Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
A couple of friends of mine have been banging on about this band since they saw them at The Austin PsychFest last week...
you'll get the hint soon enough...this is bloody brilliant
Oh my!
You're not wrong.
edit. Their online store's a bit carp though. I can't even select the album to buy it
Yeah it's not the easiest album in the world to get hold of...tho some thoughtful soul has uploaded the whole album to YouTube...I think I'm gonna have to pull a favour from my friend in Austin
Andie wrote:
Yeah it's not the easiest album in the world to get hold of...tho some thoughtful soul has uploaded the whole album to YouTube...I think I'm gonna have to pull a favour from my friend in Austin
Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.
What is it? I'm intrigued
Sonic Mass by Amebix. I'd always assumed they were boring crust-punk, so I never listened to them. I kind of stumbled on this yesterday, and I am absolutely loving it. I'll have to check out the older stuff.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
A couple of friends of mine have been banging on about this band since they saw them at The Austin PsychFest last week...
you'll get the hint soon enough...this is bloody brilliant
Oh my!
You're not wrong.
edit. Their online store's a bit carp though. I can't even select the album to buy it
Yeah it's not the easiest album in the world to get hold of...tho some thoughtful soul has uploaded the whole album to YouTube...I think I'm gonna have to pull a favour from my friend in Austin
Hmmm, I was very interested in the first couple of tracks, but after that I was just a bit bored. It reminds me a bit of average trance music done with traditional instruments. The whole hoogy-verdy-toody vocals gets my goat after a bit too.
sultan2075 wrote:
Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.
Lordy - Amebix! Of all the obscure bands to rise again!! They were a Bristol-ish punk band - in the Crass living-in-a-squat vein of things. Spider was a well known Bristol 'face' in the late 80s.
One thing that entertained me, as a poor northerner, was how many of the people from that scene - and when it morphed into the 'Free Party' shenanigans - were actually from wealthy backgrounds, just playing at being poor.
The time I met Banksy I kind of got that impression too - from a nice upbringing but playing at being a naughty boy. I thought one of the reasons he was so anxious to be anonymous was so his Mummy didn't find out what he'd been up to!
sultan2075 wrote:
Dear Lord. How did I miss out on these guys? This record is utterly fantastic. Is the early stuff like this? Yow.
Lordy - Amebix! Of all the obscure bands to rise again!! They were a Bristol-ish punk band - in the Crass living-in-a-squat vein of things. Spider was a well known Bristol 'face' in the late 80s.
One thing that entertained me, as a poor northerner, was how many of the people from that scene - and when it morphed into the 'Free Party' shenanigans - were actually from wealthy backgrounds, just playing at being poor.
The time I met Banksy I kind of got that impression too - from a nice upbringing but playing at being a naughty boy. I thought one of the reasons he was so anxious to be anonymous was so his Mummy didn't find out what he'd been up to!
Apparently Rob (vocals/bass) broke up the band in 87 or so, moved to Skye to make swords for a living (!), put them back together in 2009 and broke them up again in 2012. I will have to check out their earlier stuff, because I really, really like this record a lot.
We had the exact same phenomena here, actually. Squatters were, more often than not, rich kids who were slumming it. I'm inclined to say that only those who have never actually been poor romanticize poverty the way a lot of squat-punks did (at least, for the most part.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
there's a couple of iffy tracks, and one with dreadful lyrics ("DD's" - double d's - about iggy's fondness for large breasts ) but its not bad on the whole! far better than i was expecting anyway
What’s the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
) but its not bad on the whole! far better than i was expecting anyway 
