Peter Murphy solo: Search & Destroy

nice. Thanks Ned.

Peter Murphy premieres new track, talks influence, 'gothlings,' spiritualism, and Bauhaus

haaaaa!

thanks ned

new album is the best one since Deep, by far.

Been hearing good things. (But speaking as someone who loves Dust, that's a pretty high bar you're setting!)

Dust was truly excellent

I lost interest after "Holy Smoke". Someone propose a compilation covering his last 20 years...

Dust is good but this is much more in the Love Hysteria/Deep vein, but, without all the reverb and overproduction.

is it anything like Unshattered? I didn't really like Unshattered. I think the reverb and overproduction is what I like about Love Hysteria and Deep.

Hmm, listening now, I don't know. Album didn't take off for me until "I Spit Roses" four songs in; the first three on first blush are just kinda there RAWK songs that happen to have Peter Murphy singing. But "Never Fall Out" follows on nicely from "I Spit Roses" so let's see how the rest goes.

I lost interest after "Holy Smoke". Someone propose a compilation covering his last 20 years...

That Wild Birds one from last decade isn't bad. Ned will correct me if necessary. I liked the inclusion of stuff like "Deep Ocean Vast Sea."

I'd probably switch out "The Sweetest Drop" for another Should song but that's pretty reasonable as a start, yeah.

Okay this new one definitely is clicking now. Real clunky start, though, almost seems like they frontloaded it with the eh stuff to make everything else after it stand out more.

i guess you can get away with when your fans are for real.

He's doing an instore here at am0eba sf on the 23rd (and apparently in LA on the 16th). There's enough good tracks on Ninth to get me pretty jazzed about it.

Wild Birds is fantastic, and I'll side with Ned/aero on the supermassivelove for Dust, amazing album

the album is all about "the prince and old lady shade"

The Dali's Car album is coming out on Mick Karn's birthday...4th January...

the 'new' one they did? i didn't realize it had actually been recorded...amazing

i'm popping my interview cherry with him tomorrow. excited!

Me on last night's show, good stuff as ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8NUwiPCoHA

BUH.

I mean, what?

Hit and run accidents like that really cuts you up.

^^^ the joke that had to be made

I've already seen a slew of others.

hot tears flow as we recount

THE MAN WHOSE LEGS BUCKLED UNDER EXERTION
KEPT ON RUNNING!!!

I achieved a new low on twitter and I am not at all proud.

But Ned did call me a fucker which strangely made it okay.

LOL crut

Finding out he had meth in his car makes me think he's been living a life of impossible debauchery in Turkey. I can only imagine how dark this man's life has been.

It's so strange. I've known someone who works for him for over a decade now -- admittedly I haven't checked recently to see if that's still the case -- and I've interviewed and met him a couple of times along the way, most recently in passing back in December at his Bauhaus-themed show before New Year's. The public face is always just that but had to say he always seemed like one of the most level-headed guys in music I'd met in the music business.

xpost yeah for me it was more seeing that he was living in Turkey, like oh well of course he had meth, lol

aging rock star + Turkey = life of impossible debauchery CASE CLOSED

Meantime a huge amount of the comments I'm seeing all over the place are criticizing his choice of car.

I blame Nine Inch Nails.

I'm loling at the 'I can't believe a rich successful guy would do meth' comments

xpost Crut, no blame Bella and Edward. It's all kstew's fault

> huge amount of the comments I'm seeing all over the place are criticizing his choice of car.

The Suburu was the thing that really jumped out at me. Like, wtf?! but then what did I expect Peter Murphy would drive?

you're setting us up, right?

It's also not helping that searching for Peter Murphy in Google News keeps turning up this guy:

http://www.nooga.com/160598/murphy-demands-district-9-runoff-threatens-legal-action/

I asked my partner who's a car nerd the first thing he thinks when I mention "Subaru Forester", and he said "Pacific Northwest lesbian?"

Michelle Shocked is behind this I know.

Which 80s musician is going to go on a stabbing spree tomorrow, Brenda K Starr?

Marilyn, iirc

preview of next week's mug shots:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__RahHtBqYhU/TSlhUfKCD4I/AAAAAAAAEUc/GoFXnCpsmFU/s1600/Sheriff-cover.jpg

We went over this on FB (with some help):
* Ian Brown will call Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "coont" at a press conference
* Suzanne Vega, AK-47, duh!
* Julian Assange sold out by Terence Trent D'Arby
* Bez will be caught for all of the above, then found innocent

bah @ NIN thing, I think Reznor kicks anyone out of his band who has more than two drinks these days

The weird thing about this is that the hit & run occurred just a couple blocks away from me, and it's part of my territory (so-to-speak) when I'm taking an afternoon walk around the neighborhood.

You know how much mileage I could get out of a "let me tell you about the time Peter Murphy tried to run me down with his Subaru" story?

lol

It's true, subarus get great mileage

hmm I was torn whether to go see his 35 years of Bauhaus show - case settled then

hmm I was torn whether to go see his 35 years of Bauhaus show - case settled then

I've got tickets for Glasgow.

Now I don't condone DUI, hitting and running, meth possession or any of that obviously, but I'VE PAID FOR TICKETS.