ANYBODY HERE LIKE AVANT GARDE ROCK MUSIC?

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I dig Residents, I used to be a really big Throbbing Gristle fan as well but I guess I probably wouldn't call them rock music. I still like their early albums but I met Genesis P-Orridge and I really did not like him. Chris and Cosey are awesome people though.

Tago, are you into any of the other artists in that circle? Psychic TV, Coil, Monte Cazzazza, etc?

Here's some other personal favorites:


bonus: name that sample
author=nurvuss
I dig Residents, I used to be a really big Throbbing Gristle fan as well but I guess I probably wouldn't call them rock music. I still like their early albums but I met Genesis P-Orridge and I really did not like him. Chris and Cosey are awesome people though.

Tago, are you into any of the other artists in that circle? Psychic TV, Coil, Monte Cazzazza, etc?

Here's some other personal favorites:




bonus: name that sample


I will check those out but hey your avatar I've seen it on a YouTube song I was listening to but couldn't remember the name of the artist. I recall the album cover because I've read ultra gash inferno and Midori.
Suehiro Maruo! I don't recall that particular image being used for an album cover, but he did do John Zorn's Naked City.
Wow, I gotta check that artist out

e: so many mutilated eyes.
author=nurvuss
Suehiro Maruo! I don't recall that particular image being used for an album cover, but he did do John Zorn's Naked City.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMsl_V-6Hzo

Yup that's your pic.
author=suzy_cheesedreams
Wow, I gotta check that artist out

e: so many mutilated eyes.


He's the master of ero guro manga. He has a big thing for eye licking.
I'm afraid I'm woefully undereducated in manga, so I gotta research that too

Okay, looks interesting. An art/literary movement all about exploring decadence and decay. Also contextualises a lot of stuff I knew about.

Neat!
author=suzy_cheesedreams
I'm afraid I'm woefully undereducated in manga, so I gotta research that too

Okay, looks interesting. An art/literary movement all about exploring decadence and decay. Also contextualises a lot of stuff I knew about.

Neat!


I'd Reccomend Midori for something more story driven and Ultra Gash Inferno for something exploitive.
"Ultra Gash" sure does sound exploitative, haha

Maruo is extremely intelligent and well-read, and there are many literary references, not to mention harsh criticisms of the modern family unit, Japanese politics and fascism within his works. Ultra Gash Inferno contains an adaptation of Bataille's Story of the Eye, while his straight-up 2013 graphic novel adaptation of Edogawa Rampo's The Strange Tale of Panorama Island is unmissable and quite beautiful.

Compared to crass artists such as Waita Uziga, I'd be hard-pressed to describe Maruo as exploitative or even ero-guro. His work is erotic, certainly, and heavily inspired by erotic-grotesque writers such as Rampo and the Shunga movement, but there's a lot going on underneath the (admittedly abrasive) surface.
I misunderstood TagoMago, thinking he was referring to general ero guro works & not works specific to Maruo. Anyway thanks for the clarification, Nurvuss.

That does sound interesting. I haven't read any manga before. Looking up Panorama Island now...

I haven't read any graphic novels outside Daniel Clowes (whom I love), but Maruo looks promising.

e: Jesus, I don't think I'd have the constitution to watch Midori, haha... But it looks beautiful.
Clowes <3 <3 <3 Have you read Like a Velvet Glove...? If you like Clowes, you'd probably enjoy Charles Burns, too.

Jeez this has gone off topic!
Hey! A fellow fan!

I've read nearly all his graphic novels except for The Death-Ray & Pussey. Velvet Glove is great. They're all great, damn it (Ice Haven & Caricature might be my favourites, though; too difficult to decide, really!)

I do like Burns' art, but I have yet to read Black Hole or anything else he's done.
author=Mr_TagoMago
Their drummer could give John Bonham and Neil Peart a run for their money.
Your love for the band and their music is clouding your judgement. This statement isn't even halfway to being true.

The most avant garde band I like is probably Gentle Giant, or maybe some King Crimson songs. But that's prog.
author=Link_2112
author=Mr_TagoMago
Their drummer could give John Bonham and Neil Peart a run for their money.
Your love for the band and their music is clouding your judgement. This statement isn't even halfway to being true.

The most avant garde band I like is probably Gentle Giant, or maybe some King Crimson songs. But that's prog.

No its not and I bloody love Neil Peart and Rush. Rush is my favorite traditional prog group. Most who think with their head and not bias would agree the only real reason Jaki Liebezeit isn't up there with those guys was Cans lack of accessibility and commercialism. That man had a very unique sound at the time and sounded like a half man half machine.

If you want biased go check out the people who think Curt Kobain was one of the greatest guitarist ever. Now that's just silly. At least Bonham and Peart are good at what they do and have earned their rights as legends.
Show me something Can's drummer has done that shows his talent is equal to Peart. I would agree that he sounded half machine because he plays the same basic beat for the entirety of most of Can's songs.

I'm not speaking from bias. I don't actually think Rush is the best band or Peart is the best drummer. But his work speaks for itself, just like Can's drummers work.
GUYS IT'S SUBJECTIVE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS BEST
author=Link_2112
Show me something Can's drummer has done that shows his talent is equal to Peart. I would agree that he sounded half machine because he plays the same basic beat for the entirety of most of Can's songs.

I'm not speaking from bias. I don't actually think Rush is the best band or Peart is the best drummer. But his work speaks for itself, just like Can's drummers work.
Huh have you listened to Can because that's not true at all. Sometimes like in Halleluwah he holds down a similar beat through out but in soup he went bloody crazy. He sounds like an actual drum machine in Peking O. Also I wasnt insinuating Peart wasn't great actually the opposite I was praising Jaki for being on the same level as a God like Peart.

author=nurvuss
GUYS IT'S SUBJECTIVE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS BEST
I wasn't talking about one being best just both being on same Tier level. I think its fair to say that certain drummers show off more skill than others.
author=Max McGee
Oh yes but dude I am old so my Avant Garde is your I don't even know what.

I am a huge fan of The Mars Volta. You don't get more awesome weird than that.


I. Love. The Mars Volta.

I hear a lot of stuff. So I can't consider me a great fan of the genre, but it is pretty cool.
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