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Ether Diver

A new Other People's Music appears! This week, enter the Cabaret of the Bizarre with some no-input mixing, videogame dubstep, dystopian drone, a wild set of multi genre electro cabaret & a garage rock tribute to those boat-sinking orcas we all love.

etherdiver.com/2025/03/14/opm-

@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic
@rockmusic

www.etherdiver.comOPM: Cabaret of the Bizarre – Ether Diver
#MusicDiscovery#OtherPeoplesMusic#musodon
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1001 Other Albums

Death – …For The Whole World To See (1975/2009, US)

As randomly chosen by survey[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight[2] is on number 604 on The List, submitted by @markwyner.

Holy moly, this one’s a banger! When I realized that this wasn’t the death metal Death, I assumed I didn’t know this Death. But it immediately jived with me and put my ears in their happy place…and then I realized I know a few songs, namely “You’re a Prisoner”, “Freakin Out”, and “Where Do We Go from Here???”. As soon as that clicked, I realized I very much know this Death, thanks to good ol’ Henry Rollins! It’s funny how I credit a lot of my music discoveries to Uncle Hank (whose radio shows I’ve been listening to for nearly 2 decades), and yet quite a few names still fall through the cracks. Rollins included the final track, “Politicians In My Eyes”, in his 2014 Top 10 Underground Songs list for Esquire,[3] so chances are these songs have been rattling around in my brain for a decade at least already. Cheers to Mark for clearing up some cobwebs and putting this back on my radar.

Anyway, back to the album. As you see in the post title, we have two dates for the release year. This album was recorded in 1975, but didn’t see the light of day until 2009. I thought it was important to highlight that original date for those not familiar with this band, because what we have here is some absolutely fantastic proto-punk/punk rock from Detroit! The band, a trio of brothers – David, Bobby, and Dannis Hackney – formed in 1971 originally as a funk band called Rock Fire Funk Express. The band quickly changed gears and then, in 1973, their name, making Death the first all-Black punk band, not to mention one of the first punk bands ever.

So, you might be thinking, if Death is pre-Ramones/-Sex Pistols/-Clash, and were in the mix with MC5 and The Stooges, why didn’t they make it big? Well, it seems that, among other things, the name choice – a choice made to honor their recently departed father and to make something positive of the situation – didn’t fly with studio executives. After refusing to change their name again, money for their 1975 recording session was pulled, resulting in just a 7″ (“Politicians in My Eyes”/”Keep On Knocking”) being self-released in a 500-copy run and the rest of what was recorded in that session being shelved indefinitely. Without a record deal or airplay, Death ended in 1977.

After moving to Vermont, the Hackney brothers would continue making music together for different projects and genres (with David passing in 2000), but it wasn’t until 2008 that their original group got attention outside of the record collector community. After MP3 rips of the Death 7″ started appearing on the Internet, things absolutely snowballed. Bobby’s sons heard the tracks and recognized their father’s voice, resulting in them starting a Death-cover band called Rough Francis that gained a lot of attention for the whole story. Around the same time, Drag City Records caught wind of it all, the original Death master tape was unearthed, and the entire studio session was finally released. The well-deserved attention then resulted in Death reforming (with Bobbie Duncan stepping in for David), as well as the release of a documentary covering Death’s history (A Band Called Death, 2012). The band has since released an album with Death demos dating to 1974-76 (Spiritual • Mental • Physical, 2011), an album with some later tunes recorded in the 80s and 90s (III, 2014), and then their first album of new tunes, aptly named N.E.W. (2015)!

Stories like this just warm the cockles of my heart. But, also, this music straight up slaps! I may have just listened to this album 3 times in a row, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of you feel the need to do so as well.

Happy listening!

  1. The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “Well, it’s the only thing that can pick me up”, “Better than a cup of gold”, “See only a chocolate Jesus”, and “Can satisfy my soul”, following the earlier survey that had “Well, I don’t want no Abba Zabba”, “Don’t want no Almond Joy”, “There ain’t nothing better”, and “Suitable for this boy”. The third option was the winning selection, and so the survey result was translated as picking the third album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “see”. ↩︎
  2. For those wondering why this isn’t a SpaceAce Sunday spotlight, we only have a handful of albums that J had contributed left, so we’ll be spacing out the rest, probably one every month or two rather than every week. ↩︎
  3. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/interviews/a32299/henry-rollins-top-10-underground-songs/ ↩︎
The cover art is an altered photo of a cityscape so it's in black and either yellow/orange/pink/red. One of the buildings looks like it's casting a large spotlight into the sky with those colours, with the band name at the end of the spotlight in black letters. The background of the scene is a black and grey photo of people on a street, but it's pretty hard to see details and easy to miss completely. A pink/red border surrounds the cityscape/photo/spotlight, and the album name is underneath the border in the bottom right border in yellow font, on a black background.
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Dace Merryweather

dace.bandcamp.com/track/trust-

This one's about.... misplaced self-confidence? I guess. It's another comparatively abrasive #punk / #garagerock guitar rock song that ends with a soupy paranoid #psychedelic #soundscape type ambient thing. I wrote this one ages ago, but never knew what to do with it. I felt it never fit in any album I wanted to put it in.

Dace MerryweatherTrust in Yourself, by Dace Merryweather track by Dace Merryweather
#BandcampFriday#music
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#AlternateFridayMusic
Sept 13 2024
The prompt is Sin

Patti Smith, Excelsis Deo/Gloria from Horses, 1975

“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.”

The first line of the first track of the first album by #PattiSmith.

What an entrance. The world would never be the same.

Patti wasn’t repudiating Christianity here as much as owning her every act, every intention, as human, as hers, as her art. She ends this solemn, solo piano accompanied intro with “My sins my own, they belong to ME” [guitar chord], repeating ”ME” for emphasis, again underlined with #guitar crunch. And she was off and running, melding her own #poetry with the #GarageRock classic “Gloria” by Them. She would continue this paradigm several more times on record and to this day in live performance, her incantations bleeding into the music that inspired her to incorporate #LennyKaye’s guitar backing into her first #poetry reading performance at St. Mark’s church in the #Bowery

youtube.com/watch?v=bPO0bTaWcF

YouTubePatti Smith - Gloria (Audio)By pattismithVEVO
#70sMusic#NYC
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1001 Other Albums

It can be really strange knowing someone only online. Bonding with them over a shared interest…chatting with them more often than with some people you know in “real” life…feeling a sense of comfort in seeing them in your daily scrolling sessions, like spotting your favorite regulars at the local watering hole…anticipating their reaction when you post something you know they’ll have something to say about…feeling like you can sense their mood even without physical cues… Often without even knowing personal details like a legal name or what they look like, it can be a truly special thing to be able to connect with another human being digitally. And, well, it can suck pretty hard when they suddenly drop off the map.

As those of you Mastodon may already know, we lost one of our own recently, SpaceAce/Dexter (né Robotron). SpaceAce was part of the 1001 Other Albums project from the beginning, chiming in with his first round of albums two days after I posted the first call for recommendations, taking it upon himself to make sure we had 60s/70s British folk covered. That was how I met him and, from then on, it was always a pleasure to see his cartoon avatar pop up in my timeline and notifications, especially after we learned we’re from the same godforsaken province (and felt the same way about it). He freely shared his enthusiasm and knowledge about music, records, books, and silver screen sirens. His various “spicy” posts – whether the out-of-context comic panels with double entendres or his always carefully CW’ed photos – always lightened the mood. He, a middle-ish-aged man in the year 2024, told people they were “cool”, with abandon. He was just a lovely, witty, genuine person who had this endearing goofiness that made Mastodon more fun. As KateOfMind noted, SpaceAce felt like a long-lost brother. His absence was felt even before we knew anything was amiss, and it was heartbreaking when we got confirmation of our worst fears; his absence will be felt for a long time.

Rest in peace, friend. We miss you.

SpaceAce contributed 25 fantastic albums to The List, 25 albums out of the literally thousands of albums in his collection that he thought everyone should hear at least once. For lack of a better outlet, as a bit of a memorial to him I will be dedicating our Sunday posts here to spotlights on those albums – SpaceAce Sundays – so we can gather round and listen together, remember him together. Those of you who read his pieces on Puffer’s Digital LoFi blog (under the pen name Tom Q.) know that SpaceAce was a great, enthusiastic conversational-type writer, and he put a lot of work into his lengthy articles – commenting on the historical/musical context, the album art, his personal vinyl copy, and personal anecdotes, complete with footnotes. He had planned on doing many of these write-ups himself, so, to be honest, I’m not really keen to do them myself now. Perhaps I’ll feel differently as some time passes, but, at least for now, I think I’ll simply post the links and album covers for his picks. That said, if anyone else would like to take on a guest post for a SpaceAce Sunday, I think that would be lovely, and I’m happy to provide the space for others to remember our friend. (His recommended albums can be found in the Index under “By Contributor > SpaceAce (also Robotron)”, or by searching “SpaceAce” and “Robotron” in The Numbered List.)

For this spotlight, rather than going with the first album SpaceAce submitted, I’m going to go with a lighter one that, in my mind, captures the spirit of our dearly departed friend. In memory of SpaceAce, let’s raise a glass and take a listen to number 1026 in The List, a recording of garage/noise rock band Pussy Galore’s final show:

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/07/28/spaceace-sunday-pussy-galore-live-in-the-red-1998-us/

The album art is a monochrome photo of the band on a red background. The album title is in white font at the top edge. The band name is in larger white font at the bottom edge, taking up nearly half the cover space.
#1001OtherAlbums#1990s#garageRock
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Defiance!

#OTD July 22, 1990
Punk rock and roll band Didjits released their third album, “Hornet Pinata”

My second favorite Didjits album, but my favorite music video from this band. "Captain Ahab" is such a great song, and Rick Simms’ devilishness is in top form.

MTV wouldn’t play this back in the day, except maybe on 120 Minutes, because it mentions getting stoned.

“Excuse me, Captain Ahab
How did you get me so stoned?”

#PunkRock #RockAndRoll #GarageRock #music

youtube.com/watch?v=tFuOJLJEYc

YouTubeDidjits - "Captain Ahab" Touch & Go RecordsBy BlankTV
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Chess Soul

#ThursdayFiveList
#TheLove

But make it :gaysignmale:

1* Limp Wrist - I love hardcore boys / I love boys hardcore (1999) : youtube.com/watch?v=tCgYGVyTkg

#HxC #Hardcore #Queercore #LoveHardcoreHateHomophobia #LimpWrist

2* The Tornados - Do you come here often ? (B-side, 1966) : youtube.com/watch?v=f6K6gxSKld

--> to listen : Queer Noises 1961-1978: From The Closet To The Charts

#Organ #Instrumental #JoeMeek

3* Igor Dewe - King-Size 💗 (2014) 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 : youtube.com/watch?v=WMZ1C2Sb4j

#ElectroDisco

4* - The Kinks - David Watts (1967) : youtube.com/watch?v=f78vO1VcDX

"He is so gay and fancy free (...) all the girls in the neighbourhood try to go out with David Watts
They try their best but can't succeed"

cool version by #TheJam also, of course

#GarageRock

5* Petit Pays - Les pédés (2007) 🇨🇲 :

"Balancez, balancez, balancez les reins C’est sucré, c’est bon humm Ça choque les autres, ça dérange!! Balancez ooh L’amour n’a pas de frontière, balancez L’amour… L’amour n’a pas de frontière, balancez J’adore mon gars, j’aime mon gars eeh"

YouTubeLimp Wrist I Love Hardcore Boys Subtitulada (HD).By tama1266
#Makossa
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