Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (12/23/86)
Really-From: Jim Hofmann <hofmann@nrl-css.arpa> While I should have been out Christmas shopping, I was filling up my empty wine boxes with more albums. It's an addiction but more satisfying than any chemicals I can think of. Dark ARts (Ruthless/Dutch East) - I wrote another review about these guys where I said something like this is how This Mortal Coil would sound if they weren't so overproduced. Also, if you sent this to Greg Taylor, he probably wouldn't hate you. Chiming female voices mix with an extremely percussive (tho' not overbearing) Arabic-like score w/organ thrown in for body. If you listen closely, you hear metal rods, timpani, basso flute and bicycle bells. Yeah, this is a piece of art coming straight down the road from where? - Columbus, Ohio, huhhhh? Damn right - includes the drummer from Great Plains in their lineup. With that name, I was expecting death metal, instead I've gotten the best 4AD influenced yet distinctly "American" record in recent memory. Produced and released by Steve Albini. Various ARtists - "Sub-Pop 100" on Sub Pop records. the producer of this fine compilation (wouldn't go far as saying it's the best) has had tons of experience in putting out cassette compilations in the last few years. This is his jump onto vinyl and I can't wait for Sub-Pop 200. Steve Albini (again) kicks off this album with a denuciation a la George Clinton's "Roof on Fire" of the spoken word genre and unlike last year's "Diamond In The Mouth Of The Corpse", (GPS), that's the last spoken word piece you'll hear. Like the aforementioned compilation, this is a subversive attempt to widen the horizons of the avg. Joe Hardcore with some of the more dangerous industro types around. I think it will probably be more successful since such stalwarts as naked raygun and the wipers contribute hard-to-find cuts. I'll let the rest be a pleasent suprise to you. The Membranes - new lp (Homestead/Dutch East). Though, I've only given this one spin, I really can't say I agree with Wic's slagging of this. this sounds like what the Beatles would sound like if they were born twenty years later and surfaced in '86 with Revolver. One of the few English pop/rock bands that realize slick production does not good music make. They can't play that well but they have lotsa friends come in and help them out. Loved the tune with the vacumn cleaner feedback about, appropriately, the vacumn cleaner salesman. In a country rife with unemployment and beset with crumbling institutions and American dominance, these guys walk the fine edge in reaffirming the joys of life, the idea that it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive. And the inner sleeve should provide years of fun deciphering the doodles - for anglophiles and anglophobes alike. Also bought the new Volcano Suns LP and Antetiem's latest but didn't get a chance to listen to them. has anyone heard "My Dad Is Dead"? Wicinski also reviewed the Yet Another compilation tape and I disagree with him. For the most part, this tape SUCKS. Scrawl writes worthless songs. Great Plains hands some throwaways and the Dark Arts cut is mastered poorly. The only thing worthwhile is the R.C. Mob (inheritors of the Ohio Players) cut called "rock dog". The ballyhooing and bellowing about a so-called Columbus "scene" makes one want to laugh after hearing this. P.S. I thought Throwing Muses were never that great, demo tape or not AND I really doubt if they'd get all this attention if they hadn't been billed as "the first american band on 4AD" - in fact, very few folks would probably have ever heard of them. Now they're readying a major label contract. Feh. And a band like Expando Brain (3 dudes from the same suburb as Throwing Muses who went through puberty at the same time) breaks up after putting out one of the finer garage rock albums of the year. Other major label contract supposedly in the works - Soul Asylum with Capitol records (!!!!). >Some non-compilation records I've enjoyed this year: >Savage Republic "Ceremonial" LP Review, please. Doug: >No, it isn't. A guitar is capable of making a wider range of sounds >than a drum is. Ahem. Such a statement is VERY debatable and falls under the "comparing oranges with apples" category... >Well, this is a pretty strange analogy, since Elvis C's music is much >more closely secured to western music than Kate's is. Ah, but Elvis Presley is (or was) closer to African music than Elvis C was when he came out. >take a voilin, because with a violin I could make a wider range of >sounds. Wrong. A proposed ending to Experiment IV The film closes with the scene around the music shop being cordoned off and 'prohibited' signs being errected by a military man in a van. As the van drives off it stops to pick up a girl hitch-hiking (Kate) who turns to camera, winks and puts her finger to her mouth - still frame closes. Then a blue police box appears and a funny fellow with a teenager in tow jumps out holding a sonic screwdriver on Kate as she withers into a little ball. But above The Doctor -- it'ss a dalek which Kate has transmigrated into and grown to immense shape! She's screaming, "ecKsTerminate" over and over and then... (credits roll, tune in tomorrow). James.
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (12/23/86)
Really-From: nessus (Doug Alan) Hey, that would be a great ending. And Dr Who will probably appear in some KB viodeo someday soon. She's into B movies and TV. Savage Republic is boring. You probably wouldn't like them. Throwing Muses are great. You suck harder than Wicinski