Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel

after my youngest woke me up with 'pinch punch 1st of the month' this morning, i was determined to hit this thread.

of course, reading the news yesterday that jim is to release a new album, hide, kind of got me in gear

Am watching a LOT of awesome Foetus videos tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhU2RmbA5I

Like, tell me big-band jazz has been done better than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azTQ12nyW_c

slung is the best thing on gash by far.

big-bnad jazz has been done better than that

big-nad jazz has been done better than that

Today is the first of Septembah!

LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDre17rNvV0

i love this annual kick in the nuts to help remind us of jims excellence.

there aren't many records that mean as much to me as hole and nail do. there's an element of intense personal expression that i don't really get from his subsequent work. in an interview years ago he said something along the lines of feeling like he was going to die in the course of making each of these albums, such was the effort he was putting in to them.

so great

I listened to "Hot Horse" this morning in honor of the day.

Today is the first of Septembah!

so it is ....

Ach, missed it!

jim actually did the same thing on his official facebook page yesterday ..

made me laugh.

I was wondering about remasters and sound and stuff. Have wanted to get OKFM in decent sound for a while, I love the 3D intro section on that particular track. Subsequently wanted it in best possible sound.

Also would love a copy of Mother I Killed THe Cat. I had the single but every time I put it on tape the tape broke and I wondered if that was just coincidence.

Has anyone else noticed what feels like an unnaturally enormous number of used Foetus LPs out there in the world? I feel like I encounter Foetus as much as Carole King, or at least Poco.

you clearly have some interesting charity/used record shops as i have never ever come across any used foetus albums !

I have two Foetus related trivia questions of my own devising:

1. Which song by the Dickies is apparently sampled on which Foetus song?
2. What's the connections between Foetus and Phyllis Diller?

1. no idea
2. no idea

and i thought i was a fan !

more fool me.

i mean i could ask him, but he does not suffer fools gladly, and i am fearful that this would put me on the 'this f*cker needs to burn in hell pile !"

hole - nail - thaw

best trilogy ever ?

i think so.

just given them all a spin tonight and to say i got the same blood rush as i did back upon their release would be an understatement.

unbelievable stuff given the studio restrictions of the day ..

Male is maybe the best live album ever recorded.

i saw that tour

it was immense.

in london the support was gary clail and on-u sound.

which was perfect for me, but mad as a box of frogs for others.

and then when jim jumped into the moshpit and beat the living daylight out of one of the moshpit crew then the levels of intensity went up to a whole new level.

blood. violence. and elton john cover versions.

what more could you ask from a concert.

Yeah, it was an awesome tour right enough.

I remember hearing the album for the first show in Prong's tour bus - Troy Gregory was unusually proud of it.

Watch out for JG at 2:25 on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No2ukc5V4EM

i hope you guys vote for the Foetus albums in FORGET THE ROLLING STONE CANON HERE IS ILM'S HARD STICK OF 1980'S ROCK POLL ALBUMS/TRACKS VOTING THREAD. (Voting closes September 20) (all welcome to vote inc Lurkers)

In a Rolling Stones poll?

Has anyone else noticed what feels like an unnaturally enormous number of used Foetus LPs out there in the world?

― Clarke B., Sunday, September 2, 2012 9:50 AM (7 hours ago)

yeah, though ime it's mostly the "finely honed machine", "ramrod" and "bedrock" 12-inches, along w/ the wiseblood stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_52241cMx24

lols at the orange juice clip!

two albums announced today.

"JG Thirlwell will be releasing two albums on the same day on Ectopic Ents in early October 2013. The long awaited Foetus album, SOAK, which is a companion to 2010's acclaimed epic HIDE, will finally see the light of day. The 11 track album contains a ton of new material as well as the Foetus cover of "Warm Leatherette", a remix of "Cosmetics" by Secret Chiefs 3 and more. It continues and expands on some of the themes explored in HIDE and features guest appearances opera singers Abby Fischer and Natalie Galpern. In addition, JG Thirlwell's chamber soundtrack to the film "The Blue Eyes" will also be released. The original score was created for Eva Aridjis' Mexican-lensed thriller, and is performed with an ensemble including violin, viola, cello, french horn, contrabass, tuba and bass trombone in addition to piano, percussion and electronics. Both albums will be exclusively available through the website www.foetus.org, and digitally soon thereafter. We will be taking orders around the middle of September.
"

would have been perfect in a couple of days for ilm ..
but hey ..
these sound ace ..

yup, thought someone was posting prematurely. :-)

his version of "warm leatherette" had better be very special as that song has been covered to death.

i am actually looking forward to that version ..

i love how jim has totally embraced the new world and maintains complete control over his work.

he cant sell that many copies of each release, and yet he clearly has figured out how to make the online option work for his advantage.

of course, collabs with commercially viable options such as zola from time to time must help, but the fact remains, jim t has, against all the odds, forged, against all the odds, a rather cool way of dealing with the commercial world on his own terms.

"Today is the first of Septembah!"

:-)

:-)

I got Love a few months ago and it was fantastic. I've been looking for Nail for a while and wondering why the remaster copies are so expensive. Is it really worth getting the remaster?

There are about 17 albums on mp3. I'm still reluctant to get mp3's but they do have Nail for super cheap, presumably remastered.

have wondered the same ..
the original cds are quiet, but sound ok to me, so not that bothered re the remasters ..

I'm in Austria for the night. Best I could do, sorry

"Today is the first of Septembah!"

:-)

"Today is the first of Septembah!"

See you at your FUNERAL, baby

Sieg heil!

"Today is the first of Septembah!"

― stirmonster, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:00 (Yesterday)

someone was keen !

this was a cool watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhxXZa29FVE

o yeah that is very good, Coil footage as well

yeah this is cool

david tibet's a miserable sort tho ;)

someone was keen !

it was actually 00.00 uk time. :-)