nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (07/09/85)
["What's the Dough-Boy afraid of?"] Just heard something by the Pop-O-Pies on the radio. The vocals were spoken and talked about how one end of the muscial spectrum, like Duran Duran, is all formulated and mass-produced. The other end, says the vocalist, is just as ridiculous. It is filled with political suburban punk groups that don't have to worry about making anything that anyone would want to listen to because their parents pay for their instruments and give them money to live on. These punks insult the Pop-o-Pies for not playing their guitars fast enough. It's pretty funny. This is backed by some of the most deliciously discordant guitar playing I've heard in a long time! (Wow! Speaking of discordant, they're playing Einsturzende Neubauten on the radio at this very moment.) Anybody want to tell me more about the Pop-O-Pies? "Now there's a look in your eyes Like black holes in the sky" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)
lkk@teddy.UUCP (07/09/85)
In article <4630@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes: >Anybody want to tell me more about the Pop-O-Pies? The Pop-o-Pies has a shady history. According to the jacket of their latest album, there really is no such band as Pop-o-Pies, just a crazed lunatic named "Joe Pop-o-Pies". The sole purpose of the creating the band, according to this description, is to do weird covers of the Grateful Dead song "Trukin'". They've done a punk, disco, heavy metal and extended remix version of that song. I think the other stuff on their album(s) is just filler. -- Sport Death, Larry Kolodney (USENET) ...decvax!genrad!teddy!lkk (INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc
michaelf@ISM780.UUCP (07/10/85)
Out of San Francisco, Joe Pop-O-Pie first got attention with a blitzkrieg version of the Dead's "Truckin". It is a great cover and any Deadhead would be impressed. In fact, I bought the album on the same day I heard the song. The only other song worthwhile on that lousy disc is "The Catholics are Attacking" which is actually a pretty funny attack on Catholics. Alas, he's now a rapper. The cute, tongue-in-cheekness has now turned into a smugness. He's strictly a novelty.
csvsj@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (07/10/85)
<< In article <4630@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:
<< >Anybody want to tell me more about the Pop-O-Pies?
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<< The Pop-o-Pies has a shady history. According to the jacket of their latest
<< album, there really is no such band as Pop-o-Pies, just a crazed lunatic
<< named "Joe Pop-o-Pies". The sole purpose of the creating the band, according
<< to this description, is to do weird covers of the Grateful Dead song
<< "Trukin'". They've done a punk, disco, heavy metal and extended remix version
<< of that song. I think the other stuff on their album(s) is just filler.
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Don't forget the classic "The Catholics Are Attacking".