Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
PIL - Second Edition
Bug’s great, loved it. So’s The Fragile, Trent at his best.
Now listening to some Devo.
Clan of Xymox
more record albums to help me through the work week:
Robert Hampson - Suspended Cadences
Black Light District (aka Coil) - A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room
AFX - Chosen Lords
Pussy Galore - Right Now!
Black Light District (aka Coil) - A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room
Good pick. Love this one!
Husker Du-New Day Rising
Techno Animal vs Reality
Spectre-The Illness
The Bug-Tapping the Conversation
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Black Light District (aka Coil) - A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room
Good pick. Love this one![/reply]
That’s honestly one of my favorite things they’ve done - I forget what Balance’s rationale was for not releasing it as a “canonical” Coil album, and giving it a different project name.
Little of the music on there actually feels like it was made by human hands.
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Black Light District (aka Coil) - A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room
Good pick. Love this one![/reply]
That’s honestly one of my favorite things they’ve done - I forget what Balance’s rationale was for not releasing it as a “canonical” Coil album, and giving it a different project name.
Little of the music on there actually feels like it was made by human hands.[/reply]
They did a handful of albums under different aliases, I think mainly because they could’t get Coil’s Backwards to take off properly. I think Balance and Sleazy were also ending their relationship around this time and the idea of doing Coil records was still in question. This was a good musical period for them. BLD, Elph and Time Machines were all great albums.
My personal favorites are Musik To Play In The Dark, Moon’s Milk and The Ape of Naples.
St. Vincent
Good stuff. I picked up her S/T and really enjoyed it.
[reply]St. Vincent
Good stuff. I picked up her S/T and really enjoyed it.[/reply]
St. Vincent is a major gap in my cultural knowledge. Apparently she’s on the new Swans LP, which I intend to dig into eventually, but…just one of those names that I’ve heard people saying is “good,” but they never elaborate on that in any way. What is she most comparable to stylistically?
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Good stuff. I picked up her S/T and really enjoyed it.[/reply]
St. Vincent is a major gap in my cultural knowledge. Apparently she’s on the new Swans LP, which I intend to dig into eventually, but…just one of those names that I’ve heard people saying is “good,” but they never elaborate on that in any way. What is she most comparable to stylistically?[/reply]
Good question. I’m really unfamiliar with her early work, but her lastest LP is synth pop with unique time signatures. The sound/look reminds me a lot of the Missing Persons.
My personal favorites are Musik To Play In The Dark, Moon’s Milk and The Ape of Naples.
Add Astral Disaster to that list and buddy, you got yrself a winner!!
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Add Astral Disaster to that list and buddy, you got yrself a winner!!
The thing with them is that they truly made a record for almost every mindset, from contemplative to - in their own succinct wording - wanting your mind to be “fucked for good.” As to the latter, pumping ‘Solar Lodge’ through a pair of monitor headphones in total darkness (with some psychedelic enhancement) will change one’s worldview pretty quickly.
The “Moon Musick” discs have some of the most distinct use of electronics that I’ve heard; ElpH vs. Coil “Worship the Glitch” is also fantastically eerie.
One of the surviving members, Ossian Brown (of Cyclobe) sent me this image of their “Constant Shallowness…” tour when I was seeking out images for a book chapter. They were wearing special outfits that caused only the outfit material itself to be visible if flash photography was taken, quite an interesting effect:
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see the black sun riiiiiiiiise…
^That is pretty rad.
Peligro, totally agree on Astral Disaster. That actually would be my next pick behind those albums. The Angelic Conversation is another one I absolutely love.
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Good stuff. I picked up her S/T and really enjoyed it.[/reply]
St. Vincent is a major gap in my cultural knowledge. Apparently she’s on the new Swans LP, which I intend to dig into eventually, but…just one of those names that I’ve heard people saying is “good,” but they never elaborate on that in any way. What is she most comparable to stylistically?[/reply]
Good question. I’m really unfamiliar with her early work, but her lastest LP is synth pop with unique time signatures. The sound/look reminds me a lot of the Missing Persons.[/reply]
I discovered her via Swans as well, though she’s been around for several years. Before the new album she was even on 4AD.
[reply]St. Vincent
Good stuff. I picked up her S/T and really enjoyed it.[/reply]
I only have listened the self titled and I really liked it.
I was also pleasantly surprised when I found out she was in the Swans album.
Butthole Surfers - Brown Reason To Live ep
Glen Branca - Lesson No. 1
Coum Transmissions - Home Aged And The 18 Month Hope
Led Zeppelin - Self Titled (reissued box set)
Equations of Eternity-Veve
Mick Harris/Eraldo Bernocchi-Total Station
Bill Laswell-Hear No Evil
Autonomous Zone-Map is Not the Territory
Sonny Sharrock-Seize the Rainbow