nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (08/26/85)
Someone recently gave me a tape with a couple tracks by someone named Colin Newman on them. They are really good. Does anyone know anything about him? What does 'I' mean? Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)
rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (08/27/85)
> Someone recently gave me a tape with a couple tracks by someone named > Colin Newman on them. They are really good. Does anyone know > anything about him? > Doug Alan Colin Newman used to be with Wire, a sort of eccentric and eclectic band of British weird musicians, making something that falls somewhere between art rock ("Map Reference ..."), noise rock ("Three People in a Room"), punk rock ("Dot Dash"), whatever that is, and who knows what else. Newman has released a number of albums on his own (as have Gilbert and Lewis, who may be sort of the Godley and Creme half of Wire, so to speak). "A-Z" is a fascinatingly strange record on which the care and selection of timbre and overall sound is as important an element as the music itself. Too diverse to describe. The next record, "(Provisionally entitled) The Singing Fish" (which I don't have) is a different sort of sound, but done with the same care. At the time that "A-Z" came out Newman was being lumped in as a new psychedelic, but he hardly fits that label as taken on by bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and (more recently) Three O'Clock. Perhaps they meant that his approach to the use of sound is reminiscent of 60s psychedelia. -- "Wait a minute. '*WE*' decided??? *MY* best interests????" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr
nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (08/28/85)
> From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) >> Someone recently gave me a tape with a couple tracks by someone named >> Colin Newman on them. They are really good. Does anyone know >> anything about him? >> Doug Alan > "A-Z" is a fascinatingly strange record on which the care and > selection of timbre and overall sound is as important an element as > the music itself. Too diverse to describe. Yesterday I picked up Colin Newman's "A-Z" (I hadn't been able to find it earlier because it was filed in the "Wire" section). It is a truly excellent album! Run out and buy it. Experience the joyful pain and painful joy! "Rejoinder, rejoinder" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA) P.S. Just to annoy people who are sick of hearing about Kate Bush, I heard of Colin Newman because someone threw a couple of his songs onto a tape of otherwise Kate Bush bootleg stuff. Which just shows you what great taste Kate Bush fans have!