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Current 93 ' Thunder perfect mind ' ....

 
 
rorkboy
17:33 / 11.09.02
...lirycs needed. Can you help ?
 
 
Jack Fear
17:37 / 11.09.02
What, is Google broken?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
18:04 / 11.09.02
I'll leave this up until tomorrow or until rorkboy reads it - reply to show that you have - whichever happens first.

Quick note about posting to Music as this is the second time in as many days that a thread like this has turned up. You wouldn't start a thread in the Revolution forums with five words. Just because this forum is part of the Spectacle doesn't mean that it's a dumping ground for odds and sods. If you really can't gather the nous to try a search engine, the place for questions like this is Conversation.
 
 
illmatic
09:46 / 12.09.02
Actually, the lyrics th "Thunder Perfect Mind" could make quite an interesting discussion as TPM was originally an old gnostic text.
I love the ending:

For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins,
and incontinencies,
and disgraceful passions,
and fleeting pleasures,
which (men) embrace until they become sober
and go up to their resting place.
And they will find me there,
and they will live,
and they will not die again

Whicj don't feature in C93's version but that is about all I know about it:
Anyone got any opinions on the plagarisation of ancient gnostics in 20th Century post-industrial folk?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:11 / 12.09.02
Well, other than the C93, there's the accompanying Nurse With Wound album of the same name... largely instrumental, but apparentl based on the same text.

There's also Non (Boyd Rice)'s new album "Children of the Black Sun", which, according to its press release, is his "Gnostic" album... let's hope he's got bored with fascism once and for all. The noises are still wonderful IMHO.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:13 / 12.09.02
But yeah, btw- if you're after the lyrics and DON't wanna Google it for some reason, then they're included in every format of both the initial release and the re-release of that album, so far as I know.

But the forest could yield me no roses...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:39 / 25.06.03
Just bumping this cos I'm listening to them at the moment...

illmatic, if you want musical Gnosticism you could do worse than check out Non's "Children of the Black Sun"- he seems to have ditched Fascism in favour of the big G... Still noisy as fuck, but a little more layered and thoughtful than previous stuff. And no dodgy Nazi speechifying either!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:41 / 25.06.03
Just realised I'd said that already... (oh well, I've actually listened to it more now, and I love it.)

Word of warning though- it does feature Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch, who afaik are a bad influence on Death In June's Douglas P Nazi-wise (as if he needed any encouragement).
 
 
Seth
12:29 / 26.06.03
Damn, I was hoping to use The Thunder, Perfect Mind as a band name one day.
 
 
Kiss My Apocalips
20:49 / 29.06.03
The most interesting lyric on TPM is "Hitler as Kalki", which is based on a very thought-provoking theory. That´s one I definitely would like to discuss.

And BTW, dear Chairman: Albin Julius did definitely not take part in the recordings of TPM. The album was recorded one year prior to the funding of his first project, the brillant duo "The Moon lay hidden beneath a cloud" [goofy name, though] which was much better than "Der Blutharsch" and featured the marvelous vocals of Alzbeth. Since their split, Albin J. has somehow lost it completely.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:01 / 03.10.03
Apocalips: I actually meant Children of the Black Sun, rather than TPM. Hmmm... never actually heard "The Moon..." although I keep seeing theit albums with the World Serpent stuff in Resurrection Records... are they any good? The Albin Julius thing kind of put me off, but if they're not Nazis, I may have to check 'em out...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:27 / 12.10.03
Saw C93 on Thursday night... lack of Rose McDowall (swoon) notwithstanding, it was one of the best gigs I've ever seen them do.
 
 
Totem Polish
10:27 / 17.03.06
I've been really getting into this album recently, They Return to Their Earth is like an early nineties call to arms really isn't it:

'Boyd Wears Black he speaks of Death'

The whole album has a really beautiful sense of melancholy to it, though apart from Hitler as Kalki I find it hard to decipher the chaote/mystical side.

'A Sadness song' with Rose Mcdowall is probably the best thing to sit out on a hill in the grey english weather to - 'Neither Coming Here Nor Going', ah pretty nihilism.

Also really like that compilation SixSixSix, their version of Tamlin is like a dark counterpoint to the Fairport's version, Tibet singing the closest approximation to a melody without actually being one that I've ever heard.

Anyone else excited about the new album with Bonnie Prince Billy, Antony and Cosey? Find it odd that it seems that Tibet doesn't really do much vocal, should be a pretty new take on their sound...
 
  
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