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jack_babalonI have just won a pair of tickets from WREK Atlanta (91.1) to see My Life with The Thrill Kill Kult this Wednesday at The Loft. They had a free call-in give away and I was not only caller number one but apparently the only caller. The DJ seemed to have no idea who they were and I tried to explain to him in all earnestness that they were an electro-industrial psychedelic glam sex circus well worth seeing free or not. I could hear the DJ shrug his 'whatevah' over the line as he told me the tickets were mine if I wanted them. Maybe I should've mentioned all the movies they were on the soundtrack to back in the 90's... but alas... I do go on. I mean really, who am I, Grandpa Rivet-head over here? ("Hey you kids get off my dancefloor-lawn with your CombiJebus and suspension animation shows!")
Back when I was a (CD)-J for the Secret Room I would have occasion to talk to my fellow booth monkeys about the merits, triumphs and failures of certain bands. TKK would often come up (as they were oft-requested), for most of the DJs I spoke with their best albums seems to have been universally agreed to be their first two releases I see good spirits, I see bad spirits and Confessions of a Knive (along with Sexplosion! - though mainly just for the before mentioned 'Sex on Wheelz'). But for me, personally speaking of course, it was their mondo-a-go-go 1995 Hit & Run Holiday that remains not just my favorite release by them, but as one of my favorite party albums of all time. This was the album that introduced me to a wonderful hybrid sound of swank-sexy-swinger mod music with a smattering of electronica sensibilities thrown in. A sort bastard child of vintage Rat Pack Vegas meets the Chicago Industrial Revolution of Wax Trax! records. In a way it kind of predicts the emergence of the Electro-Lounge that came out of D.C. with the ESL label and Ursula 1000. Don't get me wrong though... I still dig Confessions of a Knive/Good spirits-Bad spirits... for me it harkens back to a time when Industrial music (for me personally) didn't just convey a sort of fuck-you alienation at living in a preapocalyptic consumer society but it also had an irreverent, playfull sexiness to it that was as much fun to dance as it was to fuck to (if I may be so bold). It's one of the reasons I dug playing what little electro-clash I managed to get my hands on before I went into self-exile/retirement in the early 00's... it was something that not only had a hard beat but it didn't take itself seriously either (rather than the hard/angry, hard/operatic or plain hard/harder-than-hard combos that would rule the floor over the years).
Anyway... I'm really stoked because this will be my first time seeing them play, though I guess I could sort of count seeing their splinter-group side project The Electric Hellfire Club who opened for the Valor era Christian Death at Masquerade back in '96. This is being advertised as their twentieth anniversary tour, which seems an inexplicably long time, as my first memories of the band come as a 19 year old squid dancing to The Days of Swine & Roses at Einstein A-Go-Go's down in Jacksonville, Florida. This should make me feel old upon reflection but in all actuality it doesn't for some reason. In fact I feel the opposite of old. I feel as giddy as a kid, excited to see a band I've wanted to see since the last stages of my pre-adolesence.
Now if only Psychic TV would tour... and my wish-list of shows I want to see will be complete.
Back when I was a (CD)-J for the Secret Room I would have occasion to talk to my fellow booth monkeys about the merits, triumphs and failures of certain bands. TKK would often come up (as they were oft-requested), for most of the DJs I spoke with their best albums seems to have been universally agreed to be their first two releases I see good spirits, I see bad spirits and Confessions of a Knive (along with Sexplosion! - though mainly just for the before mentioned 'Sex on Wheelz'). But for me, personally speaking of course, it was their mondo-a-go-go 1995 Hit & Run Holiday that remains not just my favorite release by them, but as one of my favorite party albums of all time. This was the album that introduced me to a wonderful hybrid sound of swank-sexy-swinger mod music with a smattering of electronica sensibilities thrown in. A sort bastard child of vintage Rat Pack Vegas meets the Chicago Industrial Revolution of Wax Trax! records. In a way it kind of predicts the emergence of the Electro-Lounge that came out of D.C. with the ESL label and Ursula 1000. Don't get me wrong though... I still dig Confessions of a Knive/Good spirits-Bad spirits... for me it harkens back to a time when Industrial music (for me personally) didn't just convey a sort of fuck-you alienation at living in a preapocalyptic consumer society but it also had an irreverent, playfull sexiness to it that was as much fun to dance as it was to fuck to (if I may be so bold). It's one of the reasons I dug playing what little electro-clash I managed to get my hands on before I went into self-exile/retirement in the early 00's... it was something that not only had a hard beat but it didn't take itself seriously either (rather than the hard/angry, hard/operatic or plain hard/harder-than-hard combos that would rule the floor over the years).
Anyway... I'm really stoked because this will be my first time seeing them play, though I guess I could sort of count seeing their splinter-group side project The Electric Hellfire Club who opened for the Valor era Christian Death at Masquerade back in '96. This is being advertised as their twentieth anniversary tour, which seems an inexplicably long time, as my first memories of the band come as a 19 year old squid dancing to The Days of Swine & Roses at Einstein A-Go-Go's down in Jacksonville, Florida. This should make me feel old upon reflection but in all actuality it doesn't for some reason. In fact I feel the opposite of old. I feel as giddy as a kid, excited to see a band I've wanted to see since the last stages of my pre-adolesence.
Now if only Psychic TV would tour... and my wish-list of shows I want to see will be complete.
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on 2008-05-10 09:30 pm (UTC)Psychic TV came to Atlanta not to long ago. I think it was last year. I missed them - again due to work. I wanted to go though. I think Bauhaus may be coming back again too. I saw them at the tabernacle about two years ago.
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on 2008-05-12 03:39 am (UTC)BTW, I'm going to TKK for sure. Got my ticket. A few folks from AtlPsy are going as well. And so is
I'm quite looking forward to it.