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From: kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Great bands nobody knows
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Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 04:29:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 04:29:35 1984
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Re: xtc: love 'em, and they still get a fair amount of air play out here,
although I don't think they have come up with anything new recently...
Their sound does span quite a wide range from plaintive in
"Five Senses Working Overtime" to upbeat and kinda electronic
in "Sgt. Rock" to very mellow and acoustic in "Love on a Farm
Boy's Wages."  Pigeon-holing them into new wave is really a mistake,
but they certainly don't fit most anywhere else.  I really don't
understand why they haven't been picked up more generally.

Now does anyone else out there go for "The Art of Noise?"  Just picked
up their latest album (Who's Afraid of...) after hearing "Close
to the Edit" on the radio recently.  A very interesting offering, and
an appropriately named group, I might add.  Although "Close" is the
most melodic cut, the whole album is kinda fun.  And how about
the group "Haysi Fantayzee?"  As far as I know, they have only
put out a single album, which is available here only as an import.  It is
available on a "domestic" release in Canada (so what would that make it?)
Then there is the Bay area group "The Uptones."  They opened for
the Go-Gos at the Greek in Berkeley a little bit back (which somehow
didn't seem appropriate.)  I don't know, but do they strike anyone
else like a sort of domestic "Clash?"


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Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
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