"She even offered me posterior intimacy!"
I don't really have anything to write, just a load of songs to post.
Tony Wilson tribute ahead: The Durutti Column - "Sleep Will Come" from 1980. Features Jeremy Kerr of A Certain Ratio on vocals. Was originally written for Ian Curtis, but this might work for Tony, too.
Tony Wilson razzie ahead: Crispy Ambulance - "We Move Through the Plateau Phase" from 1982. I might have posted this song before. Tony Wilson shipped them off to Factory Benelux after he expressed disdain for the outro of "Concorde Square". Anyone that's known me before Fall 2005 knows the significance of this song. More Factory shenanigans here.
Armand Schaubroeck Steals with "Ratfucker" from 1978. Read about this years ago on Julian Cope's Head Heritage site, only recently managed to find the album on mp3 and it's everything I thought it would be. I wish I could get a female gospel choir to sing "RAT-FUCKER!" for me.
Gal Costa - "Se Você Pensa" from 1969. Such a fabulous voice, and I love that false halt before she comes back in with a gutteral growl.
Breathless with "Moment by Moment", "Smash Palace", "Walk Down to the Water" and "Count on Angels". The former two are from 1989's Chasing Promises, the third one comes from 1998's Blue Moon and the latter is from 1986's The Glass Bead Game -- also known to a number of my readers as my favorite album. These are mainly a primer for obscuratea, but are highly recommended for everyone else, too. They were (and still are, since they're apparently still active despite not having released anything since 2003) an amazingly consistent group. Darkly romantic and heartbreaking. They would have been huge if they were on 4AD -- and could have been, too, considering that Dominic Appleton appeared on four This Mortal Coil songs. I guess they were happier with having their own label and the complete creative control that came with it, even if it didn't translate to much sales-wise.
Finally, Disco Inferno with "Bleed Clean" from 1991, pre-samplers and back when they sounded like a product of Factory in 1981. Missed out on post-punk but beat out the post-punk revival by a decade. Does your blood flow in a mess?
P.S. The subject title is culled (or maybe paraphrased) from the movie Amarcord. I watched it yesterday. My favorite part was actually when Uncle Teo went climbing up the tree and started caterwauling, "I want a woman!" over and over and wouldn't come down and kept throwing stones at all the men and family members who tried to rescue him -- up until the dwarf nun arrived and he willingly crept down the tree in a shot. Someday soon (particularly if my loveless drought keeps up) I'm going to suffer a case of Isabelle Eberhardt Syndrome so bad that I'll end up doing that, but it'll take more than the will of a three-foot-tall nun to get me down!