I'm a sucker for a nice dirge. Know what I mean?

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just listening to "spanish air" by slowdive. it really hit the spot. they don't always have to be all joy division/swans/doom metal heavy(handed) for me to dig them. just a pretty little lament/threnody at a proper snail's pace/funeral procession tempo. anyone hear any good ones lately? anyone out there now doing it up right? (not that i don't love the heavy stuff as well. of course i do! i'm a member of the eyehategod fan-club! well, i would be, if they had one. and when they are pretty AND heavy -swans/world of skin were good at those- even better.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Cathedral

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Just a Closer Walk With Thee

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Cathedral. everything they ever did? Was it all a dirge?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

That Slowdive record was Cre LP 094, now I'm playing "Christmas Song" from Cre LP 142 aka Shot Forth Self Living. Dirgerific!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

check out the live tracks on here http://www.pry.com/codeine/media.html
perfect music to carry a casket to..

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Dirty Boy by the Cardiacs is a fabulous dirge. They have a song called Dirge too, incidentally.

― everything, Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

it's too bad sisters of mercy never covered "if there is something" by roxy music. they coulda dirged that one out good. "growing potatoes by the score!!!!!"

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I like Scrawl's Travel On, Rider for dirges.

Almost everyone I know hates Scrawl though...and they're the type of people that should like Scrawl, so maybe I'm crazy though...but I really like the song "Story Musgrave" off that album.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

How about Skullflower "Exquisite Fucking Boredom"? 4 parts making up a 40-minute dirge. It's really quite good.

Also, Cathedral is not all dirge, but the first album is...can't recall the name right now.

But if you want to go for serious Cathedral related dirge, try out Teeth of the Lion Rule the Divine's "Rampton". The first song (of 3 on the CD) is 25 minutes+ of slow, dark gloom, but not in a cookie monster way. It's starts off with 6 minutes of feedback and drums before anything happens, but it's more interesting and "pretty" than I'm making it sound...

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

The Iditarod & Sharron Kraus "Lyke Wake Dirge". out-dirges The Pentangle's take on this traditional Yuletide creepfest (it's the "fire and fleet and candle[i]leet[/i] / and Christ receive your soul" ditty) but Buffy Sainte-Marie's is slightly more sinister.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

oh bother. candleleet. [sic]

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

one more time cuz i don't want to misrepresent. LWD is not a Chrimbo tune but a moral admonition to be charitable during life lest your afterlife be one of endless torment and horror. at the incorporeal hands of bog wraiths, no less. cheery. whatever it is, it's dirge-y as hell and any version (Steeleye Span also took a crack at it) should appeal.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 17 February 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Neurosis can get heavy dirgy, and Landing and Windy & Carl both offer ethereal dirginess.

― manson: lake chelan apples, Thursday, 17 February 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

it's too bad sisters of mercy never covered "if there is something" by roxy music. they coulda dirged that one out good. "growing potatoes by the score!!!!!"

Oh man, can I ever see that! Would have been perfect. I really hate it when ilxors tempt me with covers that never happened/never will happen. Oh well, maybe I'll be lucky enough to hear it in my sleep one day.

I'm a sucker for a nice dirge, too. Hard to beat Joy Division's The Eternal in that department, though.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 February 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Re: Cathedral. The first LP "forest of Equilibrium" is 100% dirge. Things get stoner rock and patchy after that, but their "best of" -- "Serpent's Gold" is solid.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 18 February 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

instrumental dirges galore: The Dirty Three. 'Horses' in particular.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 February 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. I've heard about Cathedral before somewhere. I'll have to check it out.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

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― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

..specifically "Birdmen", or most any song off Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty or The Splendour Of Fear.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

Also, anything by Supercollider (Supercollider from 1991, or Dual from 1994)

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

Given the Cure love on ILM, I'm surprised no one's mentioned "The Funeral Party" from Faith, yet. Oh, wait, I just did...

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Yes indeed FELT!!!!!! THE B-SIDE!!!!!!

YES YES YHES YES YES YESY ES

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 February 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.glassdarkly.com/feltfolder/primitive.html

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 February 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Now that is a record that changed my life. And I didn't even realize until now that the sleeve for PIL's Second Edition seems to be a poster in the background of the photo. Isn't that Clockwork Orange, too? None of that meant anything at all to me when I bought it this record.

http://felt.planetaclix.pt/Discography/images/primitive-cathedral.jpg

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 February 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Hows about some Alice in Chains? "Dirt" is one long dirge about smack...

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 18 February 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

I have been listening to a lot of Oneida recently.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Miles. "He Loved Him Madly."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 18 February 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Art Bergmann - Dirge #1, it's one of those tracks that made him a hard sell for the various majors he's been on over the years.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Alan Vega, "Viet Vet"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Two awesome dirges:

"Time To Melt" - Lard
"Fucked" - GOD

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

GROWING POTATOES BY THE SCORE

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

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