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cd shopping
by tuck
Sun 09 Jun 2002 10:46:31
i found a great cd store today and grabbed a bunch of shit, all for around $2.00 each. the highlights are:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
NIN: All that Could Have Been
Napalm Death (double): Harmony Corruption and Leaders Not Followers
Dizzy Gallespie: Coolworld (1965)
Bud Powell: Hot House (1964, France)(cool because he was pretty brain damaged at this point and since its a live, small venue recording, you can hear these grotesque, inhuman grunts and squeaks coming from him on all his solos... all of which are entirely distracting). hes a pianist, btw.
Type O Negative: After Dark (VCD with home video footage, plus videos for Black Number 1, Christian Woman, My Girlfriends Girlfriend, Love You to Death, Cinnamon Girl, Everything Dies, and fucking cool backstage stuff reminiscent of Panteras home video Watch It Go.
because i was so impressed with the diversity of the music selection of this tiny shop, i also picked a bunch of random death metal which i wasnt familiar with. my criteria for selection was: coolness of cover art, coolness of band name, and coolness of track names. one of the picks was called Lacrimosa- and this ended up surprising me, pleasantly. its actually opera music, mostly sung in german. its playing now.
hmm.
its entirely listenable. theres a full classical orchestra, occasionally classical guitar, all behind some calm and collected vocals by some german dude, or his totally hot dudette.
basically, this seems to be sort of a sedated Theater of Tragedy. the two occasionally seem to be singing in response to each other, sometimes together in harmony. and oooh, as im writing now, it just started to get a little faster with some borderline metal guitar. this has potential to be great if the dude starts getting angry or something.
err. its staying slowish.
losing me now.
hmpf.
whoa, kick ass! its Dich Zu Toten Mir Schwer (track 6) and the dudette just got totally pissed off at something and yelled over some heavy metal riffs before a while.
dammit. the dude came back and is pissing me off now. he killed the metal. neat bubbly septic tank sounds though...
yeehaw! picked up again! (please, pah-lease let the chick come back!)
gaaa. shes gone.
but wait... wait, wait, wait.... this is pretty cool. an angel chorus is now chanting Sanctus... Sanctus..... Sanctus... Dominus.... over and over.
and now other stuff i cant make out.
yeah man, Sanctus! Sanctus! hehe.
two mood-dependent thumbs up for Lacrimosa.
comments
lani - Sun 09 Jun 2002 10:47:31
la crimosa dies illa... can't remember the rest as of right now and can't seem to find the words. la crimosa refers to the tears. a part of requiem...but i don't know when it was added historically or if it was an original movement. i also like "pie jesu". i like all of it really. how could you not love stuff like <i>flammis acribus addictis</i>? basically, i need to find more requiems to know and enjoy other than the andrew lloyd webber version which is admittedly a scar on the coolness charts, but i'm obsessed with it. obsessed. i just love the dischordant emotions and noise incorporated into the piece. but y'know mozart didn't have synths so who can you blame. i also like the masses done by william byrd (sp?) that i heard on npr...well, that i accidentally got caught in traffic blasting from my car and couldn't back down from after people started staring. so yeah, i must head to the cd store and search out your recommendation as soon as my wallet recovers from all the gemini birthdays.tuck - Sun 09 Jun 2002 10:48:31
ohhhhh, "La (space) Crimosa". oh oh oh. yes, then. heh.