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I picked up the new Sunn O))) album today. It's pretty nice!!

Happy 30th birthday, today, to this masterpiece! Pop Will Eat Itself - This is The Day... This is The Hour... This is This

Jim Williams' film score for A Field in England.

The LTD edition of Clint Mansell's score to the film The Fountain is also particularly nice. As is the vinyl:

They're kind of doomy space/psych rock, so the influence is strong

The Ufomammut are totally works of art in real life. They have a 7" with the same level of attention. But no photo does it justice. Pearlescent white print on white paper then red over that. You can sort of see the detail there is in the white here:

But for consistently great artwork my award has to go to the Italian band Ufomammut. These guys design and, for a few years now, screenprint the initial releases themselves. Idolum: ORO: Primum: ORO: Alter Ecate (this came with a 12"x12" book with images for each track, all screenprinted): 8: Some of the album names are links to the Discogs page. There is a link showing some more detail to the covers

I was reminded of another favourite this morning. Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus Der Lüge: The cover is a wood cut from the 1500s by a printmaker called Hans Baldung. There are two more of his horses on other artwork in the album. When this album was released, in 1989, there was a merch slip in it. You could order the usual things; shirts, posters, badges etc. But you could also order a 20cm x 400cm wallpaper frieze with a repeating pattern of the 3 horses. I really wanted a couple of rolls, but at DM28 each and 30DM shipping, plus international ordering wasn't quite so easy back then, I never got around to getting any.

Neither are really unknown, but I love the cover of Clutch's Book of Bad Decisions and Opeth's Sorceress

That branch has a ring binder with photos of all the rarer basses they sell. The basses are never really on the shop floor.

They also gave us: Einsturzende Neubauten, D.A.F., Die Krupps, Xmal Deutschland. But then we had: Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Nitzer Ebb... Nick Cave rose to prominence when he relocated to Berlin... but now he lives here.

Going to see Dälek this evening. Yesterday I saw that Anta were supporting. I can't wait now, it's been a while since I saw @joegarcia play...

MMMD. I've seen these guys live and no other band, including Sunn O))), has come close to the gut thudding lows that these do.

Trent and his wife: How to Destroy Angels:

I flippin' love Oxbow! They're even better live. Eugene is a great front man, I saw him perform with Merzbow a few years back.

Goat's Live Ballroom Ritual just edges their album World Music for me. The bass has a bit more presence and the playing is just on the right side of loose.

If it's any use I'll probably be doing a Mouser order in a couple of weeks. It'll be over the £30 threshold for free shipping. If you go down that route let me know and i can add it to the order.

MySpace still exists?? Blimey

That's a Hagstrom 8 string, isn't it?

My favourite bits of Flea's work are him in the films Suburbia and The Big Lebowski

Headstock shape is key for me, though it doesn't sound like it is for the OP.

One of the bands I never got on with in the past.I'm to worried to listen these days, in case I now like them. Their back catalog is huge (plus hideously expensive, if you want the nice editions)!

2 straps 1 strap with straplocks. 7 basses with straplocks. 1 Dimarzio clip lock strap on my Jazzmaster guitar

The first song I learned all the way through was... For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica

Enjoying some of Jack Danger's finest: