(I already have "I Have A Special Plan For This World," but I have a feeling its not a very good example of his/their "normal" style.)
― Jess, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― James Annett, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― francesco, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew L, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jonathan, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― your null fame, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Elspeth McKee, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 6 February 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
― fffnnnsss, Saturday, 5 November 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― moley, Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Nope, I was getting it mixed up with some of those new live discs.
Well, Thunder Perfect Mind is pretty classic and it is in print in a new edition with extra disc on Jnana.
― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
If you can't find them there is also the recent compilation "Judas as a Black Moth" 2cd, albeit there is nothing there from the esoteric noise albums from their first decade, it's a good introduction to second decade apocalictic gnostic folk c93.
for a detailed discography: www.brainwashed.com/c93
― francesco brunetti, Monday, 3 April 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
I'll agree with other though that his voice is a major sticking point.
― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
great voice, great band
― badg (badg), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― twoheadedboy, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I must briefly use this thread to rant about the dreaded "World Serpent disc rot" which has ruined my copy of "Live At Bar Maldoror", at least the first two tracks. YOU FUCKERS! YOUR VINYL SUCKED AND SO DID YOUR CDs! HOW DARE YOU RUIN GOOD MUSIC! sigh...
OK, I feel better now. Anyway, buyer beware for older WS releases.
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Saturday, 3 June 2006 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/wspsp
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 3 June 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Haven't heard the new album, honestly having seven different versions of the same trad song doesn't appeal to me. Maybe they're short.
― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 3 June 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 3 June 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 3 June 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Black Ships is not your "play it in the car" album. As for the person who got bad vibes from what s/he'd heard from Dogs Blood Rising, it's *supposed* to give bad vibes. It's Tibet in his "evil" period, and probably the best album from that one.
Personally, I think the B-side of Looney Runes, Lucifer Over London, and the Inmost Light series are quite excellent.
Now, destroy... Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God is a tad weak. Not bad, but not half the caliber of, say, All the Pretty Little Horses, or Nature Unveiled.
Oh, and Hitler as Kalki is untouchable.
And the title track is not a Nazi anthem! It's an *anti*-Hitler song! Tibet's father fought in WWII, for heaven's sake! Why do people not get that?
― J.H. Malerman (xada_hgla), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
absolutely. probably second only to as the world disappears among their live albums.
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.H. Malerman (xada_hgla), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I meandered into Current 93 records via NWW, and I've reached the point where I certainly enjoy Current 93 more, although Stapleton still out-weirds Tibet, which is saying something.
I expect that the release of "Stapletone" will swing me in the other direction. Some time in 2055.
― John Justen goes to work like an architect (johnjusten), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Tough to Beat Illious (noodle vague), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Sunday, 4 February 2007 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah! me too, but alot of other people seemed to hate it.
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
I was just looking at this yesterday, thinking I should read it again.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 5 February 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
www.atpfestival.com
― FACEBRACE (FACEBRACE), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
How handy! I'll pick it up while I'm over there.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Just got the Inmost Light trilogy reissue and it's fantastic. I knew some of the pieces from the "Calling for Vanished Faces" comp, but it's a stunning listen from start to end. This is some of the darkest material of their folk era. The background drones and ghostly chants are really unsettling.
The 1st and 3rd parts are 20 minute long but each one gets its own CD to preserve the listening order. Me lieks this.
― no-nonsense, Friday, 8 June 2007 11:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I need to get that. But the new reissue of Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre is first in the queue for me. Sometimes I think it's the essential C93 album.
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 8 June 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, that one is by far my fave. Great great album.
Inmost Light 1 and 3 always left me pretty indifferent. Maybe I should give them a new spin.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 8 June 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
try the first one when you're in a meditative mood. I really really like that one a lot.
― sleeve, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure when I get the Inmost Light reissue I'll seldom listen to chapters 1 and 3. I'm just excited to have All The Pretty... possibly sounding even better than it did. The remaster of Thunder Perfect Mind had luscious sound, so I expect goodness.
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
New c93 album???!!!ommmmgggggggg
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 14 October 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
I lost interest around Baalstorm sing omega. But tempted by this new one
― Duke, Sunday, 14 October 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
played the entire new album last night with really great visuals, plus encore of 4/5 oldies. good show!
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 14 October 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
The moon is drunkAnd the nightness is sick
Right return to form, this. Best since Black Ships imo, but basically better than that one already. Can't express how happy I am with the new one.
I never thought I'd live to see the day.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 14 October 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
Well. That's me sold
― Duke, Sunday, 14 October 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Black Ships one of my favourites
Fucking birdsounds on 'Bright Dead Star' made me think that one of our chicks had escaped from the coop and was sitting outside underneath my window.
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 14 October 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/25479-current-93-review-biography
A pretty solid list, but the inclusion of Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor is wtf.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
yeah I def would have put In Menstrual Night at that #10 spot
― sleeve, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow would've been my pick, but yeah IMN is great too.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
split with OM was good stuff
― Ross, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
You don’t put in black ships heat the dancefloor at the expense of honeysuckle aions wtf. Also the sic six singles EPs collection is obligatory
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 18 October 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
occasionally see David Tibet around town. one time he was carrying one of those massive stripey laundry bags. presumably been to get his gnostic robes washed
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 18 October 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
there's tons of great stuff all over his discography but the new album is a masterpiece.
― StanM, Sunday, 21 October 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
It’s a solid record and I really like it (definitely better than the Zu collab) but I don’t get the hyperbole - yet?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 21 October 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
I don't know, it just clicked suddenly for me
― StanM, Monday, 22 October 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
Yeah. I think the "hyperbole" comes from being very pleasantly surprised by such a return to form. Idk that's what it is for me.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 22 October 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
it's a return to top form, is the thing
― imago, Monday, 22 October 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
he has a big beard now and that is the secret
Was the consensus that he fell off? I feel it’s a pretty logical continuation from Aleph-Baalstorm-IATLOATFTF, all of which are excellent.
― Siegbran, Monday, 22 October 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
I don’t see that he fell off at all. Honeysuckle is a great album than black ships, f.e.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 22 October 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
personally speaking, it's more that I'm over Andrew Liles and his predictable production style, and this new one sounds more like the work Stapleton used to do. I like the blown-out excess of the "rock" trilogy (Aleph, Baalstorm, whatever the other one was) and I def dig Honeysuckle (much more of a chamber music Soft Black Stars sound w/minimal weirdness). But I did not dig The Moons At Your Door at all and it is now in my sell pile.
― portugal. the bland (sleeve), Monday, 22 October 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
What did people think of Myrninerest?
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 22 October 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
have not heard
― portugal. the bland (sleeve), Monday, 22 October 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
His '00s output left me cold, while the new one seems like it's picking up where the Inmost Light cycle left off
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 22 October 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
yeah this is great and a return to form, I have to say I didn't think he had it in him to produce another masterpiece à la Of Ruine or Pretty Little Horses but this one is def doing it for me.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 07:25 (five years ago) link
Chiming in on the praises for The Light Is Leaving...
Masterpiece a la Of Ruine? Not sure I'm quite ready to take the name of the Holy Tibet-Stapleton-Cashmore Trinity in vain. But it is durn spanking master-ly. Closest comparison, soundwise, has got to be Baalstorm Sing Omega. Except a lot tighter. Pastoral drone meets plinkety folk plucking, subdued storm alert percolating beneath the surface. For the first time Liles seems to have got the Stapletonisms a little more on point. eg the Ligotti cameos at the alpha and omega of the album imbued with quietly glowing shades of darkened light. On Baalstorm, the children's voices take away from the whole, whereas in almost all other (Stapleton-addled) Current the voices suggest wonderfully subtle shades of unsettling "innocence". (The last such, and much missed, shade was the opening of Aleph... "Almost in the beginning was the murderer".)
My biggest criticism of The Light Is Leaving... Tibet's vocals on The Postman Is Singing. Nothing wrong with them, but the loud 'n honking sound would I think have been better enlivened by a full-on Tibet-in-unhinged-glory string of ranting-cum-panting. But perhaps that would have undercut the lyrics in play, so less criticism more a statement of personal preference.
Of recent un-Current Current,
I really like Zu93, which I feel is even more Current-like than a lot of the more recent Current. Darkly gorgeous cello swells feeding Tibet's starkly mirrored musings. Hypnopazuzu is like a return to the most dramatic sweeps of Island, tipping hats also at the Tibet mix of DIJ's "Rule Again". And Myrninerest, simply brilliant. The Blackshaw-backed full-length dedicated to Jhonn is a delicate Balance of sweet acoustic lilt and unutterably raw heart-rending psycho Babel. And the soundtrack to the Jarman film, with Cashmore on piano(!) (Journey To Avebury) is a haze and sweetly affecting ambiance par excellence.
All to say that even when Tibet is not Current it seems there is always something over which the one-time obsessive may obsess anew.
But yeah, the new one is seriously rocking the bum bum.
― Contra Fibularities, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
great post!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
I'm thoroughly enjoying The Stars On Their Horsies. Three worthwhile Current 93 albums in one year, what a time to be alive.
Meanwhile, there's also a new Death In June record (first in 5 years apparently), and so far it's complete crap. Incredible how their careers have diverged, really.
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 December 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
unsettling new ambient piece : https://www.davidtibet.com/products/invocations-of-almost-cd
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
A pox upon all habitues of this thread for not bumping it when C93 announced two Brooklyn shows! I told you I was hopeless at knowing about things! Shows are April 2020 and were announced at the end of July. Both sold out but they have added a third night which just went on sale and someone DID clue me in about that one and I managed to get tickets. If I missed this opportunity I would have fucking died. Instead I am OverMoon at prospect of finally seeing C93.
Warsaw Brooklyn 4/25 is the show that just went up
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
nice! I has no idea abt those shows, sorry
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
has had
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Nice! The anxiety of missing C93 is palpable, trust me. Glad you get to go!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
sleeve: treat yourself! wkiw
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
lol so not gonna happen but <3
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
(also, I think it's sold out now!)
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
New album in March 2022 : https://www.davidtibet.com/blogs/news/c93-if-a-city-is-set-upon-a-hill
― StanM, Friday, 17 December 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link
Wasn't there supposed to be a Thomas Ligotti collabo album as well sometime this year? Pushed back?
― Siegbran, Friday, 17 December 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
His release statements are almost as good as the albums
― imago, Friday, 17 December 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
Yayyyy something to look forward toI finally read England’s Hidden Reverse a few months ago so I am extra psyched Praying that the Brooklyn show (postponed to Halloween 2022) is able to happen
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 17 December 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
Xp yeah he keeps getting better and funnier on the PR/comm front. Reads like an apocalyptic Hipster Runoff at this point. Psyched.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 December 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
through my endless readings within the Akkadian Omen series šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin (“If A City Is Set Upon A Height”), my endless obsession with the story of Cain Killing Abel (Genesis IV: 8), and my endless rewatching of the same ten supernatural films.
I feel like we could probably guess half of these but come on david michael give us yr list
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 17 December 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
otm
― imago, Friday, 17 December 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
lol yes
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Friday, 17 December 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
I'd buy some of the photographs or paintings if they weren't so expensive :(
oh and the book downloads are free (including a 561 page lyrics book) : https://www.davidtibet.com/collections/books
― StanM, Friday, 17 December 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
and? anyone get the album yet?
― StanM, Thursday, 31 March 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4RzoH32Lso
― StanM, Thursday, 31 March 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
Not bad. Has David T. taken singing classes?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 1 April 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
the CD is on its way because I thought it wasn't going to be on bandcamp - it's not on current931.bandcamp.com ,but now I find it at current93hom.bandcamp.com - anyway, a physical copy doesn't hurt :-)
― StanM, Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:16 (two years ago) link