Non Metal Now Listening

[Mooncat]

Just started in on Adam and the Ants. The first album was really good! The next two are the big two, so looking forward to them.

[Carnage]

The Cure: Wild Mood Swings

First listen for quite a few years. Definitely their weakest (well, Three Ordinary Boys might be on a level with it) and most dated sounding album (some of the keyboards are straight from your average throwaway '80s pop act's playbook) but there's a decent EP in there somewhere. I'd assume it'll get the 30th anniversary deluxe reisssue treatment next year and I'll buy it, hopefully the supplemental material will be decent quality.

[101_North]

Kitchens of Distinction - Strange Free World

Not played this is years. Enjoying getting back into it.

https://youtu.be/9JXk_oV4nbo

[Maggot Colony]

Cranes - Forever

90's dream pop which is simultaneously beautiful and creepy mainly because the singer sounds like a haunted baby doll.

[Bürggermeister]

Tears For Fears - "Songs from the Big Chair".

One of the best albums of the 1980s in any genre.

I'd say in any decade, in any genre, it'd be one of the absolute highlights. Amazing record. Currently blasting it at close to concert volume, I reckon, fuck the rest of South Tipp 

[Pentagrimes]

Cranes - Forever

90's dream pop which is simultaneously beautiful and creepy mainly because the singer sounds like a haunted baby doll.

Love them. The early eps are well worth tracking down, darker and heavier, closer to Swans or something

[Ducky]

Tears For Fears - "Songs from the Big Chair".

One of the best albums of the 1980s in any genre.

I'd say in any decade, in any genre, it'd be one of the absolute highlights. Amazing record. Currently blasting it at close to concert volume, I reckon, fuck the rest of South Tipp 

Preach! South Tipp doesn't know how lucky it is to get blasted with "The Working Hour"!

Actually gonna stick the album on for my walk now, beauty 

[Eoin McLove]

Cranes - Forever

90's dream pop which is simultaneously beautiful and creepy mainly because the singer sounds like a haunted baby doll.

A goth chick I knew in the 90s was into them. I remember hating them when I heard them but it has been a long time so maybe they deserve a revisit.

[OpenSores]

I've actually got 'Forever' on cassette. Gave it a spin along with an ep I have, while at the time the vocals became a chore, I'm actually quite enjoying it.

[astfgyl]

A few things here:

I love Foetus in general and Wiseblood is one of my favourites from him but I've never seen this video before.

It's one of the funniest things I've seen in a while I laughed out loud several times watching it. Hilarious how much he looks like he means it. Fair fuckin funny.

Some unreal tune as well.

They really really do not make them like that anymore.

The last point brought me to thinking about the general lack of charisma and shitness of everything these days vs the vhs times and I don't think it's nostalgia I believe it's an actual thing

[Maggot Colony]

Cranes - Forever

90's dream pop which is simultaneously beautiful and creepy mainly because the singer sounds like a haunted baby doll.

Love them. The early eps are well worth tracking down, darker and heavier, closer to Swans or something

I have Wings of Joy and Forever, but have never heard anything else by them. The early EPs sound interesting.

[Maggot Colony]

Cranes - Forever

90's dream pop which is simultaneously beautiful and creepy mainly because the singer sounds like a haunted baby doll.

A goth chick I knew in the 90s was into them. I remember hating them when I heard them but it has been a long time so maybe they deserve a revisit.

The opiated banshee singing can be annoying if you're not in the form. For optimum listening, find a secluded place like an abandoned orphanage and light some black candles. 

[Mooncat]

Went to listen to Danny Gatton - Unfinished Business and discovered it has all but disappeared from the internet. Not even on YouTube, or a place where I could buy it. Gone! I'm amazed that can even happen in the modern era of internet. Ended up tracking down a copy of the CD on eBay which just arrived and then I realized I don't even have a CD player lying about anymore, so I had to listen to it on the DVD player through my TV's crappy speakers  Was still absolutely majestic.