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Love-Hounds Digest			    Friday, February 21, 1986, 10:00

Today's Topics:

	   Uzi and John Cale at The Rat in Boston on 1 Feb 86
			"Play that funky music"
			 KB 12-inches (2 msgs)
			  Dead Kennedys lyrics
			 Maryland strikes again
		  lock wicinski up !! he's going mad !

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 86 09:10:31 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: Uzi and John Cale at The Rat in Boston on 1 Feb 86

You are lying in a trench -- a soldier in the Psychic Wars.  Bursts of
automatic weapons fire defines the rhythm of your existence.  Next to
you a woman dying of emotional wounds chants... moans a healing mantra
"The sun is black to me...  The sun is black to me..."  Is there
anything you can do to help?  You hear strange noises in the distance.
The sounds of heavy machinery and strange backwords things.  You don't
want to know what they are.  The psychic weapons are starting to wear on
you.  You are suspended in time.  Your mind drifts back.... back....
back to a time when the world was just as crazy, but not as obviouly so.
You were watching a band called Uzi...

You had gone to the Rat in Boston to see John Cale, driving in a snow
storm -- laughing in death's face.  You slithered on into The Rat,
shedding your Mighty Mac tertiary skin and hiding it in some hopefully
overlooked cranny.  Then you were assaulted with Uzi.  You no longer
laughed.  The four member band created a dense musical cloud of
psychedelic gloom.  The lead guitarist crunched and swirled -- his feet
pounding over an array of 12 or 13 effects boxes nearly as fast as his
hands pounded over the strings.  The drums are a fire squad of automatic
rifles, and power chords blast from the bass guitar.  The singer chants
words of pain.  Her voice is nothing special, but it is quite
appropriate.  She also plays guitar, to add another piece to the sonic
attack.  On tape, strange sounds add an eerie background texture.

The croud is fascinated, but is too drained to ask for an encore.  The
most urgent thought in your mind as they leave the stage is "Why don't
they have an album out???"

John Cale appears after a while, bearing little resemblance to a
revolutionary 60's acid rock hero.  Here is a middle-aged
avant-traditional songster.  The Rat is now packed like a packed rat.
The audience is dedicated and enthusiastic.  He sings with only his own
guitar playing or piano playing to accompany him.  The guitar is
acoustic with an electric pick-up and the piano is a Yamaha electric
grand -- the kind that Roger Miller plays.  He can't match the sonic
assualt of Uzi, but there is a depth of sincerity to his songs that
makes all other considerations vanish.  After each song that goes over
really well, he stands up and takes a cute little British bow.  Women
are swooning right and left.

The first set is perfection.  You hear the most stirring version
possible of "Heartbreak Hotel" and much other heartrending music.  The
second set isn't as good.  At times, Cale falls into a pattern in his
piano playing that is annoying -- continously playing the chords with
his right hand in a steady metronome beat.  When he breaks from this
cliche, however, the music is once again stirring and inspirational.
When he is done you trudge back to your car through the cold snow with
a fresh beer stain on your tertiary skin and a warm feeling in your
heart.

Unfortunately, you are shocked back to the present as a neuron bomb
explodes overhead.  Jagged light pentrates your soul, and as your
nervous system dissolves, inevitable mortality becomes apparent.  You
hallucinate a lifetime's worth of torture: reality.  The wounds are on
the inside.

				-Doug

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From: ambar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 86 12:06:06 EST
Subject: "Play that funky music"

by Wild Cherry.
		Jean "Trivia that should be forgotten" Diaz

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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 86 16:07 PST
From: ROBB LEATHERWOOD <ROBB-LEATHERWOOD%LADC@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA>
Subject: KB 12-inches
Randomness: Some men are discovered; others are found out.

Does the 12" of Running Up That Hill have a re-mix of RUTH or just the
album version?  ALso, is the re-mix any good?  I really don't like the
"Organon Re-Mix" from the 12" of Cloudbusting, or, rather, I like it, but
not nearly as much as the album version.  Anyway, if there's not a decent
re-mix of RUTH or a third song, I'm just going to buy the single to get
"Under the Ivy."

Later,
  -Shoo
   (Robb L. Leatherwood)

                  -Shoo

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 86 16:01:31 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: Re:  KB 12-inches

> Does the 12" of Running Up That Hill have a re-mix of RUTH or just the
> album version?

The 12" has a re-mix and an instru-mental version.

> ALso, is the re-mix any good?

Yeah, it's nice.

> I really don't like the "Organon Re-Mix" from the 12" of Cloudbusting,
> or, rather, I like it, but not nearly as much as the album version.

I actually like the Organon Re-Mix better, but if I had to only have
one, would take the album version.

> Anyway, if there's not a decent re-mix of RUTH or a third song, I'm
> just going to buy the single to get "Under the Ivy."

The 12" is worth it just for the difference in fidelity.  7" records
sound pretty awful in general.

			"It woudn't take me long
			 To tell you how to find it"

			 Doug

P.S.  What really pisses me off is that there was a 12 inch for "Sat In
Your Lap", but EMI decided at the last moment not to release it.
Oooohhhhh!  Kate has one.  I wonder if she's into trading....

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Date:  Mon, 10 Feb 86 20:25 MST
From: "James J. Lippard" <Lippard@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
Subject:  Dead Kennedys lyrics
Reply-To:  Lippard@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA

Does anyone have the lyrics sheets for either or both of the In God We
Trust EP and the Plastic Surgery Disasters LP?  The CD didn't come with
them.  If somebody who has them would be willing to copy them and mail
them to me (I'll send a SASE if you want), I'd appreciate it.

  Jim (Lippard at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA)

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 86 23:06:09 est
From: Tim Wicinski <wicinski@nrl-css.ARPA>
Subject: Maryland strikes again


This state called Maryland (you know the one with the commercial "Ohhh,
the state I'm in".  I always thought it was the state of mind of the 
scantily clad wench singing the song, but forget it) is trying to amend
an already existing law that would outlaw the sales of all obscene 
records and tapes to minors.  This article is from Saturday, Feb. 8 
Washington Post. My comments are in [].

   X-RATED-LYRICS BILL ON MARYLAND SLATE
    Measure Would Outlaw Sales to Minors

Richard Harrington, Washington Post Staff Geek [actually okay dude, 
always trys to push the Hardcore shows, recommneded Descendent, etc]

The Maryland state legislature is considering a bill that would make it a 
crime, punishable by a fine or jail term, to sell records, tapes, or
laser discs with state-determined obscenity values to anyone under 18.
[This is like the Film censor gone mad.]

The bill would force retailers to segregates materials along the lines
of X-rated videocasettes or explicit magazines. Young consumers would need
identification to buy such material. Under the measures, introduced in
the Maryland Assembly's Judicary Committee by state Del. Judith Toth
(D-Montgomery) [picture also. Looks like she's been visited by some
kind of hofmann in the dead of night who was chanting "anal vapors, anal
vapors."] in early January, first time penalities would be a maximum $1,000
fine or a year in jail, while repeat offenses could bring $5,00 fines
and three years in jail. 

If the bill passes before the Maryland legistature adjourns on April 7,
it will be the first such state law in the nation. [wow, darned trensetters]

Toth says that House Bill 111 [should be 666] simply amends Maryland's
existing codes prohibiting the sale of pornographic materials
to minors.

[...blah..]

The rest says no one should up to testify at the hearings, The record 
chains said they were never notified and called it "a repulsive concept."
Wow, heavy duty.  Also the article says this Toth wanker gets all her
materials from, guess who ?? that's right, the PRMC. Now you know where
she's coming from. 

What I want to know is how are they going to decide what's obscene
and what's not ?? Will Prince's "Erotic City" or Sheena Easton's "Sugar
Walls" be labeled obscene, even though these songs were HITS.  Now,
maybe the Mentors might just be banned all together, but I have a
felling (I don't know why, I just do) that's this will be very biased.
This is what the PRMC wants !! They want to put some panel to rate 
records just like the Maryland Censor board used to rate and censor
films.   

tim


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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 86 22:17:46 est
From: Tim Wicinski <wicinski@nrl-css.arpa>
Subject: lock wicinski up !! he's going mad !


I just heard the all-new version of "Pretty in Pink" and I think it stinks!
How low can the Psychedelic Furs be to let some movie people talk them
into readoing an already great song into something that sounds more
'punkier'. (First explain what this means to me).  I was completely
disapointed. 

Also heard "Left of Center" with Suzanne Vega and Joe Jackson. Hmmmm.
so-so. It wasn't that BAD.  It was quite suzanne actually. 

10,00 Manic Depressives:  There's this guy I work with from Jamestown NY,
the reputed home of this band.  He asked me last week if I heard about them,
he wanted my opionin on them. I had none.  He summed his opionin up on the
band like this (Hoffman, this sounds like you):  "I knew most of the band 
members since we all went to the same .

ee cummings:  Doug, didn't you ever take English Lit classes at school ??
or does MIT can't afford English Lit ?? That's one of the advantages of
having English maors as roomates: Not only do you have lots of cool books
to read, they also take great classes.  Myslef, I'll take Shelley, Keats,
or Byron.  Not sure why though.

Fripp:  I read this interview with Mr. Fripp, and he said he quite enjoyed
making the Daryll Hall album "Sacred Songs", as well as that one Roches
album.  He said "Daryll's album went much smoother and was finished much
quicker than we ever imagined.  Unlike the King Crimson days,  everyone
put their egos aside for awhile and did some really fine work."  I think
Fripp hates to have people second-guess him is what he's saying.  I
do like "Sacred Songs", good stuff.  And I enjoy Exposure too.  I still
think it's the best Crimson album.  Prove me wrong.

Butthole Surfers come to town in a few weeks.  I'll go if I got the buckage.

tim

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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