tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post2023812119975026057..comments2023-04-29T06:37:18.856-04:00Comments on Our God is Speed: Lineage (The Way of All Flesh) Greyhooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-53044147748764841332011-12-24T16:50:00.652-05:002011-12-24T16:50:00.652-05:00Hahaha. Nice one. Hadn't heard it before now. ...Hahaha. Nice one. Hadn't heard it before now. Kinda like a radical update of these two perennial tunes of yore...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_RD1CIOakY<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84GeSjrWwugGreyhooshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-30121004269359715742011-12-23T09:18:10.644-05:002011-12-23T09:18:10.644-05:00http://youtu.be/rwQuPCqA5AIhttp://youtu.be/rwQuPCqA5AIAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-33250872656174755412011-12-22T14:30:27.081-05:002011-12-22T14:30:27.081-05:00Alinear and atemporal, yes. And this puts me in mi...Alinear and atemporal, yes. And this puts me in mid of a couple of musical outfits from about 20 years ago or so...<br /><br />The first being some crusty UK thrash outfit who had a vocalist but no lyrics as such. The frontman would just belt out -- in a very guttural, grunty howl -- a bunch of nonsense wordless syllables that sounded like lyrics. Can't remember the band exactly -- Extreme Noise Terror, perhaps?<br /><br />And then just before that was the band Gore, who had lyrics but no vocalist. The one album of theirs I remember was entirely instrumental, but it came with a lyrics sheet. So I guess it was left up to the listener to decide/imagine how they should be sung.Greyhooshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-56973281280689224812011-12-22T02:52:03.300-05:002011-12-22T02:52:03.300-05:00That's a great song and a great example. Pop m...That's a great song and a great example. Pop music as a system and product is all about delivery of a content, and this is perhaps why instrumental hits are so rare (Sleepwalk, Apache, Rumble) because it's hard to hook an audience with the promise of the (familiar) content that will be delivered. The pre-language sensations from mere music are hard to sell I imagine because it's harder to install a single narrative (so we need song titles that do that). I wonder if the three songs mentioned are exceptions because they almost work as narration themselves? They play a recognised scene. <br /><br /> The myth of a linear history never really goes away. The whole point of publishing is to try and cause one dribble to solidify and hopefully get other to join it, forming a stalagmite and calling all other pathways heretical deviations. I'm sure that if our time seems schizophrenic musically, it's not because of the increased access to sources in the past, but because of the levelling of publishing's authority through the internet. blah blah blah. I wonder how many other artists out there had a completely different musical centre from the one we were given because some people decided that's where it should be and called all deviations "out of character".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-83857875273920006922011-12-21T11:46:02.632-05:002011-12-21T11:46:02.632-05:00Hey, thanks again, Ralph. It's nice to hear th...Hey, thanks again, Ralph. It's nice to hear that something that was little more than a writing exercise hit some kind of mark. <br /><br />But yeah, dead-on --- especially the bit about oral histories/the preliterate. <br /><br />The whole matter of the breakdown of language has long fascinated, especially in music. In this instance, the encountered photo put me in mind of something specific. That being that when I went seeking out JLH's music many years ago, there wasn't much on the market -- not much in print on vinyl, and CD reissues were still a few years off. So I would with some vault-trawling European LP that had a lot of previously unreleased material on it. And that material had gone unreleased because it was fairly atypical of Hooker's usual "stomping," "shouting," boogie fare. Quite a number of the songs were incredibly sparse, subdued, droning and almost meditative at times. All of which pretty much warped the way I'd hear the guy's music thereafter. <br /><br />And this song in particular made a big impression, and directly relates to the above...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mle_H1y3jRYGreyhooshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-46296220463951012342011-12-21T10:00:57.838-05:002011-12-21T10:00:57.838-05:00I keep wandering by here in the hope that someone ...I keep wandering by here in the hope that someone else will write something on this excellent post before I wade in the with the same tirade about the dark space beyond language which I write about every other thing I see in the world. <br />As you say here better than I could, the narration is a drag net of authority. Oral histories (what else is music at its various points of origin?) are too intimate and too plural and too contradictory to hide the truth that the truth itself is process rather than an object. Like the big Wolf said, "Who's been talking?" And there I go wrapping a brick in a label.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-79912199082877147742011-12-17T08:01:46.883-05:002011-12-17T08:01:46.883-05:00Wow, thank you!Wow, thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com