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''Easy Listening for Iron Youth: The Best of NON'' is a 1991
compilation album A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tr ...
of Boyd Rice's NON recordings. It is a "best of" collection from 1975–1991. It was released by
Mute Records Mute Records is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller. It has featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Einstürzende Neubauten, Fad Gadget, Goldfrapp, Grinderm ...
(UK) on CD and an ultra-limited LP (without tracks 14–16).


Personnel

Boyd Rice wrote all tracks except "Predator/Prey" (by Rice and Coil) and "Cleanliness And Order" (by Rice and Daniel Miller). Percussion was provided by Michael Moynihan,
Tony Wakeford Anthony Charles "Tony" Wakeford (born 2 May 1959) is an English neofolk and neoclassical musician, who primarily records under the name Sol Invictus. Wakeford lives in London and is married to Sol Invictus violinist Renée Rosen. Musical wor ...
,
Douglas P. Douglas Pearce, known professionally as Douglas P (born 27 April 1956), is an English folk musician, record label owner, photographer and actor who is best known for his neofolk project Death in June. Pearce was born in Sheerwater in Woking, Surr ...
, and
Rose McDowall Rose McDowall (née Porter; born 21 October 1959) is a Scottish musician, forming Strawberry Switchblade with Jill Bryson in 1981. History McDowall was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1959. Her first venture into music was in the Poems, an art-pun ...
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 Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...
"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 The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal member of ...
steppe In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes. Steppe biomes may include: * the montane grasslands and shrublands biome * the temperate grasslands, ...
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, editor of '' Apocalypse Culture''


Dedication

This recording is respectfully dedicated to history's men of steel: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Vlad the Impaler,
Hassan Sabbah Hasan-i Sabbāh ( fa, حسن صباح) or Hassan as-Sabbāh ( ar, حسن بن الصباح الحميري, full name: Hassan bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ja'far bin al-Husayn bin Muhammad bin al-Sabbah al-Himyari; c. 1050 – 12 June 1124) was the ...
,
Nero Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 un ...
, Anton Szandor LaVey, Roi D'Ys, Jack the Ripper,
Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality as well as numerous accusat ...
, the hero of Green River, Ghengis Khan,
Diocletian Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...
,
Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (; November 12, 1934November 19, 2017) was an American criminal and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed a series of nine murders at four loca ...
& Ayahtolla Khomeni. May their spirit live forever.


Track listing

# "Iron Destiny" # "Conflagration" # "Rise" # "Carnis Vale" # "Cruenta Voluptas" # "Tourist Trap" # "Fire In The Organism" # "Father's Day" # "Scorched Earth" (lyrics from
Ragnar Redbeard ''Might Is Right'' ''or The Survival of the Fittest'' is a book by pseudonymous author Ragnar Redbeard, generally believed to be a pen name of Arthur Desmond. First published in 1896,Gilmore, Peter H.; Introduction, Might is Right: The Authorit ...
's "The Logic of Today") # "Predator/Prey" (by Boyd Rice and Coil. The track was also released on Coil's '' Unnatural History'' under the title "His Body Was A Playground For The Nazi Elite.") # "There Was Never A Moment When Evil Was Real" # "Eternal Ice" # "Sunset" # "Cleanliness And Order" (by Boyd Rice and Daniel Miller) # "Defenestration" # "Embers"


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