We used "Coelocanth" as intro music for one of our school projects in high school ^_^
― so says i tranny ben franklin (HI DERE), Monday, 21 September 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Monday, 21 September 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Monday, 21 September 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Monday, 21 September 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― vulva eyes (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 September 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Alfred if you get to wanting to backtrack a bit, track down 'Hand On My Heart' and 'Party Line' off the previous alb.
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Monday, 21 September 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Monday, 21 September 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
No blood, no guts, no brains at all!!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 03:26 (fifteen years ago) link
hi these guys own
― NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
so much so much
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
New album, "Life In The Loading Bay" coming soon!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 19 November 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
<3
― master of retardment (ENBB), Friday, 19 November 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― The Great Cool Lulu who sleeps in Riley... (dog latin), Friday, 19 November 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Loading Bay is pretty damn good. Dare I say their best since Big Night Music. Carl marsh back in the fold.
― jimmy_chop, Friday, 7 January 2011 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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 !)
― mark e, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I can hook you up with that, though it's only marginally worth it.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
"Flowers of Angst" has some insidious Oil & Gold-era catchiness to it despite having practically nothing else in common with that version of Shriekback
― 'lol u stuck with me now watch this ass expand, joeks on u' (DJP), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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 EDITIONwe'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...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 28 March 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
WAHT carl marsh is back? And there's a new record?
This is why it's exciting to go on ILM hiatuses sometimes...
― the worst thing Narada Michael Walden has ever been associated with (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― this country is domed (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8nfFypyAQY&feature=related
― "HUH?" (admrl), Sunday, 26 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
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'
― mark e, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Friday, 12 April 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
I go through phases where all I want to do is hear "All Lined Up" and "My Spine (Is The Bassline)" on endless repeat
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 12 April 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
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 ..
― mark e, Friday, 12 April 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
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 ..
― mark e, Friday, 12 April 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
The probably wouldn't have released "Nemesis" as a single had they become properly popular
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 12 April 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
otoh maybe I could have heard "Malaria" played on the local top 40 station
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 12 April 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
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 .. )
― mark e, Friday, 12 April 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 12 April 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 12 April 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
i hated that cover version ..
― mark e, Friday, 12 April 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
I like to pretend that entire album never happened
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 12 April 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't it time for a new album? Any word?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 12 April 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTvFRfTRWpY&fmt=22
― MaresNest, Sunday, 9 February 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the tip, since artists moved to Facebook I never remember to check their sites!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 9 February 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
this is my groove tonight
― mark e, Friday, 4 April 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
That new collaboration from Barry, Anaxaton6, is utterly brilliant. Barry keeps cranking out great music, life is good.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 4 April 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Just looked that up on Spotify, thanks. Cover looks promising.
― Myth or it didn't happen (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 April 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
I too first heard of them seeing manhunter, thought that was a pretty badass soundtrack.
― brimstead, Friday, 4 April 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Friday, 4 April 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
Shriekback have reissued "Jam Science" (mastered from vinyl) with bonus tracks and a bonus Live At The Hatfield disc. Get it at shriekback.com!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
best revive of the day
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
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 !
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
It's a pressed CD as opposed to a soon-to-die CDR, so I'm in. I have that old version too and will compare.
What was on that 3 track cdr?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link