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Subject: More great unknown bands - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 18:20:53 EDT
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ecn-ee!hsut    Sep  3 11:58:00 1984



           While this is still a hot topic, here are more good bands
nobody seems to have heard of...

Marillion      Plugged often as " the Genesis of the 80's ", they
               combine complex song structures and raw energy and
               instrumental virtuosity in their first two albums
               'Script for a Jester's Tear' and 'Fugazi'. They have
               brought early 70's style Art Rock up-to-date with
               contemporary concerns and a much wider palette of
               sounds. Fans of the old Art Rock will enjoy the Steve
               Hackett-type guitars and the layered keyboards.

Any Trouble    Pure infectious fun and bouncy rockers on their first
               album. Their sound is clean, stripped-down "pop rock".
               Their later albums are supposed to be inferior, but I
               haven't heard them...

Renaissance    Back when art rock was still respectable, there was
               a band called Renaissance with a wonderful female
               vocalist and a brilliant keyboard player who rivalled
               Keith Emerson on the piano. They made great albums with
               orchestra (which put the Moody Blues to shame) like
               'Sheherazade' (excuse spelling) and 'Song For All 
               Seasons'. Unfortunately they tried to change their image
               in the late 70's and seem to have degenerated into
               mediocrity...

                                          Bill Hsu
                                          pur-ee!hsut