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Love-Hounds Digest			    Friday, February 28, 1986, 03:17

Today's Topics:

				 Song.
			       Stan, bud.
		   Yet another Pazz and Jop flame :-)
	     October (the band, not the month or the song)
		  Rites of Spring and hip media people
			  Re:  Stan Ridgeway??
			      Re:  Music!
			 Groove Decay songlist
			       silliness
			       ZAP Music

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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 86 21:46 PST
From: ROBB LEATHERWOOD <ROBB-LEATHERWOOD%LADC@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA>
Subject: Song.
References: Old and orphaned responses [0929]
Randomness: The world is round.
            PETE CONRAD, Aboard Gemini XI

This is in response to someone (Shelli?) who said that they heard a song
that they liked and they thought they heard the word "October"

Well, U2 does a song called October on their (you guessed it) October
album.  It's all piano and vocal, and is rather short.  The lyrics are:

October
And trees are stripped bare
Of all they wear
What do I care?

October
And kingdoms rise
And kingdoms fall
But you go on
And on...

Do those lyrics ring a bell?

Later,
  -Shoo
   (Robb L. Leatherwood)

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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 86 21:56 PST
From: ROBB LEATHERWOOD <ROBB-LEATHERWOOD%LADC@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA>
Subject: Stan, bud.
References: Stan Ridgeway?? [0932]
Randomness: The door is the key.

I believe Stan Ridgeway used to be the lead singer for Wall of Voodoo.

   -SHoo

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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 86 09:00:05 EST
From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Tsun-Yuk Hsu)
Subject: Yet another Pazz and Jop flame :-)



Village Voice has really been aggravating lately. Just saw the cover
for this week's rag (haven't even read it yet): what's this about
Talking Heads winning "FINALLY"????????????????? As if it's not bad
enough that David Byrne and fellow eccentrics are becoming mega-popular
for the one Heads album that has no right to exist (read: I HATE IT, it's
unadventurous, condescending and a prettied-up rubber bone thrown to
the Top 40 masses), but almost everyone is behaving as if "Little Critters"
is FINALLY the masterpiece (puke) they should have made all along,
oh gee whiz isn't this great avant garde stuff (yes, I heard that on
a radio station here and might have attacked the car stereo, but I
was in the back seat.)

FA

		*FLAME OFF*

(By the way, Doug, Byrne has always insisted on not having the "the"
in front of Talking Heads. Nobody's perfect:-)


				"And you may ask yourself
				 My God! What have I done?"

				Bill Hsu

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Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 1986 07:53:12-PST
From: hall%beta.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM  (DAN HALL - DTN 264-5879 - MKO1-1/M37)
Subject: October (the band, not the month or the song)

>Really-From: think!harvard!bu-cs!sam  (--Shelli)

>Other questions:
>I heard a song on WFNX (Boston) today that I loved, except I was in
>the shower and really didn't hear the DJ when he said who it was.
>I could've SWORN I heard the word "October".  Does this ring a bell
>to anybody?

I heard that tune on FNX too.  Yes, the band's name is October, but I
know nothing about them.  Bop over to Newbury Comics and ask someone
there - they're bound to know.

Dan

"Radi-i-o-i-o-i-o-i-o"


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Date:     Thu, 20 Feb 86 11:24:51 EST
From: Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  Rites of Spring and hip media people

Rites of Spring album is on Dischord rather than Fountain of Youth
records but I'm sure if you sent a note to Fountain of Youth (and
some $) they would probably get it to you being as they are close
in both idealogy and friendship.  Rites of Spring was one of my
favorite albums of 1985 (along with Beefeater on Dischord also) but
was spurned by Hip, Media Celebrities in the Village Voice.  But
then they are all part of the "establishment" they so ranted about
in the 60's and Dischord is definitely anti-"establishment" and
they sell their records for silly prices like 5 bucks postage paid.
So Village Voice and all the other wankers who "contribute" to it
is in the record industry hip pocket helping to bring "the next wave"
out of the underground and into recording contracts (see the REplacements
and Husker Du...) and spurn anyone who doesn't tow that line so
you Won't be seeing any Dischord releases talked about in the VV (also
Dischord sends out very, very, very few promo copies and this PISSES
off critics like Christgau who feel the music world should send
them like two copies so Bobby can have the best record collection
outside of Midnight Sun in NYC - certainly Dischord DOESN'T send
promos to such crass (the name of an English simililarly minded group
of individuals) commercial Murdochish things like Village Voice) [Whew]

So don't feel so "hip" about helping Rupert Murdoch's paper out, Sue.
Go find the Beefeater or Rites of Spring release or better yet check
out the new Snakes release on that label.  Or buy HR's album on Fountain
of Youth.

			"you have arms/you have legs/you have            
                          freedom" - jim hofmann (hey, I know it's wrong but
                                        I LIKE that
					quote better!)

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Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 1986 08:23:14-PST
From: hall%beta.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM  (DAN HALL - DTN 264-5879 - MKO1-1/M37)
Subject: Re:  Stan Ridgeway??


I have a 12-inch 45 that has "Drive, She Said" "Salesman" and another
tune by Stan Ridgeway on it.  There's none of that crazy percussion
or the silly rhythm machine WoV used.  "Drive" sounds reminiscent of
WoV.  "Salesman" is more minimal (<--paradox?) than that, with a bass
line that won't quit.  It is easily the lowest bass that I have on a
vinyl recording (Oh dear, my audiophilia is showing).  8^)

I've heard the new Wall of Voodoo album.  Yawn.

Dan

P.S.  Twelve inch singles recorded at 33.3 rpm should be banned!

"Salesman, salesman, why don't you sell me something?"

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Date: Thursday, 20 Feb 1986 08:35:22-PST
From: hall%beta.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM  (DIGITAL DAN)
Subject: Re:  Music!


>Really-From: S7YLF4%IRISHMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (Try pronouncing that!)


>                                  My music is, I'm afraid, a little
>more mundane than what seems to be floating around here.  To keep
>it short and simple, here are (some of) my musical likes/dislikes:
>
>Likes:  Bach (the original J.S., must confess I haven't really
>listened to P.D.Q.), Rush, Dire Straits, R.E.M., Talking Heads,
>a little heavy metal (very little), some Alan Parsons (just heard
>Stereotomy on CD), a little Peter Gabriel, some ZZ Top (depending
>on my mood), a l...
>
>Dislikes: Wham! (ugh!), Madonna (double ugh!), Prince & Boy George
>& Duran Duran and all those make-up-wearing people (I know I'm
>alienating quite a few people here), most heavy metal (I know I'm
>alienating even more), practically all country (there go the rest
>of them), in faquite a bit of Top 40 stuff (especially Bruce Springsteen;
>there goes thBe whole female popoulation).., ...
>
>In any case, I'm probably going to sit back and watch for awhile and
>find out how many people hate me.  Until then, adieu...

I don't know - sounds like you fit in just fine.

Dan

"It's only water in a stranger's tears"

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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 86 13:09:10 est
From: Tim <wicinski@nrl-css.ARPA>
Subject: Groove Decay songlist


Okay, you people who own a copy of 'Groove Decay' by Mr. Hitchcock.
I have a tape of it but I do not have the song list. Anybody want to send it to me ?? this is the old
album, not the re-issue of it (which has different songs I am told).


-- I'm not even gonna put my two measly cents in - If sue wants to
be the trendy hip media star, interview the grateful dead.  There a hell
cooler than the fine young geeks, 10,000 manic depressive, or whoever is
becoming 'in' (as oppossed to 'out').  Me ?? I'm goona try to dig up all
this change I have and cruise downtown to see the real trend, the
Butthole Surfers.  Don't have much money, but it's better than the other
slop around here.  

tim


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Date:     Thu, 20 Feb 86 15:41:29 EST
From: Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  silliness


> Then again, Kate risking appearing silly by playing a little boy in the
> "Cloudbusting" video helps restore my faith.  (Hear that Hofmann!)

I KNEW IT!  One iota of Kate-critisism doesn't get by Doug!  When are
you going to get a T-shirt (and patent it) that says, "NUMBER ONE
KATE BUSH FAN IN THE WHOLE WORLD"?

And you shouldn't hold faith in pop stars, Doug.  Save it for plumbers
and car mechanics.

			"I won't love you (till you're more like me)"

 					   or

			"There are meager dreams, lofty desires and still
					silliness"

					   or
		
			"You know, I think we're all Bozos on this bus!"

					  Jim-bo

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Date: 18 Feb 86 13:53:00 PST
From: "ROSSI J.A." <rossi@nusc.ARPA>
Subject: ZAP Music
Apparently-To: Love-Hounds

[Part of this message got lost in the digests because of my wonderful
non-locking software, so here it is again....  --Doug]

What with nearly all of the creative electronic ZAP artists now doing
scores for motion pictures (most notably Tangerine Dream), and other 
Berlin schoolies such as KKlaus Schulze teaming up with 60's misfits
such as Arthur Brown, we are at the brink of something (if i knew what
it was I would say).  Even my close friend Pascal Languirand (aka Minos;
aka TRANS-X) has traded in his noise generators, various sound modification
devices and other interesting 'sounding' items for multiple layered MIDI
overglorified rhythm boxes (with 127 part harmony), and an actual live
performing band.  What gives.  Isn't anyone out there doing cosmic
exploration anymore.  With the current crop of multi-tracking devices
(including the, gulp, midi stuff).  You would think that we would have
uncovered the essense of musical consciousness by now (of course I realize
that we might have but Sylvester Stallone just couldn't understand it so
it was forgotten).
    I would appreciate communicating with those overaged individuals who
are interested in the music of the mind (not the echos thereof), those
who maybe sometimes pull out there old Moog-10, Synthi VCS3 or AKS,
EML 101,200, various sound modification devices and an old TEAC 3340A 
(or maybe gust an older 3340) to try to open the doors of cosmic
conciousness in a way that even a Rosicruscian never thought of).
Reply to ROSSI@NUSC.ARPA.

By the way, has anyone heard from Ash RA lately (after their disco album)

John

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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