I miss Lords of Acid

posted by Jeff | Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 1:10 AM | comments: 4

I'm listening to my Lords of Acid mix tonight. Two hours of the best hardcore techno/dance tunes ever made about sex, drugs and having sex while on drugs. Good stuff.

I think I've seen Lords of Acid six times. Maybe more. Honestly I don't remember. They all kind of blend together after awhile. Listening to any individual album, you wouldn't think much of them (or him, as the band has always been Pragah Kahn at the core, much as KMFDM has always been Sahsa at the core). But when you listen to a mix that spans the years, there's some real brilliance for that genre of music, despite the lyrical content.

I miss the shows too. I've been fairly drunk at a number of their shows, but the fashion among the concert goers has always been great. It's not the cheesy high school goth kid shit... it's the very beautiful weekend goth adult crowd, that know how to dress in tight clothing. The women at these shows are beautiful regardless of size, shape or ethnicity. Makes you appreciate that being "sexy," whatever that means, is more of an attitude than something you can really nail down.

And you know, in a particular coaster dork moment, I hear the song "Orchestral Si nations" and I think about a video I always wanted to make. It's an instrumental, and it came out the winter that Millennium Force was being built. I always thought it'd make a great background to a video about the ride. In fact, to this day I think about it when I ride the thing, since I visualized riding it prior to its opening. God I'm a dork.


Comments

Kirk

January 17, 2006, 6:51 AM #

Haha! Geee... what a dork :)

Lords of Acid... ever listen to Crystal Method?

I'm not as much of an electronica geek as I used to be back in my "younger" years, but I still love listinging to a good Crystal Method tune from time to time...

I was never into those damn glow sticks though... that was weird.

Jeff

January 17, 2006, 7:07 AM #

Crystal Method was always hit or miss, as was the Chemical Brothers.

Kirk

January 17, 2006, 7:11 AM #

So true. But, for some reason, I always liked their sound.

Was it the Chemical Brothers that wore the headlight goggle things?

Onceler

January 17, 2006, 12:42 PM #

Orbital was the healight goggle thing... and I too miss the Lords. Their newer stuff seemed kinda forced almost like Mr. Kahn was trying to evolve music which really shouldn't evolve (or at least force the evolution rather than letting it naturally progress). I think I might have a LoA 12" lying around here, I know I have spinable versions of some of their tracks. Brings back memories of the only time I was able to catch them live.. at Crobar.


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