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Dude, Odd is one of my closest friends. She's cool.

She just wanted to bring a bit of levity back to my thread, and I appreciate her making me smile.

 

Can't say I have, but it's pretty cool.

Looks like a custom job.

 

No worries, it's all good! <thumbsup>

I'm glad you enjoy my thread so much!

 

Waaaaay too many favorite lyrics to post in full, so here's a list of a few songs off the top of my head with some of my favorite lyrics:

Bachdenkel - An Appointment With the Master
13th Floor Elevators - Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)
The Incredible String Band - No Sleep Blues
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Donovan - Epistle To Dippy
The Habibiyya - The Eye Witness
Gong - Love Is How You Make It
Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
Jimi Hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic
The Groundhogs - Cherry Red
Cactus - One Way... Or Another
The Velvet Underground - Heroin
Brian Eno - The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
Pere Ubu - Non-Alignment Pact
Hawkwind - We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago
Baby Huey - Hard Times
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Teenage Fanclub - It's All In My Mind
Archers of Loaf - Web In Front
Coil - The Anal Staircase
Coil - Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)
Genesis P-Orridge & Psychic TV - A Hollow Cost
Genesis P-Orridge & Splinter Test - Thee Decaying Matter ov Family L-ov-e
Current 93 - The Bloodbells Chime
Hope Sandoval - Charlotte
Ghostface Killah - All That I Got Is You
The Bats - Block of Wood
Ghetto Boyz - Mind Playin Tricks On Me
Dush Tray - Mission Complete
20-To-Life - After Servin a Duce
E.S.G. - Purped Up
Dr. Octagon - Girl Let Me Touch You
Clipse - Re-Up Intro
Pentagram - Forever My Queen
Harvey Milk - All the Live Long Day
Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
Gardens & Villa - Purple Mesas
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Flaming Lips - The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed By the Gnat
Xiu Xiu - Muppet Face
Interpol - Narc
Bachelorette - The National Grid
Sonic Youth - Free City Rhymes
Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed
The Microphones - The Moon
Mount Eerie - Moon Sequel
Mount Eerie - Sauna
The Mountain Goats - Palmcorder Yajna
Nunslaughter - The Crowned and Conquering Hag
El-P - The Full Retard
Death Grips - Hacker
Death Grips - True Vulture
Death Grips - Artificial Death In the West
Death Grips - Inanimate Sensation
Kendrick Lamar - Mortal Man

 

Roll and backstab

 

Can't say I've heard two different Hawkwind albums playing on two record players in the same room. I did however set up some nice playbacks of Zaireeka in college, an album with parts on four different discs or records you simultaneously play, syncing them up as closely as possible. Usually parts are off a bit as different players have different start up times, but that's part of the album's charm: the off kilter sound sometimes produces unexpectedly beautiful passages of organic noise rock, while at other times the frequencies clash and are quite uncomfortable to listen to on a very physical level.

Since I've always been into installation art, I'd borrow some monitors from neighboring dorm rooms and try to have interesting visuals to accompany the aural experience.

As for Hawkwind related stories, I did listen to them a lot during my later undergraduate days. Those were dark times for me, and I engaged in a lot of stupid, self-destructive behavior. I tend to strongly associate music with certain memories; the songs and albums become the soundtrack of that particular era of my life. Consequently, for a long time I couldn't listen to a lot of neat music because of all the hauntingly painful memories associated with it.

A lot of Hawkwind was played during those times.

Also:
-Velvet Underground & Nico
-Nico's album, The Marble Index
-Van Der Graaf Generator (especially the song "Wondering")
-Jimi Hendrix (especially "Spanish Castle Magic")
-Kaleidoscope's song, "Chocolate Whale"
-Lots of The Incredible Sting Band
-T2's album, It'll All Work Out In Boomland
-Harvey Milk's song, "Motown"
-Lots of Gong
-Lots of Liars and Deerhunter
-Atlas Sound's debut album
-Lots of Earth, but especially Pentastar
-Lots of Melvins, but especially Hostile Ambient Takeover
-Acid Mothers Temple out the wazoo
-A sprinkling of bossa nova now and then
-Phill Niblock (usually after watching Tsai Ming-Liang films...)
-Birchville Cat Model
-Thuja
-Nadja
-Manilla Road
-The Wandering Midget
-Reverend Bizarre

-Aaaaand.... an incredible, sadly underrated & virtually unknown indie folk rock group called Maquiladora. This is one of my *closely kept musical secrets* that only Romy buddies with high-level clearance usually get to hear about, so enjoy!

-Oh yeah, and since I mentioned Bachdenkle earlier, check out their album Lemmings. Another one from *Romy's secret stash* just for you.

Used to listen to a lot of this stuff in my college apartment during my existential crisis. Let's just say I was in a whooooole 'nother state of mind. Often with the shower running to make hot steam. Sometimes in said shower. Sometimes on the balcony. Sometimes walking to the record store or going to the sandwich place that served warm chocolate chip cookies.

This era eventually ended with a massive nervous breakdown and me laying in bed mumbling to myself for two weeks, only getting up to make microwaveable breakfast sandwiches from time to time. But two things saved my life: watching the film The Russian Ark over and over, and reading a book on the history of western religion.

Although in some cases the music perpetuated bad behaviors on my part (it can have a way of legitimizing them...), it probably helped carry me through those dark times just as much, paradoxically.

 

I have, yes.