nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (06/30/85)
["My weapon is my point of view"] If you ever get the urge to watch MTV, you might want to do yourself a favor and not. Watch Night Flight instead. Beter yet, why not go and rent the video cassette "Urgh! A Music War"? It might expose you to some interesting new music. This movie is compilation of concert footage from many different music groups. Since it is all concert footage, you might not get that comfortably numb confussion buzz from having 134 different images flashed at you per minute, that most videos these days seem to intend for you, but maybe this means maybe you can pay attention to the music. Not all of the music in the film is great, but since you're watching it on your VCR, you can always fast forward past Joan Jett. It is about two hours long, and among others, there are performances by Devo (Uncontrollable Urge), Alley Cats, John Ottway, 999 (Homicide), OMD, Flecttoneg, X, Skafish (Sign of the Cross), UB40, The Police (Roxanne), Splodgeness Abounds, Dead Kenedys, Steel Pulse (Ku Klux Klan), Magazine, Surf Punks, Members, Aupairs, and Cramps (Tear This Damn Place Up). Highlights include performances by Klaus Nomi (Total Eclipse), Toyah (Dance), XTC (Respectable Street), Echo and the Bunnymen, Invisible Sex (Valium), Pere Ubu, Gang of Four (I don't know what the song was, but it was great!), and John Cooper Clarke. You also get to see Gary Numan sing while driving around in this silly little car on the most elaborate stage I've ever seen. It must have cost him a fortune to lug that set all over the world! "Daddy, it's the man with the lightbulb head" "Avert your eyes from his gaze, Junior, and we may yet be safe." "But Daddy, it's you!" "You're too late! I've come to turn you on! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)
allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) (07/04/85)
In article <4582@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes: > "Daddy, it's the man with the lightbulb head" > "Avert your eyes from his gaze, Junior, and > we may yet be safe." > "But Daddy, it's you!" > "You're too late! I've come to turn you on! > Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" I will be *so happy* when I turn 21 in October and will no longer have to miss shows at the I-Beam in SF like Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians w/ Alex Chilton. Thank God he's opening for REM during their tour this summer. Anybody happen to know which Soft Boys album has "I Wanna Destroy You"?