Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel

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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!"

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"Today is the first of Septembah!"

See you at your FUNERAL, baby

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― 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 ;)

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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.

haha.
well, yeah.
but the ELO thing only kicks in when i am drunk.

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

Curious about this, if you wouldn't mind expanding on the story...

(I went to his apartment to do an Invisible Jukebox with him for The Wire some years ago. Tremendously nice guy—at least, he is now that he's clean.)

ok, here goes, bear with me, as it was a crap idea.

basically, if you go to pantomime in the UK with kids the opening section is meant to scare the kids to death.
then as the pantomime progresses, good overcomes the evil, and all is well with the world.
hence the opening section of a decent panto is often full of kids screaming and being scared.
well, in my naivety, i put it to jim that the FOETUS groove was akin to panto.
i.e. its full on and rather scary to start with, but as you get in deeper then you realise the truth etc etc.
however, jim took offence to the use of the word pantomime.
he just thought it was all crap second rate slapstick (which most of it is !).
then after i explained my thought process, he pointed me in the direction of a tradition of french theatre thats seriously dark ..
and clearly a cousin of the original ideas behind the uk panto.

and yes, once we cleared the air, it became very apparent that jim is now one of the most warm, intelligent music makers out there.
just that my crappy inane shyte did not sit well with this deep thought groove.

Could've guessed he had a dim view of pantos:
"Look at all the ugly people
Diggin holes to pass the time
Semi spastic weak and feeble
Never ending pantomime"

ahh.
that's not a lyric i am aware of !
pre-HOLE material ?

Horrible/funny image in my head of Hot Horse being used as an end of panto singalong.

hang on .. its on FLOW.

(not that its easy to tell !)

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/798_10156693747130597_6189724996768498576_n.jpg?oh=9d1d2d24186c153da4d345d9b97de9d2&oe=57953072

"Today is the first of Septembah!"

the tradition continues.