while killing yrself
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - lol totally
It's pretty good at my desk on a dreary post-vacation day music too tbh.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah it's been Shriekback weather in NYC.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to this last night, I noticed how that "call in the airstrike" line sticks out (in a neat way) because everything up to that point is primitive priests/cannibals/elixirs/etc., and then--airstrike!.
― The Freewheelin' Rebecca Black (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
I was deep into the "Swamp Thing" comic at the time "Oil & Gold" came out and "Nemesis" seemed to fit right into the priests/cannibals/Heaven/Hell vibe of the storyline.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Some of these were pretty good but I'm sticking to my guns and to "Nemesis" for that matter.
TY for sending those, Dan!
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
no one ever said to give up "Nemesis"! that would be crazy talk
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
I just mean as my favorite. :)
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
I am totally team "This Big Hush"/"The Only Thing That Shines"
although at one point or another every song on here has been my favorite
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
loved it then, love it now, but it was hard trying to explain to 30 y/o coworker that nemesis was/is "danceable." :(
― if you hipster on your fixie tonight, dont forget, wear black. amen. (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
Co-sign. One of those mixes of "Fish Below The Ice" rivals "Nemesis" for my favorite these days.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
was just gonna come back and give some love to Fish Below The Ice, that 12" is fantastic and the album version is pleasingly different.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
This is totally one of those albums that I'm going to re-buy because I am crazy for ever getting rid of it in the first place. And if they do a deluxe of Big Night Music, I'm a get that too!
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
One of my all-time favorite albums. Life without it is unthinkable.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
I LOVE YOU BEST BUT IT'S ALL A MESS
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
lyrics sites are suggesting it's "when it's all a mess" but I had this album on tape and had to go w/what I heard
gotta admit i slept on this @ the time of release but once again...ty ilm :)
― chief content officer (m coleman), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, so I just did some quick A/Bing of the new deluxe version of "Oil And Gold" with the original, as well as the bonus tracks. My conclusions:
- The new version of the album is a bit 'hotter', i.e. compressed and loud, but otherwise sounds good. Nothing revelatory, mind you. - Of the bonus tracks, the only rare item is "Fish Below The Ice (Dance mix)" which has never been on CD before. The extended version of "Nemesis", the one with the "Apocalypse Now" sample, was on a Richard Blade compilation and the live tracks were on a fanclub CDR so they're nice to have here. All the other O&G-era tracks have been on Shriekback compilations.- Why did they include "Lined Up" and "My Spine"? And "Lined Up" is CLEARLY from vinyl! Wtf?!
All in all, a nice expansion of the album, but nothing that should make you run out and upgrade your copy.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 10 September 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
any advise in sleevenotes re jam science reissue ?
cos that would be the one for me ..
― mark e, Saturday, 10 September 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
Why did they include "Lined Up"
'Cos it rules so hard! Dave Allen absolutely on fire here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-R4XKuI7rA&feature=related
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 11 September 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
No argument there but it's not from the "Oil & Gold" period!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
guess its being included on this reissue as the track was dropped onto an extra 12" with the 12" of 'below the ice' (oh the days when labels gave away free 7"/12" singles - the double pack !) that came out during O&G campaign.embossed cover as well - hold the cover at an angle, and you can see some secret fish
― mark e, Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Shriekback-Fish-Below-The-Ice/release/535819
― mark e, Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
The backing vocals/shrieks on Nemesis are possessed. Redonk. Incredible song.
― john. a resident of chicago., Thursday, 15 October 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
I really liked Big Night Music too -- no big reissue of that yet eh?
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 15 October 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
BNM : a perfect album.i love it.very different to the earlier material, yet still, very much in line with the shriekback story.would like to think if there is a reissue, then this could be a digitally sourced remaster/reissue.
― mark e, Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
They never really put a foot wrong until go bang and even then they made up for it in short order with the v underrated Sacred City
There is nothing I love more than the shriek vibe
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
They never really put a foot wrong until go bang
this. otm.
― mark e, Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
The extended version of "Nemesis", the one with the "Apocalypse Now" sample,
This makes so much sense that they would sample this, since Oil & Gold pretty much feels like sailing up the river to find Col. Kurtz.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 13 March 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Good essay on "Nemesis" here:
http://marchvladness.com/#/round2-siouxsievsshriekback/
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 11 March 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
Huh, thanks for the link, that was an interesting read.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
that was unexpectedly excellent! also i can confirm that in minnesota too, c.1985, i never heard the term 'goth' and 'batcaver' was the closest equivalent i heard at the time
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
"Death rock" was what I heard in Massachusetts, but with "goth" spreading around 1986.
― bendy, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link
PRIESTS AND CANNIBALSPREHISTORIC ANIMALS
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 April 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
EVERYBODY HAPPY AS THE DEAD COME HOME
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Monday, 22 April 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link