I was trying to make a CAD drawing in a program I don't really understand last week, pretty late at night, and Spahn Dirge, the live track at the end of Skinny Puppy's Rabies, came on the iTunes. It made me feel like I was going crazy. OK, most of Rabies is pretty good for that.
I haven't really listened to it since I was washing dishes in a Mexican restaurant with a guy who cut up whole chickens while listening to Skinny Puppy [and mouthing the words.]
He was a crazy person.
Please to post the rocking Dan, BadComrade. Change my mind also.
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33MajorEverettMiller wrote:
I own a ton of their albums and never listen to them. They are fucking insane.
Thankfully, I'm NEVER in the right frame of mind.
Everyone knows Neil rocks out to Marillion... The Young Ones was actually the first time I had heard of Marillion.
Someone here keeps on mentioning the keyboards on Fugazi. That one is OK, but my favorite is Misplaced Childhood.
Marillion and insanity? Not even.
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34BadComrade wrote:itchy mcgoo wrote:Steely Dan would be the ideal soundtrack for my murderous rampage to follow.
God, I hate Steely Dan.
That's just... depressing. As witty as you appear to be, you should totally appreciate those guys. I mean, how can you have no appreciation for a band who named themselves after a steam-powered dildo, and write lyrics like:
"Well I've kicked around a lot since high school
I've worked a lot of nowhere gigs
From keyboard man in a rock'n ska band
To haulin' boss crude in the big rigs
Now I've come back home to plan my next move
From the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch
When I see my little cousin Janine walk in
All I could say was ow-ow-ouch"
Classic Steely Dan lyric writing there. Forget "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and all the other songs you loath because you haven't been able to escape them your entire life, no matter how hard you've tried.
Another favorite lyric of mine:
"No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on
Oh no
No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on
Oh no
That's what I am
Please understand
I wanna be your holy man"
If you can appreciate those lyrics (and the fact that they were slipping them in to the style of music they play), but just can't get past the over-production on the albums, I have a 1974 live in-studio performance (radio show) that would change your mind. It's one of the -rawest- most "rocking" live performances I've ever heard on record. Drummer's hands bleeding, guitar amps smoking performance. It's the recording that made me go back and re-evaluate Steely Dan, and I'm glad I did. I can look right past the dead recording style, and the music that somestimes sounds like the "samba" selection on a 1980's Casio keyboard.
I like Steely Dan about as much as the Greatful Dead.
I do not like the Greatful Dead.
I do notice that most of the people I know who like the Greatful Dead, also like Steely Dan.
I remember in college, some chick told me Steely Dan was for mature people. I think she meant baby boomers. Though, she thought she was really grown up because she listened to them, and made fun of me for listening to childish music like Fugazi (the rock band, and not the Marillion album).
But this is not the reason I dislike Steely Dan. I just don't think they were unique, innovative, or interesting.
I like a fair amount of rock from the 70's, but Steely Dan are too poppy and straight forward for me. Sure, there's something odd about their songs some times, but I've always felt they appealed to the "mellow music" crowd. You know, the types that wore jackets with leather elbow patches.
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35itchy mcgoo wrote:For myself, Ornette Coleman's Tomorrow is the Question or some good frantic Rachmininov would do it.
buzzsaw wrote:or some good frantic Rachmininov would do it.
I was going to say this but I had no idea how I was going to spell it
The composer's name is only really correctly spelled using Cyrillic characters, however, itchy did not hit on the best possible spelling in English, which would be Rachmaninoff (accepted) or perhaps Rachmaninov.
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36If yr gonna add Caroliner I think that Thinkig feller's Union Etc..Etc must be added and Truman's Water Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox And Ass.
I stopped buying when they went in to the Godspeed limited editions.
This is what I referred to as the lunatic fringe.
Archers of loaf Icky Mettle was pretty inspired.
Ty Webb wrote:I hope the little-known 8th dwarf, Chinky, is on that list.
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37Juche wrote:The composer's name is only really correctly spelled using Cyrillic characters, however, itchy did not hit on the best possible spelling in English, which would be Rachmaninoff (accepted) or perhaps Rachmaninov.
Thanks, Juche.
I will edit my post.
Misspelling things on Electrical appears to be my "signature move" today. Hopefully tomorrow it will be something cooler like mastering the one-inch punch or making a perfect gin and tonic.
H-GM wrote:Still don't make you mexican, Dances With Burros.
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38Shostakovich string quartets...big time! All of them contain great tension and insanity, but these in particular:
...really do it. Go out and splurge on the complete set by the Emerson Quartet. They seem to highlight the insanity with furiously fast, technically perfect renditions - rather than the carefully nuanced versions by the Boradin.
Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima"
Ravel's "La Valse"
Dr. Nerve records
- -Quartet #3, III - Allegro non troppo
-Quartet #8, II - Allegretto
-Quartet #11, V - Humoresque
...really do it. Go out and splurge on the complete set by the Emerson Quartet. They seem to highlight the insanity with furiously fast, technically perfect renditions - rather than the carefully nuanced versions by the Boradin.
Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima"
Ravel's "La Valse"
Dr. Nerve records
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