Ten Essential "Heaviest, Most Feral, Mega-Atavistic, Fauvist-Metal, Stuck-Pig, Struck-Dumb, Electrocuted-Porcupine, End-Of-All-Music" Albums

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see what i did there? i didn't start a new york times thread cuz i said i wasn't gonna anymore.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 9 October 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

well...junkyard?

― Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen (arnart1802), Monday, 9 October 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

eyehategod - dopesick

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

julee cruise - floating into the night

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

just to clarify, i got the quote above from ben ratliff's wolf eyes review:

"Without fail Wolf Eyes’ work is described as noise. The term passes no judgment. The guys in the band don’t mind it. They’re actively courting the void. (A song on the band’s new album, “Human Animal,” on Sub Pop, is called “Noise Not Music.”) The handful of people who have been coming to their shows for the last 10 years will roll their eyes at the idea that the heaviest, most feral, mega-atavistic, Fauvist-metal, stuck-pig, struck-dumb, electrocuted-porcupine, end-of-all-music band of their day still needs explaining. But it does, at least here."

but it's still not a new york times thread!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

"There’s improvising in a Wolf Eyes show, but it’s not very interactive or musicianly. Jazz is entirely the wrong reference point. It’s more like disco, in that it’s ultimately about collective mesmerization and social experiment. Noise shows are comfort zones disguised as war zones: the rabid fans want regression, the less rabid fans just want to see their buddies. This is a good thing, one of the basic functions of music: the two-way ritual that goes on between musicians and audience, and the creation of trust.

But there’s a self-distancing joke in the band’s fist-pumping, head-banging, dumb-show body language of rocking out, a laugh at the idea of transcendence in music, a big who cares that is insurance against the possibility of bad art."

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

sorry! it won't happen again.

dopesick is a good choice!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

howabout oxbow - i heard an oxbow album once

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

i wanna say funhouse but i don't wanna sound like a rock n roll critic.
also:
dead c - helen said this
melvins - bullhead
olneyville sound system - on safari

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard an oxbow album. i've heard the oxes, but i don't really like them.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

maybe GENERIC FLIPPER, but I dunno if that counts as favist-metal?

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

Fauvist, even.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

fauvist paintings are really really colorful, aren't they? that doesn't fit most end-of-all-music stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think i like oxes either. the oxbow i have heard was pretty cool.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

How about Venom - Welcome to Hell?

― rattusnorvegicus (ratty!!), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Godflesh Streetcleaner fits the bill I think.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

fauvist paintings are really really colorful, aren't they? that doesn't fit most end-of-all-music stuff.
-- scott seward (skotro...), October 10th, 2006.

chalk it up to some dude knowing his french, but not his art history

(because "fauves" means "wild beasts", which I guess kind of makes sense to describe Wolf Eyes? more sense than "lots of really bright color", at least)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

another vote for dopesick

― latebloomer: just raw dead fucking, babies! (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

ah, okay. he wasn't talking about painters! shows how much french i know. i only see that term in connection with art.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

anaal nathrakh - the codex necro

― latebloomer: just raw dead fucking, babies! (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

spk - leichenschrei

― latebloomer: just raw dead fucking, babies! (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

really too much black metal to mention. i don't know, i guess it does describe something like wolf eyes pretty good. they are pretty noisey. and bleak. or can be.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

converge - jane doe

― latebloomer: just raw dead fucking, babies! (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

hella: hold your horse is

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

ah, okay. he wasn't talking about painters! shows how much french i know. i only see that term in connection with art.
-- scott seward (skotro...), October 10th, 2006.

if it's any consolation, he was probably trying to talk about painters

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

well, now, you know, if you look at it as "color for color's sake" and "noise for noise's sake", and fauvists being considered sorta the roughnecks of the art world, then i guess it makes sense.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

the phrase in the thread title is meant as a joke in the review, right? like, that's what he imagines wolf eyes fans would say about them?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps black metal is too, well, black, to be fauvist. That narrows the field a bit.

― rattusnorvegicus (ratty!!), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

well, reading that title description, I think of Julian Cope's 'Citizen Cain'd'.
and (although completely different in means) of Scott Walker's 'Tilt', and the 'Pola X' soundtrack.

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

that description is perfect for this album:

jazkamer - metal music machine

relentless noise with a hyperspeed black metal aesthetic, but about 40 times as brutal and nasty as that sounds.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

the heaviest, most feral, mega-atavistic, Fauvist-metal, stuck-pig, struck-dumb, electrocuted-porcupine, end-of-all-music

this was published in the New York Times? my day is now made.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

i like how jane doe was mentioned.

the ugliest converge to my ears, however, is definitely 'petitioning the empty sky'

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

What? - No Napalm Death Scum?

― sonicdeath (BlackIronPrison), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

carcass - symphonies of sickness

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

I just missed seeing Jazkamer the other night because I was stuck at work. What a bummer.

I'd nominate early Swans, a lot of Merzbow, Masonna, early Painkiller, that sort of thing.

― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

my condolencies sir. I will be seeing them/him, and keiji haino, this weekend.

sorr.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://musicimages.liquiddigitalmedia.com/8/3/0/6/36038.gif

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Seconds on Anaal Nathrakh, thirds or fourths on Dopesick. Also Pussy Galore's Right Now!, the first six tracks on Slipknot's s/t CD, Pig Destroyer's Terrifyer...tons more I can't think of right now.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Drunks With Guns (the one with the black cover)

― Kevin John Bozelka (Kevin John Bozelka), Friday, 13 October 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 13 October 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

i will also put in a vote for *public castration is a good idea*.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 13 October 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

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