant being a benchmark in electronics that arguably spawned a slew of clones. Early FLA at times do remind me of SP, Bill Leeb was a guest musician on Bites as ‘Wilhelm Schroeder’, and Dave Ogilvie produced most of their early stuff, but more so Front 242. (I don’t think it was a coincidence that Bill used Front as a first name so they would be close together in cd bins.)
Although later releases Bill has become a bit lazy, and or adept at sampling other stuff, its all pretty enjoyable. The side projects Noise Unit, and earlier Delerium albums are nice as well.
Skinny Puppy - Back and Forth 6 and 7, Mythmaker
How is 7? Haven’t gotten around to getting it yet…
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Spinning “The Perfect Pair” religiously, along with a few recent purchases.
Sister Machine Gun: “The Torture Technique”
ANOTHER reason I wish I grew up in the early Nineties.
Frontline Assembly: “Tactical Neural Implant”
My first exposure to these guys, and I dig it. Like the bastard child of Skuppy and 242.
KMFDM: “Symbols”
FINALLY picked this one up, and “Megalomaniac” is fun as hell.
These are all great albums, Tactical Neural Implant being a benchmark in electronics that arguably spawned a slew of clones. Early FLA at times do remind me of SP, Bill Leeb was a guest musician on Bites as ‘Wilhelm Schroeder’, and Dave Ogilvie produced most of their early stuff, but more so Front 242. (I don’t think it was a coincidence that Bill used Front as a first name so they would be close together in cd bins.)
Although later releases Bill has become a bit lazy, and or adept at sampling other stuff, its all pretty enjoyable. The side projects Noise Unit, and earlier Delerium albums are nice as well.
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So THAT’S why I dig it so. “Bites” is far and away my favorite SP record.
Surprised I’d never listened to FLA before, as one of my friends is a big Noise Unit junkie.
Good stuff.
Filth Pig.
Magazine The Complete John Peel Sessions Meursault Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues
some really swinging mel torme and nancy sinatra on vinyl.
Smokin’!!!
Jesus Jones. - Liquidizer.
It’s better than all of yours. HA.