Easy Listening for Iron Youth: The Best of Non is a 1991 compilation album

Compilation album

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 of Boyd Rice

Boyd Rice

Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...

's NON

Non

Non, non or NON can refer to:* French equivalent to English "no"; Italian equivalent to English "not"; Latin equivalent to either "not" or "no"...

 recordings. It is a "best of" collection from 1975-1991.

It was released by Mute Records

Mute Records

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 (UK) on CD and an ultra-limited LP

Gramophone record

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 (without tracks 14-16).

Personnel

Boyd Rice wrote all tracks except "Predator/Prey" (by Rice and Coil

Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

) and "Cleanliness And Order" (by Rice and Daniel Miller). Percussion was provided by Michael Moynihan

Michael Moynihan (journalist)

Michael Moynihan is an American journalist, publisher and musician. He is best known for co-writing the book Lords of Chaos, about black metal....

, Tony Wakeford

Tony Wakeford

Anthony Charles "Tony" Wakeford is an English folk and neoclassical musician who primarily records under the name Sol Invictus.Wakeford lives in London and is married to Sol Invictus violinist Renée Rosen....

, Douglas P.

Douglas P.

Douglas P. , is an English folk musician, record label owner, photographer and actor who records under the name Death In June. He was born in Sheerwater in Woking, Surrey, and resides in Australia. Douglas P. is openly gay.-Crisis:Pearce began his musical career in a British punk band called Crisis...

, and Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall is a Scottish musician, most notably as a vocalist in the pop band Strawberry Switchblade.-History:...

 on "Conflagration", "Scorched Earth", and "Sunset".

Liner notes

Vlad the Impaler is pictured on the front cover feasting among his victims.

"History proves that man is a beast of prey. The beast of prey conquers countries, founds great realms by subjugation of the other subjugators, forms states and organizes civilizations in order to enjoy his booty in peace... Attack and defence, suffering and struggle, victory and defeat, domination and servitude, all sealed with blood; this is the entire history of the human race..." — Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

"There is a demon in man that should be exercised, not exorcised" — Anton Szandor LaVey

"The sounds that issue forth from the recordings of Boyd Rice (a.k.a. NON) have been known to cause anxiety attacks and even physical illness in the faint of heart and weak of mind. The bold and adventurous few however, will find this music to be pure balm. This swirling vortex of sound is mood music, pure and simple; like some soundtrack to a frenzied blood-letting at the foot of the mongol steppe

Steppe

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s. There is no better tonic I know for today's true connoisseurs of that stimulating region that exists one step beyond good and evil."— Adam Parfrey

Adam Parfrey

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, editor of Apocalypse Culture

Dedication

This recording is respectfully dedicated to history's men of steel: Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist...

, Vlad the Impaler, Hassan Sabbah, Nero

Nero

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, Anton Szandor LaVey, Roi D'Ys, Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

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, Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle...

, the hero of Green River, Ghengis Khan

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death....

, Diocletian

Diocletian

Diocletian |latinized]] upon his accession to Diocletian . c. 22 December 244  – 3 December 311), was a Roman Emperor from 284 to 305....

, Charles Manson

Charles Manson

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 & Ayahtolla Khomeni. May their spirit live forever.

Track listing

1. "Iron Destiny"
2. "Conflagration"
3. "Rise"
4. "Carnis Vale"
5. "Cruenta Voluptas"
6. "Tourist Trap"
7. "Fire In The Organism"
8. "Father's Day"
9. "Scorched Earth" (lyrics from Ragnar Redbeard's "The Logic of Today")
10. "Predator/Prey" (by Boyd Rice and Coil
    Coil (band)
    Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...
    
    . The track was also released on Coil's Unnatural History
    Unnatural History
    Unnatural History is a compilation album produced by Coil. Including tracks that originally appeared on various compilations and limited edition releases along with some previously unreleased material...
    
    under the title "His Body Was A Playground For The Nazi Elite.")
11. "There Was Never A Moment When Evil Was Real"
12. "Eternal Ice"
13. "Sunset"
14. "Cleanliness And Order" (by Boyd Rice and Daniel Miller)
15. "Defenestration"
16. "Embers"

External links

• Easy Listening for Iron Youth at Discogs
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