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From: ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
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Subject: Re: Anarchy Peace Freedom
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Date: Sun, 8-Apr-84 08:43:34 EST
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Adrian Sherwood, dub master extraordinaire, was unfortunately unmentioned
in a previous article describing `Learning to Cope with Cowardice'.

Anyway, forward, into the past, to continue with the best of 1983!

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 Learning to Cope with Cowardice - Mark Stewart, Adrian Sherwood
 Yes Sir, I Will - Crass
 Check It - Mutabaruka 
 Horrible - Half Japanese (and Everyone knew... but me - Jad Fair)
*Mohnomishe - Soviet France
 DRI - Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
 Suite en sous Sol - TuxedoMoon
 Golden Palominos - Fier, Lindsay, Frith, Miller, Noyes, Laswell, Tacuma
*Flies Like Holidays - Smegma, Rancid Vat, Faulty Denial Mechanism
 Earth vs Shockabilly - Shockabilly
 My War - Black Flag

Old music, still new...

 Winter songs - Art Bears
 DOA, Mission of Lost Souls - Throbbing Gristle

*=described in this, the 2nd article of a series of ninety two.

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Mohnomishe - Soviet France

Clearly inspired by industrial (read Throbbing Gristle), primitive tribal
rhythms, Eno's slow moving ambient, Ummagumma-period Pink Floyd (Sisyphus),
and deeply distorted radio static, this two record set gradually flows from
a majestic, distant, analog sunrise thru a bleak jungle of factory noises to
the, I mean THE absolutely most dazzling psychedelic finale these ears have
ever experienced (assuming I've correctly deduced the intended order of
play).

Unfortunately, there are no credits or identification of any kind on
the records, not even side numbers, save the word `Mohnomishe', and
bloblike decorations on the labels that eventually serve to distinguish
the sides once one becomes familiar with the set. The jacket itself
is unmistakable -- two crude pieces of thick fiberboard tied together
with a string.


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Flies Like Holidays - Smegma, Rancid Vat, Faulty Denial Mechanism 
Pigface Records, Oregon somewhere

I don't know if this is what happens to people who take too many mushrooms
and move to the Northwest. And it's not clear when exactly this music was
made. But the lunacy and raw abandon documented here quite clearly attest to
the power of beginner's mind, and the inventiveness of the crude american
spirit.

The best.

Represented on these grooves are all varieties of fragmented anarchy --
aging hippie, provincial industrial, electronic tribal, simple but
effective garage, space cadet...

Also worth noting is the great beauty in the packaging of all Pigface
productions. Each and every record to leave their garage is hand-decorated,
with magic markers or crayon -- mine had clearly taken at least 3 hours of
some human's attention. The credits are mimeographed, of course.

Sample Lyrics:

	Let's go to the beauty school
	I wanna be beautiful
	They'll teach me how to do it
	they'll teach me how to shit
	be a beauty be a beauty be a beauty

	I wanna be beautiful
	wanna be one of the crowd
	just one of the crowd
	one of the crowd
	be a beauty be a beauty be a beauty

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-michael `life isn't fair...
	  few things in life are' ellis