Tiger Lillies play with animals, first time listens and poetry inspired by Buckley...Tim that is!!

OFFENSIVE BAND
OFFENSIVE SECTION
OFFENSIVE MATERIAL
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

The Tiger Lillies: Farmyard Filth (1997)
I first heard The Tiger Lillies on The Gorey End, a collaboration with The Kronos Quartet. It was a blast...
completely different
from anything else. The Guru is a big fan as well. However, The Gorey End CANNOT prepare you for this musical platter.
Nothing could!

As they describe it on their web site: "the most extensive collection of songs dealing with zoophilia in recorded history. Flies, Sheep, Hamsters, German Shepherds, Giraffes, Pigs and Calves, a veritable Noah's ark of beasts are paraded before the listener. Other subjects include amputees, pensioners and transsexuals. You have been warned."

This is completely accurate...I should mention that the instrumentation consists of an accordion, musical saws, Eminance removable neck bass, recycled drums and toys. It's like you stumbled into some offensive,
hilarious
dark underground cabaret.
I have no knowledge of cabaret music, but it's very listenable and catchy, occasionally beautiful
with words enticing and
shocking
...and the way they say: "c-ock" cracks me up.

So, dudes and dudettes...if you're not....I repeat...NOT easily offended, check them out for a very surreal
bizarre
twisted time. These guys are fucked! A site with lots of photos of the band playing live and a site with some info.
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FIRST TIME IMPRESSIONS

Sun Ra: Strange Celestial Road (1980) Awesome!! Do yourself a favor and listen to SUN RA!

Thee Hypnotics: Soul, Glitter and Sin (1991) Ok...didn't really hit me.

Iggy Pop w/ David Bowie: The Mantra Sessions (1977) [Confession Time: When I was 20 or so, I really identified with Iggy. I mean...I fucking understood what Iggy was about!! I knew why he cut himself...I knew why he attacked the audience...I knew why every show HAD to be extreme...had to be on the edge...nothing less than TOTAL commitment would suffice. If you didn't go to the edge then...a safe, boring, predictable life awaited you...and that had to be avoided at all costs.
I guess it had something to do with low self-esteem, never feeling good enough, fear...as for Iggy...musta had something to do with that whole trailer park upbringing.]
As for this pretty famous bootleg? It's fantastic. This is primo Iggy and it is Iggy's show. Bowie sticks to the background. Good for him.

Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) I'm not sure why it took so long to finally get this album, but I'm glad the time finally came. It's pretty o u t t h e r e. I need to listen closer to the words (I was at work programming away). Maybe I'm starting to understand the reason for the cult of Syd.

Art Ensemble of Chicago: Bap-Tizm (1972) These guys are awesome, and so is this great live album. Intro by John Sinclair.

Kevin Coyne: Wild Tiger Love (1991) I've never been disappointed by any of his albums, and this album continues that streak. Kevin Coyne official web site.

Strata Institute: Cipher Syntax (1988) This is a free download at Steve Coleman's M-Base web site. This is a great album. Jazz. Pretty rocking jazz, actually. There must be 15 cds worth of downloads at his site. He wants people to download his music, and he writes about his philosophy on this. Very interesting...
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Poem written while listening to
Tim Buckley's "Starsailor"

float to the beat
of the whispered raven

let the flight
teach
the wisdom of
elusive truth

babies starve in the street
children die in the street
we turn our heads
we turn our heads
and still search for

truth...

it's swimming in the river
it's walking on mountains
it's riding through
the desert

it's living in the
pulse of every
movement
every moment

sweep aside
passive
indifference

it's alright to be scared
it's alright to be scared
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