Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/03/87)
Really-From: J. Peter Alfke <alfke@csvax.caltech.edu> So the next single is "The Meeting Place"? Not a bad choice, but XTC almost never seem to release the right songs ... I think "Earn Enough For Us" would do a lot for sales. Anyhow, the LA Times' Calendar (entertainment) section yesterday reports that "Dear God" is getting quite popular, has become the most requested song on local teen wavo station KROQ (warms my heart thatdoes, lotsa teenybopping atheists out there), and Geffen Records have finally just sat up and smelled the coffee --- only some magazine articles tipped them off to the fact that yes, XTC has such a song. Then they dug through the album for it and couldn't find it. Gee --- could it be on an *import* single? Anyhow, knowing the rich aroma of big bux when they sniff it, Geffen is re-releasing the album with "Dear God" added, and probably also with a big "CONTAINS THE HIT SINGLE" sticker (which they could put over the female cover figure's mazongas, appeasing the PMRC). It will indeed be a (hit?) single in the U.S. real soon, an A-side in fact. Also in the same columnn --- I.R.S. is starting a new sub-label to be called P.M.R.C., with an emphasis on world-beat type music. They have some expansion of their own for P.M.R.C. and claim it's not supposed to be a jab at the Washington Wives, but their spokesman sounded pretty happy about the coincidence. I HATE Compaq keyboards. --Peter Alfke alfke@csvax.caltech.edu "SOCIETY IS A HOLE"