2006年 11月 5日 日曜日 19:19
Post your top ten bands/artists, the first song of theirs you heard, the song that made you fall in love and your current favorite.
Einsturzende Neubauten
first heard: Yü-Gung, probably, since it was on AP Presents: Industrial Strength Machine Music which introduced me to a wealth of good bands (and to my everlasting shame, I only bought it for the crappy live nine inch nails track…)
fell in love with: Silence Is Sexy the title track of the first Neubauten album I bought.
current favorite: kalte sterne. a song that i've loved since i got it on strategies against architecture
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
first heard: Wonderful Life, the first track off of the (mostly) lackluster nocturama
fell in love with: Babe, I'm on Fire, the epic 15 minute last track of nocturama which blew me away. it's like nick tried to fit the whole world into that song and came pretty damn close–a song that seduced me with its ambition.
current favorite: (are you) the one that i've been waiting for? partly because i love the music video, and watching Blixa Bargeld stand around on stage with his guitar and nothing to do.
foetus
first heard: anything (viva!) another discovery from AP Presents: Industrial Strength Machine Music
fell in love with: butterfly potion. i found the ep of the same title at a used bookstore and it was that track and disc that solidified my love of J.G. Thirwell
current favorite: Thrush (feat. Jennifer Charles)
KMFDM
first heard: Light
fell in love with: Brute, because I loves me some Raymond Watts
current favorite: kmfdm's version der mussolini is the kmfdm track i think i've been groovin' to most lately.
Chris Connelly
first heard: July. Chris played it right before Pigface started their set when I saw their Preaching to the Perverted tour, and i fell instantly in love. I had bought london fields a week or two before but hadn't really listed to it. I picked up the ultimate seaside companion at the show.
fell in love with: see above.
current favorite: Bordell geist, which became or is an alternate version of one of my favorite the damage manual tracks peepshow ghosts
sister machine gun
first heard: smash your radio
fell in love with: call it mine
current favorite: antagonizer prelude and the antagonizer
PIG
first heard: infinite power aka infinite shame
fell in love with: shell, "oh lord, don't give me what i deserve, just give me something i need"
current favorite: on the slaughterfront
the the
first heard: boiling point
fell in love with: Armageddon days (are here again)
current favorite: infected
the legendary pink dots
first heard: a scarlet wish
fell in love with: the grain kings, specifically the drone guitars in that song.
current favorite: slaapliedje
pigface
first heard:radio bagpipe if you don't count the nine inch nails version of suck
fell in love with: little sisters, heck, i love almost all the pigface with Chris Connelly on vocals duty.
current favorite: satellite
and finally, an 11th band, because I love them so, and they're only 7 tracks behind…
the damage manual
first heard: sunset gun (303 edit)
fell in love with: top ten severed, from which this post takes its name.
current favorite: i am war again
lots of Chris Connely (chris connelly, pigface, the damage manual) love in this list, and I'd forgotten how much music I was introduced to by Nine Inch Nails, forget marijuana, parents, NIN is the real gateway drug.