Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (01/23/87)
Really-From: hogge@p.cs.uiuc.edu (John Hogge) In passing email conversation, Bill Hsu asked me what my top choices of 1986 are (yeah, our radio station just ran a top 10 LP's show). This list is fairly diverse, and I think each album presents new things to various styles of rock and noise. If you don't like my list, please post your own. Hope noone minds the labels I've added to the right. Top 19 picks from '86: Big Black - Atomizer (noise/punk) C.U.B.S. - from the next hill (diverse rock styles) Diamanda Galas - The Divive Punishment (vocal terrorism) Died Pretty - Free Dirt (psych influence rock) The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emmanations (excellent psych) Fourwaycross - self titled (if 1986) (post punk/indistrial) Gray Matter - Take it Back (psych/hardcore) Head of David - 'LP' (noise, postpunk) Kommunity FK (hard-edged new wave) Laibach - Nova Akropola (if 1986) (classical influe. industrial) The Moffs (post psychedelic) KUKL - Holidays in Europe (if 1986) (post punk art/dissonance) Savage Republic - Ceremonial (tribal influenced rock) Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating (hard rock with punk influ.) Sonic Youth - Evol (god) SS20 - Dreamlife (post psych) SPK - Songs of Byzantine Flowers (soundtrack orientedclassical) Test Department - The Unacceptable Face of Freedom (industrial) Uzi - Sleep Asylum (post punk) --John