Love is the only weapon with which I got to fight? Bullshit! Jim Jones in song.

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After hearing the Alabama 3 "Mao Tse Tung" track last night, which opens with Big Jim Jones' famous narrative, I started trying to think of other tracks that he provides a cameo on. Concrete Blonde's "Jesus Forgive Me" is the only other one that I could think of off the top of my head.
(Related thread).

Where else has the late great spread his Kool-Aid?
And is he not the greatest apocalyptic ranter in pop music? Discuss.

― js (honestengine), Saturday, 24 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Everything by Psychic TV? Not quite, but a lot of the live recordings from a certain phase of their operations. I do enjoy the tracks with the long Jim Jones rants, to be honest.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 24 December 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

I used to have the raw rant on a tape somewhere, but I think that I lost it.

― js (honestengine), Saturday, 24 December 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I like "The same man that gives you a traffic ticket is the one who knocks my brains out" or something like that.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

js, does this help? http://www.archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16

― Brakhage (brakhage), Saturday, 24 December 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

wtf, pop music? the real jim joens is part of dipset....

― Malachi, Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Renegade Soundwave's Murder Music begins with the rant. At the end, where he says "I'll fight I'll" the second "I'll" starts echoing. A few years ago Mark Morgan from the band sightings was playing records at my party and he played an old noise 7", something like Black Randy or a band like that, and one side featured the speech with the same effect, so I assume RSW took it from that. Is that part of other samples?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 24 December 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

PTV released a long sermon from the final white night as "The Last Supper" once

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Dan: That "echo" on the second "I'll" is, I assume, him hollerin' and ululating, as it's on even the raw file...

(Thanks again, Brakhage.)

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

hmm, i'll have to listen again but I swear there's more then that, some delay, check the renegade soundwave song. It's a great song in any case.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 25 December 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

You're right. The original soundbite has some of the ululation, then when the volume spikes up that's all processing.
(Luckily, that RSW thread had come up in the last couple of days, so I had pulled my RSW and had it sitting next to the computer... Ithink I'm gonna listen to SPace Gladiator next...)

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 25 December 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

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