Japanese psychedelic group, c. 1970 - "The Lost Motherland (Part 1)" definitely belongs on the 'Scary Music' thread, it's like the video in 'Event Horizon'! Really disturbing stuff! I've figured out what it is too - there's something peculiarly upsetting about humans making animal noises (provided this goes on at length and the animals sound in pain! See 'happy animals' are exempt, even though some kids get scared by noize-toyz but it's a warm frisson as opposed to the atavistic plunge of pained-animal sounds, perhaps because when humans make them it's redolent of those folk tales about changelings, monsters, souls trapped in alien bodies [punishment for thieves in Dante, having their bodies switched with animal parts - penalty for 'confusing mine and thine'], especially of the larged quasi-domestic/ agricultural variety (as opposed to the lupine Lux Interior camp camp). How to describe this track - Butthole Surfers + Aphrodites' Child?
(Gearhead note - anyone else notice that Jap prog-psych of the early 70s is where that stereotype factory-setting 'ping' (or 'crackle') lead gtr sound makes it first appearance? Unlike the warmer 'whirring' sound (cf. Iommi, Josh Homme) or the fuzzy 'hornet' sound (Blue Cheer, etc), that paradoxically all Japanese bands use today, the early Jap prog/psych (starting with the Mops, who might've been the first to use this sound) has that 'ping' (Marshall pre-amp? Processed distortion as opposed to the overdriven/punctured-cone variety?) sound that you started to hear on all late-70s hard rock starting with Michael Schenker - a weirdly denatured (mid-range taken out?) sound that made sure Vernon Reid sounds the same as George Lynch! Seriously awful tones! I bet this caught on with the Schenker brothers because they were so big in Japan (every metal bozo from Vinnie Vincent to Night Ranger were wearing Japanese rising suns in the 80s), and being metal gtr players, they figured that the Japanese loved THEM so they HAD to have immaculate taste, right? (Same as every pop star who gets massive over there, mysteriously they all come back saying the Japanese have superior taste, wonder why?) Oh, and if you're into Butthole Surfers imitations, check out Melting Glass Box's 'Kimi Da Darenanda', from 1970
― dave q, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
BTW - anybody reading this who came by on Friday, ta very much - I
thought the cover of 'Forming' was beautiful, didn't you?
― dave q, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
only thing here ive heard of is michael shenker cos my old man plays
his records gimme a bloody headache. if this is all the same ie old
heavy metal u should be ashamed of urself u should be bringing up
children not wasting time talkin about old shit wot no one's ever
heard of grandad.
― XStatic Peace, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
You Germs fan you, Dave Q. Anyway, you've certainly piqued my
interest with this description, but I've not of this lot otherwise.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
OK here's something that should interest somebody - Haruomi Hosono
was in this group
― dave q, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)