thanks to the double foetus placing in the 80's poll, lets poll all (ok most) of the foetus/foetus related full length releases (yes compilations included)

I kind of hate male. Rife is infinitely superior IMO.

^^^ this

Acoleuthic, to me your top ten list represents some kind of equation to demonstrate how the 80s created Blur.

dude I got a lot of love for Blur but if they were spawned by that lot they'd have been roughly seventy times better than they were. we're talking about my ex-favourite band here btw

like, add Melvins, Slayer, Buttholes and Big Black and there's maybe a recipe for Mr Bungle in there, or perhaps take it forward a few more years, blend that lot and hey presto late-period Ulver but nothing really follows from combining them. Actually, Blood Inside isn't the worst shout...

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HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a “neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear”. Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell’s twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.

Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music.
Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell’s Manorexia ensemble on violin. In addition Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).

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01. Cosmetics
02. Paper Slippers
03. Stood Ups
04. Here Comes The Rains
05. Oilfields
06. Concretes
07. The Ballad of Sisyphus T. Joness
08. Fortitudine Vincimuss
09. You’re Trying To Break Mes
10. O Putrid Suns

the samples sound fucking fantastic.

* Venture Brothers Soundtrack (2009) J. G. Thirlwell

available to non-US'rs now, and so currently getting a neighbour troubling airing.

according to john zorn : "this is great music"

he is of course, OTFM

today i gained new neighbours.

today i am in a bad mood.

today 'thaw' sounded perfect.

hello new neighbours, welcome.

i will of course go round over the weekend and say hello and intro myself.

however, they are v. young/beautiful/hipster looking, so rather jealous/scared of them.

i hate the whole new neighbour groove.

my next conquest. two songs into Hole and it's covered quite a lot of ground musically.

"Lust for Death" like industrial/rockabilly plus the clever parody title.

also it namedrops me, Neanderthal.

Nail is queued up after.

loving these revives, enjoy! Hole is my fave but I've never heard a bad one

"Street Of Shame" is my fave jam from Hole

a lyrical tour-de-force as well, just endlessly quotable lines throughout the whole thing

thanks! i don't even remember what sent me down this rabbit hole, other than having gone through a heavy but brief EBM/industrial phase that wasn't fully realized back in my late 20s, where I only got to scratch some surface-level itch. maybe it was the Cosey Fanni Tutti thread bump the other day. probably that.

back to this album, now we have blues-industro pastiche in "Sick Man". lord, so many genres touched on. how does one man have all this power?

omg the "ooma mow wow" Bird is the Word send-up on "Satan Place"...

I listened to Foetus religiously during my late teens/early 20s, still kind of enjoy it when I hear it, and had NEVER picked up on the fact that Lust For Death is a parody title of Lust For Life. Now I've been set straight!

Hole is fantastic. I don't really get Nail but it's worth hearing. Then you can skip the 90s and head straight for 00's Foetus, which is pretty much all good stuff all the time