I've been extremely busy with college. Too much sewing. Too much sketching and making flats and Photoshop and shitty shit. Bear with me. Or else. So I'm back with some of my listening pleasures that I've fallen in love once again after a few years in obscurity somewhere in the corners of my bedroom. I used to listen to most of this into sleep almost every night, though it always makes me feel like getting high and twirl around with some fucked up lover. Red lights and everything. At 3 in the morning.
I don't remember where and when I got this, and so far I'm unable to get any info regarding when this was compiled, but it's got some great goth, deathrock and post punk bands from all of Europe during the 80's. Standouts in my opinion are Siekiera(Poland, their album "Nowa Aleksandria" is a personal fave and will be around here very soon!), Musta Paraati(Finland), Xmal Deutschland(Germany), longtime fave Spain's Parálisis Permanente, Bjork's earlier band, K.U.K.L., and obviously, the almighty Nina Hagen. Tracklist is a s following:
Siekiera - Na Zewnatrz Clair Obscur - Till Morning Light Opera de Nuit - Boris Transylvania Camp Belfegore - Nach in Sodom KUKL - Dismembered Laether Nun - Gimme gimme gimme Leningrad Sanwich - Another Ghost Oberkampf - Hospital Asmodi Bizarr - Dreamvision Song Xmal Deutschland - Mondilitch Nina Hagen - Antiworld Parálisis Permanente - Tengo Un Pasajero Gabinete Caligari - Maquis Marquee Moon - Edge of Time Musta Paraati - Ajatus Neva - Vision Stimmen der Stille - Todeslied Malaria - Your turn to Run Norma Loy - Dance of Darkness
Here are the first two albums from French batcave/glam rock(at least during the 80's!) band Jad Wio. Formed in 1982, themes like sex, sadomasochism, Blade Runner are interwoven in their French and English lyrics. They remain active though I personally prefer their earlier stuff. "Cellar Dreams" got me hooked last week, hope it'll catch a few of you.
The Snake Corps were an early 80's rock band from UK. They formed after the dissolution of the equally brilliant Sad Lovers and Giant(which is up on the queue on my "forgotten 80's post punk bands" salvation plan), and released four albums and one "very best of" before splitting up in 1993.
Even though I've heard about Kate Bush a gazillion times, I'm relatively new to her music. Besides "The Dreaming" and "Hounds of Love", she remains unknown to me, and I must say that it has been more of an acquired taste than anything. But her voice is haunting, and the music eccentric and obscure. But then again anything was allowed in the 80's. And that's why I love it.
One of my favorite bands ever. "Tripping Dogs" is not a bootleg but it's a rather rare to find live album edited and released in 1990. The Chameleons UK were a brilliant Mancunian band that developed an atmospheric sound that revolved around well-written lyrics and Mark Burgess powerful voice. Sadly, like many bands in this genre, it was highly overlooked in the 80's, even though it remains as a cult fave for all of us post punkers at heart.
