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Post by DrKrippen on Mar 4, 2020 16:50:24 GMT
I have the album with Nemesis on it. It's great. Have to catch up on the rest of their stuff.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 6, 2020 21:07:59 GMT
I only got to know them through the haunting Manhunter (1986) soundtrack, which by the way makes great use of songs such as Evaporation and specially the stunning This Big Hush. However, I have over time ended up favoring the instrumental, which I think is called Coelacanth, and is played during the beautiful tiger scene, and for me the choice of music is so perfectly right for that part, and when I think about it, Shriekback really is the one that comes out on top, when it comes to the music which is being used all through the film.
I think also Michael Mann included some other Shrieback material, on a film called Band of the Hand (1986), which I have never seen (but really want to) and again, he seemed to have a talent of picking out, maybe not these huge popular bands of that time, but the ones which suited his movies and very often it worked like magic.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 6, 2020 21:25:19 GMT
When I think about it, I actually do own their 1985 copy of Oil and Gold, which is not a bad record, still it seems like several of the songs is massively inspired by Talking Heads (not a bad thing) but I often tend to favorise their more atmospheric and calm music, than the more overblown pop-dance stuff.
Faded Flowers is another great one, and I think that was the one which were featured in Band of the Hand (1986).
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Post by michaellevenson on May 24, 2020 12:12:01 GMT
This one might be about the Grenfell fire disaster, not sure, great song anyway.
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Post by michaellevenson on May 24, 2020 12:14:10 GMT
Cancer, a recessive gene , redefined as a femme fatale.
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Post by michaellevenson on May 24, 2020 12:17:06 GMT
An amazing track on their recent album "Without Real String or Fish". The vocal performance of Carl Marsh is staggering. There's a number of made up words, all with 8,9 or more syllables, and he doesn't put a word wrong in singing it. There's no way he could memorize these words when recording without having them written in front of him. It's impossible!! I'll explain. The song is Beyond Metropolis, now we know what a metropolis is , but let's make up a couple of examples similar to ones in the song. A city of kleptomaniacs is a Kleptomaniopolis, or a city with azure blue skies is a Azureopolis. Now , the words and definitions that Carl Marsh sings effortlessly. All coloured light and black light kiss; Panchromosoniradiopolis Or a deep down and dark abyss; Subterranononphotopolis It could feed all fears and phobias; Mescalinomedichemicotopia All human life will seethe and hiss; Cosmovivageniparahystopolis Can you pray for this?; Superphilicredobenedeusangeles From raging flux and atom fizz; Metamorphopolyquantumopolis To a city of plans and maps and lists; Stylolexicartagraphicopolis The everlasting quest for bliss; Intoxivinopharmanarcobibendopolis Can you feel it yet?; Emperteleosmosynersentiopolis Compass spin and Geiger clicks; Polargyrofluximagnetopolis The power to make the axis shift; Hydroleothermadynogasoheliopolis The forlorn intelligentsia; Cerebrasophocognimelantragiopia The steady on hardworking stiffs; Manuferroxylofactopragmatopolis
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Post by michaellevenson on May 24, 2020 12:24:06 GMT
A religious nutter going to blow up a plane.
And the full album version.
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Post by michaellevenson on May 24, 2020 12:31:24 GMT
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