Agree.
― StanM, Saturday, 11 April 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i figured "pure" was gonna win this in a walk.
SUP fellow streetcleaner voters.
― you say tomato, isao tomita (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 12 April 2009 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i was like "i love selfless, it's way better than pure," and then i started listening to pure and now i'm falling in love with pure
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 January 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
great discography, should we repoll with the two new ones? i would vote for post-self, no. 1 post-self fan here
I liked World Lit Only By Fire a lot but Post-Self never clicked with me. Would still ultimately vote for either Pure or Selfless. Isn't there a new one coming?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 9 January 2021 03:18 (three years ago) link
i hope so!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 January 2021 04:32 (three years ago) link
ok so part of it is that post self is the ultimate cyborg godflesh record for me. it partially explores the kind of industrial dub/dance area of the band hinted at by "slavestate" and the dancier end of the discog, and i love this sound and don't think there's enough of it. songs like "parasite" are totally from that world, when i close my eyes i can see club lights pulsing to its beat. but then the album also contains godfleshy brutality and jesuish beauty (and "the cyclic end" which is caught in some godflesh/jesu purgatory) and neither of these feel out of place bc they're part of the arc of sound the album creates over time. it's just... everything works and the riffs slam and the vocals sound like somebody screaming while having their body replaced. just kind of feel like it's the apex of the whole jk broadrick project, deep, dark, pummeling, kinda sounds like a tank rolling over a field of human skulls, but also totally related to dance music and dub and rap, spliced with moments of heartstopping beauty bc ugliness and beauty are both part of the transformation, horror and transcendence the same feeling just with different inputs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 January 2021 05:13 (three years ago) link
there's this very dubbed-out dissociated feeling to post self that... idk it's not in the early records, nor is it in a world lit only by fire. it really hits during "mortality sorrow"'s combo of terminator synth + robot voice
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 January 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link
contains godfleshy brutality and jesuish beauty (and "the cyclic end" which is caught in some godflesh/jesu purgatory)
correcting myself, both "the cyclic end" and "the infinite end" are caught in the jesuflesh continuum, and are both scarier than they are beautiful i think. maybe it depends on the time of day i'm listening to it. "the infinite end" is like... idk, maybe about as beautiful as the cure's pornography, lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 January 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
perfect record though, 10/10, would post about it several times in a row while listening to it again
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 January 2021 05:31 (three years ago) link
the chorus to Pantera's "Walk" steals from "Like Rats"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:19 (one year ago) link
(the vocals I mean)
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:20 (one year ago) link