Suicide: Classic Or Dud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Vrf-CjnLo

Glad i did get to see both suicide and the 5 piece Alan Vega Band in the mid 80s.

Would love to hear some Reverend B so wonder if there is anything recorded

A visionary, a provocateur, a poet. Life well spent.

somehow he/they still looked.. youthful, if not young even recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pYhH4nd7_c

can't believe he was 78. that's my parent's generation. pre-boomer punks are rare. debbie harry is 70, i think. he was born the same year as my mom.

This is a fantastic read (if you skip a little of the A.R.E. Weapons mythologising) - http://bombmagazine.org/article/3181/alan-vega

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=205&v=qCRTCqgAkfg

always did love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRTCqgAkfg

don't know why this isn't working on the last link

Charlie Harper is in his 70s too

RIP, an American original

From FB:

Over here on E Street, we are saddened to hear of the passing of Alan Vega, one of the great revolutionary voices in rock and roll. The bravery and passion he showed throughout his career was deeply influential to me. I was lucky enough to get to know Alan slightly and he was always a generous and sweet spirit. The blunt force power of his greatest music both with Suicide and on his solo records can still shock and inspire today. There was simply no one else remotely like him.

Bruce Springsteen

Nice. The Boss's version of "Dream Baby Dream" not too shabby.

Cheree's gotta be one of the most perfect songs ever

the twinkling piano melody that fades away and then comes creeping back in the last third of the song. the dynamics could not be better.

can't believe he was 78. that's my parent's generation. pre-boomer punks are rare. debbie harry is 70, i think. he was born the same year as my mom.

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He was only three years younger than Elvis.

Jet Black from the Stranglers is 77

Alan @ 21. Serious Sal Mineo vibe going on here.

http://imgur.com/a/tPRZj

http://i.imgur.com/gR6UawW.jpg

lol whatever happened to A.R.E. Weapons?

Vega was an inspiration

wow @ young alan vega

in other news, the suicide 'comeback' record from the mid 1980s is actually quite good, i've discovered this week

American Supreme is really good, too. Listening to it again now. (I reviewed it for Alternative Press when it came out.)

Surprised me that he was that old too. My mother was born that year too.

Haven't seen much of his artwork, is there a book or anything compiling images of it?

Love American Supreme. Intense.

I saw Martin Rev last night and he was definitely classic

another call for "american supreme" which i haven't listened to since it came out iirc. but i remember that it was very intense. "cubist blues" together with alex chilton and ben vaughn is even better. tribal night music going deep. what does ilm think of his last album, "it"? i will try to stream it tonight. it's a shame there is no alan vega thread here...

IT is excellent. You couldn't ask for a better final album. Marty's latest, otoh, is really too dense for me at the moment but will give it another listen soon.

So "Dream baby dream" is being used to advertise perfume. I should be annoyed but I'm not as now I am being reminded about how awesome it is.

But do I own it? Ah discogs tells me its in box 9 on the 2cd set "The Second Album"

"The Rip" by Portishead was used too recently for the same purpose. There's a perfume ad executive somewhere with alright taste. Classic btw.

a lost Alan Vega album out April 23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p63uxLCI260

Promising first track. Do we know when the songs were made?

95/96

Better than anything on Station imo and for the life of me I can't remember whether IT was any good or not.

xxxxp I heard Dream Baby Dream on a Marc Jacobs perfume advert last night

I was watching The Act the other day and surprised by the use of Surrender off Way Of Life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/arts/music/alan-vega-mutator-vault.html

"It’s the first in a planned series of archival releases, drawn from what the singer called “the Vega vault,” that will be issued by Sacred Bones Records. The vault, a vast catacomb of Vega’s writings, paintings, drawings and music, includes a cassette tape that Artaud calls “the Holy Grail of the archive”: a soundboard recording of Suicide’s September 25, 1971, performance at Lincoln Center."

Yeah, it's pretty unlikely the archive will surpass a recording of a '71 show.

uh wow

This is a fun and really interesting listen.

Heard "Nike Solider" off "Mutator" and really like it. I've never delved into his solo work, can anyone point me to the best stuff?

idk abt best but the first three are solid, and I love Etant Donnes so I appreciate Re-Up and Sniper as well, but haven't heard anything else

yea I like the first two a lot and the record he did with Alex chilton also great

classic

First three albums for sure, I really like Zero Hour too. In terms of collabs, Alex Chilton, the two PanSonic and the Revolutionary Corps of Teenage Jesus definitely.