I did a search for 'Severed Heads' and Dan Perry's name kept popping up again and again and again
I may be getting hold of a cheap copy of "Clifford Darling" which I'm very very excited about.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
I recently paid, like $9 for a copy of Gashing the Old Mae West, but it was worth it I guess.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― prima fassy (mwah), Monday, 1 March 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link
― prima_fassy (mwah), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 1 March 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
― prima_fassy (mwah), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 1 March 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
and A.R.E. Weapons could go a great "Now, an Explosive New Movie"
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:43 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
i was speaking about this eralier with a friend - if they hadn't had such an intimidating (to some) name, could severed heads have been as big as new order?
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
anyhow, here in the uk, they were never even a blip on the radar. very sad but very indicative of the (pre techno) uk conservatism for any electronic music that wasn't kraftwerk.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
Tom doesn't have a single kind word to say about Ink records, the UK label that ripped the band off, but did pretty much got their stuff distributed on vinyl... and is the reason most of us on this thread might actually own any Severed heads vinyl pre-1985 at all.
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 07:02 (twenty years ago) link
sean - please do make that available as an mp3. i'd like to hear it, even just out of curiosity. i adore 'dead eyes opened'. joakim from tigersushi has done a really excellent re edit of it that should be out soon. i was a bit wary as it's such a sacred song but he has done a very respectful job.
i never knew that ink records ripped them off but i have to say, if it wasn't for ink releasing their stuff over here, i don't think i'd have discovered them until much later when nettwerk started putting their music out.
and dan, i used to be mad about skinny puppy but i can't say i have put on any of there records in the last decade whereas severed heads are always on my stereo. most people in the uk probably only know 'greater reward' and think they made house records as it was a huge dancefloor hit in the summer of love ('88). that piano - mmmmmm!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 September 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 September 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 September 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 4 September 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link
― david acid (gareth), Saturday, 4 September 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
― (Jon L), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link
rotund for success is easily my favorite album of theirs. "greater reward", it's b-side "nation", "all saints day", and "big car" all should've been huger than huge.
in the earlier days of sevcom.com, they were offering the entire catalog as a free download. a friend of mine has all of it on one mp3 cd. it's impressive and humbling.
― tricky disco (disco stu), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 5 September 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago) link
― purple patch (electricsound), Sunday, 5 September 2004 08:26 (twenty years ago) link
This was fun in SF. Wish I'd known about the CD.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
American tour CD now available on Bandcamp:
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/living-museum
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 November 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
Oh a reissue of Clean with extra tracks, my twisted arm, etc.
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/clean
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
Also Tom sez "If you have to have cancer, then the thyroid is a good place to have it, so I’m not worried, but I’m bloody cranky about it let me tell you."interesting bits here http://tomellard.com/wp/2019/12/plans-for-2020/
― lukas, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:13 (four years ago) link
Ellard's latest rebrand as an unsevered solo artist is up:
https://nilamox.bandcamp.com/
At launch there's a CoKlaComa best of, an unreleased 2002 CoKlaComa album, and a $2 mini-album of interpretations of Pachelbel's Canon, under a new alias. He's said that Nilamox is intended to become the home for his future activities.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
A new C21st best-of-rarities mix streamable now, conceived for vinyl and out on December 8th in that format.
(Commissioned by Medical Records,) Heads mastermind Tom Ellard compiled this collection of work from the ‘00s from a variety of sources, from limited, hand-cut discs to video game soundtracks, and then wove snippets from those pieces into a stream of electronic consciousness. Four sides, four songs, all Severed Heads.
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
ooh
― DJP, Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
!!!!
― stirmonster, Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
Ellard has remixed the first four Music Server albums into binaural sound
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 07:44 (three years ago) link
and 5 and 6 are on Bandcamp apparently in a format that works in 5.1 surround if you have that, or 360º if you have the latest unwired Apple Airpods, and they don't fall out of your ears when you move your head to follow the sound
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 07:50 (three years ago) link
Here's an hour of radio from a few days after Robert Racic died, playing tracks he edited or produced and talking to collaborators about his work. Pause-buttoned in 1996, and uploaded in 2021, by a guy who was in Sevs in between those dates.
(mp3 on dropbox)
― stilt in the wings (sic), Sunday, 21 February 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
We're making a spreadsheet of every Severed Heads live show. 250+ shows - but with gaps & errors. e.g. Brighton 1985 where? Melbourne Music Expo in 1987? Wollongong in 2007?If you have any documentation all replies welcome. https://t.co/ugFXBGaXi0— Tom Ellard (@t0m3llArd) April 30, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 08:19 (three years ago) link
There's a vinyl reissue of Rotund for Success coming out this year on Medical Records, fwiw
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Sunday, 2 May 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
it might be an acquired taste but the ButchCrutch releases on nilamox* where ellard is just doing the vocals are pretty good
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link
Tom:
After ~30 years in service, some SH albums on Bandcamp have minimal audience. I'm planning a compilation that will condense these 'zombie titles': Cuisine, Gigapus, Haul Ass, Under Gail Succubus.If you own any of these please download your files SOON.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
Cuisine With Piscatorial was the last Sev Heads album I bought during the height of my fandom and I still love it, I'd say nearly as good as Rotund for Success.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
The compilation above now exists, and people who already owned Gigapus on Bandcamp now own "Focus (A mid-life crisis compilation)" instead. (Otherwise it's five bucks, and includes a 45-page pdf - healthy notes from Tom on the purchase page too.)
this means that Gigapus has existed as: a 14-track CD plus Metapus CD-Rom a European CD with thirteen of the fourteen tracks mastered by the co-founder of Yello instead of Ellard a 2xCD with the Dead Eyes Opened Remix 1994 EP included an American single CD with no bonuses or differences a CD plus Vidipus VHS a 17-track Gigaplus CD-R reissue with one track swapped out for a remix, plus three bonus tracks / mixes a 2xCD-R issue with the 14-track/one-track-swapped album remastered, and a bonus disc of demos, mixes and versions (also the Bandcamp version) and a U2/iphone style 'surprise, you have a different record now'
In more rationalising, all the tracks from the Twister / Retread club mix compilation are now bonus tracks on "Dead Eyes Opened 94 ++", which is 100 minutes long and free for a limited time.
The 2019 live-versions-at-home farewell CD is set to be reissued, and will come off bandcamp once it's a physical item again. And the 1982 Blubberknife live-plus-8-tracks album is back up in its 2002 expanded form, for $5.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 3 July 2021 10:39 (three years ago) link
Why is this guy always tinkering.
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 3 July 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
a GB RIP thread from TE:
1960 - 2022— Tom Ellard (@t0m3llArd) January 8, 2022
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Saturday, 8 January 2022 09:06 (two years ago) link
oh no!
― stirmonster, Saturday, 8 January 2022 11:35 (two years ago) link
Always kicking myself for missing the show in Baltimore in Feb 2020, but I think he was not in the lineup? Came to this group too late love Petrol so much.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 8 January 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
don't think Bradbury has been in a lineup in a longtime. Was interesting discovering some of his solo stuff, gave a good sense of what his contribution might have been.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 January 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
(he was p much only involved in 1982-83 and 1985, but had solo and other-band releases on Terse Tapes beforehand and on Sevcom much later)
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
saw GB play live solo maybe 10 years ago, was an extremely good show - and as suggested upthread he definitely possessed a good amount of whatever made Sevs weird and great when they were weird and great
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 8 January 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
Just heard this, how fucking sad
― raven, Sunday, 9 January 2022 03:55 (two years ago) link
Upcoming livestream on Bandcamp
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/merch/seance
We announce a Seance to be held with the departed spirits of Severed Heads for Halloween 2022. Based upon the freshly restored backing tapes and instruments used by the band in performances in the year 1982, before any hint of acclaim or recognition. You will enjoy an hour of sight and sound from beyond the grave (and probably a bit of in-studio malarkey if the OUIJA board is a bit dodgy. Please join us Saturday 8th October @ 7pm PDT. - The Severed Seance System
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 September 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
Excellent!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
starting soon
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 9 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
Yesterday my shuffling iPod threw up "We Have Come to Bless the House" and I was transported with ecstacy
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 9 October 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
*ecstasy
*pingers
how was it, with pingers, or not?
― stirmonster, Sunday, 9 October 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
Great show!
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 9 October 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
It's up for 48 hours replay, so latecomers might still be able to buy a ticket in that window? Worth it just to hear Tom doing a Beatles cover.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 9 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link