Whatever happened to Orgy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NczLNctogZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1u97UPFKOw

"fucking you is strange"

ah shit i still love "stitches" song is dumb as hell

"fiction" oddly respectable sounding

lol i never remember what "stitches" sounds like but invariably end up enjoying it again when i hear it

i was wondering the other day if vapor transmission held up, i remember loving it in middle school

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, September 8, 2013 8:58 AM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

took me seven years to follow up on this, but it... really really holds up

what finally did it was hearing "opticon" play over the valentine's day party in the slasher movie valentine, that song is a total jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2CSG2isH8M

the album is a little long in a 2001 kind of way but they nail this sound throughout and nothing strikes me as bad

er, 2000 i mean

my parents were not thrilled that i was into a band called orgy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NczLNctogZk

such a rad and weird single... nu-metal's relationship with industrial rock was more implied than realized except with these guys and like contemporaneous fear factory records, but it is such a rad sound, all these weird detuned guitar lines like bending light trails through a techno-industrial cityscape.... more nu-metal should've taken from gary numan as well

iirc i requested that song at a middle school dance. i'm cool

I still dig "Stitches" a lot, especially the Green Velvet mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prOmqVEQHqI

lol i found that yesterday and it fucking bangs!!!!

It showed up as a b-side to the "Blue Monday" single (which I bought) and basically made me go "no matter what else this band does, they gave me this ferocious Thing I will treasure forever"

Stitches is great. Another time capsule song for me

the album is a little long in a 2001 kind of way but they nail this sound throughout and nothing strikes me as bad

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, February 15, 2021 10:12 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i would cut "chasing sirens" but only for time, not bc it's a bad song

very obsessed with this record again lol, i gradually ended up rejecting it as a teen bc the lyrics came off to me as embarrassing cyberpunk nonsense... of course now i think that's fine and good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4MBbt9Dtk

THIS song should've been a single

there was also an inherent queerness in orgy's presentation + the intermittent references in the music to gender and androgyny, which may have been a total put-on but i appreciate it anyway

I just realized that I think a lot about this album. Even though I haven't listened to it in years, the lyrics will pop into my head fairly regularly. Not sure what that says about me, but it definitely left an impression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqGlnKa0nc

omfg!!!