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From: elf@utcsri.UUCP (Eugene Fiume)
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Subject: Re: SHRIEKBACK (+Blancmange+Jacques Brel)
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 12:04:36 EDT
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I agree with everything Barth Richards said about Shriekback.  Their
last album, _Oil and Gold_, which is now getting a little recognition,
I find especially appealing because of the real variety of hard chanting
funk and eerie atmospherics.

Shriekback + Simple Minds sounds like a great show, if Kerr tones down
his Jim Morrison impressions.  Shriekback was in Toronto recently, but
they sold out the small club they played in in about 3 hours, so I was
out of luck.

One group that hasn't been mentioned much on the net is Blancmange,
another British group whose music spans a few forms,  one of which is a more
straight-ahead funk.  They also dabble in _Happy Families_ with a nice
array of eastern sounds.  In _Mange Tout_, my favourite of the two LPs
released thus far, they do a so-straight-it's-bizarre version of
an ABBA tune called "The Day before you Came".  Didn't Jacques Brel pen
a tune called that?  The EP of TDBYC is really neat.  In comparison to
Shriekback, I would say that Blancmange is a little more accessible, but
no less intelligent and involving. In comparing the two to the incomparable
Brel, well, there's obviously no comparison :-).
-- 
Eugene Fiume
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