Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/08/87)
Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu >To: "Hugh_W_Messenger.SBDERX"@Xerox.COM >Subject: Re: IEDsucksIEDsucksIEDsucksIEDsucksIEDesucksIEDsucksIEDsucks >Meanwhile the bodies continue to rot, and the insurers are under no >legal obligation to pay up more than 36,000 pounds ($57,000) >compensation to those injured or the relatives of those killed. >Evidence mounts that the accident was due to negligence. The ferry >operators announce that they are *considering* topping up insurance >claims "on a discretionary basis in cases of extreme need", ha ha. > >BUY IT!!!!! > >A hard copy of IEDs diatribe has been sent to Ms Bush for her comments >... > -- Angry of Mayfair Here's a reply from Angry of Los Angeles, fella. You are perfectly welcome to forward IED's Love-Hounds postings to Kate any time (by the way, thanks for asking first). IED would like to know, however, whether you had the decency to post his ENTIRE, un-butchered review of the single, rather than your totally out-of-context hatchet-job of it. If you had read the original with any care at all, you'd have noticed the very clear prefatory remarks which pointed out the distinction between criticism of art and approval of the motivations behind the art. IED had nothing critical to say about the IDEA of helping the Zeebrugge disaster families; on the contrary, in theory it's an excellent idea. But that idea has nothing whatever to do with the quality of the music itself. Please let IED know, publicly or privately, whether the copy you sent to Kate was the unabridged original, or your own "edited" version. If you actually sent her the outrageous abridgement that you posted in Love-Hounds, then IED would at least like to have the chance to clean up the mess which your blind ignorance has made, by sending her the complete text, as well. >> Hof on Blue Velvet >I was disappointed at first because I was expecting another Eraserhead. >Ended up liking it because it was hilarious! Some of those deadpan Russ >Meyer-like (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Up, Supervixens) were great. >Uh oh, now I'll probably get flamed because nobody else thought it was >funny... IED noticed a few bits of intentional humor, and in a way all of the everyday scenes of the town were satirical. But mainly IED was just hypnotized by the movie. Also, it's one of the only movies made to date that deals with the subject with an artistic eye. >Subject: IED comes through... >From: Patrick J. Waara <Waara.wbst@Xerox.COM> >...with an idea I truely like (the tape swapping idea that is.) All >interested people could send their names and addresses to somebody for >compilation and posting. What better way to get a taste of music that >you may not otherwise listen to. > >~Pat Good, we seem to have a winning proposition on our hands; there remains only the problem of implementing it. Unless Mark K. objects, could he post his mailing address to IED soon, so that IED can send him a cassette? No time like the present for these grand schemes, eh? Look what happened to the Kate cover versions project and the tee-shirt project -- mainly due to a lack of initiative on everyone's part (IED included)... >I'm a bit confused by your use of original here IED. Do you really mean >the vocal track recorded with The Beatles? Certainly, the video shows an >ageing McCartney at the piano singing the lines. Thanks for all your comments, Neil, as usual you are very helpful. IED had heard in U.S. news reports that Boy George and the producer had begun the song with "Paul McCartney's original Beatles vocal recording" re-mixed with the new backing track. Obviously, this report was incorrect, however. (The video has still not appeared here, unfortunately, although it may show up on MTV at any moment.) He does sing it with nearly every original inflection unchanged, however. >>Then there is a smarmy guitar-ridden instrumental bridge and a wildly >>over-blown chorus. > >Guitars courtesy of Mark Knopfler and Gary Moore (bass Mark King). Well known they are, certainly. Also highly skilled. Unfortunately, neither their skill nor their fame makes the music any better. >The fact that the Sun newspaper was behind the project may help explain >some of the shortcomings. The sleeve has SUN printed on it in bold red >letters. Obviously they are cynically out to attract more readers. It's >as if Bob Geldof had stamped Boomtown Rats all over the Band Aid single. >I hesitated over buying the record because of its Sun connections. The Sun's association has always been well understood. The "Chart File" columnist for Record Mirror (the best of the British music weeklies, because it has by far the best news service, most complete chart information and least political/cultural input from its reporters) this week pointed out the suspicious-at-best motives behind the Ferry Aid project, without naming names. Our Mayfair critic would do well to read the column. Incidentally, RM, too, singled out Kate's contribution as one of the only worthwhile things to have come out of the project. >Perhaps my hearing is fading but I felt Kate was a little off on the very >last note. Just short of perfeKTion in my opinion but she looks stunning >in the video. IED will have to listen again, but he thinks he knows what you're alluding to, and he had believed it was a deliberate touch. Maybe not. -- Andrew Marvick