philipMac
01-04-06, 05:39 AM
I am a bit cautious to post this up. But, feck it, I am going for it anyway. GYKD posted up a mad sappy songs that made you cry post, which I was sure would bomb. And, I am even more sure this will :P
So, I have always been fairly into music, generally speaking I like more alternative sort of stuff. Basically, the sort of music that I would never play if anyone else was around, for fear of retribution. I like stuff like Tom Waites, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa. But, most of all, I like dEUS.
And, when I say like, I mean, I have been absolutely hopelessly obsessed and in love with their music for about 8 years.
I was given the album In A Bar Under The Sea, when I was about 19 or 20. And, thought it was pretty rough sounding muck. But, since I was already big into my Tom Waites, I didnt let that put me off.
Tom Waites was my gateway drug. I was given a tape by this guy. He said I should listen to it. And, I listened to it I did. Unmitigated rubbish altogether. Acutely angry unpleasant dangerous stuff. (For any fans it was Raindogs.) He insisted that I keep the tape, like a good dealer, the first hit was for free. I kept it only because it was a nice metal tape. But, it never got taped over somehow.
Anyway, somehow Tom crept into my life, and now I dont actually need to listen to him any more, because, I can play every song perfectly in my head.
But, this is not what I am talking about. This is about dEUS.
So, I persevered. I listened and listened, and I got it, bit by bit, track by track. I got the layers of noise, and the schizophrenic singing style, and the building up riffs and pretty melodies only to wreck them and mess them up with introduced horribley flat notes and things. I got them.
I needed to extend my habit a little bit. Because, this is what it was. I would sneak home from uni, for an hour, make sure there was no one around, and play dEUS tracks. I would ration them, use them as treats for getting a problem solved. Derive the equation, and you can play Theme From Turnpike. But, just one.
So, soon enough, I went out and bought another album. Awful sounding. Dreadful stuff. Heeeeeexcelent. Thats the deal. The worse it seems, the more you have to suffer, the more you will like it in the end. Things were fine, I played and played those two albums. Drifted into more hard core stuff.
But, then, dEUS released The Ideal Crash. Which is basically the best album in the universe. That was it. As far as I was concerned they were the best band in the world that I knew of at the time. Then they broke up.
I never saw them play. And, it gutted me.
And low, 9 years later or something, for no reason, I looked at the Bowery Ballroom gig guide, and there it was. 30th of March. Gig. Up the road.
dEUS. dEUS minus the old guitarist, but still dEUS.
All they needed to do was turn up, and I would have been happy. But, they actually played a gig. The audience was entirely non american it seemed. I sat there, watching them, in as near as religious awe as anything I have felt, and laughed. Every track, I just started giggling. The songs that got me through a degree in maths actually being played.
They didnt play so much, and... I wanted more, and I want to see them again. But, I saw them. I was there. Keep your U2 gigs, even your Pixies gigs. It wasnt even a great gig per se. Like the Air Moon Safari gig was amazing. Thats not the point. The point is it was dEUS, playing.
So, this is what I want to ask a (sort of :wink:) normal group of people.
Are there many people into this layering of noises over noises with melodies barely peeking out of what ends up being a big car crash of sound.
I am not talking about some NIN track, or some metal song. These are far more organised and regimented sort of stuff. I am talking about the Beefheart bellowing stuff, the Tom Waites banging metal drains stamping on wooden boxes sort of choas stuff.
And, are there any other dEUS heads here? I know Northwind is a tom waites boy. Who knows where he led poor northy. Does anyone else actually enjoy listening to this sort of stuff?
( I am not sure I enjoy it, but, I do have to listen. I need it.)
So, I have always been fairly into music, generally speaking I like more alternative sort of stuff. Basically, the sort of music that I would never play if anyone else was around, for fear of retribution. I like stuff like Tom Waites, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa. But, most of all, I like dEUS.
And, when I say like, I mean, I have been absolutely hopelessly obsessed and in love with their music for about 8 years.
I was given the album In A Bar Under The Sea, when I was about 19 or 20. And, thought it was pretty rough sounding muck. But, since I was already big into my Tom Waites, I didnt let that put me off.
Tom Waites was my gateway drug. I was given a tape by this guy. He said I should listen to it. And, I listened to it I did. Unmitigated rubbish altogether. Acutely angry unpleasant dangerous stuff. (For any fans it was Raindogs.) He insisted that I keep the tape, like a good dealer, the first hit was for free. I kept it only because it was a nice metal tape. But, it never got taped over somehow.
Anyway, somehow Tom crept into my life, and now I dont actually need to listen to him any more, because, I can play every song perfectly in my head.
But, this is not what I am talking about. This is about dEUS.
So, I persevered. I listened and listened, and I got it, bit by bit, track by track. I got the layers of noise, and the schizophrenic singing style, and the building up riffs and pretty melodies only to wreck them and mess them up with introduced horribley flat notes and things. I got them.
I needed to extend my habit a little bit. Because, this is what it was. I would sneak home from uni, for an hour, make sure there was no one around, and play dEUS tracks. I would ration them, use them as treats for getting a problem solved. Derive the equation, and you can play Theme From Turnpike. But, just one.
So, soon enough, I went out and bought another album. Awful sounding. Dreadful stuff. Heeeeeexcelent. Thats the deal. The worse it seems, the more you have to suffer, the more you will like it in the end. Things were fine, I played and played those two albums. Drifted into more hard core stuff.
But, then, dEUS released The Ideal Crash. Which is basically the best album in the universe. That was it. As far as I was concerned they were the best band in the world that I knew of at the time. Then they broke up.
I never saw them play. And, it gutted me.
And low, 9 years later or something, for no reason, I looked at the Bowery Ballroom gig guide, and there it was. 30th of March. Gig. Up the road.
dEUS. dEUS minus the old guitarist, but still dEUS.
All they needed to do was turn up, and I would have been happy. But, they actually played a gig. The audience was entirely non american it seemed. I sat there, watching them, in as near as religious awe as anything I have felt, and laughed. Every track, I just started giggling. The songs that got me through a degree in maths actually being played.
They didnt play so much, and... I wanted more, and I want to see them again. But, I saw them. I was there. Keep your U2 gigs, even your Pixies gigs. It wasnt even a great gig per se. Like the Air Moon Safari gig was amazing. Thats not the point. The point is it was dEUS, playing.
So, this is what I want to ask a (sort of :wink:) normal group of people.
Are there many people into this layering of noises over noises with melodies barely peeking out of what ends up being a big car crash of sound.
I am not talking about some NIN track, or some metal song. These are far more organised and regimented sort of stuff. I am talking about the Beefheart bellowing stuff, the Tom Waites banging metal drains stamping on wooden boxes sort of choas stuff.
And, are there any other dEUS heads here? I know Northwind is a tom waites boy. Who knows where he led poor northy. Does anyone else actually enjoy listening to this sort of stuff?
( I am not sure I enjoy it, but, I do have to listen. I need it.)