Idea: The first time we roll virtual dice to pick the person. The next time, same deal, but we remove the person who picked the first album from the list. We keep doing this until we have a set order we can just cycle through.
If anyone new wants to join after the cycle is established, they can just go as soon as possible and get added to the cycle.
Alright, my choice for the album club is Corrupted's "El Mundo Frio" which is spanish for the "The cold world". Corrupted is a Japanese Doom/Sludge Metal band whose quirk (well, one of many) is until 2011's Garten der Unbewusstheit, all of Corrupted's album titles and lyrics have been in Spanish. As a band, Corrupted is notoriously reclusive, avoiding interviews, publicity photos and genereally any interaction except for performing live. As for the album itself, even though it isn't a drone metal album, I find it compares best to them. It's not like Sunn O)))'s crushing wall of sound or Khanate's minimalistic yet cavernous sound either, but is very similar in the way the album is paced. The album is a slow building album that feels like it's in no hurry at all, willing to take its time to build up to the climactic moments. Despite being a metal album, the metal elements of this album don't even come into play until about 11 minutes in. Another thing of note is the album consists of only one song that is 71 minutes long. It's a relatively straightforward album, compared to some other extreme metal acts but it's (at least to me) quite an interesting piece of Doom Metal. It's not the heaviest or busiest album, but it's not trying to be, it just wants to get where it needs to go and it will get there on it's own time.
I have Llenandose De Gusanos on my Nano, so different Corrupted album (and twice as long, actually), but I remember El Mundo Frio being delightfully portentous.
For my first album, I'll pick Camille Saint-Saens's The Carnival of Animals. This shouldn't be a hard one to find, because it's long since public domain and can be found all over the internet. Also it's less than thirty minutes long.
Ogden Nash: Verses for Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals
Introduction
Camille Saint-Saëns Was wracked with pains, When people addressed him, As Saint Sanes. He held the human race to blame, Because it could not pronounce his name. So, he turned with metronome and fife, To glorify other kinds of life. Be quiet please - for here begins His salute to feathers, fur, and fins.
Royal March of the Lion
The lion is the king of beasts, And husband of the lioness. Gazelles and things on which he feasts Address him as your highoness. There are those that admire that roar of his, In the African jungles and velds, But, I think that wherever the lion is, I'd rather be somewhere else.
Hens and Roosters
The rooster is a roistering hoodlum, His battle cry is "cock-a-doodleum". Hands in pockets, cap over eye, He whistles at pullets, passing by.
Wild Asses
Have ever you harked to the jackass wild, Which scientists call the onager? It sounds like the laugh of an idiot child, Or a hepcat on a harmoniger. But do not sneer at the jackass wild, There is a method in his heehaw. For with maidenly blush and accent mild The jenny-ass answers shee-haw.
Tortoises
Come crown my brow with leaves of myrtle, I know the tortoise is a turtle, Come carve my name in stone immortal, I know the turtoise is a tortle. I know to my profound despair, I bet on one to beat a hare. I also know I'm now a pauper, Because of its tortley, turtley, torper.
The Elephant
Elephants are useful friends, Equipped with handles at both ends. They have a wrinkled moth-proof hide. Their teeth are upside down, outside. If you think the elephant preposterous, You've probably never seen a rhinosterous.
Kangaroos
The kangaroo can jump incredible, He has to jump because he is edible. I could not eat a kangaroo, But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs, Prefer him in tasty kangaroomeringues.
Aquarium
Some fish are minnows, Some are whales. People like dimples, Fish like scales, Some fish are slim, And some are round, They don't get cold, They don't get drowned. But every fishwife Fears for her fish. What we call mermaids They call merfish.
People With Long Ears
In the world of mules There are no rules.
The Cuckoo in the Middle of the Wood
Cuckoos lead bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives, Therefore, they cynically dispariage Everybody else's marriage.
Aviary
Puccini was Latin, and Wagner Teutonic, And birds are incurably philharmonic, Suburban yards and rural vistas Are filled with avian Andrew Sisters. The skylark sings a roundelay, The crow sings "The Road to Mandalay," The nightingale sings a lullaby, And the sea gull sings a gullaby. That's what shepherds listened to in Arcadia Before somebody invented the radia.
Pianists
Some claim that pianists are human, And quote the case of Mr Truman. Saint Saëns, upon the other hand, Considered them a scurvy band. A blight they are, he said, and simian, Instead of normal men and womian.
Fossils
At midnight in the museum hall, The fossils gathered for a ball. There were no drums or saxophones, But just the clatter of their bones, A rolling, rattling carefree circus, Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas. Pterodactyls and brontosauruses Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses. Amid the mastodonic wassail I caught the eye of one small fossil, "Cheer up sad world," he said and winked, "It's kind of fun to be extinct."
The Swan
The swan can swim while sitting down, For pure conceit he takes the crown, He looks in the mirror over and over, And claims to have never heard of Pavlova.
Finale
Now we've reached the grand finale, Animale carnivale. Noises new to sea and land, Issue from the skillful band. All the strings contort their features, Imitating crawly creatures. All the brasses look like mumps From blowing umpah, umpah, umps. In outdoing Barnum and Bailey, and Ringling, Saint-Saëns has done a miraculous thingling.
For my album, I will choose my favourite album: Floodland by the Sisters of Mercy (did anyone doubt it?). The tracklist is: 1. Dominion/Mother Russia 2. Flood I 3. Lucretia, My Reflection 4. 1959 5. This Corrosion 6. Flood II 7. Driven Like the Snow 8. Never Land (a fragment)
A 2006 re-issue includes the following bonus tracks 9. Torch 10. Colours 11. Never Land (full length) 12. Emma (cover of a Hot Chocolate song)
It's OK, it's OK. No need to apologize. I understand things might be busy which is why I decided to re-roll, to make sure the thread didn't die. Sorry about not notifying beforehand
In 1985, the Sisters of Mercy were on what should have been the high point of their career. They had finished a tour with a wonderful concert at Royal Albert Hall ("Wake" originally titled "Altamont: A Festival of Remembrance"), and had released their first studio album, First and Last and Always. But trouble was brewing. Founding member Gary Marx had already left, and tension between the remaining members, Craig Adams, Wayne Hussey, Andrew Eldritch, and Doktor Avalanche, was at an all-time high. After leaving for Hamburg, Eldritch and Avalanche showed some songs they'd composed to Adams and Hussey, including "Torch". Adams reportedly said "If this is the guitar line I'm not playing it", and left, shortly followed by Hussey. That day, Eldritch phoned up Patricia Morrison of Fur Bible, then touring with Siouxsie and the Banshees, and asks her to play bass. She agrees. News leaks that Adams and Hussey are playing some shows as The Sisters of Mercy. Eldritch and Avalanche complain, so they choose the suspiciously-similar name The Sisterhood. Eldritch and Avalanche continue to complain, but this is technically not illegal. What happens next is unclear--either Eldritch sued Adams and Hussey or a contract was offered, but the result was: the first splinter of the former group to release would win the rights to the name "The Sisterhood" and £25,000. Eldritch, Avalanche, Morrison, joined now by James Ray and Alan Vega (formerly of Suicide) release a single, Giving Ground, followed by an album, Gift (which contains "Colours"), in 11 days and win the money. Ray and Vega leave, and Eldritch, Avalanche, and Morrison re-form "The Sisters of Mercy". Eldritch phones Jim Steinman, and "This Corrosion" and "Dominion" are made in magnificent, overwrought glory. Then, Eldritch, Avalanche, and Morrison make the rest of the album. Three singles are released: "This Corrosion", "Dominion", and "Lucretia, My Reflection", with B-Sides of "Torch / Colours", "Untitled (Dominion) / Sandstorm / Emma", and "Long Train" respectively.
In many respects, Floodland was the high-water mark of the Sisters--it was their most commercially and critically successful release, earning wide acclaim both within and without the Goth subculture. It was a masterpiece--weaved together by the narrative of the Biblical Flood and by the ghost of T.S. Eliot.
Haven't gotten to Emma but I really don't like 80s synths (even when they're reasonably subtle like they are in this album). However, I did like Dominion/Mother Russia, Lucretia My Reflection, and Neverland (a fragment).
I'll give it another spin in the morning, there's no way im not gonna listen to the whole thing
just not right now
also i might wanna look at their earlier stuff when they had a person drumming
You don't. Really. Eldritch was a shite drummer. In his own words:
Andrew was part of the project because he was just about the only person who was happy to play the drums without doing anything fancy on the tom-toms and cymbals. He didn't know how to. He could barely play the drums at all.
Really, there's a reason Doktor Avalanche was brought in after "The Damage Done", which is unlistenable 3rd-rate punk shite.
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(The other Jane)
I'm also okay with taking over the dice-rolling duties if Panurge ever slacks in them himself.
The album is easily found on youtube.
Listen on, fair Heaple.
(The other Jane)
For my first album, I'll pick Camille Saint-Saens's The Carnival of Animals. This shouldn't be a hard one to find, because it's long since public domain and can be found all over the internet. Also it's less than thirty minutes long.
(The other Jane)
I once used the Aquarium as background music for a setting in an RPG
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)
It is just as good as I remembered it being.
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)
Rolling a d6. A result of 4, 5, 6 means 1, 2, 3 respectively
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)
The tracklist is:
1. Dominion/Mother Russia
2. Flood I
3. Lucretia, My Reflection
4. 1959
5. This Corrosion
6. Flood II
7. Driven Like the Snow
8. Never Land (a fragment)
A 2006 re-issue includes the following bonus tracks
9. Torch
10. Colours
11. Never Land (full length)
12. Emma (cover of a Hot Chocolate song)
Here's the re-issue
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)
News leaks that Adams and Hussey are playing some shows as The Sisters of Mercy. Eldritch and Avalanche complain, so they choose the suspiciously-similar name The Sisterhood. Eldritch and Avalanche continue to complain, but this is technically not illegal. What happens next is unclear--either Eldritch sued Adams and Hussey or a contract was offered, but the result was: the first splinter of the former group to release would win the rights to the name "The Sisterhood" and £25,000. Eldritch, Avalanche, Morrison, joined now by James Ray and Alan Vega (formerly of Suicide) release a single, Giving Ground, followed by an album, Gift (which contains "Colours"), in 11 days and win the money. Ray and Vega leave, and Eldritch, Avalanche, and Morrison re-form "The Sisters of Mercy". Eldritch phones Jim Steinman, and "This Corrosion" and "Dominion" are made in magnificent, overwrought glory. Then, Eldritch, Avalanche, and Morrison make the rest of the album. Three singles are released: "This Corrosion", "Dominion", and "Lucretia, My Reflection", with B-Sides of "Torch / Colours", "Untitled (Dominion) / Sandstorm / Emma", and "Long Train" respectively.
In many respects, Floodland was the high-water mark of the Sisters--it was their most commercially and critically successful release, earning wide acclaim both within and without the Goth subculture. It was a masterpiece--weaved together by the narrative of the Biblical Flood and by the ghost of T.S. Eliot.
It also had some glorious music videos such as
Dominion
Lucretia My Reflection
1959
This Corrosion
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)
Neverland is new to me, so hey, thanks.
(The other Jane)
(The other Jane)
(I use RX-5 sounds and some DMX sounds in my music)
(The other Jane)
Andrew was part of the project because he was just about the only person who was happy to play the drums without doing anything fancy on the tom-toms and cymbals. He didn't know how to. He could barely play the drums at all.
Really, there's a reason Doktor Avalanche was brought in after "The Damage Done", which is unlistenable 3rd-rate punk shite.