Chrome: C or D?

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.

this is based solely on half machine lip moves/alien sdtrks. is this 3rd from the sun album worth it?

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0032,tracker_writer.inc,16664,.html

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.

Or, did I misunderstand? ;)

ILM patrons may be interested to know that David Tibet wants your Chrome rarities NOW - see the Durtro site for details.

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.

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.

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!

I think the songs on the Visitation were initially recorded as a porno movie soundtrack (no joke!)

how is liquid forest and no humans allowed?

anyone?

No Humans rules.

I really prefer contemporaries like VON LMO, the Twinkeyz, and Todd Tamanend Clark.

(sorry, not to those records but to Chrome in general)

I love Chrome

we are familiar with your wrongness on this issue, tim.

and your defensiveness!

Pere Ubu > Chrome > Debris > MX-80 Sound > Twinkeez > VON LMO > Todd Tamanend Clark

VON LMO > Todd Tamanend Clark > Twinkeyz > Pere Ubu > Debris > MX-80 Sound = Chrome

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.

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.

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.

chuck you should hear both the twinkeyz and debris. seriously.

Both bands were great: I'm particularly fond of Debris', another perfect encapsulation of everything I love about 70's American rock.

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.

chrome is fucking great

By the way, Happy Dragon Band or Creme Soda, anyone?
Not as crazy as the artists mentioned below but still weirdly unbalanced in their own way.
Also, Bobb Trimble comes to mind - "Another lonely angel" is one of the most unsettling songs I ever heard.

i gotta hear twinkeyz at some point, i think i'd really like them. chrome are, of course, godhead. one of the only bands i've ever heard described as "acid punk" that actually justifies the term. i want the chrome box so bad ;_;

chrome is fucking great

I have the Chrome Box - it's not bad, but they cut all the albums on it short.

Todd Tamanend Clark is like a warmed-over Jandek - total WFMU fodder.

wha? i don't hear that at all, unless we're talking lo-fi basement sound quality.

By the way, Happy Dragon Band or Creme Soda, anyone?

i guess the former cause i haven't heard creme soda. another one for the list. HDB are pretty bizarre.

xp - better than not having any of them! i used to have blood on the moon via the magic of computers but no more.

(any of them save half machine/alien soundtracks)

someone reissue the box set. with the whole albums. anyone. soon.

nah TTC has some pretty awesome songs; I guess as far as the DIY lofi goes

i guess the former cause i haven't heard creme soda. another one for the list. HDB are pretty bizarre

yeah, they made a truly bizarre lp. I love that album, I just would like to know a little more about the guy who was behind this project.

Yay more Chrome love. Yay also the Bobb Trimble mention, which I am not surprised to find Marco likes.

I only have Trimble's second album, and I like it a lot.
Don't know why, but I find its cover (the black & white shot with the unicorn) rather disturbing.

Supposedly it's all being reissued properly, at least that was Kris Thompson of Abunai! was telling me.

Wow, how is it I've never encountered the name Todd Tamanend Clark?! I love this sort of stuff. And there appears to be a double-disc comp on Anopheles! I gotta check this guy out...

[BTW, the proper hierarchy is: MX-80 Sound > Pere Ubu > Debris > Von LMO > Twinkeyz > Chrome. But who cares, it's all good. Oh, and Simply Saucer belong in there too, somewhere in the middle.]

why aren't they playing SF?

Got the album but not yet given an ear. The cover art feels more Helios twenty years back than Chrome but hey.

why aren't they playing SF?

Because no-one asked them to, I assume.

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.

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?

They were absolutely bloody deadly at Primavera last month, one of the highlights of the weekend by miles

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.

Always classic, more evil than anything black metal's managed to come up with so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LI1NgmdGg4

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.

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?

Hah oh wrong thread.

"Dozen Tabs Running" was a Helios Creed b-side, not Chrome, IIRC.

LOL tabs and Chrome seem to belong together.

was gonna say

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.

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.

this band is good

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.

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.