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Nine Inch Nails - Closer To God - 08-Feb-07 03:17 PM
Closer to God is not strictly a remix of Closer. It has different lyrics in a few places and different sounds; very much heavier and more intense. The Heresy remix is good, but poorer than the album version. Memoribilia is a Soft Cell cover and is another good song; very electro sounding. Finally, the origin of March of the Fuckheads is unknown. It isn't credited as a remix, but parts of it do sound similar to Ruiner (albeit very altered!). If you can get it cheap, this single/EP is worth checking out.

Nine Inch Nails - Purest Feeling - 08-Feb-07 03:16 PM
A rather tasty bootleg, and worth buying if you can find it (I got mine on ebay). The songs are all different versions then the Pretty Hate Machine ones, and are more synth-poppy. Maybe Just Once and Purest Feeling are unreleased elsewhere, and the version of That's What I Get is (in my opinion) better than the album version.

Incredible String Band, The - The Big Huge - 13-Mar-06 04:22 PM
One of the best albums from ISB, this should really be listened to as an extension of their "Wee Tam" record. The band were always well known for experimenting with styles and instruments and this has standard piano, guitar and organ, plus sitar, celtic harp, and other Eastern instruments.

Standout tracks for me are the epic "Maya", the brooding sitar-lead "The Iron Stone" and the amusing "Cousin Caterpillar". The final track "The Circle Is Unbroken" is probably the best though. It's in the vein of a traditional Scottish song but is simply beautiful. Organ and harp combine together with some of my favourite lyrics of all time:
"Scattered we were when the long night was breaking, but in bright morning converse again".

Suffice to say this isn't for everyone, but any self-respecting hippy should own at least one ISB album!

Godflesh - Songs Of Love And Hate - 13-Mar-06 08:54 AM
This is an album of excellent industrial metal, and by industrial I mean suffocating riffs and rumbling vocals as opposed to "lets stick a guitar and angsty vocals behind this Ibiza dance tune".

Seriously though, this is a good record and while the lyrics are ok the main reason to listen to Godflesh has always been the music. Many of the songs are reasonably straight forward but ones like "Circle of Shit" (bad title, I know!) and "Gift From Heaven" introduce break beats into the mix...and it works. "Frail" on the otherhand is a downbeat, introspective song, similar to "The Internal" or "Empyreal" from other albums.

All in all it adds up to an interesting sound,and if you listen to new industrial stuff (NIN, Fear Factory, Static X) then you shoud check this out to hear where those bands got ideas from. Oh, and if you do get this, try and get the one with bonus track "Almost Heaven" on it too!

Current 93 - SixSixSix: SickSickSick - 24-Feb-06 09:52 AM
This is a collection of various singles and EP's from David Tibet's Current 93. The styles therefore change but the quality never drops.

Track 1 features a killer guitar riff with Tibet's howled vocals set to drum clangs and noises. Track 2 is then an instrumental remix of this. Both of these always sound to me like something Skinny Puppy could have come up with!

The next three songs are from the "Lucifer Over London" single and show a change in sound. The title track contains some of Tibet's most evocative lyrics,helped along by wailing backing vocals from John Balance of Coil fame. "Sad-Go-Round" (a cover) slows things down with melancholic lyrics before degenerating into fairground organs. The third track from the single is the epic "The Seven Seals...". This evolves from simply spoken words before introducing a harmonium-type instrument, a guitar and a glockenspiel. The words tell a story of our world being God's twisted experiment in pain and suffering, and by the time the track reaches its climax of multilayered vocals the effect is spellbinding. This is probably the best song on the album.

The next two tracks are from the "Tamlin" EP/single. "Tamlin" is a traditional folk song about love conquering all (the devil in this case) whilst "How the Great Satanic Glory" apparently tells of a vision Tibet experienced of Satan lamenting his fall from Heaven. Both are reasonably straight forward folk songs.

The final song "Misery Farm" shows that Current 93 aren't all pain and despair. It's another cover, this time ending in a sing along by the musicians plus animal noises aplenty. Great stuff!

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