Their music makes me nauseous in much the same way is all…[/reply]
Rammstein are a bit of a joke. I first heard them on ‘Lost Highway’; they had two chugging metal songs that fit ok into the film but their other stuff I’ve heard is piss poor. From what I gather they are not very serious, despite being German. I remember reading a generic metal magazine years ago (must be at least 12 years ago) that featured a picture of the lead singer taking his erect penis out and pissing on the crowd. Considering the main readership of the mag was probably young teenagers I thought it was a bit unsuitable. That’s my Rammstein story.[/reply]
Yeah they’re lumped into the Nu-Metal scene… suppose they could be classified that way. I dig them at times, when you want to hear angry germans yelling over “industrial” rock. Some singles are terrific - ie.the lost highway songs. First two albums are ok, not really enough substance to make them terrific. I still hold them close as one of those bands that were the bridges to what I listen to today, Sensucht was one of the first CD’s I bought. Their stage shows are (or were dunno about now) very Pyro heavy, pretty cool stuff.
Oh and the “pissing on the crowd” thing. Part of the show during a song called Buch Dich (or bend over/down) Til would use a strap on which shot out litres of frothy milky stuff and pretend to sodomize the keyboard player. so lucky punters at the front get some too I guess!
I dunno… As great of an album as it is, I kind of have Rain Dogs up on a very high pedestal.[/reply]
Rain Dogs is my favorite. I’d not listened to Tom for ages and a song off “Rain Dogs” popped up on iTunes and it made me remember why I liked him so much. I do think his last few have been kind of dull and I had to wash the taste of them out of my mouth before getting back into the Tom.
I’d have to disagree. I think ‘Rain Dogs’, though it has some great moments, is a tad overrated. I’d put ‘Swordfishtrombones’ ahead of ‘Rain Dogs’ too. I might have a bit of bias against ‘Rain Dogs’ too though as when I first went to college they had a magazine for freshman students giving advice and what not and they had a piece on “cool” music. The writer suggested that one should say they like Rain Dogs as it’s “uber-cool” or something like that. He didn’t even suggest listening to the album, so I think the album can be stained by these type of folk. But mostly I was just a bit underwhelmed by it. I thought ‘Real Gone’ was a decent effort. Still haven’t picked up that 3 disc collection ‘Bawlers, Brawlers and Bastards’ or whatever it was called.
Actually my favourite Tom Waits album is the live one ‘Big Time’. One of my favourite albums in my collection. But as for best studio album, I’d stand by ‘Bone Machine’
no pussyfooting-fripp and eno. thanks pelligro for the reminder.
anyone here remember the red flexi-disc christmas song of fripp’s which came out in '79? part of an art magazine. silent night cover. spent some studio time on that one.
don’t have a copy anymore, but the backstory will appear in ed’s upcoming memoirs.and now i deal in the third person. grrrrrr.
no pussyfooting-fripp and eno. thanks pelligro for the reminder.
anyone here remember the red flexi-disc christmas song of fripp’s which came out in '79? part of an art magazine. silent night cover. spent some studio time on that one.
don’t have a copy anymore, but the backstory will appear in ed’s upcoming memoirs.and now i deal in the third person. grrrrrr.
all music says the credits for no pussyfooting goes to
Tony Arnold Remastering
Arun Chakraverty Engineer, Mastering
Willie Christie Design, Photography, Cover Design, Cover Art
Brian Eno Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Performer, Treatments, VCS 3 Synthesizer
Fripp & Eno Producer
Robert Fripp Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Producer, Performer, Remastering
Ray Hendriksen Engineer
That takes me back to the winter of '89…spent many cold nights curled up in front of a crackiling fire with that little gem lazily idling away in the background at 1am.