No – Glory For The Shit For Brains [LP] (1987, Ultimate Records)

NO was an Australian Post-Punk and Electro-Industrial band from Melbourne formed by Ollie Olsen (vocals, sampler), Michael Sheridan (guitar), John Murphy (drums, percussion), Marie Hoy and Kevin McMahon. 

Born in Melbourne in 1958, Ollie Olsen has produced much innovative music in Australia. Ollie studied electronic music mid-70s under Felix Werder, a German composer living in Australia who had studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen. In the late 70's Ollie formed one of the first electronic bands, Whirlywirld, releasing a number of recordings on Missing Link Records. During the next ten years Ollie formed experimental outfits Hugo Klang and Orchestra of Skin and Bone, then the hard-core industrial techno band, NO. 

Michael Sheridan formed in 1983 the jazz punk outfit Great White Noise. Soon followed by an improvisation group Slaughter House 3, with Jon Rose and John Gillies. By the mid 1980s, he moved to Melbourne and formed Trans Waste with keyboardist Jamie Fielding. In the late 1980s he formed the electro-punk band NO with Ollie Olsen and Marie Hoy, and played with Michael Hutchence in band Max Q. He also joined Ollie Olsen in the outfit Eccohomo (also spelt Ecco Homo). Following he formed Dumb And The Ugly with John Murphy and David Brown. Soon after 1990, he joined Peril with Tony Buck, Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki. 

John Murphy played with many artists since the early 1980s while living in both Australia and the UK, and from 2006 until his death in 2015 in Berlin. From being a member of groups such as The Associates and SPK, working extensively with artists like Death In June and Ollie Olsen, and having many solo projects, his work has covered a wide range of genres and styles. 

'Glory For The Shit For Brains' pushes the boundaries of good taste, nice and stubborn and a f*ck you attitude. Similarly here, either you think it's dregs or you see the rays of sunshine between the dark clouds.

 

 

Label: Ultimate Records – ULP-001 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: Australia 

Released: 1987 

Style: Art Rock, Post-Punk, Electro-Industrial

 

Tracklist:

A1 Skin 5:12 

A2 Where Are We Going 3:29 

A3 200 Years 6:01 

A4 Dedication 5:14 

B1 Slave 7:30 

B2 Done No Wrong 3:56 

B3 Glory For The Shit For Brains 8:08 

 

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