Music from the abyss

Appropriately gloomy and dark, the Haunted Dancehall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozuFCYJQ4os

I thought that's where Justin Bieber came from? The Abyss, that is.

http://thebreakbeataxiom.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/justin-bieber-the-anti-christ/

some bluegrass from Uncle Earl, all female band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzI8Lpg09pA&feature=grec_index

I discovered this earlier and thought it find appreciative ears here. Droning hypnotic instrumental entitled Tsalal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0-9O4kUjI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_NNwoqi3k&feature=related

John Zacherle - Dinner With Drac Part 2

Goodnight, Whatever You Are!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Z00tEMEIo&feature=fvst

The Incredible String Band - Witches Hat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2kv-QQhIE

Spike Jones - Beetle Bomb

Coil: Love's Secret Domain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZhpIDs_VQ4

Coil: Ostia (The Death of Pasolini) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da5FIf77BJ4

The Birthday Party: Mutiny in Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcaXD--UINo

In Heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrl3n2ZtK2E

Giuseppe Tartini's "Devil's Trill": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGdAbBbP7dM&feature=fvwrel

Michael Nyman: Swan Rot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaCURpBe1aw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71yP85-PNmc&ob=av2e
Raul Paz - Mulata and Mua Mua Mua

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wW53Ux2uyU
Tuxedomoon - The Cage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82apZ20aMBI

Luke Haines - Satan Wants Me. Intended for a film of Robert Irwin's book, I believe. It hasn't been made.

> 11

Awesome! I love Irwin's Satan Wants Me, and the song is mildly hilarious. IMDB has nothing to say about any prospective movie, though, alas.

ETA: But someone's made a short out of Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh!

EATA: Review and vending of the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPgukvLi44

Gossos - Corren

Decadent electronica, influenced by fin de siecle occultism--
http://www.informationtray.com/

Decadence taken to the extreme ... of ridiculousness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXvmSaE0JXA&feature=relmfu

In the words of Aleister Crowley, "It is sublime because it is perfectly meaningless."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003LASYZO/ref=dm_att_alb9

Tribal Beats Volume 2

"music for the strange and beautiful"

Ligotti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fetSoZFyBw

Bobb Trimble: "When The Raven Calls"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPnaqCmiTpg

Jex Thoth: "Nothing Left To Die"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzOLCBB2v2A

Blood Ceremony: "Return To Forever"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USSFFKb1_r4

The Devil's Blood: "The Heavens Cry Out For The Devil's Blood"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjcBgl40dGQ

King Diamond: "Dressed In White"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqURFqqYKI

Uriah Heep: "Return To Fantasy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtvuYAvRqUI

How about some bellydancing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6qKYTDFfGA&feature=related

Well then... yallah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M55rIQbBVqI&feature=related

I think I'm in love with Maria!

I wish I could find the Gulf dancer I used to have bookmarked... upside down on the wall.

Behold ... the abyss!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZkoYR4I7A

An interesting interpretation of Scriabin's symphony of sound and light, Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, was performed at Yale in 2010.

The clip is a 28 minute documentary. The second half is the actual performance.

http://youtu.be/V3B7uQ5K0IU

Tributes to Count Stenbock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkERlLTfllQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JG1zmzDXMA

The second, a poem sung by Mark Almond, can be found in Stenbock's collection, The Shadow of Death (1893).

And Baron Corvo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx4SxwEpxYk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nql3Bthns0

And Rolfe's real last stand - nella bella Venezia ("Turn on me sweetly till my soul have ease,
Thine evening eyes, that seem to breathe forth peace,
Wherefrom the tender tears are quick to quell,
Gabriel." -S.E.S.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpGPqDr9iaQ

Jean Lorrain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtIeR6k8FYA

Odilon Redon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L7ySdG-9SQ&feature=related

Leonor Fini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Xcpf3xya4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prdlfV0w-ZA&feature=related

Hanns Heinz Ewers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7bRrtHB-Lc

Joris-Karl Huysmans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6ruRddagM8&feature=results_video&playnex...

Valery Bryusov:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mMSLOiElxM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke8AVv6iuvQ

Julien Gracq: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly81Ii78pv4

Charles Baudelaire

The Litanies of Satan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpVpggESeJo

par Serge Gainsbourg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0XsXHzYn2s&feature=related

Et de Léo Ferré:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87alBfYuL94

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grsQb2GAJYc&feature=related

More L'invitation au voyage - with theremin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gEQ2ZVLEjo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDRpmM9ttMI

Theatres Des Vampires - Les Litanies de Satan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0dqZ9VcNs

Gypsy fusion. Hopa!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjYwoEB-B1A&feature=related

Gypsy Beats And Balkan Bangers Vol.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjkDo_s5a8c&feature=related

dunkelbunt - Cinnamon Girls In The Sun - feat Boban I Marco Markovic Orkestra

essential blues from the Wolf
http://www.librarything.com/work/11264345/book/65052196

Have you heard Tommy Johnson?

Probably, I think.

This is where the Wolf got his howl. He covered this song as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o808EmOukDQ

That's the only tune I have.
I haven't listened to HW for a long time. There are a lot of cuts on the chess box that I haven't heard. Almost 80 tunes on 3 cds!

Here's a couple I can't stop listening to:

His Best 1956 to 1964 by Muddy Waters

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/78145285

Live, Fillmore Auditorium, 1966 by Muddy Waters

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/78145317

Here's some fun decadence:

The Harlem Hamfats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyjW8FTGxbI

Ella Fitzgerald: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjsPHDJPGto

amen!

"Sick City" by Charles Manson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mbX8Ud-q68

Not sure what to think about a mass murderer who is also a tuneful folk singer?

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band "Clap Your Hands"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra0DsbiNs0&feature=player_embedded#!

Testify! That's the stuff.

This guy fits the bill. I have followed him since the early 80s and I think he's become one of the finest songwriters/performers in pop music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJY7w3bwKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSpvCV34Ok

and one from the oily days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I2vEcVC_I

> 41

Have you read And the Ass Saw the Angel? It's not a book I recommend unreservedly, but it was one of the more memorable novels I've read in the last few years.

Re # 3: Some scary blue(s)grass, from Doc Boggs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIYNoH99Guc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM8NqHzQ6i0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5zW2CWJmdU&feature=related

And another favorite - Mr. Lewis Black:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRepd9mQBHo

42: It was better than expected, wasn't it? I think you have to just give him a pass on the somewhat contrived Faulkner/McCarthy thing - he's an Australian writing in where, Berlin? Don't think of it as the American South or Appalachins. Its his own Gothic world that he made up. I thought it was quite well done.

42: I need to get a copy and read it. Years ago I was thinking of it as a "rockstar" book - there was a line in it where some American rustic refers to the trunk of his car as "the boot" - and I put it down. I do think Nick Cave is a gifted song writer and performer. He's very funny as well.

Another one I read after Cave's novel with peculiar similarities to it was Banville's Mefisto. That one I will recommend unreservedly.

44 - Great stuff. Doesn't sound familiar.

47: Have a look at Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory as well.

Various and sundry

Limonchiki - Amsterdam Klezmer Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF4aZtbrFQk&feature=related

Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Toi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTNwqOuRDfQ&feature=related

Finjan 'Dancing On Water'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQGzZHSWGtI

Consuelo Luz - Los Bilbilicos(the Nightingales)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en8C3MJaRXI

If you're in a more cartoonishly macho mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LLPANAgzw

Christine Kittrell - Sittin And Drinkin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGvaotD6CYI

A disturbingly infectious ditty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qgUDcO1kc

Can't get enough gypsy fusion.

Amsterdam Klezmer Band.feat. Shantel - Sadagora

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpaNToKWQ8&feature=related

Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Desert Banjo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta5Rb2z6xgs&feature=related

Mahala Raï Banda - Balkan Reggae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCLt1EImos&feature=related

And then there's what's-her-name

Hot Tuna with Ana Popovic - Canton Bluesfest 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1LHIarYljo&feature=feedrec_grec_index

Jorma's starting to look like Bukowski on a bad day!

The Swans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWStaRmuXzY

Esquerita - Rockin' The Joint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZy0uapPGI

I like Esquerita - I have an lp where he is backed up by members of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps.

He was an idol of this act:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB7YhbM4K80

How about Jimmy Beck? Hot sax.

Pipe Dreams by Jimmie Beck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6vUnixs6Xk

Serge Gainsbourg, "Black Trombone" & "Intoxicated Man":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgq11gLgNw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9YSSUcmqM

(if you want to hear something truly Abysmal - look up Iggy Pop, le chanteur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhuyvhHzC0)

Lori McKenna - Buy This Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL1hRDnj5ZI

A nice edge to her voice and lyrics.

Something sexadelic.

Manfred Hubler & Siegfred Schwab - Kamasutra (04:05) and Necronomania (02:12), from the soundtrack of the film She Killed In Ecstasy, directed by Jesus Franco (1970) and starring beautiful Soledad Miranda.

http://youtu.be/0T8mUoJyTxk

And...

Ennio Morricone - La Lucertola (6:09), from the soundtrack of the film Lizard in a Woman's Skin, directed by Lucio Fulci (1971).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsfBSs5bDbE&feature=colike

Thanks David - time to hunt down the dvds! Here is another classic:

from Vampyros Lesbos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84RWoupBLoU

And Franco's other classic - Venus in Furs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH68fXg9rYM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-047gTxwRg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYh0SX0ECQk&feature=related

I can't see Klaus Kinski without seeing Ewer's Frank Braun.

From The Wicker Man (1973): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrviUetDs_4&feature=related

And a morsel of 80s gothic cheese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihiZDcB-0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRvh-6Ed-UU&feature=related

Delville illustrations - so Blakean in form, to the music of Harold Budd.

Jim & Jean - Crucifixion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK1n6ArYMc

Great lyrics by Phil Ochs.

Only geezers remember this.

More 60's nostalgia

Donovan - Sand and Foam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3atxNxMvEs&feature=related

This one turns weird - Half Man Half Biscuit, "Descent of the Stiperstones". The (unofficial) video would be more accurately described as a set of visual footnotes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaMMb2rdZVY

The Bloody Countess:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLD8IU7x8M&feature=watch_response

(music by Bartok)

Diamanda Galas
Greek-American performer who most definitely fits in here.

She recorded Baudelaire's "Litanies of Satan" here in the original French as a performance art piece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95iTFTkxcpg

She is stunning! Her whole catalog is worth experiencing, its quite varied.

For those interested in Nick Cave and the southern gothic decadence see
The Gun Club

Kid Congo Powers, who later would become the guitarist for Nick Cave's band "The Bad Seeds", started in this band. They are often credited with being the first to blend punk, goth, and country. They sound to me like a hit and run Cormac McCarthy, rotting on the asphalt in Hollywood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4WCybsIInM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6BU6thEAk

My favorite live band from the 80s! -but let's not bring that dour conservative into it: LA punk boiled in Delta Blues. Jeffrey Lee Pierce is dearly missed.

Oh god, you saw them live... I'm boiling in envy now! I hope to find a copy of Jeffrey's book at a reasonable price someday. He is a criminally underrated artist!

I suppose we really should add X to this list as well, especially the first two albums...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYTbIOIXiyU

and of course, Christian Death
**miss you Rozz**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeQyDk_EKw8

Going pretty far out there...I always imagined that the music composed by St John and his partner in Lovecraft's "The Hound" sounded like Zero Kama; ritual music played on instruments fashioned from human bone for the purpose of this album. The tracks lack any lyrical content but the song titles reference the work of Austin Spare, Kenneth Grant, Kenneth Anger, and Aleister Crowley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgSjbheIxkA&feature=related

I seldom tire of plugging this act, and this song, particularly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcQY9mQ02mM

Oh thats a good one, Frank Tovey was amazing! I saw a guy get Frank Tovey and Boyd Rice to each sign the same NON record multiple times - each time sending snide insults the others direction - too funny.

How about some factrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1iJGIF7640

with some Crash Worship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIMcS02wHBo&feature=related

alison krauss - get me through december

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkiP7y0fauk

Debashish Bhattacharya - Sufi Bhakti

Indian slide guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2DU-xbRrE

More gypsy music.

Bela Lakatos ~ Del O Brishind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxw4m58wtCw&feature=related

Strange Affair - June Tabor with Martin Simpson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVFpMLE6WIo

The Flys:Love and a Molotov Cocktail - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcl_vavnZQ4

Alien Sex Fiend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xpoi3Q7whQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjXue2vSg-4

The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Bw1Jt9yUU&feature=related

emmett miller/lovesick blues (original version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otNICva63mQ

1928 with Eddie Lang (guitar) and the Dorsey brothers.

Liked that Indian slide guitar tros, and those Flys take me back to a time when anyone could start up a band and play good music...

This is an established favourite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Pm40OZEjw&list=LL6A10G59WSC-da_3fDAvXlA&amp...

The Treble Spankers: Samira (live, unfortunately) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSBszD0jOk

The Dream Syndicate: When You Smile - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG03K1Iuazw

13th Floor Elevators: Slip Inside This House - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0Tckwbk

Radio Birdman: You're gonna miss me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-5rmJxyO4

Love: A House Is Not A Motel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInF7WKOz4c

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - 1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uBmCW9lZ_0

The Mermen: "Curve" - (select from list - http://muzofon.com/search/The%20mermen - check out "Pulpin' Line" as well)

Deadbolt: Truck Driving SOB - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvZd3Y8ekoc&feature=related and the deathless "Chuty's House of Beer" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_GKBBri-m4

Mo Tucker: Hey Mersh! (with Lou Reed): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V8wAf_fxnY

The Triple Tree, a Tony Wakeford / Sol Invictus side project celebrating the works of MR James
You can listen to tracks at the link.

http://www.coldspring.co.uk/discography/csr96cd.php

The Triple Tree | Ghosts

The Triple Tree consists of Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus) and Andrew King aided and abetted by M, Autumn Grieve, Kris Force, Guy Harries, Renee Rosen and John Murphy, and is an extended homage to the supernatural fiction of M. R. James (with a certain nod to his notable studies in the New Testament Apocrypha) the greatest ghost story writer in the English language, and the finest medievalist of his generation. Join Dr Wakeford and the Rev. King as they search for the Three Crowns, attempt to Cast the Runes, purchase The Mezzotint, follow Mr Abney’s "remarkable enlightenment" in Lost Hearts, and join Count Magnus on the "Black Crusade"! Winter evenings will never be the same again… Presented in a luxurious digipak with booklet.

One of my favorites from the 1980s: The Simpletones: I Like Drugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJxDPb4oOPI

and a nice companion piece by GBH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJxDPb4oOPI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38WrmAdqzZg

Which makes me think, whistfully, of Ronald Reagan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYxQXKmnWaA

More of my night on the town nostalgia music: DKs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScmRiaZhwk, Dicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDRucP9a3zM&feature=results_video&playnex... Fear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyM4uAJBujA

and the all-too-mortal GG Allin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJEgV4o7OQ

Davie Allan & The Arrows - Mind Transferal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmTjGB2aMPE

Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors - Scream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDj1sYEKWp0

The Wailers - Hang Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-xmOCYO4jo

The Seeds - Chocolate River: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhqwKzogPVw and Bad Part Of Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAsuAMBLbzA

Ray Smith - Shake Around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifZs4QFsh0

American decadence at its finest, Iggy and The Stooges:

I Got a Right - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMeZSxNWV8 , Gimme Some Skin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJQrToHm0_E , Scene Of The Crime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDwzNVJmLqI, Sick of You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR1a3WVVXHY

Iggy was really something wasn't he.

LS - big fan of the Triple Tree here. Most of the tracks should be up on youtube too if anyone wants a taster.

Wow, Ben, that 1982 Dream Syndicate clip brought a tear to my eye and made me feel 16 again. I could have been one of those kids in that record store in El Toro. I loved that band in its original line-up with Karl Precoda and Kendra Smith (both seen here) so very much. I still listen to the first Dream Syndicate record, the EPS and associated live shows quite a bit. I guess one could say the music itself was derivative of the Velvets, Television, Jonathan Richman etc. but there's something so primal, so elemental and emotionally naked about it, and it's just so bloody beautiful that I don't really care. Thanks for linking this-I'll be passing the video on to other people who were part of the scene (or wished they were) in those days.

84

Z, I have Calcutta Chronicles. Excellent.

I'm Happy: Thee Headcoatees

Drunk and Disorderly: The Shirkers

Nice choices slick.

On a different note:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A-k2brGApc

Moloko: Indigo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkudjJU2UE

I was living in the LA valley in the early 80s, and these gems were big/brief hits on KROQ:

King Cotton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz2dQsXTfec

Killer Pussy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ep8jp2zkQ

>98 Randy_Hierodule:

Hooray! Killer Pussy has made my night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JznmCs5_IE&list=LL6A10G59WSC-da_3fDAvXlA&amp...

Reading both The Five Books of Moses and Lachman's A Dark Muse, so this music is appropriate as accompaniement.

'Please Warm My Weiner' BO CARTER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0M2zEx-7g

Barney Bigard - Sweet Marijuana Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDPwvy1AM5c&feature=related

Champion Jack Dupree - Weed Head Woman (1941) Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aldMmGEWBCg&feature=related

Buck Washington - Save The Roach For Me (1944)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKqWniRoR54&feature=related

Fats Waller - You're A Viper (The Reefer Song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm-L9uMxzQA&feature=related

Fantastic track.

Regret to say I have not heard of this band before, although they hail from my homeland...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBw15eL6JPM&feature=related

Very good! - as are these guys, albeit of an early vintage, NZ, 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMowJxXB2Bs&feature=results_main&playnext...

"Lola" by the Kinks. Huzzah to the 70s Soho flaneurs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqbc7X2NQY

In the spirit of the OP, "appropriately gloomy and dark":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapVzkKbrKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA4-VWgYHSw
(particularly gorgeous animation)

Dark techno with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas samples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGC2pOpohUE&feature=related

Souad Massi - Ghir Enta (I Only Love You)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NE2p6Frx5M

100: Thanks, tros! I need to track down a disc.

I don't think I have posted this here yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmoEM9oAISo&feature=fvsr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVeWke9oJAQ&ob=av2n

Tuareg blues!

Here is belated VD post... the bleakness and devastating wounds of love. All in all, a great song: Nina Simone, Plain Gold Ring (covered, later by contemporary articulate moper, Nick Cave):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUdxlcg3hy0

*sigh* Good one, benwaugh.

109 - It's on Flamenco Chillin', an excellent compilation

http://www.librarything.com/work/10780713/book/68161812

Lovely and haunting music and imagery from Ray Russell's CD, Ghosts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jDjPM4RPA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF-ZPHTrfLk&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TchEi0ilAyY

Warren Smith - Ubangi Stomp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7dPRGbcgQE

I love that song! Have you heard Little Butchie Saunders and his Buddies? - Rock and Roll Indian Dance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfoAwNr2JI

and an all-time classic

Jimmy Patton - Okie's In The Pokie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5VcEsAxbZE

both from Rockabilly - As Good as it Gets, 2 cds via Holland!

Good tune - I have it covered by Alvis Wayne on Texas Rockabilly.

Here are a couple - one straight, one creepy - that are current favorites:

Ray Smith-Shake Around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifZs4QFsh0

Junior Kimbrough-You Better Run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tw0vMPXIxs

Destroy All Monsters - You're Gonna Die: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsTcey5e20&feature=related

Vampire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK5KpamfZds&feature=related

and Bored: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUP7rR_-XJ8

Throbbing Gristle: Something Came Over Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAX0ahuNcNo

James Chance and this little no wave diddy all glamed up. "Jaded Dionysian frenzy, the joyless flailing of empty souls trying to evacuate even more of their counsciousness"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCI24Lt9aNQ

My nextdoor neighbor (with the black afro - throwing eggs against the window in the video) was the drummer for this band. He did a stint in Destroy All Monsters as well:

The Flexibles (Ann Arbor, late 70s early 80s), Birth Effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTqxmdQ_6b0

I love the old Kurosawa soundtracks.

Yojimbo (1961)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBw99ghST1g

If one has seen Inland Empire, Lynch sure knows how to make a Beck song scary as hell. Did the same for Roy Orbison in Blue Velvet Nothing like re-purposing classic rock to become the soundtrack to Hell.

Yes. "In Heaven" was on a good many od the comps i made in the 90s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrl3n2ZtK2E

I wonder what music Dick Clark is listening to right now?

80's Goth goodness, from the Young Limbs and Numb Hymns album. Indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iqrRhNSmGY

Hahah finally someone else who sees the connection between deathrock and decadence. Perhaps this requires it's own thread. In the meantime here's a little ditty by Mephisto Walz I really enjoy:

STACCOTTO

It is the path of sin that compels our fate
And leaves us drowning like the garden
Is it surrender that confuses us
If not exsistence then departing

Is it the ancient soul that crouches low
That through the day can never find us
In our stealing glances we appear
Leaving reflections just
behind us

The tender hallowed ground still holds us
And whisper silence to our ears
These frightened winds have always blown us
Now only glisten holds us here

I think you can watch the video here: http://www.maxilyrics.com/mephisto-walz-staccotto-lyrics-85f7.html

"Hell" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GHQfYJQLWo

chris thomas king & blind mississippi morris - Red Mud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea7yxRhFp94&feature=related

Ordo Equilibrio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYKWeRTR-I

Hayes Carll - She Left Me for Jesus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqK4Q67rdM4

Oh, good one. I bet they won't play it on the radio around here. ;)

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Street Tattoo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeyI-S3RKk0

Another Hayes Carll, dedicated to our fearless leader and all drunken poets.

hayes carll - drunken poet's dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E46XRDf7-Io

More from Nick Cave:

O'Malley's Bar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSpvCV34Ok

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBv0AZVGwYo

We Call Upon the Author: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyGivD8aJi4

Tindersticks, Rented Rooms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9wx20fUP6o

A box set of Roxy Music should do well in the nether bowels of a debauched libertine's mountain fastness:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/roxy-music-the-complete-studio-recordings,84466/

The brooding Stuart Staples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST7bxT3Z4Vs&feature=related

More abîmes noirs d'amour:

Guillaume de Machaut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31jAFxH2hzE

Nina Simone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3TcEZYU3XY&feature=related

Before Adam Ant became the dandy highwayman, the Ants were incendiary legends of the London punk underground, thought even less likely to get a record deal than Siouxsie and the Banshees. This track, inspired by Dirk Bogarde's 'Night Porter' and cut from the LP of the same name, gives an idea of their glory and outrage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cGGiEo3qAc

Touring now, and featuring a lot of songs from that era. Don't miss him!

New Throbbing Gristle CD: http://www.oldeuropacafe.com/main.php?nav=pd&prdct=11864

All the posts I've managed to read come down to one thing: the writers thereof dig the music they cite, whether or not it really has any possible relevance to the other threads (or chains, or spider-webs) which supposedly conect us in this little endeavour. Forgive a near-brush with pedantry, but some music which has at-least historic and poetic connection to the Decadence may be heard in RichardCameron Wolfe's CD PARIS X, on Furious Artisans. Check it out. Even if you don't much enjoy the compositions, you should agree that his touch and tone are among the finest to be heard these days. I don't myself "do" FaceBook, but I believe that you can hear some of this CD there, which will be a little simpler than finding the CD itself

Tulsa Queen, Emmylou Harris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbaz_T6BN3g&feature=related

Emmylou Harris - When I Was Yours - with Trisha Yearwood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4dyBi8Bzk&feature=related

Scott Walker, Farmer in the city: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJzTWk6bSw and Tilt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNgpr0rdgDk&feature=related

Robert Randolph And The Family Band - Shot Of Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZzl2MhNdE

"Ready to Die" by Andrew WK, our era's Gabriele D'annunzio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0TzUNti3rY

Much of Damien Youth's output is eminently abyssal.

http://damienyouth.bandcamp.com/track/holy-circle is a free download and wonderful, "The Citizen" entire is recommended as a sequence of songs reflecting a persona initially haunted and by its close something nearer to possessed.

"I'll not forget your hair like serpents' drool". Who could?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdpqgqVdXWs

Those well known iconoclasts/misanthropes Boyd Rice and Douglas Pearce....

In the interests of Full Disclosure, let me say that what follows may be more than a little influenced by the fact that my Internet service has been dropping out at annoying and unpredictable intervals for the past couple of days. Still, the core of the idea isn't dependent on that the 'net any more, I believe, than our search for music is dependent on YouTube, fun though that is. I am reminded of Charles Ives' remark on Thoreau: we know that he was a musician not because he played his flute on Walden Pond, but because he didn't have to go to Symphony Hall to hear the music. Perhaps we should remind ourselves at regular intervals that we certainly don't need LibraryThing in order to plumb the abyss. Even so, I'm glad you're all out there, and sweet peace to you all in your tunes and in your pregnant silences. And to show you that I'm at-least as inconsistent as anybody, let me hip you to the music at the sites stankosepic.com and also juniorburke.com. They're both galaxies away from what most above would call "abyss music" -- and from each other -- but after all, as the Divine Oscar said of books, there really are only two kinds, good and bad.

But if you must have tunes you can hummmmmmmmmmmm. . . I have just been informed this week that the Fifties classic "Hernando's Hideaway" works with the words of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". My personal fave is The Great Beast's little autobiographical limerick beginning "My name it is AleisterCrowley . . ." to the old American fiddle tune with the gloriously non-PC title "The Colored Aristocracy". And before anybody even thinks of lecturing me about my (non-existent) racism in writing that, please recall that Taj Mahal recorded it before any of us had even thought of LT, the Internet, or frankly, much of anything else. I rest my case -- for now. Peace and joy to you all, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, and all ships at eas

For nicotine fiends:

Jerry Reed - Another Puff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTVMuIPGZxQ

I'm thinking of an album. It's red and has a last supper themed photo. One song is ICIB. Anioher is about smoking and its derogatory. Anyone? I can't bring it fully to mind. Gothic. Hillbilly. Late 80s probably. On that southern label with a chalice symbol.

Graceland? - http://www.myspace.com/gracelandusa/photos/20141764#{%22ImageId%22%3A20141763}

I'm Christ. I bite.: http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=59004999&ac=now

That is it!

JESSE COLIN YOUNG the soul of a city boy Side Two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnNCZ7_M-XA

The best I can say about him is that his patchouli-laden name comes up when searching for Young Jesse, who is a mighty god:

I smell a rat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vulfjWBYJnU

Don't think I will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkPpn5pzuhY

What says "Christmas" more than Peppermint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXviXFeDrC0

Classic lyrics from JCY

"It's four in the mornin' and I'm watching a cockroach crawlin' in an old bean can"

Amen to Peppermint and a decadent holiday to all! We can only hope.

Amen, brother - and to bring succor to all whom the Mayans have let down, I offer the obvious: every day is the end of the world. Hamd'illah. Etc.

Those idiots got it wrong. We're at the end of the fourth long cycle,
another 15, 600 years to go!

crap

162: Not sure what calendar you're using, but I remember that the SubGenius religion had its apocalypse back in 1998. The spread of mediocritons and the pinks make that the true-true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpgKa-mxUdo

Has everyone else forgotten the classic tag-line from BEYOND THE FRINGE: "same tomorrow, then, lads. We MUST get a winner one day!" -- Goddard

every day is the end of the world

It is for some blessed bastard. Wasn't it Borges who said that everyone has their own personal apocalypse?

The Coronation Mass by Mozart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6mhPtDvhgs

Happy New Year, y'all!

"I Talk to the Trees" by Clint Eastwood from Paint Your Wagon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8YubD01sk

"That Old Black Magic" by Louis Prima and Keely Smith:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfNgcDvPn1M

And "Boogie Woogie" performed by Milwaukee's own queen of decadence, Liberace:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfNgcDvPn1M

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"The Mushroom Song" from B-movie film The Giant Gila Monster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdMXzVMrF0

Raglan Road by The Chieftains and Joan Osborne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN6StXH7Qdc

> 12

I found Satan Wants Me to be utterly hilarious: "whoever said the devil has all the best tunes obviously
didn't have to sit through an Aleister Crowley reading"

A movie would have much comic potential in the Withnail & I mode if handled well, I think.

The film of Prayer Cushions of the Flesh is out there: http://vimeo.com/39188590

A little soft-porny for my tastes but the actress who plays Anadil has a certain something...

Marianne Faithfull tells it like it is:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jan/10/marianne-faithfull-decadent-mick-j...

I like her! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDDaidLPNZU

Best. LT Thread. Ever.

A very humble contribution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtSLMGc4VSA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2SIbH1ycXw

>132 tros:
I'm still spittin' my Ovaltine (or is it Ensure) onto the computer screen, every time I listen to THAT one!

>168 kswolff:

Karl, I've thought of the perfect complement to that Clint Eastwood masterpiece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPR1FyxJh-c

Minimal wave decadence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaWf17Wdvk

Iggy and The Stooges: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeevKnLdlbI

or, for the purists, Junior Kimbrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tw0vMPXIxs

How about some entheogenic refreshment?

Muddy Waters - Champagne & Reefer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHowqKYSXNI

Champion Jack? Junker's Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMTXO1z95uw

Louis Jordan, I'll Die Happy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC7d1XS56kA

And some Dr. Hook:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9bKdIG_Yw

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=exD5X5Y_lwE

Not sure what sort of purists this could be for?

All these songs about horse, snow, smack, bubbly, reefer and freaks. How about us oenophiles?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXS9WGYptM0

Not from an abyss, but at least from a dark holler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViBJLUJ4fDQ

"Coming" by Jimmy Somerville, from the movie Orlando

Let's keep that train a rollin': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqINg3H3DIo

Finally found the cd,Western Beat, an old fav, used, 6 bucks. Such a deal!

Kevin Welch - Something 'bout You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a_pDFLL3Ag

187. I love Mrs. Miller!

By now, everyone probably already knows that Bowie is releasing his first new album in a decade. The angels are singing in heaven.

Whenever I hear Jerry Garcia or Joan Baez, Dylan, or something like that, I can't but think of her. A very pioneering lady. In her way.

Mrs. Miller was a very special lady and also a very good cook.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MTlVYojg1TM

Early scratchy

I'd never heard of Mrs. Elva Miller before. If not for LT, I'd still be just another beastly quadruped.

I think I'll pass on Ms M and hang with the rest of the herd.

...Or, the rest of the pack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A

Chase the cat!

Something for a Sunday morn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfamPW3Eaw

and still more,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4g

More Waits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LLPANAgzw

"Death Valley '69" by Sonic Youth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvxoJmIox3o

And here's "Inhuman":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjASps1NO8

"Sugar Sugar" by the Archies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o

And "Stuck in the Middle with You" by Stealer's Wheel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrJQDnAHrRY

There are just so many good versions of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzTf_EBIjI

And here are a couple more distinguished old ladies singing a classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA94i2JOuaQ

Zlad, "I am the Anti-Pope":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGBHfXPqbgI

(Full Film) Nick Drake: A Skin Too Few (2000) Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaYMkmHfnLk&playnext=1&list=PL97E0334E18...

BIG JOE TURNER FLIP FLOP AND FLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWoNMhAB9gc

memphis slim & sonny boy williamson - blues legends live in europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJPmYmCb5XY

The Eilen Jewell Band - If You Catch Me Stealing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc2IVjN9Ee0

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_3w_gXing

From the movie Heartworn Highways, which is on youtube in its entirety.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EFaTIReriDc

Meanwhile, in another universe altogether.... WSB brought to you by Throbbing Gristle.

And for some upbeat images, here's the trailer to The Turin Horse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkN_xCXozw

>203 tros:

What about James?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xR_uUtp8aM

Dieter's Dance Party, from Sprockets, ja!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=LxQ6olQjebg&NR=1

Life is much to short, to drink inferior wine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20dic8S3cWI

Life is much too short, to drink inferior wine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20dic8S3cWI

Ledward Kaapana - Weeha Swing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGNHdKp_No

211: "To hell with poverty / let's get drunk on cheap wine!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRjjVFC-oG4

Ever heard of Cat Iron?

Cat-Iron Got A Girl In Ferriday, One In Greenwood Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfSyPGQjTks

or how about?

ETTA BAKER - Carolina Breakdown (Ragtime Guitar Legend)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG_egIiiksA

I imagine the abyss to sound a lot like the Shore of Unconscious from Inception:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4a3y7xetJY

Big Maybelle "Candy" (1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcmpFGIxeZM

A classic song for the Holy See's vacancy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTIorwtJbhE

Some delightful sonic sludge from Pissed Jeans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9K5opX-h8

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuO6o5hIjNA

Pontifical parlour games

Happy Lent!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ElIlpF2u4

Came by this very recently, sure some of you will already know it,

http://youtu.be/jL6vYbCjAqo

Happy V.D.: http://www.goear.com/listen/a3aafb9/love-and-a-molotov-cocktail-the-flys

222: Many thanks!

The full album of "Outside" by David Bowie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjqjmT22hoI

"The narrative and the stories are not the content—the content is the spaces in between the linear bits. The queasy, strange, textures.... Oh, I've got the fondest hopes for the fin de siecle. I see it as a symbolic sacrificial rite. I see it as a deviance, a pagan wish to appease gods, so we can move on. There's a real spiritual starvation out there being filled by these mutations of what are barely remembered rites and rituals. To take the place of the void left by a non-authoritative church. We have this panic button telling us it's gonna be a colossal madness at the end of this century." -- David Bowie

A little strangeness from the wonderful will oldham,

http://youtu.be/MOlcMUnFFBM

Who needs a Bushmaster when you have a chainsaw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfFZqTlWrQ

Bada da da ta ta tah

Sigh,,,

We're all getting so much older

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgzs6pT26KI

Corinne Bailey Rae - One Night of Sin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2aOL29ScX4

If I lie may I fall down cold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzAIwaTy1cc