Thunder Perfect Mind is an album by the English group Current 93. It contai… Read Full Bio ↴Thunder Perfect Mind is an album by the English group Current 93. It contains two tracks based on the Gnostic poem The Thunder, Perfect Mind, which also gave the album its name. Thunder Perfect Mind has a companion album by the same name recorded by Nurse With Wound, released at the same time, though the two albums have little in common with each other musically.
The album is one of David Tibet's more personal records, with several songs dedicated to friends, colleagues and people he had met. "All The Stars Are Dead Now" consists of a startling prophecy given to Tibet one night by the Planh of William Blake, while the epic "Hitler As Kalki (SDM)" is dedicated to "my father, who fought Hitler." The liner notes indicate that some believed Hitler was Kalki, the tenth and final incarnation of Vishnu, who would destroy the cosmos upon a white horse at the end of each world cycle.
Original pressings contained a portrait of David Tibet's face, while later pressings contained a drawing of a startled cat drawn by Louis Wain. On its 2003 re-release, the cover sported Tibet's face again, though a second re-issue a year later on Durtro Jnana Records (due to World Serpent's sudden disappearance) featured a beige-toned pattern across the portrait. These later pressings included a bonus disc titled The Thunder, Perfect Mind which contained outtakes and alternate mixes of songs, as well as five live tracks recorded in Paris on December 15, 1990. All of the studio tracks save "Red House" and an acoustic version of "Anyway, People Die" had previously appeared on Emblems: The Menstrual Years.
The album is one of David Tibet's more personal records, with several songs dedicated to friends, colleagues and people he had met. "All The Stars Are Dead Now" consists of a startling prophecy given to Tibet one night by the Planh of William Blake, while the epic "Hitler As Kalki (SDM)" is dedicated to "my father, who fought Hitler." The liner notes indicate that some believed Hitler was Kalki, the tenth and final incarnation of Vishnu, who would destroy the cosmos upon a white horse at the end of each world cycle.
Original pressings contained a portrait of David Tibet's face, while later pressings contained a drawing of a startled cat drawn by Louis Wain. On its 2003 re-release, the cover sported Tibet's face again, though a second re-issue a year later on Durtro Jnana Records (due to World Serpent's sudden disappearance) featured a beige-toned pattern across the portrait. These later pressings included a bonus disc titled The Thunder, Perfect Mind which contained outtakes and alternate mixes of songs, as well as five live tracks recorded in Paris on December 15, 1990. All of the studio tracks save "Red House" and an acoustic version of "Anyway, People Die" had previously appeared on Emblems: The Menstrual Years.
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Thunder Perfect Mind
Current 93 Lyrics
A Beginning I went down to the forest to gather fine flowers…
A Lament for My Suzanne There's the odour of incense And I double in pain And I…
A Sad Sadness Song When we touch the world Just to fall apart And our mother…
A Sadness Song When we touch the world And it falls away When we feel…
A Silence Song So much silence Stretching above me Around me too Has it dea…
A Song For Douglas After He's Dead He crouches on the floor There's a mask on the wall And…
All The Stars Are Dead Now Bloody smoke Foggy smoke Beginnings and endings... There's a…
An Ending Fourteen long years she lies oh she lies oh And love…
Anyway, People Die Who am I? Who do you say I am? As…
Hitler as Kalki (SDM) These are the dregs Of the last grains of the age It…
In the Heart of the Wood and What I Found There In the heart of the wood In the closed forest Christ appeare…
Lament For Her There's the odor of incense And I double in pain And I…
Mary Waits In Silence I shall return no more The sea covers me To pick gold…
Our Lady of Horsies Our lady of rats Our lady of wings Our lady of smokes …
Riverdeadbank Like dust I'm lost in the world I thought that I had A…
Rosy Star Tears From Heaven there are broken birds scattered over the white cliffs of…
The Descent Of Long Satan and Babylon Long Satan and Babylon are walking They're talking of fire a…
They Return To Their Earth when serpents come they cover the Christ thorn two heads…
Thunder Perfect Mind I i am the first and the last i am the honored…
When the May Rain Comes Green are the streets The asphalt is glistening When the dus…