The bulletin board is dead and I'm the only one keeping it alive. I must be a necrophiliac. Only I'm not.
I don't care to clarify any of the god forsaken crap I wrote when I was here last, you'll just have to toss it in your own garbage bins your own self.
I am too drunk for the other board so I have come here. A safe haven. Love means never having to say you're sorry. Or something like that.
Music is the key. I am determined to QUIT downloading and actually fucking focus on roughly 6 bands to the detriment of everything else. I am determined to FOCUS. And I've almost got it down, man. I really have tried and worked very hard to sift through a lot of crap to get to this point and I believe Virgos should give me some credit for the incredible lack of sleep I displayed last weekend in my endeavor to WORK MY WAY THROUGH SONG AFTER SONG AFTER BAND AFTER BAND AFTER BAND AFTER BAND. Talk about making the most out of my weekend. So anyway, no one cares and I refuse to start a blog, but here are my findings:
My twin says, and dares me, mocks me: "Name the six bands, Mark, name the ones you will now focus on to the detriment of everything else entirely even NEW RELEASES and stuff you see on threads on the other board. Name the 6 bands that you are going to restrict yourself to for the next few weeks (?)"
Well I will try.
1. God's Gift (POST-PUNK, MANCHESTER BAND FROM '79-'85! I just found their VERY rare cassette-only release which I have been looking for for YEARS and never thought I'd find - it ony cost me $35 and I can't fucking believe my dreams have come true and they EVEN DEDICATE AN ENTIRE SONG TO NICO CALLED "NICO"!!!!! They actually sounded a lot like the Fall in their later years, without being a copy of the band...more like 40% Fall)
2. De Press (oh god...don't get me started....when I was 15 or so I taped a song off the radio by them called "Total Corruption" that was sooooo goth/depressing/synth...some thrice removed cousin to Joy Division I guess...well I spent years looking for their records, YEARS! And gave up. Until around the year 2000 I somehow managed to find one of their LP's from 1983 in an Antique Mall in Seattle. This is fucking crazy because for one thing the band is from Norway, I believe, but they have a Polish singer. Anyway, only recently have I managed to find all their early records. So last weekend I just went completely nuts. Their first two LP's are wonderful. They are masters of the gloom n' doom sound but the reality is the other half of their songs are in a more fast-paced punk style. So they walked the line between the two. And I love them for it. Remember Joy Division had a song called "Walked In Line")
3. Thomas Dolby (Look, don't even get me started, his first two albums are to die for, and I EVEN HAVE B-SIDES AND RARITIES NOW!!! NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT I KEEP READING HOW HE WORKED WITH OTHER ARTISTS I HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY COINCIDENTALLY TRYING TO INVESTIGATE!)
4. Inspiral Carpets (Noel Gallagher used to be a roadie for them in the old days, didn't you know? Anyway, I've got a whole bunch of early live stuff now from them circa '87-'88 that completely blows me away, and remember THEY WERE ANOTHER MANCHESTER BAND even if they weren't always good and well...in the 90's they weren't nearly so good...)
5. Lack of Knowledge (this is some band my friend introduced me to that used to be on the Crass label in the UK...they kindof sound a little like Killling Joke, but also goth in a hard rock kind of way...they seemed to have a talent of their own I thought, and the end of track #4 "Radioactive Man" sounded a LOT LIKE MARTIN HANNETT audio tricks.
6. You know what I'm going to leave this one open for now, there's too much doubt. There's a new Eluvium album "Copia" with gorgeous instrumental piano and strings, but I want to leave #6 open just incase something else comes along...I can't deny I have been paying a lot of attention to Killing Joke of late, too. I'm just not sure about what #6 really is.
Doubtless I will begin a blog very soon where I will paste the tracks I have written about here.