Well, Billy Duffy didn't come along until Death Cult, and he's the strongest link in the chain. Still, Death Cult only put out...what...and E.P.? I'm going with the Cult.
Astbury loses point for both the Holy Barbarians and his currently shenanigans with "the Doors" (notice the quotation marks!)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 March 2003 21:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
four years pass...
Death Cult album called "Ghost Dance"! OH MY GUFGKING FOD?!!!!! I had the Southern Death Cult album as a teenager and I had "Love", but none of it is even half as good as this Death Cult CD. For the real, I have been gotherated and gothylized.
It's hard to beat the new Radiohead but wao this thing smacked me in my goth arse, this Death Cult. Ian Astbury, etc.
― Bimble, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:29 (sixteen years ago) link
one year passes...
five months pass...
eleven years pass...
I guess this thread makes the most sense for this...
PREORDER | LONG AWAITED COLLECTION FROM 80's POST-PUNK LEGENDS: GETTING THE FEAR"
Release Date: June 18, 2021
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The long-awaited collection of rare and unreleased recordings from the short-lived UK post-punk outfit Getting the Fear. Formed in 1983 following the demise of The Southern Death Cult, members Barry Jepson, Buzz Burrows and Aki Haq Nawaz Qureshi quickly regrouped with the addition of enigmatic lead singer 'Bee' Hampshire (Psychic TV, Into a Circle). Getting The Fear spent the next few years chaotically crashing through nightclubs with their disaffected sound before suddenly disbanding in 1985. Package design by JS Aurelius, mastered by Josh Bonati, and includes booklet with liner notes, archival photos, and lyrics.
It's testament to how fertile England's mid-80's musical landscape was that the splintering of short-lived post-punk pioneers Southern Death Cult seeded so many memorable but divergent groups – from widescreen rock legends The Cult to romantic pop duo Into A Circle to “the Asian Public Enemy,” Fun-Da-Mental. But the band's most potent subsequent cross-pollination was undoubtedly Getting The Fear, formed by The SDC's rhythm section of Barry Jepson, David 'Buzz' Burrows, and Aki Haq Nawaz Qureshi, joined by Temple Ov Psychic Youth associate Paul ‘Bee’ Hampshire on vocals.
Galvanized by Margaret Thatcher's “iron fist” austerity policies and the cultural liberation of punk, the group blazed to creative fruition, quickly landing a lucrative deal with RCA. But immediately after recording their 1984 debut single, Last Salute, a shake-up at the label left them stranded and without support. Rather than stall in music industry purgatory they chose to dissolve, escaping their restrictive contract. Bee's lyrics on “Last Salute” are fitting final words: “If this must end let it pass me by / I’ll remain your friend, only flowers die.”
But this is of course only part of the story. Death Is Bigger: 1984-1985 rectifies history's error, collecting the group's entire vault of demos and unreleased songs alongside liner notes and a photo gallery capturing Getting The Fear in all their high libertine glory. The compilation's 10 tracks are alternately brooding, spiky, and sneering, fixated on dreams, sex, and Charles Manson (the sleeve of Last Salute famously features a detail from Manson's embroidered waistcoat, unbeknownst to label execs). Razor wire guitars slice across tense rhythms, veering between minimal and melodic, occasionally flowering into psychedelic poetry, revealing Bee's deep affinity with Psychic TV.
Taken as a whole, the album showcases the breadth of forking paths facing UK post-punk in 1984: pop eating itself, new wave while still new, transgression as alternative not affectation. Getting The Fear's music feels eclectic and unfettered, following whim, lust, and impulse, glinting with darkness against the fires of youth: “The earth is still beneath my feet, I start to sink to lose myself / Friends and lovers stand around unconcerned, their eyes in flames.”
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