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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: dirge? (but not classical)
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Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 13:43:32 EST
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> Invented by PiL, 2nd wave of the Johnny Lyden, a combination of slow grinding
> punk and reggae-dub, and maybe a cello or two thrown in. What Joy Division
> almost succeeded in doing.. [ELLIS]

Almost???  What do you have to do to succeed in achieving dirgedom?  Hang
yourself?

Joy Division, the Cure, and a lot of the artists on Factory Records fit the
dirge description rather well.  The sound is one of such extreme despair that
it defies your turning it off to listen to Olivia Newton-John.  It need not
be all that slow; the tone of the voice and the almost non-movement within
the lead guitar line often gives the same effect.  Some prime examples off
the top of my head:  Joy Division--(Dead Souls, The Eternal), the Cure
(All Cats Are Grey).
-- 
Now I've lost my train of thought. I'll have to catch the bus of thought.
			Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr