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Brian D. Beagan
Brian.
Spindle
Secondly, has anyone heard of a new band called Prayer Tower?
Its seems to be one guy. The album is called <Halo>. I was wondering
if anyone knows how it sounds.....
Cheers,
Neil
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Mason Jones
: Secondly, has anyone heard of a new band called Prayer Tower?
: Its seems to be one guy. The album is called <Halo>. I was wondering
: if anyone knows how it sounds.....
I got a review copy of it, and it's absolutely dreadful. Take the
weakest, least-interesting rhythm programs, the most cliched sample
choices, the trendiest synth patches, and lay the most terminally
predictable techno-industrial lyrics over it all in the obligatory
distorted vocals. This CD should be in a glass case somewhere as a
sign to everyone that not only has this musical style been creatively
dead for years, but now it's rotting, too.
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Paul W. Francisco
>Does anyone out there have the mail add for Third Mind Records?
Well, here's *A* mail address for them, lifted from the top of Will's
_Pearl of Great Price_ album:
Third Mind Records
225 Lafayette Street, #407
New York, NY 10012
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Jester
>Does anyone out there have the mail add for Third Mind Records?
Third Mind Records/Roadrunner Records
225 Lafayette Street, Suite 407
New York, NY 10012
(212) 219-0077
Relativity Entertainment Distribution
(718) 740-5700
cheers
Jester
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In article <1993Mar30.1...@mtu.edu>, nda...@mtu.edu (Spindle) writes:
> Does anyone out there have the mail add for Third Mind Records?
> Secondly, has anyone heard of a new band called Prayer Tower?
> Its seems to be one guy. The album is called <Halo>. I was wondering
> if anyone knows how it sounds.....
>
> Cheers,
> Neil
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Just listened to the Prayer Tower-CD this weekend,
and I warn you: AVOID IT !
I really didn't think Third Mind would release anything as
outdated as this in 1993. This was new and exciting 10
years ago, but not now. They totally lack energy and the will
to control their equipment, it's simply boring. Their
music still have elements of F242 in it, so buy an old
F242-CD instead.
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Somalia Holiday
> Spindle (nda...@mtu.edu) wrote:
> : Secondly, has anyone heard of a new band called Prayer Tower?
> : Its seems to be one guy. The album is called <Halo>. I was wondering
> : if anyone knows how it sounds.....
>
> I got a review copy of it, and it's absolutely dreadful. Take the
> weakest, least-interesting rhythm programs, the most cliched sample
> choices, the trendiest synth patches, and lay the most terminally
> predictable techno-industrial lyrics over it all in the obligatory
> distorted vocals. This CD should be in a glass case somewhere as a
> sign to everyone that not only has this musical style been creatively
> dead for years, but now it's rotting, too.
>
And for those of you who think Mason doesn't know what he's talking
about because he only listens to Japanese Noise, Take this apinion from a
died in the wool FLA/Front 242 semi-freak:
He's Right. Prayer Tower blows.
This opinion is shared by a friend of mine who LIVES for the dance
industrial realm. This guy buys up everything remotely close to dance
industrial. I let him borrow the promo copy I got. At first he said, "not
bad". Then he came back three days later and said,"You're right, this is
miserable". It's much worse than Contagion (i.e. Nitzer Ebb), and the
worst thing I think Third Mind has ever put out.
Oh, and don't expect The Moon Seven Times to fit into the Third
Mind "mold". It's a band that wasn't good enough to be on 4ad, so Third
Mind gave them their break. There's a reason 4ad put stuff like that out.
There's a reason they DIDN'T put this out. Not nearly as bad as the Prayer
Tower, mind you, just not very exciting. I like dreamy sugar pop kinda swirly
guitar stuff, but this just sounded a bit too samey.
Since I'm trashing away, I might as well compliment SOMETHING: I
kinda like the new Bizarr Sex Trio...Forget the name right now. At least
it's interesting.
Oh, and Mason, don't take the Japanese Noise thing too personally.
Just a stereotype. You actually made me aware of Zeni Geva, and I bought a
7" by them. Not too bad.
mike
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I don't need no Konigsberg Bridge
to tell me which lines I can not cross!
Ed Klein
Here it is, the complete (I hope) Third Mind catalogue:
Area The Perfect Dream LP
Attrition In The Realm Of The Hungry Ghosts LP
Attrition Shrinkwrap 12"
Attrition Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club LP
Attrition The Attrition of Reason LP
Attrition The Voice Of God 12"
Beautiful Pea Green Boat Every Night With You I Die A Little 12"
Beautiful Pea Green Boat Get Religion LP
Beautiful Pea Green Boat Maremma 12"
Beautiful Pea Green Boat Obsessions LP
Beautiful Pea Green Boat The Powerhouse 7"
Bill Pritchard Bill Pritchard LP
Bill Pritchard Half A Million LP
Bill Pritchard Pas De Plaisanterie 7"
Bill Pritchard The Death of Bill Posters CD
Bushido Among The Ruins 12"
Bushido Deliverance LP
Bushido The Sands Of Nakajima LP
Bushido Voices 12"
Controlled Bleeding Penetration CD
Delerium Euphoric CD
Eden Gateway to the Mysteries CD
Edward Ka-Spel Tanith And The Lion Tree CD
Faction Bag LP
Faction Dream On You 12"
Faction Go! 12"
Front Line Assembly Caustic Grip LP/CD
Front Line Assembly Convergence CD
Front Line Assembly Corrosion LP
Front Line Assembly Digital Tension Dementia 12"/CD
Front Line Assembly Disorder M-LP
Front Line Assembly Gashed Senses And Crossfire LP/CD
Front Line Assembly Iceolate 12"/CDS
Front Line Assembly Live LP
Front Line Assembly Mindphaser CDS
Front Line Assembly No Limit 12"/CD
Front Line Assembly Provision 12"/CDS
Front Line Assembly State Of Mind (reissue) CD
Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant CD
Front Line Assembly The Blade CDS
Front Line Assembly The Initial Command (reissue) CD
Front Line Assembly Virus 12"/CDS
God Said Off The Plot LP
God Said Out Of Time 7"
Harry Fabvre The Discreet Agent LP
Heavenly Bodies Celestial LP/CD
Heavenly Bodies Rains On Me 12"
In the Nursery Duality CD
In The Nursery L'Esprit LP/CD
In The Nursery Sense CD
In The Nursery Sesudient 12"/CD
Intermix Intermix CD
Intermix Phaze Two CD
Intimate Obsessions Assassin 12"
Intimate Obsessions Erebus To Hades M-LP
Konstruktivits Black December LP
Konstruktivits Psykho-Genetika LP
Metamorphosis Great Babel Gives Birth LP
Nurse With Wound Ostranenie 1913 LP
Prayer Tower Halo CD
Solar Enemy Dirty vs. Universe CD
Solar Enemy Techno-Divinity 12"/CD
The Moon Seven Times The Moon Seven Times CD
Various Artists Could You Walk On The Waters LP
Various Artists For Your Ears Only D-LP
Various Artists Four From The Madding Crowd LP
Various Artists Future Tense LP
Various Artists Life At The Top LP
Various Artists Mindfield CD
Various Artists The Third Mind LP/CD
Various Artists Une Saison En Enfer CD
Will Pearl Of Great Price CD
Will Word * Flesh * Stone CD
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Ed Klein
ekl...@spiff.win.net
howard s goodman
(The following is a mixture of dry fact and moist opinion.)
Beautiful Pea Green Boat and Heavenly Bodies, both from 1987--88, are
wonderful. Heavenly Bodies consisted essentially of Caroline Seaman,
who sang on two tracks on This Mortal Coil's _Filigree_and_Shadow_, and
James Pinker, who is a bit of a muso. I can't be bothered to try to
describe the musical style, so I'll be very lazy and give some reference
points: if you like mid-eighties 4AD music like Cocteau Twins, Dead Can
Dance and Clan of Xymox, then you're likely also to like Heavenly
Bodies.
As for Beautiful Pea Green Boat, much the same applies, although their
stuff is generally more `poppy'. _Obsessions_ is a total classic of an
LP; _Beautiful_Pea_Green_Boat_Get_Religion_ includes re-mixed versions
of three of the songs from it, including a very violent and intense
version of `The screw', which might even be termed `industrial', and an
awesome version of the beautiful `Hammers of Islam'. But _Obsessions_
is a much more coherent whole. Alas, Beautiful Pea Green Boat never
made it onto CD in Europe, although I was once informed by Third Mind
(Ian Williams, the man behind BPGB, was one of the people who started up
the label with his friend Gary Levermore) that a CD entitled
_Still_Life_, a kind of patched version of the two LPs, was released in
the USA. `Maremma', by the way, is orchestral, sung in Italian, and
very, very slow.
I am also rather partial to Eden, a bunch of second-rate Australian Dead
Can Dance copyists if ever there was one. They lack the intelligence of
Dead Can Dance, but if you don't mind crass pseudo-mystical lyrics (e.g.
if you like Current 93) then _Gateway_to_the_Mysteries_ is very fine --
plenty of renaissance revivalism, and pleasant male vocals.
In The Nursery have been discussed on this newsgroup before, but I'll
include a brief description here for the uninitiated. I can only
describe their music as being perfect, disciplined, and beautiful. It
is, presumably, this totality and discipline that has led to them being
lumped into the `Nazi' category with Death In June. Their masterpiece,
_L'esprit_, is mostly instrumental, but has some French female vocals on
it in places. Much the same goes for their other two Third Mind discs,
of which, in my opinion, _Sense_ is the weaker, and there are some
samples of poetry -- I'm told it's by John Donne -- on _Duality_,
recited, I think, by Richard Burton. Some people describe In The
Nursery's music as being very film soundtrack, Morricone-esque: some of
it would work as background music, but some, e.g. `The pearl' and
`Corruption', is far too attention-grabbing.
In The Nursery are the very antithesis of grunge, and are not
recommended to die-hard Ministry fans.
That's all folks ...
... howard.
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Ed Klein
>Oh, and don't expect The Moon Seven Times to fit into the Third
>Mind "mold".
Aack! I'm not going to sit here and let you get away with that. Which
Third Mind "mold" are you referring to? I guess you've never listened to
Area (MST's predecessor), Beautiful Pea Green Boat, Heavenly Bodies, In
The Nursery, or Bill Pritchard. Third Mind has quite a history of putting
out "pretty" music, and The Moon Seven Times fits in there nicely. Is it
because they aren't electronic that they don't belong?
In case you haven't guessed, I really like MST, and not just because I've
got the hots for Lynn Canfield.
>It's a band that wasn't good enough to be on 4ad, so Third Mind gave them
>their break. There's a reason 4ad put stuff like that out. There's a
>reason they DIDN'T put this out.
Y'all remember that scene in "Annie Hall", where they're standing in line
for the movie, and the guy behind them is mouthing off about Marshall
McLuhan, and Woody Allen decides he's heard enough, and he steps aside and
actually brings Marshall McLuhan into the picture to tell the guy he's a
complete idiot? I'd love to do that right now, and have Gary Levermore
step in to tell us that he signed The Moon Seven Times because he happens
to like them.
>Not nearly as bad as the Prayer Tower, mind you, just not very exciting. I
>like dreamy sugar pop kinda swirly guitar stuff, but this just sounded a
>bit too samey.
If that's your opinion, fine. I like 4AD, I like Third Mind, and I think
they both have a great roster of bands. But I'd much rather listen to Lynn
than Liz Fraser or Lisa Gerrard any day.
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Ed Klein
ekl...@spiff.win.net
ajsc...@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
NEIL!!!
I can get any & all releases on Third Mind Records for you.
I run a mail-order distribution & we have direct access to everything
on Third Mind.
So write or call me with your wants, I'll give you a price, you can
send us a check or money order & we'll deliver whatever it is right to your
door. No fuss, no muss, no saleman will call.
So write or phone us (no e-mail for orders please!) with your wants at:
Desperate Attempt Records/1320 South Third Street/ Louisville, KY 40208
(502) 637 - 4656 If you like to fax things, you can fax us at (502) 588 -
5055. See ya........
Gina
ekl...@spiff.win.net (Ed Klein) writes:
>mtre...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Somalia Holiday) writes:
>
>If that's your opinion, fine. I like 4AD, I like Third Mind, and I think
>they both have a great roster of bands. But I'd much rather listen to Lynn
>than Liz Fraser or Lisa Gerrard any day.
Ed Kleinstuerzende Goobottom! How could you say such things about
lovely wonderful Lisa Gerrard? How could someone be better than our
Goddess? We need to talk about this.
--Gina