It must be years since I first saw that title listed somewhere and it has remained my all-time favourite title of any art form of any description. For that, FOPI rool. And I've never heard it or owt else by them.
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― michelle, Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
MarxyBoy
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― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
Cuz IOF would win easily.
Or Citizen Fish -vs- Schwarzenegger!
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link
It might be a tie.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago) link
Crass Flux Subhumans Rudimentari Peni Discharge Conflict
But that's just today. If I slept on it my answer might be different.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 April 2004 08:09 (twenty years ago) link
― karie jenk (77 rudiments to reject), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
IF ANY SPARK OF LIFE BE YET REMAINING, DOWN, DOWN TO HELL, AND SAY I SENT THEE THITHER!!!
Never liked early Flux. I like 'Fucking Cunts' but my copy was the One Little Indian reissue without the lyrics - kinda pointless. Still wish I hadn't sold it.
What I like almost as much as the Peni is the post-FOPI album by Flux called "Uncarved Block". Very different, Adrian Sherwood and On-U Sound people participate and the music also has a lot more melody and color.
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― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 6 February 2006 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
i heard rudimentary peni for the first time this weekend. it fucked me up! the album "cacophony" woah nellie what a crazy record....
i had no idea shit like that was going on in the UK then, it totes gets written out of history....crazy talk.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
seriously like i had no idea hardcore continued on in the UK....you never heard about it, esp. this which is beyond twisted art/metal/hardcore/strangeness....it would seem to fit in better with what was happening in the US, late SST and touch & go and shit...but i thought everyone just stopped at a certain point in the UK...
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah seriously! it's very overlooked.
― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
"Flux of Pink Indians" is such a great name!
― roxymuzak, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
RFI - Crusty punk
― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
good stuff. grindcore wouldn't have existed without this kind of music.
― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
it's true!
― J0hn D., Monday, 31 March 2008 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Cacophony is teh bestest, but I see I said that here already. There is so much detail in that album.
― sleeve, Monday, 31 March 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
death church!
― chaki, Monday, 31 March 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
listen to chaki
― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
RP have a new album out in about a month and I'm sorry to say it pretty much sucks :(
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 31 March 2008 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
hasn't that been true of most of the second incarnation RP releases?
i need to get EPs of RP on cd. goddamn, they were so good.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Peni4evah.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 07:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Hardcore punk never really stopped in the UK, it was/is mostly hated/ignored by music critics which explains why it was written out of music history, and the fanbase was pretty small compared to the USA etc, so it just carried on as an underground scene.
I can't easily pick one of these 2 bands! I was playing them both yesterday.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
-- latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 18:44 (Yesterday) Link
yeah when we were listening to it, other than being sort of blown away like what IS this kind of music? i was thinking that it sort of occupies that weird nexus of punk/hardcore/metal in a way that i thought only U.S. stuff like late black flag or die kreutzen and stuff did.....did the Bay Area thrash bands like these guys? i swear metallica or slayer or someone did....
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay woah woah woah. Back up. I am totally flipping over Rudimentary Peni right now. Got three albums of theirs now and yowza. Don't even know where to begin with the brilliance on display here.
Do you know they even have a song called "Black President"?
Bimble's goth heart is totally beating <3 <3 <3 <3
Check out the lyrics for "The Eyes Of The Dead":
"Seeing with the eyes of the dead/Reliving the lives of the dead/Living with the lies of the dead/Dreaming (breathing??) with the cries of the dead"
I don't know if I've got all these lyrics right, necessarily, but that is some heavy, heavy goth right there, regardless, and it ought to be respected.
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Also they are way, way punk rock. I don't want to give the impression they're not.
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
What 3 did you buy? EPs of RP, Death Church, and Cacophony are the only essentials.
I wrote my 33 1/3 proposal on Cacophony this time. Wish me luck!
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
haha awww. I'm cheering on other 33 1/3 hopefuls already haha. Yes of course I wish you luck!
The three I have of RP are Death Church, No More Pain EP (god what a title!!! I worship that shit), and the "EP's of RP" which I haven't really dug into much yet.
Where is Colonel Poo I wonder? He likes to talk about this band.
The way I feel about Rudimentary Peni is it's like early Death In June (when they were called Crisis and really punk) but like improved by three times or something.
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
"Being brave won't save me from the grave". Christ, even metalheads should hear this."The Death of The Author" is what it's called.
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Death Church is my favorite punk album ever. Cacophony is simply one of my favorite albums ever. It's the anomaly in their catalog in that it was primarily written by Blinko about H.P. Lovecraft. Musically, it also stretches the furthest.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Just full on punk rock sometimes, so strange that I could get that far into a punk band. I adore them. I'll check out Cacophony, thanks.
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.goodbadmusic.com/2008/02/12/magits-fully-coherent-7ep-outer-himmilayan-records-uk-1979/
pre-peni crude synth plonkin'
― GOD PUNCH TO DALE HAWKWINDS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 February 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Death Church was a 'best of both worlds' type album for metalheads who wouldn't listen to stuff this punky and punks who wouldn't listen to stuff this metally. Plus i mean "when you're in a martian church"!!!
― Ballistic, Friday, 19 February 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
it seems like cacophony is fucking impossible to find on vinyl. :(
― El GarBage (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
New ep and reissues on the way from Sealed Records!https://www.punknews.org/article/74088/sealed-records-to-re-issue-rudimentary-peni-discography
― ringworm, Saturday, 20 February 2021 07:17 (three years ago) link
awesome
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
Sealed records is a side-label of La Vida Es Un Mus, this is really good news because Paco the guy who runs that label is a total lifer and this isn't a reissue for money he really loves this stuff
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
Excellent news! Southern records reissues seemed a bit dubious quality-wise.
― jvc, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
Southern were a pretty shitty label for a lot of reasons towards the end.
I wonder if this means the Alternative LP on Corpus Christi might end up getting reissued at some point, Sealed have already put out a reissue of the Omega Tribe LP. I know Overground records were planning to reissue Alternative but Southern wanted too much money to license it.
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
love all those pics of the OG Ampex tapes in that Insta
It would be super cool if they reissued the first 2 EPs in original 7" packaging
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
awesome news! I'm hoping they reissue Archaic 10", I missed that one.
― braised cod, Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
So is this yet another mastering to compare?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
yes but I have a lot more faith in this one tbh
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
missed getting the last batch. so hopefully catch up with these.& the Crass titles are reappearing in more comprehensive fashion too.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
Rudimentary Peni has a new album 'Great War' out today (and on streaming services)! Quick listen tells me it's a bit more varied than the last few releases and the singer uses his voice a lot more. Apparently this was recorded several years ago but shelved until now.
― braised cod, Friday, 23 April 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
wait WHAT
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 April 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
it's another EP tbf!
― imago, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link
Just read that someone is wearing a Rudimentary Peni t-shirt in Oscars nominated movie Sound of Metal
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
The rule with RP is: if it's an EP it'll be decent hardcore, if it's an LP it'll be earthshattering brilliance
― imago, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
xp that is correct, a Cacophony shirt, he also wears Youth Of Today and Neubauten shirts, total hipster bait and a pretty good movie
― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Friday, 23 April 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
reissues of old stuff are coming this year too starting with Death Church!
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Friday, 23 April 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
WHEN YOU ARE A MARTIAN CHURCH
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 April 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
listening to a bit of the new one atm. some excellent guitar tones
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Friday, 23 April 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
I'm into it. just bought a copy from LVEUM
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 24 April 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I just assumed this had to do with Sound of Metal.
I've never heard them.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 April 2021 02:13 (three years ago) link
Peni is great
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Saturday, 24 April 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
this sounds fucking great
― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Saturday, 24 April 2021 02:34 (three years ago) link
awww this is awesome. their production is always great as it's raw but the riffs cut through with clarity
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Saturday, 24 April 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
"Crimson Sun" fucking rules
it totally does, that one really stood out to me on first listen
― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Saturday, 24 April 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
i don't think I expected to enjoy this as much as I am enjoying this
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Saturday, 24 April 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
the guitar sound is so great in this
― braised cod, Saturday, 24 April 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
just bought Nick Blinko's book The Primal Screamer. 2021 is the year of Rudimentary Peni apparently
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 24 April 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
Just read that someone is wearing a Rudimentary Peni t-shirt in Oscars nominated movie Sound of Metal― curmudgeon, Friday, April 23, 2021 9:07 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
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Honestly the first I had ever heard of RP
― jaymc, Saturday, 24 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
Am hoping that the Death Church reissue comes in the large foldout poster/sleeve.
― ringworm, Saturday, 24 April 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
Can only buy the new reissues through bandcamp?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
Oh, they're not out yet
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 12 June 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
More art bookshttps://zagava.de/shop/the-sketchbooks-of-nick-blinko?edition=52
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 October 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
reissue of Death Church LP coming soon on Sealed, they will also be reissuing the 1st 7" EP next year
― sleeve, Friday, 1 October 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
Death Church reissue is up for order via Sealed records.
― ringworm, Friday, 3 December 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
sealedrecordsPlus forthcoming for 2022 and Beyond
SEAL-016 CHIN CHIN - Cry In Vain LP (Compilation including unreleased BBC Session)SEAL-017 BIKINI MUTANTS - Bikini Mutants LPSEAL-018 VARIOUS - GROUCHO MARXIST COMPILATION LPSEAL-019 MODEL WORKERS - Cry 7"SEAL-020 RUDIMENTARY PENI - Cacophony LP, CD and TapeSEAL-021 ALTERNATIVE - If They Treat You Like Shit - Act Like Manure LPSEAL-022 RUDIMENTARY PENI - EPs of RP LP, CD and TapeSEAL-023 ORGANIZED CHAOS - LPSEAL-024 KARMA SUTRA - The Daydreams Of A Production Line Worker LPSEAL-025 TWELVE CUBIC FEET - Straight Out the Fridge 12”SEL-026 RUDIMENTARY PENI - Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric LP. CD and Tape
2023 - The rest of the RUDIMENTARY PENI Catalogue
Plus we are moving into the odd magazine and book. We are putting together a Rudimentary Peni Book/Magazine with Interviews, Gig handouts and more
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
Farce 12" reissue is coming on Crass/One little independent at some point too.
― ringworm, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link