Not normally my type of music but I really enjoyed this Gothic/Hard Rock album "Floodland" by The Sisters of Mercy.
All Music says the band "combined brooding industrial metal and art rock with opulent dance-pop and darkwave-influenced post-punk." To me, to place it in a more simple context (!!!), it is a very successful, highly eclectic mix of different music styles which really draws you in.
I never knew about this Frank Zappa-produced album until a few days ago. I heard a cover of Dead Girls Of London and wonder what album the song came from...Shankar's 1979 album, Touch Me There.
As released on Zappa Records and then Barking Pumpkin. Dead Girls of London I had on a 1979 Zappa boot years ago (early 80s) and wondered where it was from. Song features vocals from FZ and the recently departed Ike Willis. One of several great violin players to work with Frank.
Moebius was a right one for collaborating and here he is with this stab at the pop charts with the great Asmus Tietchens. I'm joking about the pop chart thing, well sort of.
I never knew about this Frank Zappa-produced album until a few days ago. I heard a cover of Dead Girls Of London and wonder what album the song came from...Shankar's 1979 album, Touch Me There.
As released on Zappa Records and then Barking Pumpkin. Dead Girls of London I had on a 1979 Zappa boot years ago (early 80s) and wondered where it was from. Song features vocals from FZ and the recently departed Ike Willis. One of several great violin players to work with Frank.
And I had NO idea that FZ had recorded this with grumpy old Van the Man. Some pretty great plank spanking from Unca Frank too. Dead Girls of London. Of course Warner wouldn't let FZ use the Van vocal - I'm sure it helped sour his relationship with the label...
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All Music says the band "combined brooding industrial metal and art rock with opulent dance-pop and darkwave-influenced post-punk." To me, to place it in a more simple context (!!!), it is a very successful, highly eclectic mix of different music styles which really draws you in.
Moebius was a right one for collaborating and here he is with this stab at the pop charts with the great Asmus Tietchens. I'm joking about the pop chart thing, well sort of.