haineux (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} haineux) wrote,@ 2007-05-26 11:08:00 |
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The "Real" Industrial Music
WFMU's Beware of The Blog has started a second go-around on their 365 project: a record a day for a year, all wildly different, all considered very notable for some reason or another. A lot of these records are somewhat "available" -- as in, if you hit every Goodwill store in a major metropolitan area every day for a year... one of those "thrift hawks" (probably from WFMU) would scoop it up just as you were reaching for it, and then crow about how much money they're going to make on eBay with it.
This time around, they're using higher quality audio, and posting whole albums instead of just the one song. For the junior high school jazz orchestras playing "Malagueña," probably one whole song is already just a bit too much, but it's nice to have the full gestalt of things available.
One of the highlights from the last time around was a wonderful torch song, beautifully and heartfully performed, concerning GE Silicone Products and paying homage to the wondrous source of this chemical bounty -- common, ordinary, everyday, "Sand." It really is a jaw-dropper, pointing out that "When you want to talk of 'Forever,' You speak of the 'Sands of Time'!!" -- and then going into a sand dance.[1]
"Sand" became a favorite of many strange music aficionados the world over, and I spent many hours looking for a complete album transfer, or at least a few more songs.
GOT TO INVESTIGATE SILICONES
GE Silicone Products Division, 1973
Good news, everyone! This time around, they've included the whole album, which is great because there's lots more good music in here: "Silicones, Silicones" in the style of The Fifth Dimension ("Up, Up, and Away"); "The Paradox"; and especially the frenetic keystone-kops show-stopper, "The Answer":
The furniture moulding that you see here,
Would not have been possible in yesteryear,
But now with RTB we've got those molds down COLD!
And vinyl shoes can also use a perfect mold!
etc.
On and on they go on the versatility, utility, and downright ubiquity of silicone products in everything from latex and urethane foam, to shaving cream, to textile dying, to edible food lubricants, and of course, mold-release coatings. I am sure that the Cult to Stop Casting Porosity owes a debt to GE Silicones.
The sound is good, the music is great, the lyrics are way too clever, and the performances really make the whole thing go. Definitely check it out. I can pretty much guarantee you'll be humming the songs and shuffling your feet for the next few days.
[1] (Alas, Wikipedia gets it wrong. Sand dancing is not "Walking Like an Egyptian," it is a variant of soft-shoe dancing last popularized by George Burns. One sprinkles a little sand on the floor, and then rhythmically scrubs one's shoes over it. These days, percussionists uses wood blocks with attached sandpaper to create the sound.)
WFMU's Beware of The Blog has started a second go-around on their 365 project: a record a day for a year, all wildly different, all considered very notable for some reason or another. A lot of these records are somewhat "available" -- as in, if you hit every Goodwill store in a major metropolitan area every day for a year... one of those "thrift hawks" (probably from WFMU) would scoop it up just as you were reaching for it, and then crow about how much money they're going to make on eBay with it.
This time around, they're using higher quality audio, and posting whole albums instead of just the one song. For the junior high school jazz orchestras playing "Malagueña," probably one whole song is already just a bit too much, but it's nice to have the full gestalt of things available.
One of the highlights from the last time around was a wonderful torch song, beautifully and heartfully performed, concerning GE Silicone Products and paying homage to the wondrous source of this chemical bounty -- common, ordinary, everyday, "Sand." It really is a jaw-dropper, pointing out that "When you want to talk of 'Forever,' You speak of the 'Sands of Time'!!" -- and then going into a sand dance.[1]
"Sand" became a favorite of many strange music aficionados the world over, and I spent many hours looking for a complete album transfer, or at least a few more songs.
GOT TO INVESTIGATE SILICONES
GE Silicone Products Division, 1973
Good news, everyone! This time around, they've included the whole album, which is great because there's lots more good music in here: "Silicones, Silicones" in the style of The Fifth Dimension ("Up, Up, and Away"); "The Paradox"; and especially the frenetic keystone-kops show-stopper, "The Answer":
The furniture moulding that you see here,
Would not have been possible in yesteryear,
But now with RTB we've got those molds down COLD!
And vinyl shoes can also use a perfect mold!
etc.
On and on they go on the versatility, utility, and downright ubiquity of silicone products in everything from latex and urethane foam, to shaving cream, to textile dying, to edible food lubricants, and of course, mold-release coatings. I am sure that the Cult to Stop Casting Porosity owes a debt to GE Silicones.
The sound is good, the music is great, the lyrics are way too clever, and the performances really make the whole thing go. Definitely check it out. I can pretty much guarantee you'll be humming the songs and shuffling your feet for the next few days.
[1] (Alas, Wikipedia gets it wrong. Sand dancing is not "Walking Like an Egyptian," it is a variant of soft-shoe dancing last popularized by George Burns. One sprinkles a little sand on the floor, and then rhythmically scrubs one's shoes over it. These days, percussionists uses wood blocks with attached sandpaper to create the sound.)
