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| ALIEN SEX FIEND: Don't you forget us #15
Fifteenth instalment in my forgotten/dismissed/underappreciated Post-Punk (and such) bands list series: A noisy, ugly, dirty outfit that only knew how to spew out albums of filth and dissonance. | | 13 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Death Trip
I refuse to talk about this. Read the next entries and you will see why.
Go-to tracks: ... | | 12 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Information Overload
I gave Curse a hard time (you will see) for being essentially the first in line of gimmicky, laughable non-musical obscurities that not even your antisocial weirdo cousin, who thinks the sound of spoons dropping on the floor is music, will like, but that album at least had a semblence of goodness in some of the moments on it, this piece of junk I actively detest, for it doesn't even have that. This is the direct effect of them reducing their powers and focus on a mere acceleration of banal electronic farts.
Go-to tracks: ... | | 11 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Nocturnal Emissions
I have a confession to make. When I decided to cover Alien Sex Fiend, I have only heard a few of their early records, where they still qualified as rock/punk/noise/whatever band. I did not expect them to suddenly turn all techno-electronica on me. This is exactly that.
Go-to tracks: ... | | 10 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Another Planet
Quite most likely band's most lifeless album, where the need to sound outlandish prevails above the song-writing or even semi-bearable or intriguing execution. The album doesn't really flow, it drags. The songs feel inconsequential and overbearing. It just feel off. All of it.
Go-to tracks: Bun - Ho! (I guess, but there are no real "best tracks") | | 9 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Inferno: The Odyssey Continues
If the cover resembles some tacky 80s anime about sentient robots for kids, then the music is quite according. It it a 20 tracks long electronica album from Alien Sex Fiend. Yeah.
Go-to tracks: ... | | 8 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Curse
This album was released at the beginning of the 90s, which is the period the band just kind of stopped giving a damn. It is fifteen songs long and it is one of those unprecedented cases in the band's history, where the overlong 9+ minutes long cuts seem much more cohesive and thought through than their shorter counterparts. There are four below-minute long tracks that provide literally nothing to the table. What's the point? That is really the whole question you could ask yourself about this album. The band became a gimmick and unfortunately they never recovered.
Go-to tracks: Katch 22, No I'm Feeling Zombified | | 7 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Maximum security
For better understanding: the chronology of ASF's discography went from Who's Been Sleeping to Acid Bath to this. Needless to say that the band took a gigantic detour to pursue even more experimental production, mixing and playing techniques. Who's Been Sleeping was a straighforward goth record with some distant, but clear experiment value, while Acid Bath expanded upon colliding that very goth sound with now more obvious production newness. Well, Maximum Security definitely leaps to the next logical step, in that it now dismisses any song-writing, intriguing instrumentation or even remotely curious execution in order to implement as much industrial-isms as possible. Not to the greatest effect, admittedly.
Go-to tracks: Fly in the Ointment, Depravity Lane | | 6 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Open Head Surgery
One thing that is you will find yourself feeling, when listening to literally any ASF albums, is tired. You will be tired, mildly disoriented and most likely sleepy. Also slightly horrified, but mostly tired. Open Heart Surgery is one of the band's shortest albums and one of their most straightforward, but it still does stink of pandering to the same draining well that has been dry for ages now. The music is still childish and purposefully all-over-the-place, but barely as engaging as it used to be, while the fuzzy, grainy production only elevatest the feeling of the should-be-forgotten archaism.
Go-to tracks: Class of '69 | | 5 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Here Cum Germs
The band, now fully engulfed in the semi-industrial noise sound with distant goth roots, are determined to keep on spawning out this very style. Essentially, take Here Cum Germs as not the first entry in the long-running stylistic series, but as the one, where the determination was at its clearest. (there is also an 11 minutes long track that is quite difficult to get through)
Go-to tracks: The Impossible Mission, My Brain is in the Cupboard - Above the Kitchen Sink, Death | | 4 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
It - The Album
ASF have a tradition of overlong, indulgent songs, but here they outdid themselves with a 13 minutes long obscurity Manic Depression. The song is energetic and fun, but that goes on for another 10 minutes and that is just difficult to sit through. When it comes to other songs, they are simiarly energetic, albeit reasonably timed. It would seem (see what I did there?) is one of the band's most upbeat and dance-y record. But that does not mean that there are no experimental, outlandish cuts (Get Into It is one). All-in-all, this might be what Maximum Security was supposed to be like, both goth enough and having a lot of experimental harshness to it.
Go-to tracks: Smells Like, Lesson One, To Be Continued | | 3 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain?
This is their first full-length album (if you don't count that lo-fi demo The Lewd The Mad The Ugly And Old Nick). It is quite obvious that they had ambitions to ride off the wave of goth weirdness that started making rounds at that time, but at the same time many production choices and song-writing experiments end up quite unusual, either because at that time the genre was still forming and this regular occurence now seems outlandish to us, or because the band already then knew they need to establish themselves to the world, only to then go even deeper into the experimentation and strangeness.
Go-to tracks: Wild Women, I'm Not Mad, Lips Can't Go | | 2 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
Acid Bath
On this album, Alien Sex Fiend have elevated their determination to fuse both goth and industrial music into one to a whole new practical extent. The album sounds more complete and confident in its attempts than the band's previous atempts (keep in mind, this is their thrid release). The songs do tend to lack a certain specific melodic memorability, but the overall creepiness and off-kilter execution eventually manages to establish momentum and likeable atmosphere.
Go-to tracks: In God We Trust (In Cars We Rust), Breakdown and Cry (Lay Down and Die - Goodbye), Attack !!!!!!#2, Boneshaker Baby | | 1 |  | Alien Sex Fiend
I Walk the Line
This EP was supposed to be a quick throwback to the good olden days of straightforwardness amidst their most turbulent years, when the band was transitioning from being something semi-experimental to being fully developed and on a clear, steady path. But this EP somehow ended up doing so much more than most of the band's full-length albums. It took both their once primary goth focus and ran it through the filter of uniqueness that is their present production style. However, it did not compromise either of the aspects for the sake of the other, it accomodated both of them to one another. The result is the band's most mature record yet, but still one that holds a certain playful oddity-string they always do.
Go-to tracks: I Walk the Line, Schools Out, Can't Stop Smoking | |
Papa Universe
04.28.18 | This is what happens when you trust your randomiser and only judge from a few records you heard a few decades ago.
Beginner's Guide:
Class of '69
I Walk the Line
Schools Out
In God We Trust
Boneshaker Baby
Lips Can't Go
Fly in the Ointment | SandwichBubble
04.28.18 | You're an EP man I see | Papa Universe
04.28.18 | it's often the maximum I can stomach | SandwichBubble
04.28.18 | Definitely interested in that EP, good list as always. I really need to dig/redig some of these | DoofusWainwright
04.28.18 | A band I’ve always meant to check - guess I can squeeze an EP in to start with. Tireless work Papa | Papa Universe
04.28.18 | one episode a month is my goal. | Papa Universe
04.28.18 | randomiser just threw out the next band i'll cover. it doesn't look particularly amazing and i don't remember shit from them. stay tuned | Drifter
04.29.18 | I'm gonna totally copy the concept of this series but for west coast hip hop and I'm gonna do more than just unknown artists
Just wanted to tell someone | Papa Universe
04.29.18 | cool, look forward to suing you for copyright infringement | Drifter
04.29.18 | I don't see no c circle | Papa Universe
04.29.18 | you will | Drifter
04.29.18 | Lol love ya dad | neekafat
04.29.18 | "I'm gonna totally copy the concept of this series but for west coast hip hop and I'm gonna do more than just unknown artists"
You mean ranked lists? Yeah those are cool | Drifter
04.29.18 | It won't be ranked though and it's got a concept | Papa Universe
04.29.18 | Do tell. | Drifter
04.29.18 | The Best of The West m/ |
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