Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America - 1980
This album blew me away. Cabaret Voltaire pioneered the techno side of industrial. With tape loops, sullen lyrics, and geeked out electronics these guys pushed the envelope and made some outstanding music.
Cha-Cha Hogan, The Black Foxx - Brother Eatmore & Sister Fullbosom - 197?
"Party records" were pretty popular in the 70's, with black comics like Red Foxx, Rudy Ray Moore, and Skillet & Leyroy raising the roof with their outrageous brand of crass sexual comedy.
Chris and Cosey - Elemental 7 - 1982
Techno offshutes from THE industrial band Throbbing Gristle provide the soundtrack for this independent film. The music is dark/techno/ambient mood music and is quite good.
Chris and Cosey - Action - 1987
Live tracks recorded in various places around the globe. Good stuff, they still hadn't gone to crap yet at this point.
Chris and Cosey - Exotika - 1987
This album was a full blown, big money production, with major label backing. The music also becomes very polished and ready for show on the marketplace, but with that comes a little loss of integrity, and begins the journey into the sub pop icons that they would become.
D.J. Chuck Chillout & Kool Chip - Masters of Rhythm - 1989
You know how the Beastie Boys say "he had more cuts than my man Chuck Chillout? Well, that's because Chuck and Kool Chip were samplers par excellence. In a time before litigation, these guys reigned supreme with their mastery of sampling. There is one really cool James Bond song.
The Clash - Rock The Casbah - 1982
Wow, was that a catchy song or what? They played the living bejezus out of this video in the early days of MTV. The B side has an instrumental version.
Classix Nouveaux - Inside Outside - 1981
This single has 3 songs from a weird synth band I don't know anything about at all. Well, I take that back, now that I've surfed, I know that some of them were in X-ray Specs and the singer does Christian music now. I got to know these guys from a random tape purchase at K-Mart about a billion years ago. It was one of my favorite tapes until it got stolen, and I have never seen that record sold in any store ever anywhere.
Classix Nouveaux - Guilty - 1981
Just two versions of said song on this 12".
George Clinton - Computer Games - 1982
Grandady P. Funk goes solo and bamm! Atomic Dog! Songs are generally subdued and not as funkified as P. Funk, but still weird and interesting. Possibly the origin of L-7s name (just a guess) on the back cover.
George Clinton - The Best of George Clinton - 1986
A must have, this collection of hits has the "best" of this legendary funk nut.
Cocteau Twins - Aikea - Guinea - 1985
Hmm, what can I say about the Cocteau Twins. I never was into them, although I do find their bizarre aural world somewhat interesting. Their the real version of what Enya diluted and made money off of. (kind of)
Coil - The Anal Staircase - 1987
Coil has the least known member of Throbbing Gristle in its ranks. This EP has the only open asshole I've ever seen on a cover, and contains 3 songs that are pretty good and probably warranted more inspection for the band, but I never did. Typical dark, synth, industrial stuff.
Controlled Bleeding - Body Samples - 1985
Body Samples starts off with about 5 minutes of placid ambient music, then most abruptly dives into about 30 minutes of non stop, squealing, industrial noise that is so grating, it is a testament to your endurance to make it through.
Cool C - I Gotta Habit - 1989
More fat gold chain havin, jump suit wearin, my crew of fat asses are bad and like to talk on the phone, kind of stuff. They handed out these contracts like free cheese in the late 80's.
CPO - This Beat is Funky - 1990
Au Contraire Mon Gangstair, funky this is not. Unless you mean funky like foot smell. Try though they may, some thugs belong behind the trigger and not the mic. An NWA spin off.
Crass - Bullshit Detector Vol 1 & 2 - 1982?
Legendary English punk forefathers (and mothers) try to hip us to a whole bunch of shitty bands, and the quality is even worse.
Cure - The Top - 1984
More fun from the worlds most publicly depressed multi-millionaire. "Give Me It" kind of rocks, I like it when he stops blubbering and get's a little pissed off. "flicka..flicka..flicka..flicka..flicka..flicka..flicka..flicka..here you are" I love that.
Cybotron - Enter - 1983
If they didn't sing such stupid lyrics like "life is a line, take a number", and "don't let them robotize your behind", Cybotron probably could have skated by with a little dignity on their keyboard merits. But, as it stands, they did one outstanding hip hop song, and a few that weren't bad. |