{"id":393,"date":"2007-01-03T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T22:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2007-01-03T23:20:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T22:20:06","slug":"pig-sick-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"pig &#8211; sick city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">as has been mentioned previously,  <EM>ireallylovemusic <\/EM>hq has been shaken to the core of its soul in recent  times by the earth shattering <STRONG>foetus <\/STRONG>revival that is currently  going down, deep deep down.&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">now, the story of how a young innocent discovered  such darkly humourous music when living in the outback of the yorkshire dales in  the mid 80s, is not that interesting. however, the pursuit thereafter to track  down the mans prolific output pre-internet was quite a task, meaning that i  never really got anything that was regarded as rare (though the cd copies of  original albums seem to be extremely well priced&nbsp;.. ahem).<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so when it came to digging into the archives for  slightly more off the beaten tracks featuring the well documented past of  <EM>jim thirlwell,<\/EM> i remembered the mans involvement with <EM>raymond watts  aka <\/EM>&lt;<STRONG>pig<\/STRONG>&gt;. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">this then lead me to dig out the original cd copy  of <EM>praise the lard <\/EM>album that is so similar in style to the classic  <STRONG>foetus <\/STRONG>sound its either an insult or a massive homage to the  man with its wonderfully manic orchestrations, genre hopping funkiness, and  unsubtle lyrical fun.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so, today i decided to find out a little more about  the relationship between the two, and lo, following a google session, i came to  find out that raymond constantly throws the respect in the direction of jim, and  more amazingly the <STRONG>foetus-pig<\/STRONG> collaboration <EM>sick city  <\/EM>that brilliantly closes the album was, due to general label chaos, left off  the recent re-issue of said album. <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">thus meaning  that the track is somewhat rare.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so, if you have never heard any of the classic  <STRONG>scraping foetus off the wheel <\/STRONG>trilogy, <EM>hole, nail, thaw,  <\/EM>and believe industrial music to only involve chugga chugga priocessed  guitars a la <STRONG>ministry, <\/STRONG>then prepare to be knocked out, its a  blast of huge twisted disco big band&nbsp;noise.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>mp3 : pig<\/STRONG> (featuring <EM>jim  thirlwell<\/EM>)<STRONG> : <\/STRONG><EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/sick_city.mp3\">sick  city<\/A><\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM><U>extra extra<\/U><\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>interview<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/interviews\/foetus.html\">ireallylovemusic  vs foetus<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more <STRONG>foetus<\/STRONG> detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.foetus.org\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more <STRONG>pig<\/STRONG> detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.theswining.com\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; as has been mentioned previously, ireallylovemusic hq has been shaken to the core of its soul in recent times by the earth shattering foetus revival that is currently going down, deep deep down.&nbsp; now, the story of how a young innocent discovered such darkly humourous music when living in the outback of the yorkshire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}