[net.music] Lyres LP

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