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meeks · Post by **meeks** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:39 pm

Pete use to be singer for bauhaus until split, which left him solo and the others forming love and rockets...so I'll add Hot Trip to Heaven on this list as well.

Karbon L. Forms · Post by **Karbon L. Forms** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:53 pm

meeks wrote:Pete use to be singer for bauhaus until split, which left him solo and the others forming love and rockets...so I'll add Hot Trip to Heaven on this list as well.

OH right! Shit. Call myself an ex-goth as well!

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:00 pm

mindless wrote:AirDrawnDagger by Sasha

Grows on every listen you have...

that is a good album - sadly the 'follow-up' Expander is shite, but hey AirDrawnDagger would be a hard act to follow

Scot Solida · Post by **Scot Solida** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:16 pm

When I'm in one of "those" moods, it has to be one of a very small handfull of records...

"Eyes, China Doll" by Edward Ka-Spel
"If I Die, I Die" by the Virgin Prunes
"Desire" by Tuxedomoon
"Closer" by Joy Division
"Imperium" by Current 93
"Scatology" by Coil
"From the Promised Land" by Play Dead (the original John Fryer mixed version)

Also the first Tones On Tail collection (the one on vinyl that pulled together the first EPs).

oh, and "Talk About the Weather" by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.

All of these records seem to hit a perfectly imperfect sound. They are abrasive and beautiful and have very little to do with the outside world.

MickGael · Post by **MickGael** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:48 pm

Scot Solida wrote:When I'm in one of "those" moods, it has to be one of a very small handfull of records...

"Desire" by Tuxedomoon

Scott,

What? Not "Eskimo" by the Residents?

Now THAT sets a mood....well, their entire discography sets a mood, but "Eskino" is a marvelous oddity...

- Dan Lewis

Scot Solida · Post by **Scot Solida** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:52 pm

Oooh, yeah. That's a good one, too, "Eskimo". However, that fits a whole different (and somewhat lysergic) mood...

For that kind of thing, I also find "The Commercial Album" and "Duck Stab" to be essential listens, as well...

SoftJunkie · Post by **SoftJunkie** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:00 pm

todd rundgren - healing (shine, compassion, time heals)
it just wouldn't make any difference
a dream goes on forever
...

Synthpopkid · Post by **Synthpopkid** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:03 pm

Tuxedomoon are ace.

Gotta say Tangerine Dream "Phaedra" does it for me every time.

MickGael · Post by **MickGael** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:04 pm

Scot Solida wrote:...a whole different (and somewhat lysergic) mood...

ROFL!

People that have not listened to the Residents have NO IDEA what they are missing.

And yes, "Duck Stab" and "Buster & Glen" are quintessential!

Lizard Lady

What's a woman going to do
But throw away her bread;
Her feet are feeling funny
As she lies beneath the bed;
She reminisces of the pungent Adriatic Sea,
And then she crawls and counts her cans
And twitches like a flea.

What she really likes to do
Is sit upon a pew,
And make believe that time has stopped
And motionless is new;
Planes are stranded in the sky
And drains are stopping, too,
And she alone is laughing under
Eyelids full of flu.
She scurries hurries worries that
The wicked will receive
Their candy from a handsome man
And coffee from a thief;
She gazes at a hourglass and
Asks it if it cares,
And then she wonders if the lizard
Likes his lettuce rare:

"Lizard, yes a lizard, little lizard of the sea,
Conspicuously alcoholic, flicks his tongue at me!
Release me lizard! Licking lizard,
blizzard of the bea,
Mushed inside a sock you still
dare me --- to die
Dare me to die --- at home..."

"Coating all my lungs with honey,
Sticky coating running runny,
Feet of lizard fly!
And stop and fly and stop and fly
And flicker tongue is licking out
To find me --- feel me. Hide!
Hide from the tongue!
The tongue is coming! Cruising! Oozing!
Over land and under ashes,
In the sunlight, see -- it flashes,
Find a fly and eat his eye,
But don't believe in me.
Don't believe in me.

kevingham · Post by **kevingham** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:41 pm

Karbon L. Forms (again) wrote:
DaRKWaTeR wrote:the swans - the burning world
Swans! Oh yeah! Love em but they don't have the hope element. More of a "No Hope" feel there.

YESYESYES!! Swans are probably my all time favourite band! And, for me, the utter despair of their music (take any Swans era, its all amazing in its own way) greatly uplifts me. Taking the darkest most deprssing emotions, and turning them into beautiful music. Knowing people are capable of that gives me hope.

oh yeah, I was at their last ever show the night they split, in London, 1997. Go Me!

phraggle · Post by **phraggle** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:08 pm

Hmmm - good thread. I like melancholy music and some favourite bands/tracks are:

The Chameleons - Anything really, but my favourite track is probably "Tears"
American Music Club - anything by them, really. Mark Eitzel's solo stuff is pretty good too.
And yes, Swans - Burning World (Goddamn the Sun, etc.)
Radiohead
Flaming Lips
early Cure stuff, particularly from "Faith", "Seventeen Seconds" and "Pornography" (e.g. "The Drowning Man", "The Funeral Party" - ah, there are so many...)
Boards of Canada - "Kid For Today" is really soothing and sad sounding to me...
Then you hear the occasional gem, like "Pilots" by Goldfrapp, "Remind Me" by Royksopp and so on.

And Let's not forget Demis Roussos!

Karbon L. Forms · Post by **Karbon L. Forms** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:26 pm

Jeff Buckley anyone?

phraggle · Post by **phraggle** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:41 pm

Dunno about Jeff Buckley, but Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" (also covered by This Mortal Coil) is a beautiful song.

Karbon L. Forms · Post by **Karbon L. Forms** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:52 pm

Jeffs "Halelouia" [canna spell it sorry] will move anyone with a soul to tears. The subject matter of music is particularly poingiont to me. My [possible ex] girlfriend HATES my being a musician!
Ironically it's my old friends Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty that have cheered me up.

"This is what KLF is about..."

KLFs a bit OT really. Too silly. Keep em coming guys! My donkey is ready! (I do buy stuff I like)

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:53 pm

Just got the Swans/Skin double the other day. Had Children of God on tape its pretty knackered, and I'm glad finally to get the other Skin stuff that's on it... (and my Blood, Women is on vinyl...)

I always find Doolittle quite a cheering little record.

Albums that hit the f**king nail on the head...