Records that will clear a room.

All of these would clear a room. And I love them all.

TG - 2nd Annual Report (1978)

The Residents - Eskimo

The Residents - Meet The Residents

Crawling Chaos - The Gas Chair

GG Allin - Hated in the Nation

Another great room-clearer - Whitehouse's Dedicated to Peter Kurten:

Unfinished Music No 2: Life With The Lions by John & Yoko

Kevin

I better stop you there before you put up a picture of "Two Virgins"

Many years ago, when I was interviewing New Order, Hooky and Barney told me how Ian Curtis genuinely LOVED "Metal Machine Music" and played it over and over.

MMM seems less extreme now than it did in '75.Was it the late great Lester Bangs (who famously had a love/hate relationship with Reed) who reviewed it as "the tubular groanings of a galactic refrigerator"?

I rarely listen to it but I do love the fact that it exists, and that RCA/Lou saw fit to put it out. It's actually a lot more listenable than that aural abortion he put out recently with Metallica.

Landing On Water.....Neil Young       would clear a room pretty quick?

Too late Redmires!

Lee Ranaldo - From Here to Infinity.

Mostly consists of lock grooves

 Nice transparent vinyl though...

The mighty Gristle are great for getting rid of unwanted guests:

Heathen Earth

Amon Tobin : ISAM (Invented Sounds Applied to Music)

I use it regularly at hifi shows. Track 3 (Go to 10) or 4 (Surge) will empty the room in about 30 seconds. Strained polite looks from the host usually follow.

It's actually a superb recording for testing every last nook and cranny of your sound system, notably its imaging capabilities. Amon Tobin fully exploits a 3-D soundstage on which he paints his sounds. Very impressive. Is it music ? You be the judge.

enjoy ! (or not)

Jan

Most of Guido's collection? 

Ouch. Can't agree there Howard. I know he has a few esoteric albums but in the main I think Guy has very good taste in music. I think Kevin is more avant garde in his musical taste (see above), and I don't mean that in a derogatory way.

Ongoing reparté, Steve.

Most of Guido's collection is my collection too.

You teaser.

I sometimes put this when we have guests. It loses its appeal after about five minutes...

This is a real horror. Even I find it very difficult going...

An interesting 7" EP from 1978, imported here from the US by Mute.

It features 16 (I think!) lock grooves, and an extra, off-centre hole for a different listening experience.

When a particularly annoying neighbour had his house up for sale, we used to have a pile of cds kept next to the stereo to play during the open house period - we'd reorientate the speakers to face outdoors, crank up the volume and put on one of the following...

Ornette coleman - free jazz (double quartet (one per channel) of "collective improvisation")

Tyondai Braxton - Central market (Battles - Mirrored as played by an orchestra)

Faust - Faust/So Far (can't beat the Germans for experimental noise)

Schoenberg/Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra (Op16 and Op10 respectively) see above

Diamandas Galas - You must be sure of the devil (parts of her Aids Trilogy - angst and screaming)

Fennesz - Venice (avant-garde free-form ambient and experimental electronica)

All were pretty effective in creating looks of concern by most prospective purchasers. (The couple that did buy the house apparently heard the Galas and being arty types thought it was a 'creative' neighbourhood...(I'd like to point out I quite like all of the above and ISAM as mentioned by another poster...)

regards,

Giles

The Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh, if that doesn't clear the room then nothing will.

If the room is full of music lovers then anything by the Sex Pistols would do the job. 

Must make me a non music lover then............................

Karl

PS Anyone want a few 1000's records/hifi system?

Fixed your sentence,, no need to thank me