Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/24/87)
Really-From: Greg Earle <smeagol!earle@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
... are the first two Great records of 1987, namely :
WISEBLOOD's `Dirt Dish' 6 track mini-LP, and COIL's `Horse Rotorvator'
LP. Apparently, in the face of the Parallel Import Ban, Relativity has
stepped into the breach and signed a distribution agreement with Some Bizarre.
I have managed to get my paws on promo cassettes for each of these gems,
and each one is credited `Relativity/Some Bizarre' `@1986 Some Bizarre'.
[Editorial comment: Albini and Thirwell are DICKFUCKS for playing S.F. and not
L.A. Grrrr ... ]
The Wiseblood owes a not inconsiderable debt to the Birthday Party/Nick Cave,
sounding in places like an electronisized BP, in others like Nick Cave solo
stuff ("Fudge Punch"). Another theme is HEAVY drum backdrop with Thirwell's
crazed Foetus vocals running over the top. More Brain Cookies dance trance ...
The Coil album includes two tracks from the recent `The Anal Staircase' 12"
("The Anal Staircase", "Blood From The Air"), otherwise it's all new material.
Not a million miles away from the Wiseblood, or the previous Coil LP
`Scatology'.
[Minor complaint - what's this with the clear cassettes bullshit, with all
the information put on with this white type that comes off like Liquid Paper
after a few handles?? Sheesh!]
Great stuff to restore one's sanity when the weenies of wank.musack.missedout
are after you shouting "ELP! Yes! Genesis! mod.music.gaffa is all trendies!"
Speaking of the BP, here's a rumor flying around -
Is Tracy Pew dead?
Old News, but worthy of comments:
>Wire "154"
Ya know, I just have to laugh when I hear about how Steve Hackett's
`Spectral Mornings' is the Greatest LP Ever Made (or Marillion's "Gee, We
Just Wanted To Be Like Early Genesis, Honest" 1/2 :-) when there exist
records like this one ...
>Savage Republic is|is not boring
Savage Republic is DEFUNCT. The sad fact is what made them vital and
intense Way Back When (if you never saw them around '82-'83, I pity you)
has been exponentially decaying over the last 3 years [he said, having
seen something like 15 SR shows in the last 5 years]
>new Lustmord
... actually has a `dance track' on it! Yow, the times they are a changin' ...
>Head Of David LP `LP'
What John Hogge didn't mention is that in places is sounds a lot like what
you would get if you had an all-star jam session featuring the Birthday
Party with Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke singing instead of Nick, with
occasional guest appearances from Big Black. This LP shreds your face AND
cums in your mouth at the same time, play it right after `Atomizer' when
someone tells you current music is shite and the Seventies (maaaaaaannnn) is
Where It's At ... It also singlehandedly refutes Hofbrau's `There is no such
thing as good music from England' (as does Coil's LP).
Hey, since when does Big Black need a real drummer ...
>Crass RIP
Hey Tim, why is Crass sometimes `spouting much more than they should'?
What *I* read in `Crass RIP' was so undeniably obviously true it seems to me
that what they are saying should be axiomatic to anybody's way of thinking.
Oh well, call me an old socialist ...
What's the lowest price anyone's seen for `Public Castration Is A Good Idea'?
Going for $15-$19 here in L.A., seems a *wee* bit much (but did I pay it?
Damn Right I did)
Speaking of the Swans, hey howcome none of you `Columbus Ohio Scenester' types
mentioned IDF's LP `Convulsion', which is a good Swansubstitute? Good stuff ..
BTW, the label they're on (forgot the name) is the one that put out the
Big Black video; there's some other good video stuff in their catalog I may
order.
Anybody noticed that the Diamanda `Saint Of The Pit' LP has a *lot* of
NON-Diamanda in it?!? I kept wondering when That Voice would kick in ...
>Rolling Stone dance charts
Hey, Executive Slacks' `Fire and Ice' LP was in there for a few weeks,
anything's possible (and, they *were* getting a lot of play in L.A. clubs
right around then, the `Rock and Roll' 12" had just come out)
Why all this bitching about CD prices? You wanna support Yuppie musical
formats, you can pay Yuppie prices ...
>Some people seem to think there are no decent bands in Britain, what about -
>The Smiths, The Fall, Age of Chance, Soup Dragons, Shop Assistants, Billy
>Bragg, Style Council, Jesus and Mary Chain, Half Man Half Biscuit (RIP), The
>Wedding Present, Cocteau Twins, The Redskins (RIP), Elvis Costello,
>Colourbox, Goodbye Mr McKenzie.
What about them? :-)
[OK, OK, The Fall are great, I'll give you that much]
The `Angriest Dog In The World' SUCKS the big weenie.
Bor-ing.
>For the sake of argument (and out of a profound sense
>of desperation), IED challenges anyone reading this to name ONE record
>made since the early Seventies that attains a level of thematic and
>musical complexity, multi-level meaning and sophisticated cohesion of
>music and production comparable to that achieved by Kate Bush since 1982.
>IT CANNOT BE DONE! SUCH MUSIC DOES NOT EXIST!
Oh, get real, IED. See below for just *one* example ...
>From: hsu@uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu)
>Subject: I survived Russ Meyer flicks
...
>Occasional contributions by the Pizz, John E., and other underground comix ...
>... and the Pizz who draws violent images close to the punk spirit. There are
It can now be told, Bill:
(1) I am a Close Personal Friend of the Pizz (he lives in Long Beach)
(2) My wife's Aunt is a former Mrs. Russ Meyer (no, I'm not saying *which*)
Wow. I guess this means that I'm just Too Ultra Bitchen ... :-)
>From: allynh%miro@berkeley.edu (Allyn Hardyck)
...
>(how can you people down there stand what Melrose has become?)
Shit, who said we could? Jesus, it's Gnuevo Wavo Central down there now
(and Vinyl Fetish charges too much money, and the owners are jerks - you
shouldn't patronize the place)
>Got this at Rene's Big Ears along with LA freebie (not the Weekly)
>which contained _The Angriest Dog in the World_.
That's Rene's ALL Ears, and it's the L.A. Reader. It sucks too.
>Bought _The Unacceptable Face of Freedom_. Very affecting, their sense
>of appropriate sounds and rhythms made me stare dumbly at the wall.
Not only that, but the *entire* LP screams "This is the State Of England
Today, and it's FUCKED." Every time I listen to it my brain hurts for
hours afterwards, there's more ideas packed into this LP then in the entire
catalogues of most bands. I consider this one of the most Immense LPs ever
released ... But what do I know, I'm supposed to be drooling over `So' and
`Graceland' and `Live 75-85', guess I must be lame ...
>Big Black / Jane's Addiction @ I-Beam, SF, Jan. 19
GODDAMN IT! Just HAD to rub it in, didn't you ...
But Jane's Addiction sux, I don't care how good Perry's previous band was
(Psi Com), mersh metal is mersh metal is mersh metal is ...
>From: hogge@p.cs.uiuc.edu (John Hogge)
>Subject: Top 19 of 1986
Ohmigod, someone with intelligence and good taste, quick John, hide before
they find out about you and silence you for good ...
[Info update]
> Kommunity FK (hard-edged new wave)
LP is called `Close One Sad Eye', came out in '85 ... and is *horribly* over
produced ...
> Laibach - Nova Akropola (if 1986) (classical influe. industrial)
'85.
> Fourwaycross - self titled (if 1986) (post punk/indistrial)
Actually, it's titled `Fill The Sky' and it came out in 1985; their latest
LP is called `Home' if that's what you were referring to, I dunno ...
*BTW* This is the band (Four Way Cross), with 1 cassette and 2 *nationally
distributed albums* out, that Kyle "Brains? ME?" Hendriksen described as :
>... some fools with a flute, who sound like they been playing together for
>2 or 3 days
Last but not least: new video input, comes courtesy of IKON FCL NY:
Virgin Prunes "Sons Find Devils (A Live Retrospective, 1981-1983)"
Kind of interesting; disappointing in that it Blows The Myth for those of
us on this side of the Pond who never got to see them live; also, most of
it was filmed in 1983 when they had a *lousy* guitarist (actually, they
set themselves up, if they hadn't released the `Heresie' box set I'd have
never known how great a live guitarist Dik was in 1982, dunno what happened
to cause his replacement by Joe Average). Good fun overall, though.
Oh shit, 175 lines, everyone's gonna `n' this like IED's postings ...
Later