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Tell me about this band!!

I've gotten my hands on a copy of 'The Host of Seraphim' and it is currently blowing my mind as I type. Absolutely beautiful.

So does anyone know anything about them? Classic? Dud? I'm leaning towards C...

― karmaceutical (karmaceutical), Sunday, 17 October 2004 03:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

by the way, you can find it, and other awesome tunes here - http://webjay.org/by/pilgerowski/coldsongsforasub-tropicalguy

― karmaceutical (karmaceutical), Sunday, 17 October 2004 03:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

he used to be in the scavengers and they did a song called 'true love' that totally pre-dated dookie.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 17 October 2004 03:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

I pull out their greatest hits type comp, A Passage In Time from time to time. It's pretty, but sometimes oh so overwrought.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 17 October 2004 04:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

"aion" is oft cited as their peak. "the carnival is over" is my favourite track of theirs but admittedly i've heard only the album from whence it came and the aforementioned "hits" comp.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Sunday, 17 October 2004 04:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm sure there's been a thread about them here, but CLASSIC!

Aion is wonderful, yes (the perfect soundtrack to walking around the Cloisters on a chilly Autumn afternoon), but there are some truly amazing moments on Into the Labywrinth as well (notably the amazing "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)" and "The Ubiquotous Mr. Lovegrove"). I'm not as familiar with their earlier stuff. I first heard them as participants in This Mortal Coil on It'll End in Tears. I'd say the finest introduction to their music might actually be their live album, Toward the Within, which catches them in all their howling, dulcimer-thwacking glory.

And despite their early sartorial style and misleading name (it actually refers to a drum, not a candaver), DCD should never be lumped in with the Goths. If anything they stray closer to "world music" and....gulp..."new age" than anything else.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 17 October 2004 13:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

Surely it's mostly goths who listen to them though, at least in my experience. Anyway, I agree with Alex, Toward the Within is the perfect DCD album.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 17 October 2004 13:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

Dead Can Dance - S/d
Taking Sides: Dead Can Dance vs This Mortal Coil
OPO: MBV, Dead Can Dance, Alphaville, & Chameleons

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 17 October 2004 13:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

Definitely CLASSIC, and I'd say their best album is the one where "Host Of Seraphim" comes from, The Serpent's Egg, which I strongly recommend. Strangely, I always found A Passage In Time a little unsatisfying, probably because it doesn't include anything from the first album and they didn't necessarily chose the tracks I would've. Still, a nice overview for the novice but I'd say get all the albums, they're all worth it (except maybe the last one).

― Seb (Seb), Sunday, 17 October 2004 14:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

totally classic, I was listening to The Serpent's Egg while driving around last night in the rain. It's a perfect album, basically.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

what is the best dead can dance record, thank you

― cutty, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

after finally hearing them all i decided the self titled one was the best

― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

this is true. doesn't hurt if you get the version with the garden of the arcane delights tracks, either.

― what we do is secrete (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 16:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

"doesn't hurt" being a huge understatement...

Glad you ended up liking the first one so much Jim!! :) I hesitate to recommend that one to newbies only because the production sound is so cluttered/dense. I think "Within The Realm of A Dying Sun" will always be my fave, but I believe we've already done an album poll for them haven't we? Yep, we have.

― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 17:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

bimble, which will i like the most? ;)

― cutty, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 17:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

I wish I knew, Cutty, but thanks for asking. ;) Maybe you could look the band up on You Tube first and go about it that way? I trust you understand that on any given DCD album, there are songs sung by the lady and songs sung by the dude, and they give a different vibe. (By the way, incase there is any remaining doubt, I DO love you for that Cocteau Twins clip you posted that I jizzed over. In fact, it encouraged some soul from Ohio to post some really obscure music to my blog. Can't argue with that.)

― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 19:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

DEAD CAN DANCE NEW ALBUM AND TOUR FOR 2012

Unbelievably great news!

― ODD FURRY WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL PLEASE!!!! (diamonddave85), Monday, 16 May 2011 00:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

!!!!!!!

― ...wouldn't need the talcum powder (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 May 2011 00:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

Not exactly new news though, was first announced over a year ago and has already been mentioned on other DCD/Perry threads.

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Monday, 16 May 2011 14:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

Wow! Time to start setting aside some cash for plane tickets to go see them play!

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 16 May 2011 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

Not exactly new news though, was first announced over a year ago and has already been mentioned on other DCD/Perry threads.

yr right, how could anybody have forgotten the maelstrom of press that attended "possible Dead Can Dance reunion in the future at some point" rumors

― ...wouldn't need the talcum powder (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 May 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

yr right, how could anybody have forgotten the maelstrom of press that attended "possible Dead Can Dance reunion in the future at some point" rumors

they weren't rumours, Perry made an official announcement in March 2010 about a new DCD album and tour in 2012

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Monday, 16 May 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

i found an old CD of Dead Can Dance...into the labrynth, it was my wifes and i never really listened to them

but it's kind of amazing how their style really became so influential in movie and video game music

― i'm a fucking walking pair of Docs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 May 2011 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

like esp the sort of "world music" female vox and percussion in a dramatic setting, like if you are spelunking tomb or something

― i'm a fucking walking pair of Docs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 May 2011 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

Flashback to goth/rivethead/incipient programmers in the early 1990s mainlining those CDs as they pull all night sessions with their SLIP connections and I think the explanation is clear.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 May 2011 17:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

but it's kind of amazing how their style really became so influential in movie and video game music

yeah this is otm

― w of in the attic (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 May 2011 17:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

think it was Baraka that really sealed their position in this field, it was very influential at the time

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Monday, 16 May 2011 17:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

new album is good news as long as it's better than fucking Spiritchaser

much love for DCD otherwise!

― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Monday, 16 May 2011 18:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

what a great band

― ODD FURRY WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL PLEASE!!!! (diamonddave85), Monday, 16 May 2011 18:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

lisa gerrard did a bunch of film music though so it's not that surprising.

― akm, Monday, 16 May 2011 19:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

I was gonna say, it's probably her that you hear on those soundtracks/ videogames.

― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 16 May 2011 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

imo a lot of her solo work is as good as/better than a lot of dcd

― w of in the attic (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 May 2011 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

brendan perry's last album was pretty fantastic

― omar little, Monday, 16 May 2011 21:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

Flashback to goth/rivethead/incipient programmers in the early 1990s mainlining those CDs as they pull all night sessions with their SLIP connections and I think the explanation is clear.

im listening to dead can dance and hacking in emacs, as if from another time

― ｎｏｔ＠ｈｏｍｅ＞　░ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

based upon the two albums ive spent time with (serpent's egg and aion), these are the two songs i feel like illustrate the yin and yang of the duo

― ｐｒｉｎｔｆ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

The perfect union:

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

that track still sends shivers down my spine.

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

wow.. stunning

― ｐｒｉｎｔｆ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

http://deadcandance.com/

― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

New album out August 9th.

http://www.directcurrentmusic.com/dc-music-news-feed/2012/5/7/dead-can-dance-are-alive-again-for-first-album-since-96.html

I am so incredibly excited about this.

― theskysgoneout (Jason Pitzl-Waters), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

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