Sonic Youth Gossip - classic albums, atsonicpark edition # 40: atari teenage riot

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Well-said, my friend.

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Originally Posted by ni'k

i am not really directing it at anybody, i just skim the thread, use a mixture of exaggerating what i see, half read it, embellish it, assume the worst and project my own stupidity onto others in order to get the anger flowing to reply. this is the best method because you don't even have to waste time reading or thinking about what people on the syg actually say.

If only everyone was as honest.

I'm just listening to the Future of War in preparation for some Friday night drinking. Still the most perfect band imaginable.

Any band that invites personally the mighty Brainbombs to play gigs with them will always be fine in my book.

The new song is actually good as well! It's not quite FUCK ALL!!! but at least it's not the Rage EP (arguably the worst thing anyone otherwise very good has ever done).

I'M SEEING THEM LIVE ON SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!
I CAN4T FUCKING WAIT!!!!!!

The album Burn Berlin Burn doesn't really count as an album in my books. Its a combination of tracks off Atari Teenage Riot (Self-Titled) and The Future Of War, that was released for North America market only on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label. Its either you like Self-Titled or you like The Future Of War.

For me, I have intense love for The Future Of War and 60 Second Wipe Out. They're a very important group to me and embody all the sounds I want to hear. I'm excited they're coming back. For you who are not familiar with the group their main man MC, Carl Crack died back in 2001 from drug overdose. So they're kinda resurrecting the group from the ashes.

Don't forget to check out Alec Empire. He's the driving force behind the whole group and has put out amazing solo material. He's even remixed Thurston's ROOT project.

atsonicpark picked this because it's all the best tracks from those two albums and is a good introduction to the band.

The Future of War is their best, most abrasive album... But yeah BBB is a good starter kit...

They were mindblowing. My ears are bleeding.

I'm listening to Carl Crack's only solo album right this minute. It's quite surprising how marvelous yet massively ignored it is.

Black Ark? I wouldn't say it was as good as a lot of DHR stuff, but it's definitely good. As good as Christoph de Babylon's If you're into it... No. It really isn't. Better than CD1 of intelligence and sacrifice and all of Elias' efforts, certainly. Better than the first Cobra Killer record? Yes. But not that underrated, dead though he is.

Christoph de Babylon was the first DHR artist that left me cold. I much prefer Patric Catani solo, to name a random one.

Catani was great, for a while, but... well, I always come back to Ec8or over anything else he's been involved in.

I've been getting into Alec Empire's solo stuff. Really surprised at how good LOW ON ICE is.

The second disc on 'Intelligence and Sacrifice' is mindblowing.

Did y'all ever hear Alec Empire vs Elvis Presley? Fucking brilliant record.

^ Yeah, it's amazing!

Never saw this video at the time. Good work, Mr Virus.

Empire had rented and watched back-to-back all of the King's movies, played a few albums, gone slightly mad and amassed two hours' worth of usable samples. And then he made a record. When his girlfriend heard what he'd done, she burst into tears and left him. Three pressing plants in Europe refused to have anything to do with this "psychological garbage" (Empire's words), largely because if the Presley Foundation discovered who was responsible for this mighty sonic necrophilia, they'd quite happily sue. His own DHR label wisely kept their distance. Perhaps foolishly, Empire pressed up a handful of CD copies for some DJ friends in Australia he was to visit when ATR toured there. One year later, in a New York record store, Empire bought a vinyl copy of the record with a proper sleeve and a label, the dubious El Turco Loco ('The Mad Turk'). He was thrilled.

just found out they are playing dublin next month...kinda gotta go!

Playing Oct. 7th in Vancouver. I'm so excited, I'd never expected them to fill the void left by Carl Crack.

I'll be seeing them on the Glasgow date.

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Originally Posted by Glice

Still the most perfect band imaginable.

Fuck yeah. Why couldn't this trend of obnoxiously fierce hardcore music continued? These folks destroyed conventional electronic music boundaries, and did it with sharp fucking teeth. Especially magical that it can make Glice and myself agree sincerely :cool:

When they announced their reunion, I went on a Twitter rant about how it wasn't ATR without Hanin or Carl and Alec responded, telling me it wasn't my band and that I didn't know and that people were going crazy for their live shows. I told him that I respected him but that I didn't consider it ATR.

Months later, I got to interview Alec (I didn't mention the Twitter flamewar) turns out he was a gracious person, a total pleasure to interview and I got to ask him about the reunion without the original members, he gave me a straight up answer.

Shortly after, I got to see them live and it was so amazing I didn't expect it. I slammed for the first time in years.

So yeah, still a very important band for me.

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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

The show at Lunario, right? If so, I was there as well. I loved it despite the technical flaws (Alec Empire seemed really pissed off at times that the vocals were just too low in the mix). I was bruised for days.

Here's some pics for you, which my brother managed to snap among the chaos :)

I love this band. "Live at Brixton Academy 1999" is the one that blew my mind completely (I had discovered them through the "Spawn" soundtrack, and my interest in them would later grow due in part to the association with Nine Inch Nails). That was the first record of theirs that I ever came across. Nic Endo's "Cold Metal Perfection" is a huge favorite of mine as well.

I've been listening to their music (Atari Teenage Riot, Nic Endo, Alec Empire, and Hanin Elias) a lot during the last couple of years (I was really excited to know they got back and I am looking forward to the new record). Recently, I've been hooked to the Bandcamp remasters as well (should buy the lot of them eventually)... They are a very interesting bunch of people to me too, in pretty much any kind of context: Musical, political, or otherwise (even trolling).