Thinking Plague
Advertisement
Advertisement
Top Related Artists
Biography
Thinking Plague, an American avant-rock group formed in 1982 by guitarist/composer Mike Johnson and bassist Bob Drake in Denver, Colorado. Initially a coalition of musicians rather than a fixed lineup, the band's early recordings were experimental and complex, blending rock, folk, jazz, and classical music. Their debut album A Thinking Plague was released in 1984 on their own label, featuring hand-painted covers and garnering critical acclaim despite its low-tech production. The group's second album, Moonsongs, was released locally in 1986 before being published by Dead Manâs Curve Records the following year. In 1987, Thinking Plague toured with Sonic Youth, and their third album, In This Life, was released on ReR in September 1989. The band continued to release albums, including In Extremis (1998), A History of Madness (2003), Decline and Fall (2012) and Hoping Against Hope (2017), maintaining a reputation for intricate compositions and avant-garde rock.
Read All
Read Less
Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Dead Silence
- Behold the Man
- This Weird Wind
- Les Etudes D'Organism
- Marching
- Maelstrom
- The Aesthete
- Kingdom Come
- Moonsongs
- Thorns of Blue and Red/The War
- The Underground Stream
- Marching, No. 4 - Reverie for the Children
- Lux Lucet
- Our "Way of Life" and "War on Terra"
- Marching as to War, No. 1
- Least Aether for Saxophone & Le Gouffre
- Consolamentum
- Blown Apart
- Gúdamy Le Máyagot (An Phocainn Theard Deig)
- Rapture of the Deep (for Leslie)
- The Gyre
- A Virtuous Man
- Sleeper Cell Anthem
- I Cannot Fly
