Having read Master and Margarita a couple years ago, I figured it was high time I listened to this. It influenced Bulgakov a lot, and a lot of the Faust story was taken from the Operas (primarily this but also Gounoud's Faust). So I checked this out of the library.
This is the Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma from 1959. It is fantastic! Every singer is perfectly arranged and all have beautiful voices, the Orchestra is immaculate, silky without being overly sentimental.
How this album got so buried in time is utterly beyond me. This is some quality post-punk! And I love the use of the saxophone, it really gives these gents a unique atmosphere.
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:53 am
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Apatheria wrote:
Theatre of Hate - "Westworld"
How this album got so buried in time is utterly beyond me. This is some quality post-punk! And I love the use of the saxophone, it really gives these gents a unique atmosphere.
If you need me I'll be in space... with the only album in the world that doubles as a shield:
We are dependent on plundering the world to fuel our addictions and dependent on our military force to declare Marshall law on any country that has what we want and won't cooperate with our strong-arming. Human beings don't deserve this beautiful planet. Americans don't deserve the world.
Not quite the goth rock masterpiece that the follow-up album Elizium ended up being, but still a very good album.
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:53 am
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Currently some song by The Cure... Love 'em, just can't think of the song title.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:43 pm
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Dirty Sanchez - Really Rich Italian Satanists
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Lacrimosa - Lichtgestalten Nostalgia
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:25 pm
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Thin Lizzy was amazing, Phil Lynott a tremendous talent... and this album was immaculately produced by Tony Visconti. What more could you want?
The thing I like best about them are the songs that are super heavy, existential, and really deep for the sort of generic hard rock genre. but almost ballad like. Wild One, Dear Lord, even stuff like Whisky in the Jar O have this weird spiritual element that made them unique amongst the scores of bands singing about scoring trim and caking up their 'staches. Maybe it's the bastard Irish blood in me...
I can't explain it but it's perfect for a hot summer night.
So much memories with this song. I wish I could go back in time and just enjoy the show.
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:52 am
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Sex Gang Children
On a somewhat related note:
I always found the duet with Andi Sexgang on the closing track particularly amusing, as Lucas Lanthier's vocal affectations have been compared to Andi's probably since Cinema Strange's debut.
Fuckn love this song! I can listen to it over and over.
Hahaha, I love Ravenous! A very playful horror film with heaps and heaps of gore.
As for me, well...because I can never get enough of McCoy and co...
Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium
Although it's debatable if this is the best gothic record ever released, it's impossible to deny that this is one of the masterpieces of goth rock. I may have only been listening to this group for under a year, but this album is already an all-time favorite, especially the majestic, immersive two part closer of "Wail of Summer" and "And There your Heart will be Also".
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:31 am
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Beherit - Electric Doom Synthesis
This one has received a lot of bad rap - mainly from black metal die hards who think Beherit should do nothing that isn't black metal, and certainly not electronica. Taken on it's own merits it's actually really good.
I'm enjoying it a lot. Very under rated.
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Ahhh nostalgia! Loved it as a kid. Psychedelic hippy trippy kids show from the late '60s-early '70s with brilliant OTT manic physical comedy and bizarre costumes. The movie serves as a prequel to the series. Wonderful lyrics on the song "Different" sung by Mama Cass Elliot.
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:22 am
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This one has received a lot of bad rap - mainly from black metal die hards who think Beherit should do nothing that isn't black metal, and certainly not electronica. Taken on it's own merits it's actually really good.
I'm enjoying it a lot. Very under rated.
They were incredible. When I first heard the ambient stuff I was turned off, but it is really fantastic. Even the much-maligned H4108ov21C I really like. It's amazing how expansive yet claustrophobic they were able to make these releases. There is a Nurse with Wound album I just got yesterday called "space music" and it is similar yet less structured.
I loved Skinny Puppy throughout high school and afterwards, but I drifted towards more rock and metal and further and further away from goth and industrial.
A few years ago I rekindled some of my love for industrial. A lot of it hasn't aged well, and most of it sounds like cheesy dance music in a minor key. But the thing I really appreciate about it was how unflinchingly political it was. Nine Inch Nails hit it big, and they were completely apolitical. Now it's all cheesy dance music in a minor key with nothing to say.
But Skinny Puppy have not only held up, I've found even more richness and complexness in their music than any other band (in a vast array of genres, not just industrial). They were one of my favorites, so at least my taste wasn't completely gone back then. I had this on cassette tape and wore it out.
Their newer stuff isn't that great. Without the paranoid china white weirdness of Dwayne Goettel, the other elements of Skinny Puppy have taken over and the balance is sadly lost.
He died almost exactly 15 years ago (August 23rd). Their last album together was the weirdly straightforward The Process. It has some bad songs on it, but overall it is a beautiful coda to their work as well as a sadly ugly preview of what the next incarnation would be. I remember the Albuquerque public radio playing it in its entirety when it was released. It blew me away.
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I like him too lol
