quoted 4 lines It's all about the Two Dark Park!>It's all about the Two Dark Park!
>
>A totally brilliant record. It still holds it's
>own today.
yeah puppy is one of those bands that even during the whole glut of
post-jourgensen industrial/metal crossover shit i always thought
would stay true to their roots, and then they fucking dropped that
process crap. it kind of sealed the whole thing for me, that and
"filth pig" by ministry. those 2 records came out right around the
same time and both sucked so hard i was unable to listen to ministry,
cocks or skinny puppy for almost 10 years. i just rediscovered all
those 3 though and thankfully most of it holds up exceptionally,
especially puppy. unfortunately my heroin addict former roommate
converted most of my puppy cd catalog into scabs on his arms, so i
was left with only the vinyl copies of vivisectvi and mind-tpi ... i
went out a couple weekends ago and repurchased too dark park along
with twitch and land of rape and honey by ministry. too dark park
was such a revelation to me in high school -- the distorted drumloop
on nature's revenge where it skips the beat every 17 beats or so
fucking blew my young mind, and the intensity of the production
rivals the bomb squad of public enemy fame in terms of densly packed
layers of sound. brilliance.
ministry's twitch and l.o.r+h were (in my humble opinion) the
pinnacle of their career, propbably peaking with l.o.r+h and waning a
bit with "the mind is a terrible thing to taste", which had some
brilliant stuff on it but also had the song "test" which was a
horrible omen of shitty rap/rock fusions yet to come.
put on land of rape and honey some time and see if you don't erupt
into a spontaneous solo mosh pit a la medusa's c. 1990 ... you can't
stop it. "the missing" and "deity" really set the bar for all that
metal-guitar driven industrial shit that never quite reached as far
as that record. twitch on the other hand came before al got his
chugga-chugga on and when he was still flirting ever so lightly with
his "no really, i'm from london, not hyde park" persona ... it's a
fucking masterpiece of cheezy industrial pop, and is especially
interesting to digest in tandem with it's bizzaro twin album made
during the same recording sessions, revolting cocks "big sexy land".
anyway shit i kind of ran off on this tangent. i hope others will
share some special al jourgensen memories that don't involve vomit or
lollapalooza.
thanks for your time.
-aprox
ps. my next post will analyze what happened when puppy and jourgensen
got together to make that somewhat flawed, somewhat brilliant, fully
schizophrenic concoction known as "rabies".
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