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Whilst you're here, the lovely human who runs a blog that has been linked here since forever has just dropped a link for a soundboard recording of a 1993 Psychic TV gig in Eugene (naturally) into the comments of the Genesis post. I'm listening to it now and it's great ... go and get it whilst it's there!
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I bought this during those (retrospectively) fondly remembered innocent times. I never thought for one second that the gold standard would be replaced by toilet rolls ... and that was my mistake. However, I still have four rolls left! So I reckon that if I don't wipe my arse for a while I'll be a Duchess by the end of the month. Frankly, it's not before time!
It's a CDr released on American Tapes in 2011 ... it's AM894 btw.
First and only document of a postal collaboration by Merzbow and Timm Williams (aka S.M.U.T., Pee 69 Deflower, Rougeux). Released as a 7" on Stomach Ache in 1994.
The Residents had no major album between 1994 (Gingerbread Man) and 1998 (Wormwood). The interceding years were spent on stillborn CD-Rom projects (like I Murdered Mommy), commissioned soundtracks, and "Disfigured Night", a performance piece that they did a handful of times, including once at the headquarters of the Adobe company. Released as a download-only album by RSD (Robot Selling Device) in 2009 and taken down in 2012.
I'd not been awake long this morning before I found out that the former Mancunian and citizen of nowhere had shuffled off h/er mortal coil and transcended. A person who throughout at least 30 years of my life has filled me with fascination and indifference, confusion and clarity and joy and fear. Sometimes at the same time.
A unique human and the world seems a bit smaller without h/er in it.
Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report
Throbbing Gristle had terminated their mission just before my time so I never had a chance to see them live. I was left to buy the Mute vinyls and then wonder what the fuck they were doing inside my head ... sometimes pleasure takes some perseverance.
I totally recommend the Wreckers Of Civilisation book ... it's a great thing that is now more accessible given that there was a recent-ish second edition. When I bought the original book, I went to the counter and a matronly lady scanned it in, looked at the display and very loudly said "OOHH!! Throbbing Gristle". As is well known in Catholic circles, you can't take the boy out of the man and all I could think of was Kenneth Williams ... Carry On Throbbing indeed. It still cheers me up.
This is the double CD remastered reissue from Industrial Records in 2011.
The first time that I saw PTV was at Manchester Polytechnic (as was). These were the pharmacology years so somewhere around 1988/9 feels about right. Just as the Microdots started to peak, they came onto the stage and about 10 of the audience took off their clothes, clambered on stage and danced around for the entire gig. Presumably they were the amateur wing of the TOPY sex magicians (they really exist). All of the blokes had a Prince Albert obviously which doesn't make it any better when it's waving in your face (admittedly a personal perspective). Anyway. It was a complete sensory overload and I stood right in front of the stage transfixed with an entirely probable what the fuck is going on facial expression. For what still seems like forever, Genesis stared right at me with a look of disgust and screamed the lyrics into my face. Emotionally, I still have all of it but the memories of the gig hit like a rapid series of static frozen moments. It was exhilarating and horrific. When I saw them after that I took less acid beforehand.
This is the Japanese double CD reissue that includes the bonus 12" that came with initial copies of the 1982 vinyl release.
A series of live recordings from different places that at points are collaborations with either / or Nate Nelson (who you have met recently if you have been paying attention), Robert Beatty (who also recorded as The Three Legged Race) and Maya Miller (yes, her).
A very small edition (and completely undervalued) CDr released on 23 Productions in 2007.
I thought that I had bought their "Butte Des Morte" on Skulls Of Heaven but for the life of me I can't find it in my haystack ... any help on that would be nice.
On this release, Zodiac Mountain is Clay Ruby (Burial Hex, member of Davenport etc) and Wooden Wand (aka James Jackson Toth). Imagine if the Velvets and Spacemen 3 took loads of drugs (erm, OK that doesn't quite work ... right then, even more drugs) and jammed together before gouching. Yeah, it's kind of as good as that although for legal reasons I am sure that no pharmaceuticals were harmed in the making of the track. Religious Knives are ineffable.
The Residents periodically re-record their first song, "Santa Dog", radically changing it each time. This version from 1992 was a CD sent to members of the Uncle Willie's Eyeball Buddies fan club.
Another limited-availability download-only album from the Residents' RSD (Robot Selling Device), described by the band thusly: "Undeniably one of The Residents optimal work was CUBE E, but as can happen when a project covers so many different media types and recordings, there has never been the recording - the album - that brings the project into a whole. Some time ago I had run into a recording experiment where the group had compiled an album that represented the various aspects of this very sophisticated and complex project. Unfortunately not only was the album never released, but the CDR they had burned of the project had become corrupted during storage and was not playable as it stood. One thing that set this experiment apart was the fact that they had tested a new piece of software (new in 2000, no longer made) called Dynasone. Dynasone was a mastering program that used complex digital calculations to enhance and restore recordings. I had long written off the collection of recordings as worthless. Until last week. I ran into a disk of working files used in the creation of the damaged CD. The disc was marked "Dynasone 3EZ" so I checked it and found pristine mixes from the work. Not all the recordings were there, so it was a bit of a disappointment, but I have attempted to restore the missing pieces. The recordings draw on all aspect of the CUBE E era. However it is more than a compilation, it has an astounding sound that should be heard on headphones or in surround. CUBE E project started in 1989."
Perhaps a more abrasive and confrontational approach (which isn't in anyway a bad thing) that is still drenched in psychedelics (which in almost every way is a good thing).
CDr released on Heavy Conversation in 2005. Yeah, that's not the cover but I would definitely go to church if that reflected a current state of mass hypnosis rather than the present versions ... but only to clean the litter tray you understand.
According to a Resident: "Just one of those oddities. Mole Suite, named by me because I don't know what else to call it... Age unknown, but probably late Eighties, early Nineties." Released online by the band, taken down in 2012.
From 2009 until 2012, The Residents ran a website/label that sold download-only albums and EPs of otherwise unreleased bits and bobs that hadn't yet been collected onto any physical-media albums. The RSD (Robot Selling Device) ended up offering a total of 44 titles. If they did it today, it'd be ideal for Bandcamp. Unfortunately, they took all the material down in 2012 and it remains (ahem) not available. That's a shame, because it's pretty good stuff, and a lot of it is historically significant. For example, this full recording of an early Residents performance: "Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! Can't You See That It's True, What The Beatles Did To Me I Love Lucy Did To You" was a special show put on for the 5th anniversary of Rather Ripped Records on June 7th, 1976. The Residents were joined by Snakefinger, Arf and Omega, Peggy Honeydew, Zeibak and others in this live performance at the Longbranch Saloon in Berkeley California. The Residents appeared as mummies and Snakefinger dressed as a giant chicken".
A clever idea for intentional confusion, maybe? The title of the album is the name of one of the band's members. Released as a CDR by Collective Jyrk in 2005.
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