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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

This is one of FLA's best albums. It creates beautiful soundscapes with soaring distorted guitars set against quiet reflective vocals which are set quite deep in the mix. My favourite song is 'Whole Day Song' - about 8 minutes long of a brilliant chord structure with piano notes cascading around (listen on headphones to hear them properly) behind the washes of guitar and Dave's vocals. Top-notch post rock indeed.

A 'best of' compilation of Current 93's folk stuff.It's a lot to take in but all the songs are great.There's material from Soft Black Stars-just piano and David Tibet's heartfelt vocals such as on 'The Sign in the Stars'.
There are cuts from the Inmost Light Trilogy-the great 'All the Pretty Little Horses' (sung by Nick Cave) and the more experimental spoken word 'Where the Long Shadow Falls'.
There are more ominous songs with droning accordion-type things in 'Niemandwasser' and 'Red Hawthorn Tree'.
Oh,and there are live versions of 'Alone' and 'Sleep Has His House' which was written for Tibet's deceased father and is paricularly emotional.

Pure white noise.But there's more to it than that.Listen on headphones and you'll pick up rhythms to the noise,and within those sub-rhythms and so forth...
Alternaively just put on full volume and really annoy the neighbours!

This live album was my introduction to C93 and it had me hooked from the start.The first song 'Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil' is based round a repeated quiet sample of a piano and female vocal.John Balance (of Coil) then begins intoning lyrics who after a delay is joined by several other individuals all speaking the same words (and all slightly delayed).The effect is hypnotic,beautiful and eerie.
The rest of the songs are all folky ones using guitar,bass,recorder and violin but are no less beautiful.Tibet's voice full of pain and passion,whether singing about cats,Satan,God or death.

Two longish tracks (about 8mins each) of brilliant dark dance.Fear of a Whack Planet builds up with ominous synth choirs and beats-it doesn't really go anywhere but this doesn't detract from its excellence!
The second track,A Galaxy of Scars (version) is along similar lines but is much more low key.