Recommend me some music that sounds like Comus

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Motherhead Bug - Zambodia

have you heard this, roger?
that's the closest to comus i can think of

― Michael Dubsky, Thursday, 1 July 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Jan Dukes de Grey seconded, especially the second album, Mice and Rats In The Loft. I've heard Mormos mentioned in the same sentence as Comus too, but I haven't actually heard their stuff. Dunno what else. Mark Fry perhaps on some of the longer tracks, but still a billion miles away from the bloody heaviosity of Comus.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 1 July 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe the soundtrack to "Wicker Man"? also there's this Baltimore band called Long Live Death who i have yet to hear but supposedly rate Comus as a big influence. a couple guys from the Oxes are in it, pretty sure there is a cd out.

― sherm, Thursday, 1 July 2004 08:18 (nineteen years ago) link

the more recent Current 93 folk stuff sort of sounds like Comus too.

here is amg's review of Long Live Death - "To Do More Than God...to Die"

― sherm, Thursday, 1 July 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't think the world needs/can handle another comus.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 1 July 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Come on then - are these two CDs worth picking up?
http://www.freakemporium.com/site/spalaxproduct.cgi?stocknum=MOCD014
http://www.freakemporium.com/site/spalaxproduct.cgi?stocknum=MOCD013

I ain't ever heard Spoils of War either.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

So mad, I was going to make the Momus joke.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Well if it's any consolation, you were only beaten to the punchline by 29 months.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Spoils of War >>>>>>> Mormos. but Mormos aren't bad. sort of like a lesser Incredible String Band infused with the sensibility of the Holy Modal Rounders. i'm partial to everything James Cuomo touched, even that weird ejazz CD.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

one of Mormos' vocalists - i want to say her name was Annie Hat, or something? - had the witchiest voice ever. almost unbearable. James' voice and delivery are cool but way hippie.
Mother's Wrath >>> Wall, btw.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, okay - thanks!

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i never got mormos. just tedious shit. or so i thought the last time i tried them.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link

there's some quality there. and, yes, quite a bit of tedious shit. but might be worth another try.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I also never got Mormos. Seemed really weak, kind of half-assed and not particularly memorable.

― calvin johnson has ruined rock for an entire generation (orion), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

sort of like a lesser Incredible String Band infused with the sensibility of the Holy Modal Rounders.

i've never heard mormos, but this description makes them sound like the greatest band ever!

― lsd sky chefs (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Except the lyrics are bland/unfunny, the arrangements are lackluster and the pricetag on the orig LPs is absurd.

― calvin johnson has ruined rock for an entire generation (orion), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

the first exuma album. i mean, not really, but crazy guy with an acoustic guitar howling in a weird voice. "mama loi, papa loi"!

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 20 July 2008 07:18 (fifteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

I recently got an old CD of Emtidi's 1972 album Saat, and track #4 "Love Time Rain" really really sounds like Comus!

― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link

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