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The jadis journal
Will be posting music and such. Not necessarily whatever I'm listening to at the moment but music (and maybe books, films etc) that's part of my personal canon.
This is a track from my all time favorite Lydon record, PIL's Flowers of Romance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbAgiTN2gM |
Hey, welcome to the journals section! Good to have you along! :thumb:
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Cheers!
This, from my favorite Bowie album, is a killer track and great choice of video too, a German cult film in which both Bowie and this track appear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_F._(film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1-7SRVrPhg |
The perfect SY song: abrasive, dissonant guitars, caveman drumming, Kim on vocals. To me it's pure, uncut postpunk though some say it's a precursor of riot grrrl (wonder what Marie thinks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMOZCHkrnMs |
The sound and vibe are not very riot grrrl (and the feminist side of the lyrics doesn't feel like typical riot grrrl either) but all music with an attitude that empowers women is akin to riot grrl of course! And sonic youth inspired bands like Sleater-Kinney for a reason. The song rules btw
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Portishead is a band whose famous debut album I've always liked a lot but it also kinda was "yet another classic" from a genre that was long dead by the time I learned of it. Nothing prepared me for Third in 2008, which became one of my all time favorites and made me fall in love anew with the first two records. When this started playing on MTV at the gym I was literally hypnotized https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJeiWYFrio |
Hell yes! In the years since I first heard it Third has also found a rightful place among my all-time favourite albums.
There are not many groups I can think of who after nearly 10 years absence from recording can totally reinvent themselves stylistically and be even better for it, but somehow they managed it. |
Yeah I can't think of precedents for that. I just hope they do it at least one more time!
Of their 90s output I've been returning to these two in particular recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pw6ZOXaHm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bFiyVi91Es |
The first and greatest of Eno's many Can-inspired pieces?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-J1tCQwvg |
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A singer-songwriter I've always liked, from Small Blue Thing to New York Is a Woman. This is the opening and closing tracks from her big 90s album 99.9F°, produced by the brilliant Mitchell Froom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p96W03sNNmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzNyao--tuY |
One of those great bands promoted by John Peel who didn't make it past the first album.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcPTZ-Lcpx4 |
One of many the great albums from the alumni of the COUM Transmissions art collective, or COUMers for short... Coil have always rejected the "industrial" label but it's often described as "industrial psychedelia".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNE18YuDjoE |
TG were always better than GG Allin but yeah in 2004 they weren't at their sharpest. Still, I like those comeback shows, whenever members of the audience are reduced to involuntary twitching, you know it's the good stuff
From what I've heard, the one area where Gen kinda was surprisingly humble was the actual musicianship. As in, s/he cared more about being a guru/prophet/conceptual artist/cult leader/all round genius and was prepared to acknowledge that others were better at writing songs. Cosey is cool. It's impressive how much good music the people involved in COUM Transmission went on to make. TG, Chris & Cosey, Coil... jury's still out on Psychic TV, though they're the favorite band of one of my best friends. |
Interesting, never thought of it this way. I guess a deep dive into TG is due. As things stand, there are records by Coil and Chris & Cosey that I rate higher than TG.
Yes, Sinatra was held in high esteem by quite a few of the postpunk crowd, including Robert Smith who was a huge fan of his phrasing. The man could really carry a tune... Anyway, a lil something from my favorite percussionist of the postpunk era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnNJcm7uRFU |
One of Prokofiev's finest piano miniatures played by the most underappreciated of the Soviet piano geniuses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0En8-7kxLU |
The song whose inclusion in The Silence of the Lambs is responsible for establishing The Fall in the popular imagination as serial killer music, and true Fallheads won't have it any other way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQGKyI3YP70 |
Which one has that long song about Myra Hindley? I love that one
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I see, interesting how widely it circulated as a bootleg
TG is one of those bands my first exposure to was a bunch of mp3s downloaded by a friend from soulseek, so I didn't really know what was on official releases and what wasn't. For some unknown reason, the CD with Lick My Decals Off, Baby (maybe my favorite album of all time) that he burned for me began with the Magic Band's cover of Diddy Wah Diddy, so for me that album had a really upbeat opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGX8X_5cScc |
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Kurtag, one of the greatest living composers and probably our last remaining link to the European modernist tradition of polymaths and experimentalists such as Stockhausen and Boulez. Among my favorite 80 seconds in music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4s4LNpLPck |
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For me Serge wrote the best love songs cause they're always with a twist. This one is called something like "unlove" (a Serge neologism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHKHGlFBV8 |
Very important song imo, adapting the industrial sound to pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO0YjqMVAoo |
Saw Naked on the big screen for the first time yesterday. As amazing as in the first 20-30 times I've seen it. This will be stuck in my head for the next few days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oajrkb1IoEU |
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a movie more than 3-4 times. Are you ok?
Lovely track btw. |
I've seen Jaws like 100 times.
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Yeah I'm known for being the obsessive type
My introduction to The Fall was a friend telling me "you're gonna love this, a band especially for obsessive ****s like you" Won't even try to ballpark how many times I've seen the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise, whose remaster I saw on the big screen on Monday and it was every bit as amazing as in the n times etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1bloaXU730&t=1s |
Who has not seen any movie more than 4 times??? Obsession ftw
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Scary.
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Time constraints aside, and new stuff to be watched notwithstanding, there are plenty of movies I would watch, and have watched, over and again. A short list.
The Odd Couple The Last Temptation of Christ Braveheart Star Wars duh Star Trek first maybe 4 movies Nineteen Eighty-Four The Nightmare Before Christmas Identity Memento 2001 Dust Devil Buried Back to the Future trilogy Aliens Terminator 2 Downfall Unforgiven Pale Rider Casablanca Jesus Christ Superstar all I can think of right now but I'm sure there are more. |
Fargo is a movie I've seen around a hundred times. I watch That Thing You Do a lot too.
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You guys should all be locked up!
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We are. Didn't you know this is the internet's biggest and most high security prison? We must at all costs be kept away from decent society.
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I meant in the looney bin! ;)
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So did I.
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I remember watching Nineteen Eighty-Four in high school. I'll stick to the book. The movie felt more disturbing.
There are a few movies I'll happily watch over and over again. Slap Shot Bon Cop, Bad Cop (the sequel was good too) Bloodsport Young Guns Idiocracy Hunt For Red October It's late, and my memory refuses to cooperate. I'm sure there are more. |
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My favorite is the Cajun one though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt09...aminOrtizMusic |
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