Saturday, January 13, 2007

Crawling Chaos - The Gas Chair (LP + Sex Machine/Berlin 7")


The Gas Chair by Crawling Chaos remains one of the most baffling albums ever made. Originally released on Factory Benelux in 1982, it followed their legendary Factory debut single Sex Machine (FAC 17) from 1980, often cited as that label's most bizarre release. Both album and single are featured on this digitally remastered CD, that features the original album artwork as well as sleevenotes.Next to nothing is known about Crawling Chaos, who went on to record another two albums. According to Factory's January 1980 newsletter, the band promised to "open up a new genre of heavy modern. Three short-haired awkward types from Tyneside who are a cross between Status Quo and Orchestral Manoeuvres." Hmm. Their most memorable review followed an appearance at Factory's London showcase season at the Moonlight Club in April 1980. In the NME Adam Sweeting wrote: "They played so badly for so long that a phone call to McWhirter and his Book of Records would surely have been received favourably. Ineffectual doodlings on guitar and keyboards became ends in themselves. A guest singer stood at the microphone and coughed for several minutes. Nobody danced or even twitched a leg. The bloke at the mixing desk read the Evening Standard and someone next to me asked the time before falling asleep. Anyone who needs this garbage is probably already dead."


Another post punk classic!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

sounds like The Swell Maps on LSD. Interesting one! Thanks.

toni

Unknown said...

Can You repost this file, please? Rapidshare is accusing forbidden to be share.

Anonymous said...

May we please have a reup of this Crawling Chaos album?

Anonymous said...

theres a lot of things appearing on the crawling chaos uk site. it seems to have some activity. Contact them i guess

Anonymous said...

could you repost this masterpiece?

thanks for everything.

V.

Anonymous said...

Dear anonymous. You can get the masterpiece of an album by mailing Crawling Chaos at http://crawlingchaos.co.uk
I'm looking after the interests now and FYI, there will be a (very expensive) new release of stuff before summer this year.
pip! pip!
Strangely Perfect.

_ said...

I looked this up on Myspace and it is breathtaking.... do you think you could fix the link/put it up again? Thank you and I *LOVE* your site.

carla_m said...

link not working? would love to download this, please let me know once it's fixed, if it will be repaired. thanks so much for all your work here, it's a great blog!

mbarreto81 said...

Looks interesting, any chance to reupload?

Vigilancia Epistomológica said...

http://ragpath.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/gas-chair-clown-aka-gas-chair-crawling.html

Anonymous said...

Please, reupload!
Thanks.