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

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:30:34 +0000, Anthony Nance wrote:

> mimus <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>> 
>>>> _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, 
> 
> Yes, but we left topic-ville several posts back. :)
> 
>> 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:
>> 
>> <snip stuff I really appreciate>
> 
> That's great, thanks.  I've barely brushed up against this stuff
> (some tiny snippets of Front 242 and Skinny Puppy).  If pandora
> cooperates, I'll seed a few stations from your list and look for 
> some used as well.
> 
> As for me, and in a different direction than what you listed,
> the successor to the TD is what was once called "post-rock" 
> before the term became meaningless via over-usage.  More
> specifically, I mean stuff in the vein of Mogwai, gybe!, and 
> Red Sparowes.  I can supply more info and specifics if you're 
> both interested and unfamiliar.

Does it have guitars? I was sick of guitars by the early '70s . . . .

(Bass, especially fretless and/or bowed, is alright.)

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Once again the familiar miracle: from chaos, music.

< Vance