Machines of Loving Grace: S / D?

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so far as i know, no one's asked about the Machines yet. so cough it up. i wouldn't go so far as to say that they're obscure, but they're not terribly well-known, outside a song that was on the hackers soundtrack and another that was on the crow soundtrack. i think they rock out. i don't care for their later, metal-tinged stuff a great deal, but the self-titled album is kick-ass, and concentration is an amazingly great and danceable album, one of the hottest slabs of electrofunk to come out of the otherwise tremendously shitty industrial-rock trend of the mid 1990s. plus their lyrics are clever, sociopolitical in a way that i think only cabaret voltaire can really match. i'd go so far as to say that they're sort of the heirs to cv's crown. what do y'all think?

(awaits the flames)

― soundnfury, Thursday, 13 March 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, you're not alone. I loved "Concentration" - haven't heard it in years, but it sounded amazing to me when it came out.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 13 March 2003 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)

yea the Machines are awesome! esp. Concentration and the S/T. rock on!

― JP Albin (John Paul Albin), Thursday, 13 March 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Good grief, the memories flood back. I always liked how the first album didn't really pretend to be anything other than a ghost-of-NIN effort (and hell, Reznor remixed "Burn Like Brilliant Trash"), but "Cicciolina" was actually a duly purty little tune. That and "Butterfly Wings" from Concentration were their two best songs, and Concentration was all right or so for two months. Then The Downward Spiral came out and I had other interests...

Saw them once opening for Peter Murphy in 1992 after the Nymphs collapsed earlier on that tour. It was okay.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 March 2003 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the machines and peter murphy? HOLY SHIT. i would have loved to see that tour. i saw michael j. sheehy open for peter murphy this summer, it was fucking wonderful, even though i'd heard nothing sheehy had done before that. they did a duet of "5 years" toward the end of his act, it ended up being one of three bowie covers that night. good times.

wait, what were we talking about again?

p.s. ha ha.. you rock jp. you were there when i bought that cd for the first time. then we were talking about that wannabe-fascist-dictator fat kid, and i backed up into that lexus. it was great.

― soundnfury, Thursday, 13 March 2003 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I could have SWORN I started a Machines of Loving Grace thread. Anyway, HELL YES the S/T is classic.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 March 2003 05:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Goddammit, I missed Sheehy's opening set last year at the P.M. date in Anaheim. Now I'm really jealous!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 March 2003 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

dudududud.
I saw them open for Curve in '93 at the palace and really struck me as a bunch of clueless jocks jumping on the industrial bandwagon..

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 13 March 2003 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

http://open.spotify.com/album/1Iyeb4XQ4qnadzYymV066J
http://open.spotify.com/album/5LlDvW0TpWbYbuWxZUr0SS
http://open.spotify.com/album/4DYBtO6JNHozaTmfssMLfK

― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:13 (fourteen years ago)

man I had forgotten how much I liked the s/t album

― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

...everything is physical

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

listening to "Weatherman" and basically I'm 19 again

― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Thursday, 12 April 2012 14:45 (fourteen years ago)

eight months pass...

DON'T PLACE FAITH IN

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 13:58 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

In which I discover by random chance that the singer is now a well-established multimedia/avant-garde classical artist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Benzel

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 22:26 (seven years ago)

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