Some highly nuanced experimental noise from our ol' mate K.K.
Allowing plenty good space at the red end of the VU meter spectrum. This allows the inevitable Noise fatigue heavily associated with the purveyors of Harsh Noise to be dissipated until well into side two.Lots of attractive noises lull one into a sense of willing exploration,rather than turning it off to listen to the B-52's first,and far weirder than this, album. This is what Industrial Noise should be.Something that wasn't knocked off inside an hour and passed off as something subversive. Maybe forty years ago yes,but not in 2015.The kids who'd shock mum and dad with their Marilyn Manson fixation, are now more likely to produce a K.K.Null cassette to further confuse their Grungy parents somewhat....or Not? All that shits long dead.I shit yee not!
One chose this tape to end my recent pregnant silence because i spied that this label was called Video Nasties, promising me an opportunity to delve into the fascinating world of the 1980's VHS Video Nasty. "Driller Killer" being my most favouritest Punk Rock Movie in that very sorry sub-genre of Punk Rock movies,not to mention Punk Rock Video Nasties.In fact "Driller Killer" could actually be the only Rock'n'Roll movie that doesn't suck ass completely in fact?
Other great Nasties would have to include female exploitation Nasty, "I Spit On Your Grave"...(as mentioned in the UK Parliament's notorious 'Video Nasty debate'.......they do tend to have great titles one must admit. The plot of "ISOYG" is basically ,Chick gets gang raped,Chick walks around naked in the jungle for half an hour, then chick gets bloody and violent revenge on the perps. there may be some clumsy Feminist angle somewhere in there, but I'm struggling to see it?
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| Only the Daily Mail's balanced mature arguments on the rise of the Video Nasty can really express the mind of the true Igoramus |
The original found footage film "Cannibal Holocaust" is rather notorious for being a suspected Snuff Flick as the chopping up and torture scenes are somewhat realistic? The Italian director was actually tried in court for murder to determine if it was or not....it wasn't!.
Having attempted to watch this all the way through several times,inevitably falling asleep each time......maybe because I was invariably Drunk,this being, along with "Godzilla vrs Mechagodzilla", one's preferred viewing post-kicking out time at the Pub. One has the hazy recollection of a very realistic castration performed upon one of the white guys hung upside down on some bamboo construction.....a most disturbing image to have a hangover enhance in the morning after the night before?
"Texas Chainsaw massacre" was also mentioned in Parliament, although I would contest that this is not a Nasty,just another in a long line of Hillbilly schlock-horror epics started off by John Boorman's great "Deliverence"........others in the Hill Billy Horror genre are "Southern Comfort" and......this is stretching it a bit....."The Hills Have Eyes"?........has anyone seen that documentary on the USA'a most in-bred family yet?.....The Whittakers?.......oooya fookah.......click here.
Sadly I never got to see that Scandalous spaghetti-Nasty,or comedy(?) "SS Experiment Love Camp".....i may right this wrong very soon...or maybe, wrong that Right is more appropriate?
Sci-Fi Nasties aren't too common, but Sick Brit-Flick Nasty "Xtro",has to be one of the finest examples of the motion picture artform ever made.....forget Citizen Kane.
What effect these films could have on your mental well-being is still up for debate.....personally I err on the side of absolutely fucking nothing....but then again I would say that wouldn't I?....Look at the music I play and write about with such pulchritudinous abandon!
After-all the Margate Police (Daily Mirror 1984) did explain away a violent youths' savage behaviour,as, and I quote, "Influenced by Video nasties or a New Moon"????.....sometimes, maybe its best just to give up completely on the eradication of stupidity?
Maybe there's some troubled youth out there whose behavior is influenced by a K.K.Null cassette or, the next appearance of a Gibbous moon?.
We may never know....or care?
Tracklist:
A2 Plasmagma 02 9:02
B Plasmagma 03 17:40
8 comments:
dadamah is not in the internet archive.Also someone has converted your archive to mp3.
Any chance of getting the Zchivago treatment on some Electric Wizard, a group taking no small amount of influence from these aforementioned "video nasties"?? I would think the brand of misanthropy featured on an album like "Come My Fanatics" might be somewhat kindred? Shakespeare it ain't, but then neither was Ozzy eh?
Man, Nazisploitation was a seriously crap subgenre, with none of the biting satire or social commentary of the related, and far more respectable, Women In Prison genre. Just cuz you throw in some Nazis hardly ups the depravity quotient, or whatever the hell they were trying to accomplish. I challenge anyone to watch SS Experiment Love Camp in it's entirety, without resorting to the fast forward button a single time. La Bestia in Calore is slightly more watchable, if only for that weird beastie dude, but the rest are almost wholly unwatchable. Except maybe La Svastica Nel Ventre, cuz Sirpa Lane was alright.
Aww cum on Parmalee...anyone knows all the best movies have Nazi's in 'em,that and a nice pair of knockers is all the public want or need.
The Women in Prison genre has always made me its slave....back in the 90's on UK TV after midnight,I was part of the cult,watching Australian lo-budget Women in Prison drama serial "Prisoner, Cell Block-H"....I dare you to expose yourself to this late night TV classic from down under. The Aussies, of course, were pretty bemused as to why the Pom's (thats what they call us!?)..were so obsessed with a shite Tv show that had been cancelled years ago.....and so were we.Something just isn't explainable.
CS Geezer...yeah Electric Wizard.....ok.....i feel a lo-fi doom metal thread evolving. Misanthropic Audio Nasties, bring it on.
Ozzie was not Shakespeare, agreed, but he has now achieved the shaky bit due to his career ending illness.
the whole 692 episodes of Prisoner.....you'll thank me for it...well maybe not?
https://youtu.be/JYwYkvRDA3o
I would argue that the better films are seldom actually Nazisploitation proper, but simply good films with a bunch of Nazis. Take, for instance, The Sound of Music. Everyone's singing and having a good time, and there just happen to be a bunch of Nazis: GREAT fuckin film! Then you have something like Schindler's List. Nazi this, Nazi that, why they gotta be Nazis? The film seriously suffers for this.
To reiterate: singing and having a good time, boobs, and Nazis make for great films. Nazis doing what one expects Nazis to be doing--bummer and snoozefest.
I almost totally forgot that Wentworth was essentially a remake of Prisoner Cell Block H. It's unfortunate that Barbara Steele couldn't be the wicked warden in every WIP film or series. Caged Heat, with John Cale pulling a Ry Cooder, is a masterpiece.
THANKS!!!!!!
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