Within the realm of a dying poll: DEAD CAN DANCE

Wow i had no idea they had done all this, and i see from a quick google there's heaps of live albums, film scores etc. I've mainly only heard of them from the Baraka score.

Oh god, how can I choose between Serpent's Egg and Aion?

Oh, Serpent's Egg I guess. Brendan Perry just goes a bit *too* Frank Sinatra on Aion.

I think I'll go with Aion. Not hearing ol blue eyes on that - you mean stuff like "Black Sun"?!

No, I mean Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book.

I know, I know, my position is indefensible, but...

Yeah I always used to skip that one on Aion ... pretty much in the same way that I skipped "In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed Are Kings" on Serpent's Egg

i think I'll go with "into the labyrinth" on this one, which wasn't an album I liked much when it came out, but has been the one I've listened to the most over the past two years.

Give me 69 years,
Another season in this hell.
There is sex and death
In mother nature's plans.

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The Serpent's Egg was astonishing to me when I first heard it - I think I was encouraged to buy it by an Andy Darling review in Blitz! Aion I got for Xmas 1990 - my brother described it as Manuel's Music of the Mountains.

I worked backwards after that - better than the first LP (but not much) is the Garden of Arcane Delights EP. I sold the live CD/VHS box from 1994 on eBay a few years ago. Sort of regret that.

I'm voting for Da Serp.

aion gets this one, although labyrinth is the one i listen to most. i've never heard the debut.

For what its worth, we wouldn't mind if Brendan went Sinatra on us. Unfortunately, he went Neil Diamond on us instead.

Serpent's Egg is the most relistenable of the lot. In all honesty I've had iterations of a mix tape of all the Lisa songs in chronological order for 2 decades now.

Are there so few DCD fans on ILM?!

I'm going to go for the first album cause it's the one I've been listening to the most recently.

(I really have an embarrassing soft spot for Neil Diamond so that would have been a lot better than the CROONING.)

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Are there so few DCD fans on ILM?!

Yeah I've started two album polls on them now if I recall correctly, and was surprised at how few responses they generated. People need to be converted in a major way, I think. Maybe we should hijack a Cure thread.

how come Ned isn't all over this?

Because he only listens to "weird electronic music" these days. :-P

And can I just say one thing:

Electric sound of Jim said he'd never heard the debut. Well I admit it's sorta chunky in its production, but surely Jim's life is incomplete without having heard that? Especially the CD bonus track "In Power We Trust The Love Advocated" - have you heard that at least, Jim?

WE NEED TO HAVE THE DEAD CAN DANCE LOVE ON THIS BOARD NOW. NOW. Right fucking now. We can't wait. NOW.

Anyway I think it's dead funny that Brendan has been compared to Neil Diamond, now. I think that's a far more favourable comparison than some of the other shit male solo artists I might think of to compare his post-DCD transformation to. Nope, Neil Diamond doesn't really bother me all that much. Compare him to Neil Diamond, then, see if I care.

ok well i'm d/ling the debut off emusic now

Are there so few DCD fans on ILM?!

*raises hand*

(but they're more like a guilty pleasure than something I'd proudly tell everyone about, somehow)

never actually listened to this band until this week but I've been listened to LG solo stuff since Immortal Memory so I'm giving it a shot & it's hitting the spot

first album song "Threshold" sure is a pretty big bite of that one Joy Division song that goes "they keep calling me" tho

now you've got me on a dead can dance kick

Hope it was use of "Host of the Seraphim" in the owl movie that inspired you to do this.

Less importantly, that was also the song my husband put on to propose to me. Less important than a barn own carrying a bucket in slow motion. I understand art is more important than my life.

They really need to stop letting folks use "The Host of Seraphim" in all those shitty movies. That song is special.

Also, if you really want to hear Brendan Perry sound like Neil Diamond, check out his cover of "Happy Time" from the 13-Year Itch CD.

Also also, the first album is the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pEiMhBZlU

I like all of them (plus the toward the within live album), except labyrinth and spiritchaser.

Hope it was use of "Host of the Seraphim" in the owl movie that inspired you to do this.

no I did not see the owl movie

Also also, the first album is the best.

of the three I listened to today it was my least favorite - still fine, but much less original than what came later it seems to me

hey you should see the owl movie

I don't know what it is but it sounds like a fun movie

maybe the owl movie is the zapruder film - seems unlikely but if that's the case then yes I have seen the owl movie but I don't remember any music

You – you would know if you'd seen the owl movie.

I saw this one movie where a lady was working at a desk and a guy came to deliver a package but then somehow it turned out they wanted to have sex and then for the next 20 minutes that's pretty much all they did -- is that the owl movie

idk, was either of them a wisecracking echidna?

no, pretty sure they were both shaved

wow I really ruined the Dead Can Dance thread

I blame the owl movie.
Dead Can Dance doesn't really have one standout album for me.

The first one is my least favourite too, as I said on the other thread...but I don't want to stress that too hard again because I know it will make Jim sad.

Depending on my mood I could easily choose Dying Sun or Serpent's Egg as fave (sometimes even Spleen).

BTW aero if your talk is "ruining" the DCD thread, I wish more threads would get ruined.

Another reunion scheduled for next year, if BP and LG can keep it together.

Seems funny that Aion got more votes than Spleen & Ideal, maybe I'm missing something.

Aion was the first one I ever heard and I still like it the most, would have voted for that one if I'd been around for this poll.

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Aion is the first I heard, too. There is a bus station here ––– I swear this ––– they play "Saltarello" every 20 minutes. Every time, my mind is blown!

if there's ever a film series based on 'the black company' it should either be scored to DCD or doom metal. preferably both.

i have much much love for 'spleen and ideal'

when i had a goth party the first track i put on my playlist was 'de profundis (out of the depths of sorrow)', which is, btw, an excellent way to start off a goth party

You – you would know if you'd seen the owl movie.

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I appreciate your use of a legit en dash here, Abbbottt.

that's really all I have to contribute to this thread right now

still haven't seen the owl movie tbh

regret not getting the whole catalogue off emusic while 4ad were still on there

'Spiritchaser' needs a bit more love now that the dust has settled.
I think ultimately I find the 80's stuff a bit too dry nowadays - these guys became much more interesting IMO when they started experimenting with rhythm - the new songs on the "Passage in Time" compilation are a good illustration of that shift.

been listening to them again (4AD book, innit) and albums 2 through 4 are bloody marvelous - at the time the leap from their first to Spleen And Ideal was unbelievable, later with The Serpent's Egg it felt like they'd achieved perfection (those 2 made the biggest impression). Within The Realm… seemed more like a plateau after Spleen, though it has some of my faves on it.

The order they came in the poll is exactly how I'd rate them.

I do need to make myself a Dead Can Dance compilation. There's lots I love by them but lots I can't tolerate.

yeah I remember watching the Toward the Within video with some Tolkein orc banging on percussion and thinking WHAT THE FUCK HAVE I BEEN LISTENING TO and pretty much shelved the albums I had loved up to that point. Once the bubble of pretension pops it's hard not to see them as a couple of earnest gothy tryhards practising their cape twirls in front of the mirror.

are you mad that guy was awesome

the newer record from a few years back was pretty decent

I finally gave up and sold them all. I may yet pick up one of the compilations but, meh, probably not. They just fell under the "gotta be in a very specific mood to enjoy" category.

they suit the bubble of pretension I live in

way more of a fan of lisa gerrard - brendan sounds like jim morrison on valium

I revisited Garden of the Arcane Delights recently and it might be my favourite release.

The live version of Children Of The Sun from the last record is great, despite really, really terrible lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHT8I9ltXs

I found myself standing in a kinda circular seating area in the middle of Père Lachaise Cemetery last year, I slowly turned around and came across the cover of Within The Realm... same angle, trees in the background, the lot, I was giggling.

Yeah Children of the Sun has cringeworthy lyrics. Return of the She-King from the last album is like one of the best songs they've recorded though, so I hope they do crank out another record.

Perry posted this in April of this year by the way:

Mastering the new Dead Can Dance album at Abbey Road tomorrow. Excited!

— Brendan Perry (@brendanperry) April 21, 2018

wow! had no idea

hahaha, the pic of them on their web site looks like mom and dad caught you smoking cigarettes

(I love it)

"Your sausages, Solomon..."

I was a bit let down by Aion but Into The Labyrinth is great. The way "The Carnival Is Over" dissolves into "Ariadne" is just gorgeous.

Only just struck me that Brendan sounds like Sinatra.

I always thought Neil Diamond, especially on a song like 'American Dreaming'

When he sings Tim Buckley songs, which is often, he sounds remarkably like Buckley.