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Love-Hounds Digest			   Thursday, February 13, 1986, 11:50

Today's Topics:

			      ? Romeo Void
		     the truth about the maniacs...
		      Kate believes WHAT? (2 msgs)

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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 86 13:21:12 EST
From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Tsun-Yuk Hsu)

	We haven't had a "theme" discussion since Sue's "Who are the
musicians/groups you love to hate" poll, so let me propose the first
love-hounds pseudo-poll of '86, a small variation on a hackneyed subject:

	WHAT ARE THE 10 ALBUMS RECORDED AFTER 1977 THAT YOU WOULD BRING
TO A DESERT ISLAND?

	The restriction to after '77 is based on two reasons:

1) Sam Rabelsky's (are you still on love-hounds?) album poll on net.music
   last year was dominated by albums from the early '70s (not on my ballot!)
   Which I think is understandable because it takes time for some albums
   to "grow" on you. So let's see what relatively recent albums we enjoy...

2) '77 is around when the punk movement began, without which we wouldn't
   have half the music we talk about in this mailing list :-)


	So my ten, in no particular order, are:


KATE BUSH	THE DREAMING		(of course...)

BAUHAUS		THE SKY'S GONE OUT

	I'm really fond of this album, from the cover of Eno's "Third Uncle"
to the post-Joy Division horror movie music on side 2. I guess you either 
love it or hate it for its self-indulgence.

XTC		BLACK SEA

	XTC's masterpiece before they tried to be more commercial with Mummer
(English Settlement was OK). Superb jagged, undanceable rhythms and clashing
dissonances.

LAURIE ANDERSON	BIG SCIENCE

	What would I give to see Laurie Anderson on tour...

ROBYN HITCHCOCK	I OFTEN DREAM OF TRAINS

	Who needs drugs when you have Robyn Hitchcock? The spare production
and instrumentation bring out the lyrics, which I feel are the cleverest
things in Robyn Hitchcock's music. Irresistable and zany...

THE RESIDENTS	NOT AVAILABLE

PETER GABRIEL	III

	This was the album that showed me what rock can really do...

TALKING HEADS	FEAR OF MUSIC

	"Cities", "Life During Wartime", "Heaven", need I say more?

TUXEDOMOON	HALF-MUTE

	Chamber music of the future...

THE CURE	FAITH

	Gloriously depressing music you can dance to, dance music you can be 
depressed to...



And the ones who almost made the list:

David Bowie	Scary Monsters
Sonic Youth	Bad Moon Rising
Byrne/Eno	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Talking Heads	Remain in Light
Kate Bush	Hounds of Love
Peter Gabriel	Security
Bill Nelson	Vistamix
Tuxedomoon	Desire
King Crimson	Discipline
Joy Division	Closer


	Looking over my list, I found that most of my choices were released
before 1983. Looks like there's no escape from the time factor :-)

					Bill Hsu

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Posted-Date: 31 Jan 86 10:26:21 PST (Fri)
Subject: ? Romeo Void
Date: 31 Jan 86 10:26:21 PST (Fri)
From: tsung@aero

Who did the song that goes:

	"It might've been better If we'd slept together
	 It might've been better if we'd slept together
	 It might've been better if we'd slept together ..."

(It's a female voice).  Is it Romeo Void?  If so, what do you people think
about the group?  I thought "Girls in Trouble (is a temporary thing)" was 
interesting, too.

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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 86 13:41:40 PST
From: Jordan Hayes <jordan@ames.ARPA>

	Really-From: tsung@aero
	
	Who did the song that goes:
	
		"It might've been better If we'd slept together
		 It might've been better if we'd slept together
		 It might've been better if we'd slept together ..."

	(It's a female voice).  Is it Romeo Void?  If so, what do you
	people think about the group?  I thought "Girls in Trouble (is
	a temporary thing)" was interesting, too.

Romeo Void indeed did the song you are thinking of ... however, the
lyrics are

	"I might like you better if we slept together"

and it has overtones of incest ... They're from San Francisco, and the
lead singer's name is Deborah (that's Dee-boor-ah) ... the first mix of
"A girl in trouble" was much better (alas, only a demo tape survives at
a few of the local College Stations (KALX, Berkeley ... KUSF, San
Francisco ... etc.)

The song is the cover track of their first album "never say never"

/jordan

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Date:     Fri, 31 Jan 86 8:08:41 EST
From: Susanne E Trowbridge <umcp-cs!jhunix!ins_aset@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Subject:  the truth about the maniacs...

Don't believe Hoffman's opinion about 10,000 Maniacs' show at 8x10.  I was
dubious at first but found myself really won over by them.  I knew several
people at the show and all of them thought it was great.  Anyway, I'm sort
of going through a folk phase at the moment, dusting off the Richard and
Linda Thompson, Fairport Convention, etc.  Plus, there's lots of neat Brit-
folk coming out like The Men They Couldn't Hang and the Pogues.  It's
getting so that my trendy friends can't even listen to my radio program.

Maybe this was inspired by Kate's Celtic touches!

sue

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From: think!harvard!bu-cs!sam
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 86 16:16:47 EST
Subject: Kate believes WHAT?


Peel me off the ceiling...

Kate believes in UFO's?  You mean like that the little lights in the
night sky are green men in flying saucers?  Don't get me wrong...I
certainly believe there is life on other planets...but I don't think
they've visited earth.  She does? (really, now.)

And astral projection?  Somebody (Oh DOUUUUUGGGGG????) wanna elaborate
on what it really means and in what capacity she "believes" in it?

...as for wishes coming true...well, they do, don't they?  (Stayed tuned
for Shelli's monologue on the benefits of prayer...just kidding...)

   
--Shelli

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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 86 23:13:47 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: Re:  Kate believes WHAT?

> From Shelli:

> Kate believes in UFO's?  You mean like that the little lights in the
> night sky are green men in flying saucers?  Don't get me wrong...I
> certainly believe there is life on other planets...but I don't think
> they've visited earth.  She does? (really, now.)

Well, I dunno about little green men, but yeah, she believes in all the
mystical stuff that one loved to believe in as a little kid, but
unfortunately didn't anymore upon growing up, cynical, and realistic:
UFO's, ghosts, reincarnation, astrology, the Loch Ness Monster, ESP,
precognition, orgone accumulators, synchronicity, ... the works.

> And astral projection?  Somebody (Oh DOUUUUUGGGGG????) wanna elaborate
> on what it really means and in what capacity she "believes" in it?

Yeah, astral projection.  Listen to "Watching You Without Me" and "Hello
Earth".  She's admited to believing in most of these things at some
point or another, but doesn't seemed to be particularly obsessed with
any of them.  For example, she says that astrology has been used for
such a long time that there must be something to it.  But only "real"
astrology -- not the "rubbish" that's in the newspapers.  She however,
says that she doesn't follow astrology.

			"I've been told, when I get older
			 That I'll understand it all,
			 But I'm not sure if I want to"

			 Doug

P.S.  I have an interview on tape where Kate talks about her religious
beliefs.  If anyone cares enough to want to hear it, just drop by
sometime...

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