Saturday, December 29, 2007

Episode #49 - Dressed Up Sharp In Suits of Green and Placed Upon the War Machine

1. Song: Bells Dark Above Our Heads , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
2. Song: The Electrician , Artist: Sightings , Album: Through the Panama (Load)
  • Cover of The Walker Brothers.

3. Song: Your Far Church , Artist: Mouthus , Album: Saw a Halo (Load)
4. Song: Lullaby for Strangers , Artist: Traveling Bell , Album: Secret Eye Sampler 2005 (Secret Eye)

  • Compilation CD of Secret Eye artists, which also features tracks from Avarus, Black Forest/Black Sea, Spires That In the Sunset Rise, Long Live Death, Larkin Grimm, Fürsaxa, and others.

5. Song: Cowboy Soundcheck , Artist: Black Dice , Album: Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
6. Song: - , Artist: Beck , Album: Stereopathic Soul Manure (Flipside)
7. Song: Put the Time Machine In Your Mouth Pt. II , Artist: Kill Me Tomorrow , Album: Skin's Getting Weird (Gold Standard Laboratories)
8. Song: Devastator / Mighty Trust Krusher , Artist: Godflesh , Album: Streetcleaner (Combat)
9. Song: The House of Feasting , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: Honky Reduction (Relapse)
10. Song: Radio Ballet , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)

  • Soothing classical piano and string type stuff here, compared to the post-rock guitar drone material found on, say, When I Live by the Garden and the Sea.

11. Song: ...And Texas Spaceship , Artist: Boris & Merzbow , Album: Megatone (Inoxia)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #49 2007-12-29

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Episode #43 - Hell On Earth

1. Song: Bouncer See Bouncer... , Artist: Scott Walker , Album: Tilt (Drag City)
2. Song: Orakulum , Artist: Sunn O))) , Album: Oracle (Southern Lord)
3. Song: Love, Hate (Slugbaiting) , Artist: Godflesh , Album: Pure (Earache)
4. Song: - , Artist: Cephalic Carnage , Album: Xenosapien (Relapse)
5. Song: Fear and Sickness , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Given to the Rising (Neurot)
6. Song: Bela Lugosi's Dead , Artist: Nouvelle Vague , Album: Bande a Part (Justin Time)
  • Cover of Bauhaus. This album is all covers, in fact, and also features versions of "The Killing Moon" (Echo & the Bunnymen), "Dancing With Myself"(Billy Idol), "Heart of Glass" (Blondie), and "Human Fly" (The Cramps), among others.

7. Song: Unanswered , Artist: Suicide Silence , Album: The Cleansing (Century Media)
8. Song: White Chalk , Artist: PJ Harvey , Album: White Chalk (Island)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #43 2007-11-17

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Episode #19 - The End of Everything

1. Song: The Lodge , Artist: Agalloch , Album: The Mantle (The End)
2. Song: Everything's Going On , Artist: Dead Meadow , Album: Shivering King and Others (Matador)
3. Song: Emission of the Signal , Artist: Isis , Album: Sawblade (Tortuga Recordings)
  • CD-R EP made specifically for Isis' tour with Neurosis and Candiria; limited to 200 copies. Also features covers of Godflesh's "Streetcleaner" and Black Sabbath's "Hand of Doom".

4. Song: Vultures , Artist: Drumcorps , Album: Rmx or Die (Kriss)
5. Song; Wouldn't It Be Nice , Artist: The Beach Boys , Album: Pet Sounds (Capitol)
6. Song: Folded Space: Mapping Unexploded Ordinance , Artist: Combatwoundedveteran , Album: Duck Down for the Torso (No Idea)
7. Song: I Hate This Dumpster , Artist: Amps for Christ , Album: Every Eleven Seconds (5 Rue Christine)
8. Song: Lesser Animal , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Phantom Limb (Relapse)

  • New Pig Destroyer album on Relapse. Not as great as Terrifyer or Prowler In the Yard, but stills kicks nonetheless. This track, along with opener "Rotten Yellow" are two of the better tracks.

9. Song: Pure II , Artist: Godflesh , Album: Pure (Earache)

  • Added due to a listener recommendation.

10. Song: In Every Dream Home a Heartache , Artist: Roxy Music , Album: Wonderland: Music From the Motion Picture (Epic/Sony)

  • Pretty interesting lyrics to this one - love the line "Your skin is like vinyl/The perfect companion". Oh yeah, and the song's about a blow-up doll ("Inflatable doll/My role is to serve you/Can't throw you away now/Immortal and life size/My breath is inside you/I'll dress you up daily/And keep you till death sighs").

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #19 2007-6-2

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