Hunter
2003-11-21 01:22:06 UTC
I've just finsihed reading "This Is Uncool" by Garry Mulholland
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0304361860/
qid=1069375441/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5927439-4608959?v=glance&s=books
and would love to have a go at making something similar for Industrial
(and all related sub-genres) bands.
The book is fairly subjective, the author identifies 500 of the
most influential singles from 1976 up 'til '99 and has a brief
descriptive paragraph for each single. Usually the description
contains some bit of insider, only-a-true-fan-boy-would-know
information or quirky, interesting anecdote. And that's exactly
the sort of thing I would be interested in obtaining for our
illustrious genre (even if I don't get it published).
For example:
The film-clip for F242's Headhunter has got a bunch of people running
around with eggs on their head -- the reason being: a mishearing of
the song title by the video production crew. They heard "Egghunter"
in stead of "Headhunter" (Source: Band interview by [unknown])
The name of the Ministry/NIN/Butthole Surfers(?) sideproject, 1,000
Homo DJs was created when Danny (surname forgotten) from Wax Trax!
made a comment to Al that only about "a thousand homo DJs" would have
heard the abortive bootleg remix of some Ministry material.
(Source: Wax Trax! Black Box Booklet)
Haujobb roughly translates to "Hit Job" but the band origianlly called
themselves "Skin Job" in hommage to the movie Blade Runner. A mixup in
the translation by their record company saw their debut material released
under the name Haujobb (Source: Daniel Meyer interview by [unknown])
NIN's x-rated, banned and "not commercially" released "Broken" video
found it's way into the hands of the public, where it was met by a small
storm of public outrage at the simulated Snuff scene (perceived to be
genuine), which eventuated in the video being banned even before it's
official public release (Source: Either A NIN or THE NIN homepage)
Jeffrey Dahmer/Richard Ramirez attended a Psychic TV concert hours
before/after committing another sick crime (Source: possibly a post
on RMI and my fuzzy memory)
Nick Cave Quotes: "They're too gay for me" [after seeing a Coil concert]
"He's the only truly evil man I have ever met" [in reference to
Blixa Bargeld] (Source: possible post on RMI and interview by [unknown])
That's all I can think of at the moment, they're not really all that
scintialting, but being at work in not really condusive to that type
of thought process (unless that was your actual job).
Anyway, it's just a shame that so many of the regulars have left us
(I've been a lurker here, with the odd infrequent post since '92) since
this sort of info and album/single reviews were the most interesting
and entertaiing things I would read here. So if anyone can contribute
some new annecdotes and/or clarify my examples, you'd make me, and hopefully
others, very happy.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0304361860/
qid=1069375441/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5927439-4608959?v=glance&s=books
and would love to have a go at making something similar for Industrial
(and all related sub-genres) bands.
The book is fairly subjective, the author identifies 500 of the
most influential singles from 1976 up 'til '99 and has a brief
descriptive paragraph for each single. Usually the description
contains some bit of insider, only-a-true-fan-boy-would-know
information or quirky, interesting anecdote. And that's exactly
the sort of thing I would be interested in obtaining for our
illustrious genre (even if I don't get it published).
For example:
The film-clip for F242's Headhunter has got a bunch of people running
around with eggs on their head -- the reason being: a mishearing of
the song title by the video production crew. They heard "Egghunter"
in stead of "Headhunter" (Source: Band interview by [unknown])
The name of the Ministry/NIN/Butthole Surfers(?) sideproject, 1,000
Homo DJs was created when Danny (surname forgotten) from Wax Trax!
made a comment to Al that only about "a thousand homo DJs" would have
heard the abortive bootleg remix of some Ministry material.
(Source: Wax Trax! Black Box Booklet)
Haujobb roughly translates to "Hit Job" but the band origianlly called
themselves "Skin Job" in hommage to the movie Blade Runner. A mixup in
the translation by their record company saw their debut material released
under the name Haujobb (Source: Daniel Meyer interview by [unknown])
NIN's x-rated, banned and "not commercially" released "Broken" video
found it's way into the hands of the public, where it was met by a small
storm of public outrage at the simulated Snuff scene (perceived to be
genuine), which eventuated in the video being banned even before it's
official public release (Source: Either A NIN or THE NIN homepage)
Jeffrey Dahmer/Richard Ramirez attended a Psychic TV concert hours
before/after committing another sick crime (Source: possibly a post
on RMI and my fuzzy memory)
Nick Cave Quotes: "They're too gay for me" [after seeing a Coil concert]
"He's the only truly evil man I have ever met" [in reference to
Blixa Bargeld] (Source: possible post on RMI and interview by [unknown])
That's all I can think of at the moment, they're not really all that
scintialting, but being at work in not really condusive to that type
of thought process (unless that was your actual job).
Anyway, it's just a shame that so many of the regulars have left us
(I've been a lurker here, with the odd infrequent post since '92) since
this sort of info and album/single reviews were the most interesting
and entertaiing things I would read here. So if anyone can contribute
some new annecdotes and/or clarify my examples, you'd make me, and hopefully
others, very happy.