This week I have been mostly listening to...

[monolith94]

Right now I'm listening to Brian Wilson's "Smile". Heavenly.

[Agathon]

The trailblazers- The Banshees, Birthday Party, Killing Joke- made astonishingly ferocious and deadly serious noise.

Phhttt!

They could hardly play for a start. But if you want to take it seriously....

[laurentius]

Les Sales Majestes - Fortituds mea civium fides, putain de merde j'hallucine

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

That's it. That's proof. Agathon was born without ears.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

"Could hardly play"- and yet Jaz Coleman is composer-in-residence for the Auckland symphony orchestra. A hemisphere weeps.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by monolith94
Right now I'm listening to Brian Wilson's "Smile". Heavenly.

Smile?? It actually exists? As an official album?

What I've been listening to these last few weeks. Mostly Sinatra's "Only and Lonely", "No One Cares" and "In the Wee Small Hours". I think it is because I turn 50 next Sunday and my mid-life crisis finally kicked in

[Agathon]

"Could hardly play"- and yet Jaz Coleman is composer-in-residence for the Auckland symphony orchestra. A hemisphere weeps.

Yes, and let's just say that eyebrows were raised about that.

Those groups I find musically very boring. I couldn't care less about the words, since pop songs almost always have silly lyrics and goth songs are just hilarious.

I'm guessing that you like Morrissey/The Smiths.

Might I recommend Arsenic?

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by Hueij

Smile?? It actually exists? As an official album?

Well, he "finished" it last year with a different set of musicians. Can't really see it working without Hal Blaine, but might pick it up anyway.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
This is the good stuff-

The Birthday Party- "Dead Joe"
The Birthday Party- "Release the bats"
Killing Joke- "Psyche"
Killing Joke- "Love like blood"
Killing Joke- "Exorcism"
Killing Joke- "The death and resurrection show"
Nick Cave- "The Mercy Seat"
The Gun Club- "Ghost on the highway"
Bauhaus- "In the flat field"

Get them down your neck and tell me it's a joke. It's bulging eyes and bulging veins all the way, not Amateur-dramatics posing.

Don't forget the Industrial-Goth crossover- Einsturzende Neubauten and Xmal Deutschland.

And the ever tasteful 'Nick the Stripper' and 'Drunk on the Pope's Blood' by the Birthday Party.

Agathon- I hope you're enjoying your old Yes albums, you turgid old fart. Gawd, you sound just like my parents (and undoubtedly their parents) on hearing jazz, rock 'n' roll and punk.

'Err, they can't play their instruments! I can't hear what they're saying! Wozzit mean? Is it a man or a woman?"

By the way, if you haven't heard any of Jaz Coleman's work, don't knock him. 'Songs from the Victorious City' is a groundbreaking album, he's an extremely talented multi instrumentalist (Eastern and Western instruments) and Anne Dudley (who worked with him on it) is responsible for the wonderful 'Ancient and Modern' album too.