I heart industrial and goth music and just before lunch, completely on a whim, I corralled my industrial, goth and EBM albums into an iTunes playlist, added a few I felt were apposite to the mood (e.g. Depeche Mode, The The) ordered it by year and hit play.
So. First five albums, which should keep me going till tea time today, are
1. Throbbing Gristle — The Second Annual Report
2. Throbbing Gristle — DOA: The Third and Final Report
3. Cabaret Voltaire — The Mix-Up
4. Gary Numan — The Pleasure Principle
5. Chrome — Half Machine Lip Moves/Alien Soundtracks.
More anon!
Poppy Succeeds says
The vagaries of iTunes! Transferring the playlist to my iPod has forced a running order squabblefest on me, so actually it’s turned out to be….
1. Throbbing Gristle — The Second Annual Report
2. Cabaret Voltaire — The Mix-Up
3. Chrome — Half Machine Lip Moves/Alien Soundtracks.
4. Siouxsie and the Banshees — The Scream
5. Throbbing Gristle — DOA: The Third and Final Report
JustB says
Hell with it. I’m cueing up the selfsame running order in Apple Music as we speak. Was wondering what to listen to. Cheers, Poppy.
Poppy Succeeds says
You won’t regret it!
(Well, you might,)
JustB says
The Second Annual Report is monstrously ace. The second Slug Bait (the Southampton one with the ace bass groove) and the studio Maggot Death are my faves so far. Always meant to get into ver Gristle – my impeccably, almost painfully correct mate David has banged on about them for as long as I’ve known him (although we’ve not been in touch for ages). You’d like him a lot – his favourite artists ever are Throbbing Gristle and Coil, and he DJs the sort of techno that makes most people cry. Hell, you probably know him.
JustB says
Onto Mix-Up now. Cor. A marathon session of this music isn’t going to be a walk in the park, is it? Really interesting, though, because one thing TG and CV do is make you *feel*. There’s a real emotional effect to the music – a slightly sick, bleak feeling. It sounds a bit like a day at home with the curtains shut, eating crisps and watching Eraserhead feels.
Oh, phew. Kirlian Photograph is over and No Escape now feels like the Macarena by comparison.
Poppy Succeeds says
What I noticed earlier was how seamless the transition was between TG and CV. They really are two peas in a pod! CV of course would mellow. TG less so.
I’ve had to call a halt to proceedings halfway through DOA. (dinner to make, Bake Off to watch etc.) The Scream is my favourite of the day, but it’s a close call. More tomorrow!
retropath2 says
Blimey, Poppy, hope you’ve no under 16 and impressionables listening to that……….
Poppy Succeeds says
Absolutely! Tonight’s bedtime story is the lyrics to Slug Bait.
Douglas says
Cor, that’s my interest piqued (but not peaked)!
I was talking about TG the other day with @james-blast of this parish, and I ventured the opinion that Heathen Earth is their finest hour. The first two feel too dominated by Gen & Cosey, 20 Jazz Funk Greats is Chris’s moment in the sun. But HE feels more balanced between all four of them. There’s cracking moments on all four albums of course.
The Scream is a classic no matter which direction you look at it from: a Banshees LP, goth, post-punk … it even features my favourite ever ending to a song (Jigsaw Feeling).
Looking forward to further updates!
Douglas says
Forgot to add: I never tire of reading (or posting) this article, which seems apposite:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/jan/01/artsfeatures.popandrock
Black Celebration says
Did I read somewhere that The Scream heavily influenced Nevermind? Similar-ish artwork as well.
Poppy Succeeds says
You’ve reminded me — I think I began in the wrong place. Second Final Report is a good album to start with, but I think I could have travelled further back and gone with The Idiot by Iggy Pop.
Poppy Succeeds says
A work-related early start today, so I’m already some way down the wormhole, having already listened to…
Adam and the Ants — Dirk Wears White Sox
Gary Numan — The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan — Replicas
Siouxsie and the Banshees — Join Hands
Lined up for the rest of the day, and I’m flaying 1980 alive, with…
Throbbing Gristle — 20 Jazz-Funk Greats
Adam and the Ants — Kings of the Wild Frontier
Bauhaus — In The Flat Field
Cabaret Voltaire — The Voice of America
Clock DVA — White Souls in Black Suits
The Cure — Seventeen Seconds
Dark Days — Exterminating Angel
Fad Gadget — Fireside Favourites
Killing Joke — Killing Joke
Nurse With Wound — To The Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl
If yesterday was hard-going at times — a bit like homework — I think the rest of today will be FUN. There are three albums from that line-up alone that would make my all-time top 50. What’s more, if I can manage Siouxsie and the Banshees — Kaleidoscope as well, it’ll take me to the end of 1980. Woot!
Kid Dynamite says
mmmmmm, first Killing Joke album.
Kid Dynamite says
you’re not that far off Juju either, are you? What a brilliant album that one is.
Poppy Succeeds says
Yes, and yes! Though Hyaena’s my favourite for historical and personal reasons, I think that Juju is objectively a better album.
The project is getting really good now. Again the vagaries of iTunes-to-iPod transfer meant I had things in a weird order, so I got TG, the Cabs and Clock DVA one after the other, which even I had to admit was a bit punishing.
I’m onto Dark Days now, though, one of my absolute favourites and a bit of a lost classic I reckon.
Poppy Succeeds says
Oops. Dark Day singular, I mean x 2.
Douglas says
They don’t write songs like them any more, do they?
“Dirk …” is a fantastic little album – Animals And Men is a personal favourite. How many songs do you know which list futurist artists and writers? You’ll wait a long time watching The Voice before that crops up.
KJ’s first 3 albums are a holy trinity of … something. Impossible to label satisfatorily.
And NWW? Ostranenie on TTQMFATG is a cracker.
Btw, I’m reading David Keenan’s book England’s Hidden Reverse (about NWW, Coil & Current 93) and it’s fantastic stuff – well worth seeking – there’s a new version coming later this year apparently.
Poppy Succeeds says
Ah, what info! I’m really pleased to hear that. I have the album but haven’t read the book.
Poppy Succeeds says
In fact, given that TG’s Hot On The Heels of Love has just begun, I think the party can now be said to have started.
Poppy Succeeds says
It didn’t. (See above.)
Douglas says
That Mutant TG album (dance remixes of TG tracks) is worth a listen – patchy, but the good bits are very good.
Poppy Succeeds says
Yesterday was brillig stove. After what felt like hours of brilliant but somewhat challenging industrial courtesy of Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and Clock DVA, The Cure’s Seventeen Seconds came roaring out of the speakers to remind me just what a great album it is. Killing Joke, Bauhaus, Fad Gadget and Siouxsie all hit the spot too. This morning has already brought me
Cabaret Voltaire — Red Mecca
Clock DVA — Thirst
The Birthday Party — Prayers on Fire
Which is a great triptych by anybody’s standards, certainly as both the Cabs and Clock DVA have discovered rhythm in the meantime.
For the rest of the day, I’m giving 1981 a handjob in the darkened cinema, with…
Echo and the Bunnymen — Crocodiles (actually from 1980 but I thought it belonged in the list, so…)
Adam and the Ants — Prince Charming
Bauhaus — Mask
DAF — Alles Ist Gut
Depeche Mode Speak and Spell
Die Krupps — Stahlwerksinfonit
Einstürzende Neubauten — Kollaps
Fad Gadget — Incontinent
Killing Joke — What’s THIS for?
Siouxsie and the Banshees — Juju
Douglas says
The first 3 records I ever bought (and I am not making this up to look cool retrospectively):
1. Pleasure Principle
2. Kings of the Wild Frontier
3. Juju
Juju was my real intrduction to the delights and wonders of listening to music: playing it over and over to realise how they’d layered the different instrument tracks to make up the combined sound. And that cover. And inner sleeve. And the smell …
paulwright says
From a different angle, just played Crocodiles today while sorting out my office. Great. 4 more bunnymen albums for Monday.
Poppy Succeeds says
Which reminds me, thinking of other bands I’ve missed: Japan should be in there. Mick Karn is so goth.
Kid Dynamite says
In a fit of impatience I checked Wikipedia, and it turns out you’ve got eighteen years to go before you get to my favourite Coil record. Boo.
Poppy Succeeds says
Astral Disaster? It’s on my list, if so. And of course it won’t be too long before we reach Scatology.
Kid Dynamite says
I was thinking of Musick To Play In The Dark, but then the Coil catalogue is such a sprawling mess that there are huge swathes I’ve just never heard (there is a load available on archive.org, which is
Kid Dynamite says
*ahem* which is at least a semi-legit site as far as I know
Poppy Succeeds says
Yes, it’s a nightmare, and with both of them dead it doesn’t look as though there’s anybody curating the catalogue. The Coil listings on Discogs are full of people complaining they’ve been ripped off by bootleggers.
I’ve been lucky to assemble quite a bit over the years but that looks like a great resource. Thanks very much!
Kid Dynamite says
Brainwashed.com is probably the best place I’ve found to make sense of their output. They are supposed to be supervising a reissue program as well, but it’s painfully slow progress.
Probably taking coals to Newcastle, but do you have the Sleazy tribute mix that Surgeon did? It’s a treat. A scary, unsettling treat, but a treat nonetheless.
Poppy Succeeds says
I have got that one, from Bleep43, yes — and you’ve reminded me that I really need to give it another listen.
Deviant808 says
Inspired by seeing this yesterday, I dug out “The Mix-Up” for the trip to work this morning, and will be going for either “Red Mecca” or “The Voice of America” on the way home.
As suggested above, interesting how “The Mix-Up” does get more “accessible” (for want of a better word) as it goes along. “Kirlian Photograph” is lot heavier going than “On Every Other Street” for instance.
Locust says
I have never identified myself with anything “industrial”, “goth” or “EBM” (I don’t even know what that one means, actually), but I do own an awful lot of the albums mentioned so far…and many that I suspect are on their way (same artists, later albums).
But they’re almost all on vinyl, so I probably haven’t heard them for twenty years or so. I started ripping my vinyl to computer a few years ago, but after ripping the most urgent albums I got a bit fed up and took a break from it…I’m still on that break. And these days I’m more keen on getting something to rip VHS to computer/DVD, as old albums are easier to get hold on in other formats than a lot of old films and TV-shows are.
Poppy Succeeds says
Life has got in the way of the project, but over the weekend I managed a lot of This Mortal Coil and Dead Can Dance. It was out of chronological sequence but necessary for social reasons.
Today it’s 1982 and there’s more Bauhaus (The Sky’s Gone Out), Christian Death (Only Theatre of Pain), Cabaret Voltaire (2 X 4), Cocteau Twins (Garlands), The Cure (Pornography), Front 242 (Geography).
Douglas says
Remember when people used to dismiss the Cocteaus as Banshees-copyists? I never really saw it myself, but I guess it was this very early Twins stuff they were thinking of.
I used to *love* DCD’s later albums like Spleen & Ideal, and thought their debut was a bit lame by comparison. Nowadays my view has turned right around.
I also used to think that 100 Years contained the most terrifying depiction of what it feels like to die. Yes, I was a teenage goth fan!
Poppy Succeeds says
Thanks, Douglas. Along with Bela Lugosi I think One Hundred Years was my intro to Goth. I’m not sure they’ve ever bettered it: so ominous.
Despite scrawling their name on my bag at school, I was a latecomer to DCD. If I was to compile the list based n what I listened to at the time they wouldn’t be on it, because I was was a reformed punk, so they and the Cocteaus and I suppose a fair few other 4AD bands passed me by while I was busy hunting down records by Bauhaus and the Batcave lot.
Poppy Succeeds says
Still in 1982 and moving into 1983, today’s line-up is…
Killing Joke — Revelations
The Lords of the New Church — s/t
The March Violets — The Botanic Verses
Siouxsie and the Banshees — A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Theatre of Hate — Westworld
The Wake — Harmony
1983
Various — Batcave: Young Limbs and Numb Hymns (where I originally came in!)
Alien Sex Fiend — Who’s Been Sleeping In My Brain?
Hawkfall says
There’s no Sisters of Mercy here Poppy. Is that a deliberate choice? They had a very good 1983.
Poppy Succeeds says
There are still plenty of 1983 albums to come — really good year. Nevertheless, the Sisters don’t crop up until First and Last and Always in 1985 on my list. (Which is a fault of my collection rather than a comment on the Sisters’ industry.)
Hawkfall says
Ah, OK. I’m such a nerd I’ve divided up Some Girls Wander By Mistake into the individual EPs on my iTunes library.
Kid Dynamite says
So have I! And given all the individual EPs the correct sleeve art as well.
Douglas says
1982 was also the year the great Leichenschrei was released by SPK – before that they were turgid industrial-by-numbers merchants, later on they succumbed to the dreaded mid-1980s-synth-pop disease. But this was their sweet spot – a massive sprawling mess of pounding rhythms, sounds of indeterminate origin, bizarre lyrics such as “he tried to give me syphilis by wiping his cock on my sandwich”.
Topped off with a ghostly/ghastly cover and an endless run-off groove, and they don’t even use the side names A and B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leichenschrei#Track_listing
Hugely recommended.
Poppy Succeeds says
Today, a 1983
Bauhaus — Burning From The Inside (my favourite Bauhaus album — and yes, I know)
Cabaret Voltaire — The Crackdown
Clock DVA — Advantage
Cocteau Twins — Head Over Heels
The Creatures — Feast
Gene Loves Jezebel — Promise
The Glove — Blue Sunshine
Killing Joke — Fire Dances
Sex Gang Children — Song And Legend
Xmal Deutschland — Fetisch
You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breath — Ache
Douglas says
For me, this is about the time the grey squirrel goths start to eradicate all trace of the red squirrel industrials. There was the ever-present threat that your favourite bands could get a teeny bit 80s-pop.
Crackdown is a cracker, and the video album (https://boomkat.com/cds/886735-cabaret-voltaire-drinking-gasoline) is well worth checking out: needless to say they had a much more interesting visual style than Duran Duran.
Nevertheless I remember these days when Budgie seemed to be the greatest drummer ever, The Creatures seemingly allowing him to let rip in a way that the Banshees didn’t (other than maybe Voodoo Dolly).
@james-blast and I have differing views on SGC, but I think their early singles and this debut album have some great moments.
Kid Dynamite says
I’m curious where Poppy is going to go with industrial. My late 80s and early 90s were full of Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Ministry (before they went a bit shite metal), Front Line Assembly (before they went a bit shite metal), Revolting Cocks and their ilk.
Douglas says
My theory is that to be properly “industrial” (if you’re bothered at all by labels, of course) then the music has to be at least a teensy bit scary.
So, for RevCo: Big Sexyland LP, yes; Linger Ficken Good, no.
Poppy Succeeds says
Oh, good point. Around the mid-80s Foetus meant everything to me, and Diabolus in Musica was the one I used to play people to scare them.
Douglas says
Foetus always had promise, but I had the feeling his earlier stuff was slightly hampered by lack of studio effectiveness, was never quite as powerful or aggressive as he thought it should be.
Hole was where he really started to kick ass, but I always have a soft spot for Thaw: I read a review which said it sounds like the end of the world: I knew what the reviewer meant.
Poppy Succeeds says
Yes, I find Deaf and Ache pretty much unlistenable, but after Hole it’s five-star albums from that day to this. I reviewed his last album, Soak, on the pre-crash old site and although I can’t remember exactly what I said, I would have praised it to the skies, because it’s brilliant — as was Hide before that and Limb before that. He’s a bona fide genius in my opinion. I regret i’ve only seen him live once (but on the other hand it’s not his natural habitat.)
Kid Dynamite says
PRO TIP: Never take acid and then listen to Skinny Puppy’s Too Dark Park album. It was a genuine waking nightmare.
Poppy Succeeds says
Stop it. You’re making me want to skip ahead.
(Incidentally, I played hooky earlier with a bit of psy-trance. Before you knew it, I was listening to a stonking Cydonia remix of Front Line Assembly’s cover of Big Black’s Columbian Necktie — an almost perfect storm of my musical taste.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEe-dK5Zzfo
Poppy Succeeds says
Project temporarily on hold: my dalliance with Goa Trance has turned into a full-blown psybient affair, complete with steamy meetings under the parachute at the Whirl-Y-Gig tent.
Diddley Farquar says
Has Rob C taken over Poppy’s username?
Poppy Succeeds says
Oh, he likes a bit of Ambient Dub, does he? Where is he these days?
Diddley Farquar says
For a moment there it was as if his spirit spoke through you.
Some of these record selections take me back to 80s student indie discos. Front 242, Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Christine (Banshees and House of Love), This Corrosion. Happy unhappy nights.
Douglas says
So, @poppy-succeeds, in the words of the late great Eric, what do you think of it so far? What has this sonic experiment “taught” you, have you had any change in opinion or ideas about any of these artists, albums or genres?
I’d be genuinely interested to know. I’m conscious I’ve been throwing my own opinions into this perhaps too liberally, but this has easily been my favourite ever AW thread and I’m checking it daily for updates (very sad, I know).
So I’m really keen to know what’s been your own experiences of all this?
Poppy Succeeds says
Hey Douglas, thanks for being so nice. Mainly 1.) the stuff I liked as a young pup is the stuff I like best now, and the stuff I’ve bought since in order to fill gaps has felt a bit like homework. In other words, I got it right the first time round.
2.) I like something with a bit of rhythm, so more EBM and Goth than early TG and CV industrial.
3.) EBM is a far more influential genre than people give ti credit for (but then I’ve been saying that for years).
4.) Christian Death. Uh-huh.
5.) I don’t like Gene Loves Jezebel as much as I thought I did. Well, Immigrant I still do but the rest is a bit shit.
badartdog says
I know and like many acts mentioned in this thread. Ive seen many of them. Banshees during the Juju tour is probably the best gig I ever went to.
But Puh-lease – what does EBM stand for?
James Blast says
Electro Body Music, I think.
It’s a Belgian thing.
Poppy Succeeds says
Badartdog, EBM = Electronic Body Music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_body_music
I first came across it in 1988 via this album which I still think os my favourite compilation ever….
http://www.discogs.com/Various-This-Is-Electronic-Body-Music/release/102371
James Blast says
Evening @douglas, my you lot have been busy in my semi retirement, any room for:
(in no particular order)
James Rays Gangwar (lack of apostrophe at Eric’s behest)
The March Violets
Severed Heads
Test Department
Swans (ArtWank of thee highest order)
UK Decay
Van der Graaf Generator
Wire
23 Skidoo
Glen Branca
… and many more
Douglas says
There was of course that whole metal-bashing thing going on – Test Dept & SPK were the obvious ones, but folks like Depeche Mode got in on the act too.
I saw SPK live in 1983, and it was one of the most memorable gigs I’ve ever been to: huge chains being swung over the audience’s heads, oildrums being power-sawed with sparks causing the front few yards of audience to leap back, on-stage kendo, etc.
James Blast says
Nightmoves, I was there too man. We have document and eyewitness.
Douglas says
Glasgow City Council will be completing their Health & Safety assessment report any year now.
ip33 says
I saw SPK, Test Dept and Einstürzende Neubauten in a 12 month period around that time. Those three and The Smiths were my obsessions at the time.
And I managed to play EN over the Tannoy in Boots where I worked at the time, after hours otherwise I would have got the boot!
Poppy Succeeds says
Thanks for these, James. Some of them on the list. And you bettah know I love Swans.
(Not VDGG though.)
James Blast says
Oh you
Poppy Succeeds says
We’re back, and today’s line-up finds us leaving 1983 and cosying up to 1984. So….
Some Red Lorry Yellow Lorry BBC sessions from 1983.
23 Skidoo — The Culling Is Coming
The The — Soul Mining
Alien Sex Fiend — Acid Bath
.45 Grave — Sleep In Safety
Cabaret Voltaire — Micro-Phonies
Christian Death — Catastrophe Ballet
Cocteau Twins — Treasure
Coil — Scatology
The Cult — Dreamtime
Danielle Dax — Jesus Egg That Wept
A good line-up, that.
Ahh_Bisto says
1984
You’ll also need:
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Hole
Xmal Deutschland – Tocsin
The Cure – The Top
Tones on Tail – Pop
Dali’s Car – The Waking Hour
Fad Gadget – Gag
Coil – Scatology
Holger Hiller – Ein Bündel Fäulnis In Der Grube, from which s taken
Jonny Du Lump
Poppy Succeeds says
Thanks, AB.
The Coil album has been and gone, Foetus are my faves so you can be assured they’ll be appearing when I get that far (they would be in the S’s for that album), and what’s more I frickin LOVE Xmal Deutschland.
The one on your list that has passed me by is/was Dali’s Car. Despite the personnel (and didn’t they also have Holly Warburton covers a la Danielle Dax? I loved her work) I’ve never knowingly heard a note .
Ahh_Bisto says
Dali’s Car is more consciously arty than anything else in my list but tracks like Artemis and The Judgement Is The Mirror maintain something of the post-industrial Goth vibe about them if undoubtedly more refined.
I’ve remembered another one from 1984, another Sheffield band and another post-CV influenced outfit!
Hula – Murmur
Here’s the closing track, Cold Kiss
Ahh_Bisto says
Nope, I’be posted Hour by Hour
Here’s Cold Kiss
Poppy Succeeds says
All new to me, AB. Ta much!
Ahh_Bisto says
Some more from ’84 Poppy! Soz
A few years ago I was asked to review a series of Gina X re-releases including her ’84 album Yinglish. She was definitely the Hollywood glamour/one ye of the dance-floor end of post-industrial music but I like her style and her ear for melody goes really well with Xmal Deutschland and that Germanic pop sensibility that infuses some of the best EBM
Poppy Succeeds says
Oh, and, ‘Today is the first of September!!!!’
(One for the industrial fans there.)
Douglas says
Where are those up arrows when you need them?
You’ve just reminded me about a connected anniversary which happens tomorrow (not WW2 in case you’re wondering) – watch out for a blog post.
Poppy Succeeds says
I’ve lost interest in chronology, it;s too restrictive so I’m going freestyle.
Thus, today:
Skinny Puppy — Remission
The Damned — Phantasmagoria
Marilyn Manson — Portrait Of An American Family
Danielle Dax — Inky Bloaters
James Blast says
Excuse me whilst I run riot!
World Domination Enterprises – Asbestos Lead Asbestos
Implog – Holland Tunnel Dive
Intaferon – Get out of London
Curve – everything and anything, they’re just great
New Order – Movement, stop here
PWEI – anything and everything, they’re just ace
Shriekback – Care thru Big Night Music
Teh JAM-C – Psycho and Barbed
Teh Sisters Of Mercy – where do I start? ask me @poppy-succeeds
EatB – Crocs to Porc, then stop
Loop – absolutely everything, eh @douglas
Cindytalk – tread carefully, they’re a bit abrasive
Napalm Death – various but mainly Scum, what a punch to the throat that album was!
that’ll do for now
Poppy Succeeds says
Good stuff, James. The first two are single tracks, but they’re impressive choices.
Intaferon, I haven’t heard of. Nor Cindytalk.
Curve — yes, they should be on the list. Maybe Loop. But I draw the line at PWEI and Napalm Death. I love them both but I don’t think they belong here. Nor New Order.
Everything else is on, apart from Shriekback.
James Blast says
disappointed 🙁
James Blast says
God! I love it when you’re domineering 😀
Poppy Succeeds says
Yes, I give myself a free pass on this of all threads.
By the way. Being an early Haçienda favourite, your Implog suggestion has made me wonder if Section 25 should rightly be on this list.
Plus I’ve realised I forgot to include Swans. 🙁
Douglas says
Am I allowed to be all early-1980s and suggest a cassette album? In fact a 5-album set?
Rising From The Red Sand was in retrospect a fine way to start exploring the delights of industrial, experimental and electronic music. I mean, just look at this tracklist;
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Rising-From-The-Red-Sand/release/620119
Poppy Succeeds says
Jeepers, that’s a cracker.
(God, wasn’t post-punk great!? Springing off in all kinds of weird and wonderful directions…)
James Blast says
No! It wasn’t, pubs closed at 11pm or you had to go to a club. I ended up in Henry Africa’s one night, that’s how shite it was!
Ahh_Bisto says
Have you thought about early Ultravox, pre Ur Midget?
Maximum Acceleration from Systems of Romance
Douglas says
Hi @poppy-succeeds @james-blast @ip33 @disappointmentbob @black-celebration @retropath2 @kid-dynamite @deviant808 @paulwright @locust @hawkfall @allium-sativum @badartdog @ahh_bisto
I’ve made a Spottylist from as much of the above as i can find on the Swedish Streaming Mafia – not so much Clock DVA, Sex Gang Children (sorry James) or TG. And of course you can forget about getting any Coil other than on the Threshold House site or else paying through the nose for 2nd hand stuff.
Let me know if this works or not – I’m not very good at this Spotify sharing malarkey.
Black Celebration says
Thank you, Douglas.
Kaisfatdad says
Blimey Douglas! A 61 hour playlist. Respect!
The AW ones I’ve done are minnows compared to this blue whale.
Deviant808 says
Been away so only just seen this, but it nevertheless deserves some appreciation! Nice one @douglas!
James Blast says
Fuckin’ ‘ell you’ve been busy man!
Douglas says
801 tracks of lovely lovely industrial goth yumminess. 55 hours – that’s 2 1/2 non-stop days (or, perhaps more appropriately, half a dozen nights) – of the sort of music which doesn’t really get a look-in elsewhere on this site.
Oh, and that Intaferon track you recommended? It’s on the Mary-Kate and Ashkey Olsen Movie OST – I’m sure I’ve seen that album in your room, alphabetically arranged between March Violets and Megadeth?
Kid Dynamite says
That is a fine effort, @douglas. Thanks
Poppy Succeeds says
Fantastic, thanks so much, Douglas!
James Blast says
801 Live is one of my Top 10 Ellpees of all time.
Tiggerlion says
Sometimes, James, you are soooo on the money!
Wilson Wilson says
As someone who’s dipped his toes into the shallow end of some of the stuff mentioned here, I’ve been enjoying this thread, and that spotify playlist is exactly what I need to dig deeper. Cheers @douglas!
James Blast says
Chris Connelly should be in here – spotify:album:2wnLDBXRUzto3PfNiTRA2j
there will be more
James Blast says
… and early early Tangerine Dream, or is that pushing the boat out too far?
Poppy Succeeds says
Oh yeah, no Finitribe yet.
James Blast says
or proper RevCo and if you want really Goth the very wonderful Type O Negative
Poppy Succeeds says
On my list, RevCo first appear in 1993, Finitribe in 1991.
Type O Negative. Yeah. I only know one song of theirs, called Everyone or Everything Dies but it’s a cracker, like death metal vocals with doomy guitars. That’s Chris Connelly too, is it?
James Blast says
Nup! Poor (now) dead Pete Steele or The Kurgen as me and my mates called him. 🙁
And yeah, it’s Everything Dies (as he proved far too early), check out the October Rust album, it splits fans but I love it, especially Green Man.
James Blast says
Oh wait a minute, there’s also Everyone I Love is Dead from a later album – World Coming Down.
It’s good too.
Poppy Succeeds says
I have a full day of listening tomorrow, back on the chronological track and moving from 1984 to 1985 with….
Front 242 — No Comment
Gene Loves Jezebel — Immigrant
Sex Gang Children — (relevant selections from Execution & Elegance, inc. Beast, Dieche etc.)
Siouxsie & the Banshees — Hyaena
SPK — Machine Age Voodoo
Xmal Deutschland — Tocsin
À; Grumh… — Mix Yourself
Alien Sex Fiend — Maximum Security
Clan Of Xymox — Clan Of Xymox
The Damned — Phantasmagoria
The Cult — Love
Die Krupps — Entering The Arena
Einstürzende Neubauten — Halber Mensch
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel — Nail
Douglas says
I never realised that The Cult’s Resurrection Joe was a non-album song – I love this OGWT rendition, meatier than the studio version, and featuring some final whistling by Ian A around the 3 min mark –
Douglas says
Foetus – the final track on Nail (Anything) was once described to me by a friend as the perfect song to listen to whilst drunk – “I can do any goddamned thing i want!”
James Blast says
Can’t remember if my guid friend Dougal loaded this for youse earlier, but this is a really keen talk by David Keenan (no pun intended) all serious fuck ups should listen to – https://www.dropbox.com/s/pc70gbfw3uxe4g4/04%20David%20Keenan.mp3?dl=0
@douglas, @poppy-succeeds, @kid-dynamite, @wilson-wilson, @ip33, @ahh_bisto, @allium-sativum, @black-celebration, @retropath2 and @disappointmentbob
If I missed anyone, sorry.
James
Ahh_Bisto says
I think ’85 was the first time I heard Whitehouse. A troll before the Internet age. They don’t make ’em like that any more.
Some big hitters: The Cure’s The Head On The Door, New Order’s Low-Life, JAMC’s Psychocandy, BAD’s This is BAD, Killing Joke’s Night Time
A couple of lesser known additionss:
Gerechtigkeits Liga – Hypnotischer Existenzialismus
Controlled Bleeding – Knees and Bones
Rhythm & Noise – Chasms Accord
I really like Chasms Accord. It’s similar territory in some respects to what Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard were doing with Dead Can Dance, feels like it should be on 4AD rather than on The Resident’s Ralph record label but it’s more explicitly modern in outlook and much more of a mixed bag, tracks blending into one another from ambient through to industrial. It’s always accessible, has great production and sounds like it could have been released only yesterday.
Schismatic
James Blast says
Is this it? We haven’t even explored the multi-faceted Pigbag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9_enhs9ro
Poppy Succeeds says
Today I’m in the mood for…
Big Black — Songs About Fucking
Front 242 — Front By Front
Ministry — Land Of Rape And Honey
Nitzer Ebb — That Total Age
Skinny Puppy — Too Dark Park