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2 albums of a projected 10
Thank you Graham H - number one of theoretically ten. Blah blah record cover, blah don't have to explain (as if you're getting away that easily) blah.
My sister had a copy of this in the mid-eighties and I listened to it a lot before I moved to Edinburgh. If it's not on this, or isn't the version on this, I don't know it half as well. These (particularly the versions of Anarchy and No Feeling) are my favourites.
It's from July 1976 recording sessions with the late Dave Goodman, who wrote at length about his experiences with the Pistols online - if you have any interest in them at all I highly recommend you chase his account down. Apparently this isn't the best version of those recordings, but it's the one I know so it's the one I got my own copy of after I moved here. Probably from Avalanche Records.
Probably also worth mentioning that this is before Matlock left, so it's him on bass rather than Steve Jones doubling up. Makes a difference.
Laibach - "Slovenska Akropola."
Now, this one I definitely got in Avalanche, although I don't remember if it was before or after Opus Dei. Probably after, as I think it was during my second year here. I do remember listening to Vade Retro Satanas in the Nicolson Street flat and feeling quite ill. It probably had more of an influence on me as it covers more of Laibach's odd and experimental side. It's probably to blame for my habit of listening to things that aren't necessarily music by everyone's definitions (such as Vade Retro Satanas, for example).
I still listen to this. In fact, a couple of weeks ago I was listening to Die Grosste Kraft and wondering what some of the words were - honestly, in the thirty years I've had this record I could easily have learned enough German to work it out for myself, but of course I haven't. Instead I spent an hour or two searching, chasing up references and then reading an essay about Laibach, the art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst that they are the most prominent part of, and the play Krst Pod Triglavom ("Baptism under the Triglav") that some of these songs come from or are based on - apparently it's a version of, or a reply to, or a parody of (or something) a 500-verse nineteenth century romantic nationalist epic poem. As is frequently the case, this is Laibach being as much political collage artists as they are musicians.
Anyway, I know the words now.
My sister had a copy of this in the mid-eighties and I listened to it a lot before I moved to Edinburgh. If it's not on this, or isn't the version on this, I don't know it half as well. These (particularly the versions of Anarchy and No Feeling) are my favourites.
It's from July 1976 recording sessions with the late Dave Goodman, who wrote at length about his experiences with the Pistols online - if you have any interest in them at all I highly recommend you chase his account down. Apparently this isn't the best version of those recordings, but it's the one I know so it's the one I got my own copy of after I moved here. Probably from Avalanche Records.
Probably also worth mentioning that this is before Matlock left, so it's him on bass rather than Steve Jones doubling up. Makes a difference.
Laibach - "Slovenska Akropola."
Now, this one I definitely got in Avalanche, although I don't remember if it was before or after Opus Dei. Probably after, as I think it was during my second year here. I do remember listening to Vade Retro Satanas in the Nicolson Street flat and feeling quite ill. It probably had more of an influence on me as it covers more of Laibach's odd and experimental side. It's probably to blame for my habit of listening to things that aren't necessarily music by everyone's definitions (such as Vade Retro Satanas, for example).
I still listen to this. In fact, a couple of weeks ago I was listening to Die Grosste Kraft and wondering what some of the words were - honestly, in the thirty years I've had this record I could easily have learned enough German to work it out for myself, but of course I haven't. Instead I spent an hour or two searching, chasing up references and then reading an essay about Laibach, the art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst that they are the most prominent part of, and the play Krst Pod Triglavom ("Baptism under the Triglav") that some of these songs come from or are based on - apparently it's a version of, or a reply to, or a parody of (or something) a 500-verse nineteenth century romantic nationalist epic poem. As is frequently the case, this is Laibach being as much political collage artists as they are musicians.
Anyway, I know the words now.