I'd give Woodstock a miss and do the Chrome Nun album instead.
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Dude, The Band are on in about 2 hours, Ten Years After coming on RIGHT NOW are a bit forgettable, but The Band?!?!?
You like the Dead, but not the Band- huh? And Johnny Winter at midnight EDT?
And then CSNY coming out at 3am with "We never played in front of people before, and we're scared shitless."
What do they teach you kids in school these days?
“These days I am a magician and musician and dreamer, mystic and idiot, effectively locked away from the world by the curse of failed flesh, but in the Voice and the sound and the music, I am free. “
https://hermetic.com/anthology/profile/robert-furtkamp/index
thanks ig
@ignant
"Oh vey baby you messed with the wrong vampire". Don't know if it was this thread but funny. Anyway...
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No one here has probably heard of this band who should've been massively famous.
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@dom :
No one here has probably heard of this band who should’ve been massively famous.
Tsk tsk, there you go again dom, with your presumptive generalisation containing that little extra hint of elitism... Not only have I heard of The house of Love, I rate them in of the top 20 gigs I've ever seen when I happened to catch them in the late 80s. Must have been my state of mind at the time, but they seemed wondrous to me when I caught them live. So tight! Anyway...
I agree they should probably have been a lot more successful than they were, but maybe that might have changed what made them so good. Having said that, they weren't even quite as brilliant as three other pre-Britpop sensations whom I also aw that may be equally as obscure --- Intastella, Curve and Word of Twist. Did anyone catch any of those?
Also, I wouldn't have picked "Salome" myself given the choice, but selected this bittersweet celebration of transcendent transience:
https://youtu.be/rxUv79hejRU
She-she-she-Shine on,
N Joy
@jbarter
You saw the House of Love. Well done. The entire album is brilliant. The other albums have some great tracks on also. I'm also a fan of
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Yes, HoL were something to behold --- you missed them then, dom? Truly sorry about that, without wishing to rub it in you'd have missed a treat.
Cocteaus --- the first time I ever heard them was when John Peel was playing a track from their debut LP which had just come out ("Garlands") on his radio prog. I'd just missed the start, and he didn't say who it was afterwards so for the one and only time in my life I wrote in to a radio/tv statin enquiring details of what piece of music was just played, and him being the all-round splendid mensch he was, took the trouble to reply back with the answer on a postcard, stamped and addressed in his own handwriting throughout (talk about being a man of the people!) That considerate little gesture touched me & made me a fan and admirer of his for life. Still I digress. FYI the track in question was:
https://youtu.be/xLceDv7xXRY
Unfortunately I only ever saw them once live at the Brfxton Academy on their Heaven or Las Vegas tour. A smaller venue would have suited them better as they didn't really visually project. But soundwise, impressive!
N Joy
Brilliant Peel story there Jamie.
I saw them in the late 80s. I could see that the audience was becoming less alternative. I actually can't remember much about the concert. I'm sure they played work from the earlier albums. They took their name from an early song by Simple Minds.
You probably know Felt's "Primitive painters" where Fraser does a guest appearance? Anyway here's another great track from Felt.
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" Got to be careful
Things you say or do
Too much rat never dig good hole
Some haffi come, some haffi go
If your heart is willing and your flesh is weak
Now is the time, Jah Jah you've got to see
If you want to get to heaven
You got to build ahead on earth
If and when you really want to get to heaven
You got to build ahead on the earth
A lot a dem a try to reach to the top
But we all got to start from the bottom
I can't stand this rat race
Even a fool would be frustrated
And if you want a better living condition
For each and everyone
We got to kill crime, sin, shame and disgrace
Execute hunger and poverty, triumphantly
Who yoi yo yo "
https://youtu.be/u1DKiPn0kb4
Fav NYC cat Kip Hanrahan, who "was born [1954] in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an Irish-Jewish family" (wow)(Wikipedia) which IMO represents the best of NYC's diversity. He has played with some of the best latino percussionist (Milton Cardona), European non-bozo "cream" (Jack Bruce), one of the best (free) jazz pianist (Don Pullen), NYC downtown "avant" jazz scene (Arto Lindsay), etc.
G-d is Great (with Jack Bruce) (song from his 7th album Exotica, recorded 1992)
Your kiss so sweet... fuck it, Saint John Coltrane said “If the music doesn’t speak for itself, then nobody’s words are going to be able to help it speak.”
https://youtu.be/Dsy6eAz4a3I?list=LLtmO_DFsHl6_UMTU7rOpv5A
Carry Fire
6. Deeper, ever deeper. I fall, even as the whole Universe falls down the abyss of Years.
7. For Eternity calls; the Overworld calls; the world of the Word is awaiting us.
8. Be done with speech, O God! Fasten the fangs of the hound Eternity in this my throat!
9. I am like a wounded bird flapping in circles.
10. Who knows where I shall fall?
11. O blessed One! O God! O my devourer!
12. Let me fall, fall down, fall away, afar, alone!
13. Let me fall!
14. Nor is there any rest, Sweet Heart, save in the cradle of royal Bacchus, the thigh of the most Holy One.
15. There rest, under the canopy of night.
(Liber VII)
Here is a song which I am sure the Great Beast would have liked.
Danny Baker wrote:
I, The Chosen One by Dorothy Squires is the most OTT song ever recorded. She wrote it and basically screams at God about her ex-husbands.
It starts off with a Bach and Toccata opening, it is filled with biblical language and ends with a resounding personal credo.
I can imagine AC listening to it with a tear in his eye while glugging absinthe by the fireplace at Jermyn St, whispering, "Sing it, girl!"
An unofficial funeral service for "Politics" thread. Lyrics as they are, no correction of "errors."
Empire
(Benjamin Zephaniah)
I’m looking at your soul, your soul, your soul, your soul
I’m looking at your future, your future, future, future
As I look into your eyes, these eyes, these eyes, these eyes
I see another side, side, side, side
Vampire, you’re feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire you suck the life of goodness
Turn the lights on
Let the lights shine bright
Turn the lights on
Let the lights shine bright
You’ve got to feel yourself and let go
You got to know you reap what you sown
You’ve got to feel something at sometime
Check the writings on the wall
And look into the sight
You’re spending all your money on gare that never work
You’re wasting all your energy and everywhere it hurts
God it really hurts
Yes it really hurts
You got to know yourself
Vampire, you’re feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire, you suck the life of goodness – Yes
From now on I’ll call you England
See if you spit in the sky
It will fall in your eye
You see what goes up must come down
You will die looking up if you’re not looking in
You’ve got to know yourself
I’m looking at your partners and they would never agree
I’m looking for your justice and it can not be seen
I’m checking where you’re coming from and where you’re going to
I’m checking all off what you have done to see what you can do
I’m looking at your lawbooks and they were never read
I’m looking at your lovesquire and they can not be thread
I’m looking at your empire living on the drears
You’ve got to know yourself
Vampire, you’re feed on the life of a pure heart
Vampire, you suck the life of goodness – Yes
From now on I’ll call you England
Empire fall man, empire go
From now on I’ll call you England
There’s a lesson to be learned
Why is it that, you must know
From now on I’ll call you England
And the rich that you eat is more like food that you fear
From now on I’ll call you England
Gotta see no love anyway you appear
From now on I’ll call you England
You’ve got to know yourself
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Ah, the Sugarcubes --- an excellent choice. Were you fortunate enough to have ever caught them live as well, dom? Now they were an exciting, stimulating, innovative & entertaining band. I remember the excellent Einar, Bjork's foil and redoubtable yang to her yin, laying into the audience as a whole with derogatory disdain (imagine the following said with an Icelandic pidgin-English rant): "Call yourselves an audience??! You're all chust a bunch of bourgeois English wankers" The last delivered with considerable gusto: a contemptuous attitude matched (and exceeded) only by The Fall's Mark E. Smith.
Wouldn't you agree though it's true that Bjork's fare in recent years has been subject to gentrification, and the trendy go-to choice for pretentious background music at middle-class dinner parties (as was also attempted with the even more talented pjharvey, although not so successfully)?.
Sticking around
N Joy
@jamie
I never bought any of their work or saw them live Jamie however i was familiar with the hits. There's some early live footage on YouTube somewhere before they were called The Sugarcubes. Vocally she is totally innovative ie pushing the envelope and I liked most of her solo hits. The fact that the band were named after a cube of LSD says it all really. There were a lot of surreal bands around at that time.
I wouldn't know about whether she or they are background music at bourgeoisie parties. Wouldn't be surprised.
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Here is the footage mentioned;
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Yaas, is good!
Other highly talented individual female musical performances would have to include
N Joy
I never liked P.J.Harvey. I never rated Tori Amos either. Did you like early The The?
By the way Bjork's boyfriend accused the audience of being 'bourgeoise'. Interesting accusation. I wonder what he thought of her massive sales success post-Sugarcubes?
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This is a short country & western song (1m 45s).
It is possible to read some Thelemic meaning into the words: LSD and sex (erections), and possibly Martians (Lam).
It is worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3eWJMQT0qQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXeIF3sbpXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yeb3q5nqWA
Alan OBrien's song sounded familiar, here is the background story:
http://www.songpoemmusic.com/trubee.htm
mal's first two are dull. The third one is some sort of bizarre manifestation of the Scarlet Woman that just makes me feel old, and glad to be.
Other recent posts: No comment other than that i hung out with Tim Bomb the Bass for about a week once and he was cool.
Weekend gardening song- "In the Sun" with the very adorable Debbie Harry dancing like some kind of punk sex-elf (1977-8?):
Supplemental sunny-day music: "Itchycoo Park" (1967), Small Faces:
I think this British band were once suddenly for a very short period the biggest band in America.
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This band emerged out of an English punk rock scene but were electronic. They had 2 consecutive hits about Jean D'Arc. What? How's that for irrational? Kind of like early Beach Boys (as a lot of punks were but don't realise) but with electronic technology.
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With the word of the Aeon he is empowered;
Titter ye not, Mrs. 'Tis Frankie Howerd.
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Following on from some conversation with dom, I contend that the best criminally under-appreciated live bands of the 90s were curve, world of twist and intastella. I already included "Die Like a Dog" and "Fait Accompli" from Curve in a previous discussion about Thelemic content in music (anecdotally recounting at the same time my expedition especially going to see them at the Glastonbury festival qv); and I think maybe I included World of Twist as well in a discussion about doors (no, not those of perception, but ordinary plain way-in, way-out doors with "Do What Thou Wilt" painted on them), but here it is again in any case:
https://youtu.be/rgEw_YtfxYM
I know I didn't include Intastella before (arguably the best of all three live at their peak; unfortunately there seem to be very few clips of them around for some reason) so will remedy that omission now
https://youtu.be/sCIuWcVD-hs
N Joy
Oh how tastes differ... I do try give a listen all that is posted here.
World Of Twist i could tell exactly what the record would sound like, and that i would hate it, within literally about 5 seconds; i was right.
Intastella is ok studenty/clever attempted funk; meh.
OMD, Seagulls: the less i say the better.
Frankie Howard is the best thing here, besides david (!!) postng Flipper, a band i adore.
Reposting his link (remember to click on "Share" and use that link kids):
And their "hit", which isn't in that show:
Ignant I have that Flipper double live album on vinyl. Literally one of my favourite records. The Flipper feedback noise is unique. I recognize it instantly.
@Jamie
I mustn't have liked those two bands because I do recognize the names. Anyway here's Joy Division minus the other guy. "You know which dead man you know which factory. You know you know" ~ Smith.
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Flipper --- yes, agreeable noise. I suppose you had to be there to get maximum input (although shots of the audience at around 14m seemed to show some of them looking rather unengaged). As with Curve, World of Twist & Intastella, you really need to have subjectively experienced the way they came across in a live context to appreciate them fully. The same is true of the Grateful Dead as well, as previously discussed: it's hard to imagine a real DeadHead whose appreciation was based on just the records alone.
@dom :
I mustn’t have liked those two bands because I do recognize the names.
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If you (anyone) didn't dig World of Twist or Intastella the chances are you might not want to go for Curve either, even though they are unconnected and considerably different groups!
Anyway here’s Joy Division minus the other guy. […]
I preferred Everything's Gone Green to Cries and Whispers, myself. New Order was a band who put out a brilliant first album, a half-brilliant second, and then went downhill from there apart from a couple of tracks on Republic: not a patch on JD (with the other guy).
OMD --- Similarly, they also put out their best stuff on their first album; unfortunately after their hit single Enola Gay all the originality they had disappeared and they became mired in MOR conventionality. Just like the Human League, Spandau Ballet and most of the Electro/ New Romantics, their muzak - sorry, music became a background soundtrack for the rise of the yuppies in the mid- to late-80s.
Always good to come across Francis Alick Howard, ooh yes missus as he was wont to say:
Please yourselves!
N Joy
*EDIT* Oh!? Perhaps I was meant to have included some more music here as well, in this thread? If so, allow me to oblige:
https://youtu.be/H2xgRq436Ao
New Order was a band who put out a brilliant first album, a half-brilliant second, and then went downhill from there apart from a couple of tracks on Republic: not a patch on JD (with the other guy).
I meant to have put Technique there, not Republic - not that anyone will be greatly bothered, I imagine. (Maybe the single True Faith at a push & if you're in the mood, too.)
N Joy
An unbelievably brilliant band here. They were "Communist intellectuals" signed to Rough Trade records.
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“ Shine bright like a diamond
Find light in the beautiful sea
a shooting star I see, a vision of ecstasy
sun rays
life
inside your eyes
So shine bright ”
https://youtu.be/AvjLY73cJcQ
“ Are we crazy?
Livin' our lives through a lens
Trapped in our white picket fence
Like ornaments
So comfortable, we're livin' in a bubble, bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble
Aren't you lonely
Up there in utopia
Where nothing will ever be enough?
Happily numb
So comfortable, we're livin' in a bubble, bubble
So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble “
https://youtu.be/WWNFLsBfN2k
Album: Weapon God - Hdamtoowotahh (Key-A-No 120), 2012/2015. Composed and produced by 161. Painting: Unai Shipash by Pablo Amaringo.
(This is just 1/3 of the song. All my songs are 10:00 long.)
This music may make you high. Kiss the sky.