That funky exile of obscurity. We all come from nowhere. All about the footnotes of another history from (usually) one hand. Videos maybe twice a month-with a bit of hope. ----- Series: Esoteric Internet - Documentation of only the select Internet artifacts, forum posts, and failures no one knows about. Historia Ephemera - History either out of the bargain bin or off the record. Influence Influenza - Culture and cliches that sometimes lack the proper credit. Map Mundi - The things so off the map they end up back on it. Not Lost Media - Things too "out there" or bizarre for common consumption. Personage Non Grata - Scalawags, schemers, and scallions that scandalize the script
Being a big fan of the original Conan comics and its author ....and knowing where he drew his inspiration...upon being interested in objective factual history.....This was extremely interesting. thank you for the video. I greatly enjoyed this.
you didnt mention that Boris from The Cure did the drum programming on the album, and yes the band birthed/inspired the Loli fashion subculture of the 90s in Japan when their album was rereleased, which meshed well with the big Visual Kei movement in 90s jRock.
This was very well made and i learned so many new things. I cant wait for that upcoming documentary, thank you sooo much for this. Also the tommy heavenly6 connection blew my mind because i listened to tommy for the longest time and never realized she covered a strawberry switchblade song!
BOC was my first concert and they were amazing when they played in Thunder Bay some odd years back. They played this song, and I heard it for the first time at that show. I loved it immediately and it felt especially magical as a double rainbow appeared over the stage when the played it. Core memory! and it became instantly one of my favorites of theirs.
A Ryuichi Sakamoto-produced Strawberry Switchblade album would have been killer. I love his work with Virginia Astley's "Hope in a Darkened Heart" and Miki Nakatani's "cure".
58:45 not exactly, you can visit the research station at the edge of the continent but you can’t just go off into the center of Antarctica and you’re not allowed to cross the continent by going from one side to the other either. I had a friend go about 3 years ago and he was only allowed to visit the coast.
The fact this video is about strawberry switchblade WITH professor layton music in the background is the most insane and personal connection I've ever experienced on the internet glad there's someone who is literally me for real
@Pseudiom His music has been the background to my life since I was 7 or 8, such a wildcard to see someone else love his work as much as I do and in a place least expected too, crazy how it all works out. Great video by the way I'm excited to listen to your other videos and see what you have to say
I feel like the fact that I listened to an unreleased single by Limp Bizkit called Cowgirls From Hell back in the MySpace era and the main thing I remembered was the line “Anime Girls, my collection” which was already like an esoteric memory for me makes this even more esoteric
Despite not being goth and looking like a strawberry goth they are loved by them it’s weird because they are like a band for goths but not a goth band because their sound is new wave and synth pop
Reference to the Macedonia madmen and the Swede during the Mexican American war of 1846: Meanwhile, the inquiry presses powerfully, are these same destined Anglo-Saxon missionaries so immaculate in their character, so wise in their great national ideas, and so unbendingly true in their realization of them, that they have earned a title or authenticated "a divine right" to conquer and colonize the rest of God's earth? They may, doubtless, plead the right of might; but that is far from being the might of right. They may use the old appeal, ultima ratio regum, the ultimate resort of kings, and alas, We now see, of republics too; but so long as they have no more divine method than that, of civilizing the savage, and Christianizing the heathen, they are held down by an eternal gravitation to the vulgar level of “Macedonia's madman and the Swede”. Blind and foolish indeed must we be, if with the combined lights of history and Christianity on our path, we see any other or grander destiny for ourselves as a republic than that of righteousness, and freedom, and peace. “Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war." If the Anglo Saxons, your American and British blood have any other destiny than that, let them beware before they run upon the thick bosses of those bucklers of the Almighty, which have already drank up the blood of the proudest victors. God keep us from our own worst passions and from a warlike destiny! -the war with Mexico reviewed, Abiel Abbott Livermore, American Peace Society 1850
@@Pseudiom yesssser ❤️ was Cloud to me growing up. I love it and 2 both! One of my old school internal achievements was finishing the Demon Shaft and getting the, at the point, useless Chronicle 2 sword ⚔️ haha! A spiritual ultima weapon at heart.
I wish they would have released more officially together, especially a few more with Jill's vocals standing out more. I totally agree with what has been mentioned, it's hard to not to see how they influenced Visual Kei (and the style specific tendrils).
It would have been very interesting to see where they would have went, but, in interviews, Rose and Jill basically make it clear the band was basically doomed by 1984/1985. In another world though, I would have like to hear more stuff like "By The Sea" and "Dark 7" from Bryson.
Calling the neighborhood rose grew up in somewhat violent is a huge understatement. It was more like a gang warzone. Her little brother was beaten to death in the street when he was 6 years old and her father was mutilated in an axe attack. She used to tell stories about having to crawl on her belly in the dark to get to school and back without being attacked. I think a lot of her trauma came through in her lyrics for songs like beautiful end.
Jill Bryson said Rose had got into Nazi memorabilia at the time, which was one of the things that showed the irreconcilable differences that broke up the band.
Thank you. I scrolled to see if anybody else pointed this out. It's such an obvious detail that to get it wrong makes me question the rest of the research in the video.
I think they were trying to take a more western direction with their next album when you mentioned that the Jolene cover was planned to be on the next album. aesthetically, at least. I saw that picture of them that looks very western inspired with Jill holding the skull and there being this sandy sunset background. a fellow SSB historian told me that this was one of their last photo shoots as SSB. also, since many songs from Cut With A Cake Knife were intended for SSB 2, it makes sense that Sixty Cowboys was put there. I also think the Don’t Fear The Reaper cover fits that vibe a lot.
to add some additional information about Rose post SSB. other than her work with Death In June, Current 93, and Psychic TV she also worked on projects with Coil and Nature and Organisation. Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude is my favorite neofolk album and Rose sounds so beautiful here. aside from her solo work under Rose McDowall, she collaborated with Boyd Rice on a project called Spell. it was like a poppy 60’s country style where they covered songs in and around that era. another side project was Sorrow with her husband at the time. the songs were more on the folky side of neofolk I guess. in that era of neofolk you found her literally everywhere. she worked with everybody. she was so Julia
Thank you. The post-SSB stuff was largely out of my purview and I only planned to briefly touch on it. I'm only really familiar with Current 93, but I saw she was very prolific even beyond that.
@@Pseudiom oh yes I enjoyed how this video was very concise and more focused on Strawberry Switchblade, I just get really excited about Rose’s work with those groups and people
If you have an interesting topic you can DM on Twitter or e-mail me (e-mail on channel page). I've been very busy recently, but I'll try to respond. I'm working on a few videos right now so any fan requests will have to wait until next year. I'd appreciate any suggestions even if I don't take them though.
There was a purpose to using the Dark Cloud and Professor Layton OSTs. Though the Professor Layton soundtracks sound a bit more French than anything SSB did.
One interesting item to note about Strawberry Switchblade's final Japanese single, "I Can Feel", is that it is very much more stylistically similar to Hi-NRG and Euro-Disco music than most of their other work. I find this notable because Hi-NRG (and later, Eurobeat) would end up having a significant impact on J-pop in the late 80s and throughout the 90s through acts like Wink (who bear a heavy visual and aesthetic resemblance to SSB). Unfortunately, both Rose and Jill seem to have been very dissatisfied with the production on the single - enough so that their Platinum Collection best-of instead includes a previously-unreleased demo version of "I Can Feel". The single version does, however, appear on later Japan-only CD reissues of their debut album as a bonus track.
Interesting idea I would have never thought of! I did allude to the Wink connection in the video, but I would have never thought to look at it like that.
