Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/24/87)
Really-From: KNIGHT@MAINE (Michael Knight)
Hi everyone,
I just got a flyer from Boston Compact Disk (BCD), probably like a lot
of you, but for those who don't, and live out in the 'sticks' like I do,
I'll post here a few of the recent releases on CD I think might be of
interest to people on this digest. This is not an indorsement of BCD,
though I think their selection is great and the fact that they do mail
order is fabulous for people like myself. (This is just a partial
listing, some/most of which may or may not be of interest to *me* 8-)
'New Pop & Rock Releases':
Clash - The Clash
Cars - Panorama
Black Sabboth - Paranoid
Cult - Live
Eagles - Desperado
- The Eagles
Talking Heads - '77
Genisis - Wind and Wuthering
Los Lobos - Will the Wolf Survive
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
- Never for Ever
Blues Brothers - Blues Brothers
Housemartins - Housemartins
Rush - Permanent Waves
- 2112
- Hemispheres
Don McLean - American Pie
Joan Baez - Best of..
King Crimson - Compact Compilation
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- Saucerful of Secrets
- Obscured by Clouds
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti (2-CD)
' ....Releases due shortly!!'
Clash - London Calling
- Sandinista
Warren Zevon - Best
David Gilmour - First
Beastie Boys -
Los Lobos - By the Light
B-52's - Bouncing off the Satellites
Genesis - Selling England
- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- Wind and Wuthering [????]
Psychedelic Furs - New!
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Shriekback - Big Night Music
Husker Du - Warehouse
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Led Zeppelin - Coda
- Presence
Missing Persons - Best
' ....due 26 Feruary:'
The Beatles - Beatles For Sale
- Hard Day's Night
- Please Please Me
- With the Beatles
' These Titles due for release during the month of March. '
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
- Radio Activity
ZZ Top - all titles
Talking Heads - Songs of Buildings and Food
For any of you that need it, here's their address and phone number if
you want to mail order. I'm posting this mostly to let people know what
out, and what's coming out.
BCD
270 Newbury Street
Boston, Mass. 02116
617-267-8877
--Mike Knight
Knight@Maine.bitnetLove-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/24/87)
Really-From: rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor (Mais, ou sont les neiges d'antan?) Yeah, I know. They're bourgeois elitist technology. However, since my cassette and LP purchases still outdistance the CD bills I'm still street-cred. Wrong? Oh. Anyway, that Kind Crimson compilation is, in my humble opinion, either miserable as an introduction to the progression of King Crimson (in both its earlier more Protean incarnation and the late quartet stuff) or a recording compiled by someone whose personal biases aren't really clear to me (of course, this could be Robert Fripp himself-busily revising his own history again). Both sets of KC are represented by the most ah..."commercial" releases they did. Those of you who are familiar with the older album "A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson" will, I think, be mildly surprised to see the selections here. The CD leans quite heavily on a Greatest Hit (that's an odd idea for KC) format for the last 3 album and a couple of old MegaHits from those hoary old LPs. Nothing from "Starless" "Lizard, etc. Especially since some of the instrumental stuff is wonderful to do a cross-listen to with the older work from the first version of King Crimson for hearing their development and changes together as an improvising ensemble. An interesting chance missed. Fortunately, EG is putting out the whole King Crimson catalog on CD, so you can take your pick. On a *somewhat* similar note, I picked up a copy of David Torn's "Cloud Over Mercury" (He used to sort of be a neighbor of mine once, and I loved his guitar stuff on David Borden's last Mother Mallard recording) and was surprised to find that Tony Levin and Bill Bruford are both handling the rhythm section chores on the record. Yep-keeping fairly inventive and supportive time, as well. The playing isn't as far outside as Bruford's stuff with Moraz, but there's a whole lot of tuned Simmons stuff that fools the ear here. Also, Mark Isham is playing a lot of trumpet here, and generally avoiding what I always think of his more wimpy post Group87 stuff. It's sometimes easy to forget that he can jam. Anyway, I'd given this Torn album pretty high marks-his guitar playingj is still that horn-like overdriven beast that alternately squirts and machine guns those phrases in the right places, and he's pretty content to spend quite a bit of the recording supporting the other players in addition to riffing. This Stick/electronic percussion/trumpet/guitar beast recording is as close as I get to liking the form (along with some of Kazumi Watanabe's work). I'm a little bit reminded of John Hassel's recordings by "Cloud" in that you sit through the album wondering what it is like to *see* this stuff being made by real people in real time. My friend in NYC says that Torn indeed does this very same material live with no mirrors or wires. Maybe they'll tour and come to *my* town. we lived near each other in Upstate New York back in the days of his "Zobo Funn Band" stuff) , -- "As one who sees within a dream, and, later/the passion that had been imprinted stays,/but nothing of the rest returns to mind,/such am I- for my my vision almost fades/completely, yet it distills within/my heart the sweetness that was born of it."(Dante/Paradiso,XXXIII 58-63)