6. "How do you measure such a thing?" In response to Reply # 0 Mon Jan-19-15 01:43 PM by Jakob Hellberg
I find it quite difficult. Not to sound corny but since I don't really like the contemporary trends in music across the boards, most of my purchases are left-leaning. Anyway, Bill Dixon's "17 musicians in search of a sound: Darfur" which I bought a while ago is quite "left" and absolutely brilliant.
To take it in another direction, the cd reissue (I've had the vinyl since I was 9) of W.A.S.P.'s classic debut with the excellent "Animal, (fuck like a beast)" reinstated as the opening track that I picked up for like $2 in a flea-market recently has practically nothing to do with contemporary trends...
7. "L O F L, I remember this album and the controversy it generated" In response to Reply # 6
>To take it in another direction, the cd reissue (I've had the >vinyl since I was 9) of W.A.S.P.'s classic debut with the >excellent "Animal, (fuck like a beast)" reinstated as the >opening track that I picked up for like $2 in a flea-market >recently >has practically nothing to do with contemporary trends...
I would always think about it when I saw it in the stores way back when.
8. "It was debated on TV in sweden when we only had two channels..." In response to Reply # 7
All the shit about how W.A.S.P. stood for "we are satans people" and "we are sexual perverts" and the raw meat and chainsaws and so on, hilarious in retrospect. It's total cheese and as time-period as it gets but the songs are catchy, the sound is *raw* (no Poison/winger-shit) and the attitude priceless.
Basically, not exactly the type of album I'd call a timeless classic but it's up there with Mötley Crue's "Shout at the devil" and very few others as an example of "credible" butt-rock
10. "Yeah, I feel the same way." In response to Reply # 8
>All the shit about how W.A.S.P. stood for "we are satans >people" and "we are sexual perverts" and the raw meat and >chainsaws and so on, hilarious in retrospect. It's total >cheese and as time-period as it gets but the songs are catchy, >the sound is *raw* (no Poison/winger-shit) and the attitude >priceless. > >Basically, not exactly the type of album I'd call a timeless >classic but it's up there with Mötley Crue's "Shout at the >devil" and very few others as an example of "credible" >butt-rock
a lot of the edgy '80s rock (that was popular) is so wraught with cheese I tend to lean toward the more "credible" acts and albums if I go there. When I was exposed to it mostly, it was through MTV and the kids in Indiana where I lived at the time (one dude was all about Poison -- I felt they were like the "white" version of what Prince was doing with all the fucked up gear, LOL)
I wasn't a heavy listener when that stuff was out. But I felt a distinct different from Poison and (LOL) Winger (the whipping boy of "butt rock") and say... Slayer and W.A.S.P. (I -only- knew about them because of the "Animal" controversy; thought it was LAME that they deleted the song. When I finally heard it was around the time of that CD reissue and I was actually surprised at how it was a controversy).
W.A.S.P. always seemed to be right there at the fourth wall when it came to that era of RAWK, because of the attitude...
13. "probably that ian william craig album someone posted on here" In response to Reply # 0
even though its filled with ambient stuff and vocal effects/manipulation which is 'in' right now, just the fact that it has no drums/rhythm for most of it
I have serious issues with that label. It and Blackest Ever Black. On paper they should be right up my alley, and for a while I was trying to get into them, but there was just something about the releases. They are always compared to artists that I love, but for my ears pale in comparison. And I think the thing that they lack is actual feeling. I hear it all as going through the motions without the intent. And in that way it almost sounds mocking to me. They've got the press they need and so there's no need to do more, but for my ears there's a lot more they need to be doing to be properly understood as continuing those legacies.
Just my $0.02
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18. "Yeah, I can see that." In response to Reply # 17
I think the benefit a lot from exquisite packaging, and a very generous benefit of the doubt from the critics. For most of their releases, I'll read a rave review and get really excited, and preview as a formality, and then I can't get myself to pull the trigger.
That said, the Eli Keszler release Cold Pin is awesome. Even better when you see his contraption he made.
Also like Lee Gamble, although I'm guessing if you don't see the fuss with Actress, the Lee Gamble stuff wouldn't make too much of an impression.
Also like the Jar Moff I've heard, but I enjoyed his stuff when he was releasing on Leaving.
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