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Love-Hounds Digest			    Saturday, March 1, 1986, 13:47

Today's Topics:

			     Re:  silliness
		      "Love and Rockets" (2 msgs)
			  product announcement
			      Re: Octobre

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Date:     Fri, 21 Feb 86 8:16:33 EST
From: Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  Re:  silliness


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


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

Ahem, I'm truly sorry and am going to have to start building a quote
database (any good software out there?) so I quit messing up these quotes ...

The true lyric (from Minutemen's 3 Way Tie For Last) is:

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

Makes quite a diff, huh?

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Subject: "Love and Rockets"
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 86 13:05:47 -0500
From: jdarnold@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

No, that's a group, not the opening line of electronic erotica!

After reading a glowing review of Love and Rockets' newest (only?)
record in (of all places!) the Boston Globe, I decided to have a look
see.  The review mentioned that "Dreams of a Teenage Heaven" was only
available as an import, as their deal with RCA had fallen through, but
that it was well worth the extra bucks.  After meandering down to the
nearest CO-OP, I found not only the album, but that it was on sale!
So I said, sure, let's give it a shot.

Boy, was that every a good idea!  Despite the somewhat boring title
track (as was mentioned in the review), this is one listenable record,
bringing to mind the best of OMD and other of the British synth-pop
groups.  Intricate instrumentals, wry lyrics and intriguing guitar
"breaks" all contribute to one of the best album purchases I've made
since Yaz's "You and Me Both".

To give you a better idea of my tastes, here's my quicky "7 records to
a desert island" list:

1) Yaz - You and me both
2) Goanna - Spirit of Place
3) Alan Parson's Project - I Robot
4) Rubber Rodeo - Scenic Views
5) The Bongos - Numbers with Wings
6) "Popeye" soundtrack by Nilsson (to satisfy my whimsical moods)
7) Pink Floyd - The Wall 

-- Obligatory Kate Bush note --

The Boston Phoenix even liked HoL! Of course, it got only 3 stars
and who really cares what the Boston Phoenix thinks, but it just goes
to show you that even critics aren't TOTALLY wrong ALL the time!

	Jonathan Arnold
	MIT - Project Athena

	She took his gun,
	She took his knife,
	He took his drugs,
	They took his life.
	  - "Amplifier", the dBs

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Date:     Fri, 21 Feb 86 10:01:07 EST
From: Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  product announcement

Coming soon from Beefeater:

release forthcoming on olive tree records of the new beefeater vinyl ...

a six song ep entitled, "need a job"  

			-you-heard-it-here-first


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Date: Friday, 21 Feb 1986 13:54:41-PST
From: hall%beta.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM  (DIGITAL DAN)
Subject: Re:  "Love and Rockets"


Really-To: jdarnold@ATHENA.MIT.EDU  8^)

Just for the record, the debut L+R album is called _Seventh Dream of
Teenage Heaven_.  Since you really like it, there's a couple of singles
you may want to get.  The first L+R tune that got airplay around here was
"Ball of Confusion".  It's a good long funky version with lots of ganky
bass and Ash's screaming guitar.  The B side is "Inside the Outside",
the tune they opened with when I saw them at the Paradise a few months
ago.  The second single is a longer version of "If There's A Heaven Above"
with an instrumental version on the B side called "Mr. Smith", I think.  

Also consider checking out Tones on Tail.  They were the members of L+R
plus David Jay (who were all members of Bauhaus).  There are two versions
of their last album, "`POP'" and "The Album Pop", with a few songs differ-
ent between the two.  I also have a compilation (the title escapes me)
of stuff from three other TOT albums; "Tones on Tail", "There's Only One"
and another title I forget.  Plus, many many singles.

-Dan

"Living it up is a big kick - it's good for you!"
                                                --TOT

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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 86 17:01:38 cst
From: TDAS Development(chris) <ots!chris515>
Subject: Re: Octobre




I haven't heard the song you're talking about, but I do know
of a French band called Octobre (or maybe October).  I don't
have any album name, since what I heard was a friend's cassette.
One of the songs on the album that I recall is `Acteur du Monde.'
And, pulling the last scrap of almost knowlege from a fogged mind,
I heard a song about a year ago by Mark somebody who was undoubtedly
the lead singer of Octobre.
					Chris Jepeway


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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