Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel

I've been on a Foetus kick for the last few days. The timelessness of these recordings is astounding. The absence of band photos or videos, combined with the facts that he's always been difficult to pigeonhole AND the superb quality of the recordings means they could have been released anytime in the last 30 years. Things like "Diabolus in Musica" or "Sick Minutes" sound so contemporary alonside groups like Battles, for instance.

I'm not surprised David Gedge likes Foetus & the Membranes - apparently the name The Wedding Present was inspired by his being a fan of the Birthday Party.

And the early Weddoes stuff was super-intense too.

Currently listening to Stereoid Maximus's "Gondwanaland". Wild. And GROOVY!

Along with everybody else, I just fucking LOVE the mid-to-late-80s Foetus stuff. Esp Nail, but the singles and side projex too. Fucking Wiseblood! Amazing music and the lyrics are even better. Stuck in that "confrontational" 80s fake tough guy mode, but still so smart, funny, self-lacerating and perversely joyful. I like how he frames the stereotypical pigfuck tropes as 40s hard-boiled noir. Gives it a big wink and makes the nihilist mutilation angle seem a lot less pretentious. Damn fine producer of other folks' music, too (Boss Hog, etc.).

my sister found out she lives in his old house! a pale youth was standin outside the front door looking overinterestedly at her windows and she said "wtf dude" and he explained

of course he might just have been a perve w.a genius line in cover stories

WHEN YOU'RE DESTINED TO LIVE IN A STREET OF SHAME

STREET OF SHAME

OMG I'd just die knowing I lived in the guy's house. Actually, no, I think I'd dress up as Lydia Lunch and rub my body against the walls for a few hours.

I'LL MEET YOU IN POLAND, BABY!

Hole never gets old. What a record.

yeah i totally agree.

i wonder if the remastered version that i read rumours about were actually ever released by some bizarre, and whether they are worth the extra £££ on an album i have already got 4 copies of ..

I'LL MEET YOU IN POLAND, BABY!

i mean to post that line every 1st of september but always forget.

Downloaded Hole, Nail, Thaw and Sink as a result of reading this thread a couple of weeks ago. Damn, that shit holds up. "I'm gonna soak my head under your hose!"

Flow and Love are essential

"Love" remix album is coming soon. Jason Forrest and Fennesz are involved, amongst others. The re-issues are definetely out there now but I haven't heard them.

"Butterfly Potion" as the pinnacle of human achievement: discuss

>"Butterfly Potion" as the pinnacle of human achievement: discuss

Nah, I gotta go with "A Prayer For My Death."

Then it seems we are at an impasse.

All of this shit is still amazing.

>"Butterfly Potion" as the pinnacle of human achievement: discuss

Nah, I gotta go with "A Prayer For My Death."

-- unperson, Saturday, September 15, 2007 3:13 PM (4 hours ago)

"Throne of Agony" maybe?

Louis, I know we've discussed this before, but I have to admit that I think LOVE is the least essential of his work so far (to the point that I got a little worried that he'd fallen off, actually. The first time I bought a foetus rec and had a "eh." reaction to it.)

My cureent high rotation favorite is "Kid Hates Kid", actually.

Love > Gash

Well, if for nothing else, Love is worth it for 'Don't Want Me Anymore' alone, a supreme, slow-building fusion of orchestra and fuzz-guitar with an absolutely lethal pay-off.

Love > Gash

Haven't heard "Love" yet but there is no denying the classic-ness of "Hammer Falls."

whenever Offed comes in on this thread, i always feel guilty for having ignored my Foetus collection for so long. must be a hormonal thing, as i only ever enjoy Jims groove when i am pissed off, which has to be said, is a very rare situation these days.
though i can listen to Nail what ever mood i am in.
oh, and i far prefer Slung on Gash.

Much as I bang on about Foetus, I only have 3 of his albums, namely the last two and Nail (courtesy of JJ). All are very good, but I definitely need to explore further.

That said, I can't imagine anything else of his being better than "Kreibabe". Tenser, fiercer, and more emotionally wrought than most plays, the song unfolds like twisted opera, for a genuinely (as opposed to Lloyd-Webber circus-freak) disturbed mind to find reason within its own depravity, racking up the wrongness and the paranoia by increments throughout its 13-minute runtime. Show-stopping. Stunning. Most unbelievable of all, catchy!

is it too late to trade in my mind

LJ I swear I'm gonna send you Hole if you haven't heard it yet.

I found a promo vinyl copy of the Null EP on the East Coast abandoned under a record rack for a mere six bucks. Never heard it, or any of the Sony stuff in fact. It's pretty damn good! Now I have copied Gash and Love from the radio station and plan on doing a little catching up with Mr. Thirlwell in 2008.

Hole? To my eternal shame, I only have 'Nail', 'Flow' and 'Love' thus far. If you're feeling any seasonal charity, I'd be very grateful!

HUMAN HEIFFER FOR A FILLET VEAL!
HUGH HEFNER AND A HUMAN MEAL!
SOMEONE'S MAKING ME A HUMAN MEAL!

dude, get HOLE immediately.

or else I'm gonna cook you a stew you'll choke on!

I wish someone would write a book about his lyrics - I finally found out that "the snot-green sea, the scrotum-tightening sea" is from James Joyce's 'Ulysses' quite recently, for instance

Louis, your ILX mail address doesn't work?

Hmm. papi3rm4ch3alamph1b1an at hotmail dot com (de-googleproofed, of course) is probably the best one to get in touch with.

not just hole - but Wiseblood aswell sir, and what no Thaw!
natually, i can help you if required sir ..

Well, it is Christmas! Just the time for spinning JT's delightful carols to human depravity.

MAAAANDELAAAAAYYYYYEEEEEEEE

newest remix album is ?? so far as to how i feel about it

speaking of which, is mr thirlwell remixing much of anybody these days? i still have the CD5 with his RHCP remix on it, and some other stuff lying about, but it seems like its been years.

not heard the new remix album, but i loved DAMP, the internet only release. the packaging was perfectly foetus-esque and very high quality, as was the music (off cuts/remixes from the Love-era).
in fact i have listened to that more than Love, actually.
as for remixes ?
well, he's more into the serious art stuff now isn't he ? shows with orchestras and such.
i doubt labels are going to be offering him $$ for remixes these days.
having said that i know he owes a remix to DJ Food, so you never know !

Oh yes:

http://www.williamsstreet.com/kernel/imageload?table=cat_images;ttl2=15;key1=297096_f_EN_;key2=297096_f_EN;key3=297096_f;key4=-100_f_EN;key5=-100_f

is this a website only release ?
that cover is truly fantastic.
fuck you hirst and your diamond skull.

"-This item cannot be shipped outside the U.S.A. and Canada."

bastards. bastards. bastards.

Amazon (US, anyway) has only the LP listed. Give it time, I'm sure they'll stock the CD as well.

Just read the notes/promo piece from Jackson Publick and was struck by the fact that Quilombo, the album that he says got him to hire Thirlwell in the first place, and indeed all the other Steroid Maximus material aside from the last album is long out of print and impossible to find. Not only that, Flow (which is all over the Venture Bros. pilot, "Cirrhosis of the Heart" especially) is out of print and insanely expensive, despite being only a few years old, while its goddamn remix album is still available and easy to find. WTF, Blue Note?

excuse me Thirsty Ear

eh all you jazz labels look alike

lol i got Flow off Amazon about a year and a half ago for like 8 quid

i am concentrating very hard to make your head explode right now

(is it working)

yeah, i am actually wondering to myself "is it too late to trade in my mind"

https://www.curbed.com/article/brooklyn-artists-loft-law-joshua-charow-book-excerpt.html

original URL

the photos:

https://archive.is/AeGJZ/a7d089fd461a95ddf82f26903a72d52dacf84b54.webp
https://archive.is/AeGJZ/bd32c9244f172a21c23e215b20007763eba93ed5.webp
https://archive.is/AeGJZ/1966299db734f3e3896d7ee18f61112aa28372fc.webp

wow

Lovely stuff

I went there once to interview him for The Wire. It's a really nice space.