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Thoughts: RYM calls this post-punk, but there's a lot more going on here. The first track is an 11-minute experimental exploration with avant-folk elements woven throughout. More post-punk-like sounds ensue, but it's like it's all been wrapped up in bubble wrap. When the bubble wrap comes off, you realize someone's FedEx'd you something discordant and unpleasant, which is just how you want to feel at this moment.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1982 (Illuminated / JAMS 131, UK) and reissued on CD in 1994 (Biter of Thorpe / bot 131-05, UK).

Thoughts: This album cut my face in half, discarded one half, copied the other, and glued the identical halves back together. Then I sat down and drew a unicorn. It looked like a vortex.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1988 (Alchemy / ARLP 018, Japan).

That album inspired a fantastic tribute record

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Snak...release/724686

That I was wise enough to buy on CD

I've been looking for this but can't find it digitally online anywhere. This is The New Blockaders' and Vagina Dentata Organ's 2012 collaboration, ----------. That's right. The album is titled "----------", making it pretty much impossible to find, if indeed it even exists out there. What makes this rare item harder to find is the fact that it's a handmade numbered edition. Only a very few were ever made. (Tochnit Aleph / TA106, Germany)

Thoughts: This is incredibly lonely music. It's like operating heavy mining machinery on a deserted planet where it always rains and it's always night. You've got echo-location devices you have to lower on cold chains into dark caverns. And you're the last miner left. You keep working because it's what you've always done.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1988 (Odd Size / OS 05, France).

RYM's got the album name messed up, then. But more importantly, I was hoping someone like you would reply with the info! Cheers! :)


Thoughts: This one made me feel so bad. It's got no genre tags, but I'd call it Musique concrète, because it sounds like a couple plumbers who failed to fix my garbage disposal, and having realized they'd failed, decide to make a racket and feign work in order to charge me more. Quite a distasteful trip down the noise toilet.

Release info: Released on handmade, numbered edition vinyl in 2012 (Tochnit Aleph / TA106, Germany). 40 copies.

Yeah, I don’t know what they have there,
but the album and performers can be seen as a mess -
but I’ve been used to this kind of thing with special
packaged noise since the early 80s.

So you know: the album is one short performance -
only from TNB. The included artwork is from VDO.
That doesn’t mean that VDO didn’t perform at that same show.
They did, and released their performance as Allegory of Cosmic Violence.

I thank you for all this information. I've gone and submitted a correction at RYM based on this knowledge.

Thoughts: Like a girl singing whimsically at the heart of a great machine. It's only a promise of life at first, but her EKG laugh kickstarts the heartbeat and gets the machinery turning. A little Japanese traditional folk soothes the machine back to sleep.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1988 (UN 06, Austria).

Thoughts: I'd call this Tribal Ambient, too, what with the pounding tribal drums and the almost ritualistic vocalizations surrounding the centerpiece percussion. This is a summoning.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1987 (CoC / CoC 01, Germany).

Thoughts: Anesthetic for the brain, then locked inside with the loonies. Guy on one side of me is humming, the other screaming. And they seem each to know when the other is going to start / stop, jarring me and enjoying their little game. Dial tones and bleating lambs. This album dies with a phone call.

Release info: Released on double LP vinyl in 1987 (Touch / TO:9, UK), then on CD in 1992 (Touch / KUT 6, US), then again as a limited edition double CD in 2005 (Korm Plastics / paragraph 11, subsection 3, Netherlands).

Thoughts: Alice in Wonderland if Alice was Dante and Wonderland was Hell. Go from cavern to cavern, observe and/or suffer. Not the ear-rape some of these other records have been, but just as disturbing.

Release info: Released on limited edition (500 copies) vinyl in 1985 (Psychout / Psypro 005, Sweden) and re-issued on CD with bonus tracks in 2002 (Dom / DOM CD 77-16, Germany).

Thoughts: Show me a villain who hath called Japan "the land of the rising sun", and I am sent to be revenged upon him. Either they got slopes to self-parody their tribal tones, or these frogs are ever-so slightly racist. Either way, I approve.

Release info: Released on limited edition vinyl (1500 copies) in 1982 (Illusion / IP 010, France). Comes with a screenprinted cardboard cover with hand-made background, so each copy is unique. Then re-issued with bonus tracks on CD in 2008 (Fractal / Fractal 333, France).

Thoughts: I am untouched by this one both positively and negatively. There's just not enough here to form an opinion. I guess the spoken words parts have a kind of quiet desperation to them, and that fits the Js to a tee. This is what you're stuck with when you miss last train.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1979 (Vanity / vanity 0004, Japan) and then re-issued on vinyl in 2012 (VANITY 004LP, USA).

Thoughts: All right. There are those big 80s drums. This is the most accessible thing I've heard so far in this listening project, and "accessible" isn't always a compliment. In this case, it's a code-word for "kinda boring". However, the freaky female yelling in spots redeems it a bit. A lot of repetition on this record. The dark cabaret moments are the best.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1985 in four countries...
USA: Nostradamus / IRD 014
France: L'Invitation au Suicide / SD7 (gatefold)
Germany: Normal / Normal 15
Japan: King / K25P563... then it was re-issued on CD three times, the last being the anniversary edition in 2012.

(A quote from another thread transplanted to here).

OK, I didn't completely know what you were talking about here
'cause I don't have email notifications on for PMs.

Anti-records that I have, that are flat, are mixed in randomly with regular stock
which is also randomly mixed together, so if I come across it, I'll let you know.
I have quite a few that need to be stored separately from "regular" albums.
They're more like art objects: a glue record or something encased in plates of
steel or wrapped in macrogrit sandpaper or cassettes wrapped in vinyl or
something else that doesn't make it flat or desirable to have next to another
album (such as the one covered in moss that should arrive any day now).

http://stasick.org/010301.jpg

Looking forward to it, if you can find it. And as always, I greatly appreciate you taking the time!

Not sure if it counts as an anti-record, but don't you have that one Christian Marclay vinyl project that allows the listener to manipulate the grooves or something like that?

FWIW, the only "weird" vinyl I have is F#A#∞. The last groove is locked, so the ambient sound just repeats in a soothing drone until you pick up the needle. That's why I love falling asleep to this record.

My only weird one also has a double groove--the A side of Renaldo and the Loaf's Songs for Swinging Larvae is a loop of them saying "boom boom crash crash", which is also what kicks off the B side.

For the unintentionally weird, I have an Anakrid record that's warped that I think sounds pretty cool with the needle coming off and back onto the record.

Yeah, "Record Without a Cover." I bought at least two copies directly from him in Chicago around '86.
One clean copy and another copy that I scratched up by walking down Clark St. while mostly rubbing it
up against the sides of buildings (there were occasional "rubbings" on sidewalks as well).
Then, I would play it in-store for customers. When it wasn't "in use," it would be mounted on the wall
as a clock with numbers stuck on it. I remember a guy named Clay Grossman who insisted that he find
something to wrap the album in. He was so paranoid that he was going to ruin it. :laughing:

I feel like I've stepped into a bizarre yet interesting world.

Oh, yeah! ...and a fun one too!
I had graduated to CD 💿 live performance alterations by that time.
It was amazing what you could do with colored markers.

Thoughts: Very short, lo-fi, and tribal with droning, chanting vocals.

Release info: Released on vinyl in a handpainted cardboard box in 1980 (Illusion / IP 005, France).

Thoughts: Have you ever had someone stand there and scream at you with all his might, desperately trying to tell you something? I mean, weeping and praying, and you know he's got something really important to say--it's vital that you understand!--but you can't understand a word hes saying? The pounding drums and the relentless reverb are chasing him down the well of his own vocals. Wait...is that German?

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1980 (Illusion / IP 004, France).

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Release info: Released on vinyl in 1984 (Doublevision / DVR 4, UK) and then re-issued on CD in 1994 (Touch / KUT 1, UK).

My friend came over today and brought with him one of his recent songs. It's a short, simple synth-driven song about all the different kinds of sandwiches. During his visit, we talked about gaming and music, and as far as our music topics went, I introduced him to the concept of the anti-record. Since he was fascinated by the idea, I asked him if I could turn his song into an anti-song. He gave me permission, so I opened the file in Audacity and grabbed a d20, rolling the die to randomly select effects to be applied. I also used the d20 and percentile dice to randomly assign values to variable fields.

This is what we came up with. The vocals kick in halfway through.

Thoughts: As founders of LAFMS, these guys and gals put the "free" in free music. Most of this album is composed of fuckaround tracks that are less than a minute, mostly involving snippets of conversation or melody. There's even some belching.

Release info: Released on limited edition vinyl of 200 copies with hand-pasted front and back cover in 1975 (LAFMS / LAFMS 1, USA), then re-issued on numbered edition vinyl again in 2017 (États-Unis / etat04, USA).

Thoughts: Pessimistic, misanthropic, and apathetic? Sounds like MB-core.

Release info: Released on vinyl 7" in 1980 (n/a / 245-T-1, USA)

Thoughts: Someone plucking something out on the piano to comfort me while I get a root canal. My consciousness pulls back from the event, only to snap back with full force. Like this, I oscillate through the guts of the machine.

Oh fuck! The dentist is German, and his lovely assistant is singing to me, "He who lays down with dogs gets up with fleas!" I want to correct her, but I have a mouth full of sharp metal.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1985 (Frux / FruxLP 01, UK).

Thoughts: Aliens, refugees from nuclear war on their own planet, land on Earth and, like all immigrants, bring their degenerate music with them, which they teach to us. When they see that Earthlings do it better than they do, they return to their irradiated, barren world, willing to take their chances there than among a species who can make music like this.

Release info: Released as a box set on CD in 1994 (Ecstatic Peace! / E#47, USA) and the re-issued on CD in 2009 (Compound Annex / Compound Annex #17, #18, #19, USA).

Thoughts: Collecting and racking abandoned shopping carts scattered across an empty parking lot near a droning highway.

Release info: Released on a limited edition single-side 7" vinyl in 1996 (Aeroplane ‎– AR20, UK).

Thoughts: Brody's gf who cries in the bathroom while he plays video games because she's got nothing better to do than fuck him. I wonder if some elevator sex will sort her out.

Release info: Released on vinyl 7" in 1978 (IDBI / EEEE1, USA) and then across the pond on a colored vinyl 7" in 1979 (Cherry Red / CHERRY 3, UK).

Thoughts: The perfect soundtrack to a shitty morning where you get a flat tire and all the trains are delayed. Feel worse, man!

Release info: Released as a numbered edition vinyl in 1986 (Touch / T33:5, UK).

Thoughts: Like most things on this list, the music ain't my thing, but the album cover fascinates me. It's like a painting of a sonogram, where the baby is safe in the womb, protected from all the noise of the world.

Release info: Released on colored vinyl in 1981 (United Dairies / UD010, UK) and then re-issued on CD in 2004 (Fractal / Fractal 026, France).

Thoughts: I had no idea a rose could be the terror of terrors and the horror of horrors. Battery low. Battery low.

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1980 (United Dairies / UD07, UK).

Thoughts: The Deaf Club was a tiny place in San Francisco for actually deaf people started in the 1930s. I wonder if the people in the audience were actually the regular deaf patrons. I like to think so, as these punk rockers make their statements, but I know that the place was just a music venue like many others. This is an incredible live album and a must-listen for any punk fan (which isn't me).

Release info: Released on vinyl in 1980 (Optional / OPT-LP-001, USA).

Thoughts: Not painful enough! UGH.

Release info: Released originally on vinyl in 1984 (L'Invitation au Suicide / SD 5, France) and then re-issued on CD and vinyl at various times around the world.