Love-Hounds-request.UUCP@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (11/24/86)
Really-From: Jim Hofmann <hofmann@nrl-css.arpa> !r amb > From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU >IED does not particularly like ambient music, and he has never >purchased any Windham Hill (or equivalent labels/genres) releases. It's not "ambient" music - you want "ambient" music, I'll play you my visit to the local pinball emporium! I saw that there's a Windham Hill-only concert being shown on PBS (fave channel of the Yuppies) so you can all do freebase and smoke dope and watch it live, duuudes... Me? I'll be at the VERBAL ASSAULT show kicking out the JAMS. ---- new live skull lp sounds better than their previous work... again mit der Sonik Youth thing-sound-wannabe but w/ more direckted lyrical content about pain, gov't experiments on sperm and pain, and pain, and pain... is living in NEW YORK reall-ee that bad? and hey, it's got a "new age" cover of three nekkid wymyn hitting the surf - probably after clubbing each other's clam while digging Tom PAine's ultima tunage, no doubt, no doubt. anyway, a fairly good entry in the noize 'n angst yet still rut 'n roll category. didn't exactly "kick out der Jams" but still kicked something, probably all black and mushy and un-mentionable on this family-oreo-induated noosegruppe. "cum on feel the noize!" - j
Love-Hounds-request.UUCP@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (12/01/86)
Really-From: hogge@p.cs.uiuc.edu (John Hogge) [from hoffman] >---- new live skull lp sounds better than their previous work... again >mit der Sonik Youth thing-sound-wannabe but w/ more direckted lyrical >content about pain, gov't experiments on sperm and pain, and pain, and >pain... is living in NEW YORK reall-ee that bad? and hey, it's got a >"new age" cover of three nekkid wymyn hitting the surf - probably after >clubbing each other's clam while digging Tom PAine's ultima tunage, >no doubt, no doubt. anyway, a fairly good entry in the noize 'n angst >yet still rut 'n roll category. didn't exactly "kick out der Jams" but >still kicked something, probably all black and mushy and un-mentionable >on this family-oreo-induated noosegruppe. The cover of the "Cloud One" LP is from a postcard the band discovered over in Europe; it depicts the Mediterranean or other nice place to be. Live Skull's new "Pusherman EP" is pretty good. "Pusherman" is a cover tune of <unknown origin>, done slow and deadly. The other two cuts are in their typical style, yet fairly strong. Live Skull in general aren't real diverse--all their songs tend to sound the same. I like them, but wish they'd try some new approaches, even if it's within the death rock context (suck what?). As Bill Hsu commented, Marcie plays a fretless bass, but she doesn't do anything interesting with it. --John