Psychic TV's "Peak Hour" is one of the best instrumental electronic techno LPs.....
Although personally, I like PTV’s “Towards The Infinite Beat” and “Allegory And Self” as lps…I think “PEAK HOUR” is an incredible lyric-less techno acid house lp. Recorded all over from Nepal to San Francisco to London in 1993…
“Ultrahouse” and “Jack The Tab” are excellent too but there are lyrics in some of those songs…
As a fully INSTRUMENTAL lp, “PEAK HOUR” is incredible.. It took many plays and many states and many years to fully appreciate it.
1) E-Male
2) Dreamlined
3) L.I.E.S.
4) Tribal
5) Pregnant Pause
6) Pain
7) Everything Has To Happen
8) How Does It Feel?
9) Re-Mind
Actually “Pain” does have lyrics but they are so much under the music and so distorted, the lyrics and words are more of an instrument….
Temple Records.
Damn, I miss Psychic TV!!!!!
and for the strict I LOVE MUSIC heads, here's my question.. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS LP?
Todd E. Jones
tejones@kforce.com
― todd, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
As the resident recovering Psychic TV fan. . .
I think there are some absolutely great moments on this album, but I
would want to string them together much differently. I have gotten
rid of my copy, but "Pain" was probably my favorite song. I found the
stupid lyrics too distracting. (But then, I've never had a piece of
steel thrust through the head of my penis--what do I know?)
I don't like "Towards thee Infinite Beat," aside from "Bliss" which is
one of the rare acid house songs that I really enjoy. "Allegory and
Self" hasn't held up that well for me either, though I fondly remember
hearing "Godstar" for the first time, stopping the tape a rewinding to
hear the lines "It's about Brian Jones/The one of the Rolling Stones"
again as I cracked up. But Thee Dweller and Thee Starlit Mire, which
I used to listen to to detox. after visiting my Evangelical Reformed
sister, doesn't serve much purpose for me anymore. (Indeed, my
enthusiasm for Psychic TV can partly be blamed on my sister's written
exhortations over the years for me to bend the need to Christ.)
I don't have anything favorable to say about "Ultrahouse" or "Jack the
Tab."
In addition to the vocals on "Pain" there is a fair amount of chatter
and quite a few speech samples.
Have you ever heard that Brian Jones interview thing on the end of the
vinyl version of Kondole thee Whale (or Ov Dolphins and Whales, or
whatever they called it at that point), the same thing that also
appeared on the Psychedelic Violence EP? Now that is
absolutely classic.
― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)