dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer) (10/03/83)
I just bought the album, too, mainly for the cut, "This is My Rhythm Box", which is a masterpiece whether or not you have a fondness for punk music. Otherwise, a good exercise in Wendy-Carlos-like synthesizer classical pop, a bit discordant, and nothing special outside the movie. I was quite disappointed that it did not contain the poem which Adrienne recites upon the death of Margaret's acting professor--a hilarious requiem for the 1960's if there ever was one. My point about "Western values" referred to Tsukerman's emigre-eye-view which allowed him to gently satirize not only the dead-end punk scene, but German scientists, middle-class aspirations and New York women on the make. Its tone is firmly tongue-in-cheek, but saying "it's only a movie" doesn't mean that it has nothing to say. As I watched it, I realized how much the same the avant garde remains, generation after generation. /Steve Dyer decvax!wivax!dyer decvax!genrad!wjh12!bbncca!sdyer