Comments on: …Or Anything By Tom Waits

By: tinman

tinman — Fri, 27 May 2005 11:23:14 +0000

Sorry to just butt in here, but wow. I was surfing the blogosphere when I ran across Carnegie Mellon, 1988. I didn’t know other old fuckers like me were doing these hip new internet things. Anyway, I graduated in 1987. I also had that mind-numbing computer consultant job. I am responsible for the game Xenoblast, which was a little phenomenon in the computing center during the Spring/Summer of 1987. Do you remember it? When I tell people I wrote a networked 3D game in 1987, they treat me like I just dropped acid. Anyway, nice to hear about the old days.

My contribution to your list:
Any track from the Mind side of Mind/Body (a collection of music by artists from rec.music.industrial).

By: dm

dm — Fri, 27 May 2005 02:29:25 +0000

Fucking hell, I wrote that little ditty for The Natrat! Somebody else read it besides me!

Songs: I’d nominate Chris Morris’ “The Gush” and aphex twin’s “Ventolin”.

By: digital cowgirl

digital cowgirl — Fri, 27 May 2005 01:09:23 +0000

I stumbled upon your blog and hope you don’t mind the comment… but Red House Painters’ cover of Silly Loves Songs drives me into a funk when I’m sober. I didn’t figure out the song until 9 minutes had gone by (which felt like 40) and then it shot me back into the 70′s. Sneaky and cruel, really.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 26 May 2005 16:34:40 +0000

The best thing about this article, aside from the fact that it makes me want to rearrange my iTunes playlists, is that the Chris quote sounds EXACTLY LIKE CHRIS.

It makes me wonder if you managed to remember it 100% word-for-word all these years, because: damn. spot on.

By: Adam Rixey

Adam Rixey — Wed, 25 May 2005 03:33:00 +0000

It stripped out the html, so Encore Une Fois lyrics: http://www.brainwashed.com/lpd/archives/lyrics/malachai.htm (third song listed)

Heartworms: http://cl4.org/music/lyrics/coil_a-h.php#heartworms

By: Adam Rixey

Adam Rixey — Wed, 25 May 2005 03:30:53 +0000

As Eli said, Legendary Pink Dots. Specifically, "Encore Une Fois". The tape loops and song structure kinda mess with me and irritate me on a normal day. If I'm only half-paying attention, I'm never sure if the cd or my sound card is stuck and the song really should have ended minutes ago. [lyrics] Coil, "Heartworms". Or pretty much anything. But Heartworms is particularly menacing, one of Jhon Balance's songs about the (alcohol) addiction that eventually killed him. [lyrics] I don't even want to think about listening to The Residents' "Eskimo" album while tripping. For extra fun use the remastered 5.1 edition.

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 25 May 2005 01:08:35 +0000

Diamanda Galas, Vena Cava.
(Amazon: “A glorious portion of an aria (Galas trained bel canto for several years) is following by almost subsonic whispers, then ear-shattering, crazily repetitive “blocking exercises,” lullabies, and amazingly potent yet brief vignettes that trace the speaker’s life from infanthood (“Is that you daddy? Hi daddy,”) to her family’s whispered plans (unknowingly overheard by the patient) for the small, discrete wake appropriate to one dying a shameful death.”)

Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.

Some of the nastier tracks on pretty much any Legendary Pink Dots.

None of these are evil nihilist mindfucks at all, though. I can’t actually think of any of those. That’s fine; who needs them.