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bob. · 09-20-2014, 12:43 PM

love this idea man.....what a fun read from all of you

1. Rudimentary Peni

so one of my best friends in high school....we'll call him Jon (since that is his name)....Jon and i more or less went through musical discovery together although Jon was a bit more ahead of the curve than i was....anyways..at my high school there was thing called "the nutritional break"....it was between second and third period and was a 15 minute break meant for students to get a healthy snack....for me and my friends it was a chance to smoke a couple cigarettes and smoke a bowl ....anyways it was on one of these breaks that Jonj pulls up in his bug and tells me he just bought this record by the craziest punk band he had ever heard....and that i should skip the rest of the day and come back to his house to get stoned and listen to it over and over again....obviously my musical education was much more important than anything i might learn in that fascist training building so i hopped in his car and went along for the ride

i will never forget the feeling the first time i heard "Media Man".....needless to say we still argue as to what side of the EPs is better....me?.... i'm a Farce kind of guy

2. Swans

so this is kind of a two parter.....my introduction to Swans....and when they really clicked with me

December 1995 i went to San Francisco with my buddy Dead to see Pigface and Psychic TV at The Maritime Hall (R.I.P.

).....this was in the downstairs area so it was very small and very intimate....which is probably why upon entering the venue members of Pigface were giving everybody x-mas wrapped gifts all with some silly quote and all signed by Martin Atkins....(they were all cd's and all on Invisible Records)....mine said "Onions!? We got enough to choke a ****ing horse! - Love martin Atkins" and after carefully opening it it turned out to be a copy of Swans - The Great Annihilator (i still own this very copy

)....now although i did enjoy the album....at that time i was very much in a more ambient industrial stage....lots of Dead Voices on Air, Scorn, Download etc etc etc....so i kind of filed it under "should look into when i'm in the mood"

well the mood came a few years later while at a bacchanal.....i was going through a friend cd collection trying to decided what to listen to next and came upon "Public Castration is a Good Idea" by this Swans band....think back i remember their full loud sound but also remembered it being carefully constructed and somewhat pleasing.....so obviously this would be perfect music to keep flirtatious conversation moving....if you have ever heard this album i'm sure you can imagine what happened

but for me it really lit a fire in me....by the time Gira first bellows "MONEY IS FLESH!!!!!!!" i came to the realization that this is exactly what i've been looking for for years....

3. Lana Del Rey

so i first heard Lana by my friend Charity....and i won't lie....and as many of you know.....i was not impressed....i mean sure....she's got pipes but why all the fucking hype?

so earlier this year her new album came out....and i started to notice around this place especially that many people whose musical taste i really respect were praising this album....and then Engine posted the song "Money, Power, Glory" in the "what song says how you are feeling" thread and i checked it out....it resonated in me so i downloaded the album to give it whirl....i stopped playing it over 48 hours later (please keep in mind that at this time i drove for a living so this obviously saves sleep and such)....it is easily one of my all time favorite albums....and i would say that 98% of my scrobbled tracks are from Ultraviolence

4. Current 93

so i was 20 and i met this kind of freaky goth guy at the mall....we talked for a while and he told me to come back next week and he would have a tape for me....it was Current 93's Swastikas for Goddy...after a conversation i took off with my walkman playing some great hardcore (probably Integrity or Earth Crisis at that time in my life)....so i got to a bus stop and while waiting for the bus i decided to check out this band.....the first song is this....

Now cursed be thee who would ruin our fair land
And cursed be thee that would seal up the wells
And cursed be thee that abandon the God's hands
And build a strange place for our people to dwell

Now cursed be thy breath
And cursed be thy breathing
And cursed be thy eyes
And cursed be thy sight
And cursed be thy hands
That have blackened the harvest
And closed the old ways to the joy and the light

Now cursed be thy name
All cursed and forgotten
All cursed beyond memory
Place or recall
And cursed be thy soul
Out of nothing begotten
Nothing to no thing
And nothing to all

Now cursed art thee
Who have ruined our fair land
And cursed art thee
That sealed up our wells
And cursed art thee
That abandon the God's hands
And have built a strange place
For the children to dwell

very powerful....and made even more powerful as while listening to this i was watching giant earth movers destroy an old building....the line "and have built a strange place for the children to dwell" really struck me

a few weeks later a group of friends and i decided to all eat a quarter ounce of mushrooms each on the winter solstice....i opted to have this album be our pathway into the psychedelic bliss we were headed for....needless to say it's all i listened to that night....save a couple hours of watching The Tick....and it really settled in my mind that this band is by far one of the most important musically and lyrically....at the time finding their albums was very hard and very expensive....but worth every moment and every penny

5. DEVO

like most people my age "Whip It" was the first Devo song i've heard....and throughout their career i also liked them....but it wasn't till my mid 20s that i came to the realization that this band really planted something in my subconscious and thus fell head over heels for them....i mean back in the 80s they were huge and at the same time talking about Wilhelm Reich and the church of the sub genius....and as i grew older i started to notice the strange connections and the obvious influence these art students from ohio have had on not just my taste in music but also my thought process and the way i view the world

09-20-2014, 12:43 PM	#10 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	love this idea man.....what a fun read from all of you 1. Rudimentary Peni so one of my best friends in high school....we'll call him Jon (since that is his name)....Jon and i more or less went through musical discovery together although Jon was a bit more ahead of the curve than i was....anyways..at my high school there was thing called "the nutritional break"....it was between second and third period and was a 15 minute break meant for students to get a healthy snack....for me and my friends it was a chance to smoke a couple cigarettes and smoke a bowl ....anyways it was on one of these breaks that Jonj pulls up in his bug and tells me he just bought this record by the craziest punk band he had ever heard....and that i should skip the rest of the day and come back to his house to get stoned and listen to it over and over again....obviously my musical education was much more important than anything i might learn in that fascist training building so i hopped in his car and went along for the ride i will never forget the feeling the first time i heard "Media Man".....needless to say we still argue as to what side of the EPs is better....me?.... i'm a Farce kind of guy 2. Swans so this is kind of a two parter.....my introduction to Swans....and when they really clicked with me December 1995 i went to San Francisco with my buddy Dead to see Pigface and Psychic TV at The Maritime Hall (R.I.P. ).....this was in the downstairs area so it was very small and very intimate....which is probably why upon entering the venue members of Pigface were giving everybody x-mas wrapped gifts all with some silly quote and all signed by Martin Atkins....(they were all cd's and all on Invisible Records)....mine said "Onions!? We got enough to choke a **ing horse! - Love martin Atkins" and after carefully opening it it turned out to be a copy of Swans - The Great Annihilator (i still own this very copy )....now although i did enjoy the album....at that time i was very much in a more ambient industrial stage....lots of Dead Voices on Air, Scorn, Download etc etc etc....so i kind of filed it under "should look into when i'm in the mood" well the mood came a few years later while at a bacchanal.....i was going through a friend cd collection trying to decided what to listen to next and came upon "Public Castration is a Good Idea" by this Swans band....think back i remember their full loud sound but also remembered it being carefully constructed and somewhat pleasing.....so obviously this would be perfect music to keep flirtatious conversation moving....if you have ever heard this album i'm sure you can imagine what happened but for me it really lit a fire in me....by the time Gira first bellows "MONEY IS FLESH!!!!!!!" i came to the realization that this is exactly what i've been looking for for years.... 3. Lana Del Rey so i first heard Lana by my friend Charity....and i won't lie....and as many of you know.....i was not impressed....i mean sure....she's got pipes but why all the fucking hype? so earlier this year her new album came out....and i started to notice around this place especially that many people whose musical taste i really respect were praising this album....and then Engine posted the song "Money, Power, Glory" in the "what song says how you are feeling" thread and i checked it out....it resonated in me so i downloaded the album to give it whirl....i stopped playing it over 48 hours later (please keep in mind that at this time i drove for a living so this obviously saves sleep and such)....it is easily one of my all time favorite albums....and i would say that 98% of my scrobbled tracks are from Ultraviolence 4. Current 93** so i was 20 and i met this kind of freaky goth guy at the mall....we talked for a while and he told me to come back next week and he would have a tape for me....it was Current 93's Swastikas for Goddy...after a conversation i took off with my walkman playing some great hardcore (probably Integrity or Earth Crisis at that time in my life)....so i got to a bus stop and while waiting for the bus i decided to check out this band.....the first song is this.... Now cursed be thee who would ruin our fair land And cursed be thee that would seal up the wells And cursed be thee that abandon the God's hands And build a strange place for our people to dwell Now cursed be thy breath And cursed be thy breathing And cursed be thy eyes And cursed be thy sight And cursed be thy hands That have blackened the harvest And closed the old ways to the joy and the light Now cursed be thy name All cursed and forgotten All cursed beyond memory Place or recall And cursed be thy soul Out of nothing begotten Nothing to no thing And nothing to all Now cursed art thee Who have ruined our fair land And cursed art thee That sealed up our wells And cursed art thee That abandon the God's hands And have built a strange place For the children to dwell very powerful....and made even more powerful as while listening to this i was watching giant earth movers destroy an old building....the line "and have built a strange place for the children to dwell" really struck me a few weeks later a group of friends and i decided to all eat a quarter ounce of mushrooms each on the winter solstice....i opted to have this album be our pathway into the psychedelic bliss we were headed for....needless to say it's all i listened to that night....save a couple hours of watching The Tick....and it really settled in my mind that this band is by far one of the most important musically and lyrically....at the time finding their albums was very hard and very expensive....but worth every moment and every penny 5. DEVO like most people my age "Whip It" was the first Devo song i've heard....and throughout their career i also liked them....but it wasn't till my mid 20s that i came to the realization that this band really planted something in my subconscious and thus fell head over heels for them....i mean back in the 80s they were huge and at the same time talking about Wilhelm Reich and the church of the sub genius....and as i grew older i started to notice the strange connections and the obvious influence these art students from ohio have had on not just my taste in music but also my thought process and the way i view the world __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.