Alice In Videoland - Maiden Voyage

Okay... first album by the Electroclash band Alice In Videoland. Not a total gem but still pretty damn good. This is the worst post I'll ever do. Basically, the bands influences are EBM, Electro, Synthpop and Punk Rock. Typical Electroclash band haha.

Tracklist:

1. Lay Me Down
2. Got To Go
3. Going Down
4. Red
5. Dance With Me
6. Video Girl
7. Panic
8. Addicted
9. Naked
   
10. Sweet Thing

We'll be together to the end...

Crass - The Feeding of the 5000

Okay, first album by Crass. Yeah, the first real Anarchist punk band. People tend to say the Sex Pistols were the first Anarcho-punk band just because they had a song called Anarchy In The UK. But people tend to not see that Anarchism is really an umbrella term for various anti-Statist ideologies. Now enough with all this talk about Anarchism. So Crass were basically a complete challenge to the state of Punk music and the Punk culture of the time. Basically, it was... can you really call yourself a Punk and be signed to 100,000 pound contracts? (Yeah, The Clash haha). Well, Crass essentially said "No, Punk is dead". Of course, they were referring to the ethic, which is entirely as true these days as it was 32 years ago. You have "Punks" on the Warped Tour (this is directed at the people who call Anti-Flag the purest Punk band to walk the earth). Now... where was I? Oh yeah. Crass were the most elitist and exclusive of Punk bands to walk the earth. If you play for record companies, you're a sellout. End of story. It's like reverse-Elitism.

Fuck that shit...

Tracklist:

1. Reality Asylum
2. Do They Owe Us A Living?
3. End Result
4. They've Got A Bomb
5. Punk is Dead
6. Reject of Society
7. General Bacardi
8. Banned From The Roxy
9. G's Song
10. Fight Wars, Not Wars
11. Women
12. Securicor
13. Sucks
14. You Pay
15. Angels
16. What a Shame
17. So What
18. Well... Do They?

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Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Staircase (Mystery) single

Okay, single by Siouxsie & The Banshees. I realized that it's fairly hard to find on the interwebs so I decided to post it here. Not much else to say. There's a T-Rex cover on the b-side. Enjoy.

Tracklist:

1. The Staircase (Mystery)
2. 21st Century Boy [T-Rex cover]

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Los Carniceros Del Norte - Poe Is Dead

Okay, so Los Carniceros Del Norte are a Spanish Deathrock band who I discovered one day whilst browsing through some Goth vids on Youtube. What really attracted me to them was their dense guitarwork, it was a live set, so of course it sounded better. There are two obvious influences on this record. B-rated Horror films, and atmospheric Goth stuff. Shittiest review I've ever written. So hurry up and download.

Tracklist:

1. El Gato Negro
2. El Cuervo
3. La Mascara de la Muerte Roja
4. El Pozo y el Pendulo

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Aus-Rotten - Fuck Nazi Sympathy

Okay, first download post of the decade. Congrats on me. Not only is this the first post of the decade, but it's also the first Crust Punk post I've ever done. Yeah, recently I've been getting into some Crust stuff, exploring other areas of music per say. Not only is it the first Crust/Decade post, but it's also the first post that I'm doing without breaking any laws! Yeah, when Aus-Rotten released this infamous EP back in 1994 on Havoc Records, they actually wrote "Fuck Copyright Aus-Rotten" on the back.


Tracklist:

1. Tuesday, May 18th, 1993
2. Vietnam is Back '94
3. Fuck Nazi Sympathy
4. A.I.D.S.
5. Where Their Children Are

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Oh yes, almost forgot. I'd like to give a shout out to Darlin' Grave of the Deathrock bands All Gone Dead, The Readership Hostile... and to Tony Havoc of Scarlet's Remains, who recently had a baby, named Scarlett, 4 days ago :D

Apologies for the near future

Apologies for all the Alternative music lovers and followers of sexinsecret but for the near future I [Brandon] will not be updating this site too frequently due to computer difficulties. The reasoning for this is because that my laptop, is currently having terrible problems with itself such as overheating and all that crap which prevents any uploading. However, if anyone is willing too, I'd be happy to allow someone else to temporarily run the blog and update posts. If anyone's interested, please send me a message, or leave a notification in the comments section.

Thanks

Brandon :)

40 Essential Alternative Albums of the 00's

Okay, that decade went by sooner then we realized! I think it'd be great to look at the great Alternative musical artifacts of the decade. I've included some records in this essential list that are infact quite well known, and are on the edge of what we consider mainstream (this is where the hypocrisy of Alternative music seeps in). Whereas some may only be known to only a few closely knit people. Either way, lets go:

40 Essential Alternative albums of the 00’s

All Gone Dead - Fallen & Forgotten - An excellent piece of the Deathrock revival of the 00's
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not - Post-Britpop at its best (as it sucked)
Bauhaus - Go Away White - Even reformed bands can make good albums
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash - A golden monument of Electroclash
The Birthday Massacre - Violet - The most haunting Synthrock record ever made
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Horse Of The Dog - A Garage-Punk-Gothabilly classic for all fans of the genre
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Horrors - Primary Colours - Europhic, dark, intricate, loud and psychedelic
The Horrors - Strange House
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future - Nu Rave was a short lived fad, this is a long lived record
Leftover Crack - Mediocre Generica
M83 - Saturdays = Youth - Synthgazing masterpiece
MC Lars - The Graduate - The Godfather of Post-Punk Laptop Rap at his godliest moment
Mindless Self Indulgence - You’ll Rebel To Anything - Synthrock masterpiece, it's the Birthday Massacre, except gothless and Hip Hop influenced
Mr. Lif - Emergency Rations
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade - I personally despise 4th-Wave Emo bands, but these guys just shot a bullet in my head
Neils Children - Something Perpetual
Paralitikos - Roma No Paga Traidores
Placebo - Black Market Music
Placebo - Covers
Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches
Radiohead - Kid A - Brought underground forms of Electronic into the mainstream atmosphere
Rammstein - Reise, Reise - What was left of Industrial Metal following the genre's downward spiralling
Robots in Disguise - Get RID!
Robots in Disguise - We’re In The Music Biz
Sex Gang Children - Bastard Art
She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
The Strokes - Room Of Fire
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only
Various Artists - Who’s America? (Def Jux) - For all to remember Left-Leaning Anti-War and Anti-Bush Hip Hop of the decade
Various Artists - Yes New York (Wolfgang Morden) - An insight into the New York Alternative scene of the early 00's that centered around
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!

R.I.P. Rowland S. Howard

Yesterday, on December 30th, the legendary (and fairly obscure) guitarist Rowland S. Howard died. Rowland is argueably best known for his contributions to the Australian Noise Rock band The Birthday Party (an evolvement from Rowland's earlier band Boys Next Door), who's sound took aspects from Post-punk, Noise, Avant-Garde, Blues, Garage and Jazz. Apart from The Birthday Party, he has played with the likes of Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch, Einsturzende Neubauten and Thurston Moore. Halso fronted the late 80s/early 90s Post-punk band These Immortal Souls. Apart from his musical work, he would occasionally venture into acting, appearing in Queen of The Damned and Wings of Desire. Most recently he released a solo album, Pop Crimes and produced HTRK's Merry Me Tonight LP. Howard died of Liver Cancer.

O. Children - Dead Disco Dancer single

Okay, single by this new totally awesome band called O. Children. If you wanna imagine what they sound like, imagine intricate bass and guitar lines with a sense of Neils Children's Neo-Psychedelia, combined with the dark voice of Strange House era Horrors frontman Faris Badwan plus a hint of Dark Cabaret. Boom, you got O Children.

Tracklist:

1. Dead Disco Dancer
2. Dead Eye Lover

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Oh yeah, before the end of the year I'm definetly doing a best of the year thingy

Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox

Okay, so I haven't posted here in a few weeks, apologies for the absences, but I'm busy. Anyways. Here's the first album by the Dutch Goth/Darkwave band Clan of Xymox. Its a great album, I've known of the Clan (ironic name) for a couple years now, but I never really paid attention to their work. Anyways a friend of mine played of their songs to me and I was impressed, so I downloaded this album , I fell in love, the end. Period. Fucking love it. Done!

If you ask me, this was basically the first one of the first proto-Darkwave albums, Darkwave before Darkwave to say. You see, Goth history went like this:

late 70's - Post-punk predecessors
early 80's - First wave of Gothic-Post punk bands
mid 80's - Ethereal wave emerges, Gothic Post-punk turns into Gothic rock
late 80's - Gothic rock movement reaches its commercial height, Darkwave develops
early-mid 90's - Gothic rock falls down, Darkwave, Industrial and Electrogoth start to take the subculture by storm
late 90's - Goth becomes an item of hate and shock in the US where the movement quickly disperses in the wake of Columbine. Cybergoths emerge out of ex-Goths who decide to progress. In Europe goth keeps growing
early 00's - New Industrial bands like The Birthday Massacre take from Goth, blend it with Industrial and Synths and make something new. Meanwhile, the underground Deathrock Revival, centered around bands like All Gone Dead and Bloody Dead and Sexy appears
late 00's - Lo-Fi Goth develops and starts expanding.

Anyways, Tracklist:

1. A Day
2. No Words
3. Stumble and Fall
4. Cry in the Wind
5. Stranger
6. Equal Ways
7. 7th Time
8. No Human Can Drown
   
9. A Day (Remix)
10. Stranger (Remix)

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