Music: made on Absinthe?

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We've heard the cliches about acid (rock), coke (disco), or weed (reggae), etc etc. But how many recordings do we know that were influenced by the effects of Absinthe? Is there such a thing as Absinthe Music?

― Dougie Tenderfoot, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

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― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

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― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

I remember that Blood Axis did an absinthe concept album, which came in a ludicrous collectors edition containing absinthe spoons, postcards, flyers and a book on absinthe... oh, and there were two 10" lps of music in there too. I've got the cd version which is pretty okay (and apparently completely different). I've only listened to it a couple of times, but I like the way that the vocal gets more and more disjointed as the album progresses, as if the singer is partaking heavily of the green liquour as the piece progresses (not unlike the role of beer in Jon Wayne's Texas Funeral album, I suppose!)

― Rombald, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Absinthe music = Erik Satie

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

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― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

jr otm

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Marilyn Manson made records after/while drinking Absinthe. According to the new Spin book.

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

John Balance had a thing for absinthe, so it would pretty much follow that some of the Coil stuff would have been made on it..

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Naked City's final album was called "Absinthe." I would assume that there was some influence there.

― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

absinthe doesn't really do anything different to you than whiskey does.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

In America, drugs make music. In Soviet Russia, music makes drugs!

― Yakov Smirnoff, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

Well, in America absinthe is still contraband and therefore a bit of a novelty. So, last year when a friend and I produced < a href="http://www.nonchalance.com/bob/glass/index.html">this record, we recorded the vocals under the influnce of "Suisse la Blue".

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

This post brought to you by the influence of red wine.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

wtf

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Well, John Moore from Black Box Recorder was an absinthe importer during his time in the band so there's one possibility

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

any detroiters interested in absinthe imbibing, i'd advise you to hit Windsor for a taste. this place called Milk on University Avenue does it up right.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

absinthe doesn't really do anything different to you than whiskey does

I recently had some of the real shit made by some Burning Man heavies, and I didn't think it was the same as whiskey. This had some heady, visual, euphoric, electric qualities that I've never felt when drinking whiskey.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Absinthe is boring.

― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Like all other substances; it depends on who/when/where/how. Some drunks are funny drunks. Some drunks are boring. I do know it aint the same as whisky. There's another trippy element that happens after the second glass. (That's why our record was called 3rd Glass)

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

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that's because anything made by anyone who goes to burning man is at least 1/3 screensaver

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

You can pretty much bet: anything from French Switzerland.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

that's because anything made by anyone who goes to burning man is at least 1/3 screensaver

Hey man, if you are at all into exotic druggery then maintaining friendships with two or three Burning Man heads is a valuable resource.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

the myth of absinthe has hoodwinked many. it's not really different from regular alcoholic beverages. the legend surrounding the psychedelic powers mostly results from a campaign led by winemakers to discredit a product that was threatening wine sales. wormwood was declared illegal and bootleggers started making absinthe out of lousy ingredients. the stories of absinthe madness floating around probably stem from the fact that these people were drinking dangerous bootleg absinthe. also, many of the people who are associated with absinthe were insane anyway (van gogh, alfred jarry, satie, etc.)

it's pretty much illegal to make the real thing still. they sell something they call absinthe in prague but it's a disgusting imitation and bears little resemblance to what absinthe actually was at the turn of the last century. can't say i've had the real thing but it's prohibitively expensive and difficult to obtain.

― naturemorte, Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/absinthe.html

― jeffery (jeffery), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

it's not really different from regular alcoholic beverages...can't say i've had the real thing

So, you are basically like all those speakers that came to our junior high and told the school what drugs did what without ever trying them.

I think absinthe (the real shit) was different. However, I think different types of alcohol intoxicate me differently. Vodka is quite diff from whiskey is diff from Duvel is diff from red wine from eastern european cough syrup is diff from listerine...

BTW- I don't think I've ever heard an absinthe-influenced record.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

For the uninitiated, FeeVerte.net explains everything.

All I know: Absinthe has been decriminalized in Switzerland, they sell bottles at the Zurich airport. The Jura region is called absinthe corridor, where the Swiss interests in herbal experiments and bootlegging converge. Young Gods are from Neuchatel, they probably know the score pretty well. The Swiss black metal band Samael as well. You pour a shot of absinthe over a sugar cube (available from Migros) through a spoon with a hole in the bottom (probably not available from Migros. The shot becomes murky, hence the nickname "Milk of the Jura."

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

You pour a shot of absinthe over a sugar cube (available from Migros) through a spoon with a hole in the bottom (probably not available from Migros. The shot becomes murky, hence the nickname "Milk of the Jura."

Right on. That's what I witnessed and consumed.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone remember an issue of some English music mag (prob. Q or The Wire) in which they gave a ranking to all manner of drugs, determined by the quality of the various musics they inspired? As I recall, speed was ranked most highly (bebop, punk, rockabilly), coke (70s soft-rockers, disco) the worst, with everything else somewhere in between. Contentious but highly amusing! (Pun assuredly unintended.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

(This was about 1995, I forgot to mention.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

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