Current 93 - Swastikas For Noddy (ALBUM REVIEW)

[@Kodaemon]

As far as filmic experiences go, yeah, Midsommar is a good one. Let me add add Mandy (2018 film.)

[@Taboot761]

It’s so nice to see another KZbin appreciate Current 93. I listened to this album on acid one time and it definitely was an experience. I thought it was cool sober, but it’s so much more visceral while on a psychedelic. Great review. 👍

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

thank you, really appreciate the comment, yeah I was always irritated for years since 2015 on why there was not much KZbin content about Current 93, so that's why I made my first bulk of videos for this channel only Current 93 reviews, I'm planning to do a review of a C93 album I haven't heard yet soon..they have so much music that after 6 years I still have not gotten through half of their discography lol. I'm going to need a straight month of just nothing but C93. All though I feel like I would loose touch with reality if I listen to nothing but C93 for that long lol. David's words always takes me to a different place, it's amazing.

[@sczarnecki5887]

Great video! Fellow Neofolk fan in the All area.

[@23Ghaze23]

From what I understand from Douglas P. talking in concert and at a concert, the falling out was over Tiny Tim (and his MAJOR homophobia) David T. befriended him late in his life and they argued over it I could be wrong but that was the impression I got from Douglas talking in LA...

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

yeah I recently discovered that too after I did this video

[@JS-hw6xc]

You have excellent taste. I hope to see this channel grow. I've been obsessed with C93 lately and Swastikas for Noddy definitley feels like the acid freak out album that the Manson Family never got to make. It totally goes well with Midsommar and the original Wicker Man. By the way, the cover of the DI6 album is definitely not a Klan hood. It's Jan Mydlář's executioner mask. He was active in Prague during the early 17th century and left quite a body count. Also, Doug's not Jewish but most certainly gay. I think a lot of people get DI6 wrong but of course, it's all up to the listener's interpretation. It all looks questionable but I think he conveys a more tragic view of humanity than an affirmation of fascism. Homoerotic militarism and sad love ballads aside, there's the notion that no one is safe from committing atrocities for ideological purposes. At least that's how I interpret DI6, based on what I've gauged.

[@gertegottes7514]

Woah! I really like it, how you've partially approach these albums! Current 93 and Death in June are two of my favorite bands, - and I love how unaffected you approach this somethimes difficult subject matter...

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

@@gertegottes7514 Thank you Gerte, I really appreciate your comment. I love music so much to the point I'll listen to stuff where the message is absolutely evil, but I been listening to so much different types of music good, bad, and neutral, since I was 10, so I just got to a point where I can look at most things very objectively (which can be very hard to do), and understanding the concept of duality, which I feel is the same with David Tibet in this culture overall "to certain degrees". overall I feel music is an expression of the universe, since we as humans come from the universe, we are the constructers of that expression good or bad based on your beliefs. I primarily listen to rap music and there is plenty of conflicting subject matters in that genre of music but being black, it's part of my culture so I love it for better or for worse. So when I started being open to other forms of music, I just started realizing they are all reflections of the same type of expressions, just in different clothes. but overall, I'm really happy you are enjoying the videos, it's so fun talking about this band.

[@chuckcreasy7876]

so very glad to see more reactions to Current 93. i've been listening to them since around '88 or '89. i love just about everything they've done, though i wouldn't recommend i have a special plan for this world, or hypnagogue...personal preference. i personally like a lot of what David Tibet has done with Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound, though the newest two, the light is leaving us all and if a city is set upon a hill are pretty awesome, though they're more structured. i would suggest the book England's Hidden Reverse on the topic of Current 93 and really the early esoteric english underground scene.

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

I plan on getting England's Hidden in reverse soon, I wasn't aware of it at the time of making the video, but the NeoFolk Industrial movement has been a 7 year process for me to digest and counting

[@chuckcreasy7876]

@@arcanefrequencies5157 oh, it's a never-ending pursuit. at one point, the record store owner i purchased from in athens, ga brought back a crate of records from london for me by current 93, nurse with wound, death in june, sol invictus, strawberry switchblade, throbbing gristle and a few others....i ended up paying almost $5000 for them, back in 1996, all of them rare, like signed, test pressings, limited editions (i had a copy of christ and the pale queens mighty in sorrow, limited to 93 copies...most expensive record i ever bought). but it took me something like 20 years to really start cracking all the codes tibet and douglas pearce use. it was like working a puzzle for me. i love to dig things out and understand them. have been working on the bible on extreme depths since 2001, with fervor.

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

@chuck creasy That's awesome, I definitely want to grow my collection too, I finally took the deep dive into Di6 catalog over the past 7 months after being apprehensive to listening to Doglas.P for the past few years but all I can say is I love the sound he evokes, But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter is a lovely album, my next pursuits is getting through Genesis P-orridge's catalog

[@chuckcreasy7876]

@@arcanefrequencies5157 there is an awful lot to digest and comprehend about where he/she/they (i don't remember the preferred pronoun before he died) was coming from. and frankly, most of it was very disturbing, even for someone who was in a live torture performance art group in the late eighties.

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

@chuck creasy I absolutely believe Genesis lived deep in the abysmal areas of life based on their interviews and the smidge of material I listened to, just even looking at Genesis eyes gave me chills when first I saw a picture of them in the recommendation part of Spotify when I first discovered Current 93 back in 2015 and I didn't even know who they were other than seeing them labled under Psychic TV, I was younger and immature at the time and I had just listened to Dogs Blood Rising, but even I was like,"I should just take it slow with listening to only Current 93 before I get into these other artist cause they genuinely made feel like they were into some disturbingly freaky shit" I didn't even know Genesis name until 2020 after they died, I just remember them from the Psychic TV photo and their face was stuck in my head for years until I branched a bit from Current 93.

[@michaelthompson9540]

I have been listening to " The Light is Leaving Us All" over and over. David speaks truth to those who will listen. Pay attention to what is front of us while the light is still with us.

[@mUbase]

An honest and interesting review of this crazy album. SFN takes a lot of the lyrical content from the Norse mythology and the Runes. x 😘

[@mUbase]

and yeah, I stopped listening to DIJ. I first heard them in a Goth club in London ( Slimelite) and then a month or so later found a blue cover copy of Nada! in a Crusaid charity shop for £1 !! that was in 1992. Its strange how opinion and context can change and warp over and around time. I lived in Israel for 3 years (88 - 91) where DIJ actually played. I dont know, I could talk with you for longer but.... Hey, thanks again ;) x Steve.S

[@mUbase]

I didnt know C93 had released both albums as a DLP ! I'll have to find a copy. I had just the vinyl Laylah copy :)

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

@mUbase yeah it's a reworked version. It's been years since I listened to it, but for people who are not too fond of the crudness of the original version, "Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God" may be better listen to.

[@toweringsequoias1590]

nature unveiled in 1000% my favourite album from them

[@davidadams6863]

Great breakdown of the album. You fine sir have a new subscriber in me.

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

thank you, much appreciated, A new Current 93 review will be coming soon

[@gideons]

I love how you include your grandma in this video. 93

[@Maldoror93]

Hey Tre, just found your review and enjoyed it a lot… which C93 is your favorite? I collected them all as vinyl because I am a huge fan too

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

it's hard to say, they have so many projects, it's between Swastikas For Noddy, and Dogs Blood Rising, those albums had the most effect on me when I first got into them, but Thunder Perfect Mind has been my go to C93 project in recent years.

[@Secondplanetfromthesun]

​@@arcanefrequencies5157nobody asked me but Horsey probably my fav

[@christiaanbotha6247]

Listen to the latest album and give input; I was surprised you did an hour review.

[@psychick023]

Oh wow. I have to know if David has seen this now. Do some research on Gnosticism. You would definitely become more enlightened on his artistry, be it musically, written, or performance art, along with many other talents. This has always been a fluid and eclectic group of individuals who share the same interests and come together in different forms to create. What is there, but to go? To become? To create? Use the wisdom you find to throw off the veil of fear and control that has kept the sheeple in submission. Learn and experience the realization that one one can find your own truth, be the creator (aka god) In that journey I wish you well.

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

yeah I've been a Current 93 fan for 8 years, I love a lot of David's work.

[@Grithron2]

Current 93 - Mistakes and missing details: The title was Noddy first, Goddy second (blame the Enid Blyton Estate). Oh Coal Black Smith is a variant version of the folksong also known as The Two Magicians (Steeleye Span used to do a more authentic version). The Final Church takes most of its lyrics directly from Isidore Ducasse (one of Tibet's touchstones). In Beausoleil, to cut a long story short, the "black messiah" stuff all relates to the "prophecies" of Charles Manson. Since Yesterday is a cover of a song by Strawberry Switchblade (one of Rose's other bands) - it's about the slow painful physical decay that will supposedly afflict the last humans alive after a nuclear war. Black Flowers Please is a deliberately mean-spirited caricature of its co-singer Rose McDowall who is bipolar and has attempted suicide many times. [See also that nursery-rhyme Hey Ho..., which could be as interpreted as saying "if you were raped as a child, it's your fault" - and those words are put into her mouth, so to speak. Hmmm...does this cast a new light on that silly band-photo where David pretends to plook her?...well, I say pretend, their trousers are on...]. Surprisingly no mention of the two Boyd Rice monologs which appear to contradict the songs they preface/suffix, contradict or just reinterpret, by putting them in a "war" context. No mention also of the fact Crooked Crosses replaces Panzer Rune, the sound collage track based around Freya's chant, with Panzer Ruin, which is David's "disco" version of the Man Of Double Deed folksong (consult the Clancy Brothers for the "original" !) - I'm guessing he replaced it because, as he got more immersed in Christianity, he felt the need to distance himself from paganism/Thelema etc. On the same album he "obscures" one of Freya's chants concerning Hagalaz. Another comment: Advice for you sir - in these videos, don't sing! Don't even talk-sing a la David Tibet. Either way, it's just annoying.

[@psychick023]

I'm surprised you left out Boyd's claim of LaVey giving him the nod to lead his church. Plus his Nazi memorabilia fetish. Maybe this channel can review a NON album,

[@mUbase]

no ! i liked the singing ! 😉

[@Grithron2]

Also, re Death In June: Rose Clouds of Holocaust is actually about the Bosnia/Croatia war. You wouldn't figure that out if DP hadn't explained it (as he was forced to when the album was banned in Germany) but it was one of the songs that mark the point when Croatia basically replaced Nazi Germany as DP's historical obsesssion. (ICYDK: the two Di6 songs which are most clearly "about" Nazi Germany are Heaven Street, which is a Nazi-soldier's-eye-view of the gas chambers, and Til The Living Flesh Is Burned which is about how Hitler "dealt with" the National Communist resistance, a disaster of especial interest to DP who is quasi-Communist in his beliefs. That said the songs written/sung by Tony Wakeford are another matter for another page),

[@arcanefrequencies5157]

thank you for this information, it will give me a clearer view when I review a DI6 project.