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Love-Hounds Digest			    Friday, February 7, 1986, 21:03

Today's Topics:

		Regarding HoL in Rolling Stones (2 msgs)
			      Re: Question
			     The Residents
			 Replying to everything

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Posted-Date: 24 Jan 86 08:56:41 PST (Fri)
Subject: Regarding HoL in Rolling Stones
Date: 24 Jan 86 08:56:41 PST (Fri)
From: tsung@aero

I read the review, too, and had been wondering: who is Jonathon Richman?
(Hope this is not blatant ignorance on my part).

By the way, the RS reviewer did mutter something like "there is no doubt
that KB is extremely talented" right before he committed himself with
the bit about "children should be seen and not heard".

Fu-Sheng

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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 86 14:20:59 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: Re:  Regarding HoL in Rolling Stones

I was in a mall a few days back and happened to see a book called
something like "The New Rolling Stone Encyclopaedia of Music" or
something like that.  I flipped to the B's and found one thing about
Kate Bush, a review of "The Kick Inside".  They gave it two stars, and
from memory, it went something like this:

	Kate Bush caused quite a stir in some circles back in '78 with
	"The Kick Inside".  Not quite new wave, not quite art rock, she
	sounds like a cross between Patti Smith and a Hoover vacuum
	cleaner.

The more things change....

-Doug

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Date: Friday, 24 Jan 1986 13:22:51-PST
From: hall%beta.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM
Subject: Re:  Question



>Really-From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Tsun-Yuk Hsu)
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>	Anyone into Plan 9 or Magazine? What do these groups sound like? 

>					Bill Hsu

Bill,

I was reluctant to answer this question (and another like it from Fu-Sheng)
because of my drawing a blank when actually trying to describe how a band
sounds.  I could tell you what other bands they sound like to me, or what
instruments they play on the record, but what do they sound like?  I'd have
as much trouble describing what a color looked like.

Magazine had their heyday from 1977 to 1981.  They were comprised of
Howard Devoto;  vocals
Barry Adamson;  bass
Dave Formula;  keyboards
Martin Jackson;  drums
John McGeoch;  guitar/saxaphone

They released five albums (six if you count the compilation released after 
they broke up);

Real Life  1978
Secondhand Daylight   1979
The Correct Use of Soap   1980
Play   1981
Magic, Murder and the Weather   1981

Real Life contains their first popular single "Shot By Both Sides", and
"Definitive Gaze", "The Light Pours Out of Me" and "Parade" which all got
considerable airplay.  There is currently a Peter Murphy version of TLPOoM
getting popular.  Their second album "Secondhand Daylight" didn't do as
well.  I'm not surprised - it's my least liked Magazine album, but it does
contain the classic "Permafrost".  They tightened up and released "The
Correct Use of Soap" in 1980, a record a reviewer once said was about fear,
love, the fear of love, and the love of fear.  A very apt assessment in my
opinion.  Contains "A Song From Under the Floorboards", "I Want To Burn 
Again", and their cover of Sly Stewart's "Thank You (fallettin be mice elf
agin)".  1981 saw John McGeoch leave the band to be replaced on the live
album Play by Robin Simon, who was replaced by Ben Mandelson on their last
album Magic, Murder and the Weather.

Here's my suggestion Bill.  Now that your interest is piqued go look in the
nearest cut-out bin for a $4 copy of The Correct Use of Soap or Play.  The 
last album may even be in the cut-outs by now.  You can't go wrong at those
prices, and you ought to get them while they're still around.  If you like
what you hear, you can track down Howard Devoto's solo album, or some of the
Visage stuff (Visage are Steve Strange, Rusty Egan, Midge Ure and Billy
Currie (Ultravox) and Dave Formula, John McGeoch and Barry Adamson).
Howard Devoto did the vocals on one of the tunes on the This Mortal Coil
project.  Or if you want to go back in time, check out some early Buzzcocks
which is where Devoto and friends, along with Pete Shelley, first got noticed.

Happy listening,
Dan

*Interesting Aside*
The Magazine tune "Come Alive" from Magic, Murder and the Weather contains
the lyrics "Pepsi Cola, Pepsi Cola brings your ancestors back from the grave".
Apparently when Pepsi first started marketing in China, they went with the
literal translation of their slogan "Come alive, you're in the Pepsi generation"
Oops.  Caused quite a stir in stoic old China.


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Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 86 16:36:34 est
From: Chris J. Valas <linus!cv@mitre-bedford.ARPA>
Posted-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 86 16:36:34 est
Subject: The Residents


Welly, well, well....

Seems like everyone who listens saw the Residents at the Channel.  I had a
hard time believing my eyes at this show, but no problem with my ears:  The
Residents were great and Snakefinger was incredible.  I read somewhere (here?)
that he just did an album with Eric Feldman (of Captain Beefheart's latest
lineup).... has anyone heard it?

For those people into trading tapes (wicinski? are you there? what about
the Hitchcock show in DC?) I made a bootleg of the Residents show, so speak
to me if you want it.
  

latex,
Valas         {decvax,utzoo,philabs,security,allegra,genrad}!linus!cv


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From: allynh%miro@BERKELEY.EDU (Allyn Hardyck)
Subject: Replying to everything
Date: 24 Jan 86 23:09:52 PST (Fri)

Oh - another video at the Henry I forgot earlier:  "Nothing" by Flipper.

The ZTT weirdness is also true at Some Bizzare, where you have Virginia
Astley and Marc Almond alongside Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel and Psychic
TV.

_Brazil_ is great - Gilliam's a wacky guy in person.
(Guess this isn't too relevant.)

I have had maybe 3 hrs. total alone with my copy of _PsychoCandy_ since I
bought it last week - it's apparently the only copy in the building.

More about "Cities in Dust" (opinions, etc.) please - one of my local
opinion sources sez "it sucks but at least their previous records are
still worth listening to".

hof - nothing else to do waiting to board the plane, not enough time to
get into a book, you can't use the radio on the plane and there are sure
to be some good stations in that city so flip, flip, sure enough, on the
left side of the dial, they played some Swell Maps too.  Also on that
vacation up in Madison the late night "Crosscurrents" show on WORT went
an hour later than usual and played "Whip Blow" from the new Cabaret
Voltaire which I subsequently picked up.  And BLEAH I say to the 12"
of "Subculture"!  And FEH!  And PUY! 

Scum SF cops closed down the Mabuhay before the Wednesday Buttholes show
even started!  "Fire hazard, overcrowding", etc.  Hundreds waiting around
for refunds...  Red Hot Chili Peppers same night at Berk. Sq. but it was
pouring rain and no one had a car...

Social director at Barrington trying to get the Cramps for party later the
semester.  Right.  Looks like we'll definitely get the Morlocks though.

Yes, Rough Trade is an actual store - 326 6th st. sf.  sorta small and
expensive, lot of video stuff.  Paradise records in madison is clearly
patterned on it and I'm guessing your favorite store where YOU -> live too.

allyn

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-- 
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under.

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
{decvax!genrad, allegra, gatech, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds
gds@eddie.mit.edu