Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

Because It’s There

From an esteemed and pedigreed source comes this: A 10-hour supercut of all the Dark Star from ’72. Like me, I’m sure, you’ve often wondered, “How much Dark Star was in 1972?” Here is the answer to the question: this much.

I am reminded of the classic cocktail party game for spotting sociopaths: your mother dies and at the funeral you meet the love of your life. you have never met this person before, and they disappear without exchanging information with you. How do you get in touch with this person.

The answer is, of course, “Kill your father and meet the person at the funeral.” It’s supposed to snoop out psychos, but it always seemed more like a riddle than a true psych evaluation to me.

How do you tell a True Enthusiast: upon hearing there’s a 10-hour supercut of all the ’72 Dark Stars, you immediately ask if there will be one for ’73, as well.

40 Comments

  1. mrcompletely

    pfffft I circulated a zip file of all the ’72 dark stars among serious Enthusiasts years ago

    • mrcompletely

      and did a supercut of ’71 dark stars. this is nice though

      • thoughtsonthedead

        As I stated: Where’s the ’73?

        And let’s have that ’71 by all mean, please.

        • maggiemay

          ’71 is necessary indeed pls

        • mrcompletely

          let’s just enjoy this for a minute ok?

      • spencer

        Supercut of that is work for supermen (with thanks to George Mallory)

      • spencer

        This is tasty, would love to hear 71 and 73 Mr. Completely

      • spencer

        No hurry Mr. Completely. I shall take your advice.

      • maggiemay

        SSSSSALTY, SPENCER

      • spencer

        Wasn’t being salty mags, he’s right

      • maggiemay

        I know

        Our lack of punctuation on here makes it hard to tell if people are being sarcastic or not but you can be sure that I certainly am being sarcastic 97% of the time AND ALSO I CAN NEVER Really follow any of these conversations along bc that’s just me

        Also it’s biologically impossible for you to be salty bc you’re Canadian. Sorry.

      • cuznt

        http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/gd-darkstarBLACKHOLE_24stellarmass_all_together.asx and Peter used to have one from the days of Real Player as a darkstar.rp a 71 or 73 would be pretty sick indeed. we could join all of them and get like 25+ hours of dark star. I have about 39 darkstars simply joined that at times loops continually (its only about 4 hours)

  2. spencer

    http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/ds.html

  3. BuckMulligan

    I actually genuinely enjoy Grayfolded from time to time. Does that count as a Dark Star “supercut”?

    • Big O

      Grayfolded is my ringtone…all 3 vinyl LPs worth.

      More, more, more…

      http://archive.org/post/106013/who-was-bill-graham

    • thoughtsonthedead

      More of a just-plain-cut. That’s a tremendous record, but it’s funny that the higlight of it is just 12 minutes of the band playing straight with no edits.

  4. Daela

    Great link spencer! Much appreciated.

    • spencer

      Your welcome

    • spencer

      Daela,Google “graeme Boone tonal and expressive ambiguity in dark star” it’s well worth reading

      • FreedomHaul

        I have a pdf of that if anyone wants it…

  5. maggiemay

    What do Benjy and Bill have to do with the ’72 Dark Stars tho why is their picture there no offense

    • maggiemay

      oh wait my computer’s just sucking ass again that’s why I’m seeing a picture of Billy and Benjy

      • maggiemay

        ps
        benjy is lame……………………………………….. BRUH

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