Whitehouse

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impulse manslaughter

Quote from: theotherjohn on March 08, 2024, 03:30:57 PM
Quote from: impulse manslaughter on March 08, 2024, 03:20:31 PMMummy & Daddy and Quality Time are actually the only ones don't have. Need to check them out.

Really??? Mummy & Daddy is easily their best album in my opinion too. A truly devastating listen.

Think I never bought this one because of the cover artwork which I do not like.

DrRichard

Quote from: theotherjohn on March 08, 2024, 03:30:57 PM
Quote from: impulse manslaughter on March 08, 2024, 03:20:31 PMMummy & Daddy and Quality Time are actually the only ones don't have. Need to check them out.

Really??? Mummy & Daddy is easily their best album in my opinion too. A truly devastating listen.

Yes, Mummy & Daddy is their best "digital era" album. I have spent a few months in my life drinking several bottles of wine every evening with "A cunt like you" at maximum volume. Good times.

Kaaoskultti

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Quote from: DrRichard on March 08, 2024, 05:25:49 PM
Quote from: theotherjohn on March 08, 2024, 03:30:57 PM
Quote from: impulse manslaughter on March 08, 2024, 03:20:31 PMMummy & Daddy and Quality Time are actually the only ones don't have. Need to check them out.

Really??? Mummy & Daddy is easily their best album in my opinion too. A truly devastating listen.

Yes, Mummy & Daddy is their best "digital era" album. I have spent a few months in my life drinking several bottles of wine every evening with "A cunt like you" at maximum volume. Good times.

During the roughest years of my adolescence, being sixteen or so, there was a time in my life where I would binge listen to M&D everyday. Back at the day there were no other means for me to act-out the amount of anger and anxiety by which I was being overwhelmed for some years already, than listening to music. The emotional intensity of listening to this album, specially Daddo, would amount to cathartic reactions that would leave me... speechless. Even Bennett commented once on Susan Lawly on how the recording process itself was a quite disturbing experience, by reaching levels of intensity even himself was impressed by (which is a lot to say, indeed). I like all of their digital albums, but maybe if I had to choose one favourite it would be this one. Even though I usually skip Soto's tracks while listening to Cruise and Bird Seed, I often find myself listening to Private throught the whole album.

After it finishes with that one sample of a girl speaking about how "he was so mean to us... so mean to my mum... she took it everyday." I find myself feeling just like... what did I just listen to? Very hard to explain in words. I know I listened to something more than just a Power Electronics album.
ZOB ZYGGLAN - Brazilian Power Electronics - https://zobzygglan.bandcamp.com/

Tina

Hey guys, for your information, there's a Cut Hands remix on the record we just released. It's a 12" by Roberto Musci, ethnic instrumentation mixed with electronics, plus the Cut Hands remix and one from Nokuit. We posted about it on the New Releases Announcements board.

cr

From Cargo Records:

"The historic and perhaps infamous Psychopathia Sexualis LP, originally recorded and released on creamy-coloured vinyl in 1982, and for decades a clandestine, highly sought-after collector's item, is now here for the very first time in CD format! Finally!

This brand new Susan Lawly legacy reissue CD version, digitally remastered by Andrew Liles, features a beautiful 12pp booklet packed with photos, technical info, and a biographical text by William Bennett."

Release Date: 29/05/2026

k.p.g

Skimming through this thread is a great time capsule into seeing how different periods of a band can connect with different audiences.  Earliest discussion here seems to think that the earliest Whitehouse is pretty bad, that the group didn't find their niche yet.  Here I am now though, and I have the complete opposite thought; earliest stuff is the best, with the total culmination being Twice is Not Enough!!  Those early, cavernous recordings sound like falling into a cave with the lone survivor crying out at the end of it.  Not sure how many people do that now.

And clearly, the digital era had its influence.  It was what started up this thread!  But I find that stuff to be crap.  It's influenced crap that came after.  But no knock on anyone who gets more out of it.  Like I said, it's interesting to see when a group with such a varied catalogue can impact different age groups for different reasons.
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