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Post subject: References to A.C. in music
 Posted: May 24, 2007 - 10:36 AM
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Im trying to compile a list of references to A.C. in music.
There are some obvious ones like Ozzy's Mr Crowley but are there any more obscure ones that have been overlooked? Anything really, maybe even cover art and imagary.
Im interested to find out if any contemporary bands/artist have an outwardly Crowlian Image. |
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 12:27 PM
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Greetings
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
There are too many... just some in my head:
-Coil
-Current 93
-Death in June
-Tool
-Led Zeppelin
-Marilyn Manson
-Electric Hellfire Club
-Ministry
-Iron Maiden
-Nick Cave
-David Bowie
-Fields of Nephilim
-Lon Milo Duquette (he as a record)
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There are those that I ain't shore like Sisters of Mercy, Sol Invictus, Fire and Ice, Boyd Rice or David E. Williams but it is probable they used.
If you search through the now dead World Serpent Distribution old catalogues probably you'll multiply these names.
Love is the law, love under will
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 12:33 PM
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 12:47 PM
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Thanks, Im looking for a specfics tho. Like a lyric that takes directly from the writings of A.C.
Id be interested to know how David Bowie is related etc
Coil are/where an amazing band, Im listening to Anal Staircase right now! |
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 03:25 PM
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badfreddy wrote: › Id be interested to know how David Bowie is related
I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery...
Quicksand from Hunky Dory |
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 04:09 PM
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I think you can add Sting to that list.
I vaguely remembered an interview on MTV in the early 80s where he said he was reading Crowley, and I found this lead in a blog on the web -
http://danharms.wordpress.com/tag/readings/
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"So, what do Sting and the Loch Ness Monster have to do with Abramelin?
The Police’s Synchronicity II, released in 1983, juxtaposes two narratives against each other. One tells of an emotionally troubled man living in a bleak urban landscape, with a family on the edge of sanity and a job that leaves him incomplete and stunted. The other provides snapshots of a strange creature, emerging from a Scottish loch by… what? The last seconds of the video show Castle Urquhart, but the lyrics mention a “cottage.”
Could this cottage be Boleskine? It’s not as far-fetched as it might sound. Apparently Sting gave an interview to Penthouse published in the January 1984 issue - the year after the song was released - in which he declared his fascination with Crowley’s thought. I found a reference to it on this Italian site, but I’ve gotten no further than that."
The "Italian site" linked here actually gives less insight than this blog, but since I don't have the Penthouse issue in question I'll have to hope someone who has one can dig deeper.
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 05:12 PM
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Graham Bond recorded Love is the Law in 1969, Holy Magick (1970) and We Put Our Magick on You (1971).
Gong recorded Mystic Sister: Magick Brother in 1969.
The (mis)quote,"Do as thy wilt shall be the whole of the law." appears in the liner notes for The Anthology of American Folk Music, 1952. |
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 06:29 PM
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 06:40 PM
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Greetings
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
badfreddy wrote: › Thanks, Im looking for a specfics tho. Like a lyric that takes directly from the writings of A.C.
Id be interested to know how David Bowie is related etc
Coil are/where an amazing band, Im listening to Anal Staircase right now!
You can't ask much more than "Rule Again" by Death in June (also with David Tibet back vocals). Douglas P., a homossexual nazi quoting Liber Al. It can't get much stranger than this, specially if you know the his personal history.
All the groups mentioned by me have many references and very easy to find... except Nick Cave with "Red Right Hand".
Iron Maiden with the track "Moonchild" or "Number of the Beast" was already mentioned in a previous thread.
Strangely Fields of Nephilim are a band that mentioned Crowley and Spare a lot and tend to be ignored (they have ended for a few years now).
Also forgot to mention Alan Moore recording "The Highbury Working".
After looking at my cd's collection I will make a reference to Lilith "Orgazio" made of ritual remixes with Crowley's texts a numeroligal theory (I am reading the cover) recorded exactly 90 years after the reception of the "Book of the Law".
Love is the law, love under will
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 09:03 PM
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93 Good idea
Heres a couple from me
The Klaxons - Magick
Although the tag in the song is more Magick Without Tears. Not the best piece of Crowley related music.
Uncle John & Whitelock - Aleister Crowley
From the album There Is Nothing Else whose cover is very resemblent to the cover of Konx Om Pax
Im sure i spotted a band in Glasgow called Konx Om Pax
Used to correspond with a guy from the states in an industrial band call Psychonaut.
They recorded the whole of the Book of the Law over atmospheric industrial noise. Quite impressive. Michael Ford the guys name is and a real nice bloke. You can google him. |
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 10:04 PM
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Hi Doug,
dougbrown93 wrote: › Used to correspond with a guy from the states in an industrial band call Psychonaut.
I was listening to one of their albums the other day for the first time in months: really not bad at all!
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 11:02 PM
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There is indeed a band called Knox Om Pax, they are an offshoot of the Stars Of The Lid/Dead Texan bands. If you have heard either then you'll know what to expect from Knox Om Pax. I suppose you'd call it drifting music. There's nothing overtly thelemic about it, as there are no lyrics or samples or anything obvious like that.
The Dead Texan cd reminds me very much of Labradford, whos live performance of their "E Luxo So" album in the Union Chapel in London, in front of a massive stained glass window, in a thunderstorm, was one of the most sublime musical experiences I've ever had. Anyway, nowt very thelemic about all this.
I'm off to london on Saturday to see Throbbing Gristle perform a live accompaniment to some of Derek Jarmans experimental super-8 films, in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern !
Anyone else going ? |
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Posted: May 24, 2007 - 11:13 PM
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BlueKephra wrote: › I'm off to london on Saturday to see Throbbing Gristle perform a live accompaniment to some of Derek Jarmans experimental super-8 films, in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern! Anyone else going?
The grapevine has let me down on this occasion. Sounds amazing!
Please let us know how it goes... |
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Posted: May 25, 2007 - 12:58 AM
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wolf354 wrote: › .
Strangely Fields of Nephilim are a band that mentioned Crowley and Spare a lot and tend to be ignored (they have ended for a few years now).
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Posted: May 25, 2007 - 01:26 AM
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| John Zorn did 2 or 3 albums based on Crowley's material. Should be easy to look up. |
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Posted: May 25, 2007 - 03:02 AM
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Three Fish recorded a version of the A ka dua mantra on the album "The Quiet Table" (1999). The track is titled "Chantreuse."
Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam is a founding member of Three Fish, and the Mark of the Beast is printed (amongst numerous other symbols) on one of their CDs - "No Code," if memory serves. |
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Posted: May 25, 2007 - 10:30 AM
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Posted: May 25, 2007 - 11:30 AM
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Another band to add to the list of those who have recorded tracks called "Moonchild" are While Angels Watch (http://www.falling.org.uk). They also do a fantastic rendition of the poem Walpurgis-Night which appears in the novel Moonchild.
Walpurgis-Night is on the Liber AL centenary compilation released by Horus CD (http://www.horus.cz/www_hcd/releases.html).
I know of 4 versions of the Hymn to Pan, done by:
The Russian OTO which you have all no doubt heard already. 
Unto Ashes
Coph Nia - Also do an interpretation of the Gnostic Mass and much more of interest
Endura - their version is the best in my opinion and it appears on their album "The Great God Pan".
Most of these bands are 'for real' and not just using the Beasts words for effect so are worth checking out anyway.
Hmm, as I was planning a night out in London tonight think I should go book a ticket for the Tate Modern event too. |
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| Hi. Blood & Roses Kamera Records 12" E.P. Side B track 2: 'Love Under Will' Nick. |
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The band Mudvayne, who associates themselves with the occult in their albums, paraphrases Liber AL in their song mercy, severity: "Pain of division is nothing, Joy of dissolution is everything."
The band Therion claims to have taken their name from a Celtic Frost album titled To Mega Therion, but then we all know where that title came from. But Therion hails from Dragon Rouge, so aside from their name, I'm not really sure how interested they are in A.C.
The band Behemoth also displays Thelemic images and titles. One of their albums is titled Thelema.6. Their song Decade of Therion uses as a chorus the words "Apo Pantoz Kakodaimonoz." There's many other Thelemic references in their albums.
The band DevilDriver declares "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" in their song Nothing's wrong?. In the booklet accompanying the CD, Dez Fafara, the vocalist, gives thanks to "The teachings of: Aleister Crowley," among others.
If I should think of more later, I'll post them.
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| 'Book of Lies' by the Fall, 'Aumgn' by Can (I think both of these may have been mentioned in an earlier thread by someone with a similar record collection to mine). |
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| The Can track is from the album Tago Mago. The Wikipedia article on this album states that "the name comes from a large rock formation off the cost of Ibiza that figures in the legend of Aleister Crowley". I don't remember reading anything about this ever. Is it a mistake? |
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Posted: May 25, 2007 - 06:49 PM
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Unless I missed it earlier Badfreddy nobody has mentioned the most obvious one,
Sgt Peppers album cover...I think he is face # 62?
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