chopjob wrote:I didn't think I was seeing things when I glossed over something somewhere about a new Nico product: hereit is.

damnit...i hate rebuying albums i already have but of course i cannot say no to 17 previously unreleased tracks! ah well...

Throbbing Gristle are making their version of the Desert Shore album

falsedog wrote:Throbbing Gristle are making their version of the Desert Shore album

And isn't that going to be the most desperately piss poor thing ever made.

I mean, as if fucking TG were ever capable of recording something on the level of 'Desert Shore'. Please. Nothing but an insult to a great, singular woman and incredible artist who was as beautiful as TG are ugly (in every conceivable way).

You're right of course, TG's reluctance to hit a note, maudlin lyrical themes and screeching violins would only undermine the approach Nico took in her recordings.

I really like the song "Alone" off Desert Shore. (Sadly, it's been something of a theme for me.)

Sometimes Nico's singing gets on my nerves -- I have to be in the right mood for it -- but in general I appreciate her voice and she's made too much good music to get anything but an "N/C" from yours truly.

I like the moment in Nico Icon wherein her mother is playing an old copy of the first VU record and she begins to weep while singing along with "I'll Be Your Mirror" (a fine song, but rather crushing in this context).

My favorite Nico/VU memory of all is getting off of a plane in Jeddah Saudi Arabia, the tarmack guarded by tense looking teenage soldiers brandishing rifles bigger than themselves. We boarded a bus for the terminal and I heard the soft, but unmistakable sound of "Femme Fatale" playing over the PA.

Surrounded by nervous faces that looked nothing like mine, I couldn't help but start laughing uncontrollably. How the fuck did that slip past the censors???

nc.

falsedog wrote:You're right of course, TG's reluctance to hit a note, maudlin lyrical themes and screeching violins would only undermine the approach Nico took in her recordings.

Odd then how one is incredible and the other isn't. Almost as if there's some unidentifiable, ineffable quotent which has been left out of your equation altogether...talent, you could call it, or greatness. Then again, Nico was making a real record for a real audience as opposed to fleecing a laughably uncritical fanbase who will eagerly lap-up their thoroughly reconstructed yet still moribund 'heroes' soapy cockwash:
http://tg.greedbag.com/buy/the-desertsh ... tallation/

Isabelle Gall wrote:

falsedog wrote:You're right of course, TG's reluctance to hit a note, maudlin lyrical themes and screeching violins would only undermine the approach Nico took in her recordings.

Odd then how one is incredible and the other isn't. Almost as if there's some unidentifiable, ineffable quotent which has been left out of your equation altogether...talent, you could call it, or greatness. Then again, Nico was making a real record for a real audience as opposed to fleecing a laughably uncritical fanbase who will eagerly lap-up their thoroughly reconstructed yet still moribund 'heroes' soapy cockwash:
http://tg.greedbag.com/buy/the-desertsh ... tallation/

I don't understand why TG would do this. I just picked up their new album, and I think it's great, so I don't see why they would feel the need to do something like this.

would it be like Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho? Interesting experiment, but ultimately lifeless and unneccesary?

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:VAT A KLAHN.

CREP.

This was an incredibly stupid post. Have been listening to her first couple of solo albums and love every bit of them.

Still not a big fan of her work on the Velvet Underground's first album, but jesus, this is good stuff.