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From: ccrtom@ucdavis.UUCP (Kate Bush Groupie)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: eating people's groceries
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 19:30:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 19:30:18 1985
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> I caught the last couple of minutes of a piece on the radio yesterday
> which I would very much like to identify and obtain.  The music was
> not terribly outstanding, a combination of Indianish drum lines with
> a background drone and a jazzish sax sort of going in its own direction.
> The outstanding feature of the piece was a voice-over talking to me
> about taking home someone else's groceries and subsequently acting
> like them, thinking like them, running into them at the shopping
> mall, etc until the (their) groceries ran out.  The style, the idea,
> and the voice were very much Robert Ashley.  Was it RA, or merely
> another imitator (in the footprints of the T. Heads) or what?

It's David Byrne's "Social Studies" from the recently released ECM
album, "Music for The Knee Plays" (mentioned earlier here on the net).

Thomas "tc" Estes