Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm Gonna Die

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:57:40 +0000, Anthony Nance wrote:

> mimus <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:59:16 +0000, Anthony Nance wrote:
>> 
>>> mimus <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:00:42 +0000, Anthony Nance wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> mimus <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:41:32 -0800, tphile wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Feb 11, 1:28 pm, "Mike  Schilling"
<mscottschill...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <snip some Scheider stuff> 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorcerer is another great one by William Freidkyn. a remake of the
>>>>>>> Wages of Fear
>>>>>>> about truck drivers moving a load of nitro thru the jungle
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> well worth watching in his memory
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And listening to for the Tangerine Dream soundtrack.
>>>>> 
>>>>> One of my milder regrets was selling that album when I was in
college.  
>>>> 
>>>> All the TD is around in CD, new and used.
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I keep hoping to stumble across it used (in person), 
>>> but that hasn't happened.  One of these days I'll end up
>>> ordering it from somewhere.
>> 
>> Keep an eye on Second Spin, man.
> 
> Yep - probably just what I'll do when it comes time to order
> 
>>>> I nowadays just usually stick on _Rubycon_ Part I, _Zeit_ Part 4 and
>>>> _Rubycon_ Part II as a fifty-odd minute exercise in great old
electronic.
>>> 
>>> I'm pretty sure mine from that early  era would substitute the first 
>>> 6-7 minutes of Ricochet and some Stratosfear stuff for the Zeit.  It's

>>> a mystery to me why I've never warmed up to Zeit, but that's the case 
>>> nonetheless.
>> 
>> _Ricochet_ is of course great, especially Part 1.  Never really liked
>> _Stratosfear_, 
> 
> I plucked Stratosfear hoping to stay in that early era.  If I'm allowed 
> to stretch a little, a bit of Force Majeure, and (to my surprise) the 
> first bit of Cyclone (really!).  I'd go with Green Desert over both of 
> those if you count it as rooted in/inspired by 1973 rather than it's
> formal release in the mid-80s.
> 
>> and really the last TD I enjoyed and enjoy is _Poland: The
>> Warsaw Concert_.
> 
> That's a good one.  Similar to you, I like less of their stuff
> moving forward, but I do think 1985's Le Parc is pretty good.
> My favorite of all is Thief (original release, with "Confrontation"
> on there).
> 
>> I've moved on to collecting the heavier "electro-EBM" ("industrial")
>> bands, from the late '80s on, which are rather like TD with percussion
. . . .
> 
> Such as...?  I'm very interested.

This might seem off-topic, but since one of the most annoying aspects of
the genre is its frequently cheesy SCI-FI themes, hey, here's my list of
favorite blocks:

Android Lust/ Best of (Block)/"Heathen (A Thousand Thoughts)"[1];
"Stained"[2]; "Sense of It All"[4]; "Spine"[1]; "Refuse"[1]; "The Want
(Existence/Nonexistence)"[3]; and "Fall to Fragments"[2] (33:50)
[1] _Resolution_ (Tinman)(1997)
[2] _The Dividing_ (Synthellec/Projekt)(2002)
[3] _Stripped and Stitched_ (Synthellec/Projekt)(2004)(remixes)
[4] _Devour, Rise and Take Flight_ (Synthellec/Projekt)(2006)

Covenant/ Dreams of a Cryotank (Metropolis)(1999)/ "Speed", "Cryotank
Expansion" and "Edge of Dawn" (35:45)

Covenant/ Sequencer (1999)(Metropolis)/ "Liquid Sky", "Slow Motion",
("Stalker",) "Tabula Rasa" and "Babel" (20:43(26:11))

Covenant/ Northern Light (2002)(Metropolis) / "Winter Comes", "Bullet",
"We Want Revolution", "Atlas" and "Rising Sun" (25:57)  

Covenant/ Skyshaper (Metropolis)(2006)/ "Spindrift", "20 Hz", "Sweet and
Salty", "Greater than the Sun" and "The World Is Growing Loud" (28:28)

Din Fiv/ Infinity (1996)(SINless/Metropolis)/ "Terminal Condition", "Piss
Christ (v 2.0)", "Control Group" and "Let It Go" (21:47)

Download/ The Eyes of Stanley Pain (1996)(Nettwerk)/ "Glassblower", "Seven
Plagues", "Sidewinder", "Collision" and "Base Metal" (27:48)

Electro Assassin/ Bioculture (1994)(Pendragon/Metropolis)/ "Haywire",
"Heavy Unit", "Ultrafear", "F-Zero" and "Terminal Choice" (29:53).

Electro Assassin/ The Divine Invasion (1995)(Cyber-Tec/SPV/Synthetic
Symphony)/ "Bodyhammer", "Voyager", "Dreamweb" and "Beyond Salvation"
(26:35)

Front 242/ Front by Front (1992)(Epic)/ "Until Death (Do Us Part)",
"Felines", "Circling Overland", "Headhunter" and "Welcome to Paradise"
(22:59)

Front 242/ Tyranny for You (1991)(Sony)/ "Sacrifice", "The Untold",
"Neuroba****ng" and "Soul Manager" (20:00)

Front 242/ (****) Up Evil (1993)(Sony/ Epic)/ "Skin", "Motion", "Fuel",
Hymn", "Flag" and "Skin" (24:20)

Front 242/ (Evil) Off (1993)(Sony)/ "Genecide", "Modern Angel", "Serial
Killers Never Kill Their Girlfriend" and "Crushed" (23:19)

Front Line Assembly/ Tactical Neural Implant (1992)(Third Mind Records)/
"The Blade", "Mindphaser", "Outcast", "Gun" and "Bio-Mechanic" (28:06)

Haujobb/ Freeze Frame Reality (1995)(Pendragon/ Offbeat)/ "Trivial",
"Perfect Average" and "Sensor" (22:20)

Haujobb/ Solutions for a Small Planet (1996)(Metropolis/ Offbeat)/ "The
Cage Complex", ("Nature's Interface",) "Depths", "Distance", "Clockwise"
and "The Cage Complex" again (27:38(32:50))

Haujobb/ ninetynine (1999)(Metropolis)/ "overflow", "cutedge", "creator",
"x-flow", "less" and "grounds" (33:28)

Heavy Water Factory/ Author of Pain (1997)(Energy Records)/ "Alone",
"Strange", "Connected", "The Individual", "Revenge" and "Vampire" (26:33)

Laether Strip/ Underneath the Laughter (1994)(Cleopatra)/ "We Will
Follow", "Atheistic Sermon", "Prying Eyes" and "World's End" (31:35)

Laether Strip/ The Rebirth of Agony (Cleopatra)(1997)/ "the edge of
anger", "how do I know?", "my mind is my master", "lies to tell", "switch
on/switch off" and "make my blood boil" (31:32)

Mark 13/ Survival (1994)(Linear)/ "Neuritis", "Strategem", "Cyber Christ",
"Turbulence" and "Instability" (22:17)

Mentallo and the Fixer/ Where Angels Fear to Tread (no date)(Zoth Ommog/
Metropolis)/ "Power Struggle", "Abominations Unleashed", "Decomposed",
"Atom Smasher", "Bring to a Boil" and "Sacrilege (Grimpen Ward)" (35:47)

Mentallo and the Fixer/ Burnt beyond Recognition (1997)(Metropolis)/
"Abandon All Hope", "Other World Technology", "Mother of Harlots" and
"False Prophets" (30:14)

Plastic Noise Experience/ -196 C (1994)(Van Richter/ KK)/ "Spying Views",
"Plugged", "Inter Space", "Synthesis" and "Last Regression" (21:30)

Skinny Puppy/ Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse (Capitol)(1986)/ "One Time
One Place", "Burnt with Water", "200 Years", "Deepdown Trama Hounds" and
"Antagonism" (30:44)

Skinny Puppy/ Rabies (1989)(Nettwerk)/ "Rodent", "Hexonxonx", "Amputate",
"Rivers", "Worlock" and "Two Time Grime" (30:50)

Skinny Puppy/ Too Dark Park (1990)(Nettwerk)/ "Tormentor", "Grave Wisdom",
"Rash Reflection", "Shore Lined Poison" and "Nature's Revenge" (20:34)

Skinny Puppy/ Last Rights (1991)(Nettwerk)/ "Love in Vein", "Riverzend",
"Knowhere", "Circustance" and "Mirror Saw" (25:02)

Skinny Puppy/ The Greater Wrong of the Right (2004)(Synthetic Symphony)/
"I'mmortal", "Goneja", "EmpTe", "Ghostman" and "Use Less" (23:34) 

Thine Eyes/ Christian *** Loops (1998)(Doppler Effect)/ "House Parts",
"The Celibate", "Count (amendments 3)", "Vaseline Machine" and
"Uncomplication" (28:25)

X-Marks the Pedwalk/ Abattoir (the Collection) (1995)(Cleopatra)/
"Dependence", "Solitude", "Helpless (Depressed mix)", "Danger" and
"Abortion" (22:26)

X-Marks the Pedwalk/ Abattoir (the Collection) (1995)(Cleopatra)/ "Look on
This Side", "(God Takes a) Photograph", "Danger", "Arbitrary Execution",
"Abortion", "Mirthless Knick-Knack", "Helpless (Depressed mix)",
"Solitude" and "Dependence" (41:09)

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