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Vampire State Building

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(thing) by FeryD (3.2 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Wed Mar 06 2002 at 17:27:41

I guess you might have been too innocent
for my little experiment...
- Sperminator, 50 Hz broken

Vampire State Building is a norwegian band/project that used an unconventional symbiosis of keyboards, guitars and noise - producing a dark, melancholic industrial techno/rock hybrid.

Though the band members signed the releases with their initials only, they have been known to include:

Erik Ljunggren has moved on to Seigmen and then to Zeuromancer, while Jacobsen moved on to The Lonely Crowd, and Bergsten went to Red Harvest

Discography:

50 Hz broken is by far the best "starter's" album - the songs "An Eye For A Tooth" and "A Tooth For An Eye" gives an excellent introduction to the playing style used by the band.

Singles:

  • Smalltown Boy - 1995

Songs for Compilations:

VSB has been compared to bands like the Cranes and a 90's version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and is currently handled by Maxhinehead/Progress Records in Trondheim, Norway.

Information on VSB is hard to come by, and this article should not be seen as the complete and absolute truth. I will update this node as I manage to dig up information.


(thing) by Sondheim (2.9 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Wed Mar 19 2003 at 15:21:20

The Vampire State Building was a pop group in the late 1960s. As far as I know, the group was "created" for the purpose of recording their one and only single, Barnabas which is a song about Barnabas Collins, the famous vampire from the daytime gothic serial drama, Dark Shadows. The verses to the song were spoken, but the chorus was sung:

"Barnabas, we must confess
We dig your pearly fangs and your blood-stained breath
Biting people's is your ghoulish desire
Barnabas you're our favorite vampire!"

The only time I've ever really heard the song is on a Varese Sarabande recording called The Dark Shadows 30th Anniverary Collection which is worth listening to for any DS fan.


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