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28 April 2025

It was the Best of Walter, it was the Worst of Walter

 

In a foreword to the book No Wave, writing about the movement's continuing influence Weasel Walter sez:
     "I began to express myself musically in a way that felt true to myself, constantly pushing the limits of idiom or genre and always screaming "Fuck You!" loudly in the process. It's how I felt then and I still feel it now. The ideals behind the (anti-) movement known as No Wave were found in many other archetypes before and just as many afterwards, but for a few years around the late 1970s, the concentration of those ideals reached a cohesive, white-hot focus." 



From the compilation notes: Madcap selections from WW's solo archives, spanning 1995-2010
     "The Best of the Worst contains 1 hour & 36 minutes of abstract mastery, including drum solo pieces, rare compilation tracks, guitar deconstructions, abrasive brutal prog composition, deathly minimalism, machine guns & air raid sirens with Beefheartian skronk in one long, flowing stream of audio terror." 

 

Weasel Walter - The Best of the Worst, ugEXPLODE, 2020.
decryption code in comments

Nobody Watching    
Cuntish Beerfarts    
Viral Humanity    
Shards    
Perverted Percussion    
Trajectories    
Hairmaze    
Strictly Improbable
Baldikhu
Antisocial Distance    
Ick & Glick    
Knife Through the Face of the Bitch I Hate
For Martin Billheimer    
All Fast All Loud All the Time    
Retrograde Composite    
Rattling Down
 
 

Enjoy,

8 comments:

  1. Best of the Worst
    HDNNPX-Hknl9J8M0lyUyLA8jaKd2Jp0OG-1VZYSgtVk

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  2. And yet another excellent post. Thanks a lot, Nate!

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    1. WW is definitely a wild one. Hoped you might enjoy this. Take care, Flac.

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  3. Richie Muster4/29/25, 1:38 AM

    Top work Nate. Thanks very much.

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    1. Your we;come, my friend. How're the floodingissues unfolding?

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    2. Richie Muster4/30/25, 2:45 AM

      So far, so slow mate. I've got an industrial dehumidifier & 2 huge fans blowing 24hrs a day, drying the house. It sounds like a very boring Merzbow album. Carpets & rugs ruined, as were 90 albums i had lined up on the floor, which ironically would have been safely up on my shelves had the flood happened a few days later. Because it was a water utility fault, there's some compensation due (i'll get a new carpet for sure) but there's no guarantee they'll pay out for the lost vinyl. What can i say, they're a rapacious capitalist company; natch they'll want to stiff me. I'll know in a few weeks.

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    3. I have that Merbow album...After the Flood. Never lived up to its hype. Take care & best of luck with Rapacaious Power Ltd.

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  4. Richie Muster5/1/25, 1:21 AM

    Cheers mate. One step at a time, eh?

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