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	• Dreams Less Sweet Psychic TV Genesis P-Orridge, 2005 average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

the best early ptv lp

the majority of this album consists of noisy, experimental tracks (braking dogs, slamming doors, gunshots, screaming) some of which is pretty good and much of which is kind of ridiculous, like much psychic t.v. HOWEVER, it also contains two slow and beautiful ballads, 'The Orchids' and 'White Nights' which are among the very best songs i've ever heard by anyone. they're very catchy, but not in the more dance-poppy way that later songs like roman p. and godstar are. more folk-based and hypnotic i guess is an ok way to describe them. anyway, this, their second LP, is well worth purchasing and much better than their first (force the hand of chance).

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Best Psychic TV

Unless your a raver, this is the best Psychic TV album to get. As a fan of things stranger and more challenging I would rank this alongside Throbbing Gristle as the best work Genesis-P-Orridge has ever done. The album is a sound scape of ambient noise, rituals, chants and some of the best gentle and mystical pop/folk songs you'll ever hear. Yes, pop/folk from Genesis-P-Orridge, so you know it's going to be weird, haunting and creepy. There are also strange spoken word tracks by Genesis and Monte Cazaza... oh, yeah, and David Tibet of Current 93 plays bones and bells and stuff... There's nothing too esoteric to get about this album, ignore that review. If something puzzles you on here then it's just a mystery to be enjoyed... You don't have to understand everything in life, do you? In fact, wouldn't you say the unknown enriches your life? Sure it does... Now, get this album.

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Not your typical PTV

I love this; it is one of my favorites, along with Al or Al and Cathedral Engine. Melodic, soft and mind blowing and even has David Tibet on it, what more could you ask for? Never under estimate the melodic and serene.

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This lp is an unique experience in pop music and sound. However the recording process of the album is holophonic (a technique that allows to reproduce the same hearing feeling you have in the real world); it is also a part of Burroughs heritage (due to extensively creative use of cut-ups this album marks a new start in music and art history, de-categorizing the boundaries that exist between them). Nocturne melodies, not so gothic but close of Joy Division's enegy flirts with beautifully recorded sequences of sound in motion, almost like a movie... the growls of a dog fading away in some misty melody of a far away brass. Remember Nico, coil and current 93 are not far neither. This is not only a great post-punk, pre-goth or post-industrial album. This is poetry, at the core of how poetry should look like in a post-modern, technological and inter-disciplinary world. To conclude this album may looks weird but it shall maybe change your way to perceive music, sound and even art (if your open of course, because if your the kind of person who prefers lineary stuff, not to be troubled or confused then run away!). One of my favorites definitely because it surfs with much more than standards.

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Too esoteric?

The problem with Psychic TV is that you have to be able to 'get' the subcontextual bits in order to 'get' the music to its fullest. And while I'm pretty versed with the various works/philosophies of Aleister Crowley/Thelema, in which a lot of what Genesis P-Orridge circa this time period was drawing on, the 'source material' would likely prove a bit too dense for the majority of potential listeners. As a result, the music here really borders quite a bit on self-indulgence, taking on almost a proselytizing air for Gen's Temple ov Psychick Youth, an ongoing concern up until Gen's bailing from its headship in the late 80s. Atmospheric and very 'precious' in a lot of the aesthetic here, things really only start kicking loose with "In the Nursery", which hearkens back to some of the ominousness of the previous "Force the Hand ov Chance" or Gen's prior tenure in Throbbing Gristle. It's interesting as a documentary piece, I guess, but as for PTV, they've done better...and others do better at this sort of thing, also (Current 93 come to mind here).

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2008 digitally remastered digipak edition of the sophomore album from Psychic TV, originally released in 1983. Continuing the high production values they employed on their debut Force The Hand Of Chance, the album once again featured a mix of Alex Fergusson's Psychedelic Pop and Peter ChriStopherson's noise experiments. The album also featured a host of guest musicians and Choral singers to produce one of the most cinematic albums of it's time. 19 tracks. Some Bizarre.

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