For the record I don't really care much about music. Don't listen to it. Don't buy it. Don't collect it. I have not turned on my car stereo in years. But, that doesn't mean that I don't come across it, or that I'm numb to it, or that I am in any way agnostic to it. People sling titles at me, they'll talk to me about bands and albums, and sometimes -- only sometimes -- I might follow along. I did one semester of music in highschool. Before you ask, tenor sax.
I've known about noise music for quite some time. Dissonance and discord are characteristics that I can understand and identify with, uh, my ears. That someone might choose to only incorporate discordant sounds in their music is.. a choice.. but a choice that I can acknowledge.
Actually, let me link one more thing. This was a classic from the ol' Insert Credit days:
But let me return to Passenger of Shit's Staple Tapeworms On My Penis. Oh lord, this is meme.
I cannot tell you a single thing about the song or the artist, only that it is hilarious and actually not a wholly terrible listen, at least for the first forty seconds or so. Afterwards it goes into torture mode, but this is the price of admission for you accepting a world where music like this can exist. You could have stopped listening at any time, but you just had to keep going, didn't you?
I can do this, right?
Fair warning, I'm just reading up on this now just so that I have something to discuss for this post.
I cannot describe what, exactly, goth is. But, if a goth ran out in front of my car, I think would know what it is, though I could not describe to the police officer how I knew that it was goth. I could not specify the visual hallmarks or noises that the goth made that led me to positively identify it, aside from perhaps the facial makeup it left pasted to my windshield and the studs embedded in my bumper.
LUCI'FER LUSCIOUS Violenoue is, I am told, a progenitor to the Gothic Visual Kei scene. I believe this unquestionably; she certainly looks like it.
Linked above is the video for her 1997 track The Night Poter – Closer – from the a VHS release Lillie Marlené. https://www.discogs.com/release/12205606-Lucifer-Luscious-Violenoué-Lillie-Marlené-鎖に繋がれた天使
Given that this was a VHS release separate from her more traditional CD album releases, you have to presume that there was some intent for this to be seen as well as heard. If you haven't watched it by now, I'll just tell you: she's standing in front of the camera, with a microphone (that she doesn't sing into), looking over her left shoulder, topless (save from an iron cross pendant) and wearing a WW2 Allgemeine SS Officer hat (I can't actually confirm that it has the SS totenkopf, but it sure looks like it's there). Occasionally she will cover herself, occasionally she will not. The camera will cut to a skyward shot from an atrium between buildings, then cut to Violenoue with a mask in hand, mask over her face, mask over the hat. It will cut to a first person perspective running down a corridor -- probably a service or maintenance corridor -- then a sharp cut to a mop? (It's LLV lying down, I'm sure. The mop is her hair. She is wearing a dog tag.) then back to the corridor, then to her with her hand over her face, then to the corridor (the atrium shot is overlaid over much of the video), then back to her, the corridor. The music stops, a clangy string arrangement and melody backed by drums, footsteps are heard as the camera frames up onto an exterior window looking into an enclosed atrium, then cuts to black.
What can be gleamed from this? Not much, I guess. Not much that is obvious at least. But, the title offers a hint -- The Night Po(r)ter.
During World War II, Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a Nazi SS officer who posed as a doctor to take sensational photographs in concentration camps, and Lucia, a teenage girl interned in one such camp due to her father's socialist political ties, had an ambiguous sadomasochistic relationship. Max tormented Lucia, but also acted as her protector.
In 1957, Lucia, now married to an American orchestra conductor, meets Max again by chance. He is now a night porter at a hotel in Vienna, and a reluctant member of a group of former SS comrades who have been carefully covering up their pasts by destroying documents and eliminating witnesses to their wartime activities. Max has an upcoming mock trial at the hands of the group for his war crimes. The group's leader, Hans Vogler, accuses Max of wanting to live "hidden away like a church mouse." Max wishes to remain hidden, but voices support for the group's activities.
Memories of the past punctuate Max and Lucia's present with urgent frequency, suggesting that Lucia survived through her relationship with Max—in one such remembered scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song, "Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte" ("If I Could Make a Wish"), to the camp guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and Max "rewards" her with the severed head of a male inmate who had been bullying her, referencing Salome.
The attempt at symbolism here is pretty transparent. LLV is posing as Lucia, or perhaps memories of Lucia, in Nazi garb for the benefit of the peering camera. Exposed, she excites the viewer and herself with her depraved garb, recalling the relationship that defines the film. At all times, the walls are closing in, heightening the risk.
Talk about obscene, right?
Oh, you said Obscure. I thought you said Obscene. This works either way.
Did you know pope francis has an alt rock album? I literally cannot find an upload of the album in full on youtube, it does not want to be found.
This is might seem like your typical loweffort goregrind/grindcore album, mostly because it is. But, this was made by two serial killers. Im not shitting you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_maniacs
A song about body dysmorphia and the accompanying guilt complex. If you're going to listen read the lyrics at the same time. Might not bother some but it bothers me.
Prog outfit invites lady friend of the band to record a "song" which consists of her repeating the same sentence again and again while masturbating until she achieves orgasm. It's a bad song.
I could think of others given enough time. I hear the band "Fluids" use some pretty obscene/disturbing samples, but I don't know enough about them to say more.
I have a bunch of Jona Lewie records. ''I Think I'll Get My Hair Cut'' and ''Love Detonator'' are my favourites. In fact, the latter is far his weirdest song.
Did you know pope francis has an alt rock album? I literally cannot find an upload of the album in full on youtube, it does not want to be found.
This is might seem like your typical loweffort goregrind/grindcore album, mostly because it is. But, this was made by two serial killers. Im not shitting you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_maniacs
Seeing the serial killer's album reminds me that somebody released Eric Harris' DOOM wads one time. It got removed later on though. BTW i never thought Pope Francis is really chill like that
I would like to give a special mention to: ミドリカワ書房 (Midorikawa Shobō)
There is little to no information on this band on the english speaking internet, most of their albums are not on streaming. The album of discussion is only legally obtainable on Amazon Music and Youtube, which I was shocked to find is actually decently popular in Japan. Now, why am I talking about this random Japanese band nobody cares about?
This song is possibly one of the most out of place things I have ever seen in an album.
This song is about murdering a kid. Full disclaimer, this is google translated, I know a decent chunk of Japanese and the translation seems pretty accurate. This album comes out of pretty much nowhere in the very upbeat album. Listed below is the song and its lyrics. Dont get me wrong, the rest of the album tackles some pretty serious subject matter, but a song describing you literally murdering a toddler after a song about a company doing a product recall might be one of the most funny tone shifts ever created.
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The みんなのうた series of albums in general are a trip if you have alot of spare time and know a bit of Japanese.
I am a massive horror fan. While there's a pretty large amount I've not seen yet, mostly bc i started watching these later in my life, I have seen my fair share of horror films and games. The one that scared me the most by far was this song, both in isolation and the way its used in this video. It's fairly obscure. The lyrics are about someone who can't get past a relationship in a healthy way, and they realize it was their fault it ended at all.
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