Black Flag, early Swans, Albert Ayler, Henry Miller, Saccharine Trust, Dazzling Killmen, Universal Order of Armageddon, the Stooges, Craw, thrash metal.
Bands TOI played with: Coalesce, Converge, Brutal Truth, Damnation AD, His Hero is Gone, Kiss it Goodbye, Assuck, Anal Cunt, Bloodlet, Nile, Fireside, Acrid, Botch, Nineironspitfire, Isis, etc.
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WORDS/INFO:
"TOI used music as existential combustion to drag the listener's soul through the shaodw of death with role models like Joy Division, Black Fag, and Swans (all in spirit more than sound). They gathered sand in their teeth, salt in their wounds, with pulsating blinding migraines and thirst cracking their throats, yet they still stood and still defied."
Terrorizer Magazine, 2006
"TOI's sound was forged out of equal parts punk rock, sludge and free jazz, and often sounded as if it could have been a distant evolution of Black Flag or Bad Brains had either given in to their most primal aggression. There has never been a band that sounded quite like this and there likely never will be again. Lambgoat, 2006
"It’s kind of beautiful that mental and chemical problems eventually destroyed the band, and that their “career” was built on failure, negativity and violence; anything less would’ve been posing." Decible Magazine, 2006
"An ultimate realization of pain-through-sound." Alternative Press, 1997.
"The most underrated and under-appreciated band in modern hardcore. Thoughts of Ionesco have always remained somewhat inaccessible when they should have been huge." Superhero Magazine, 1999
"I had the fortune of seeing TOI live twice during their tumultuous existence and they were amazing and mind bending both times." Punk Planet, 2005
"This reccord (The Triptych Session) is THE motherfucker!!!" Second Nature Magazine, 1997
"A lot of people will breathe easier now that Thoughts of Ionesco are dead and gone, but they scorched a bittersweet scar on music that will never be forgotten." Slap Magazine, 2001
"Possibly one of the most devastating, derranged, and challenging angst-bands ever. "A Skin Historic" is an art-core mindfuck." SPIN Magazine, 1998
"One of the most inredibly raw and emotionally painful records I've ever had the pleasure of listening to." Collective Magazine UK, 2001
I think I will start listening to 90s hardcore again. You know I really think the world is ending soon. This obama nonsense is killing me. To feel that we know everything but can do nothing. Its very suicidal.
saying that we are totally geeked to be your friend would be a gross understatement. please, we invite you to come by often and say hello... or leave us hate mail... or both. Whatever rows your boat. bye!
T of I...simply brilliant sonic violence. I remember those shows vividly...Ann Arbor...Zoot's coffee...the Token Lounge...your inspiration has been profound and I thank thee. My own puny anger has never had such a wondrous companion as T of I's soundtrack of nihilism and bleak hysteria.
do you guys remember the show you played in a kalamazoo basement with wallside, i think it was 1997. well, i do. i was fourteen and then and bought the randall 7" and remember playing it for my friend the next day while he was coming off of an extremely terrifying bad acid trip. suffice to say the record did not help much to calm his frazzled nerves...but that for me, ten years later, still gives me goosebumbs, not only cos the music is so powerful, but it brings back the memories of a times in my life where everything was carefree and punk rock was beautiful and those records, as cliche as it sounds, have helped save and shape my life...thanks friends!
holly mother fucker in the sky... i was just thinking about you guys the outher day...... saying to my self i whis i had my old vinal...... fuck.... i feel old now.. lol.... well thanks for the add....
was turned onto TOI by you sending me a friend request awhile back...got the CD/DVD in the mail yesterday...g-o-d-d-a-m-n. probably one of the best music docs i've ever seen...the power of the music is immense.
thought the dvd was awesome last night!!
Suzy
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Detroit Local 101 Playlist from 6/6/6
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PLAYLIST FOR WEEK ..20 (6/06/06) THE CHRIS TAIT SHOW
1) Zach Shipps - Tight New Clean Ass
2) Ghost City - What Were You Running From
3) The Holy Fire - Bombs In The Distance
4) Troy Gregory (w/ the Sights) - Leave The Ghost At Home
5) Wolfbait - Broadsword
6) Octopus - At Her Feet
7) The Hard Lessons - Wicked Man
8) The Tandooris - Science Fiction Garunteed (on No Fun Records Detroit by label association as called by Tait)
9) The Red Rocks - Bus Stop Lady
10) The Singles - Hypnotized
11) Electric Six - Pulling The Plug On The Party (brand new E6!! On forthcoming album SWITZERLAND in stores 9/12/06)
12) Ghost City - SOS (new Ghost City!!)
13) Aquarius Void - Walk Behind
14) Na$hinal Debt - For You
15) Fletcher Pratt - Rocksteady
16) RUR - Go Baby
17) Thoughts Of Ionesco - The Scar Is Our Watermark
18) Rai - Some Girls
19) Dutch Pink - Holly
20) Wildbunch - R U Afraid Of The Devil
21) Johnny Headband - Pink Clud (in the sky)
22) Tiny Steps - The Sorry State OF Affairs
23) Ladytron - Last One Standing (Shipps/Tait Remix) (remixed by Zach Shipps and Chris TaitDetroit remix, yo!)
24) Drag Day - Around You
25) Wildbunch - The Ballad Of MC Sucka DJ
26) The Fluoride Program - Lavender
27) Ghost City - Come Out Rose
28) Electric Six - I Buy The Drugs (brand new E6!! On forthcoming album SWITZERLAND in stores 9/12/06)
29) Pas/Cal - What Happened To The Sands
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