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Love-Hounds Digest			    Wednesday, February 12, 1986, 05:10

Today's Topics:

			   /enthal and zines/
		      "Hounds of Love" U.S. single
		      not really LH trivia quiz #1
			   Guitars vs. Synths

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Date:     Tue, 28 Jan 86 14:38:04 EST
From: Jim Hofmann - RAMD-D <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  /enthal and zines/

Andrea 'Enthal also had something to do with the Minutemen's 
mop-up LP - The_Politics_of_Time (mainly a collection of stuff
they hadn't put on an lp prior to /84).  She apparently had a
boot of a new york concert.

Her mailing list isn't really worth it, unless you don't have
addresses to the majors like Rough_Trade and Systematic, etc.
Else you can send her 3 stamps and she'll send you her accumulated
knowledge about mail order (about 4 pages) with such hot tips
as what an IRC is.  She also has the most stupid computer list
of band names that she thought are wierd ("these names have
been witnessed or seen by me on record labels or showbills!").
Yawn.  The third thing (zine addresses) she never sent me which is 
characteristic of hardcore/underground-type mailings - extremely unreliable.

All I can say it's good to her she's putting together a tape, a
mention in her column does a hell of a lot for a band - she pretty
much put Dead Milkmen and Scratch Acid into the green (and deservedely
so) and usually hits the mark.

Greg, it's hard to believe she uses her own money to buy platters.
This is extremely cool in my view.  I recently read an interview
with Al Flipside (who puts out the zine Flipside) in which he
shudders in horror about the days when they had to buy their
own records.  Somehow, the whole little underground machine feeds
on itself and consequently the zines come up with most uninspired
drivel about platters.  No wonder they can't write more than one
or two lines.  

hof


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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 86 17:56:51 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: "Hounds of Love" U.S. single

For those who care about such miscellaneous things, "Hounds of Love" is
being released in the U.S. as a single on February 9th, which is
apparently before the British release.  The B-side is "Burning Bridge"
(which is the B-side to the British "Cloudbusting" single).

			"And I'll be two steps on the water"

			 Doug

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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 86 22:34:19 est
From: Tim Wicinski <wicinski@nrl-css.ARPA>
Subject: not really LH trivia quiz #1


You missed the first quiz, !smegma!earl, doug did that one, but no one
could answer the second question.  here's 2 of 3:

1) John Foxx - Dennis Lay (or Leigh, but its pronounced 'Lay')
2) Tiger Lilly 
3) unknown, but it is a single on Gold Records, is that close enough ???


No, I am not thrilled to tears by Ultravox. Gimmie a guitar over a 
Synth any day (ie, Bob Mould over Lionel Ritchie).

"Flying is Trying is Dying"   -Hawkwind, Space Ritual

tim

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 86 01:06:33 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: Guitars vs. Synths

> From: Tim Wicinski <wicinski@nrl-css.ARPA>

> No, I am not thrilled to tears by Ultravox. Gimmie a guitar over a
> Synth any day (ie, Bob Mould over Lionel Ritchie).

Mr. Wicinski, it's not what you do it with -- it's what you do with it.

For instance, I'd take KB's synth over The Romantics guitar any day!
(What?  The Fairlight isn't a synth?  Well...) I'd take Kraftwerk's
synth over REO Speedwagon's guitar anyday.  But I'd definitely take Fred
Frith's guitar over Flock of Hairdressers' synths.  And I'd take Sisters
of Mercy drum machines over Motley Crue's drums.  And King Crimson's
drums over Go West's drum machines.  And...

			"Your cities lie in dust"

			 Doug

P.S.  Mr. Earl, I think it is understood that one someone says something
is "the best", it is their opinion and not a statement of provable fact.
And there is a difference between stating what one's favorite X is, and
what X he thinks is the best.  For example, perhaps my favorite song of
198Y is the Frazen Daz jingle music because it reminds me of the
indescribably wonderful sensation of eating delicious mocha-boysenberry
Fazen Daz ice cream while sand witched with three nubile and naked
eskimo women.  But perhaps I think that this experience is far from
universal for this piece of music, and really this is just a little
peculiarty of mine.  I might therefore think that for 198Y the song with
the most artistic merit is Sid Rotten's cover version of "Louie, Louie"
even though that is not my favorite song.

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Date:     Tue, 28 Jan 86 15:47:58 EST
From: Susanne E Trowbridge <umcp-cs!jhunix!ins_aset@seismo.CSS.GOV>

Life...bah, humbug.  Call me a bleeding heart, but I'm feeling incredibly
depressed about what happened to the space shuttle.  What's more, I'm
trapped here at work unable to watch any news about it.  I am also putting
off transcribing an interview with John Lombardo, one of 10,000 Maniacs'
two guitarists.  He was rather nice but the interview was nothing spectacular
-- I keep waiting for an interviewee with a wild sense of humor to liven 
things up a bit.  I will give John credit for his Six Million Dollar Man
lunchbox, though, in which he kept his guitar strings and tools.  Maybe I'm
just getting jaded.  For the record, though, my favorite interviewees so
far are New Order's Steve Morris, for not taking himself too seriously and
for liking John Waters movies, and Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo, because he
was so weird (this was several years ago when they were still weird and not
putting out crappo like "Shout.")

I am currently listening to the new Public Image Ltd. album, "Album," (I
guess mine would be "Cassette," though -- it's an advance that just says
"Public Image Ltd." on it).  I was not looking forward to it, because I am
no big fan of their "Rise" single (ever wondered what it would be like if
John Lydon decided to join R.E.M.?  Neither had I).  The other songs seem
much better, though, at least on side one.  It's perhaps a little too
restrained, being a big major label production and all, and they will never
ever top their "Public Image" single.  Bill Laswell (!) produced, and 
Ryuichi Sakamoto's supposedly around here somewhere too.

I sent in a response to Village Voice's annual "Pazz and Jop" Critics' Poll.
No, they didn't ask me -- Official Respondent J.D. Considine (oh no, him
again) gave me his Official Envelope since he was sending his Federal
Express, so I just gave my affiliation as Baltimore City Paper/Freelance,
and now we'll see if they're fooled!  I'm sure everyone is dying to know
what I voted for (ha ha).  Since I'm tired of "10 Best" lists etc. consider
this a "10 Records Which Sue Thought Were Pretty Interesting"

*Albums*
1. The Fall, "This Nations Saving Grace"
2. Zeitgeist, "Translate Slowly"
3. Velvet Underground, "VU"
4. Robyn Hitchcock, "Gotta Let This Hen Out"
5. Suzanne Vega, "Suzanne Vega"
6. Kate Bush, "Hounds of Love
7. Cabaret Voltaire, "The Arm of the Lord"
8. Prefab Sprout, "Two Wheels Good"
9. Bryan Ferry, "Boys and Girls"
10. Microdisney, "The Clock Comes Down The Stairs"

*EPs*
1. The Woodentops, "It Will Come"
2. Cabaret Voltaire, "I Want You"
3. Cocteau Twins, "Tiny DynamiNe"
4. The Three Johns, "Death of the European"

*Videos*
1. Artists United Against Apartheid, "Sun City"
2. ABC, "How to be a Millionaire"
3. A-Ha, "Take On Me"
4. Run-D.M.C., "King of Rock"
5. Shriekback, "Nemesis"

(Note -- I have seen very very few videos in the past year -- no cable)

-Sue

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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