music promo Friday: Recoil
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intertribalI only learned about this band because the song "Chrome" was on a Black Swan fanmix. "Chrome" is an interesting song, btw, and I can see why that person chose it for Black Swan. Thanks ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanmix! Recoil is similar to Massive Attack, but were founded by a former member of Depeche Mode, and some of their songs (like "Black Box" 2) are way creepier than any Massive Attack song.
These songs are off their album Liquid. And the trend of my finding music that I later discover to be somehow inspired by plane crashes continues (started with Rammstein's Reise Reise, whose album cover looks like a damaged cockpit flight recorder), because apparently Liquid is "considered to be a concept album revolving around a near-death experience in 1994. Wilder and his partner, Hepzibah Sessa, were driving in Scotland and a Tornado Bomber hit a hillside in front of them, and two airmen were killed. The idea of the album, especially the bookending track "Black Box", centered around what was going through the pilot's last moments of life."
"Jezebel." Great, great video (with NiN influences?? I don't know my music video history, it just reminds me of "Closer"'s "infamous" video) and arrangement for a traditional song - we gotta go to judgment and stand trial:
"Supreme," which is basically all in the lyrics. Which are awesome, explosive, etc. "She's playing house, he's playing man, and junior is the only one who accepts he's just a child." And "Says, 'Fatherhood is real cool, and the kid looks like me, so she better not let nothing happen to him or I’ma kill the bitch.'"
"Strange Hours." Great video:
But this is the promo version. The version I own is the "alternate version," apparently, and is two minutes longer. Those extra two minutes are really scary in a David Lynch's Inland Empire way. I kind of can't listen to it, haha. Anyway, the alternate version, with the "demonic glossolalia" as a YT commenter calls it, includes the all-important solution to the riddle of this man that kept strange hours: "He had murdered his fiancee. He sacrificed her for the purity of all mankind."
"Last Call for Liquid Courage," which needs a video, but doesn't have one unfortunately. I love listening to this one. It's a trip. The refrain is simply "One more drink, baby, more drink."
"Black Box (1 and 2)." This is the plane crash witness confessional song. It's split into two songs on the album, but this YT user stitched them together. I actually really prefer the quieter second half, which starts at about 9:30.
fanmix! Recoil is similar to Massive Attack, but were founded by a former member of Depeche Mode, and some of their songs (like "Black Box" 2) are way creepier than any Massive Attack song. These songs are off their album Liquid. And the trend of my finding music that I later discover to be somehow inspired by plane crashes continues (started with Rammstein's Reise Reise, whose album cover looks like a damaged cockpit flight recorder), because apparently Liquid is "considered to be a concept album revolving around a near-death experience in 1994. Wilder and his partner, Hepzibah Sessa, were driving in Scotland and a Tornado Bomber hit a hillside in front of them, and two airmen were killed. The idea of the album, especially the bookending track "Black Box", centered around what was going through the pilot's last moments of life."
"Jezebel." Great, great video (with NiN influences?? I don't know my music video history, it just reminds me of "Closer"'s "infamous" video) and arrangement for a traditional song - we gotta go to judgment and stand trial:
"Supreme," which is basically all in the lyrics. Which are awesome, explosive, etc. "She's playing house, he's playing man, and junior is the only one who accepts he's just a child." And "Says, 'Fatherhood is real cool, and the kid looks like me, so she better not let nothing happen to him or I’ma kill the bitch.'"
"Strange Hours." Great video:
But this is the promo version. The version I own is the "alternate version," apparently, and is two minutes longer. Those extra two minutes are really scary in a David Lynch's Inland Empire way. I kind of can't listen to it, haha. Anyway, the alternate version, with the "demonic glossolalia" as a YT commenter calls it, includes the all-important solution to the riddle of this man that kept strange hours: "He had murdered his fiancee. He sacrificed her for the purity of all mankind."
"Last Call for Liquid Courage," which needs a video, but doesn't have one unfortunately. I love listening to this one. It's a trip. The refrain is simply "One more drink, baby, more drink."
"Black Box (1 and 2)." This is the plane crash witness confessional song. It's split into two songs on the album, but this YT user stitched them together. I actually really prefer the quieter second half, which starts at about 9:30.
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Date: 2011-05-06 06:49 pm (UTC)I liked the beginning of the vid for "Jezebel," since the scene was like a metaphor for the video itself, with a traditional song slipped into modern life like the old man was set amid busy pedestrian traffic. And I liked the unexpected switch to color.
Thanks for broadening my musical horizons today!
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Date: 2011-05-06 06:57 pm (UTC)You're welcome!
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Date: 2011-05-06 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-06 07:40 pm (UTC)I'd better watch it, else I'll be saved. ;)
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Date: 2011-05-06 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-05-06 09:29 pm (UTC)