Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel

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. :-)

haha .. I thought that was the case, but still, you were clearly determined this year !

david tibet's a miserable sort tho ;)

― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, September 1, 2015 10:54 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the doc is a pretty wide array of different specimins of miserable sorts!

test depts. young communist drag clothes really cracks me up for some reason, the live footage of them is amazing tho

david tibet is a bit trenchant in this

foetus zings him nicely

i kinda like current 93 but i dunno all this stuff it's hard to know where it ends and all that death in june/boyd rice shit begins, which creeps me out

I feel pretty good about tibet in that regard

yeah they cut ties in the late 90's iirc? when DIJ got kicked off of World Serpent...

haha .. I thought that was the case, but still, you were clearly determined this year !

your turn next year!

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

in case anyone was waiting for feedback on this statement : it is very very special.

big band noise vs old school jim vocals.

yes, he did something new with it. first cover version of it i have thought was any good for eons.

phew !
was a little worried given your declared concerns.
got SLUNG on headphones v.v. loud at the moment.
it really is stunningly brilliant.
for all the crap re Sony/GASH, for SLUNG alone it was worth it.

need to check it out as i've never heard that one. i hadn't listened to any foetus in a while but dug out "deaf" and "ache" last week. so fresh!

SLUNG = 11 minutes of big band FOETUS.
need i say anymore.
its insanely good.
and i have never heard DEAF/ACHE as i have always assumed they would be crappy lo-fi experiences.
HOLE/NAIL = 24 track + fairlight (NAIL) ..

WHAT

dude I will mail you CDRs if you email me your address

Ache is especially amazing and essential

haha ! cheers sleeve ..

(thumbs up icon)

I was just listening to Vein when I saw this thread revived. I've spent quite a bit of time this month listening to Calamity Crush/Catastophe Crunch. So good, especially the latter. Do you think that was made with a fairlight then? Obviously it sounds like it but how did he have access to one?

I think he rented it?

In the 80s were you eyeing up Fairlight CMIs when they were released, or did you know such budgets would be out of reach and so made the best you could with the tools available?

JGT: I used the Fairlight extensively on Nail. Fairlight had its own onboard computer and sequencing. Within a couple of years it was almost obsolete for me as I moved on to the first generation of Akai S-series samplers and an Atari computer, among other things. Those were my weapons of choice on Thaw, but the difference was I had those for pre-production, whereas the Fairlight I was using while the studio clock was ticking. Again I think there was a big shift between Nail and Thaw.

from

http://thequietus.com/articles/06354-foetus-jg-thirlwell-interview

Yeah, ACHE is essential and I consider it more or less as good as the following two albums. DEAF is closer to "crappy low-fi exerience" for sure but still worth yoir time.

the "deaf" version of "today i started slogging again" is so great!

lots of fairlight sounds on "calamity crush / catastrophe crunch". whatever his faults, one thing stevo was great at was coming up with the recording (and packaging) budgets for some bizzare releases back then.

that bloody tQ interview ;-)

(for a few weeks me and jim proper fell out over a question i asked prior to the end result ..)

in fact, if you listen to "tesla girls" by OMD you'll had a few of the same fairlight library sounds as used on "calamity crush".

mark I did not realize that was you! nice work.

also, not done any interviews since.
felt like i had peaked with jim.
he was the top of the tree (other than bowie of course!) for me.

xp.

Not Jeff Lynne? haha. I just reread that interview. Cool.