Comments on: Mysterons: the sequel http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/ Blogging politics, culture, sociology and life from Brisvegas Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:56:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Brett http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-458859 Brett Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:36:50 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-458859 Good to see I've got some backup on DCD. Obviously tastes vary, but I wouldn't pick "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" as a good introduction to their work. This is better: http://www.last.fm/music/Dead+Can+Dance/+videos/5232136 <blockquote>Dead Can Dance (great Aussie band that)</blockquote> Better than that, they're a great <b>Melbourne</b> band! Hard to believe they started out playing pubs here ... Despite my fondness for Portishead, I've never tried listening to much trip hop. Might have to give Massive Attack a go. Good to see I’ve got some backup on DCD. Obviously tastes vary, but I wouldn’t pick “I Am Stretched On Your Grave” as a good introduction to their work. This is better: http://www.last.fm/music/Dead+Can+Dance/+videos/5232136

Dead Can Dance (great Aussie band that)

Better than that, they’re a great Melbourne band! Hard to believe they started out playing pubs here …

Despite my fondness for Portishead, I’ve never tried listening to much trip hop. Might have to give Massive Attack a go.

]]> By: Tyro Rex http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-458654 Tyro Rex Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:09:31 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-458654 Dead Can Dance (great Aussie band that) leave shit <i>all over</i> Portishead. The real Bristol maestros are actually Massive Attack in my opinion. Blue Lines is just <i>the</i> perfect 90s album in every way. Horace Andy included! Dead Can Dance (great Aussie band that) leave shit all over Portishead.

The real Bristol maestros are actually Massive Attack in my opinion. Blue Lines is just the perfect 90s album in every way. Horace Andy included!

]]> By: Andyc http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-458599 Andyc Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:53:31 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-458599 I'll wait until week after next to get 3rd as a tactile resource (CD), but the auguries definitely indicate not-just-more-of-the-same goodness. Apart from that, I echo <b>Brett</b>: Dead Can Dance vary, but were mind-blowing at their best, and not always zombified. The live "stretched on your grave" by Skinhead O'Connor was an eye-opener re. her own re-interpretation. The studio version is about twice the speed, and is much more trancily tribal rather than totally moribund. And more effective, IMO. Scared of looking for youtubes of bad Sinead covers, so I won't, just yet. I’ll wait until week after next to get 3rd as a tactile resource (CD), but the auguries definitely indicate not-just-more-of-the-same goodness.

Apart from that, I echo Brett: Dead Can Dance vary, but were mind-blowing at their best, and not always zombified.

The live “stretched on your grave” by Skinhead O’Connor was an eye-opener re. her own re-interpretation. The studio version is about twice the speed, and is much more trancily tribal rather than totally moribund. And more effective, IMO.

Scared of looking for youtubes of bad Sinead covers, so I won’t, just yet.

]]> By: Nick Caldwell http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-458102 Nick Caldwell Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:40:06 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-458102 Some unexamined essentialising of race in that Salon review Oz linked to, I fear. Some unexamined essentialising of race in that Salon review Oz linked to, I fear.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457929 Mark Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:31:54 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457929 Rush to judgement, Brett! One of my perennial failings. Thanks muchly for the link! Rush to judgement, Brett! One of my perennial failings.

Thanks muchly for the link!

]]> By: Brett http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457927 Brett Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:30:29 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457927 Hope you're not dissing DCD, Mark. They pwn everyone else, as far as I'm concerned. All of the tracks from <em>Third</em> are up on YouTube now: see http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/005612.html for a list. Not what I was expecting, but I think I'm going to like it! Hope you’re not dissing DCD, Mark. They pwn everyone else, as far as I’m concerned.

All of the tracks from Third are up on YouTube now: see http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/005612.html for a list. Not what I was expecting, but I think I’m going to like it!

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457906 Mark Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:01:23 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457906 Lordy there's some shitty Sinead covers on YouTube. Lordy there’s some shitty Sinead covers on YouTube.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457903 Mark Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:57:33 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457903 Gotta love YouTube. Here's Dead Can Dance (aptly named) doing a really dirge like version of the Sinead tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLblOSaUmWU Now I remember why the turn to trip hop was so exciting! Gotta love YouTube. Here’s Dead Can Dance (aptly named) doing a really dirge like version of the Sinead tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLblOSaUmWU

Now I remember why the turn to trip hop was so exciting!

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457901 Mark Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:54:31 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457901 Man, you gotta remember I grew up with a mother whose musical tastes were post-hippie folk, and then post-adolescence, had all the wonderful experiences of Keating era Arts student unemployment. Oh, and the lie on couch with a bottle of scotch post relationship breakup with a mix tape really is one of the defining memories of my 20s! Man, you gotta remember I grew up with a mother whose musical tastes were post-hippie folk, and then post-adolescence, had all the wonderful experiences of Keating era Arts student unemployment. Oh, and the lie on couch with a bottle of scotch post relationship breakup with a mix tape really is one of the defining memories of my 20s!

]]> By: David Rubie http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457898 David Rubie Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:51:35 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457898 Dirges would explain the inexplicable popularity of Leonard Cohen amongst my contemporaries. Dirges would explain the inexplicable popularity of Leonard Cohen amongst my contemporaries.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457896 Mark Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:49:05 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457896 Had another listen. Reminds me a little of Sinead's <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Sin%C3%A9ad+O'Connor/_/I+Am+Stretched+on+Your+Grave" rel="nofollow">"I am stretched on your grave"</a>. On Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bhVF5qg4Rg&feature=related Maybe dirges are Gen X music! Had another listen. Reminds me a little of Sinead’s “I am stretched on your grave”.

On Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bhVF5qg4Rg&feature=related

Maybe dirges are Gen X music!

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457891 Mark Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:40:33 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457891 Thanks for the link, though, Oz. <blockquote>Trip hop could never have saved the world from despair, but it did promise inclusiveness, slow dancing, sex, relaxation, pot smoking, etc., as respites from despair -- all things that "Third" has laid to rest under that dearly departed genre's tombstone.</blockquote> That's a neat way of explaining why trip hop was the ultimate Gen X music! Thanks for the link, though, Oz.

Trip hop could never have saved the world from despair, but it did promise inclusiveness, slow dancing, sex, relaxation, pot smoking, etc., as respites from despair — all things that “Third” has laid to rest under that dearly departed genre’s tombstone.

That’s a neat way of explaining why trip hop was the ultimate Gen X music!

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457890 Mark Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:38:53 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457890 I'm reserving judgement on Third til the whole album comes out! And til I've listened to that single a few more times. Does seem as if the "new album will be very different" thing wasn't wrong. I’m reserving judgement on Third til the whole album comes out! And til I’ve listened to that single a few more times. Does seem as if the “new album will be very different” thing wasn’t wrong.

]]> By: David Rubie http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457887 David Rubie Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:34:34 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457887 I failed to discern a name for the decade in Scott LeMees piece, other than: Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Frighties. Nah, it'll never catch on. I failed to discern a name for the decade in Scott LeMees piece, other than:

Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Frighties.

Nah, it’ll never catch on.

]]> By: Craig Mc http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457881 Craig Mc Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:17:28 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457881 I hope Gibbons hasn't thrown away Paul Webb's number. I hope Gibbons hasn’t thrown away Paul Webb’s number.

]]> By: Craig Mc http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457874 Craig Mc Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:54:11 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457874 For a second I thought it was the new Kraftwerk single. Substitute Ralf's monotone for Beth's vibrato and we're there. For a second I thought it was the new Kraftwerk single. Substitute Ralf’s monotone for Beth’s vibrato and we’re there.

]]> By: Oz http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457870 Oz Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:16:08 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/04/17/mysterons-the-sequel/#comment-457870 Some think <i>Third</i> is <a href="http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/2008/04/17/portishead/index.html?source=rss&aim=/ent/music/review" rel="nofollow">the final nail in the coffin of 'trip-hop'</a> Some think Third is the final nail in the coffin of ‘trip-hop’

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