am i the only person who still listens to that heavenly bodies album from 1988?

I'm pretty sure I had this? Lemme check.

Not around but I'm sure I did. Might have ripped it and sold it. I almost tend to like Area more. But if we wanna talk about C'est La Mort go for it.

DCD instrumental tribal hoodoo + girlygoth = i like it pretty good.

and "Stars Collide" was a really keen single. wait, was it a single? it should have been.

i am not actually a C'est La Mort expert. I had a Controlled Bleeding album and something else on that label.

speaking of 4AD, do you have this C'est La Mort comp from 1986, ned?

A1 Rash Of Stabbings Faulter (4:09)
A2 Throwing Muses Fish (4:32)
A3 Breathless All My Eye And Betty Martin (5:15)
A4 Kite, The Family (2:32)
A5 Pat On The Back Afraid (4:02)
B1 Room Nine Angels Sing (3:22)
B2 Circle Confusion Survival (4:35)
B3 M-1 Alternative Rain (4:23)
B4 Lung Overcoat Find The Time (3:23)
B5 End Over End Save (3:37)

I think that was shared on a blog recently!

big discog with links here:

http://www.angryrobot.net/cestlamort.html

i've never heard 95% of it.

were Area better than the moon seven times? cuz i was never a big moon7x fan.

Aw man, I loved the Moon Seven Times. :-/ Area were/are all right but I much preferred TMST's debut album. The Lanterna stuff is v. grand too.

I LOVE this album. I only got it about a year ago. I listen to it pretty regularly.

maybe we do need a c'est la mort thread, because i just wanna ask, has anyone here heard beautiful pea green boat or handful of snowdrops? i sort of wanna check those two out because i think they're cool names.

checked out heavenly bodies because robin guthrie had a remix of "rains on me" featured as a bonus on some edition of 'celestial', by the way.

yeah, the heavenly bodies cd has extra songs on it. i only have the record though, so i've never heard the bonus stuff. like the guthrie remix.

don't worry, you're not really missing out on much. there's an o.k. live song, a forgettable instrumental, and the guthrie remix. the remix is odd because it's a bit stripped down. not something you'd expect guthrie to do. the original "rains on me" is much better.

the Heavenly Bodies LP never did much for me. percussion and atmosphere aplently but too little in the way of memorable melody. as ex-DCD projects go, i'll stick with Peter Ulrich's first album (and esp. his first 7").

CLM was a really interesting label. liked most of what i've heard, favorites being M-1 Alternative, Johanna's House of Glamour and Judgement of Paris. the first two revel in goth-tinged dreampop bliss - the music! my god, the music! - but feature love 'em or hate 'em vocalists in Bruce Musser (imagine a more syrupy Howard Devoto) and Laura Darrow (hushed, husky, playful, alas erratic and often agonizingly off-key. ah, but her "Sea Song" is worthy of Wyatt's.)

for me, the JOP LPs and EPs synthesize everything that made 4AD so peerless in the early '80s - Bauhaus, Cocteaus, DCD, Xymox - then add Durutti-esque guitar and hints of the post-Sav. Republic bands' proclivity for ethno-psych echoes. pretty irresistible. and a whole lot more successful than Tel Basta, who attempted the same and stumbled over their own preciousness and derivativeness.

the guitar-less Big Hat was also very cool - like Japan fronted by Kate Bush or a combination of Shelleyan Orphan and Hugo Largo - but their best albums were on March.

Area >>>>> M7x.

i was enough of a CLM completist to seek out the Ten Wings album, which was a pleasant surprise. balls-out Midwestern indie rock, strong female lead, sort of like Holly and the Italians or, hell, Quarterflash (maybe it's the combo of near-metal guitar soloing and electric violin). i believe the guitarist was in Siouxsie's band? it shows. a curious detour.

can't go wrong with the Dr. Death comps, which got a lot more enjoyable between the Third Mind-heavy light EBM of the 3rd and the all-over-the-place Floribundus. where else are you going to hear Henry Frayne doing a power-pop tribute to Skippy Handleman?

oh, meant to say something about Courage of Lassie. haven't heard their CLM album, just a later Canadian major-label title of theirs. kinda cool. morose, doomy folk rock with very nice arrangements. i'll have to track down Sing or Die.

thanks for that!

really though, i really believe the heavenly bodies album is great if you're deeply into this sort of thing!

i'll definitely check out m-1 alternative and johanna's house of glamour, and maybe judgment of paris. was definitely already planning on checking out the doctor death comps.

Scott that bootleg video you posted at the start is pretty awesome, despote its poor quality!

I just discovered this thanks to FB. not sure why I never checked it out in the past; it's def a CD I used to see all the time, probably assumed it was some kind of faux-enya thing or too similar to Bel Canto. But this is incredible! It's an absolute 100% early Cocteaus rip off but it's so good.

i still listen to my copy!