Peter Murphy's "Dust"

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Ok, just got this. I've see some love professed for aforementionned album and I can see *something* underneath all the muddled drones and ud solos.. So will anybody help me how to approach this?

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

Unfortunately not, I'm in pretty much the same boat, lots of mates seem to love it, and while I don't think its shite, it doesn't do much for me - There's some nice MOR stuff on there, and some pretty tunes but its just OK and nothing special.
Although having said that I would still be interested in hearing the remix album

― Action Jackson, Thursday, 17 July 2003 09:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm still oscillating between seeing some kind of brooding masterpiece in which I could get lost into for years and a lingering suspicion that this is an end-of-the-line cheap Dead can Dance revival.. I fear that thinking too much about the latter will ruin the album forever..
What's the remix album?

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 17 July 2003 10:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Nutty, I was just talking about this album last night with a good friend of mine who is also Peter's webmaster. This was actually my favorite album last year as much as I had one -- at least it was the one I listened to the most. I go for 'brooding masterpiece' myself, it does rather easily and perfectly push a variety of my buttons on that front. Live a number of the songs were even more wondrous, like "Your Face."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

I love it too - I think that Murphy's always had interesting ideas about how to mess around with song structure without 1)getting proggy 2)seeming over-muso and while still essentially remaining a pop artist.

I have no idea where I've put my copy of said album, however

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

++Live a number of the songs were even more wondrous, like "Your Face."

indeed. the album doesnt too do much for me. it is one of the better bootlegs i have. the songs really flow live. amazing. bonus is when peter goes into an "ozzy-heavy metal" jokey thing between songs. (jackyl and skid row were playing next door.

― kephm, Thursday, 17 July 2003 20:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

I like John's point because it's that exact tension between 'pop' as broadly defined and what one can do with it which makes it work. Something that the Bauhaus reunion (much as I loved it) showed wasn't merely that Murphy had moved on mentally -- thus a number of lyrical changes -- but also musically.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 July 2003 21:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

What do you mean y by that? That seeing him sing the Bauhaus stuff made you realise how much he'd moved on or that his growth was actually reflected in the way he performed the material?
on a side note: Bauhaus reunion / Gotham live lp: C/D?

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

More the former, but also the realization that while he still works with a rock band lineup it's different, much different, than Bauhaus's scope. Which is interesting because Bauhaus does have a heck of a wide scope musically, but in both his own work and in Love and Rockets' (and the associated solo efforts) everyone was and is capable of showing much more over time, so really the reunion tour was enjoyable but also clearly a conscious step back to a space that everyone had been in once but weren't necessarily going to go back to (and "The Dog's a Vapour" and the DCD cover aside, they didn't).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 15:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

this is a masterpiece of an album - in many ways the timing/ texture/ atmospherics make it this decade's "Gone to Earth" - a cult treasure listened to by the elite few.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

I want to believe you. But why is it that I can take David Syvian seriously and can't do the same with Peter Murphy? They both started out as ridiculous tarts in pancake makeup.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

Since I started this thread, I've given it a few more shots, but I think I'll never get beyond admiring this one from a distance.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

new Peter Murphy album - this Autumn !
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=69342

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

Ah, this would explain why my friend who's his webmaster has been so busy recently. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Stephen Perkins and Eric Avery are involved with this album

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

Very nice -- Eric A did a fine job with him on the tour some years back.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Ned, i know you wrote this Barne's & Noble review, who else says "Huzzah!"?

Cleo Absinthe Lament (hahahaha (Darkentries515@aol.com), very, very, very bored,8/31/2003,
huzzah!
Hmm, I see I'm the first person to review this album. You're probably reading this, holding your Visa card tight as you consider very carefully whether or not to cough up the twenty or so bucks for the latest Peter Murphy album. Well, it would be easy to say, YOU FOOL! ORDER THIS ALBUM OR FACE EVIL SATAN HEAD BITEY!!, but I know a couple of people besides myself who own this album and not all of them are very pleased with it. I, personally, love this album, and so does a friend of mine. Yup, just one other person besides myself. The other two people I know who have heard this album loathe it with all of their being. Why? Well, it really depends on what kind of Murph fan you are. Honestly, I don't get why Bauhaus purists don't like this album. It doesn't sound that different from "Bela" if they had added some middle eastern influence. Although I didn't really think any of Peter's solo stuff strayed very far from the Bauhaus sound. He just took the Bauhaus sound and layered it and texturized it and maybe even, dare I say, made it better. This album is a true work of ambient goth art. It's very middle eastern-worldbeat- industrial sounding, but it doesn't even go near going all Sting on your @ss, thank god. It's got this otherwordly, smooth, smoky kind of sexiness about it. He took the next step forward from Cascade. And also, may I add that it's spiritual, but it never gets annoying or preachy. It's just art. So, you know what, evil satan head bitey aside, you should really buy this album. It's a magical, mystical, sensual experience.
Also Recommended: Buy the other Peter Murphy albums. Yes, Holy Smoke too, dammit. Don't listen to the others, they don't understand. They are not enlightened beings like we.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

Evil Satan Heat Bitey?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Hah! No, that must just be one of my minions. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

8 years pass...

This is a brilliant late night album, it has to be said.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 21 October 2012 05:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

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