Re: Favorite Bands?
 

My favorite bands are Wir sind Helden (German band), Thin Lizzy, and Steely Dan.

Steely Dan does have an indirect link to this forum's theme I guess, they are named after a dildo in "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs

Re: Favorite Bands?
 

Steely Dan, masters of the middle range.

Up now: Pink Floyd -- "Cirrus Minor" and "Julia Dream", lovely spooky.

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Listening to a little of Michael Cashmore's Sleep England. Very delicate, evokes Eno's film work, albeit more guitar-oriented. Soothing... Soft and warm.

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The Nice -- Ars Longa Vita Brevis

Am reading Edward Macan's new book, Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Same man who wrote Rocking the Classics (1997). I find very interesting his view that a Marxist-leaning "blues orthodoxy" in the form of such rock journalist-critics as Lester Bangs and Dave Marsh, as well the guy for Village Voice, won a hegemony of opinion around 1972 against the formerly respected view of "utopian synthesists" who championed progresive rock until then. He says the situation mirrors what happened in Leninst-Stalinist Russia when committees tried to dumb down all music to ensure it was "for the people."

Re: Favorite Bands?
 

Well, like most people my tastes change depending upon my mood,
but there are a few constants:

Richard Pinhas/Heldon
Robert Fripp/King Crimson
Coil
Nurse With Wound
Current 93
Steve Hackett
Slowdive
Can
Faust
Tangerine Dream
Pink Floyd
Ultravox (first four albums).

As for dark 'n spooky music, I think the first four albums by Diamanda Galas
are certainly some of the best.............incredible voice, incredible woman.

Sweet dreams all............................................... ....

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The fact that near no-one mentions either Suicide or Cabaret Voltaire here is shocking. Definitely some of the most disorienting, alien stuff I've ever heard has come from the early work of these two "bands". And to think they actually predate Throbbing Gristle...

I agree with you about Galas. Striking.

Re: Favorite Bands?
 

Slowdive is a good one, though I like their newer band Mojave 3 better. Must check out this Galas. Heldon around the time of Interface I find the best from Pinhas.

Now playing: John Cale & Terry Riley -- Church of Anthrax
--which is now avaiable on eBay! Talking about the rare CD!

Re: Favorite Bands?
 

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Diamanda Galas has quite the set of pipes. I checked out one of her albums, and I was blown away by her wails and general avant garde-ish approach to singing. very unique.

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That's because Suicide and the Cabs "go without saying." ;)

Funny you should mention them at the same time... to me, CV is sort of like a thinking man's Suicide (or Suicide is a dumb CV. ) That's reductive and not really accurate, of course, just my impression of their '70s output. (Maybe it's an American vs. British thing, same way the U.K. could never have produced the Ramones and the U.S. could never have produced Wire.)

Heard tonight at Casa de Ventriloquist:
Chris & Cosey
Polyphonic Size
Yello
Rational Youth
Kirlian Camera
Sparks
Ceramic Hello
Space Art


diamonds, fur coat, champagne,
v.