TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

yeah, but part two is so much better, later in the album, when the lyrics come in...

[i]I'm SPENT
(I wish you were gentler)
SPENT
(You can't taste any mintier)
SPENT
(It's awllll an illusion!)
SPENT
(SO MUCH CONFUSION!)[/i]

aw, you're just making that up.

"Seminal krautrock blues riffs from the mysterious master himself, Denny Vertigo! Call us crazy, but we detect some Afropop influence as well! OUTTASITE!"

Still worth picking up though, only $135.

http://www.vertigobliss.com/images/dennyrocksit80sstyle.jpg

d4n s3lz3r was trying to do a proper cd release through acute, but vertigo's unreliability coupled with legal issue over ownership has pretty much stalled the whole thing.

DENNY VERTIGO
Move The Warm Bodies
(Futurismico, 1981)
** 1/2

Apparently inspired by both Gary Numan and Alice Cooper's attempt to become new wave, Vertigo did his best to come to grips with the bleeding edge of 1981 on Move the Warm Bodies. As has become legend, the album itself was never released due to a dispute with the UK art label he had signed with at the time -- owner Tarquin St. Chives refused to do any promotion for the album outside of getting heroin-addicted models to slump over some bulldozers. The eventual rerelease of the album by Vertigo years later shows that despite his claims of thwarted artistic merit, Move was truly only half successful at its task. Starting off with a song called "Urethra Uniroyal" that sought to find the hitherto unknown links between the Stooges and Duran Duran was probably not the best idea, while "I Beat the Machine" and "Your Robot Thigh" were simply laughable, though the break on the latter with orgiastic voices chanting "Grunt the suck" over bleepy arrangements borrowed happily from early Depeche Mode singles is, if nothing else, unique. "Computer Reptile" signalled a better second half, though, and Thomas Dolby's guest work on synth, one of his lesser-known studio session jobs before his own breakthrough, add a necessary something to the otherwise trudging demi-epic "Gonfal, the Barbarian of the Motherboards." Still, this is a curio for only the truly dedicated Vertigo fan, though it has to be said that the liner notes are particularly fine.

S: "The Crimson Curtain" and "Bury The Wand, Burn The Water"
D: that one semi-hit from the early 80s with that horrible PLOOM PLANG Linn drum machine beat

Insound has a copy -- only $120!

orgiastic voices chanting "Grunt the suck" over bleepy arrangements borrowed happily from early Depeche Mode singles is, if nothing else, unique.

Hahaha, too true -- it's obvious that "Dreaming Of Me" didn't leave Vertigo's turntable around the time of those studio sessions.

"forest of fate"? i think that's the one that chuck writes about in stairway to hell.

Recently picked up this old Luciano tune from when he was recording as Shy Guy that samples "Foreign Shocks". It's a monster, from around 97 I think, has that kind of bouncy, elasticy early Klang Elektronik/Playhouse sound, samples the "what is this foreign shock/is our culture about to stop" line but picthed down with a load of delay, it could easily fit into say an Ada or Daniel Bell set.. I'll try and YSI in a bit.

I've heard that tune, and while I'm no authority, I'm pretty sure he was actually sampling an old Egyptian Lover track that sampled "Foreign Shocks." (I don't remember the name of it, sorry.)

don't forget vertigo's brief stint at the navajo sweat lodge. word has it jim seals and dash crofts were there that week too. they went down there to clean up and by the second day it was a veritable smorgasbord of coke, pot, shrooms, peyote, mescaline, and ludes.

anyone know anything about this?

d4n s3lz3r was trying to do a proper cd release through acute, but vertigo's unreliability coupled with legal issue over ownership has pretty much stalled the whole thing.

You got that wrong. I was only interested in the stuff from the disco/new wave years, but Futurismico sold the rights to Cherry Red, who had great success using "I Beat the Machine" on one of their jock-jam UK football compilations. Apparently is was big with Arsenal? Maybe another team, I don't remember. But now they're asking too much to license it.

Leeds United. Kevin Blackwell's a big fan apparently.

sorry, I just get excited sometimes

& I did that vinyl transfer myself, buddy. should have left the clicks in.

Alex in NYC can pull the brakes but he can't stop the train

i don't know about that, it's a rare record and there was a big problem for a long time with fake bootlegs of Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia popping up (not quite as much as in the early 90's though). but from what i've read about the LP that YSI file it matches the descriptions completely. though prolly some in Vertigo's camp don't ever want it reissued!

"Not bad just not worth the absurd import prices."

Like I told Ian upthread, you have to hear "Narwhal Curiosity" from the Sledding Daze LP!