Suicide
Half Alive
© 1981 ROIR/Suicide (053436826423)
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Electronic Godfathers- Probably no other American rock n' roll group has had such major continuing influence on the international rock world scene as this pioneering electronic punk duo who started gigging in the bowels of NYC almost 30 years ago. (ROIR)
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"Guerilla Jukin', guttersnipe veracity, naked romance, Iggy Bop, and Blood."
-Lester Bangs, SoHo News
"Suicide recorded some amazingly seductive and terrifying music. Their profound influence on a generation of younger bands is readily apparent. They are the source point for Soft Cell, Erasure, Bronski Beat, Yaz, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, you name em'." -All Music Guide To Rock
"Half-Alive consists of live tracks circa 1978, plus a hand full of unreleased lo-fi studio gems from 1974-1975. Suicide warrant legend status. They found their most fertile reception outside America in the form of Soft Cell, Woodentops, Spacemen 3, Sigue Sigue Sputnik. They should have been the American "Kraftwerk." -Spin Alternative Record Guide
"They were ahead of their time. Rev's repetitive wall-of-noise keyboard and pneumatic rhythm machines with Vegas' Presleyish vocals provide a link to the rock n' roll tradition, with a form of controversial art performance on stage." -Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of RN'R
"Unadulterated passion. These tracks recorded from 74-78 blast a whole cesspool of sound and vision." -Boston Rock
"A pounding reminder of industrial dance music's early beginnings. They produced a unique obsessively American electronic music of enormous energy and enduring influence - throbbing sequencers and "Morrisonesque" vocals: Awesome." -Trouser Press Record Guide
"Suicide's acid triggered visions from the NOO YOIK gutters. Electro-boogie rears its psychic-savage walking bass head." -Sounds UK (FOUR STARS)
"The most interesting ROIR cassette yet. Contains tracks from their live assaults, including the London Marquee in '78 when they were probably at their most psychotic."
-Zig Zag UK
"Suicide at its best (or worse)." -Billboard Album Pick
"The first real IRT-lurking move anybody had made since the Velvet Underground. Suicide's music is truly the sound of NYC for me." -Lester Bangs (from Liner Notes)
"One of the half dozen most important acts in rock n' roll. They are the real thing."
-Roy Trakin (Now an Editor of Hits)
"Lester Bangs liner notes place Suicide in its proper historical context: A document of a force of nature - the filthy loud subway station heart of NYC. Suicide pioneered everything from synth-pop to industrial disco - low rent electronic angst-fest. Vega runs rough shod over the whirring blast of Rev's homemade synth." -Rolling Stone Record Guide
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grimier than the garbage strike! what's not to like?
author: jansonic gastritis for trainwrecks, metro mutants, homicidal romance, urban wastelands and other inspirational dives where spirits live large. great grooves for traffic jams, urine soaked subways and taxi cabs that reek.