Suicide/Alan Vega/ Martin Rev thread

Onani Nic · 08.17.2007, 08:04 AM

I've recently become re-obsessed with the first two Suicide albums and the first Martin Rev album. Last week I bought the first solo Alan Vega LP which is really, really groovy and really bizzare.

Alan Vega- Jukebox Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBcI5oGjffU

Any other note-worthy suicide/vega/rev albums?

Any lovers/haters out there?

08.17.2007, 08:18 AM

Check out Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus. They consist of Alan Vega+Stephen Lironi and record for the Scottish label Creeping Bent. I've got every single thing that they put out and it's cool stuff, particularly the Daddy Died: A Brooklyn Nightmare ep. Their first 12'' is a re-recording of Suicide's Frankie Teardrop+remixes, good but not as much as the original. All of Martin Rev's albums are pretty much worth having, not sure about Suicide's American Supreme, though. They're one of my favourite bands of all time.

racehorse · 08.17.2007, 08:35 AM

suicide are an incredible band, however i've never checked out alan vega's solo records, though i have been meaning to since i downloaded one of sarramkrop's mp3 mixes with a wonderful vega track at the end of it.
i have got the record he did with pan sonic though, which is rather good.
EDIT: woops, just remembered that the mix track was martin rev. so i'ev never actually heard any vega solo...

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 08.17.2007, 10:53 AM

Ever listen to the Suicide first practice tape?

jico. · 08.17.2007, 03:55 PM

definitely a lover.

their first album will always be on my favourites list.

Toilet & Bowels · 08.17.2007, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

not sure about Suicide's American Supreme, though.

yeah, forget about that one, it's shite.

Onani Nic · 08.18.2007, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

Ever listen to the Suicide first practice tape?

Yes, they're some pretty cool recordings. It comes as a bonus disc on the CD version of their 2nd album. The live at CBGB's recordings that come with the 2xCD version of the first album are also amazing.

11.20.2007, 01:44 PM

2007-06-05

martin rev and alan vega. suicide live in hamburg 1978.

martin rev and alan vega formed suicide in 1971. they obviously found their inspiration in the likes of velvet underground and silver apple, but even more obviously they influenced and imbued the new and upcoming generations of psychedelic punks in music, style and attitude: wire, television, the 39 clocks, the jesus and marychain, deutsch-amerikanische freundschaft, soft cell, spacemen 3 and many more of course. martin rev and alan vega still seem to walk this earth.

12 days after their legendary riot gig in brussels suicide visited hamburg on the 28th of june 1978 for a very short concert. only four tracks of an audience recording seem to have survived throughout all those years: here is a second generation copy of that tape.

you may listen to adorable versions of

rocket usa
cheree
harlem
96 tears

in rather airless sound quality.

(21 and a half minutes: mp3 with 224 kbps)

download with in.solit.us

http://spurensicherung.blogspot.com/...cide-live.html

MIND EXPANSION TO RE-ISSUE "CLOUDS OF GLORY"

DETROIT INDIE SPACE ROCK LABEL MIND EXPANSION WILL BE RE-ISSUING MARTIN REV'S AMAZING "CLOUDS OF GLORY" ALBUM ON CD EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR. CD WILL INCLUDE BONUS TRACKS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE ORIGINAL RELEASE. CD WILL BE DISTRIBUTED WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH CTD. MARTIN REV WILL ALSO APPEAR ON THE MIND EXPANSION 2XCD COMPILATION 2 SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE LATER THIS FALL. CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR RELEASE DATE AND MORE INFORMATION.
FOR MORE INFO ON MARTIN REV AND SUICIDE GO TO WWW.MARTINREV.COM
FOR MORE INFO ON THIS RELEASE AND OTHER MIND EXPANSION RELEASES GO TO: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MINDEXPANSIONRECORDS

fugazifan · 11.20.2007, 03:03 PM

alan vega with pan sonic is equally awesome.....
and the first suicide album is a classic.
love em
love em
love em

jon boy · 11.20.2007, 03:04 PM

they where magnificent at atp a few years back.

A Thousand Threads · 11.20.2007, 04:31 PM

I really enjoyed Alan Vega's solo live performance this autumn but somehow i've always managed to forget checking out his recorded solo material.

oh yeah, and Suicide....
what's there to say that hasn't already been said?

Ace band!

Everyneurotic · 11.20.2007, 06:36 PM

they sure could be awesome.

Pookie · 08.28.2008, 05:39 PM

Is anybody else astounded that Alan Vega is 70 years old!

atsonicpark · 08.28.2008, 05:44 PM

I love suicide i.

Anyone heard that cd set that's like every suicide performance ever captured to tape?

Toilet & Bowels · 08.28.2008, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pookie

Is anybody else astounded that Alan Vega is 70 years old!

yes

MellySingsDoom · 08.28.2008, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pookie

Is anybody else astounded that Alan Vega is 70 years old!

Pookster - he's actually 60. His PR people made a blunder - apparently he not too happy about that!

Pookie · 08.28.2008, 06:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Pookster - he's actually 60. His PR people made a blunder - apparently he not too happy about that!

Apparently the blunder (deliberate mistake?) was that he was born in 1948, but it came out more recently that he was in fact born in 1938.

Pookie · 08.28.2008, 07:01 PM

Or perhaps not such a surprise as he already seems to have been embalmed.

batreleaser · 08.28.2008, 08:11 PM

suicide 1 is one of my favorites, has been for a long time. i actually love the second record too, its cool in a wierd synth-y noise-y pop kinda way. but more than suicide lately, ive been obsessed with a certain record influenced by suicide: bruce springsteen-nebraska. im serious, thats a perfect fucking record. very dark, very minimal, voice, accoustic and some electric guitars, harmonica, lots of repetition used to hypnotic effect (dude, 'state trooper, one of the most hypnotic but simplest rhythms ever), and amazing story line. you can definitley hear in the record that he was getting way into suicide, as he stripped himself of that big band he had used the most of his career. 'frankie teardrop' the charachter actually is a charachter used in nebraska's 'highway patrolman'. such an inspired record, springsteen just wanting to something different, falls in love with a band, writes some of the most amazing story songs in his entire life, and records an album by himself at home. the record company tells him to re record it and release it as an e street band album, he says fuck you and releases it the way it was meant to be. subsequently makes the best and most important record of his career. ok, that was totally unrelated. please excuse my rambling.

Pookie · 08.29.2008, 06:45 AM

Lots of words close together.

08.17.2007, 08:04 AM	#1
Onani Nic the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 930	I've recently become re-obsessed with the first two Suicide albums and the first Martin Rev album. Last week I bought the first solo Alan Vega LP which is really, really groovy and really bizzare. Alan Vega- Jukebox Baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBcI5oGjffU Any other note-worthy suicide/vega/rev albums? Any lovers/haters out there? __________________ I don't give a fuck thats the problem. I see a motherfuckin cop i don't dodge them.
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08.17.2007, 08:18 AM	#2
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	Check out Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus. They consist of Alan Vega+Stephen Lironi and record for the Scottish label Creeping Bent. I've got every single thing that they put out and it's cool stuff, particularly the Daddy Died: A Brooklyn Nightmare ep. Their first 12'' is a re-recording of Suicide's Frankie Teardrop+remixes, good but not as much as the original. All of Martin Rev's albums are pretty much worth having, not sure about Suicide's American Supreme, though. They're one of my favourite bands of all time.
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08.17.2007, 08:35 AM	#3
racehorse 100% Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 784	suicide are an incredible band, however i've never checked out alan vega's solo records, though i have been meaning to since i downloaded one of sarramkrop's mp3 mixes with a wonderful vega track at the end of it. i have got the record he did with pan sonic though, which is rather good. EDIT: woops, just remembered that the mix track was martin rev. so i'ev never actually heard any vega solo... __________________ She holds the room up by talk alone
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08.17.2007, 10:53 AM	#4
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	Ever listen to the Suicide first practice tape?
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08.17.2007, 03:55 PM	#5
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11.20.2007, 01:44 PM	#8
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	2007-06-05 martin rev and alan vega. suicide live in hamburg 1978. martin rev and alan vega formed suicide in 1971. they obviously found their inspiration in the likes of velvet underground and silver apple, but even more obviously they influenced and imbued the new and upcoming generations of psychedelic punks in music, style and attitude: wire, television, the 39 clocks, the jesus and marychain, deutsch-amerikanische freundschaft, soft cell, spacemen 3 and many more of course. martin rev and alan vega still seem to walk this earth. 12 days after their legendary riot gig in brussels suicide visited hamburg on the 28th of june 1978 for a very short concert. only four tracks of an audience recording seem to have survived throughout all those years: here is a second generation copy of that tape. you may listen to adorable versions of rocket usa cheree harlem 96 tears in rather airless sound quality. (21 and a half minutes: mp3 with 224 kbps) download with in.solit.us http://spurensicherung.blogspot.com/...cide-live.html MIND EXPANSION TO RE-ISSUE "CLOUDS OF GLORY" DETROIT INDIE SPACE ROCK LABEL MIND EXPANSION WILL BE RE-ISSUING MARTIN REV'S AMAZING "CLOUDS OF GLORY" ALBUM ON CD EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR. CD WILL INCLUDE BONUS TRACKS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE ORIGINAL RELEASE. CD WILL BE DISTRIBUTED WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH CTD. MARTIN REV WILL ALSO APPEAR ON THE MIND EXPANSION 2XCD COMPILATION 2 SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE LATER THIS FALL. CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR RELEASE DATE AND MORE INFORMATION. FOR MORE INFO ON MARTIN REV AND SUICIDE GO TO WWW.MARTINREV.COM FOR MORE INFO ON THIS RELEASE AND OTHER MIND EXPANSION RELEASES GO TO: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MINDEXPANSIONRECORDS
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11.20.2007, 03:03 PM	#9
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11.20.2007, 04:31 PM	#11
A Thousand Threads expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,000	I really enjoyed Alan Vega's solo live performance this autumn but somehow i've always managed to forget checking out his recorded solo material. oh yeah, and Suicide.... what's there to say that hasn't already been said? Ace band!
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11.20.2007, 06:36 PM	#12
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	they sure could be awesome. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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Pookie invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 9,877	Is anybody else astounded that Alan Vega is 70 years old!
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atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	I love suicide i. Anyone heard that cd set that's like every suicide performance ever captured to tape? __________________
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08.28.2008, 07:01 PM	#18
Pookie invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 9,877	Or perhaps not such a surprise as he already seems to have been embalmed.
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08.28.2008, 08:11 PM	#19
batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	suicide 1 is one of my favorites, has been for a long time. i actually love the second record too, its cool in a wierd synth-y noise-y pop kinda way. but more than suicide lately, ive been obsessed with a certain record influenced by suicide: bruce springsteen-nebraska. im serious, thats a perfect fucking record. very dark, very minimal, voice, accoustic and some electric guitars, harmonica, lots of repetition used to hypnotic effect (dude, 'state trooper, one of the most hypnotic but simplest rhythms ever), and amazing story line. you can definitley hear in the record that he was getting way into suicide, as he stripped himself of that big band he had used the most of his career. 'frankie teardrop' the charachter actually is a charachter used in nebraska's 'highway patrolman'. such an inspired record, springsteen just wanting to something different, falls in love with a band, writes some of the most amazing story songs in his entire life, and records an album by himself at home. the record company tells him to re record it and release it as an e street band album, he says fuck you and releases it the way it was meant to be. subsequently makes the best and most important record of his career. ok, that was totally unrelated. please excuse my rambling. __________________ listen to pink reason
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08.29.2008, 06:45 AM	#20
Pookie invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 9,877	Lots of words close together.
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