Comment on September 16th, 2007.
Thanks for writing about this! I'd been vaguely wondering whether that Reininger album was worth seeking out; you've convinced me.
Comment on September 16th, 2007.
Excellent! If you're investigating post-Tuxedomoon stuff, I can recommend the Steven Brown / Benjamin Lew collaborations.
Comment on September 22nd, 2007.
Thank you for the post
I share your love for this piece
I have another version, simpler. i think it comes from here:
http://www.french-new-wave.com/compilation.php?annee=1995
email me if interested
Comment on September 26th, 2007.
That's the one I've had before! Thanks very much for the offer, though.
Comment on October 6th, 2007.
some things are perfect and never leave you. this song is one such thing. i had the original vinyl
Comment on February 13th, 2009.
so what happened to the project?
Comment on June 25th, 2009.
was passing along tuxedomoon's crash mp3 to someone and googled on a whim only to find your 2 cents.
you sound like an interesting fellow so i would like to send you one of the most psychedelic tunes of all time, recorded lo-fi on a Tascam 4 track cassette recorder in 1986...pure sonic magic.
but I cannot figure out how to email you from your website and am not a facebook kind of guy.
sir, if you care to email me at the address i've listed
it would be my honor to share something mega cool with you, just for supercosmidelic fun.
thanks
davEy
daveydudely@primus.ca
there are no coincidences
but sometimes the patterns are more obvious.
-bonzo dog band 1969 keynsham
Comment on August 10th, 2009.
There are 3 versions of Crash. The original was on the "What Use?" 7", b-side, and is also featured on "A Thousand Lives by Picture" LP, a Tuxedomoon compilation on Ralph. The Remix version was on the b-side of "What Use?" (Remix) 12", and is called "Crash (Remix)". These songs were remixed by The Residents. The "What Use? (Remix)" is terrible, but Crash turned out, in my opinion, as better than the original. Anyway, both songs are featured on the BLR CD "Night Air", but are Tuxedomoon songs. The third version is available on CD as part of the Tuxedomoon 30th anniversary box set on Crammed Records. The CD is titled "Lost Cords", and the track's title is "III (April in Afghanistan)(Prototype of Crash 79)". The song was written by Blaine Reininger, and the guitar is played by Michael Belfer, a short term Tuxedomoon guest. As far as I know, no-one else plays on the song. The guitar is just a few simple notes played backwards to create a wonderful wash of distortion.
Comment on September 16th, 2009.
I just read in Issabelle Corbiseur's TM book that the song was about creating the mood of J G Ballard's book, "Crash".
Comment on December 4th, 2009.
Excuse me for french langage, but my english is too bad for I write here.
Salut Scraps,
Je cherchais la version de Crash tiré de l'album "A Thousand Lives By Picture" et je désespérais de la trouver un jour en CD quelque part. C'est maintenant chose faite grâce à toi et je t'en remercie infiniment.
Comment on June 15th, 2010.
Depicting Tuxedomoon as "pretentious" is probably the most inaccurate description of who there are and this is being said by someone who devoted a 476-page book (Music for Vagabonds - the Tuxedomoon Chronicles) to them... To the contrary Tuxedomoon's ambition was always to bring "progressive" music outside from the confines of University campuses. When they lived in Europe, they humbly "melted" with the locals, learned the local languages etc, something very uncommon for Americans. Depicting them as "eclectic" or "rebelious" would probably be more accurate, also when you consider that this band is composed of two University drop-outs (Reininger and Brown) united with a freak of Chinese origin (Tong) and an ex borderline juvenile deliquent (Principle). When you depict them as "pretentious", you are in fact following right-wing comments that were made about them in the US in the late seventies (they were depicted as "heroine chic" by some commentators), such comments forming part of the reasons why they moved to Europe in the early eighties.
Cheers,
Isabelle Corbisier
Comment on June 18th, 2010.
Believe it or not, I meant no insult by "pretentious". I realize that it's going to read it that way, though, and I apologize. I meant, more nearly, that they were serious, surrounded by somewhat goofballs that were the other Ralph Records artists. (Though I like the goofballs too.)
Comment on June 18th, 2010.
Hi there, no problem. Yes they were serious as the times were kind of serious as well. However there's always been a sense of humor/self mocking in everything they do. I saw that the rest of your comment wasn't in the "pretentious" vein. But it's kind of tiring to see that kind of depiction repeated over and over again, especially when one knows the origin of such comment, reason why I posted.
So no reason to apologize, I was just contributing to the debate here ;-)
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