Shriekback S & D

man I'm listening to "Faded Flowers" now & it's clear to me the debt I owe these cats for some of how I write, not sayin I'm as good as some of these jams (if yr mileage varies bless you, just clarifying) but I can hear the moves I copped from some of the jump-disjuncture points

We used "Coelocanth" as intro music for one of our school projects in high school ^_^

It was a v v heady liquor for a few Shriek albums there. I guess Barry Andrews kind of tried to 'patent' it a bit after that, to mixed results, but I still cut the later stuff a lotta slack.

J0hn my best friend t0m h4rt is a huge longtime stan of yrs and yr music writing is super fab, so I really hope to catch up on yr oeuvre sometime soon. Just gotta remember that when my eMu credits next refresh...

oh man tom h is the fuckin best! I always assume he is mad at me, we fell out of touch & I am neurotic

mainly just sitting here stanning out to shriekback on youtube now tbh

Naw he still <3's you dude. He's abt to have his 1st kid and he's got a new strip he's serializing on the Act-i-vate comix site.

He reviewed yr Sab book for C0mic5 J0urn4l but I don't think it's been printed yet...

Does video for nemesis have eels y/n

I never gave these guys a shot, in part because the combination of pedigrees didn't do much for me (love GO4 though). Thanks, J0hn and Dan -- "Faded Flowers" is pretty great.

Alfred if you get to wanting to backtrack a bit, track down 'Hand On My Heart' and 'Party Line' off the previous alb.

1st three albums are so good, Oil & Gold is a best-of-the-80's for me. I recently got a German pressing with a different cover, I should listen to that soon.

The odd post-punk-funk of the debut, "Care", seems really unique to me. Dave Allen's the master at the unfunky funk bass. I think it's all on "The Y Record Years" which is why I recommend that comp.

No blood, no guts, no brains at all!!

hi these guys own

so much so much

New album, "Life In The Loading Bay" coming soon!

<3

Have heard. I think I preferred Glory Bumps, but this band's current output is totally slept on. Like an industrial Nick Cave at a devil's banquet, menacing yet decadent.

Loading Bay is pretty damn good. Dare I say their best since Big Night Music. Carl marsh back in the fold.

Yeah, Carl's two vocal tracks are brilliant and insidiously catchy! I still have a great fondness for "Naked Apes And Pond Life", which appeared literally out of nowhere in 2000.

Would love to hear a remastered Oil & Gold, or just get the thing on vinyl.

First heard them (and was blown away) seeing Manhunter, with the long climax to "This Big Hush."

dug in the archives the other week as i had a memory of picking up Carls solo album (too much fun), but so far its location has eluded me (also, i'm not 100% i've actually got it !)

I can hook you up with that, though it's only marginally worth it.

"Flowers of Angst" has some insidious Oil & Gold-era catchiness to it despite having practically nothing else in common with that version of Shriekback

Agreed, it's one of my faves from the new album. Here's the latest on the 'deluxe' version from Malicious. This sort of thing really irks me as I wish they'd have told us this was coming in the first place:

SHRIEKBACK: VIDEO & TINNED EDITION
we're almost finished the shriekback video for flowers of angst from the album life in the loading bay - it's a maniacal mix of madnes, flowers and bloodshed and should be unleashed on youTube next week... the tinned edition of life in the loading bay will be available from monday 11th april, it'll have a bonus CDR of four extra tracks + four remixes, a cut-out & assemble loading bay theatre + assorted characters, a wallet of photos of loading bays through the ages/around the world and other assorted frippery...

WAHT carl marsh is back? And there's a new record?

This is why it's exciting to go on ILM hiatuses sometimes...

at the time of the release of oil & gold, i owned it on the strength of nemesis, but i don't think i ever really embraced the album then because i was uncomfortable with the overall aesthetic, especially all of the backup singers.

damn i was stupid. i've really enjoyed relistening to this lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8nfFypyAQY&feature=related

I don't know if it's still available, but that limited version of "Life In The Loading Bay" is great, some fantastic stuff on the bonus disc like "My Vast Behavior", plus I got a CDr of pre-Shriekback recording (interesting but hardly critical).

how the f*ck has 'jam science' not been reissued yet.

after my recent OD'ing on early era simple minds, i have to say, that their stuff has not a patch on jam science when it comes to the use of future funk science.

i.e. jam science = one of the best albums ever.

simple as that.

suspect there must be licening issues as they have recently sorted out te inferior 'oil and gold'

this band.
this band.
this band.

hand on my heart = all that is good about 80s leftfield pop. the bass. the synths. the backing singers. the weird ambience. the drum machine.

I go through phases where all I want to do is hear "All Lined Up" and "My Spine (Is The Bassline)" on endless repeat

yeah.
they had it totally locked down.
somewhere in the archive i have a live cd that they semi-officially released (i.e. available from barry direct .. )
going to have to dig it out tomorrow ..

also, they really pushed the whole era of major label budgets to the max.
the double 7"/12" packages.
the embossed sleeves (the fish !), the pic discs.
and yet, they still never got beyond their cult status ...
i do wonder what would have happened had they had a proper crossover hit a la simple minds ..

The probably wouldn't have released "Nemesis" as a single had they become properly popular

otoh maybe I could have heard "Malaria" played on the local top 40 station

interesting ...

i was thinking of them having a big hit post nemesis

i.e. that track laid the foundations of a big upswing in love for them ..

(well that and the love from michael mann .. )

I think ppl latched onto their cover of "Get Down Tonight" a little bit; that's the only post O&G song I can think of that would have had what I consider to be proper mainstream appeal

but then again I would have tried to get "The Only Thing That Shines" on the radio so I may not be the most reliable barometer of mainstream appeal

i hated that cover version ..

I like to pretend that entire album never happened

Isn't it time for a new album? Any word?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTvFRfTRWpY&fmt=22

Thanks for the tip, since artists moved to Facebook I never remember to check their sites!

I go through phases where all I want to do is hear "All Lined Up" and "My Spine (Is The Bassline)" on endless repeat

this is my groove tonight

That new collaboration from Barry, Anaxaton6, is utterly brilliant. Barry keeps cranking out great music, life is good.

Just looked that up on Spotify, thanks. Cover looks promising.

I too first heard of them seeing manhunter, thought that was a pretty badass soundtrack.

from wiki: Steve Rybin has commented that the music is not intended to correlate with the intensity of the action portrayed alongside it, but rather to signify when the viewer should react with a "degree of aesthetic distance" from the film, or be "suture(d) into the diegetic world" more closely.

Shriekback have reissued "Jam Science" (mastered from vinyl) with bonus tracks and a bonus Live At The Hatfield disc. Get it at shriekback.com!

best revive of the day

i just wonder if this is the same remastered version that barry was selling via the old site a few years albeit in very nice proper packaging this time around ?

at the time i got jam science, oil and gold, and the hatfield cd-rs altogether (with an extra 3 track cd-r of new material - which was rather fantastic. one track of which was then 'covered' by barrys kid in the veils)

so, i suspect that other than a couple of extras, this will probably sound the same, as again it's sourced from vinyl.

i haven't dug around, or checked .. guess i should !