we had some good machines, but they don't work no more

[rm]

Rediscovered Shriekback today at work, and I mean aside from the one song everyone knows (Nemesis). I love this band so much. And I always forget. Listening to The Dancing Years. Am struck by the number of songs they have involving sharks. Hammerheads!

Anyway, I'm trying to think of how to describe it, and I can't really other than to say, to me, it's like songs for the fall of Rome as written by William Gibson. Which suits my mood today, and has a lot more relevance now than when I was listening to this and The Screaming Blue Messiahs at the end of high school and feeling like I was living in this weird isolation driven entirely by the fact no one had heard of anything I was into musically at the time.

Anyway the live version of both Hammerheads and Faded Flowers (which is the source of the subject line) are really spectacular.

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[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Manhunter is how I discovered Shriekback. I think that the "This Big Hush" sequence of the film is one of the best music videos ever made, and I say that with no pejoration at all.

And baldander's analogy to The Moody Blues strikes me as precisely right.