Stanlio
Stanlio
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 13,52  Championship

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Brian Eno & David Byrne - LOT (INTO THE SPIRIT WORLD)

Always from "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts," which was recorded between '79 and '80 and was set to be released in the summer of '80, this track "Into the Spirit World" contained a radio recording of American Pentecostal healer Kathryn Kuhlman, who passed away a few years earlier.

The foundation she created, which was still active at the time, enforced the removal of the song and the release was blocked.

The removed track would later reappear under the title "Into the Spirit Womb" in the '92 bootleg "Ghosts."

Then Brian Eno and David Byrne returned to the recording studio in September '80 and replaced the track with "The Jezebel Spirit," where the percussive rhythm becomes bouncy and the guitar is much funkier.

The effect remains equally mysterious and disorienting; this track resembles the musical transposition of a primitive exorcistic ritual, let’s say a sort of cathartic dance to drive away evil spirits, all represented by the recitation of a shaman and his sardonic laughter.
 
Ermes
Ermes
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 10,83

Scott Walker - 'Epizootics!'
Again M. Cartarescu, Solenoide, il Saggiatore, 2021, p. 213:
"why was I given access to the logical space and the structure of the world? Just to lose them when the body disintegrates? Why wake up at night thinking about dying, and rise up in the middle of the bed, all sweaty, and scream, and thrash about, and try to suppress the unbearable thought that I will disappear forever, that I will never be again, until the end of time? Why will the world end with me? We grow old, we wait quietly in the sequence of the condemned to death. We are executed one after the other in the most sinister extermination camp. First, we are stripped of beauty, youth, and hope. We are wrapped in the penitential cloak of diseases, fatigue, and decay. Our grandparents die, our parents are executed before our eyes, and suddenly time becomes shorter, and all of a sudden, you see the blade of the guillotine in front of you. And only then do you have the revelation of living in a slaughterhouse, where generations are slaughtered and the earth swallows them, where billions of people are pushed further into the throat of hell, where no one, absolutely no one is saved. That not a single man of those seen in Méliès’ films stepping out of the factory door is alive anymore. That absolutely everyone in a sepia photo from eighty years ago is dead. That we all come into this world from a terrifying abyss of forgetfulness, that we suffer incredibly on a speck of dust in the infinite world, and that we then perish, in a nanosecond, as if we had never lived, as if we had never existed."
 
Stanlio
Stanlio
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 15,81  Championship

Brian Eno & David Byrne - Qu'Ran

"Qu'ran," meaning Quran, which appeared on the original 1981 vinyl album, was replaced in the 1987 reissue with "Very, Very Hungry," and the reason for the replacement was due to protests from the English Islamic community.

"Very, Very Hungry" is a crooked, obsessively percussive score with a limping rhythm, featuring a voice that seems to come from a ghost in the woods, and its drumming is irregular and primitive, with a guitar that occasionally peeks through.

In the original 1981 version, there was instead "Qu'Ran," featuring drumming in odd time signatures where a hypnotic Middle Eastern melody unfolds, inviting a sort of Islamic Sufi practice in chanting a verse from the Quran.

Unfortunately (as stated above), the English Islamic community deemed this piece (included in "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts") irreverent and had it replaced, and that's it... but I killed them!
 
ZiOn
ZiOn
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 25,48

Sade - No Ordinary Love (Official Video)

For the series "beautiful albums turning thirty": "Love Deluxe" by Sade.
 
vibration
vibration
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 1,94

The Perfect Disaster "B52"
The Perfect Disaster: '55.
The Perfect Disaster - "Rise"
#trexuno #rock #uk Great band that has gone pretty much unnoticed at least here. I remember "Up" as a nice album.
 
IlConte
IlConte
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 12,12

The Crimson Shadows - When I'm Going Away

Big track 2
Hair like The Music Machine
 
CYPHER
CYPHER
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 27,57

Alice In Chains - Would?
#thirtiethanniversary
 
Matcele16
Matcele16
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 20,33

PFM Impressioni di settembre to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of "Storia di un minuto"
 
franezzo
franezzo
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 13,25

Bun
The Deviants
 
ZiOn
ZiOn
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 3,78  W_I_NEGRI

Dr. Dre - Let Me Ride (Official Video) [Explicit]

For the series "beautiful albums turning thirty": "The Chronic" by Dr. Dre.
 
ZiOn
ZiOn
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 14,97  Electroma

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

For the series "beautiful albums that turn thirty": "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" by Aphex Twin.
 
ZiOn
ZiOn
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 3,00

House of Pain - Jump Around (Official Music Video)

For the series "beautiful albums that turn thirty": "House of Pain" by House of Pain.
 
ZiOn
ZiOn
3 jan 22

DeRank™: 25,85

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name

For the series "beautiful albums that are turning thirty": "Rage Against the Machine" by Rage Against the Machine.