Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/21/87)
Really-From: hsu@uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu) >Really-From: Mark Katsouros <KATSOURO@UMDD> >Actually, if I'm not mistaken, it appears exclusively in The City Paper. >Incidently, what does this strip have to do with MODern MUSIC? Actually we've had extended discussions on movies, poetry and comic strips before in this mailing list. But if you *really* want to find some connection between Lynch and modern music, pick up a copy of an EP with some Bauhaus singles including Terror Couple Kill Colonel. One of the band members (I think it's Daniel Ash) wears an Eraserhead shirt. There's a boot where Bauhaus covers the old song "In Heaven" sung by the deformed woman under the radiator in Eraserhead. >Though I agree with the above, there are two records that I think should be >mentioned as fitting the above mold better than any others, if one was to not >consider Kate's obviously superior work: >EMERSON LAKE & PALMER's WORKS Volume 1 and GENESIS' THE LAMB >LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY. Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto No. 1 on ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >ELP's WORKS Volume 1 will always be one of my favorites, no matter how >overwhelmed I become with Kate's music. Sorry, I can't let that go without a comment. I was quite underwhelmed :-) when I first heard Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto 8 years ago, and I still am now. It's no more than an uninspired smorgasbord of early 20th century classical piano cliches, notably Prokofiev. Emerson is a superb technician, and ELP has written some fine songs, but that concerto is a sterling example of the faults of early '70s artrock: clinging to old forms without revitalizing them with new approaches, and presenting hackneyed cliches as original, "respectable" ideas. I think industrial musicians have done a much better job of digesting and revitalizing the techniques of experimental music in the classical tradition. As for this "what music is better than Kate's" business, I can name albums that are superior to Hounds of Love in terms of textural complexity (SPK), political insight (Test Dept. and Art Bears), thrashability (Fear and Beefeater) and complexity of tambourine parts. But I think it would be pretty stupid to record an album with the most complex textures, tambourine parts, political insight and thrashability. I like many different bands because they all do different things. It's silly to try to make up some absolute scale of quality. Ach, enough of this quasi-technical bullshit... reviews in a day or two... Bill