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Subject: Re: Unusual Album (Titles?) - anyone kno - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Nov 26 05:42:00 1983

The "America Eats Its Young" album was done by a group called [The] Holy
Modal Rounders, who were perhaps a little ahead of their time.  I couldn't
listen to it (ca. '75), but now, who knows?  Not that my tastes were so
stodgy back then--my two favorite albums to clean kitchens by were the
Ramones and Velvet Underground + Nico.  (The latter was re-issued a few
years back, but don't buy that disc.  The sound is way bad, compared to
the original, which wasn't so great to start with.  Try to find the
original.  Lou Reed at one if his peaks, I thought.)

Got Eno's "Apollo" LP--pretty nice, the usual syntho-atmospherics but
showcasing some American string-plucking talent whose name I forget
right now.  Sounds oddly like something Kreutzman & Hart would do if
they could restrain Garcia to the minimum.  (Speaking of K&H, check out
the soundtrack credit on "Vietnam: a TV dinner", or whatever they call
that revision of history running on PBS.  K&H do that haunting back-
ground music quite well.)

I digress.  "Apollo" is another music-for-films piece, for a documentary
on the manned lunar landing project of the same name that features a
great deal of beautiful footage, according to Eno's liner notes, and
which inspired him to use a slightly Americanized sound.

It is, for the most part, VERY VERY QUIET.  Almost as quiet as vacuum.
Strictly for headphones at 3 AM.  Kitchen-cleaning sounds would drown
it out completely.  IT'S QUIET MUSIC!  DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!!!
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Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)