Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 122
Date: Thursday, 18 May 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 122
Thursday, 18 May 2000
Topics:
Re: Satori
nonsvch
Rolling Stone
The Rezillos/Revillos and (non)such (No XTC)
Rats paws vs. demos
Frizlab
The "Pist"
WS is a Mover & Shaker
next project -- Little Express/Idea Records
oh boy, is this great
One Banana Two Banana
Dance with me, Germany
cooking channel chalkie in your living room
We Saw Jerry's Daughter With The Clash Doing Trivia!
*SLIGHT* Lyrical spoilers
Ah, the Rezillos!
Splunge!
Bridge Over Troubled AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 15:13:28 -0700 (PDT) From: pancho artecona <partecona@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Satori Message-ID: <20000517221328.13328.qmail@web219.mail.yahoo.com> Allright, Billy was a mountain and Ethel was a tree growing on its shoulder. I'm not really sure how that relates to Harrison's A's and B's but I guess it makes it more of a mountain then......I'm Billy Carl Black and I'm the indian of the group. An old buddhist maxim says that before Satori a mountain is a mountain and a river is a river, on the way to Satori a mountain is a river and a river is a mountain, and after Satori a mountain is a mountain and a river is a river. In my last post I failed to mention the thrill of occasionally reading stuff from R. Stevie Moore on this list. I feel like I am rubbing cyber elbows with greatness! This leads me to a hearty recommendation of his work for those of you talking about little known great bands who haven't had the pleasure. He's among the great ones. That's it until I remember what else I have forgotten. Pancho XPRXTCFAN (aka Mete Dedo) PS- new name for a band 'The Bloody Stools'
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:17:03 +0100 From: davebancroft@cwctv.net Subject: nonsvch Message-ID: <097783214221150DTVMAIL11@smtp.cwctv.net> hi all,personally I think its their best.dave mattocks really made the songs bounce from the speakers,no shame on terrywho was just as robust on black sea.highlight for me is the gregory/partridge duelling solos on books are burning but every track on this awesome album will stay with me forever.one dj said he couldnt understand why xtc werent huge,then again,who cares.thats their magic attraction. best wishes from, dave.
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 18:20:14 -0400 From: Ben Gott/Loquacious Music <gott@tmbg.org> Subject: Rolling Stone Message-ID: <B548935E.250F%gott@tmbg.org> Crew, Here's a review from that bastion of "eh," "Rolling Stone" magazine: http://rollingstone.com/sections/recordings/text/disc_fulrev.asp?afl=&LookUpString=139&AlbumID=62092
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 22:00:31 +0100 (BST) From: Rory Wilsher <rory_wilsher@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: The Rezillos/Revillos and (non)such (No XTC) Message-ID: <20000517210031.9774.qmail@web1504.mail.yahoo.com> Yes, I remember them. Originally The Rezillos, the name changed after multiple line-up changes and . . . hey guess what? Wanting to be released from contractual obligations! Sounds familiar? Interesting that they got away with only changing one letter. Big hit with "Top Of The Pops" as The Rezillos, and also "Destination Venus". I believe I'm right in saying that Jo Callis, guitarist with The Rezillos line-up, later resurfaced as a member of The Human League, for at least one album (Dare). Slight image shift! Also, Phil Corless mentioned Joboxers: one-and-a-half hit wonders (Boxerbeat and . . . errrr . . . another song). I saw them live as the support act for (I think, if memory serves) Eurythmics, way back when Eurythmics had only had a few hits - "Who's That Girl" was in the charts at the time. Summer 1983. Ah, good times, good times. And Black "Wonderful Life"? that's all I remember what else did they (he?) do? Rory "Stop making me feel old" Wilsher p.s. Just remembered second Joboxers song was "Just Got Lucky" p.p.s. Tom Kingston I'd like you to meet my friend Short Post. Short Post, meet Tom. I hope (I REALLY hope!) you two can get along together. R
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:29:59 -1000 From: "Jim Smart" <jismart@ksbe.edu> Subject: Rats paws vs. demos Message-ID: <39231D63.14F540B5@ksbe.edu> Organization: 3Tripper Tom (edit this!) K. wrote: "I have not heard any of WS yet, and I am really nervous about having heard Andy's demos now from reading the reactions. I heard AV1 before I heard any of the demos, and I didn't care for the AV1 demos at all for the most part. ..(cut)... I LOVE the solo on the Church of Women demo, and from what I've read I'm in for a shock. Time will tell." I've heard both - the demos and the finished Wasp Star. I recently went back to the demos, and was struck by how dull they are compared to the final product. There's all sorts of exciting little touches scattered like sprinkles on a cupcake all through the album. Little drum bits or lyric bits or guitar bits that just weren't there before. I think it was Mrs. Potts who said "there may be something there that wasn't there before". Just the way Andy sings the syllable "verb" on the line "thunder in your head can still reVERBerate" is enough to thrill me. Oh, and Church of Women? I liked the solo better on the demo. But the *song* was a little dull. On Wasp Star it really blossoms, shines, and whatever other happy adjective you want to think of. Bottom line: it's a stronger song now, one of the best on Wasp Star, but as a demo it didn't stand out to me at all (except for the guitar solo). Bottomer line: Wasp Star is better than the demos. And the worst hazard of getting the demos is the unavoidable second guessing about which songs are chosen and how they are produced. I shudder to think of my life if I hadn't heard The Ship Trapped in the Ice, but I can't understand why it didn't make the cut....how can this be? how can this be? So maybe I'd be more, um, at peace (?) if I hadn't heard any of that. Maybe I'd be happier with Wounded Horse, which is like a skit on Saturday Night Live where everybody "gets" the joke in the first 20 seconds, but the skit goes on (without variation) for a full 5 minutes. It does have one redeeming quality (not on the demo), on the second bridge when Colin (?) sings "like it does in fairy stories", which is a wonderful psychedelic that drips in the background. Jim "and why does he switch from the horse imagery to the boat imagery on the bridge?" Smart
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:34:52 -0400 From: fheaney@erols.com Subject: Frizlab Message-ID: <004c01bfc058$83d6a300$29e17ad1@default> > Frisell just did a mostly-instrumental version of Costello's latest album > with Burt Bacharach. I haven't heard it, but I have two other Frisell CDs > which are quite an enjoyable listen. He's kind of a twangy jazz rock > guitarist who emphasizes texture and atmosphere over speed and technical > precision. He's normally found in the jazz bins, but that's a bit > misleading. I'm a Frisell fan, so I think I'm not being unfair when I say it's not that great an album. I would have liked him to reimagine the songs more, and stick in some more surprising solos (as he did to wonderful effect on his album "Have a Little Faith"). Costello fans will probably still want it for the alternate vocal version of "Toledo", which includes a final verse that was cut out on the original version. For Frisell exploration, my recommendation (besides the aforementioned "Have a Little Faith") is his early-ish album "Is That You?", recorded back when he his sound was more experimental and less rootsy, as he's mostly sticking to nowadays. He's great at the Americana-sounding stuff, but it doesn't have as much variety for me. In other stuff to keep you busy till the 23rd, some of you might like to know that Stereolab has just released a new "mini-album" (it's 39 minutes long! What's "mini" about that? Seems like an album to me) called "The First of the Microbe Hunters". I think I might prefer it to their recent "Cobra and Phases..." It sounds a bit looser, like they were having more fun with it. -- Francis "Bells! I can hear bells!" -- David Byrne & Robert Fripp
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:46:26 -0700 From: "Jeannie" <venusnvy@earthlink.net> Subject: The "Pist" Message-ID: <200005172354.QAA09725@snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Ray said, referring to Andy on the "List", I wish they put him on with at least ONE semi-hip adult, possibly somebody else who has been in the music biz as long as him. Amen to that. You'd think they'd have a clue. I have an idea for a new "List" episode theme: "the most under-appreciated band in history" hmmmm, I know what MY first choice would be! jeannie
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:45:17 -0700 From: Craig Vreeken <CVreekn@ns.net> Subject: WS is a Mover & Shaker Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000517174517.0079b100@mail-1.ns.net> According to Amazon.com's Movers and Shaker's list, Wasp Star is the #1 mover as of today (5/17), increasing 1,760%. It is now number 5 on their best seller list, moving up from #93 yesterday. This is based on pre-release orders. So what happened between yesterday and today? Whatever happened, it worked, because people are pre-ordering this album in droves, apparently. Everyone who logs on to Amazon sees the album on the homepage, so that will probably increase sales as well. In regard to the OTHER list, namely, VH1's list, I will look forward to seeing this with Andy, but it is a very lame show. Especially when one of the panelists can veto the other panelist's choices. As the panel usually includes at least one idiot, perfectly appropriate choices are deleted from the list on a regular basis. Usually this is based on some bizarre personal preference that has no relevance whatsoever to the topic of the list. I saw one show (I think it was the one where Dear God was mentioned by someone) where the topic was most rebelious song. Someone chose The Who's "My Generation," which pretty much typifies the category. One panelist, a rap artist, vetoed the song because he had never heard of it, or something like that. Another show's topic was the most influencial rock band. The Beatles were vetoed because one panelist felt that they "weren't rock." Huh? Imagine, if you will, The List based on literature, with the topic as the greatest writers of the English Language. I nominate William Shakespear, but idiot teenage celebrity vetoes it because "I just don't get that stuff. It's boring." That about sums it up. Craig Vreeken http://www.ns.net/~CVreekn/index.html
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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 18:15:52 +0100
From: "Steven Paul" <spaul@armstronglaw.com>
Subject: next project -- Little Express/Idea Records
Message-ID: <006d01bfc023$a4eac1a0$0d2aa8c0@me.myoffice.com>
I noticed on e-bay a tape copy of Jules Verne's Sketchbook and a tape copy
of The Bull with the Golden Guts. Then I read Joe Funk's posting in Digest
6-117 regarding whether Fuzzy Warbles will ever get made -- because of
problems with Virgin Records. It occurred to me that there may be a
possibility for Idea Records to buy the licencing rights to those
productions from Little Express and re-issue them on CD through Cooking
Vinyl and TNT (or whoever else Idea wants to use).
I'm a lawyer but know nothing about intellectual property and rights like
these. Unless LE has somehow pirated the rights to the demos published on
Jules Verne and Bull w/the Golden Guts, then another company with some
resources could easily purchase the rights and issue those releases to the
hungry few who don't already have high quality versions of those songs.
If anyone knows any attorneys who practice in intellectual property,
especially the music industry, maybe they can look into it and pass word
onto Andy and Colin. I'll see what I can do.
A while ago someone submitted a proposal that we each pitch in a grand to
produce the next album. Well, I wouldn't probably do that, but I may be
willing to buy a few shares of Idea Records, Inc. at the initial public
offering ("IPO") - should that happen -- to put some money in the coffers to
purchase said rights from LE.
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 18:26:45 -0700 From: "Wes Hanks" <wes@iolvegas.com> Subject: oh boy, is this great Message-ID: <000001bfc068$27c7cac0$37b59fce@default> Metalunans, WS sales rank at Amazon as of Wed evening, Amazon.com Sales Rank: 5 Wes "Yes, I remember *all* of those bands" Hanks
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 22:58:59 EDT From: WTDK@aol.com Subject: One Banana Two Banana Message-ID: <92.4e6d2ac.2654b673@aol.com> >From Molly: Someone also mentioned that there should be an XTC Monkee tribue. What songs do you think they should do? Dom look away, since I know you don't like long lists. :P Here's what I would put on my list. It was me. The only songs missing from your list are The Girl I Knew Somewhere (perfect for Colin or Andy) and You Just May Be The One. Add in Going Down just for fun--I'd love to hear Andy or Colin do this scat Mose Allison on speed tune! While they're at it maybe someone can convince Andy to do a cover of the La, La, La song by the Banana Splits! (The ultimate bubblegum song). Wayne - I'm getting kick backs from Michael Nesmith - Klein
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:17:12 PDT From: "Duncan Kimball" <dunks58@hotmail.com> Subject: Dance with me, Germany Message-ID: <20000518021712.4999.qmail@hotmail.com> Harrison - I'm utterly with you on Techno. As far as I'm concerned, it's electronic polka music. Only bagpipes could make it worse. It doesn't swing, and it has no groove. There is nothing "unhip" about not liking it. It's crap. To paraphrase Zappa, it's music created by people who can't play, for people who can't dance. BTW - I have a recurring musical nightmare - that one of my children will grow up to become the accordion player in a Christian country music band. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Nurse - it's time for my injection! Dunks
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:07:28 EDT From: Saints3Den@aol.com Subject: cooking channel chalkie in your living room Message-ID: <cc.4b16ad7.2654b870@aol.com> May said: << Television, I believe, is salvaged ONLY by one channel - THE COOKING CHANNEL >> Pretty true, as i have come to agree during the last year or so. I enjoy the iron chef. and "hot off the grill" with Bobby Flay (and his sister Sue)...Good Eats is great too! but i mostly like to watch " emeril live", and was lucky enough to win tickets to the show. Taped on St. Valentines Day, the show i attended will be on june 4th . pretty good bleacher seats, and an easy way to have a chalker over to your house. if anyone cares to watch, i'll send in who to look for. getting down to business, someone posted movers and shakers at amazon. when i checked earlier today, it was ranked 7. 2 hours later it was 5. I feel so proud of this factoid! eddie
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:36:44 -0700 From: "Radiosinmotion" <radiosinmotion@earthlink.net> Subject: We Saw Jerry's Daughter With The Clash Doing Trivia! Message-ID: <000901bfc07a$5464d2a0$0200a8c0@digitalpc> Anyone here the latest ummm... Rumor? hmmmm? about The Clash? Supposedly they are getting together for a show for Dury. If this is true, that would be cool if it sparked the old boys to do a tour again. Even if they don't, I love what Strummer and Mick have done solo! The Cult > Good Midnight Oil > Damn Good Voice Of The Beehive >Also Really Good School Of Fish > Oh Yeah, The Be Good Too! Red Hot Chili Peppers > Bad. Sorry, but its true. Pre Mothers Milk was fine, but afterwards they really got bad. All their songs sound like another remake of Under The Bridge or Give It Away... Hey, anyone remember Mary's Danish? Trivia: What movie superstar was not only a big fan of punk/new wave, but also hung around a lot of the L.A. groups at their gigs, etc? If you try and say Chet (Bill Paxton to some, but Chet to us kids of the 80's) and his group Martini Ranch, you will be wrong. Not talking about the guy from Twister people, think here! I have read many books, and this person I am speaking of has been brought up in so many of them. He had a lot of friends in the music scene here in LA as well was a big fan of the music. Anyone know?
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 00:44:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Jonathan Rosenberg <jrosenbe@astro.ocis.temple.edu> Subject: *SLIGHT* Lyrical spoilers Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0005180035020.21278-100000@typhoon.ocis.temple.edu> I'll be honest, I don't have the album yet (WS, that is, what else?), although good ol' local Philly store Spaceboy Music will be holding me a copy along with the free ITMWML single this coming tuesday. OH BOY! So, I'm listening to AV right now, in anticipation, and I came across the line in "I Can't Own Her": All of its climbers and its winos sliding down And it made me think of the DEMO of "Playground" which I have heard a couple times before. This line in particular: I climb up, spending daylight slide down drunken on the other side Now, apparently 'drunken' has been changed to 'bankrupt' in the finished version, which admittedly makes more sense, what with daylight being *spent* and all, but I thought the original line invited an interesting counterpoint to the ICOH line, eh? So, I wonder what else on Wasp Star harkens back to Apple Venus, musically as well as lyrically. We shall see, dear Chalkhillians... Jon Rosenberg (No, the OTHER one)
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 01:00:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Ryan Anthony <hamsterranch@yahoo.com> Subject: Ah, the Rezillos! Message-ID: <20000518080040.6205.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Ah, the Rezillos! (Digest No. 6-120.) What a great fun little band. A high point of the late '70s, when there WAS plenty of good music to be had, but you had to search for it -- unless, like me, you were lucky enough to live inside the footprint of an enlightened radio station like WBRU-FM in Providence, R.I. That was back before the glacier retreated, kids. Look for a 28-track CD released by Sire/Warner Bros. in 1993 titled *Can't Stand the Rezillos: The (Almost) Complete Rezillos*, and all your questions, even the one about the "Revillos," will be answered. In 1978, to their eternal blessation, the Rezillos covered a song called "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight." It is a rave, a scream, and a hoot. In fact, it's the second-most fun you can have in one minute and 54 seconds. (You have to figure I love the song, refraining as I am from bleating about the grammatical error in the title. Hey, it are only rock and roll, and I likes it.) Where did the Rezillos discover this rude little gem? Where could such a song as "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight" have come from? >From the very last place you'd think. Lawrence Welk? Petula Clark? Well, okay, the third-last place you'd think. Fleetwood Mac. In the Mac's early days, in the late '60s, it was a blue-eyed blues band fronted by "the poor man's Eric Clapton," fellow John Mayall alumnus Peter Green, himself a penner of songs not often associated with Fleetwood Mac, such as "Black Magic Woman." But "Somebody" isn't Green's. Second guitarist Jeremy Spencer, at the time an acolyte of Elmore James and later a cult abductee, would step up and front the band during its second set. Often tricked out in full Elvis regalia, Spencer led the Green-less "Earl Vince and the Valiants" in parodies of '50s devil's music and other rip-it-up fun stuff. "Somebody" was released in 1969, credited to the Valiants, as the b-side to Fleetwood Mac's "Man of the World." You can find the original "Somebody" on a 1991 Sony Music Special Products release, *The Immediate Singles Collection, Vol. 1*. Pop Quiz time! Earl Vince and the Valiants are to Fleetwood Mac as the Dukes of Stratosphear are to ...? (Hint: This paragraph contains this post's mandatory XTC content.) One more thing. Would someone take pity on an old out-of-it wanker and explain what *4:20* means? Does it refer to how long a really fine-quality blunt should last (if it is passed on the left-hand side), or what? Marijuanistically ignorant, Ryan Anthony An independent Internet content provider
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 03:29:34 EDT From: KINGSTUNES@aol.com Subject: Splunge! Message-ID: <4a.58dbf4b.2654f5de@aol.com> Splunge! (worm holes from the old same place) >>... I really don't want to waste valuable seconds scrolling through an interminable litany of soft rock and Simon and bleedin' Garfunkel. << >>Soft Rock? Simon & Bleedin' Garfunkel? NOW who's being the snob??????<< >>Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom, you never surprise me. Why do you care about if Simon & Garfunkel are soft rock? Why do you have to label music? Music is music in my opinion. And I LOVE Simon & Garfunkel.<< >>I like Simon & Garfunkel. I don't like interminable lists. Sigh.<< Funny way of saying it! >>Damn right it would...and despite what Ol' Pa Kingston would tell you, Black Sabbath had/have some splendid pop tunes in amongst the references to Satan and so on...many a great melody to be enjoyed<< I never said they did, you young whippersnapper! I dig Sabbath. I think they're just the cat's pajamas! 23 skiddoo! And a goo goo go joob to you too, sir! "Running as fast as he can..." (Dementia rules! I can't wait for the nursing home! Pay your social security, kids!) Other stuff - Someone brought up Klaatu. I've often wondered if the Beatle thing over them was intentionally orchestrated. Probably not at first, but when the thought occurred to their management, hmm. The name may have been an obscure response to Ringo's Goodnight Vienna album cover. The key to the whole thing was that they never listed personnel on their records. I didn't buy it. They were way too retro, going for that Magical Mystery Tour sound. I just couldn't imagine the Beatles reuniting as a phantom lark in the late seventies releasing Beatle-esque (omigod! I used it! What would the zen masters say?) psychedelia. Also, as a musician who had dissected and performed so much of their (The Beatles) music, it didn't feel quite right. But there were people convinced when they came out that it was the lads. Of course, I remember the Paul is dead thing.... I have a strange story about Klaatu. I played for a year in a casino show band in Atlantic City and various east coast hotel lounge hells. The act was a male / female singing duo and I was in the back up band. (Very much like the Koffee 'n Kreme story in Joe Jackson's biography 'A Cure For Gravity'. Get a copy of that book, chalkhillers!) We actually did a horrendous "space" medley that started with 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft' (Klaatu) and ended with Manhattan Transfer's 'Twilight Zone.' The duo, which had ducked backstage during a band number, came out wearing silver sequined tights and space age sunglasses. The song was big at the time because some cheesy pop act covered it (was it the Carpenters? God, this is traumatic!) Imagine this going on for a single table of bored businessmen on a Tuesday night in Altoona, PA! Yeeesh, what I have done for a living! Also - my brother has an original copy of 'That Was The Year That Was' by Tom Lehrer. Brilliant! No bites on Skafish?? Anyone? As for other forgotten bands - Focus, Good God. >>You, Clouds, etc" sounds like Sting? I think it's because of the use of the word "weather." Sting patented that word.<< How 'bout 'Blame the Weather' (one of me all time fav'rite Colin tunes, mate)! I'm not certain, but XTC could have Sting a ling a ding beat on the meteorological musings. I LOVE the XTC Monkees tribute idea! I would consider 'You Just May Be The One' -- brilliant Nesmith tune -- one of the great unknown pop gems! I could just hear Andy signing it... I think Skylarking is green. (How about albums as a whole? What color do you think they are?) Other XTC content - I think XTC is a very good band too! Now, excuse me while I boogaloo. Ciao, Tom (Where's my goddam copy of AARP?) Kingston
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:45:45 +0100 From: Lawson Dominic <LawsonD@parliament.uk> Subject: Bridge Over Troubled AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Message-ID: <4782AD6ADDBDD2119B570008C75DD5C1BD4DD8@mgmtm02.parliament.uk> >>Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom, you never surprise me. Why do you care about if Simon & Garfunkel are soft rock? Why do you have to label music? Music is music in my opinion. And I LOVE Simon & Garfunkel. *gasp* *sarcastic mode on* Oh, I shouldn't like them, because Dom said we shouldn't. *sarcastic mode off* I didn't say anything of the sort. Calm down! For the last time, I LIKE SIMON AND ****ING GARFUNKEL!!!! I didn't make any negative comments about Tom's taste in music, I merely described his post as "an interminable list of soft rock and Simon & Garfunkel", i.e. the list was interminable, not soft rock or S&G. If someone would like to explain to me how this makes me the High Priest of the Let's Go Stab Paul 'n' Art Club, then fire away. Engage the brain before you spout bollocks, that's my motto (when it suits me, of course). >> I think the JoBoxers were very underrated. Me too. "Johnny Friendly" was a great record, and it was a damn shame that the second album never got released. Tragically, as a ten year old I sported a flat cap and boots in a rather feeble tribute to the band. Oddly, some of the 'Boxers are still lurking around the music biz. Dig Wayne performs in musicals, if memory serves, and Sean McLusky is renowned for running some of London's best clubs. Dave Collard was last seen playing keyboards for The The. Chris Bostock played bass for Spear Of Destiny for a while. So there. The fact that I know all this is very sad indeed, but no sadder than the fact that I've been labelled the anti-Garfunkel. Oh, and I don't think "Young at Heart" was ever a Bananarama tune, unless they covered it recently. The Bluebells' wrote that one themselves, I suspect. >>The extraordinary thing about XTC albums: It only takes 2-3 listens until you feel like you've known this music since you were a wee one How true, and particularly in the case of "Wasp Star"...I've been humming "Stupidly Happy" and a couple of other gems for weeks now (in between the shrieking of Satanic grunt-fests by my new pals, Akercocke...don't ask, you'd hate them) and it's weird to think that a mere month or two ago I'd never heard the buggers. What fucking brilliant pop music eh? "Wounded Horse" included....shame on you philistines!!! Dom ""Paul Simon's "Graceland", on the other hand, is fucking awful" Lawson
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