Album Notes: 1988's ALLEGORY AND SELF, Psychic TV's first US release after six prolific years in the UK, kicks off with the most unrepresentative song in the group's entire oeuvre, the surprisingly poppy \"Godstar,\" a chiming guitar-led tune about dead Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones that's worlds away from the unsettling electronic buzz that's Psychic TV's usual stock in trade. The rest of this 14-track compilation--including three bonus remixes of \"Godstar,\" \"She Was Surprised\" and \"Ballet Disco\"--is more in keeping with Psychic TV's normal (for want of a better word) output.
Advantages: modern reworking of classic Psychic TV Disadvantages: more tracks wanted
...The best PsychicTV Does Garage Rock album ever! Some of the early versions of these songs can be heard on the DVD Time's Up but these new workings are spectacular. I had the pleasure of seeing them performed live in Birmingham, UK and their raw, bouncing energy is captured spectacularly on this album. From the bubbling "Maximum Swing" to the fantatstic "Just Because", this album re-awakens the legend of the 1980's that was PsychicTV. The opening track, "Higher and HIgher" fuses jazz and funk with Genesis's howling vocals and will stick in your head for weeks. Throughout the songs - especially "Hookah Chalice" can be heard snippets of tape and sampled sounds which hark back to their early experimental years....
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Advantages: Godstar remixes and more Disadvantages: you'd better like Godstar!
...The song Godstar is probably the most famous, successful and famous track by Genesis P-Orrdige's PsychicTV featuring Alex Fergusson. The song is a homage to Brian Jones and this double album is the soundtrack of a movie never realised. These days remixes of songs are commonplace but when it was recorded they were not so commonplace. For this reason its graet to hear such different versions of this seminal song. Brian Jones' visit to Jajouka is featured on the second CD and was instrumental in Genesis creation of the Time's Up event in London which featured the Master Musicians of Jajouka. Indeed much of Genesis' direction and style are reverberations of Brian Jones. from the musical qualities captured here to the more esoteric Dream Machine....
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Advantages: Gentle introduction to Genesis P-Orridge Disadvantages: A double album would be nicer!
...One of the most accessable of Genesis P-Orridge's works! This album, a collaboration with Astrid Monroe, is a beautiful mix of ambient and spoken-word. Genesis manages to tame his usual howlings and hones them into different rhytyhms that intersect the music. Stylistically it sits a long way between the conventional rock of PsychicTV and the outlandish spoken rants of Thee Majesty. In this way it demonstrates the true diversity of Genesis' work and the way in which he is so easily able to transmute genres. The packaging is very deceptive as it displays little of the breadth of the material contained within its silvery surface. This is an ambient album that you can leave on repeat play for several days at a time!...
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