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HOLY SHIT GUYS I LOVE THIS BAND.

I LOVE TEH WAY "OUTSIDE" DEVOLVES FROM A ROCKIN SLOW JAM TO A NOISY MESS OF FEEDBACK AND CLICKING. HOLLA

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ian lets do some trading . . . i have a cdr of their singles and some cdrs of their tapes, etc and i know you have some brinkman . . .

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

when i get home I'll email you a list of what i've got; I am totalyl down mr JC.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm not with Jay Hinman when he says that they're not great in retrospect. I still like them. That said, I haven't listened to one of their records in years now and have not heard the last couple of albums. (I'm interested in them, though.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

personally, i think the Dead C are one of the great bands -- and one of the few to convincingly combine rock elements with more out elements like drone, etc. plus, they just push the primal buttons inside of my head whenever i listen to them (though that has to be in my car or when my girlfriend is away since the Dead C drive her apeshit with hatred for them).

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"helen said this" is one of the greatest songs i've ever heard.

heh, i last saw the dead c. with jack cole, his girlfriend, and the mayo apetrain.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Opinions on the last two albums from any NOIZERS?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i haven't heard them... :-\ jack cole has though.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the dbl cd one of the last two? I lose track.. but that one's good. There's one 30 minute or so song on the first disc that pwnz the long-form songs on Tusk...

gygax OTM re: Helen Said This.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually sold my copy of Tusk. I also sold that old "Metal Heart" 7".

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm starting the next mix tape i make with "outside" for sure. SO EPIC.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 26 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i sold my copy of Repent

I regret it. but im also sick of owning things....so

my copy of HARSH 70's REALITY, SEES HEAVY SPINS THO.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ornette coleman playing fiddle with them is pretty much my dream record.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

last two albums, swing back towards short pieces -- more "rock" structure (the term used loosely). love them both though there was some controversy over some of the stuff on the last album if it actually was the dead c and not accidentally stuff from gate.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Accidentally?"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

check out the dead c list on yahoo for full details. the argument was over if there was mix up in tapes. i believe that gate tapes werent used from the sound.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

how come i was never approved to get on the dead c list on yahoo those sheep-fux0rz.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

you have to buy them a mirkin first...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html

― msp (msp), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I basically lost touch with these guys after the live thing (wait, was that Tusk or Repent? I forget.) Weird, too, because I worshipped them in the mid-90s. That live disc was kind of crap though. I thought Operation of the Sonne / The White House was just a magnificient pair of records though. Kind of like the real endpoint of post-Sonic Youth rock deconstruction, like the END OF ROCK MUSIC ITSELF. It seemed like everything they had released up to that point was sort of working towards those two records, getting progressively more extended and improvised and whited out. I dunno, after that it just felt like a NEW DEAD C RECORD wasn't as exciting.

But that's just me, and how I felt at the time. I'd like to hear those most recent self-released discs. But I guess they are already a bit scarce.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

'the damned' is fairly available rob.

'repent' was their live record and I thought it to be really gd but I don't listen to it as much as some of the others.

I should re-listen to some of these soon.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

what of this band should I buy first?

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

adam start with more song oriented stuff.
get either eusa kills or that comp of the early stuff flying nun put out. after that definitely harsh 70s reality.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

harsh 70'Z

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

eusa kills is pretty hard to find, but scoop it up if you do. it's more rocktacular.

Harsh 70s Reality or Trapdoor Fucking Exit are good starting choices.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

i've never heard them! 'harsh 70s reality' is an excellent album title though

― Amon (eman), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

dr503c ("bad politics"! "sun stabbed"!) or harsh 70s reality. BR screaming "sold my arse to see the sky" on (almost) primetime nz music teevee was pretty sweet.

they're still pretty good live!

― etc (esskay), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

SK that was MM! You mean on GROUND ZERO, right? That was a fucking amazing thing, yes. I saw it LIVE, I was really stoned too. Noone's mentioned "Clyma Est Mort" or "Dead C vs Sebadoh", I like those ones too. Start w/Eusa if possible sure.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

my friend has a tattoo of them on her stomach.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Pictures of the three of them or the bandname? Cos the former'd be kinda gross

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

a small drawing of the 3 of them, playing.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Indefinite

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Could you get a pic?

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

it's cute more than anything, really. the small size means they're basically stick figures, but weird boys go nuts over it. we're on opposite continents at the moment, so i'm not sure about getting a photo and i don't know that i want to ask her to put one up here.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Talking of weird boys me and my best friend spotted you correctly on the first DFA comp, big deal tho

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Actually she's a girl, and I kinda apologise

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

GOOD GOD that's a creepy thing to tell you! Sorry!

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

ha. oh boy. yeah, it is kinda creepy but whatever. some of my best friends are creeps.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

In all honesty you weren't hard to spot (there were like 3 girls at most in the pics I think), also um

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

i look like a blockhead in that photo.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what that means

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Yt head doesn;t look like a block, if thst's it

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

yes. i think my head looks square.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid it is ROUND more than SQUARE. Yr v cute, etc etc. I am not intending to flirt. ARE you ON myspace i need more friends

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

internet crepes

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

HOW did I LOSE my DEAD C TICKET???

― ian, Saturday, 11 October 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

while we're here though we can talk about how exciting the new album is, and also how exciting the reissues are gonna be of the early, nearly impossible to find flying nun stuff.

― ian, Saturday, 11 October 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

shit i thought this was on ILM.

― ian, Saturday, 11 October 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

i am gonna listen to a shitload of dead c music today.

― Joint Custody (ian), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)

man i've got some catching up to do on them. like, a decade's worth!

― andrew m., Monday, 1 February 2010 22:19 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

drummer continues to ruin dead c (moments) for me. new one is LUSH

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 5 September 2013 03:29 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

http://adhoc.fm/post/track-premiere-gate/

New Zealander Michael Morley (notably a member of The Dead C) is set to drop his latest work with his solo project Gate. Saturday Night Fever is a reinterpretation of the music from the movie of that name, expanding on the ideas about dance music that Morley established on Gate’s 2010 LP A Republic of Sadness. As fellow noise-guy-turned-dance-enthusiast Pete Swanson puts it: “The resulting album sounds like Morley's pulling out some heaping doses of the hermit boogie and Otago funk and stretching it into some sort of Basinskian disintegration loop gone Bernard Bonnier zonked mutant scene.” The opening track from Saturday Night Fever, a beast of a piece called “Asset,” starts out as a pseudo-disco track with sampled horns and turns into something more like what you’d expect from the hands behind the feedback-drenched and claustrophobic songs of The Dead C. Throw this onto your noise show after-party playlist because it’s the coolest disco is ever going to get.

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 19:25 (nine years ago)

oops I meant to post this in ILM

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 19:27 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

new one "rare ravers" is top notch on first listen. last track in particular

― adam, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 15:52 (six years ago)

can't wait

― ian, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:45 (six years ago)

lunacy upthread that Robbie Yeats' drumming is a mar on the band?!

― Yelploaf, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 22:35 (six years ago)

six months pass...

LIVE ALBUM TAPE. Get 'em while they're hot.

https://afterhoursedenprostitute.bandcamp.com/album/the-dead-c-we-dont-know-anymore-aep-t-014?fbclid=IwAR1jes3Jf1SRIxCHOnDTfs85R6hJZOKl4GCR95AXoY6fprU-GWmZGjqWsoI

― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 11 August 2019 23:29 (six years ago)

Thanks for the heads up!

― Pataphysician, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 18:24 (six years ago)

four months pass...

xp I think you meant

https://afterhoursedenprostitute.bandcamp.com/album/the-dead-c-we-dont-know-anymore-aep-t-014

« WE DON’T KNOW ANYMORE »
THIS IS THE LAST SENTENCE BRUCE RUSSELL SAID AT THE VERY END ON THEIR PARISIAN CONCERT. WE WERE ON 2018. THEY WERE FLYING TO PARIS ONLY FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THIRTY YEARS. AND HE’S RIGHT! WE DON’T KNOW ANYMORE, SO WE CAN START ONCE MORE EVERYTHING WE LOVE, EVERYTHING WE WANT TO. THERE’RE NO TRADE AROUND HERE! LET’S HEARD THIS PERFECT BALANCE SOUND THEY’D CREATE, BETWEEN ROCK AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC. BETWEEN PSYCHEDELIC TRIP AND SPEED LO-FI. EVERYTHING BECOMES HISTORICAL WITH THEM. THIS TRIO IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT KULT ROCK BAND FROM 3 DECADES TO NOWADAYS.. THEY COMES FROM NEW ZEALAND. HAVE YOU ALREADY BEEN THERE? THIS LAND IS REALLY FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND ALL IT GOES WITH THE TERRITORY. THE DEAD C REPRESENT THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN SONIC YOUTH AND CIA DEBUTANTE; BETWEEN RALLIZES DÉNUDÉS AND WOLF EYES. HOT STEPPER MUSIC. PURE SPEEDBALL SOUNDS. ALL THE 40 RELEASES SINCE THEY WERE CALLED « THE DEAD SEE » IN 1987 THEY’VE BROUGHT TO US ‘TILL NOW IS UNCOMPROMISING. SO WELCOME FLASH FUCKERS!

^ That's not an online review, those are the liner notes.

Also NOMMED in ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

We Don't Know Anymore is out now on Afterhours Eden Prostitute

― sbahnhof, Saturday, 11 January 2020 11:58 (five years ago)

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