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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dr. Emmanuel Wu)
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Subject: Re:Dirge Music (Tones On Tail)
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 15:22:41 EST
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>>  Also a weirder but still somewhat depressing band is 'Bauhaus'.
> 
> Have any of you gotten into Tones On Tail? Two guys from the now defunct
> Bauhaus are in it. Performance is the song that's gotten the most
> non-commercial radio station airplay around here (Northern Ca.).
> As far as I know, they don't get ANY commercial airplay (like lots of the
> good stuff).  I particularly  like Rain, the long song on the second side
> of their album POP. Unfortunately, I got into them about 3 weeks after
> they played S.F., and I DON'T thing they're a band that tours very often.
> 
> How about a review, Rosen? I know you're a recent convert.
> 
> Bub {allegra, decwrl, dual, ihnp4,}!ames!bub or ames!bub@riacs

Well, I never really thought of Tones on Tail as "dirge music" in the
pure sense.  They're very "atmosphery", and the atmosphere they produce
varies from slow repetitive drones (with an admittedly dirgey edge) to
biting hard driving sounds like "Performance" (from POP) and "Go" (the B-side
of their latest single).  I tried classifying them as a combination of 
Violent Femmes (or at least what I had expected VF to be like after hearing
"Gone Daddy Gone"), Siouxsie & the Banshees, the "kinky" arrangements of
the Residents, and who knows what else, but as with all really good new
sounds classifying them was a fruitless effort.  Suffice to say that they
are both very interesting and very exciting to listen to.  I have the album
"POP" on tape (Thanks, Bubbette!) and I've heard "GO" and I'm anxious to get
the chance to hear some more.
-- 
"When you believe in things that you don't understand, you'll suffer.
 Superstition ain't the way."		- Stevie Wonder ("Superstition")
	Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr