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Love-Hounds Digest			    Thursday, March 6, 1986, 15:32

Today's Topics:

	Last Word on Tones On Tail ; Random 1986 Observations
		   Re: literary references in music
	       No more Sisters? and Palena pictures...
			     DK's lyrics
			     Jane Siberry

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 86 19:12:08 pst
From: ia-sun2!smeagol!gorbag!earle@csvax.caltech.edu (Greg Earle)
Subject: Last Word on Tones On Tail ; Random 1986 Observations

To DIGITAL DAN:
	You got it backwards.  David Jay is in Love and Rockets, NOT in
Tones On Tail.  Also, the members of Tones On Tail were NOT all members
of Bauhaus; see below.

To ROBB LEATHERWOOD (shoo):
	The L & R LP with 'Ball of Confusion' added is the Canadian release.

To Everybody else:
	Here's the Bird's Eye Low-Down On This Caper (whatever that means):

Tones on Tail was formed in 1981 by Daniel Ash of Bauhaus, and Glenn Campling
(Bauhaus' Lighting/Road manager).  The first two singles (EP's) were the 
product of these two alone.  Starting with single #3, Kevin Haskins (also
ex-Bauhaus) joined.  Discography follows (7" versions omitted) :

Tones On Tail EP			4AD BAD 203	(1982)
(Tracks:  A Bigger Splash / Copper // Means Of Escape /Instrumental)

There's Only One / Now We Lustre 12"	Beggars Banquet BEG 85T (1982)
[Wrigley's Fun Fact #1: 'Now We Lustre' is subtitled:
"(Beam Me Up Scotty, There's No Intelligent Life Down Here)"]
[Wrigley's Fun Fact #2: Ash is credited with 'Accoustic' (sic) guitars]

Burning Skies / OK, This Is The Pops // When You're Smiling / You The Night
and The Music 12"				Situation Two SIT 21T (1983)
[Wrigley's Fun Fact #3: This is the first record with Kevin Haskins]
[Wrigley's Fun Fact #4: These 3 EP's are what the compilation is culled from]

Performance / Shakes			Beggars Banquet BEG 106T (BLACK VINYL)
Lions / Go! (Club Mix)			Beggars Banquet BEG 109T (RED VINYL)
'Pop' LP				Beggars Banquet BEGA 51  (1984)
Christian Says / Twist			Beggars Banquet BEG 121T (BLUE VINYL)

[Wrigley's Fun Fact #5: When Love and Rockets played in L.A., they did an
acoustic version of "Lucifer Sam"; also "Go!"]

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Random Musical Observations of 1986 From Yours Truly:

First Record of '86 to qualify for 'Who would have believed it, 9 years ago?':
	Public Image Ltd. - "Album"
First Record of '86 to qualify for 'Who would have believed it, 7 years ago?':
	Feargal Sharkey - "Feargal Sharkey"
First Record of '86 that makes all other '86 releases completely irrelevant:
	Princess Tinymeat - "Wigs On The Green" (B-side of "A Bun In The Oven")
First Record of '86 to remind me "When's the next Test Dept. record?":
	Swans - "Time Is Money (Bastard)"
Reasons To No Longer Avoid All Double Albums Like The Plague:
	Hula - "1000 Hours"
 	Severed Heads - "Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past"
Most Hilarious Quotations of '86:
	"Rich Rosen accounts for 2% of the net!  Ban Rich Rosen!!!"
	(To Larry Palena) "Stay Lame, Dude"
	[ Thanks to hof for these gems ]
Biggest Disappointments of '86:
	(1) Missing the reunion of the Original Christian Death 
	(aside to hof: not only have I heard of 'em, you should find the 
	1982 LP	"Only Theatre Of Pain" (Frontier) Right Away - features
	Rikk Agnew, guitarist for Adolescents and now DI).  They opened for
	Flesh For Lulu - it was advertised but the next ad saw C.D. removed.
	So I decided to bag it; they showed up anyway. SHUCKS.
	(2) Missing Youth Brigade and the Weirdos reunion due to 
	ice-pick-pounding shit-I'm-gonna-die-fer-sure-level headache.
	SHUCKS 2.
Biggest Waste Of Newsprint In '86:
	Village Voice - "Spazz and Slop Pole"
Biggest Wanker Of '86:
	Robert Christgau (for including partial examples of random Poll 
	ballots, but including ALL of his own under the pompous heading,
	"The Dean's List" - I could go on and on about his idiotic commentary,
	but (a) you're bored ; and (b) I don't want to waste the time.
	See hof's treatise from Feb. 20th for the general idea.
HOTTEST NEWS FLASH OF '86 (Just received *10 minutes* ago):
	Return of Siouxsie & The Banshees to Irvine Meadows Amplitheatre
	  (BOO - Mini Stadium) and Hollywood Palladium (Ehh... well)
	Return of Jesus and Mary Chain
	Return of Echo & The Bunnymen (first show in 3 years)
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Best Album Of All Time:
	Boston "Boston"	(HEY!  Fugg you too - my brudder went to High School
			with the bass player, and 3 of them lived in my
			hometown, so piss off)

What?  Sarcasm?  Moi?
NOW, CAN WE END THIS SILLY DISCUSSION?

Hey Sue T. - An easier way to get your 15 minutes of fame would be to write
a disertation on why Spazz and Slop Polls are completely STUPID and a waste
of time, and send it to the Voice editor.  Then you can see your name in the
'Letters to the Editor' column in a helluva lot bigger typeface than that
3-point face (was it even 1/10" tall?) *your* name got put in .....


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Subject: Re: literary references in music
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 86 14:22:34 -0800
From: alfke@csvax.caltech.edu


hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Tsun-Yuk Hsu) writes:
> There are also lines from T.S. Eliot's Waste Land in another Laurie
> Anderson song from Mister Heartbreak (I think it's Blue Lagoon). It's
> the part that goes "...those are pearls that were his eyes...", about
> a drowned man. I don't recall any quotes from Big Science (don't have
> the lyrics with me); anyone has pointers?
>   Bill Hsu

ummmm ... actually, that quote rather predates Eliot.  It's from Shake-
speare's "The Tempest".  About half of "The Wasteland" is literary ref-
erences of varying degrees of faithfulness, so attributing quotes from
it to Eliot is a risky thing to do; I suggest checking a good annotated
version of the poem first.  (I know; I've embarrassed myself on this
before...)
					--Peter Alfke
					  alfke@csvax.caltech.edu

PS: Another two-levels-of-quoting thing is Genesis' "The Cinema Show"
    (from "Selling England by the Pound"), which quotes the courtship
    scene from "The Wasteland", which is loosely based on the Greek
    legend of Tiresias . . .

"Everything is deeply intertwingled"  --Ted Nelson

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 86 09:13:16 est
From: allegra!sjuvax!kirsch (P. Kirsch)
Subject: No more Sisters? and Palena pictures...



Is it true about what I read on the net??--That the Sisters of Mercy have
broken up?--I finally start to worship a band that is still putting out
albums (unlike Joy Division) and this happens!! All I can say is SH*T!

As far as everybody wondering what Master Palena really looks like--just send
me some mail and I'll try to give you a description...


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-Paul Kirsch


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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 86 09:18:15 est
From: allegra!sjuvax!kirsch (P. Kirsch)
Subject: DK's lyrics



Somebody wanted the lyrics to DK's albums--I have the ones for Plastic Surg.
so, who ever wanted them could they mail me an address (US Mail) to send them
to??

                     
                         "Honesty ain't all that hard"
                         "Just put Rambo back inside your pants"

                         Paul Kirsch


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Date: Fri 28 Feb 86 22:49:41-PST
From: Bob Knight <KNIGHT@SRI-NIC.ARPA>
Subject: Jane Siberry

>From my record store owner friend in ABQ, just received what I believe to
be the first Jane Siberry album.  B&W cover, very cute picture of her on
the front.  Is this album "Speckless Sky", or am I missing that one too?
(It's on Street Records)...

Cannot find any reference to "Speckless Sky" anywhere on the album, 'is
why I ask...

Bob

"Ordinary people.  I hate 'em."
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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