Member Since: 8/21/2004
Band Website: thefloatingcorpses.com
Band Members:
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Roxy Monoxide, aka Birdy Arania, and for Moira Scar, Saphoid.
(guitar, vox, keys, t-sax, and for moira scar, drums, t-sax, keys, vox.)
LuLu LaCorpse, aka Gamma Ray, and for Moira Scar, Pelvis.
(synthesizer, sampler, vox, keys, and for moira scar, synth/keys, vox, trombone)
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///////and introducing our new drummer, LV. Together this new triad will be delivering new sets of our all original songs that is both a "best of" from our past sets/recordings, but also most alluring of freshly surfacing decompositions, all done in our most heart thrashing and evil big beat prancing theatrical anti-fashion, with four big live shows in July 2008 being our premiere performances together.///////////////////////////////////////////////////
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rums on "Past Lives" by Jackie H. Polka; drums on "Future Cells" by Philip Haut Couture; drums on "Live, From Ragnarok" by Krispy Pickles Corpse.))
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Influences: honing our particular (which, witch?) craft: musicianship and mediumship, ninja and slacker, imagination and imbibement, and all the assorted autromonts, however one spells anything these daze, and when what was wrote by who and why, and other co-opted, so we re-co-opt, art, love, revolution, and are corroded, radiation, deviance, alienation, anti-scene, science fiction and horror movies and other such pulp and or oral trashy drama's, primordial android, desire, sex, drugs, noise, creatures, heart beats, death
and books, many books from many different times and lands. (and tangents and runon sentences and after-thought mixed with random thought and talking with our peers and communicating across boundaries, breaking down borders, ((strong psychick boundaries are a built on these magick three)) (ancient mythologies, uncensored fables, comic books, the classics, trash pulp, essays on culture and politics, philosophies, poets, genet, baudelaire, rimbaud, borges, toni morrison, stanislaw lem, pk dick, audre lorde, unknown street and toilet poets, zines by sugar fixx.) and the sea, the ocean, mystical worlds. dreams, nightmares, insanity,
individuality, antagonistic yet still somehow working together: getting over our princess complex, still standin up for our criminal ethics. And friends, peers, artists, collaborations, communications, conflict, enemies, enema's, anima, Lifes a Drag, get used to it, don't know if we will but we do do our do; birds nest, animal sounds, natural disasters, smoke stacks, struggles for human equality and dignity (the autobiography of malcolm X), queer tranny trashy feminism, class war, animal and evironmental rights activism, giving a shit while still being a debauched emotionally challenged jaded yet revirginized creature. death rock, dirtheads, gutter punks, the street, rap, metal, jazz, the blues, ancient transmissions, future time capsules, rachel carson, busdriver, billie jean king, rod serling, william blake, carl jung, sigmund freud, sapho, rasheed wallace, lorena bobbit, douglas sirk, hubert selby jr., emma goldman, fruit flies, the corner store, perez prado, tuvan throat singers, noam chomsky, rumi,
oh, more music, wendy carlos, ennio morricone, serge gainsburg, david bowie, louis armstrong, billie holiday, christian death, joy division, alien sex fiend, sammy davis jr., judy garland, bo diddley, bessie smith, blondie, maria callas, xenakis, peter thomas, messian, cramps, great composers/performers/musicians from all genres and times, vladimir usuchevsky, bruce hack, ramones, no wave, clara rockmore, cab callaway,
little richard, x-ray spex, lucille pamela, diamanda galas, iggy pop/stooge, moans, kraftwork, new york dolls, hanoi rocks, lords of the new church, deepthroats, mutilated mannequins, musique concrete, ronettes, supremes, shanga-las, sam cooke, and more and others, dada, gutterpunx, pigeons, known and anonymous, persian scale, lost cats, subway, africa, asia, middle east, mission district, outer space, inner basket case; and cinema: verite, surreal, exploitation, underground. eye luv graffiti.
Sounds Like: muse ick
"Friskey Oblivion" performed live, at the Clarion Alley Festival.
"NightClub Cadavers" done in a secret hovel."Ass-Sass-In-Nation" live, at Lipo Lounge, Chinatown. Bonus Trivia question: do you know where Roxy and LuLu are walking in the intro.?
a shadowy live version of "Doppelganger Twitch"
Record Label: The Freak Mafia
Type of Label: None