Severed Heads - Godsong (45RPM)

Song at incorrect speed of 45 RPM

(started playing my record at the wrong speed but didn't realize it till the song was finished and it went into the next song. Loved the way it sounded at this speed so i thought i'd upload it)

Original can be heard and purchased here
http://severedheads.bandcamp.com/track/godsong

Category:

Music

Tags:

• severed heads
• godsong
• since the accident
• 1983
• industrial
• experimental
• australia

[americandiscocrash]

@koldsacki i wish i could recall how it sounded (i could just slow it down on audacity to relive the embarrassing moments). i would have the turntables set to the previous albums speed, 45 or 33 1/3 and forget to adjust or hold the 12" and not acknowledge that it was a 45 until it was "on the air". spk i had never heard of until now--that is industrial! i am loving it. that is the college radio i remember.

[koldsack]

@americandiscocrash The stuff/bands coming out of Wax Trax were primarily EBM-ish soundwise. I reckoned that some of the spins played at 331/2 would have sounded REALLY weird. Like early EBM crossed with Dead Can Dance, or an electronica twin of Swans.

[americandiscocrash]

@americandiscocrash actually, now that i think about it, the 12" single would throw me off for the 12" lp and i would forget to reset the turntables. oh well.

[americandiscocrash]

i used to do this with wax trax albums on the air.

they were 12", so sometimes i would forget that they were meant to be 45, or i would forget to reset the turntable speeds. i figured the greater damage would be to change the speed while broadcasting. sounds good to me though, it always works out in the end.

[koldsack]

Indeed.

I remember playing SPK's Auto-Da-Fe at 45 instead of 331/2 and the stuff coming out of the speakers were mind shattering, considering the sonic onslaught of "Slogun" and "Retard" were already vicious even by today's standards.