Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/01/87)
Really-From: d711%sphinx.UChicago.BITNET@BERKELEY.EDU(Dave Wilson)
News from that bastion of Eurodisco, WaxTrax! in Chicago.
straight from the horse's mouth, Jim Nash (the owner, sorry for dropping
names)
--Just completed last night (Mar 30), new track by Pailhead. Who is
Pailhead?
They are Ian McKaye (ex-Minor Threat, Egg Hunt), Naked Raygun's drummer and
the bassist from the Blackouts. Produced by Al (I'm a real dick)
Jourgenson,
which should make for an interesting sound.
--Watch for a new single by Fini Tribe (Fini Tribe only previously available
on
Cathexis/UK). Their import single got great reviews from WARD and
Rockpool.
"Music for the 90's," or something like that.
--Just signed -- Laibach. Yes, those crazy Czechs (?) have a new album out
with one bitchin' Queen cover. Most danceable thing they've ever done.
--New Front 242 album (_Official Version_) and new Revolting Cocks 12" ("You
Often Forget") both out and are hot. Front 242 have lost some of their
harder edge, though, a little more 'mersh. But they do have two non-dance
tracks, though, which are pretty cool.
--Animal Liberation compilation. I am opposed to the very concept of this
album, as the Animal Liberationists are a bunch of terrorists, but the
record's O.K. Very poppy for WaxTrax. The Chris & Cosey and Luc van
Acker tracks stand out, but I've only heard it once or twice. Lene Lovich
and Nena Hagen make me want to puke ("Be a vegetarian/Be anti
vivisection").
If we were meant to eat animals, they would grow on trees. :-)
John Troyer (currently at !ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!d711)
quote from Jim Nash: "Hell, remember that video we shot of Al (Jourgenson)
and Richard 23 in the shower? It brings a whole new meaning to the term
Revolting Cocks."