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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Sisters of Mercy, & Joy Division
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 12:56:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 12:56:20 1985
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Keywords: Dirge Dance

A while ago someone asked for someone to post a review of Red Lorry
Yellow Lorry's album "Talk About the Weather".  I'm a bit too lazy right
now to think of much original to say, so I'm just going to post this
review by Terri Sutton that I have stolen from the April/May 1985 issue
of Matter and that I largely agree with:

	Everything about this record is jagged, from Chris' gravelly
	dungeon vocals to the constant grinding guitar to Paul's
	prominent, menacing bass lines.  Funereal.  Heavy.  Did I say
	Joy Division yet?  There's nothing much here in the way of
	innovation, but they do have their moments: "Hollow Eyes"'s
	("She's Lost Control") repetitive rush, the insidious guitar
	line of "Strange Dream", the consistent brutality of it all.
	Spritely and danceable as the Sisters of Mercy or Three Johns,
	this record will get a lot of play and deservedly so -- it just
	won't blow off anyone's head.

I'd also like to add that the song "Talk About The Weather" is quite
nice.  The whole album is hellishly depressing dance songs, with
suitably depressing music.  Great stuff to dance away your pain to
(because nothing is as depressing as real life).  It may not work, but
it's more fun than banging your head against the wall.

Joy Division is definitely the original for this type of music, so you
may want to check out them instead.  Ian Curtis (Joy Division's lead
singer) must have been pretty serious in his dispair -- he committed
suicide right before their first American tour, apparently because he
didn't want stardom.  But even if Red Lorry Yellow Lorry aren't the
artistic innovators that Joy Division were, I like their music better.

Actually, I like The Sisters of Mercy significantly better than Red
Lorry Yellow Lorry.  I have their album "First And Last And Always"
(which should have been named "Black Planet"), and I like it a lot.
It's incredibly danceable and more melodic (though not obnoxiously so).
It didn't come with a lyric sheet, though (Boo!  Hiss!), so how can I be
properly depressed when I can't understand all the depressing things
they're saying?

			"You ain't nothing but a true embrace
			 You ain't nothing but a hidden face"

			 Doug Alan
			  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)