Ok for the next installment I picked some of the more angular & oddball stuff

Laurie Anderson - From the Air
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedIexysvK4

D.A.F. - Tanz den Mussolini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlpPbgGSm4s

 

Tools You Can Trust - Messy Body Thrust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5JsiiHuDow

Einstuerzende Neubauten - Autobahn Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZsCvABTX90

 

Conrad Schnitzler - Tanze im Regen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RirP4FtSSk4

The Very Things - The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpgyVxP8OG8

 

Stump - Buffalo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmQ3dFQvs

Splodgenessabounds- Two pints of lager & a packet of crisps please
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o-9_J_Cc2w

 

Pyrolator - Ein Weihnachtsmann kommt in die Disko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPb91GZTnHk

Human League - Being Boiled - lost version (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC6o3yCXzAo

 

New MBV is very good, btw.

This one's good too:

PIL's Careering on the OLD Grey Whistle Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-anvnBMG01Q

Ann Nightingale gets all ecstatic.

Funny if you read the comments about 80s bands on YouTube, you find lots of complaints about today's music not being as diverse or interesting. Yet any of the 80s band would've given their right kidney to have access to the tools we have.

 

+ Laurie Anderson (a model to follow)
experimentalism, vanguard without fetishism (I like the oddballs!)
and what about Eduard Artemyev the sound designer of Andrei Tarkovsky´films...(Stalker...etc)
Other atmospheric music very common at home (that poltergeist point of extreme density and then silence )

 

so true!!! i would love to be able to go back i time and rock the world with my advanced sounds/styles/equipment heh heh i could invent grunge music and dubstep lol


@catalyst: some great choices!! clash, jesus and mary chain, shpongle, front 242, stone roses, PIL, Einstuerzende Neubauten- all classics i grew up with

 

Your parents experimented with Tarkovsky & Artemyev on you during a young age?

Did they have a license for that!?

Your parents have quite the taste, and so have you.

You bring up a very important point about the 80s. That decade had a distinct flavor of something occult going on. I'm not sure why that was, but it trickled down into the more fringe types of music (usual suspects). Perhaps it was because of radioactivity and other poisons. It's similar to when you go into an abandoned industrial complex. Lots of ghosts, jinn. Reality was cracking up a bit. Sadly it kind of petered out during the 90s.

I'm interested now in your list of favorite films?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1QXKbhqr4

As an aside, it's always so funny to read the comments on anything related to Stalker. Because usually it's confused with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (the game).

There is an ominous scene in the movie that seems to predict Chernobyl, but its idea came from a book by the Strugatsky bothers, Roadside Picnic.

 

Not that extreme listening that kind of music at the home of people dedicated to publishing while some inspiration was being haunted.
The sound it´s kind of quite and those movies were poetical indeed…
I still find all that pretty atmospheric and inspiring.
I´m far less concerned about the loss of a particular way of understanding the how to´ s art making ´.
I´m happy enjoying what I can enjoy beyond its label, period, purpose, etc.
I´m not concerned either about if entertainment industry is so-called harmful
because formally appears to be a thing related with art but delivers a product for uncritical consumption,
a bit as the wolf in disguise of the Little Red Riding Hood story.

(I wasn´t aware about the authors or screen play of Stalker …yep the movie and yes far more about Ukraine)
Science fiction has been a very important genre for me,
and I enjoy the type of cinema that bends the reality
pushing the imagination towards an immanent existentialism with some of psychological contradictions implied.
The type of fiction less focused on the visual narrative of futuristic possible scenarios on crisis
than on the exposure of a painful contradiction, mining some of the structures of the thinking, of the feeling, of the society´s cohesion.

Related to film, aside of all inherited Tarkovsky, I enjoyed a lot with Lynch, Cronenberg, Lars von Trier, Haneke,brothers Coen, Polanski, Godard, Brothers Quay, to name some, the typical ones..
at the same side it goes this sort of titles Fight club, the matrix, Sin city, Doctor Calgary, Snowtown.
Movies that aren´t quite assuming the reality as that inertial something. And in film soundtrack is big part too.
For that my interest on the social poltergeist …

 

A cultural omnivore. I agree with that.

To me the low roads and high roads in culture don't really exist. I'm post class, because I'm blase like that.

I mean, I like watching artful cinema the best. I head for the Criterion section first. But I also like films like Pulp Fiction, or Amelie, or even Disney's Tangled.

Do you know Chris Marker?

(I think I'll start a new thread for obscure artsy stuff found on YouTube.)

 

Hi everyone! some great music floating around in this thread, some new to me and some of my favorites as well- very interesting to hear you all speak of what interests you!


here's a flashback: i found one of my old Vampire Rodents CD's last night and most of the tracks were scratched up, but i still got a nostalgia rush


this track is from their 1992 release "Premonition" - the atonal and sometimes seemingly random sounds collages helped form my musical palette back then ( i was about 14-15 years old then lol) along with the classics like john cage, phillip glass, brian eno, jazz of john zorn...and newer ones (back then they were newer) like throbbing gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten, Merzbow, Skinny Puppy etc etc ...hell even ol' frank zappa played a part in my madness and dissatisfaction with "pop music"

Vampire Rodents was a quartet of classically trained chamber msuicians that also enjoyed ambient and experimantal msuic- assimilating elements of industrial, rock, jazz and surprisingly, classical music, the quartet known as Vampire Rodents use a collective of musicians plus samples to construct their albums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMsQ2tvzT4

(jump to :30 in for a prime example of their "sound"- a bit of cello, a bit of deadpan 80's angst goth vocals, industrial beats, ambient synths and random sound collages)


i will post more of my early favorites as i get time





Also: gotta say STALKER is one of my favorite Tarkovsky movies...its sense of isolation and unseen dangers still resonates with me, and multiple interpretations of the "story" itself can be made... i later read the original short story, and it too was very entertaining to see the changes made for the movie... one of the best movies to watch on a rainy day, along with blade runner, Dune, AKIRA, girl with dragon tattoo series etc etc


BUT- i also like dumb ass comedies and trashy b-movie sci fi flics and horribly dubbed hong kong kung fu movies, its not all doom and gloom by far lol

 

You've got good taste Rolma. I too enjoyed the movie and soundtrack to Stalker and I don't know if you know this but it was the basis for the game world of Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl as well is its sequels though that is where the resemblance ends. In my opinion the movie was certainly ahead of its time. As to the directors you like I can also vouch for all of them. Besides the ones you listed I'm also into Almodovar, Christopher Nolan, Dario Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Richard Kelly, Spike Jonze and the Wachowski Brothers. Also I've been actually meaning to ask you a question based on something I read in one of your replies. Are you Ukrainian?

 

this one's not from the 80s but Frito's post above got me thinking about it:

Lard Free - I'm Around About Midnight(1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxjIhhwN7fs

 

Still one of my favourite bands from the 80s:

The Sundays - Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9NtPUZPUs

The Sundays-Here's Where The Story Ends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8V8V1_s0ug

This is the type of music kittens listen to on their iPods, while they're busy shredding butterflies....

The Sundays - Blood On My Hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZnNYWhjtlI

Lightning Seeds - Pure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6myNbk15sMs

 

Oh and since he (David Lynch) got mentioned:

Badalamenti explains making of Twin Peaks Love Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvSFOEfHJE

For a while I thought Twin Peaks was the best thing ever to hit TV.

I somehow have a feeling Angelo has little use for SAM Symphobia, and whatever they're all called. Film soundtracks for 'major' motion pictures are really going down the drain at the moment. If I go and watch trailers on Youtube, it's all extremely generic cut and paste. Hollywood you could try something new every once in a while and perhaps pay people who are truly enthusiastic about their art (like e.g. Angelo).

 

The songs people tend to remember the most aren't the happy songs but the sad ones. Older Cocteaus are more in that vein but their new stuff is on the other end of the spectrum. If I had to choose though it would be their older albums hands down. Concerning The Cure their back catalog is by far superior to what they're putting out now. If you want to start at the beginning you need to go back earlier than 1980. I think 1979 saw the release of Boys Don't Cry (European release was named Three Imaginary Boys). It's vastly different to what they did even a year later. Either way they're the type of band that you need to get all their albums because style varies greatly from one to the next. I'm really glad you're enjoying Disintegration. For better or worse it was the album that made me fall in love with depression. If you live in a place where you get snow I suggest throwing that album on a phone or mp3 player, rolling a joint and heading to a beautiful location. When you get there just hit play, spark it up and just lose yourself in the majesty of the moment.

That documentary by Keanu Reeves looks very interesting. I look forward to checking it out. *yes*
Piano Magic is really good. I listened to them before but I missed some songs that you posted here so thanks for that.

 

My man. Really digging your industrial nostalgia. I don't know...now I might have to make everyone really uncomfortable when I start posting aggressive industrial hits. Throbbing Gristle invented the genre in the 70s and Merzbow is still making music today as is Skinny Puppy. I'm really glad that you've enjoyed some of the selections we've posted. It's always exciting to discover new music with some actual substance or reminisce on days gone by.