Non Metal Now Listening

[astfgyl]

Slab!: Sanity Allergy

Industrial/noise rock kinda thing from 1988, like Pigface/Chris Connolly filtered through early Swans. That's my impression from the first track, no idea what the rest of it sounds like. Came across them in the Avalanchers FB group earlier.

Edit: Sounds like that throughout, serious bass work happening, a bit of funk thrown in. Worth a listen.

Came across one tune of theirs on a 4cd set picked by Steven Wilson about a year ago and kept meaning to go back and check an album out. I wonder if it's the same one?

Often found great stuff through the Avalanchers FB group too

[Carnage]

Aye, great for recommendations.

People Pie was the song I heard earlier, the album I nabbed is from the same period.

[ochoill]

Avalanchers is great and one of the only pages left on FB I bother interacting with.  That and Noise Rock Now.  Always good recs on both of them.

[Carnage]

Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook: Outland

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

For classical music heads, stumbled upon what is apparently the first work by a black female composer to ever be performed by a major orchestra, way back in 1933. Naturally, no one's ever heard of her, but that's another story. The symphony in question is quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-bLUQ2Ec9E

[Mooncat]

American Utopia. Stellar. Byrne is a genius.

Saw that tour, the one where the band spend the whole set marching around with their instruments. Was fucking amazing. There's a really good live recording of it that pops up on streaming services now and again.

Both it and Stop Making Sense are truly next level brilliance.

[Ollkiller]

American Utopia. Stellar. Byrne is a genius.

Saw that tour, the one where the band spend the whole set marching around with their instruments. Was fucking amazing. There's a really good live recording of it that pops up on streaming services now and again.

Both it and Stop Making Sense are truly next level brilliance.

Ya I watched the official concert video. Raging I missed it in person. Loved his thought process on what to do visually for a tour. He asked himself what do humans like to look at. And he realised it was other humans. Hence the show.

[Pentagrimes]

YES!! That SLAB album is the acceptable face of Funk Metal

"Descension",the debut is great too, darker and far heavier. The missing link between "Holy Money" era Swans and early Godflesh,  but with the hip hop/dance influence less pronounced than Sanity Allergy. Very 80s but great.

Snagged both on vinyl for fuck all years ago. I remember seeing "People Pie" on Snub TV as a kid and being floored so twas nice to have the records finally.

[Mooncat]

Been getting into Pink Floyd a bit lately. I tried that whole Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz thing (which was fun!), but it struck me just how good an album that is as I was listening. I'd heard it before, but this time it really hit me. I've since checked out Wish You Were Here and The Wall a bit more and been really enjoying those too. What struck me was just how good songwriters they were. Strip away all the spaceyness and you're still left with incredible songs.

[Ducky]

Get on Meddle too, that's probably my fave Floyd record.

[Carnage]

Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Wish You Were Here and Animals are great, can't stand The Wall or the Barrett era stuff. The other material is patchy but I reckon Dark Side... might be my favourite album.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Animals all the way for me, though I love most of their albums

[astfgyl]

Can't stick the Barrett stuff at all but Animals and Dark Side.. would be where it's at for me, with a shout for A Momentary Lapse Of Reason in there even though it's not well regarded at all afaik

[Carnage]

Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
Joy Division: Closer
The Cure: Boys Don't Cry
Swans: White Light from The Mouth Of Infinity

[astfgyl]

Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
Joy Division: Closer
The Cure: Boys Don't Cry
Swans: White Light from The Mouth Of Infinity

Can't fault the two in the middle but also can't fault the other two because I've never heard them.

How do Swans end up in the non metal though? The gig in the academy was the heaviest thing possible to the extent I thought about giving up going to things altogether.

Well until Limp Bizkit came along for the one next week