Thinking Plague Appreciation thread

How many of you out there like Thinking Plague?

In my opinion they are so extremely out  left that I am surprised my ears don't fall off.. This is progressive if anything is. Extremely complex, still in a way catchy. This is just one of these band that I have to be mentally prepared just to be able to listen to them.

Buy "In Extremis"  and be prepared to fall on your behind. flabbergasted!

This thread couldn't have been more timely.... Yesterday I bought my first Thinking Plague CD (in a secondhand store in our area) - A History of Madness. Well, when I got home, I opened the case, and found it empty.... Which means I'll have to go back there (thank heavens I have a receipt!), and hope they actually HAVE the CD somewhere in the store. Then, if I'm successful, I'll get back to you.

Yea, listening to In Extremis  right now and I'm losing my freakin mind.  

Awesome awesome band. "In Extremis" is generally considered to be their crowning achievement (and not without good reason!), but there's a lot of good stuff in their earlier releases too.

Having said that, songs like "Dead Silence" and "Les Etudes d'Organism" are bloody hard to beat. It's a superb starting point for anyone wanting to dip a toe into RIO waters - far catchier and less overtly impenetrable than Henry Cow without ever compromising on dissonance and complexity. Also, there's more than a whiff of Gentle Giant on that album, which can only be a good thing!

Yes!  "Les Etudes d'Organism" is totally amazing. Begins with a murmuring, ta-ta-ta-grump-grump, then a fantastically catchy but extremely complex part that scrambles the brain like nothing else.

Damn that band knows how to use dissonances in a VERY effective way.

Incredible, just Incredible....

Check out youtube also, there's a Thinking Plague video with (probably) Dave Kerman dressed as a bear :)

I just mailed Kerman about the Bear. :) Didn't know that Bob Drake was a drummer too... a thought he was more of a string man :).

I remember  Bob Drake has a weird hobby. He collects photos of graveyards :)

Rottenhat wrote: I just mailed Kerman about the Bear. :) Didn't know that Bob Drake was a drummer too... a thought he was more of a string man :). I remember  Bob Drake has a weird hobby. He collects photos of graveyards :)

Check out his page here in PA, he has great releases

BOB DRAKE

Though the ratings in PA for their early albums are low, I personally think those are great and very well worth getting as well.

THINKING PLAGUE Albums

2.96 | 5 ratings ... A Thinking Plague 1984	2.81 | 6 ratings Moonsongs 1987	3.47 | 10 ratings In This Life 1989	4.36 | 27 ratings In Extremis 1998
4.05 | 14 ratings A History of Madness 2003

I got Madness a few years ago after seeing a review online, wild stuff

The Science Group is also a band i could recommend. They are quite amazing, and Bob Drake is a member :)

Strangely their first album has only one review on PA, and the second album none. I have only heard the first one. They sound quite a lot like U Totem and Thinking Plague in my opinion :)