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Love-Hounds Digest			Sunday, June 1, 1986, 03:08 EDT

Topics:

			 EVOL-hounds digest :-)
			      Sonic Youth
			      CMI/So am I
			       Puppeteers

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Date: Fri, 30 May 86 10:55:06 EST
From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Bill Hsu)
Subject: EVOL-hounds digest :-)


After desperate hunting for weeks since reading Hof's review of EVOL,
(the new Sonic Youth album, for all you non-Sonic Youth worshippers),
I finally have it stuck permanently (well, for a month anyway :-) to
the turntable. So here's some fanzine drivel to pollute love-hounds
with...

The title: after sleeping on it (and dreaming about it, honest!) I
finally realise that EVOL is LOVE spelled backwards. I'm slow this
week... Well, SOME of the songs on the album are about love... anyone
has a better interpretation?

Secret messages on the vinyl: recalling that Doug used to look for text
scratched on parts of the vinyl that have no grooves, I checked EVOL
out and sure enough, one side has a line from Starpower (on the album),
"Everything turns black to blue", and the other side has "destroy all
record labels". Is this a reference to their abortive attempt to get
on a major label?

The monstrous "thanks to..." list on the lyric sheet: this has numerous
names that I expected to see (Swans, Branca, Lydia L.(unch), Bob Bert
(their old drummer)), names I wasn't surprised to see (Tesco V., 
Buttholes, Greg Ginn, Bukowski, Live Skull, Einsturzende Neubaten),
and tons of names like

	Bruce S. (Springsteen???)
	Jesus and the (sic) Mary Chain
	PKD	(Philip K. Dick?)
	Bangles	(what????)
	The Challenger Crew	(huh?)
	P. Benatar	(no comment...)
	Bob Xgau	:-)
	LL Cool J
	Arto L.	(Lindsay?)
	Cagney and Lacey

Most of the relevant ones are in bold face, while all of the so-out-of-
place-it's-funny ones are in regular script. Well, I thought it was
amusing...

Oh, the MUSIC... sounds like these guys have mellowed a little. There
are actually almost-tuneful little pseudo-ballads, and some really
pretty delicate guitar passages. Certainly not worship-inducing like
the strange and powerful Bad Moon Rising, but I really enjoyed it anyway.
I hope they don't keep mellowing out tho...


			"inside her head my dog's a bear
			 she's insignificant I'm insane"

			 Bill Hsu

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Date:     Fri, 30 May 86 12:36:22 EDT
From: Hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA
Subject:  Sonic Youth

Yeah, D E S T R O Y all major labels.  That's right - but the band has
never and probably will never made any active attempt to get on 
a major label and they have stated their goal is to destoy them, Bill.

Numorous times.

No wonder they've signed to SST.

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Date:    Fri, 30 May 86 12:21 PDT
From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Subject: CMI/So am I

I think John Lorch is probably right about
the harmonizer/Fairlight issue. There's no
audible sign of the harmonizer in the vocals
of "Waking The Witch", as far as I can tell.
The inquisitor's voice is distorted, obviously,
but not in the way a harmonizer distorts.
Even with spoken rather than sung vocal sounds
the harmonizer produces a very distinct doubling
or tripling of the sound at regular intervals of
pitch. In fact, I'm not sure a harmonizer of that
kind was used anywhere on Hounds of Love. A good
example of the sound a harmonizer makes can be
heard in Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" during the bridge
where the word "sledge" is repeated by itself.
Speaking of Gabriel, I just wanted to admit to the
L-Hs that I, too, have to agree that So is a very
disappointing record. It is too earnest, too sentimental,
too preachy and completely retrogressive stylistically.
These criticisms are made only as points of comparison
with his own earlier work, not with anyone else's stuff.

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Date: Fri, 30 May 86 15:51:05 edt
From: Joe Turner <cutter%umass-boston.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Subject: Puppeteers

For background on what exactly a puppeteer is, please note the following
works:

	TALES OF KNOWN SPACE, Larry Niven
	RINGWORLD, Larry Niven
	RINGWORLD ENGINEERS, Larry Niven
	and, for that matter, ANYTHING by Larry Niven

As a summary: Puppeteers are a two-headed, three-legged alien race whose
noteable features are brilliant spacecraft design and unbridled cowardice.


				Save your parity bits for big cash prizes!
						Joe

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