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Product Description
Features both new tracks & classic from Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin (a.k.a. Foetus), Thurston Moore & Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth, Lucy Hamilton and more! Includes: 8 Eyed Spy 'Do Wah Diddy', Sonic Youth 'Death Valley '69', Clint Ruin 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road', Lee Renaldo 'NoExcuse', Thurston Moore 'Still Burning' and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks 'Orphans'. 23 tracks total. Double slimline jewel case. 1998 New Millennium Communications release.

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Angst from an era when originality was everything.
An acquired taste
a magical, whimsical song that has enriched my life

Honeymoon in Red
Lydia Lunch
Manufacturer: Widowspeak
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003H42
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

Come Fall
So Your Heart
Dead River
Three Kings
Done Dun
Still Burning
Fields of Fire
Dead in the Head
Some Velvet Morning

Album Details

Originally recorded in 1982, and not mixed until 1987, this recording features Lydia & most of the Birthday Party. Nine tracks featuring Dead in the Head, Come Fall, Dead River, and others.

Customer Reviews:

Angst from an era when originality was everything........2005-11-13

Honeymoon In Red is a collaboration between the Birthday Party and Lydia Lunch. Also J.G Thirlwell, Thurston Moore and Murray Mitchell, and the cover art includes photos by Chris Stein And Annie Sprinkle.
Generally this is a very slow album and quite raw. The scraping guitars complement the groaning and the whining. "Come Fall" is the self mocking opener. On "So Your Heart," Lydia plays the dreary hag and sings about the good time we could have had, "but there's gum on the chairs that dance inside my head..."

Horror and true crime meet sex and the single girl. She just can't stay out of trouble, trying to lure some fellow off to the middle of nowhere, where possessive and jealous sounding Cave sings about the killer's car parked right outside my face. Then they chant together in a zombie's jig music: "get it done with!!".
My favourite is the one about the murderous rampage in the movie theatre. What do Lydia and Nick make of this sad incident?: " he's an unknown sam in an unkind land ".
Still Burning is a truly macarbe pop song. Fields of fire sounds like it could be about refugees. "Raining at the border/ tears of blood".
Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard belt out a very punk (Sid Vicious)rendition of Lee Hazelwood's "Some Velvet Morning".

Honeymoon in Red was as cutting edge as post punk could be in 1983. It was shelved until its realease in 1987. One of THE albums of the eighties if youre searching for the key moments in postpunk/ alternative music.

These Immortal Souls, Foetus, Coil, Current 93, The Pop Group, Throbbing Gristle, Sonic Youth, Captain Beefheart, Nico, James Chance, the Boys Next Door, Barry Adamson, Anita Lane, B52's, the Raybeats, KMFDM, ReSEARCH, Die Haut, Sort Sol, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, My Bloody Valentine, Robert Ashley, Snakefinger, Chrome, SPK, Swans, Lenny Bruce, Laughing Clowns, MLWTTKK, No Trend, the Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dome, Diamanda Galas, MARS, Soft Cell, Lee and Nancy, Yoko Ono, the Fuggs, The The, Henry Rollins, Alan Vega, Henry Cow and Tricky might also be of interest.

An acquired taste.......2000-04-03

Honeymoon in Red is one of the better albums of this genre. What genre? The genre that means you like albums by Lydia Lunch, the Birthday Party, Foetus, Sonic Youth and Swans, plus many others who were really interesting but far more obscure.

a magical, whimsical song that has enriched my life.......1999-08-29

Over thirty years ago, when i first heard this song,something about it caught my attention.....the name Phaedra. i started practicing different ways to spell it,Fadra - Phadra- Faydra----and finally came up with "Phaedra" I wrote it all the time and vowed taht it would be my daughter's name.

Years later, when I was pregnant, my husband said "Your'e not naming my daughter 'Phaedra'".

When I was seven months' pregnant, she decided it was time to come......no warning.....just lightening, thunder, SNOW!!!!! I went into labor, and couldn't even make it to the hospital that she was supposed to be born at!!!!

She was delivered on 12/1/74, 3 lb. 14 oz..They recommended that I name her right away, because she wasn't very strong. I looked at my husband and said, with tears in my eyes, "the only name I ever had for my daughter was 'Phaedra'".

So she was named phaedra, and I must have had my angel looking out for us, because MY angel, Phaedra, is fine, healthy, happy, and will be will be married in one month.

Thank you Nancy and Lee, for a beautiful inspiration.

Tracks:

Death Valley '69
Endless Fall
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Some Velvet Morning
Four Cornered Room
Suicide Ocean
No Excuse
A Short History Of Decay Pts 1& 2
Escape
A Quiet Night Of Murder In Greenwich, Connecticut
The Need To Feed
Der Karibische Western

Tracks:

Twisted
Past Glas
Done Dun
Lock Your Door
Diddy Wah Diddy
Run Through The Jungle
Orphans
Son Of Stink
Still Burning
Tornado Warnings
Lady Scarface

Album Description

Features both new tracks & classic from Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin (a.k.a. Foetus), Thurston Moore & Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth, Lucy Hamilton and more! Includes: 8 Eyed Spy 'Do Wah Diddy', Sonic Youth 'Death Valley '69', Clint Ruin 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road', Lee Renaldo 'NoExcuse', Thurston Moore 'Still Burning' and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks 'Orphans'. 23 tracks total. Double slimline jewel case. 1998 New Millennium Communications release.

Customer Reviews:

Two Discs of brilliance.......2000-09-01

This album is perfect. The music complements Lunch's dark anger perfectly without drowning in pretention. Filled to the brim with variety but arranged in a way where you hardly notice! It amazes me that Suicide Ocean isn't more of a classic. Endless fall is a solid and passionate song. Some of the tracks highlight Lunch's Poetry, others are all about the music. What pleases me most is that this doens't fall into the trap of many spoken word artists gone song. Some of those efforts come out simply as attempts to make bad poetry more interesting. But Lydia Lunch puts in the effort and hits both ends. There is every emotion on this disc, the most prominant being disturbing. This is not happy go lucky, this is never funny. But unlike many night crawlers, Lydia is all human, never a novelty or cartoon. Never pretentious or exhausting. This is a writer who knows what she's doing and evidently her collaborators do to. This album as everything one could want, it's a great retrospective of this historic writer. Buy it and you won't have to buy another CD for months and months!

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Less Than Nothing Here
Absolute best album for moody, moping introverts.
lydia's midnight grave-yard death kiss

Drowning in Limbo
Lydia Lunch
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ASIN: B000003H45
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

Emerald Pale Has Disappeared - Lucy Hamilton, Lydia Lunch
Drowning - Lucy Hamilton, Lydia Lunch
How Men Die in Their Sleep - Lucy Hamilton, Lydia Lunch
Lucy's Lost Her Head Again - Lucy Hamilton, Lydia Lunch
3:20 Thursday Morning - Lucy Hamilton, Lydia Lunch
Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, CT - Lucy Hamilton, Lydia Lunch
I Wish...I Wish - Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore
Friday Afternoon - Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore
1,000 Lies - Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore
Some Boys - Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore
Still Burning - Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore
What Did You Do - Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore

Customer Reviews:

Less Than Nothing Here.......2001-04-03

Perhaps I'm too old, too tired or too beleagured to put up with this kind of nonsense. It's about as interesting as hypochondria. Wish I'd never heard it.

Absolute best album for moody, moping introverts........2000-05-17

There are very few pieces of music that sound like the " In Limbo " recordings. If you love this cd then you will probably want to hear more music that is similar, however there is nothing similar recorded in the 1980's.

Comparisons? Try Sonic Youth, James Chance, Swans or the Birthday Party... however In Limbo seems to stand out because of its ambiguities which fit in the gaps between all the gloom and caterwauling. That is the point of Lydia Lunch. On the surface she's " in yer face",

There's nothing much in rock music that blurs the boundaries... at least not until the 1990's. Maybe that is why a French techno outfit recently used Emerald Pale Has Disappeared in combination with dance beats.

Yeh anyway shes in your face but if you listen to it closely there are all these subtleties. There are enough beautiful moments of melody, texture, rhythm and well chosen cacaphony to make the brutality of this music completely enjoyable. Next stop Luciano Berio...Arnold Schoenberg...Albert Ayler...

lydia's midnight grave-yard death kiss.......1999-06-08

On this album, Atavistic records was able to fit in two of Lydia Lunch's most haunting and blissful recordings. While neither "The Drowning of Lucy Hamilton" or "In Limbo" are on the same level of sheer brutal perfection as Lydia's work in Teen-age Jesus and the Jerks, they are both incredible records. "The Drowning..." is really one piece of music, fragmented into short movements. Play it with the lights off, and you can feel the clausterphobic aura eminated by Lydia and Lucy Hamilton (i.e. China Burg of MARS). This record is not for everyone, but the dark meanderings of the guitar and bass clarinet will take the listener far into the right side of the brain, where extream pain and pleasure are one. This mood continues on the second album of the disc, "In Limbo". The atmosphere is set on this record not only by Lydia distinct voice and words, but by Thurston Moore, who plays bass and co-wrote most of the songs on the record. His style here is very similiar to some of the less hysteric moments on sonic-youth's "confusion is sex". Sexual confusion/obsession, suicide and guilt are seductivly woven into "In Limbo". Every song builds upon the next. "What Did You Do" is one of Lydia's best. The lyrics combine the pscycological fragmentation of Teen-age Jesus and the gothic rotting house imagry of "In Limbo". The dark vortex created by Lydia on "In Limbo" combines dreary desire and lust for anihilation into one moment. Do your eternal soul a massive favor and buy this. Make sure to turn off the lights and open the windows to let the night air in.

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Conspiracy of Women
Lydia Lunch
Manufacturer: Widowspeak
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003H47
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

'I Just Got Back From Los Angeles...'
'Why, Why Was I Born An American...'

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Widowspeak
Lydia Lunch
Manufacturer: Pilot
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00077F7EU
Release Date: 1999-04-27

Tracks:

Death Valley '69 - Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth
Endless Fall - Rowland Howard, Lydia Lunch
Why Don't We Do It in the Road? - Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin
Some Velvet Morning - Rowland Howard, Lydia Lunch
Four Cornered Room [#] - Lydia Lunch
Suicide Ocean - Karl Blake, Lydia Lunch
No Excuse - Lydia Lunch, , Lee Ranaldo
Short History of Decay, Pts. 1 & 2 - J. Budenholzer, J.F. Coleman, Lydia Lunch
Escape - Joseph Budenholzer, Lydia Lunch
Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, Connecticut - Lydia Lunch
Need to Feed - Joseph Budenholzer, Lydia Lunch
Der Karibische Western - Die Haut, Lydia Lunch

Tracks:

Twisted - Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin
Past Glas - Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin, Clint Ruin
Done Dun - Rowland Howard, Lydia Lunch
Lock Your Door - Lydia Lunch
Diddy Wah Diddy - 8 Eyed Spy, Lydia Lunch
Run Through the Jungle - 8 Eyed Spy, Lydia Lunch
Orphans - Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
Son of Stink - Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin
Still Burning - Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore
Tornado Warnings - Beirut Slump, Lydia Lunch
Lady Scarface - Lydia Lunch

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Widowspeak
Lydia Lunch
Manufacturer: Dynamic Italy
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0002B9PVM
Release Date: 2004-06-15

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BRUTAL, GROSS AND POWERFUL
A Good Lullaby if it Weren't So Funny
Three underground giants=excellent collaborative project

Stinkfist
Lydia Lunch , and Clint Ruin
Manufacturer: Widowspeak
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ASIN: B000003H46
Release Date: 1995-05-01

Tracks:

Stinkfist
Meltdown Oratorio
Son Of Stink
The Crumb

Customer Reviews:

BRUTAL, GROSS AND POWERFUL.......2003-05-23

The title track opens with nervous percussion, metallic sounds and strangled voice samples, occasionally falling into a chant of the title. In this inimitable way it meanders on to eventually conclude with a whimper, but not before some spooky synthesizer burps have their say, or shall I say their boing boing boing. The Meltdown Oratorio track of this gross collaboration has Lydia mumbling over a threatening foghorn sound, something about them having outlawed everything that spells pleasure. It then bursts into a cacophony of frenzied drumming and industrial sounds with Lydia singing and mouthing obscenities while glass shatters all around and sirens wail over the feedback and distortion. Son Of Stink is more of the same but with more shouting and chanting, like a dub version of the title track. I'm sure that fans of The Pop Group and diverse industrial noise merchants like Nitzer Ebb and their ilk will love this. As for me, I don't play it very often. Life's great when you're having fun.

A Good Lullaby if it Weren't So Funny.......2000-03-29

Fans of Foetus, Thurston, and Lydia should be careful with this one. If you're unaquainted with this trio you might find this hodgepodge of bumps, screeches, and half-hearted apocalypse-prosody interesting. But if you love the best work of these artists you'll be alternately snoozing (at the music) and laughing (at Lydia's third-rate Goth-raps).

There's nothing especially annoying about this disk (maybe there should have been), it just sounds like all three musicians' usual tricks watered down to a bland consistency. And I'm not sure if the word "industrial" means anything any more; it's thrown around so often that it's becoming an umbrella term for anything with no tune, energy, traditional instruments, or content besides poseur morbidity. Get Foetus's "Thaw," Sonic Youth's "Sister," and Lydia's "Hysterie", and if you're still curious, pick this one up for archival purposes. Just don't expect it to do much for you.

Three underground giants=excellent collaborative project.......1998-10-03

A short collaborative between punk rock diva Lydia Lunch,industrial pioneer Clint Ruin (aka Jim "Foetus" Thirwell), and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Stinkfist is a must-have for any fan of industrial music. Brilliantly mixed and sampled, the album consists mostly of distorted tribal percussion from a number of odd sources, blended with Ms. Lunch's moans, spoken word, and chanting. Something of an apocalyptic "STOMP", I suppose. To be experienced at a high volume on good speakers.

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Widowspeak
Lydia Lunch
Manufacturer: New Millenium Commun
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000024B3K
Release Date: 2002-02-13

Tracks:

Death Valley '69 - Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth
Endless Fall - Rowland Howard, Lydia Lunch
Why Don't We Do It in the Road? - Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin
Some Velvet Morning - Rowland Howard, Lydia Lunch
Four Cornered Room [#] - Lydia Lunch
Suicide Ocean - Karl Blake, Lydia Lunch
No Excuse - Lydia Lunch, , Lee Ranaldo
Short History of Decay, Pts. 1 & 2 - J. Budenholzer, J.F. Coleman, Lydia Lunch
Escape - Joseph Budenholzer, Lydia Lunch
Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, Connecticut - Lydia Lunch
Need to Feed - Joseph Budenholzer, Lydia Lunch
Der Karibische Western - Die Haut, Lydia Lunch

Tracks:

Twisted - Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin
Past Glas - Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin, Clint Ruin
Done Dun - Rowland Howard, Lydia Lunch
Lock Your Door - Lydia Lunch
Diddy Wah Diddy - 8 Eyed Spy, Lydia Lunch
Run Through the Jungle - 8 Eyed Spy, Lydia Lunch
Orphans - Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
Son of Stink - Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin
Still Burning - Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore
Tornado Warnings - Beirut Slump, Lydia Lunch
Lady Scarface - Lydia Lunch

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Spoken Word does not get any better, people. Deal with it.

Oral Fixation
Lydia Lunch
Manufacturer: Widowspeak
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003H48
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

Dear Whores
Shotgun
Black Romeo
Daddy Dearest
Oral Fixation

Customer Reviews:

Spoken Word does not get any better, people. Deal with it........2000-12-15

This is the most emotionally driven spoken word CD I have ever had the delight of coming across. Lydia's super-emotional verbal abuse drags you along with her; she cries and you want to cry... she screams and you want to scream. This is one of those rare listening experiences that changes one after hearing it. At times, it is extremely hard to listen to, just as living life can be hard; it perfectly reflects the bleak understanding of life's lack of meaning.

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