Saturday 31 August 2019

Rock'n'Roll High School goes 40



Director Allan Arkush arrives at the Roxy wearing an appropriate article of clothing: a T-shirt emblazoned with a with a black-and-white illustration of Johnny Ramone posed in his iconic bent-knee, split-leg guitar stance. In 1978, during a 20-hour marathon shoot in this very venue, Arkush captured punk rock vanguards, the Ramones, in some of the most wildly electric concert footage ever filmed. Rock'n'Roll High School, Arkush's 1979, fan-favorite about a rock'n'roll band taking over oppressive Vince Lombardi High School, is clearly a Los Angeles film. However, the director didn’t specifically set out to make an L.A. movie. Produced by indie movie king Roger Corman, Rock'n'Roll High School, was shot entirely at practical L.A. locations.


Though resources were limited, aesthetic and character-driven choices clearly place the film in L.A. during the uprising of L.A. punk culture. The filmmakers went to schools armed with an innocuous version of the script that was also penned by Rock'n'Roll High School screenwriters Richard Whitley and Russ Dvonch. The pseudo-script tactic is one Corman used a number of times, including once on a film he directed in Sikestown, Missouri, about racial integration. For the school location that was going to be set ablaze by its students and the Ramones, Finnell found a deserted Catholic school in South L.A. to which the production could have unfettered access. Mount Carmel High School became a Historic Cultural Monument in 1979 before eventually falling into complete disrepair. It was demolished in 1982. The gym was used as a community center until 1983 until, ironically, it burnt down. Today, the Mount Carmel Recreation Center stands in its place.


The location budget was called into question when it came to the concert venue, which is a seamless combination of three locations. The grandeur and Mesoamerican motifs adorning the 1927 Mayan Theatre in downtown L.A. made the location attractive as the venue exterior. For the concert interiors, Arkush, without knowing it, pulled off a trick that was executed a year earlier in Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke. He filmed the Ramones' concert inside the Roxy and then moved to the backstage area and larger dressing rooms of the Whisky a Go Go. The Roxy-Whisky combo was an expensive proposition, however. To offset the location cost and fill the audience, too, the filmmakers charged three groups of extras - morning, afternoon and night with ascending ticket prices through the day - to see the Ramones perform. Each set included six songs and every tune was played multiple times to capture various angles. The audiences eventually got restless hearing the songs performed repeatedly.

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Rock'n'Roll High School opened on August 3, 1979 at New York's 8th Street Playhouse.



The Ramones "Rock'n'Roll High School"

Monday 26 August 2019

Devo - Onwards to the Golden Age (Live 1978) (2019)


Devo
Onwards to the Golden Age: The Classic 1978 San Francisco Broadcast
(2019)

Essentially, this is Old Waldorf Theatre San Francisco (Nov. 10th 1978) bootleg recording with an exception of "DEVO Corporate Anthem" (missing on this release).


01. Wiggly World [2:45]
02. Pink Pussycat [3:16]
03. Satisfaction [2:50]
04. Too Much Paranoias [2:46]
05. Praying Hands [2:40]
06. Uncontrollable Urge [3:11]
07. Mongoloid [3:16]
08. Jocko Homo [4:09]
09. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA [6:36]
10. Sloppy [4:46]
11. Come Back Jonee [2:57]
12. Gut Feeling [7:03]
13. Red Eye Express [2:59]
14. The Words Get Stuck In My Throat [6:01]


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Sunday 25 August 2019

The Ravensfour



THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe


read by Vincent Price, Christopher Walken, James Earl Jones and Christopher Lee

Poe animated



Various animations of classic E. A. Poe stories:



Tim Burton's Vincent (1982)


The Simpsons Halloween Special: The Raven (1990)




J. W. Rinzler's Riddle of the Black Cat (2012)



Marc Lougee's The Pit and The Pendulum (2007)




Rob Green's The Black Cat (1995)




Ted Parmelee's The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)




Annette Jung's The Tell-Tale Heart (2006)




Mariano Cattaneo & Nic Loreti: The Raven (2010)




Paul Garcia's Extraordinary Tales: The Masque of the Red Death (2013)



Paul Garcia's Extraordinary Tales: The Pit and The Pendulum (2013)



Paul Garcia's Extraordinary Tales: The Fall of the House of Usher (2013)

Sunday 18 August 2019

Sunday


Here comes Sun-day.
To-day we only do laundry, and hang around until Moon-day.
That's we do, indeed.



Pasmaters - Za Dec Metronoma Više (2019)


Pasmaters
Za Dec Metronoma Više
(2019)


01. Ipak bojim se rata [1:57]
02. Prevara [0:51]
03. Agonija [1:28]
04. U ruševinama [1:08]
05. Vizija [0:58]
06. Gradska prašina [1:55]
07. Beirut '83 [1:57]
08. Še en lep dan [1:35]
09. Vikend ratnici [1:22]
10. Vreme bombi [2:30]
11. Lepote moje domovine [0:42]
12. Pitanja i odgovori [1:20]
13. Radnici [1:09]
14. 24 ur [1:05]
15. Fuck my heart [0:24]
16. Neću da budem dio jebene mase [1:58]



Thursday 15 August 2019

Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith ‎- The Peyote Dance (2019)


Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith
The Peyote Dance
(2019)

The Soundwalk Collective has made music art out of found sounds since 2004. This time, in "The Peyote Dance" album, they have brought in poet and rock goddess Patti Smith for a trip into Mexico.
The album title comes from a book by Antonin Artaud, the avant-garde theater director and author, who traveled to Mexico to explore revelatory visions with the Rarámuri people in 1936. Artaud was hoping that peyote would shake his opioid addiction. When he later returned to France, Artaud stayed and remained in an insane asylum, receiving electric shock therapy. His time with the Rarámuri stayed a touchstone of happiness during his darkest days.
With a shared belief that travel expands the mind, the Soundwalk Collective traveled to the same Sierra Tarahumarar region of Mexico as Artaud, visited the same places he stayed, and indeed also took peyote. They recorded instruments and soundscapes, and then back in the States, Patti Smith wrote and recorded poems based on Artaud's book, his other works, and her own responses to the sound fields.


1. Una Nota Sobre El Peyote [4:27] featuring Gael Garcia Bernal
2. Indian Culture [9:39]
3. Tutuguri: The Rite Of The Black Sun [5:00]
4. Tutuguri: The Rite Of Black Night [9:57]
5. The New Revelations Of Being [3:37]
6. Alienation And Black Magic [10:43]
7. Ivry [6:47] written by Patti Smith
8. Basalówala Aminá Ralámuli Paísila [4:41] featuring Martin Chávez Ramírez "Makami"



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Thursday 8 August 2019

Undead goes 40



6. avgusta 1979 - pre tačno 40 godina - Bauhaus su objavili svoj 12-inčni debi vinil "Bela Lugosi's Dead" za malog nezavisnog izdavača Small Wonder Records (koji je godinu dana ranije objavio i The Cure 7-inčni singl prvenac "Killing An Arab"). Iako su ušli u studio još krajem januara te godine, trebalo je da prođe 6 meseci do obavljivanja Bauhaus prvenca koji je odmah postao - i do danas ostao kultni hit, himna onoga što zovemo gothic muzikom. Doduše, to se ne da zaključiti po plasmanu na muzičim top listama koje ga nikada nisu preterano volele.
Pesma traje skoro 10 turobnih minuta - u njoj čujemo krckanje poda pod nogama bubnjara Kevina Haskinsa, spori bas Davida Jaya, kreštanje dab-rege gitare Daniela Asha koja izaziva jezu - sve to kao uvod u prvi stih "White on white translucent black capes" glasom Petera Murhyja.
Sledi kratka animirana priča o tome kako je nastala pesma "Bela Lugosi's Dead":


Kao rekvijem poznatom horor glumcu iz tridesetih godina prošlog veka, "Bela" sadrži sve trikove žanra kome je postala himna: mračne bas linije, avetinjsku gitaru, dubok glas i (naravno) horor atmosferu. Kako je u sve to Haskins uspeo da uklopi bossanova ritam, ne vredi pričati - pustiš i slušaš. I ježiš se. Savršeno gothic raspoloženje - grobljansko i tmurno, nagoveštaj strave i užasa. Već na prvo slušanje nameće se pitanje "Da li će čuveni holivudski krvopija ostati u svom grobu?", na šta Murphy na kraju pesme odgovara beskrajnim ponavljanjem reči "undead"... Dakle, sve je izgledniji odgovor da - neće.
Nesporno je da "Bela Lugosi's Dead" jeste prvi goth singl. Međutim, postoji još jedna, duboko potcenjena njegova karakteristika - to je prva prava ploča alternativnog roka, jer je goth bio jedan od prvih - ako ne i zaista prvi - muzičkih žanrova nastalih posle punka, zajedno nazvanih post-punk.



"Bela Lugosi's Dead" je pesma koju možete smatrati za "Freebird" ili "Stairway To Heaven" gothic muzike, čiju dužinu mnogi DJ-evi po goth klubovima koriste kao zgodnu priliku da skoknu do toaleta.
2018. godine je objavljen mini album nazvan "Bela Lugosi's Dead: The Bela Session" na kome se nalaze svi snimci urađeni u januaru 1979. Za razliku od originalnog singla objavljenog pre 40 godina (Bela Lugosi's Dead, demo snimci BoysDark Entries), tu su sada Bela Lugosi's Dead 2018mix, zatim neobjavljene Some Faces i Bite My Hip (objavljena 1983 kao Lagartija Nick), originalna verzija Boys i demo snimak Harry (buduća B-strana singla Kick In The Eye iz 1982)

Na kraju, i dalje ostaje nerešeno pitanje na koje ćemo morati sami da nađemo odgovor:
- Da li je Bela Lugosi živ ili mrtav?

Undead svakako jeste.

Sunday 4 August 2019

Electric Joey - Reanimator (2019)


Electric Joey
Reanimator
(2019)


01. Reanimator [1:41]
02. Soundwave [2:34]
03. Rotten To The Core [3:15]
05. Black Leather [2:49]
07. Broken [3:02]
08. Punk Rock Girl [2:38]
10. In The Night [3:26]



Amyl And The Sniffers - Amyl And The Sniffers (2019)


Amyl And The Sniffers
Amyl And The Sniffers
(2019)


01. Starfire 500 [3:36]
02. Gacked On Anger [1:49]
03. Cup Of Destiny [2:15]
04. GFY [1:48]
05. Angel [2:50]
06. Monsoon Rock [2:25]
07. Control [2:34]
08. Got You [2:18]
09. Punisha [1:44]
10. Shake Ya [3:17]
11. Some Mutts (Can't Be Muzzled) [4:22]


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Saturday 3 August 2019

Hagar The Womb - Hagitate EP (2019)


Hagar The Womb
Hagitate 10'' vinyl EP
(2019)

Hagar the Womb are an English punk rock band, active between 1981-1987. They re-formed in 2011 and the band is ongoing as part of the Anarcho-Punk movement. After five years, this is their first brand new recordings.


01. Visible Women [3:20]
02. Portrait [3:08]
03. Hated [3:48]
04. Hagar The Womg-Showing Off [1:53]
05. Gaslighter [2:51]
06. Perfect Life [4:27]


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