Who have Severed Heads influenced?

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I can think of one: Aphex Twin - esp his Ventolin-era sound. Ventolin could've been on Since The Accident or Blubberknife from a decade earlier.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 26 September 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

everybody

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 26 September 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

they are all things to all people. they had the electronics and they had the tunes

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 26 September 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i hear elements of the Heads in pretty much all electroclash. and in the pet shop boys.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 26 September 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

'85 -'90 era 'Heads must've influenced Console a fair bit.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 26 September 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

their old stuff sure as hell influenced me a lot! as a person. not as a musician.

― scott seward, Friday, 26 September 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember when Orbital came to Sydney in maybe 1991(?) the first person they asked to meet when they got off the plane was Tom Ellard.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 26 September 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The neck fuckers.

sorry.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 26 September 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

all idm ever

actually, no, what jim said, everyone who ever heard them

― ... (gareth), Friday, 26 September 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm having severe ESOJ deja vu. I'm sure you answered a question very similiar to this with almost exactly the same responses.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 26 September 2003 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to hear someone influenced by Sevheads tackle "Gashing The Old Mae West"--23 minute version! no computers! tape splicing!

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I was totally going to say what Jim said. People have NO IDEA how influential Tom Ellard was.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

me! they actually put me off making music for a very long time as they are so amazing that i felt i could never reach their heights. then i got over it and realised almost nobody else was going to reach their heights either. tom ellard is a god! robert racic is up there with chep nunez in the edit master stakes.

― stirmonster, Friday, 26 September 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Mastering with Robert was hilarious - an endless stream of heterophobic jokes.

Re their most deliberately unlistenable music, it's 'An American in Paris' that really, really blew my mind. First use of looped breakbeat ever? If you have a migraine, this'll cure it; if you don't, you'll get one.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 26 September 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Own some Severed Heads vinyl. Maybe one day I'll be able to sell them for a fortune. So what is Tom Ellard up to these days? A few years ago he used to write some IT stuff for the Sydney Morning Herald.

― mentalist (mentalist), Saturday, 27 September 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

he's still making music. go visit sevcom.com and check it out.

most SH vinyl isn't especially valuable as it's not altogether scarce. only the stuff pre-"Dead Eyes Opened" is worth anything more than RRP

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 27 September 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i picked up all the SH vinyl i've got (pretty much everything since DEE) for maybe A$5-$10 each..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 27 September 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

So, there's this Seattle band I just discovered called Red Martian.. they're alright!.. hit or miss.. Rocky shoegazy stuff with sorta high register shoegazy vocals, but without trying to live in Loveless-land (unlike, oh, bands on LOVELESS records). The songs are catchy enough.

Anyway, not only do they have a tight friendship/remix relationship with SEVERED HEADS, and not only is the lead guy in the band also named Stephen Jones (just like the guy in Severed Heads, just to make things confusing...), but Red Martian have released a split album with BOB HUND, this great indie rock band from Sweden. They're apparently semi-known everywhere except the U.S.

http://www.redmartian.com

Specifically, http://www.redmartian.com/index.cgi?mp3 .. I'd pass over the "No More SUV" song, but the tracks off glasses cannot go to the puzzle are good though.

Severed Heads do a remix of the first song/mp3 from that album.. it's on this odd compilation from this year called The Music Of The Members Of The SDF Public Access Unix System Vol 02, and the remix is just brilliant.

― donut floccinaucinihilipilification (donut), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

OK, I YSI'ed that Severed Heads remixed track. (Change extension from j4u to mp3.)

― donut floccinaucinihilipilification (donut), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

there's a few severed heads remixed versions of red martian songs.

severed heads are one of my greatest influences. full stop.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 20 August 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

So, when did the Come Visit The Big Bigot With Dead Eyes Opened CD become, like, $60US on eBay???

― donut floccinaucinihilipilification (donut), Saturday, 20 August 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

that's crazy. i can remember when people couldn't seem to be able to give it away

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Saturday, 20 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

The same goes with those Nettwerk reissues of the first two albums with portions of Blubberknife too... although they've been sought after long after, I don't see them getting anything as high as $60US.. maybe this belongs in the "ridiculously overpriced items on eBay" thread?

Anyway, Red Martian! Again, I've lived in Seattle for many years, and have sought out new bands, live and not live, in town.. and yesterday was the first I heard of them. It's possible I was just lame enough to never notice them all this time, but I get a feeling this is a band that has given up on wanting to be a "Seattle" band and they want to be an "internet-ional" band that just happens to live here...

Would LOVE to hear these other Severed Heads remixes of their tracks. I love the "FUSEN/Misfigured Balloon" remix.

― donut floccinaucinihilipilification (donut), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Are SH still making music? I saw them play a few times in Newark, NJ back in '89-'90. They were the first group I can recall who used a sync'd video backdrop for their music. Don't know how they managed that back then, except possibly through much rehearsing! They were always excellent.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

Tom Ellard has finished up the remixes as of November 2005 and we released them on 10" and 12" heavy white vinyl. The 10" has four extended remixes which are all roughly 7+ minutes long and the 12" has 8 'song' format remixes. We changed some of the title names to Japanese just for the remixed versions. FUSEN = Balloon, MEGANE = specks. Also, a remix of HIMITSU (NO SENRITSU) made it to vinyl, but not to the original CD EP, actually, the first version of the CD EP had the original HIMITSU with the last 14 seconds cut off.. there are 1500 copies of the rev 1 somewhere .. probably in a landfill which we really protested, but the plant demanded we send them back before they'd repress any new versions without HIMITSU.

Tom is currently working on video ideas featuring elements from our designer/bassist. We've not decided which song will get the video treatment, but it may be FUSEN and probably MEGANE. We've also been recording a new album entitled SLOW MOTION SAMURAI which develops more of the sound we had on the CD EP. Yes, its hit or miss with us. Did you know we even have a tune that sounds like YMO?? We've been known to break into RYDEEN in the middle of our set.

And donut has it spot on - We live in Seattle, but we're not really a Seattle band. Making it in Seattle is essentially a waste of time and money. Its not that there is no place to play or no 'scene' .. there is, but its very into itself with who knows who. Its much more enjoyable to go to Farnworth/Bolton and other places in the North and meet those people. Its just much more friendly and less competitive.

You mentioned LOVELESS Records. Interestingly enough, we're working with a label in Manchester called VALENTINE. Now here is the real deal: We're influenced by VELVET UNDERGROUND, KRAFTWERK, SEVEREDED HEADS, DEAD KENNEDYS and YMO. MBV comes into play, but isn't near the top of the list. We don't want to be like MBV, because we just can't. Here is the thing .. we've got a Prophet 2002 plus .. I hit one single chord, adjust the filter EG and play a few sequenced notes .. instantly you're an inbetween track somewhere on the loveless LP. Its totally unavoidable, because what makes MBV so brilliant applies to KRAFTWERK as well .. minimalist simplicity! So, rather than worry about all of that, we just play what sounds good to us and have fun .. and especially go DIY as much as we can.

― Stephen Jones, Saturday, 22 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

cut copy & the presets, ha. how, uh, listened-to are severed heads in aussie at the moment?

― etc, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 00:07 (seventeen years ago)

time for tom to reform!!

― electricsound, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

How is it that no one freaking acknowledged Stephen Jones' contribution to the thread??!?!

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 05:39 (seventeen years ago)

...that's a very good question.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 05:42 (seventeen years ago)

Because it's obviously a Stephen Jones from Red Martian, not the Stephen Jones from Severed Heads.

― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 08:33 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i was trying before to work out who red martian were

― electricsound, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 08:35 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

Ron Gallipoli (ex Sharpie Crows)'s stuff has been giving me a Severed Heads buzz:

http://rongallipoli.bandcamp.com/album/agrokomplex

Been a good day for randomly sifting through all the Severed Heads stuff up on Bandcamp ... never enough live versions or demos of "Heart of the Party", eh.

― etc, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 07:43 (nine years ago)

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