Now the the weather’s turned I’ll be binging on DCD until the sun reappears. Tell me your three favoute DCD records:
Dead Can Dance
Spleen and Ideal
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
The Serpent’s Egg
Aion
Into the Labyrinth
Spiritchaser
Anastasis
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And pls post a song you like
Any hot takes? I’d suggest something like ‘bunch of new age shite.’ Personally think they jumped the shark on spiritchaser but it was the 90s I guess. Everyone made mistakes.
Spleen And Ideal was my first in about 1986, then got the debut and had to wait until Sun, Egg and Aion came out. They lost me after that, moved too far away from what I loved about them. Here’s an odd video of them soundchecking in Bedford in 1984. Lisa’s voice, woah.
i was there too, seemed really good but i was up in the rafters so i’m not totally sure. it was at that show i realised how many people love and were there mainly for spiritchaser, that material seemed to get a much better reception than almost everything else.
I’ve never seen so many middle-aged goths in one place.
The support played an instrument from the 14th century, iirc. No backing, just him and the instrument. It was SHIT. When he finished he announced that he had CDs available in the foyer, and the whole hall tittered in bafflement at the thought of anyone purchasing his music. Pretty funny but I felt bad for him.
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun easily tops their output for me, but I also have a lot of love for Into The Labyrinth (The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove is brilliant) and their last one, Anastasis, felt like a real return to form.