― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
week was non-music .. except on the last day i saw a german family going for their breakfast (lots of healthy fruit - the b*stards ! i really should be a more resonsible parent) and there was the dad was wearing a pristine fresh Fields of Neph t-shirt ..
nearly choked on my choco-corflakes ..
are they still going .. or on a comeback trail ?
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Dude, that man is a hero, and should be duly lauded as such.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
it was great to see an otherwise lovely looking family (cute, well behaved kids .. grrrr its just too damn sickening ..) and the cooler than f*ck dad in his oh-so-cool T. i mean - a blacker than black T on a scorching day - and he wasn't sweating - not that i checked too much
.. and the realisation that there are lots other families who still have to suffer Dads and their college days infatuations
glorious.
i did wonder briefly .. 'wonder if he knows ILM' but the sun was shining and i had to get back to life - so i never followed up on this ..
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Replace "children" with "child, replace "Fields of the Nephilim" with "Killing Joke" and you have my pathetic little life in a nutshell.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
.. that statement re replacing stuff and getting to you was soooo close to my second thought after i wonder if he knows ILM its just too spooky ..
that and it mirrors my own situ with AOC
.. but my T's are no longer pristine ..
not easy after 18 (18! fuck - time to grow up? nahhhhh) years ..
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
"LONGEVITY, LONGEVITY, I MELT DOWN WHERE I BURN BEFORE!
To this day, I still have precious little clue what the Nephs were hollering about -- some Lovecraftian musings on the encroaching End Times, doubtlessly -- but DANG if their hoary exhorting didn't scorch itself into my adolescent cerebellum like a cattle brand.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
"JOIN US, LUKE, WE ARE YOUR FATHER!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
THEY'RE WEARING SHADES.....IN THE DARK!!!! EAT MY FUCK, COREY HART!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link
When the apocalypse finally arrives, all the true hepcats will be sporting cowboy finery and glacier glasses. Just you wait!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim (jim5et), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Telephonething, Friday, 8 April 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
*Grim Goth Fact: On the anniversary of the cat's death, my mum pulled out a cheap lucky dip photo album containing a single picture of me and Liz, plus a clump of her bloody matted hair.
**'For Her Light' was a towering pop moment, though.
― Huey (Huey), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
God, I hope I didn't. That they followed after was clear enough but the two bands had much different reference points.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I wouldn't have said that.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
It certainly didn't hurt having signed to Beggars Banquet, home of such acts as Bauhaus and the Cult, though the more obvious source of the Nephilim's sound at this point was the Sisters of Mercy, various attempts to deny it aside.
(So I think you were reading too much into things there. ;-) )
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
SEIZE HIM!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
http://justforaday.blogspot.com/2005/05/earth-inferno.html
― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Fields Of The Nephilim (well probably just Carl but he's using the old moniker) released a new album in November! No-one noticed! It's called, wait for it, Mourning Sun - quality play on words there (though I'd have gone with "Son"...).
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000BR6FCE.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Anyway, it sounds like Fields Of The Nephilim! Only not as good, but still! Probably closer to Elizium than any of the earlier stuff. There's a limited edition that comes with a cover of In The Year 2525 that I've sadly yet to hear.
Anyway, if only for fond memories of them BLASTING MY FUCKING EARS OFF at the Mayfair - CLASSIC
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Xiberia (Seasons in the ice cage)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Clignancourt (baaderonixx), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― level 5 dark elf, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
So does the audience at a Fields of the Nephilim concert chant "Fields! Fields! Fields! Fields! Fields!" before the band steps on stage?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 10 November 2007 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Good question. On another topic though, I was watching the video for Blue Water and wondering whether or not it puts paid to the idea that The Nef were never ironic or humourous. I mean, it begins with him hanging from a noose AND SINGING. Shortly afterwards he's in a big cannibal pot with some skull-masked chaps prnancing around him wildly - yet he's still singing the backing vocals. Then Jesus seems to be nailed up on the drumkit and ....etc etc. Sorry, can't take it seriously.
― everything, Saturday, 10 November 2007 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Via the Quietus (and that live DVD is finally coming out):
http://thequietus.com/articles/08546-fields-of-the-nephilim-interview
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
A long needed piece! Beth Winegarner on the second album specifically as well as getting a slew of metal acts to confirm my long held suspicion that the Fields were a hell of an influence on many bands that followed:
http://www.popmatters.com/feature/175956-celebrate-fields-of-the-nephilims-the-nephilim-at-25-by-beth-winegar/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 October 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
I listened to the first three discs in the boxset today. Absolutely awesome stuff. I'd heard some of it previously, but never a full album. It's exactly what I've been wanting since getting heavily into In Solitude's Sister, an album that I think has some clear Nephilim influence.
Also, I adore their look. Nothing embarrassing about it, those cowboys outfits rule.
― jmm, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
Testify!
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
the love in the thread has urged me to do a u-turn on my earlier statement re all things goth, as i have just picked this boxset up.
not really heard much yet, but i'm really looking forward to the long weekend i have soaking all this up via my new hq rattling floorstanders.
question : in the box set there is a disc with remixes etc, was this ever released as a separate album, or is it a boxset special.
oh, and 'dust' just kicked in .. oh yes, this is more like it ..
― mark e, Thursday, 5 December 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
Classic, mostly.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 5 December 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
I have all the albums in various formats scattered god knows where, so I'm tempted to pick up the box set for convenience's sake - have the albums been remastered by any chance?
re. remixes - I think a lot of them were oincluded in the 2 CD version of the 1993 Best Of compilation (god, how many times I listened to that twofer at that time)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 5 December 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
detail re mastering and other stuff (umm 'lo ned) :
http://archive.beggars.com/releases/215/fields-of-the-nephilim-5-albums
― mark e, Thursday, 5 December 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
by album #3 they really discovered they liked long songs ..
― mark e, Thursday, 5 December 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Supposedly they are remastered, but I don't know if the remasters were newly done for this set. There's some info here: http://archive.beggars.com/releases/215/fields-of-the-nephilim-5-albums
Mastering notes – The only album in this set to have been fully re-mastered from the analogue tapes is Elysium. Due to the limited budget (and in some cases non availability of analogue) the other albums / tracks have been mastered from digital sources.
Either way, the sound quality is excellent. Great bass sound throughout.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 December 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
I haven't listened to any Neph stuff since the 1st couple of albums, but I note that one of the recent line-up - Gav King - is also playing in Conflict these days as well.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 5 December 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
I love that. "Sumerland" especially -- 11 minutes and it maintains just the right tension the entire while.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 December 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Quite so. Still majestic and perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 December 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
- Due to the limited budget (and in some cases non availability of analogue) the other albums / tracks have been mastered from digital sources.- (due to time constraints some appear as bonus tracks on the original CDs)
Were Beggars Banquet legally or otherwise forced to put this box set out against their will or something?
― StanM, Thursday, 5 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
oooh .. not thought of that.wonder if the rights revert back to the band in near future, and so they rush released this to cash in.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 December 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
just 'experienced' this track on the new speakers.
damn. shivers all over.
and i would suggest there is actually a big difference in the sonics of the non-analogue remasters.disc 3 sounds immense in comparison to the others.thankfully, disc 3 is clearly the highlight of the boxset.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 December 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
I see what you mean. It might just be a consequence of the original production aesthetics. I take it this band is purposefully going for a kind of smoky, murky vibe a lot of the time. Maybe when someone familiar with these albums hears this set they can tell us.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 December 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
It might just be a consequence of the original production aesthetics.
and the budget available ..
still, i have no complaints as this stuff is ace ..
― mark e, Thursday, 5 December 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
so I got myself the box set as my own personal xmas present to myself - excited to hear it all again but boy did they keep packaging costs to a minimum _ I guess that's what made the package so cheap. At this point I could have gotten the MP3s instead
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 25 December 2013 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Listening to Elizium which i'd never really heard before. Stuff like Submission is great, somewhat surprisingly it sounds like a cross between Bark Psychosis, Clock Dva and Porcupine Tree.
― yeovil knievel (NickB), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
All that, and more!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
For a long time I hadn't bothered with much goth that didn't have some Cure, Banshee, Cocteau or Dead Can Dance blood in it. Tried Bauhaus - In The Flat Field years ago and it didn't do much for me (should try another album).
But then Sisters Of Mercy impressed me because it's just so different and I have trouble making sense of them coming from the time and place they did, they seem like such an oddity to me.
Now in the past few weeks, Fields Of The Nephilim's Dawnrazor... even more of an oddity considering the time and place. It conjures up such an interesting world that seems so complete.
I don't think I ever heard Sisters or Fields when I was a child so this stuff is super fresh to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 May 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
Good choices both.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 May 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
Bonus track "Blue Water" is great.
I'm trying to describe what they're achieving in more detail but cant find the words. Maybe that it seems like some of the songs are more than just regular songs, like fleshed out scenes or something like that?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 May 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
They get even more cinematic over the next few records too.
― MaresNest, Friday, 25 May 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
Hypnotic drones are what set these guys apart.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 25 May 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
Didn't like the second album quite as much, but it's an interesting one. "Shiva" is my favorite by a long distance, just awesome track, but it isn't on the earliest versions of the album somehow.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 October 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
I think it's their best.
― Duke, Friday, 5 October 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
I think "Phobia" is great but the guitar is a tad too close to Motorhead's "Ace Of Spades".
I think I like "Shiva" so much because it's just so overtly sinister, a seductive monster quality.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 October 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
I'm slightly gutted that "Psychonaut" is just a bonus track and not the real ending of Elizium. Seems perfect to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 January 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
Pretty awesome album. Sad that this box set only has 3 studio albums.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 9 February 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F6AhVj7lHI
Can anyone explain what the heck they're doing on a North American Campus Activities Promo Tape?
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
lol
― blows with the wind donors (crüt), Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSgQpgNOO0
― MaresNest, Monday, 19 September 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link