Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/07/87)
Really-From: doug@doug.sgi.com (Doug Solomon) And to now the CD bag: "Guitarissmo" by Phil Manzanara 17 tracks 72 Minutes 25 Seconds Includes tracks from "Diamond Head", "801 Live", "Listen Now", "K-Scope" and "Primative Gutars". Well worth your CD dollar, this disc contains surprisingly good quality sound considering the albums from which the compilation were taken were originally released in '75, '76, '77, '78 and '82, respctively. "ENO" hiss can be heard on a few of the tracks but is relatively subdued. Interestingly enough, this disc is made in the USA (distributed by JEM) thus avoiding the ridiculously high price tag commonly found on phony imports. Don't get me wrong, I do buy import CDs (i.e. "The Dreaming") however I have yet to rationalize why they cost more than domestic CDs. I suspect shrewd CD importers are playing on the market unawarness and bad decision making of US record companies?
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/12/87)
Really-From: rosen@ji.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Rosen) Cool CD of NEXT week: Dif Juz' EXTRACTIONS. 60 minutes of work. 12 instrumentals plus a tune featuring the golden voice of our favourite Coctette. The drum mix is pinched on the high end, and the guitars are a little overmixed, but over- all a very good set. In case you're not familiar with these guys: four chaps from Britain...entirely instrumental, with lots of arpeggiated guitar piped through stereo chorus and slapback echo. Edrums identical to Cocteau Twins. Decent bass work, nothing spectacular. The odd sitar. Occasional tabla and tax. Around $18...it's on 4AD but not Relativity (as far as I know). I had to search far and wide for this one. No one even responded to my query awhile back on L-H...it was pure luck that I found it squirreled away in the rear of the ``New Age Compilation CDs'' section. %%Rob Rob Rosen Computer Systems Support Group University of California rosen@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (the syntactically correct address) ucbvax!rosen (for people who actually LIKE source routing)