favorite Godflesh album?

[jesusfaggotchrist]

 now i know most people reach for Streetcleaner but this is for those who are dedicated fans. Ive been still trying to wrap my head around Hymns as i picked up the reissue a few days ago. Pure is good but a little too hip-hop in places. Selfless is catchy as fuck. Streetcleaner is good with some filler. Slavestate seems more like an EP to me. anyways, discuss.

[ConcreteMascara]

PUUUURRRREEEEEE

also the Merciless EP and Us & Them, even though most people hate it.

[P-K]

Streetcleaner

& 12" that really begs to be played loud : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C75dN16XP_c

[RG]

Us & Them, even though most people hate it.

I can understand why people would dislike that album but I think it's good. It's been a while since I listened, I'll have to dig it out. I remember there being some stinker tracks but also some very good ones (Bittersweet, The Internal). Hints here and there of what he'd eventually do with Jesu (which I like, mostly just the early stuff though)

[acsenger]

Considering how highly Streetcleaner is regarded, I was quite disappointed when I got it. Some tracks are great, but especially the second half of the album is a letdown for me. Tedious-sounding stuff that hasn't aged well either. I don't know anything else by them.

At one point I liked Jesu (got their first 2 albums) but I haven't felt the need to listen to them for years now. I still like the track Silver though, but I can't even be bothered with getting that EP.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Considering how highly Streetcleaner is regarded, I was quite disappointed when I got it. Some tracks are great, but especially the second half of the album is a letdown for me. Tedious-sounding stuff that hasn't aged well either. I don't know anything else by them.

I feel exactly opposite! I think Streetcleaner has aged the best! I think it is much heavier sound than Pure. That is bounding, yet bass & guitar are better in Streetcleaner. I don't think there is single weak track on that either. No matter if you talk of LP or CD with bonus tracks.

[tiny_tove]

STREETCLEANER!
The opening track "Like rats" is still one of the best tracks ever, but also "Locust furnace".
Anyway I loved most of his stuff and live was quite a devastating experience.

Totally in line with what Mikko said.

[andy vomit]

Totally in line with what Mikko said.

yup.

[fin de siècle]

SLAVESTATE Maxi CD 1991, shortly released after STREETCLEANER, is in my opinion also a timeless classic ... rather minimalist though, can`t get enough!

http://youtu.be/5HVuqrilCM8

http://youtu.be/Fegt-bD3q_k

[Steve]

Like Pitchshifter and UltraViolent I always thought Godflesh were poor heavy metal.

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

Like Pitchshifter and UltraViolent I always thought Godflesh were poor heavy metal.

The same impressions. I have always thought that they were poor kalki of early Swans... but, my opinion shouldn't be considered due to I have been always opponent to heavy (death/black) metal genres.

[fin de siècle]

Pitchshifter was a bit lame, I agree. But there were several Godflesh-like bands active in the UK early 90s. Besides Pitchshifter also GGFH, Headbutt and Sonic Violence - the latter two i saw live on their Europe tour 1992 ... absolutely amazing!

Any Godflesh fan should get highly enthusiastic about this:

http://youtu.be/L94ZrHqmJUg

Transfixion!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Like Pitchshifter and UltraViolent I always thought Godflesh were poor heavy metal.

Actually, I didn't think it as "industrial" when I got Streetcleaner LP. I bought it while buying things like Napalm Death, Blood (ger), Entombed, and such things - many also known from Earache. To me it seemed just great odd metal album among all the other metal. Only later I associated it with "industrial". Always great, nevertheless!

[fin de siècle]

I personally got into industrial through Earache Records and Peaceville Records. And same as Mikko, besides buying classics from Morbid Angel, Nocturnus also records from O.L.D (James Plotkin`s first band), John Zorn/Naked City, GGFH, Sore Throat, Godflesh, Scorn, Pitch Shifter, Sonic Violence, etc. ... all kind of related to metal. And still all these bands mentioned here belong to my all time faves ...

[martialgodmask]

One more for the Streetcleaner bus here.

I really enjoyed the first Jesu EP when I first got it and picked up the s/t album upon release to find it very grey and terribly tedious. Haven't bothered with them since and now a few years further down the line I don't care much for Heart Ache either. Hasn't aged well at all I don't think, although still not as bad as the s/t. Shame, as I've enjoyed much of what else JKB has done.