Oh, wait, I guess this thread is more up to date.
― The Freewheelin' Rebecca Black (Eazy), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
we had some good machinesbut they don't work no moreI loved you oncedon't love you any more
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
and you knowthis is nothing specialjust one slitand we could lose ourselves forever
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
my feelings for this record are, like, blood-deep. being nineteen and desperate and alive and futureless on a dance floor in Portland dancing to "Nemesis" was a huge early glimpse of the possibilities of music for me, the depth of community possible on the dance floor, the intensity of the bond among people responding to the same beat, the same words. finding out about "Malaria" was just icing on the cake. I always forget this album when people ask me for my all-time list, but I shouldn't, because it made a huge impact on me.
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Shriekback is one of my most favorite bands, they really hit something primal inside. Their funk-post-punk fusion still works for me, especially on the first few albums but everything they've done has something to offer. "Oil & Gold" was my introduction and one of my main summer 1985 jams. And it's getting a deluxe reissue any day now. Here's the contents of the bonus disc:
CD 2: Bonus Disc1. “Suck” - Live Hatfield Poly (Shrk3)2. “Mothloop” – Live Hatfield Poly (Shrk3)3. “Feelers” - Live Hatfield Poly (Shrk3)4. “Nemesis” - Extended5. “Nemesis” - Arch Deviant Mix6. “Fish Below the Ice” – Single Edit7. “All Lined Up” - B-Side “Fish Below the Ice”8. “My Spine (Is The Bassline)” - B-Side “Fish Below the Ice”9. “Fish Below the Ice” - The Plankton Enriched Mix10. “Fish Below the Ice” – Dance Mix
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 August 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
Those are decent bonus tracks but the real thing that will have me forking out the dough is the prospect of hearing this thing remastered. I had no idea it was finally coming out! Link, Gerald?
Like aero and Gerald and Dan, Shriekback struck a deep chord with me when their shit was coming out. That blend of esoterica and body music and eels. I tried so hard to imitate them on my Tascam in 1986, thinking I was clever...
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 15 August 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm living in a neon house
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 15 August 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
It came out today in the UK, apparently. Using the original UK cover too:
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/08/08/shriekback-oil-and-gold-reissue-remaster-tracklist/
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
yall can add me to the shreikback army.
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Monday, 15 August 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
do i abuse mod powers to spell that right, prob not
We know what you mean, private.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
I've never read a single interview with these guys, but I'm curious what inspired this way of writing lyrics. Again, it's kinda like Remain in Light and Peter Gabriel, but so dense and so much its own thing, so primal and contemporary at once.
― The Freewheelin' Rebecca Black (Eazy), Monday, 15 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
otm! there was nobody really quite in this poetry-meets-the-dance-floor groove - so immediately apprehendable but so dense & rich. "this is the splendor of our achievement/caught in the airstrike/with a poison kiss" - there's talking heads in there ok but "this is the splendor of our achievement" is up on its own level
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 15 August 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
"call in the airstrike"
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
love this record so much
― sleeve, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
as soon as i saw that oil and gold was getting reissued, i knew it was going to be one of the cherry red labels !
still, i aint complaining
will be interesting to hear this reissue against the semi-legit remastered edition that barry released via the bands website years back ..
― mark e, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
Why is it bad that it's Cherry Red? Do their reissues tend toward the sonically lackluster?
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know how much of the live stuff and alt mixes from that bonus disc might be from "The Dancing Years," but that's a Shriekback album I own and NEVER play.
― Hey T-Paw, mow my lawn! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
The Hatfield live stuff is good, they released a whole disc of it through their website which I have. Dates from around Jam Science IIRC.
"Fish Below The Ice" B sides also important and i don't think those were on Dancing Years (which I, too, practically never played).
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
Why is it bad that it's Cherry Red?
not bad at all. just seems that all the 80s reissue stuff (and 60s, 70s etc) that i want is on one of the many cherry red sub-labels .. they are clearly on a roll and getting access to stuff that the original labels just cant be arsed with.
― mark e, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Please let them do Jam Science...
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. i agree. thats one album that hits all the right spots.prefer that over oil & gold, depending on my mood (and hour of the day), its my fave shriekback album.
― mark e, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
You gotta watch out with Cherry Red - they've been known to press poor vinyl transfers and even fade tracks early in order to make more fit.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
It certainly features some of the best heavily-processed lead guitar sounds ever and amazing songwriting.
But it contains 'Suck' which gives an advantage to Oil & Gold.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
Can I just -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU
You have no idea how much I love this song and video. Both rule so damn hard.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
I think those of us on this thread may have some idea
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
You've heard the whole album, right? "Fish Below The Ice", "This Big Hush", "The Only Thing That Shines", "Faded Flowers", "Malaria" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge" are all as good as "Nemesis" (a few of them are BETTER :-0)
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
djp dropping the truth bomb.
― mark e, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Dan I feel like we've had this conversation before and I listened to some but not all. I will change that and report back.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
well I just sent you all the tracks on the album via Spotify so
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/album/3iwEAHs9FeqHAivVxxfrf0 btw
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
YAY!!!!!
omg
I still have no idea how to use spotify properly. Not that I've really tried but . . . OK, brb.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
My first thought is that there may be a little too much slap bass for my liking in some of the other songs. I will push on.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Or maybe that's not what it is but there's something. Hmmm.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
wait until you hit "This Big Hush"
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
These guys are allowed to use slap bass. There was a meeting about it.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
CONVERGE CONVERGE CONVERGE
Hmmmm.
The Only Thing That Shines is very nice.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
The Only Thing That Shines is PRIMO languishing in one's bed music.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
while killing yrself
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - lol totally
It's pretty good at my desk on a dreary post-vacation day music too tbh.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah it's been Shriekback weather in NYC.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to this last night, I noticed how that "call in the airstrike" line sticks out (in a neat way) because everything up to that point is primitive priests/cannibals/elixirs/etc., and then--airstrike!.
― The Freewheelin' Rebecca Black (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
I was deep into the "Swamp Thing" comic at the time "Oil & Gold" came out and "Nemesis" seemed to fit right into the priests/cannibals/Heaven/Hell vibe of the storyline.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Some of these were pretty good but I'm sticking to my guns and to "Nemesis" for that matter.
TY for sending those, Dan!
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
no one ever said to give up "Nemesis"! that would be crazy talk
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
I just mean as my favorite. :)
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
I am totally team "This Big Hush"/"The Only Thing That Shines"
although at one point or another every song on here has been my favorite
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
EVERYBODY HAPPY AS THE DEAD COME HOME
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Monday, 22 April 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link