New Giant Albino Penguin song

[sean]

I put a new song up today...

www.myspace.com/giantalbinopenguin

Its called 'Misanthropic' and must be played VERY loud. If anyone gets through the whole 6 and a half minutes they win a weightless, invisible badge.

[Red Hook]

I thought it was quite nice. Even though it's about 80 degrees F. out, I kept looking out the window expecting to see the GAP approaching! Well, I guess if the ice caps keep melting, all the GAPs will be heading south soon anyway!

Red

[dem bones]

I love that it's so unrelenting! I reckon with a few more plays it could even overtake Watch The Magic Pumpkin and Shape for a place on my Now That's What I Call Music round-up at the end of the year. Really must torture the Bride with this snappy with it pop tune later! Has RC heard it yet?

While i'm here:

Current smashes:

Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man, Two Librans, New Face In Hell and .... lots and lots of Fall! (all era's-uh)
Throbbing Gristle - Discipline (a bit noisy but a grower. Definitely a grower)
Peter Hammill - You Hit Me Where I Live and Red Shift
Queen Adreena Killer Tits and Pretty Like Drugs
Daisy Chainsaw - Life Tomorrow

Plus other depressing stuff.

[sean]

Thanks for giving it a listen, guys.


For it was only a penguin - albeit of a huge, unknown species larger than the greatest of the known king penguins, and monstrous in its combined albinism and virtual eylessness.

- H. P. Lovecraft, 'At the Mountains of Madness'

[bushwick]

This is really good stuff Sean. Like a cross between Goblin and Foetus, perhaps. You've got impeccable taste sir. Have you heard any of Monte Cazzazza's music? You'd probably like it - transgressive 80s Rapid Eye/Re:Search type aesthetic...

Sept 5, 2008 16:10:06 GMT dem bones said:

Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man, Two Librans, New Face In Hell and .... lots and lots of Fall! (all era's-uh)
Throbbing Gristle - Discipline (a bit noisy but a grower. Definitely a grower)
Peter Hammill - You Hit Me Where I Live and Red Shift
Queen Adreena Killer Tits and Pretty Like Drugs
Daisy Chainsaw - Life Tomorrow

Plus other depressing stuff.

Nice! Two Librans is a blinder - "REFLECT-uh!". One of my fave Fall albums, 'The Unutterable' - Cyber Insekt is great too. Have you heard their latest? I'm enjoying it, very pounding, basic vibe, almost early Hawkwind-esque in places, and vocally he's getting closer and closer to Beefheart all the time.
And Peter Hammill? Never really listened to any, but I know Mark E's a big Van Der Graaf fan. Have you read Smith's book? have heard mixed reports but keep meaning to check it out. Saw The Fall a few months ago in Leeds - a cracking show too, although they don't switch their setlist up as much as they used to. Mind you, old Mark probably can't remember writing a good few of their songs - not surprising given the size of their back catalogue and the man's gallavanting lifestyle!

[dem bones]

Hi Bush

I'd guess MES rates Hammill for the way he's carried himself throughout his career as much as for his genius as a songwriter and vocalist. They both "suffer" - if that's the word - from being prolific in an increasing lazy, album-every-three-years industry. So many records stretching back so many years (in Hammill's case, 1968!), it's real difficult for the curious to know where to start. At least nowadays everybody's heard a Fall record - whether they realise it or not is another matter - whereas the only time I can ever recall VDGG or Hammill ever troubling the public consciousness in Britain was via the John Peel show. Apart from their regular scathing attacks on the music industry in song, Hammill's approach is very different to Smith's. He's a romantic for a start, very influenced by his early idol Edgar Allen Poe and much of his best work is morbid and Gothic like no Goth band i've ever heard (much as I love many of 'em, they don't get anywhere near).

I've not hunted down Mark's book but I'm sure I'll get around to it. There was also some anthology, Perverted By Language: name authors (I think) set the challenge of taking a Fall title and writing a story around it? Sounds bloody awful!

And don't you think that Two Librans riff owes a certain something to .... Interstellar Overdrive!

[bushwick]

Aye, that's right, i recall the anthology you're talking about. Quite recent, within the last couple of years, had something to do with Stewart Lee? Apparently the 'arty' 'literary' authors do a poor job, but the straight SF writers come out looking a lot better. Another feather in the cap for PULP, pretension be damned! And we all know MES loves Lovecraft.

Can you honestly imagine today's music biz tolerating anyone even close to MES? Shit, can you imagine today's publishing world going anywhere near Lovecraft??

slightly drunk and emotional here, but does one not sometimes feel a tad out of time? I know i do. I guess the new blood are out there somewhere...

as for 'borrowing' riffs...'Elves' from 'Wonderful and Frightening World...' takes a generous influence (to put it mildly) from 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'...remember being quite taken aback by that when i was younger...

sorry to derail yr thread Sean! i do like GAP though!

[dem bones]

Me too. I've a CD I sometimes play low in the background as I'm typing this junk, LOUD! when I'm enjoying a late night party meltdown. Does the trick in either circumstance.

Don't really know much about music biz but I get the impression that all the major labels are interested in nowadays is whether or not your parents enrolled you in stage school when you were about two. If not, then its time to pray an indie label will look upon you with sympathetic eyes or you're gonna have to do the whole thing yourself. At one point Virgin had Hammill, Ivor Cutler and Kevin Coyne on the label at the same time? I can't imagine anyone bankrolling a "cult" artist out of appreciation for their talent and fuck the sales these days.

As to Lovecraft, well, the publishing world hardly embraced him in his own day! The perennially hard up Weird Tales, a handful of like minded US pulp mags, obscure small press outlets and - to our eternal credit! - a few appearances in the Not At Night series and that was about it. He was two years dead by the time Derleth kick-started the legend with his first "proper" collection, The Outsider in 1939. I wonder how horror and SF would've developed if Weird Tales had gone bust in 1924!

[sean]

Derail away, Bushwick! (and thanks for listening - the Goblin comment was cool - I'd love to do the soundtrack to some weird low budget horror film, that'd be brilliant)

I'm a big Fall fan myself. In fact, I Wanna Be your Elf is one of my favourites. I have to admit that (with several notable exceptions) that most of my favorite Fall stuff is from between 'Live at the Witch Trials' (one of the best debut albums EVER) and 'Bend Sinister', but the six disc 'Peel Sessin' set is an absoulte gem.

[H_P_Saucecraft]

I've listened to all the tracks, Sean & they're brilliant. Have you got any plans for a cd? .

Dave

[sean]

(sorry, only just seen this)

Thanks Dave, glad you liked them! If you want a cd, just pm and Ill press one up. I don't really have a set tracklist, I just plonk on whatever I feel like, its just something I do for my own entertainment really...

[H_P_Saucecraft]

Thanks Sean, I've sent you a pm as requested.