I found out last night that you can get the 2 God Machine lps reasonably cheaply on Amazon after they were reissued in 2010.Wondering what kind of audience awareness of them there is or was at that point which was really posthumous for them as a band.have they been covered at all?
Would love those studio covers from the e.p.s there were some really good ones in there.Trying to think if there were many more things they covered live.
e.p. versions of songs also on lps tended to be different too I think. Some of them heavier or more impactful at least.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
Finally tried to do them some justice.
http://thequietus.com/articles/24109-the-god-machine-scenes-from-the-second-story-review-anniversary
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
awesome!
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 26 February 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
Excellent, indeed
― StanM, Monday, 26 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Thanks, Ned! Came here to post that link.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 26 February 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
Too kind, all of you.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Great piece, thanks so much!
It reminded me of buying One Last Laugh... and then weirdly not being able to listen to it for weeks, I recall wondering to myself if people ten years older than me had the same problem when Closer came out.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
This is intense, RPS smashes his guitar in the first few seconds so the song becomes a vocals, bass, drums and extended Voix Bulgares freak out jam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJmZbBdCxK0
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
Thanks Ned. I feel we're really reaching the point where, without efforts to keep their memory alive, this band will be completely forgotten, engulfed under the waves of time.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOF-XAeNG_o
― Maresn3st, Monday, 17 May 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
Have hoped there might be an e.p. compilation at some point. I think I didn't get them all at the time so would like a one stop you could find them at.
― Stevolende, Monday, 17 May 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that would be nice for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 May 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
God, what a band. That live set is fantastic.
Just idly noting that Scenes OG vinyl currently going for £530 on Discogs.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 17 May 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
missed this three weeks ago - thank you Maresn3st!
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ3hVzKDP8s
― Maresn3st, Monday, 26 July 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
someone needs to reissue this stuff, yes, the second hand prices for the vinyl and even the CD are stupid
― akm, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
It would be nice, yes.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
I suppose I could ask around re: masters ownership, my best friend knows Robin.
― akm, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
but I'd guess they are lost, missing, or tied up in some shit
― akm, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
definitely look into an e.p. collection.
& I don't think they had a live lp during their lifetime did they?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
No - two albums, 4 EP's, and that's it.
― StanM, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcNSoYBrqjc
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucoUoCl_LyI
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
thank you! sounds great
― StanM, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvBOp49nYgs
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 13 March 2022 12:15 (two years ago) link
thank you again!
― StanM, Sunday, 13 March 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
No problem, I'll keep posting them when they come up, it's a shame there's not a good radio recording or a live album.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 14 March 2022 08:35 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjYDt9eeu8
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 5 June 2022 11:44 (one year ago) link
Thank you! The frustration remains - you just know someone at some venue must be sitting on a soundboard recording but they're keeping quiet...
― StanM, Sunday, 5 June 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
At this point what I would really want is a remaster of the first album which always sounded a bit muffled
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 5 June 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsKXeyrafrg
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
<3 Where do they keep finding these? :-)
― StanM, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
The channel is kinda amazing in its own way, with scores of mid-tier toilet circuit indie gigs going back to the shambling era and a sprinkling of larger concerts.
If you want to hear what Milk, Sun Carriage, or The Chesterfields sounded like then this is your channel :)
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
omg that channel is all my early-90s London toilet circuit support band nightmares returning to life! He even has a live set by a band I auditioned for once, a tryout which was thankfully a failure.
― ban golf courses (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
Well now you have to tell us which band.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
It'd be about the only mention of them on the internet apart from the Youtube set so I'll spare any self-Googling band members the embarrassment.
― ban golf courses (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
Clue: it wasn't Lush
Gay Dad?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
Ron Austin is apparently going to be on this show today at 4 pm BST (although there is a Mixcloud archive by the looks of things) talking about TGM and his new project Mercylane.
www.Madwaspradio.com
― MaresNest, Sunday, 18 June 2023 12:21 (ten months ago) link
Very cool.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 June 2023 15:13 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZV9jNvekes
― MaresNest, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:04 (eight months ago) link