Re: Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance (1982)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:48 pm

It is over.

It seemed a bit of a waste of time, really.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by Guest Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:48 pm

Nightjar wrote:

If that's his chest, imagine what his ***** must be like!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:48 pm

I shall give it 2 stars.

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:51 pm

Well, against all of my expectations, that has actually cheered me up.

What a very very entertaining listen.

A very ambitious album, aided enormously by a lot of very talented people other than Gen' and Sleazy.

As Guesticles is doubtless aware, it's also one of those vinyl albums with epic cover art and extras (posters, bonus discs etc).

P.Orridge's Dark Side of the Moon.

Dreams Less Sweet has its moments, but they never did better.

by Guest Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:52 pm

My copy had an interview with them from Smash Hits.

bowtie

That can't be right can it?

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:55 pm

Way more coherent, cohesive and musically impressive than I remember.

GPO plays very much a supporting role and thus is just one of many strong factors in an album that is, on reflection, a conceptually strong sum of its parts.

Top marks from me.

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:55 pm

Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:My copy had an interview with them from Smash Hits.

That can't be right can it?

by Guest Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:59 pm

Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance (1982) - Page 7 Img_6620

Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance (1982) - Page 7 Img_6621

Wasn't the temple of Psychic Youth a bit dodgy? shifty

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:00 pm

I'm listening to the bonus "Themes" record I chose not to include right now.

Good call, Me!

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by Guest Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:04 pm

This has gone very Piper at the Gates of Dawn hasn't it?

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:09 pm

Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:Wasn't the temple of Psychic Youth a bit dodgy?

Kind of, yes.

GPO started it out to be deliberately like a Manson-esque cult-family.

There was a sort-of uniform and mohawk/mullet hairdo.

They all lived in a dosshouse together for a bit and there was this inane ritual they said you could do to gain admittance.

When I was hanging around in Hammersmith in the mid-'80s I knew kids that did it.

You had to send off a letter to Gen' and Paula (the P.Orridges of Privet Drive) with a sheet of paper inscribed with an Ov Power symbol created from three b*dily fl*ids. ugh

I've read since - from a number of sources (including Paula - who has detested GPO for decades now) - that it was all a ruse to get sallow, but attractive young lads to get into k*nky *rgies and thr*esomes with them.

Poor Robin Pender[/doxx]

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:11 pm

Young and still-fragrant-at-that-point Rose McDowell started hanging around with them after SS's first album and it drove a permanent wedge through Rose and Jill's friendship. bawl

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:12 pm

Nightjar wrote:I saw PTV at the Hammersmith Town Hall in 1984 (I think).

I have no recollection if they did they did this.

https://www.discogs.com/Psychic-TV-Hammersmith-Town-Hall-London-17-8-84/release/14028855

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Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance (1982) - Page 7 R-14028855-1566407404-8538.jpeg

by Guest Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:17 pm

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/live-evil-psychic-tv-at-hammersmith-townhall-1984

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:27 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Guest‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ wrote:have we done an Alternative TV LP?

I don't think so.

Alternative TV's first line-up...

Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance (1982) - Page 7 RT11

That's Alex Fergusson on the left.

by Guest Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:56 pm

The second albums v. TG, which was odd as the first album was bouncy punk-pop, I think, never heard it, or have I?

Anyway, that was all before Paul Merton joined 'em.

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Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance (1982) - Page 7 R-1071993-1322883043.jpeg

by Nightjar Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:07 pm

Poor Mark Perry.

I feel that they were mocking him.

Like he was a kind of Jimmy Pursey character. sad yes

Which he was.

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