![Suicide - s/t
This album is so incredibly awesome. SO GOOD. Apparently it is the foundation of everything I want to listen to right now.
Suicide is an American synthpunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1971 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev onsynthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.
Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influential: critic Wilson Neate writes that Suicide “would prove as influential as The Clash. Listening to their self-titled 1977 debut from the vantage point of late 2002, it’s all so obvious: the synthpop, techno, and industrial dance sounds of the ’80s and ’90s, and now the new New Wave of electroclash, all gesture back to that foundational album.” [1]
The band is widely credited with postering downtown NYC, advertising the first ever “punk” concert in 1971.
They put on the first punk rock show, that’s like being Jesus.
Their first album, Suicide (1977), is regarded a classic. One critic writes: “‘Che’, ‘Ghost Rider’—these eerie, sturdy, proto-punk anthems rank among the most visionary, melodic experiments the rock realm has yet produced. Of note is the ten-minute “Frankie Teardrop,” which tells the story of a poverty-stricken Vietnam vet pushed to the edge: critic Emerson Dameron writes that the song is “one of the most terrifying, riveting, absurd things I’ve ever heard.”[2]
I have the second disc, but was too lazy to upload it. If anyone wants it let me know. This is what is on it.
The first six tracks on the bonus disc are from a live performance at CBGB on May 25, 1978. “23 Minutes Over Brussels” is an infamous live show on June 16, 1978 at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium, that ended with the band being booed off the stage. In response to this, Elvis Costello, for whom Suicide was opening, played a very short, angry set, which incited a riot
OKKKKAAYY BYE.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kux9ru8ziO1qzrb78o1_400.jpg)
This album is so incredibly awesome. SO GOOD. Apparently it is the foundation of everything I want to listen to right now.
Suicide is an American synthpunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1971 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev onsynthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.
Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influential: critic Wilson Neate writes that Suicide “would prove as influential as The Clash. Listening to their self-titled 1977 debut from the vantage point of late 2002, it’s all so obvious: the synthpop, techno, and industrial dance sounds of the ’80s and ’90s, and now the new New Wave of electroclash, all gesture back to that foundational album.” [1]
The band is widely credited with postering downtown NYC, advertising the first ever “punk” concert in 1971.
They put on the first punk rock show, that’s like being Jesus.
Their first album, Suicide (1977), is regarded a classic. One critic writes: “‘Che’, ‘Ghost Rider’—these eerie, sturdy, proto-punk anthems rank among the most visionary, melodic experiments the rock realm has yet produced. Of note is the ten-minute “Frankie Teardrop,” which tells the story of a poverty-stricken Vietnam vet pushed to the edge: critic Emerson Dameron writes that the song is “one of the most terrifying, riveting, absurd things I’ve ever heard.”[2]
I have the second disc, but was too lazy to upload it. If anyone wants it let me know. This is what is on it.
The first six tracks on the bonus disc are from a live performance at CBGB on May 25, 1978. “23 Minutes Over Brussels” is an infamous live show on June 16, 1978 at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium, that ended with the band being booed off the stage. In response to this, Elvis Costello, for whom Suicide was opening, played a very short, angry set, which incited a riot
OKKKKAAYY BYE.
