()p() - THRoBBiNG GRiSTLe

(If this concept still has any life left in it when I'm next around, later this week, I may do one of my own)

(Heard a fantastic more aggressive/rougher version of 'Still Walking' at around the time 20JFG LP was released, but it's not the album one - anybody know where it might have been from? They didn't do a John Peel session in 1979 did they? Sounded too slick to be from one of the live cassettes you could get from them...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33HsgEO7NlQ

"AB7A" is still my favorite. It makes me think of airports at christmas time and 70s pbs science shows.

The doctor who wrote about the "Hamburger Lady" is from Portland, OR.

If I had to pick only one, I'd actually pick "Hamburger Lady". Probably one of the first songs that honestly creeped me out.

"Blood On the Floor". Gets stuck in my head all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8klW9trVTQ <3

god they were so much more punk than the pistols or the clash or any of those other bands

I'm partial to "Hit By A Rock" myself.

When I was (briefly) in college at U of O in '91-'92, I participated in a lip sync contest in the dorm cafeteria. It was a friday night so it was mostly christian students that had nothing better to do. The group before me did "Splish Splash I Was Takin A Bath". Jeepers they were having fun.

My friends and I came out and did "Hamburger Lady". I read the back of the album sleeve to the audience, then we performed. My friend Michael (6'5") was playing an invisible violin. His girlfriend Gretchen was in black lingerie and writing at the foot of the stage.

Nobody spoke to us after the song ended. LOL.

(xxxpost) I have to go with "Discipline" as well. Second would be "What A Day" - sums up working in an open plan office/call centre perfectly for me.

Nate:

That song also conjures up memories of UO for me, though they're not nearly as amusing as your own.

'don't do as you're told, do as you think'

I said "writing" but I meant "writhing".

Nate that is a great story.

I would have to go with AB/7A also, even though it is technically Carter solo. For group effort, definitely Distant Dreams (Part 2).

'Beachy Head'

"Hamburger Lady."

'What a Day'

I don't think I would go through so much trouble now to bother a crowd of innocent people. But when I was 18, it seemed like a great idea.

Somewhere I have a photo of the event. I was wearing this weird plasticky MJ jacket that I got at Goodwill...

Shit this is really hard...

'Persuasion' would be the one I'd play other people the most...

You Tube link above makes me laugh. Brilliant.

"weeping" has been hitting me really hard recently. has anyone ever sounded more vulnerable and broken on record? the lyrics are brilliant.

Dream Machine off of Heathen Earth

The Old Man Smiled off of Heathen Earth.

Such an underrated TG record.

np.

downloading a torrent of 'recording heathen earth', though that and some parts of the oundle school performance are up on youtube. gen is a funny man.

isn't "the old man smiled" "six six sixties"?

i mean - isn't what's known as "the old man smiled", "six six sities"?

the industrial records ident is fearsome

I guess their UCLA show was canceled and they are trying to find another venue? Anyone know anything about this?

the song before the "something came over me" beat, where gen is talking about the human race being disgusting, is amazing

"urge to kill"!!!!

old man smiled and six six sixties are different spoken word pieces performed over the same tape of gen playing bass. in the heathen earth video you can see him reading and not playing.

np mission of dead souls. shame the sound quality is so poor, "spirits flying" is one of their best songs

Can anyone who has heard the latest batch of Mute reissues (Journey Through A Body, Mission of Dead Souls, Heathen Body) comment on the remastering / pressing quality?

And if I have never heard Heathen Body, do I need to now?

Heathen Earth I mean