Week 14

Sort of continuing from last week's goth stuff here's something from the other end of the scale...



Cradle of Filth - A Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil's Whore)
If you've never heard CoF be prepared for a voice that you can't understand.  This was one of the first songs I'd heard by them and it just stuck with me.  It combined death metal with some fantastic storytelling and orchestral symphonics.

Cradle of Filth - Beneath The Howling Stars
I could probably include this whole album (Cruelty and the Beast) as it's all about Countess Bathory.  They even got Ingrid Pitt to read passages on two of the songs.  Unfortunately not this one.  From 6:20 ish onwards is my favourite section.  If you're skipping to that bit the lyrics start "Pounding upon the pauper ridge".

And there's been a takedown notice on the lyrics video I was going to include here so here's a link to the lyrics instead. (I use Ghostery and AdBlock Plus so I have no idea if there's a shitload of popups or ads on the page but Avast doesn't complain so it should be fine) https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/2197774/Cradle+of+Filth/Beneath+the+Howling+Stars

David Bowie - Heart's Filthy Lesson
Something completely different now...  I'd liked Bowie for a long time (Space Oddity, Ashes to Ashes) but it wasn't until 1. Outside that I really got interested.  It seemed such a departure, even though he'd changed his style of songs numerous times over the years this just seemed more different than anything he'd done before.  I loved it.

David Bowie - Little Wonder
I couldn't find the official video for this which is annoying. I absolutely love this song.  It's just weird.

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans
This is just a great song.

Week 13

Unlucky for some...

I was a bit of a goth for a while so here's some of that good stuff.  I know Andrew never thought of Sisters as a goth band but to me they are an industrial goth band.

Hearing these always takes me back to two specific times.  Sisters to when I first met a girlfriend and The Cure to when I first started getting into horror films thanks to my uncle.  He introduced me to a lot of good stuff (The Cure, Aphex Twin, Dario Argento, George Romero, David Lynch).



The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
I think this was the first Sisters song I heard.  Still a bloody good song.  Shame they only did a video for the radio version and not the full thing.  So here's the full song instead.

The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia
Love the visuals of the video butthey didn't do a full video for this either.

The Cure - The Lovecats
This man is a National Treasure! And as seen at Glastonbury he still sounds the same.  Never been to Glasto, but religiously watch it on the Beeb and there have been a lot of great headliners, but The Cure this year were amazing.  To think they're still going strong in their 50-60s is great.

Also, as a cat-lover (and animals in general) I just had to include this even though it's happier than their usual stuff.

The Cure - Lullaby
There's something just soothing about this song but being arachnophobic I'm not too fond of the video!

Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
There will never be another Pete Steele.  Or Type O Negative.  Again as a cat lover I had to include this long tribute he wrote after the death of his 17 year old cat.  Fucking genius.

Type O Negative - Wolf Moon
This really shows Pete's weird sense of humour.

I was gutted when I'd learned Pete died.  I was shocked that Kurt Cobain killed himself but not really that surprised given what he was like.  Disappointed that Layne Staley died but again that wasn't really surprising.  But when Pete died, that a hard blow.  Apart from drinking he was probably the fittest and nicest blokes in music.

Week 12

Another set of tunes.  More of a rock thing today.  Going to be very quick today as the PC will need a bit of repair and setup.


Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

The Temperance Movement - Ain't No Telling

The Temperance Movement - Caught In The Middle

The Black Crowes - A Conspiracy

The Black Crowes - Remedy

 

Week 11

I'm a huge NIN fan and have been listening to some of their older stuff again so I thought I'd chuck in a few remixes of thiers this week as they are kinda similar to the other songs.  I'll probably have to do a series of NIN favourites on their own some time.  And a lot probably wouldn't be what you'd expect (like the ones below).


Genitorturers - Confessions of a Blackheart
Loved Genitorturers since I heard 120 Days of Genitorture (A great industrial styled album).  They did a fantastic job on this.  Not as industrial but lovely heavy and full sound to it.

Scum of the Earth - Dance Motherfucker
Had no idea that Riggs had been doing this since he left Rob Zombie's solo band.  A wise move in my opinion.  This album is more reminiscent of Zombie's remix albums thann the original stuff but that's not a bad thing.  This is heavy stuff!

Scum of the Earth - The Devil Made Me Do It 3
Another heavy dubstepish one.  Sometimes the simple tunes are the best.

Nine inch Nails - Heresy (Version)
The last great remix album by NIN for me.  I actually prefer this version of Heresy over the original.  I know, sacriledge.  I think the Charlie Clouser remixes are my favourite out of all of NIN's remixeswith Coil's a close second.

Nine Inch Nails - Gave Up (Fixed remix)
I love just how disjointed Trent's singing is in this.  A lot of it is just vowel sounds that make no sense at all.  with the chorus that's pretty normal.  It's awesome.  I used to listen to this almost every morning going to a jobcentre training course.  The whole thing should be unlistenable rubbish (the Happiness in Slavery remixes are more disjointed in every aspect than this) but it just works.  I remember Trent saying that Broken was done at an unhappy time with the label and they wanted to do something that was just unlistenable.  I think he created an awesome album/EP (whatever you want to call it) but this remix album really was the next step in thinking that way.