this video is beautifully done!! hearing this song (and afterwards the full holy bible album) is what introduced me to the manics, and they've become very important to me. this video seems very well researched and i actually watched it the whole way through despite my comically tiny attention span haha x
Dude, just create videos because you love creating videos. Nothing will drive viewers away like begging for views and making your passion for this hobby their responsibility. Nothing says “I would rather do anything else“ like pulling this viewer/like count ultimatum.
I really slept on a lot of music my dad listened to, its just growing up listening to this album especially was such a creepy eerie feeling when driving in the car. Especially that back then my Dad wasn't in the best place and was kinda abusive af.
Speaking of hamburger lady and the burned nurse. There is an album similar to that. It’s called transformalin by diagnose lebensgefahr which is a side project of DSBM band member nattramn who is part of the band silencer. You should definitely check it out and know about the band.
@2:30 that’s Jack Cassidy you zoom in on. Spence already departed The Jefferson Airplane by that point (replaced with Spencer Dryden (second from left)) though original vocalist Signe Anderson appears to still be in the group so that pic was taken in a very short time frame of only a few weeks.
"In the bottom left we have John Cale looking like Anton from No Country For Old Men" 😂😂😂 John Cale was the real source for their sinister and menacing sound on their first two seminal albums. Remember, his father was a coal miner and he transfered those endlessly deep abysses of the black mines, which threaten to suck you in and burry you forever, into noise and sound.
The song originally had more whimsical lyrics that can still be heard on demo versions... But during a break in recording Alan and Martin came across a news article about a man who murdered his wife and child before committing suicide after falling on hard times... the rest is history... ANOTHER fun fact is how Martin Rev got suicide's first drum machine from an older couple who(I kid you not) had lost their daughter to Suicide... she used the drum machine as a backing track to poetry she had been writing and reciting... Rev in interviews succinctly says that the drum machin was the only one he could afford, considering the train fair to and from to pick it up, and that it was beyond uncanny that it had to have belonged to a similarly inclined artist... that in his words "There was a suicide before Suicide." There will never be another band like them.
i'm italian 65 old man...i bought this essential punk album at the time of release (american import copy)...much time is passed, too much...thanks for the video...
On the contrary Skip was very coherent with me when I met him in the’80’s. He was a caring and loving person who loved all of his band members in EPICENTER. He never hurt me or anyone else as far as the time I had known him. I had mental illness too but we looked after each other. He was a good friend and we all stuck together. Geez I miss him.
With band names like, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, I am surprised no one has come up with a band name like, Darby Crash is Dead...or something of that sort.
Darby wasn’t high on heroin during the performance in “decline of western civilization”. Which anyone who hasn’t seen it must watch. It’s on RU-vid. An amazing music documentary. Anyways not sure what this narrator is basing it on. He was drunk and using pills I thought was the story of that night. But a lot of the quotes of this video are taken directly from that documentary and makes me wonder how much research was really even done. Never sure the agenda of these videos to. If it’s to spread awareness of a band to people that’s cool. But I think many of them are purely to try and make some money.
Yet the song One by Metallica is ok? Genesis P. Orige is by far my favorite artist. If you don't care for this beautiful rendition I will suggest Anal Staircase by Coil on the album Horse Rotorvator. Please look into Thee Psychic Temple of Youth.
very interesting and well-researched, but it seems to me too much of a reductionist reading. i think the songs are open to many interpretations - not all of them just concrete references to the lyricist's own life
I just found your channel and i love it - Thank you! T.G. was introduced to me when i was fairly young- mabey 18 or so and they are one of my favorite bands. Several years before hearing T.G. i was introduced to the Virgin Prunes by an older fellow who ran the local music store. He convinced me to buy the Virgin Prunes Box set from 1982 - Heresie. It was written on the concept of insanity. Like T.G. there is just something about this record set which was exciting and truly disturbing. It took me many years of listening to it before i could ever play some of it alone. Its very creepy. Itd be a great candidate for one of your vids - check it out if you havnt already. Another good one is an Orange County band from my neighborhood called Gobbler. The first song "Lazy Siren" from the record Skin of Flesh Almighty will get your attention in a most disturbing way. Id love to hear your feedback on these..Ive got many more if youre interested. Keep up the good work..Cheers!
There are some industrial bands you can understand of course. Like Nine Inch Nails and many others, but Throbbing Gristle coined the term "industrial music" on their debut album in '77.
I am looking for an english video so i can show my bf how special this band was for me. So hard to make gringos understand as theres a lot of cultural brazilian things. Amazing video tho 🎉
2:15 Ian wasn't unallowed to pick up Natalie, he would just refrain himself from doing it, something that his wife, Debbie, didn't really see the issue in. (Info from the book, Touching from a Distance)
