Let's Salute The Magic Of Arsequake / Pigfuck / Whatever It's Called Music!
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Now you're just winding me up about the fact I haven't transcribed my vinyl.
my terminal cheesecake tshirt is nearly transparent, mind.
Sounds reviewers shat themselves while hearing it?
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
I seem to recall being made fun of the last time this stuff came up.
By who?
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
You're so transparent, pk
And you're STILL following me around.
It's kinda flattering
Yes! You're right of course!!
Pigfuck!! Arsequake!!
Get a grip Dub, you've started the last four threads in this forum and despite what you might think you'll not be stopping me posting here, so why don't you do yourself a favour and put me back on ignore, ya big dollop.
Johnny Canuck3
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I still think the Butthole Surfers at Reading '89 is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. Just absolutely WRONG! but kinda beautiful in a funny sort of way
That was a fantastic performance. All I can remember is sunshine, synchronised leg kicks by the guitarists, and those demented Gibbytronix. Total showmanship.
There was always a lot of dub in amongst.. erm..all the other insanity
The last album - King of All Spaceheads - was pretty much a dub album. But a dub album made by Hieronymus Bosch
It had a track called In The St. Johns Ambulance Tent, Glastonbury 1989, which was in between Black Microdot I and Black Microdot II
I know next to fuck all about any of this shit, but I now WANT!!!!
Johnny Canuck3
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Bands are like beautiful women, imo. The world is full of them. How do I choose, how do I choose!
I say, don't worry about it, just go for a couple of them, and resign yourself to the fact that you won't ever have them all.
I say, don't worry about it, just go for a couple of them, and resign yourself to the fact that you won't ever have them all.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Most of the greats already mentioned but a few possibles - Sperm wails and silverfish - maybe a bit too straighforward? World Dom should def be in there though.
I wouldn't discount the Arsenal Eps either.
I wouldn't discount the Arsenal Eps either.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Oh yeah, Pussy Galore! Still the best band of that genre.
I was toying with mentioning all four of those myself, but like yourself, I couldn't decide. World Dom were fantastic, but sounded too (-wonderfully) different to fit into any particular scene then. I dunno...
I did go back and listen to some Sperm Wails last night and decided they probably didn't have the requisite autopsy film action going on...
Yeah, but like a lot of the bands mentioned, I never thought of them as being 'arsequake/pigfuck'. <-urrghh, they're such rubbish terms...
>Fucking great band though.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I think they were one of the ones on the border between artiness/piss-take and various other things, so yeah, prob not technically arsequake - i'm going to be having a noisy afternoon
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
There's a lot of soulseeking going to happen after this thread.
I got into killdozer as a young lad, attracted in by the communist artwork and great titles, and kept in by the wonderful growling! And of course, butthole surfers who surprised me, as they never really featured on my radar until my mid-teens when Pepper was played on MTV a fair bit. Imagine my surprise when I saw them live at Reading 96! It was apparantly an awful show but I came away a convert.
Also love Revolting Cocks, and Ministry's good days.
I got into killdozer as a young lad, attracted in by the communist artwork and great titles, and kept in by the wonderful growling! And of course, butthole surfers who surprised me, as they never really featured on my radar until my mid-teens when Pepper was played on MTV a fair bit. Imagine my surprise when I saw them live at Reading 96! It was apparantly an awful show but I came away a convert.
Also love Revolting Cocks, and Ministry's good days.
To me, 'arsequake' (-or whatever) is about a demented trippy (-usually rock) heaviness that's out to mess you up. (-Never considered RevCo, Ministry, etc, to be part of it, but there's a heaviness, that same twisted sense of humour, and obviously some crossover of personnel, so I suppose it does count really....) Aww, fuck it, I'm not going to quibble about the genre specifics much more... 
Pussy Galore were much less ...er... sludgy, and more frenzied and scratchy in comparison. -More speedy than smacky?...
I remember reading an interview with Jon Spencer about 15 years ago and he said he'd once dropped acid and listened to nothing but James Brown. I still think that's an afternoon well spent.
Pussy Galore were much less ...er... sludgy, and more frenzied and scratchy in comparison.
-More speedy than smacky?... I remember reading an interview with Jon Spencer about 15 years ago and he said he'd once dropped acid and listened to nothing but James Brown. I still think that's an afternoon well spent.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Jellyfish Kiss? Too psych? Too late?
I know the name, but I've never-knowingly heard them. Think I get them mixed up with the plain old Jellyfish. (-The power-pop lot).
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I know the name, but I've never-knowingly heard them. Think I get them mixed up with the plain old Jellyfish. (-The power-pop lot).
Shimmy disc band (IYKWIM) - a bit like the Daddy Longhead LP but a bit further out there. Animal Rites album a stone cold classic IMO. Fantastic live.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
it was that 'transmission 1' video that caused all that, 'starring' bee from in2a circle/getting the fear. after that mad american evangenist used footage from it to beef up her daft satanic ritual abuse documentary (later proven to be a crock of crap)
coincidentally, that SPK 'autopsy' video has just been re-released. it's funny.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
early swans stuff is in a league of its own. first time they toured UK was definately thee most intense live band i have ever seen. utterly relentless and without equal.
And if we're including more frantic stuff like Pussy Galore in this, then I'm nominating Bogshed.
Not heavy, but they ticked the boxes in terms of scratchy frenzy and speedy/acid weird/funny lyrics. I remember them covering Benny Hill's 'Gather In The Mushrooms' at one point.
Not heavy, but they ticked the boxes in terms of scratchy frenzy and speedy/acid weird/funny lyrics. I remember them covering Benny Hill's 'Gather In The Mushrooms' at one point.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Then maybe we can let the Membranes in - but it's getting rather crowded in here
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
as with most genres those who are the true progenitors are invariably overlooked in favour of those with a more 'marketable' angle.
anyone into this sort of stuff should really check out Ramleh.
anyone into this sort of stuff should really check out Ramleh.
Yes. They set themselves apart because although they had the heaviness and the brutal menace, they weren't cracking a sly smile like a lot of their peers were.
Filth was an utterly crushing album.
Then maybe we can let the Membranes in - but it's getting rather crowded in here
Yeah, you're right; much as I still love Bogshed, I was probably unjustifiably attempting to shoehorn them into this thread...
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