eli@uw-june.UUCP (05/24/84)
Just a quick note to let all of the psych/punk/pop fans know that Ace of Hearts (in Baa-aa-a--ston) has just released a full length LP from The Lyres. The A-side of their latest single ("Help You Ann"), is included, but apparently the B-Side ("I Really Want You Right Now") is only being put on promotional copies. (An interesting side note, the copy I saw was a real, honest-to-goodness, bonfide White Label Promo!). Side one of the LP is really rocking, with plenty of cheesy garage styled organ. Side two is a bit slower (with an almost evil cover of the Kinks, uh, "All Day and All of the Night"? I can't remember--brain disease--some Kinks song). Keep your eyes open--the cover features a burning Lyre in what appears to be Monument (Park/Valley?) in California--you know, where all of the Westerns are shot. More info as soon as I am able to acquire a personal copy. ... uw-june!eli
gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (05/24/84)
Just got my review copy of the LYRES in the post. It is a real first-class version of the neo-garageband genre. Anyone at all familiar with the Neats' work on Ace of Hearts will know the kind of serious effeort they put into taking good gigging bands and set them in an acoustic setting that manages to marry the sense of "edge" that people used to talk about the "new Wave" having before Joe "king" Carrasco lost his recording contract and the industry began backing Berlin to the cheesy "son of garage" sounds of the sixties. Anybody familiar with DMZ's stuff MIGHT want to check this out, since it's most of the same people-though different in uh, style. gtaylor
smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener) (05/26/84)
Yup, we've had our copy of "On Fyre" for about a week, and we've been playing it so frequently that we practically sound like Top 40. Of course, we've played the single to death (both sides) for ages. Will we still love 'em when Billboard Magazine and Kal Rudman of FMQB decide they're hot hot hot, and every high school kid in America is humming "Help You Ann"? Sure we will. BTW, Ace of Hearts Records has put out loads of terrific vinyl for years. Bret Harte knows the value of good garage sound, among other things. -- just one of the wolves this computer's been thrown to... Stewart Wiener / Princeton Univ. EECS / princeton!tilt!smw