Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/25/87)
Really-From: hofmann@nrl-css.arpa (James B. Hofmann) Greg Taylor: I'm having trouble getting mail through to you. rsch.wisc.edu is very itinerant about taking a connection so any other paths you might have that talk to astroatc would be appreciated. To make this message kosher, I've been listening to The Brigade's "Come Together" LP as a review assignment. This treads down the same path this former hardcore (nee. Youth Brigade) paved with "The Dividing Line". More attention is paid to dance rhythms and electronic sounding drums as well as a New Age type intro to one of the songs. Unlike "The Dividing Line", these guys seem a little more at ease with what they are doing but the New AGe thing sounded kinda clunky compared to the free- flowing stuff that abounds. The lyrics, though, are just so blatently obvious, though, that it all rushes into a blur (the way the lyrics are listed doesn't help either) of cliched "New Age" type sloganeering; y'know, "one world", "peace", "why can't races get along?" type stuff. I've heard more accomplished lyricists attack these same issues with more introspection and subtlty (sic?), I'm afraid. Still, I think if you liked the dance type stuff such as Heaven 17 and Icicle Works but crave it in a more simpler, rawer (but not too raw) form, this might be it for you. Plus there's a Kinks Cover. 5 song mini-LP on BYO. Greg Earle tells me his friends in Factory say these guys have one good song that they do at the end of their set. He compares them with U2 but I wouldn't go that far. I'm burping pastrami, Jim