PROLAPSE: Classic or Dud

And Turk, I'm sorry if I've caused you any anguish - just an innocent enquiry ;-) - I'm a Tube Bar alumnus '96/'97 vintage, see?

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So sad, to end up being eaten by a whale. A victim of his own deathlist really. It makes me sad, in the same way remembering drinking fizzy strawberry vodka in the park, with a girl you no longer know, listening to a tape she made you of The Fat Tulips, Cellophane, 14 iced bears, the Marigolds, the McTells and the latest Bouquet single, Blub!

Let this most odd thread live on forever!

They will be sorely missed. ahoo.

*HONK*

ahhh... Prolapse.

currently in London recording new material

Ok this is amazing lol I always thought they were some kind of tuff guy post Am Rep noise band line Unsane or something

I love the suggested polarity in the premises of these old Classic or Dud threads. Sometimes i miss it

See you there lj

in your banana suit?

This thread was/is magic (was, as it stretches back 25 years to a time when there wasn't even a consensus that the band had broken up!) Last year was another year of belated discovery for me, in that two 90s-00s bands with names that I'd heard repeatedly back in those decades, but that I'd never actually HEARD --- and had no idea what they even sounded like --- became two of my all-time favourites. On the US side, it was the fantastic US Maple, partly inspired by an ILM thread or two; on the UK side, Prolapse, initially inspired entirely by this thread. Which is hilarious, as when I took the time to re-read said thread from the top today, I realized it's almost entirely made up of in-jokes and references that a non-fan such as I had no right undertanding. BUT somehow, all this thread's dubious reports served to make Prolapse a No 1 priority on my must-hear-next list, and I was glad to find that they've kept or regained control of their catalog, and its all easily available digitally on Bandcamp. How did I miss them first time 'round? I know that they initially had some connections to the Too Pure bands of the early 90s, at least that's where I first heard their name, and I heard (and even saw) most of them. But not this sextet, which turns out to have been one of the most original, funniest, and musically-challenging Rock Groups of their time. And the best news of all: they are one of those rare groups that have recently reunited and continued exactly where they left off with absolutely no discernable drop in quality (or major bulge in waistlines!).'I Wonder When They're Going to Destroy Your Face' (2025) picks up in a completely convincing way where 'Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes' (1999) left off (and since the latter record quickly became one of my Favourite Rock LPs Of All Time, i'm in heaven.) Prolapse, not satisfied to have simply come up with one of the most unwelcoming band names of all time, have come up with scads upon scads of the best song title evah AND written the songs worthy of those titles ... they've managed to find a way of making guitars and basses with shouting on top sound like something brand new under the sun. AND the thread revive above after the 'two months pass' title suggests that there's a new record in the making as well! One can only hope that the super 'Cha Cha Cha 2000' is indicative of a just-around-the-corner re-assessment of the late Klaus Dinger's ridiculously great (if not just plain ridiculous) post-La Dusseldorf discography (mostly) issued under the 'La! Neu?' moniker. Kudos to Prolapse for simultaneously adding a third 'Cha' to the title of Dinger's deathless set-closer, while cutting the length in song time to just under three perfect minutes, from the half-hour La Dusseldorf original (not to mention the transformative out-of-body experience that is the 2-hour 'Cha Cha 2000' on La! Neu's double-CD 'Live in Tokyo 1996 Vol 1'!) –– Can't wait for the next Prolapse! (erm ...) --- thanks for the inside tip, X Post Zappi! And X post also to the June 2026 statements just above from 'Blues guitar Solo Heatmap etc' and 'rameau in the main room (dog latin)', both of which make points worth making.

That's funny, I recently decided to extrapolate a small genre/movement/vibe from disparate strands of 1997 postish-rock and both US Maple and Prolapse made it in: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/acoleuthic/wandercore/

I'll be at the London gig, and am somehow even weighing up the Ipswich one too as my friend will be at that one

Scottish Mick was also in a short-lived band called Cha Cha 2000 in the '90s. The love for Dinger runs deep.

Tbf it was also the wider Prolapse cohort who got me into La Düsseldorf back in those days and often I do think they were the actual greatest krautrock band of all time, yes, better than Can or Faust or even Neu themselves - well, what am I saying, it wasn't "the wider Prolapse cohort", it was zappi. It's all his fault.

I always confuse this band with Prelapse.

honestly, this is kind of a "where have you been all my life" band like i dunno if arab strap meets unrest and the country teasers or something

Fallure

It's kind of fun that their first incarnation began just as Dog Faced Hermans ended and Wire took a hiatus cos they're both massively in there too

yeah, what a cool band

xps don't worry emil.y, I continue to be punished on a kosmisch scale for all crimes committed (including preferring Harmonia lol)