Six Finger Satellite
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The band formed in 1990 around a line up of J. Ryan (singer/keyboards), John MacLean (guitar), Peter Phillips (guitar), Chris Dixon (bass), and Rick Pelletier (drums). They submitted a demo of watered-down grunge rock to Sub Pop Records, who, to their surprise, signed them and released the demo as the four-song Weapon EP in 1992.
Six Finger Satellite’s first full-length album, The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird, was released in 1993, with Kurt Niemand replacing Dixon on bass. The record more accurately represented the band’s vision of cyborg-esque post-punk, and was recorded by Bob Weston, whose band Shellac named their 1994 single, The Bird is the Most Popular Finger in tribute. In 1994, 6FS released the Machine Cuisine EP, which was recorded entirely with synthesizers, suggesting the band’s future direction. Their 7” single supposedly recorded “live at the A.C.I.” was not actually recorded live at that prison, though its tongue-in-cheek liner notes purport thusly.
In the meantime, Phillips had left the band and Niemand had died of a drug overdose. James Apt (bass) joined for the 1995 album Severe Exposure, which represented a fusion of their synth- and guitar-driven sounds. The low-budget music video for the song “Parlour Games,” from this album, was featured in an episode of Beavis and Butt-head. The synths became more dominant still on 1996’s Paranomalized, especially on the porno/elevator-music song “Coke And Mirrors.”
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Severe Exposure
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The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird
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Law Of Ruins
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LivingShit
listening to this off the subpop 1997 spring sampler. this techno sucks
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juanchopepe2
Hot band.
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CrabUrod
so good, tasty one
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GreenSheep
WHy didn't I know about this band before?
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EmoAddict15
AOR references.
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ValasVixson
No God Is Dad
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ElNuevoPure
Pidgeon > Severe
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EmoAddict15
Sea of Tranquility... All day, every day!
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AprilPhantom
the only reasonable reason for the keytar
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Fishmonk
Always really surprised this band isn't recognized as one of the most influential bands of the 90s.
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DuncanIdaBRO
Very adaptive music, cyborg post-punk synth-core is a new tag in my library thanks to this band.
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EndsWithTheSea
law of ruins is completely alien music (dance-punk? wat, they have more in common with hardcore than that IMO)
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th1s1sm1n3
Needs to be top pic: http://www.last.fm/music/Six+Finger+Satellite/+images/47323021
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tenselight
This band is so great. Listening to Law of Ruins sober is completely awesome in itself but on weed, alcohol, shrooms, or acid just takes life to a whole new level.
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adamcooleyisdea
suicide.. do it now.
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thewrongnotes
Salt_The_Fries wrote: "Dance-punk (some of the stuff) before it became stale indie crap for masses (like it is now)." Yeah it's amazing how far ahead of their time they were, how much better they were doing it then most current acts, and also how little recognition they've received. I didn't even hear about them until my drummer from my old band told me about them last year. Better late then never though, this is real hidden treasure.
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sankathi
band rules
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mckickflip
no we (i) am referring to Half Control
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deermead
also, is Half Control the 'new' album people are referring to, or have they actually recorded new stuff as well?
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deermead
I would drink their piss if they wanted.
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