John was the only one with any "experience" having performed with the Flower Travellin' Band, an early '70s Japanese psychedelic group.
whaaaaaa...?!
let's hear some LOVE for "the visitation," come on!
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Surprised to see no contributions from NYC so far - Alex has just got to love this lot, hasn't he?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
wow. what were you listening to at the time?
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
but the deal was settled on 'alien soundtracks', total cassette pause cut-up garage faust, about four minutes into 'pygmies in zee dark' where the song hollows out and suddenly it flips into this mutant lurch with a burning braindead guitar riff, and then that's followed up _instantly_ with 'slip it to the android'... it's just fuck yeah
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link
at the time i was probably listening to...parliament? cab.vol?
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link
throwing 'slip it to the android' on your mix CD
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, Half Machine Lip Moves & Alien Soundtracks totally classic. 3rd from the Sun isn't quite up there but I've enjoyed it so far.
Maybe I'll go look for Helios Creed stuff on Slsk later, never heard any.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
this is based solely on half machine lip moves/alien sdtrks. is this 3rd from the sun album worth it?
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0032,tracker_writer.inc,16664,.html
― chuck, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Hey, I used to own that Skin Yard debut on C/Z! It was during that brief post-Bleach/pre-Nevermind period when I bought just about ANYTHING Sub Pop-related. But I didn't play the Skin Yard much and eventually sold it. Then I found the CD used and reacquired it, only to find that the instrumental cut (my favourite) was now minus the saxophone track - WTF?!
Oh, and CLASSIC, obviously! Alien Soundtracks/Half Machine Lip Moves is truly fucked up.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Or, did I misunderstand? ;)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
ILM patrons may be interested to know that David Tibet wants your Chrome rarities NOW - see the Durtro site for details.
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
ugh. wish i could just post my whim of the day on a website and have people send me cds and lps by the ton.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link
hahahaha. i first heard helios thru the amrep label, and the record i owned had singing along the lines of the above description. had a very "wtf?" vibe to it.
― eman (eman), Thursday, 10 March 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 10 March 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 10 March 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Thursday, 10 March 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 10 March 2005 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link
The first disc (best of) starts out with five great cuts from HMLM, but they are edited terribly. They add "Danger Zone" from the 12" single (1981); "Isolation" from Red Exposure; "The Need" and "Brain Scan" from Blood on the Moon; "Shadows of a Thousand Years" and "Future Ghosts" from 3rd from the Sun; plus "Gehenna Lion" and the great single "Anorexic Sacrifice".
As far as The Visitation, I am still fond of the phaser-drenched instrumental waltz, "Nova Feedback". But Alien Soundtracks was a HUGE step forward... or s'ways.
If you were listening to Cabaret Voltaire back then, you could have put "Nag Nag Nag" on a mix tape with Half Machine Lip Moves!
― Jon Hope (jarge), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I think the songs on the Visitation were initially recorded as a porno movie soundtrack (no joke!)
― Jon Hope (jarge), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link
how is liquid forest and no humans allowed?
― creme1, Monday, 9 July 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone?
― creme1, Monday, 9 July 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
No Humans rules.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 July 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I really prefer contemporaries like VON LMO, the Twinkeyz, and Todd Tamanend Clark.
― Tim Ellison, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
(sorry, not to those records but to Chrome in general)
I love Chrome
― admrl, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
we are familiar with your wrongness on this issue, tim.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
and your defensiveness!
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Pere Ubu > Chrome > Debris > MX-80 Sound > Twinkeez > VON LMO > Todd Tamanend Clark
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
VON LMO > Todd Tamanend Clark > Twinkeyz > Pere Ubu > Debris > MX-80 Sound = Chrome
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I cannot get behind that theory there, and I own and like the Twinkeyz LP. But I haven't heard the Clark CD.
No Humans Allowed is a patchwork LP that includes most of the Read Only Memory EP, a 12" from a year or two later, and (I think) a B-side from a single. All of it is stun-tastically great scifi heavy metal riffage. The 12" ("Dangerzone" and "In A Dream") is a particular favorite of mine.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I love all these artists, but Chrome will always have a special place in my heart. I just found out the new Noiseville re-releases of "Alien Soundtracks" and "Half Machine Lip Moves" and couldn't help to buy them again.
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 2 August 2007 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard Twinkeyz or Debris. But Chrome are better than Von LMO and Todd Tamanend Clark (both of whom I like) for sure. Pere Ubu (when they were great) are head and tails above all these bands, and between MX-80 and Chrome it's a tossup.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link
chuck you should hear both the twinkeyz and debris. seriously.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Both bands were great: I'm particularly fond of Debris', another perfect encapsulation of everything I love about 70's American rock.
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 2 August 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Todd Tamanend Clark is like a warmed-over Jandek - total WFMU fodder. Chrome, on the other hand, doesn't get the attention it deserves - it's like nobody even knows they exist.
― uhrrrrrrr10, Thursday, 2 August 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
where is Milton, he needs to hear this
― sleeve, Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
this is excellent and all on youtube for anyone curious.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
this might be my AOTY
― sleeve, Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
have played it a few times since I got a copy. sound is exactly halfway between the 70's rock of The Visitation and the complete acid meltdown of Alien Soundtracks. nowhere as weird or finessed as the latter just yet, so you can see why these got left behind -- plays through a little more like an archive than an album, but track by track these are definitely not outtakes
cd packaging is AUTHENTIC
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
hmm I was getting serious hits of Red Exposure on my first listen, but there were some pretty weird diversions and I only got to track 6 or so
re CD packaging, I shook my head with a mixture of admiration and horror
― sleeve, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
and yes these are missing the freaky chaos tape splicing vibe, but everything has THAT SOUND, drums sound amazing on this
― sleeve, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
My appreciation of Chrome really does come down to THAT SOUND.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
awesome stuff, especially THAT SOUND - such an awesome track
― nostormo, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
fuck you
― sleeve, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
"he shit that Damon and Helios left on the cutting room floor a quarter century ago sounds more vibrant and relevant than most contemporary releases."
sad but true
― nostormo, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
humorlessxpost?
― nostormo, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
that came off as mocking, not a joke - apologies if I misread you
have you heard this? do you have any further input or are you just gonna start another poll?
― sleeve, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
i think i'll start another poll
― nostormo, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
likes the sincere apology though
Has anyone seen the current tour? I'm going tomorrow, might pick up the lost album at the gig, they also have a new one out called Feel It Like A Scientist - anyone heard that yet?
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 20 June 2014 08:18 (nine years ago) link
why aren't they playing SF?
― akm, Friday, 20 June 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Got the album but not yet given an ear. The cover art feels more Helios twenty years back than Chrome but hey.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 June 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Because no-one asked them to, I assume.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Friday, 20 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I have the album too but haven't worked up the nerve to play it. I haven't really cared about much of anything Chrome- or Creed-related since Lactating Purple.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 20 June 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
They were absolutely bloody deadly at Primavera last month, one of the highlights of the weekend by miles
― bingo dabber acid, Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
New album's pretty good. It helps to keep the original Chrome out of mind when listening to this, that sound's never going to be made again. I think it fits better next to stuff like Gary War, and I'm always open for more weirdo sounds.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Always classic, more evil than anything black metal's managed to come up with so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LI1NgmdGg4
― CoolRadio, Sunday, 4 January 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tX6bKI0WQ
this song kicks ass. wish more bands went down this territory. i mean, with the whole "lol occult" trend over the past few years, i don't see how bands wouldn't want to cop this shit. alas, there's only one Chrome.
― CoolRadio, Sunday, 4 January 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
Does anyone know why if I open Chrome and a pair of tabs, then check Task Manager, there are half a dozen instances of it running?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
Hah oh wrong thread.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
"Dozen Tabs Running" was a Helios Creed b-side, not Chrome, IIRC.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
LOL tabs and Chrome seem to belong together.
― Possibly Fingers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
was gonna say
― sleeve, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
Apologies for consumerist query, but has anyone seen/heard Cleopatra's 7LP Chrome Box reissue from last year? I haven't been able to dig up any information beyond what the label says about it.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
Chrome US tour from mid-May to mid-June.
http://scontent.fphl2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/30531552_10160536427735227_7728194264991006720_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=30584895122caff4353caaaff2eeecc0&oe=5B29588C
Barring hell or high water, I shall be at the Philly date.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 9 April 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
this band is good
― budo jeru, Monday, 22 July 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
Just remembered I was going to look up a Chrome thread and mention that the Stench brothers played with Jorma Kaukonen in his late 70s solo band which I only found out from reading his memoir.Haven't heard what they sound like with him yet though.
― Stevolende, Monday, 22 July 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
I want to know more about the circumstances of John Lambdin playing with Flower Travellin' Band before Chrome (see top of thread). I love that there's a connection.
― Thank You (Fattekin Mice Elf Control Again) (Noel Emits), Sunday, 13 October 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link