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i can't say anything about replacing stuff, but the artwork is ok, nothing special about the cd inserts, and the typography is a little basic. i had to check this just now, cos it's not something i'd thought about til you asked! nb, i am not wearing my glasses right now

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of not replacing, the LTM reisssue of Rotund For Success is NOT really a song-for-song replacement aid for the Nettwerk release. "Triangle Tangle Tango" is COMPLETELY different on both. I like both, but as different songs. Also, the remix of the LTM version different enough such that it might be worth keeping the Nettwerk and/or Important issue around.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 2 April 2005 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to reiterate that the version of "Big Car" on RFS is wildly, impossibly wonderful. Even if it did make me have a car accident.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 2 April 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM, DANG... YOU'VE MADE IT!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 2 April 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

always thought it was 'all the way to the bottom, maggie...' for some reason.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 2 April 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

me too?

― moley, Sunday, 3 April 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(well, you see, i know it's "maggie", but I was addressing Dan Perry, who also goes by the alias of "Dang" on occasion, and I was using the reference as a method of conveying my condolences for the car accident.)

― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 3 April 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

doh! ok. thought my memory was playing tricks with me.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 3 April 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

aha!

Am I right to believe that very few o.s. Heads fans are aware of their earlier material, from Since The Accident backwards to Blubberknife (but not the crap Ear Bitten before that one)? This early Heads phase is pure gold, my friends.

― moley, Sunday, 3 April 2005 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm aware of it all. i got into them when 'big bigot' came out and worked my way backwards. actually i've not heard 'ear bitten'. of the earlier releases i think my fave song has become 'gashing the mae west'.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 3 April 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm aware of it.. Nettwerk reissued the early stuff on two CDs making the late 80s/early 90s.. and cut the Blubberknife cassette in half between the two CDs (one was Since the Accident, the other was City Slab Horror)

Also, those old Ink records are not too hard to find used.. at least in the states, probably even easier in the UK, Australia, and/or NZ.

― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 3 April 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I hope LTM comes along and does better reissues of the early Severed Heads catalog soon... going backwards from Rotund. That would be perfect.

― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 3 April 2005 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the sevcom releases of clean, 80s cheesecake and ear bitten are well worth a listen. also the double cd of city slab horror with lots of extra tracks. and how did no-one mention stretcher? it has the mighty heat seeking susan on it. and halo, possibly the best track ever to have 'hey hey nonny nonny no' in it's lyrics. you can stream / preview them via the drop down menu thingy on the sevcom site

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Sunday, 3 April 2005 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the best place to start? I love the joakim edit of "dead eyes opened", and apparently it's quite faithful to the original.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 3 April 2005 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

his edit is very, very faithful to the original. he's just slightly cut it up, re eq'ed the drums and added some cymbols. the 'dead eyes opened' ep which has the original and also includes the wonderful 'we have come to bless this house' is a good place to start as is the 'come visit the big bigot' album. for a more polished / accessible pop entry point, 'rotund for success' would be a good choice.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the thing is.. there isn't really any other Sev track like "Dead Eyes Opened", nor is there any other track like "Same Loves You", nor "Propeller". I could go on. Point being: if you buy a Severed Heads album, it's either a) going to vary wildly from track to track, meaning no entire album of "Dead Eyes Opened"s, or b) it won't vary wildly but it will be one of the latter releases which aren't as good, IMHO.

The most danceable Severed Heads album is probably Rotund For Success, which is the only album to get an LTM reissue. So that's your best bet. Then again, there's nothing like "Dead Eyes Opened" on it.. the Racic produced "All Saints Day" comes closest, but it sounds closer to late 80s New Order dance type stuff more than anything else (which isn't a bad thing!).

Severed Heads aren't a dance oriented type band.. they just have/had a dance facet (as of 1983) that's part of their overall strange, beautiful architecture.. if that makes sense. I could easily imagine an indie rock cover tribute album for Severed Heads just as easily as a techno tribute album for Severed Heads.

― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

On the same album where "Dead Eyes Opened" originates, Since The Accident from 1983, there's the track "A Million Angels" which pretty much invents hip-hop tempo "I.D.M.".. the track that follows it, "Houses Still Standing", sounds like an electronic version of "Comb", one of the Butthole Surfers' most nauseating songs (meant in a good way.) There's also the cheap sounding "Epilespy '82" which samples wolf cries onto a crunchy cheap synth beat. There's the very gutteral Steve Reich-ish "Gashing The Old Mae West", and then there's "Exploring The Secrets Of Treating Deaf Mutes", which pretty much invents mid-to-late 80s industrial dance music and thereafter.. Babyland, Die Warzau, and Nitzer Ebb owe as much to this track as they do to DAF. And then you get "Brassiere In Rome", which sounds more like a Steve Fisk/Negativland type tape loop track.

Did I mention that Since The Accident is one of the greatest albums ever?

― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah I don't need it to be dancey necessarily, I am not a total luddite!

ps-see you thursday stirmonster! I've been getting nervy!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

also worth hearing is the garry bradbury 'drug induced sex rituals' - (http://www.sevcom.com/item-sexrituals.html)

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes this thursday - can't wait! why nervy?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, totally forgot that they used the human league's 'hard times' drums on spitoon thud. and hello stir, did you get the txt message about mixing ? did you know that k-tel own the rights to dead eyes opened in the states?

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ah it's probably my biggest gig to date, not really nervous I suppose, have played when it's full plenty of times, just yeah, a little nervous!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

frenchie - got the txt and replied to it. didn't you get it? k=tel?!!?

ronan - i thnk nervous is good. i always get a little nervous before i play. i'm not however looking forward to not beng able to smoke when i'm playing.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

nerves often makes me change my mind about what to play at the very last minute, which can be good.

yeah the smoking thing will be weird, the door is very near the dj booth but that's not much good while you're playing. I dunno, as the DJ I wonder what would happen if you lit up.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i tried it in new york once and almost got thrown out the club! still, it's good practice for when they ban it here next year.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet live bands can do it, it's probably alot easier to stop a DJ than a band though I suppose.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 3 April 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Since The Accident... is a wonderful, wonderful album but I haven't been able to listen to it recently because I only have it on casette and I no longer have a casette player (hence my repping for all of the mid-era SH which I have on CD). Also, I agree about "Halo" being balls-out great; it's also on Bulkhead.

AND WHAT ABOUT "HAROLD AND CINDY HOSPITAL" AND "LEGION"??????????

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 3 April 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

mid era severed heads is the cuisine with piscatorial era. (being pedantic, i know) it's their 25th year or is it the 26th? ah well

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Sunday, 3 April 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Um. Every recent post I've made to this thread (barring the last one) has been about Rotund For Success, which I see as the beginning of mid-era SH.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

humble apologies. thought you were referring to the big bigot era.
doh

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i have recently been going through some of my old vinyl and since the accident was the first thing i put on. it's kind of their mutation period between noise tape collages and weirdo beat-driven pop with noise tape collages. and how can you go wrong with titles like "brassiere, in rome"?

― basquiat (disco stu), Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

http://sevcom.com/

;___;

― electricsound, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

;________________________;

fuck

― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

Well...

http://tomellard.com/

This is Tom Ellard's web site. It's currently in test mode and nothing for the public.
The current experiment is here. It will install a plug in! It will download about 7Mb!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2008 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, it's not like HE'S dead.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2008 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

haha yes well

still the end of an era tho

― electricsound, Friday, 15 February 2008 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

all the way to the bottom, maggie.. you've made it... *sob*...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGHHH!
-- donut bitch (donut), Monday, March 1, 2004 4:30 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

;_; ;_; ;_;

― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 15 February 2008 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

ohhhhhhh that sucks though

― John Justen, Friday, 15 February 2008 05:54 (eighteen years ago)

why kill off a name that was essentially a solo project?

― dan selzer, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Big Severed Heads fan (well, up to Gigapus, at least). "Rotund for Success" is their most accessible, beginner-friendly album, I suppose, but I always preferred the experimental noise of their earlier albums ("Blubberknife", "Since the Accident", and "City Slab Horror"). Favs include "Gashing the Old Mae West", "Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit", "Dead Eyes Opened", "Goodbye Tonsils", "Harold and Cindy Hospital", "Greater Reward", and "All Saints Day" (that song shoulda been huge!).

― eeyore19, Saturday, 16 February 2008 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Holy crap. Some genius has put their Rock Arena in-studio from 1986 up on Y0uTooB :

Part 1 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OjAnr4dsLs

Part 2 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGiKhPQ-k74

(Fast forward 7 minutes. Turn volume up to 11. Wait for your head to explode).

― SeekAltRoute, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

giving the 'commerz' comp a spin at work today (due to no-one else being around, hah). all that sped-up tape fuckery at the end of 'halo' is pretty inspired.

i thought i'd snagged a copy of the joakim's 'dead eyes opened' edit recently from tigersushi but they said they'd listed it on the website by mistake and didn't actually have any copies left. ;__;

― fahn fahn fahn on the suggest bahn (haitch), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 05:17 (seventeen years ago)

I wonder why disc 2 of ComMerz never got released on emusic? I dloaded half of 1, 2 never came out and now I think 1's been yoinked as well :(

― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 05:31 (seventeen years ago)

vol 2 is there now. i thought vol 1 came down because it was the wrong album but they never bothered putting up the right one

― lorax enforcement officer (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 05:38 (seventeen years ago)

did you guys read about the dream I had about you on the ILX dreams thread on ILE?

― Take The Gothheads Bowling (Bimble), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 05:39 (seventeen years ago)

no i've never looked at that thread

― lorax enforcement officer (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 05:43 (seventeen years ago)

did anyone here ever pick up the adenoids box?

― lorax enforcement officer (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 05:43 (seventeen years ago)

Nar i was wrong, 2 was always up and its 1 that was never available. Which is a bugger cos i dont have much of their older stuff. Except for a mangled casette copy of "Clifford", somewhere.

― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 05:44 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

from sevcom: ANNOUNCING ADENOIDS 4 CD SET SOON AVAILABLE

woo

― journey to the center of fat butt (electricsound), Monday, 11 January 2010 04:25 (sixteen years ago)

also ellard's blog has been great lately

― journey to the center of fat butt (electricsound), Monday, 11 January 2010 04:44 (sixteen years ago)

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