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Love-Hounds Digest			   Saturday, February 15, 1986, 21:27

Today's Topics:

	  going to a desert Island ?? I'll take these with me.
	    minor threat as rock stars?? ... untrendy stuff
		     10 albums to take to an island
		 New Stuff by Suzanne Vega  (bad news)

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 86 07:12:34 est
From: Tim Wicinski <wicinski@nrl-css.ARPA>
Subject: going to a desert Island ?? I'll take these with me.


Here are my 10 albums, all post 1977.  I guess I have problems with
this because I do listen to many albums that were put out before
1977 that never were quite 'with it' (ie, Mothers of Invention, Hawkwind, etc).
But I gave it a shot to see what I could come up with off the top of my
head.  Here goes (in random order).....

1. Laurie Anderson - United States I-V.
    Five records, this would keep the most sane man busy for months 
    listening to.  Everything you need out of her, and then some.

2. Joy Division - Still
    This is not Wham! 

3. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
    The gurus of electricfied folk music rip down everything.  
    Listen to side 2 for catharis, and side 4 for 'Reoccurring Dreams'.

4. Minor Threat - Out of Step
    Beyond their rock-star image was a band with more intensity than 
    i've seen in awhile.  This ep is the Threat at their peak, with decline 
    being immiment.

5. Motorhead - No Remorse
    I wanted 'Space Ritual' but it was pre-77, so this will do quite nicely.
    And this one does get played quite loud.

6. Soft Boys - Invisible Hits

7. Velvet Underground - VU
    But this album was released in 1985 !! Whew, I needed to get a VU 
    album on my list somehow.  Not the best, but the only one released 
    after 1977.

8. Brian Eno/David Bryne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

9. Robert Fripp - Exposure
    The Best King Crimson Album. Ever.

10. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
     This one was recorded in 1977 when the Modern Lovers still had Dave
     Robinson.  Album contains 'New England' 'Here Come the Martian Martians'
     and 'Abomidable Snowman in the Market' among others.  But what I would
     give for a version of 'Roadrunner'. 


Pre-77 releases which caught my eye:

Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Mothers of Invention - Freak Out
Brian Eno - Another Green World
King Crimson - A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson

tim

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Date:     Mon, 3 Feb 86 11:33:11 EST
From: Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  minor threat as rock stars?? ... untrendy stuff

rock star image? tim? gee I never got that impression ... maybe Lyle Preslar
but I thought they were anti-cockrock star .... guess I never saw them live
being in the dregs of Virginia at the time...

As for 10,00000000 MAniacs - don't believe Sue - these guys have little
intensity or energy and showed supreme disrespect for the audience.  And
I thought they *were* trendy, gee ...

If a band called DOGGY STYLE comes through your town - go see!  These guys
are hilarious ... color coordinated because they explain it makes them
feel like men they even revised the pogo getting everyone in the place
to jump up and down.  How untrendy! as if I care.  If you saw the Debby
Harry Spin - you might have noticed them demonstrating their dance ... well,
the last song, they got everyone who wasn't confused jumping around yelling,
"Doggy Style" when the singer yelped "How ya gonna do it?" ... They did a
bunch of go-go styles tunes which is Really untrendy and even a Beastie Boys
tune,, "She's On It" and, gawd, the Beasties are Super-duper untrendy ... I
even got one of the Tootsie Pops they threw out to the audience - By the time
I got to them, they had sold out their LP (Side By Side on Flipside Records)
but I'm gonna send away for it as soon as I get a money order - and what they
hell, if I don't like it I'll just give it to my Kid Sister...

Marginal Man, Black Market Baby and Urgent Fury - - - Marginal Man is on
tour and you'd better go see them - you won't forgive yourself when they
become the next big trendy thing and you can then say "I saw them when they
were untrendy" -- as for Black Market and Urgent Fury - well 2 good bands outta
4 ain't bad... Black Market Baby told alot of good jokes ... Urgent Fury was
way too serious - but what do you expect from a Puerto Rican hardcore band
from the Bronx?

hof

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 86 12:18:17 EST
From: think!harvard!bu-cs!sam (Shelli Meyers)
Subject: 10 albums to take to an island

>  WHAT ARE THE 10 ALBUMS RECORDED AFTER 1977 THAT YOU WOULD BRING
>  TO A DESERT ISLAND?
 
No particular order:

    Kate Bush: The Dreaming (* no comment necessary *)
    London Philharmonic: Tchaikovsky Spectaculars
              (**************************************************)
              (** no flames, PLEASE!  I'm gonna be on a desert **)
              (**   island, don't I need some REAL CULTURE?    **)
              (**************************************************)
    Andrew Lloyd Webber, etc: "Jesus Christ Superstar"
                              Requiem
              (**************************************************)
              (** We'll need to be praying heartily to get off **)
              (**            this damn island...               **)
              (**************************************************)
    The Bee Gees: Saturday Night Fever (** JUST KIDDING! **)
    Madonna: Like A Virgin (** Put in to aggravate Doug **)
                           (**  and to subdue restless  **)
                           (**         natives.         **) 
  
 
** If the desert island happens to be off the coast of Australia: **
  
    Goanna: (oh damn I can't remember the name of the damn album but
             it's the one with "Solid Rock" on it and probably their
             only album)
            (** For the folk song in my heart... **)
    Anything by Midnight Oil (** for those heavy metal moods **)

   
** Seasonal choices: **

    John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together
            (***********************************************************)
            (** Kills two birds with one stone!  Celebrate Christmas, **) 
            (**  and entertain any impending kids (depending on who   **)
            (**     you're stranded on said desert island with).      **)
            (***********************************************************)
    Zula: Next Year in Jerusalem 
            (** The obvious alternative for Jews **)


...Wait a minute...you mean my 10 FAVORITE albums?  Oh.


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"When in Rome, do as the Romanians do!"
             *Shelli*

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Date:     Mon, 3 Feb 86 15:56:05 EST
From: Susanne E Trowbridge <umcp-cs!jhunix!ins_aset@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Subject:   New Stuff by Suzanne Vega  (bad news)

Someone just gave me the advance cassette of the "Pretty in Pink" soundtrack.
"P.i.P." is the new film by the guy who directed "The Breakfast Club" and
"16 Candles" -- I think his name is John Hughes, but I'm not positive -- and
it stars Molly Ringwald, one of the more appealing of those horrid brat pack
people.  Still, I doubt I'll rush out to see it.

It has a new song by Suzanne Vega, "Left of Center," which is pretty crummy
(for lack of a better descriptive adjective) -- she did it in concert and
I didn't like it then, either.  One expects more from SV, one of the coolest
women in the universe.  It sounds like a stab at the Top 40.

Fortunately, there's also a brand new one from New Order, "Shell Shock,"
which I like quite a bit.  What else?  The Psychedelic Furs REMADE "Pretty
in Pink" -- blasphemy!!!  The A&M rep told me that it had a "punkier edge"
but it really sounds like a second-rate cover version.  Or it would, if it
weren't for Richard Butler's voice.  

The rest -- "Round, Round" (Belouis Some); "Wouldn't It Be Good" (Danny
Hutton Hitters -- would you believe a cover version of a Nik Kershaw
song??????); "Bring On The Dancing Horses" (Echo and the Bunnymen); "Please
Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" (The Smiths); "If You Leave" (OMD);
"Get To Know Ya" (Jesse Johnson); and "Do What You Do" (INXS).  Better than
most soundtrack LPs, but that's not saying much, is it? 

Do you ever wonder what your fellow Love-Hounders and net.music contributors
look like?  I do.  Perhaps we could put together some kind of photo album!
Then I can find out if Larry Palena is really green and slimy or if he only
writes that way.

A Morgan Fairchild look-a-like,
-Sue

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

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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