Severed Heads: CDSD

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Am I right to believe that very few o.s. Heads fans are aware of their earlier material, from Since The Accident backwards to Blubberknife (but not the crap Ear Bitten before that one)? This early Heads phase is pure gold, my friends.

Also, those old Ink records are not too hard to find used.. at least in the states, probably even easier in the UK, Australia, and/or NZ.

The most danceable Severed Heads album is probably Rotund For Success, which is the only album to get an LTM reissue. So that's your best bet. Then again, there's nothing like "Dead Eyes Opened" on it.. the Racic produced "All Saints Day" comes closest, but it sounds closer to late 80s New Order dance type stuff more than anything else (which isn't a bad thing!).

Severed Heads aren't a dance oriented type band.. they just have/had a dance facet (as of 1983) that's part of their overall strange, beautiful architecture.. if that makes sense. I could easily imagine an indie rock cover tribute album for Severed Heads just as easily as a techno tribute album for Severed Heads.

Did I mention that Since The Accident is one of the greatest albums ever?

ps-see you thursday stirmonster! I've been getting nervy!

ronan - i thnk nervous is good. i always get a little nervous before i play. i'm not however looking forward to not beng able to smoke when i'm playing.

yeah the smoking thing will be weird, the door is very near the dj booth but that's not much good while you're playing. I dunno, as the DJ I wonder what would happen if you lit up.

AND WHAT ABOUT "HAROLD AND CINDY HOSPITAL" AND "LEGION"??????????

http://sevcom.com/

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fuck

Well...

http://tomellard.com/

This is Tom Ellard's web site. It's currently in test mode and nothing for the public.

The current experiment is here. It will install a plug in! It will download about 7Mb!

I mean, it's not like HE'S dead.

haha yes well

still the end of an era tho

all the way to the bottom, maggie.. you've made it... *sob*...
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-- donut bitch (donut), Monday, March 1, 2004 4:30 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

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ohhhhhhh that sucks though

why kill off a name that was essentially a solo project?

Big Severed Heads fan (well, up to Gigapus, at least). "Rotund for Success" is their most accessible, beginner-friendly album, I suppose, but I always preferred the experimental noise of their earlier albums ("Blubberknife", "Since the Accident", and "City Slab Horror"). Favs include "Gashing the Old Mae West", "Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit", "Dead Eyes Opened", "Goodbye Tonsils", "Harold and Cindy Hospital", "Greater Reward", and "All Saints Day" (that song shoulda been huge!).

Holy crap. Some genius has put their Rock Arena in-studio from 1986 up on Y0uTooB :

Part 1 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OjAnr4dsLs

Part 2 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGiKhPQ-k74

(Fast forward 7 minutes. Turn volume up to 11. Wait for your head to explode).

giving the 'commerz' comp a spin at work today (due to no-one else being around, hah). all that sped-up tape fuckery at the end of 'halo' is pretty inspired.

i thought i'd snagged a copy of the joakim's 'dead eyes opened' edit recently from tigersushi but they said they'd listed it on the website by mistake and didn't actually have any copies left. ;__;

I wonder why disc 2 of ComMerz never got released on emusic? I dloaded half of 1, 2 never came out and now I think 1's been yoinked as well :(

vol 2 is there now. i thought vol 1 came down because it was the wrong album but they never bothered putting up the right one

did you guys read about the dream I had about you on the ILX dreams thread on ILE?

no i've never looked at that thread

did anyone here ever pick up the adenoids box?

Nar i was wrong, 2 was always up and its 1 that was never available. Which is a bugger cos i dont have much of their older stuff. Except for a mangled casette copy of "Clifford", somewhere.