It's not quite a fully realised noise record but it's close enough for 1975. Proto-noise, maybe?

Def set the stage for the more abstract elements of the first wave industrial scene.

My fav Lou record by quite some distance (I do not like Lou Reed very much).

Not crap

Familiar with the first 2 albums; found them much more interesting than I'd expected. Her voice is effervescent but the SONGS are a muddled mess. Felt like a waste of her (considerable) raw talent. Seems she got pretty scrambled by the fame machine also, which sucks.

If you were (hypothetically) running a zoo, you'd know that you have to place the animals with their own kind and provide them with a habitat they can thrive in.

NC, wf "jazz" Big Fun and Ascenseur pour l'échafaud being my personal favs. But most of it is great. You can tell he realised when he'd hit a creative dead end or when he was in a musical space where there was more to explore and develop. A rare skill that led to a particularly strong disc...

Tuff for me as I really dig Tulip and the Lurch ep quite a bit (mega-angst meets mega-scronk - I like) but think the rest feels very superfluous; especially Unlistenable and all the rinky-dink "experimental" Milk Cult stuff, which I think is utter crap. The good stuff is just idiosyncrati...

Tuff for me as I really dig Tulip and the Lurch ep quite a bit (mega-angst meets mega-scronk - I like) but think the rest feels very superfluous; especially Unlistenable and all the rinky-dink "experimental" Milk Cult stuff, which I think is utter crap. The good stuff is just idiosyncratic...

penningtron wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 5:03 pm Some good radio singles. The Seeds of Love is peak '80s over-production to a comical degree.

Yes on both counts.

"Serious" to a comically pompous extreme; yet hard to deny the level of craft involved.

Good but not great and that was all we could expect from them given all the nastiness with Bill. I think the Heaven and Hell album was a bit stronger, though.

Rocky Rockbottom wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 12:45 am Easy enough Crap vote for me.

Sure, "Killing In The Name" is hard to deny....but alllllll the rest is very, very easy to deny

That's the worst song on the debut.

The ROCK excitement / energy comes from their steller musicianship and that allowed them to function as an explosive live act in a way no other hip-hop group (either with band but ESPECIALLY with no band) couldn't. I think RAtM were a tremendous rock band but man, that's some bullshit. Care to prov...