It won't surprise him - I've been ignoring his opinions for 21 years by now :D

This is album is pretty much God in my book. Great review. Keep up this awesome thread!

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Cromagnon – Orgasm (1968)

1. Caledonia (4:22)
2. Ritual Feast Of The Libido (3:26)
3. Organic Sundown (7:11)
4. Fantasy (7:20)
5. Crow Of The Black Tree (9:40)
6. Genitalia (2:46)
7. Toth, Scribe I (10:39)
8. First World of Bronze (2:48)

Ah...here at last. The final review. Numero Uno. The Gourishankar of my collection...yaddahyaddahyaddah. Never mind the jabber, this video can illustrate the awesomeness better than I can.



*lets reactions sink in*

Scared yet? Interested maybe? For those who just watched this mindfuck, be aware that the above song was, unbelievably, released in 1968 and the opening track to the album you are about to read about.

Let's get on with the show!

Introduction:

Once upon a time and many years ago, in a magical decade where LSD was legal and love was free, there were two teen-pop producers, Austin Grasmere and Brian Elliot, who wanted to do something more with their lives than flood the radio with shit you could snap your fingers to. Hence, they met up Bernard Stollman, the legendary head of Godz and Sun-Ra distributing record label ESP-Disk, landed a production deal, recruited a mysterious band of demons from the depths of Hell known as The Connecticut Tribe, and working together birthed this disturbingly unreal release at the end of the age of Flower Power.

And thus, ladies and gents of MB, I am most happy to present to you the most fucked up and uncompromising slice of insanity to ever grace recorded form, a song lineup which in a mere forty minutes will absolutely rape and destroy any preconceptions you might have about what makes an album ahead of its time or not. For compared to this, Loud Reed's Metal Machine Music is small potatoes and Comus's First Utterance but merely an afterthought in a walk down Orgasm Lane.

Ultimately this is, quite simply, one of the most amazing albums one could own, for better or for worse. Whether you end up hating it, loving it, or give less than two craps about what I'm saying, everyone should nevertheless pick this up and shove it in some empty corner or their respective musical cesspools, especially if you're curious about the roots of early industrial and noise-rock music.

The Album:

1. Caledonia: Yep, this is the black metal/bagpipes industrial folk freakout you heard in my introduction video, hence I won't be reviewing it. People who study music history could spend their whole lives studying a track like this though, I'll say that much.


2. Ritual Feast Of The Libido: Poor guy, I think they're shoving his hand in a meat grinder. Three minutes of hell to your ears ftw!


3. Organic Sundown: If this doesn't give you nightmares, I don't think anything will. For seven minutes we are treated to some disturbing early variety of pagan psych-folk from some dark corner of eternity where human bones become drumsticks under moonlight and the dead crawl up from the sea to dance along the starlit shore. Pretty damn amazing if I do say so myself!


4. Fantasy: Hey look everybody, The Beach Boys are in town! Oh wait...they're dead. And what's with that rotting woman laughing in the corner of the room? Who's screaming? Why is the clock ticking so menacingly with the sound of sirens? Most importantly of all though...why am I so damn scared?


5. Crow Of The Black Tree: Folksy and almost idyllically psychedelic by these guys standards, this is a fantastic acoustic onslaught featuring Residents-esque call-and-response, and over the course of 9 minutes repetitively yet surely grinds itself to an incomprehensible nothing.


6. Genitalia: Pop music from the depths of Gehenna and beyond. If you haven't crossed over to being awestruck yet, I think this track will do it.


7. Toth, Scribe 1: 10 minutes of...ambient black metal? In 1968?? Holy fucking shit!!!!!!!!!


8. First World Of Bronze: A relatively normal song after all the mindraping the last seven tracks have given us. Hendrixean guitar shreds itself to oblivion as our two pop stars and The Connecticut Tribe sing into a rumbling stupor that fades off into a brief, yet wordless feedback.

. . . O.O!


Conclusion:

Screwed up beyond reason and perhaps thankfully obscure, Cromagnon's Orgasm is just one of those things you run across by reputation that you simply have to hear to believe. Even if it eschews anything and everything that makes most music enjoyable to listen to, the fact that it was doing so over half a decade before anyone else is certainly worthy of recognition.

And thus, even if you don't feel the need to obtain ANYTHING else that I have reviewed in this thread up til this point, get this. By understanding the nightmares of the past, you'll appreciate your own favorite music better, and perhaps even see it in new light as a result.

In conclusion: long days, pleasant nights, and thanks for reading! :D

I totally guessed your number one in here would be some obscure 1960's mindfuck. A really great thread Anteater, just bursting with obscure and talented artists, may it be kept throughout all MB history for the committed members of future generations. Pretty much every artist on here made my to-get list, and I'm thankful for all the energy put into this as it's really given some great names. Your thread gets an A- from me.

The minus is because you never gave out the booze!

Crazy stuff, dude :o

EDIT: And wtf, no one is supposed to actually be able to shred before 1970 or so!

Great list my man. It's provided many new downloads to my life. Listening to your #1 right now and it's a complete mind****. And I'd expect nothing less :D

Damn thats crazy, i love it. Please tell me you own some captain beefheart

Haha, what an album .. I have to admit I thought Orgasm was far more weird than good, at least on my first listen through, but then again - what an oddity. It's not completely fresh because I've heard other trippy LSD albums like Amon Düül's Psychedelic Underground from 1969 or Brainticket which I know you like. Of course they're not the same, but there are still some similarities. But - the black metallish sounds and some of the other things here were possibly ahead of their time .. Or are they simply flukes and coincidences? There doesn't seem to be much thematic consisitency.

Definetly a strange album that I'll probably force on guests when I've had a whisky too many :D

What he said. I assumed you would have put something by Beefheart on here. He seems to fit your taste pretty well. Please don't tell me you don't like him!

Of course I love Beefheart, but I just don't adore a particular album by him enough to put it in my top 30 of all time. :p:

He's in my top 54 though.....