Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/10/87)
Really-From: rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor (Mr. Sharkey....white courtesy phone, please) Yo. Put me on the list, too. Gregory Taylor/602 Russell St./Madison, WI 53704. In the queue somewhere. A word of endorsement: I've got a compilation tape that Hofboy put together for me right here in the drawer at work. One side of "humorous" punkhardthrashcore and one side of stuff that the boy likes. My impression of the selection (speaking as someone who's at least as much an old fart as whatzisname) is that it's not only listenable and well-sequenced, but *literate.* While you may not enjoy the man's mode of communication, I'll speak for the fact that he knows his shit. So well that when I went hunting for full albums by people I was interested in, I found that the impression that Hof had left me with was dead on in terms of their work as a whole. When I get around to sending off a cassette for his cassette radio project (and Hof was *doing* it before any of the rest of us got round to even *discussing* it.), I expect that it will be the same. Am just starting "The Triumph of Vulgarity: Modern Music in the Mirror of Romanticism". Book report later. There are index entries for the Butthole Surfers, I note. Also, one of the premises stated in the intro is something like "Elitists are those who refuse to embrace the premise of Vulgarity inherent in culture." Uh-oh. No entries for Kate Bush. More on this little bit of egghead analysis from the guy who wrote that book on Homer and the rise of popular discourse later. Whoops, picture of Billy Idol inside. No class analysis-Frith will slag it. He's arguing that the milieu of popular music is Romantic Pantheism. When I sow time, I gutter. Greg