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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: New Trouser Press Record Guide
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 15:41:38 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  1 15:41:38 1985
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> From: hsut@pur-ee.UUCP (Yuk Hsu)

>	Here's an interesting new book I picked up recently: the New
> Trouser Press Record Guide, paperback, cover price an exorbitant
> $13.95. 

How recent is it?  As far as I know, Trouser Press (the music magazine)
went out of business sometime last year.

> there are informative reviews on Robyn Hitchcock, Bill Nelson, Laurie
> Anderson, Bauhaus (whom they did not like...GRRRRR), Fred Frith,
> Fripp, Eno etc.

How could they not like Bauhaus???

> A few hours with it has unearthed some glaring omissions, such as Art
> Bears, 801 and Kate Bush (sorry, Doug!)....

Wow, another Art Bears fan!  I'm not so sure not having Art Bears or 801
is a glaring ommision, though, considering how obscure they are (which
is in direct proportion to how wonderful they are!  Are you sure they
didn't mention Art Bears under Frith or 801 under Eno or Manzenera or
Roxy Music?).  But I can't understand how they could have left out Kate
Bush....  Trouser Press really liked her, and she's certainly more
well-known than Bill Nelson, Fred Frith, Bauhaus, Robyn Hitchcock, or
Birdsongs.

> Despite its weird omissions, this is probably the only review book
> you'll find which lists Birdsongs of the Mesozoic and True West.

Wow!  What did they have to say about Birdsongs?

			"Soul birds of a feather flock together"

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