Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: mod.music Subject: Love-Hounds Digest Message-ID: <899@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 12:49:55 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.899 Posted: Wed Jan 8 12:49:55 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jan-86 03:46:46 EST Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 305 Approved: gds@eddie.mit.edu Love-Hounds Digest Wednesday, January 8, 1986, 12:50 Today's Topics: Moderator's note Hat with tassle? washing me down, washing me down ... kb rarities ... (2 msgs) What an endorsement! SISTERS OF MERCY (2 msgs) The lush life London Vice [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 8 Jan 86 12:50:30 est From: Greg Skinner Subject: Moderator's note I am sorry about the two weeke delays in love-hounds. I will try and get the digest out in a more timely fashion. Greg Skinner (The Moderator) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sun, 15 Dec 85 17:30:06 est From: H. Chai Subject: Hat with tassle? >From: Susanne E Trowbridge >In the latest SPIN magazine, "HOL" is their Platter du Jour (best of the >month, I guess). The review is rather simplistic but there's a nice pic >of KB in a weird little hat with a tassel... In this month's _Wilson_Library_Bulletin_, the same pix appeared in their recording review section. This section is penned by Bruce Pollock, editor of the mag _Guitar_. He has this to say bout KB: "Kate Bush, the eternal English schoolgirl as temptress, continues her bewitching mastery of music's sensual side in an extended mood piece as elusive as emotion. Luckily most of Kate's work has been free of exposure on MTV." The September issue features Suzanne Vega. He sez: "Mixed with memorable and eminently repeatable melodies, her urban vignettes are constructed with care and cut deep, as opposed to the overly arch and confessional works of the early Mitchel, of the folk period in general. Not especially confessional, her songs nevertheless spring to life full of pictures, twists of phrase and melody line." He also mentions that SV has "at least half a dozen cuts premiered" in the _Fast Folk Musical Magazine_. This is an album/newsletter which features "the country's next wave of folk artists on record each month." I don't suppose there are a lot of folk music fans on the love-hounds list, but if you're interested write Jack Hardy 178 W. Houston St. NY, NY 10014 -- henry [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 16 Dec 85 10:22:30 EST From: Jim Hofmann Subject: washing me down, washing me down ... or SAMHAIN (formerly THE MISFITS) - FRIDAY, DEC 6, 1985. Imagine yourself in a dark, damp, cave. Thousands of eyes are peering at you, looking you over, weighing your flesh, waiting for the right time to attack. Suddenly, a blitzkrieg of sound, loud guitars, tribal drums, things that go bump in the night basso --- a light turns on the leader of the gang, Glenn Danzig - his shiny black hair perpetually over his eyes. He is standing over the mohawked horde, directing them in the finer points of eating flesh. The music is getting louder and louder and your skin is starting to crawl and it keeps on crawling right off your body. Your innards seep down seeking gravity perhaps the only true law in effect. The mohawked hordes fall to the floor slobbering up your entrails ... Danzig looks at you and invites you to partake in your own initiation; he beckons with his hands; he urges you with his voice, a voice unintelligible yet still not without meaning. The music plays on - forever a benchmark in your mind of what music can and should be. A peek into the terror of SAMHAIN and you will never be the same. The question that will always stick in your mind like a shattering lump of death is how one group can sound so racuous, so raw, so intense and still be united as one. Like their major influence, Plan 9 - they explore the dark side of unreality, the part we are taught from day one never to seek but when it rips up inside us, the rest of society gobbles in fascination, sells you on supermarket shelves, convicts you on network TV, then throws you away to rot in some desanitzed hell. Unlike Plan 9, they sport a razor edge sharpness and clarity; they know what they want to say and they know how to say it ... none of this slow, spooky wailing for the terror to grapple you; SAMHAIN harnesses the terror, reins it but never dares to train it or break it ... they merely exhibit it in its nose snorting, hoove clattering glory to the mohawked hordes and urine truly, society's future flesh eaters. Their recorded work, though, is alot different than seeing them live - so don't make judgements based on just listening to vinyl. They have a new LP due out in three weeks, they wouldn't tell me the label as if talking about it would destroy their chances. If you didn't know already, they have picked up a new bass player and drummer (Loudon May, formerly of REPTILE HOUSE) but they sound like they've been playing with the band for a long time. There were no new right religous groups picketing as promised, but don't be suprised if you go to see them and get acosted by the self-righteous. Danzig requests you ignore them but get word to him so he can go out and "talk" to them (i.e. shove his fist down their throat) as they seem want to avoid confronting him directly ... could be even better than the opening act though the SPASTIC RATS did quite a good job last Friday (Dec 6). They are really developing their own sound and their 7" is available through Systematic now. As usual, you can go get it or die. They excelled on "I Stand Alone" and a new one, "Ghosttown", and I would recommend them to anyone into rok musik. After the SAMHAIN show I went to see a group called the X-MEN. By no means patronize these fusion turds unless you wanna hang out with designer hippies, you know the type that were born 15 years too late. The white part of the band are pretty much asswipes too. Overheard conversation: White Guitarist to Friend: "What are you on tonight?". Friend: "Oh, just some pot". WG:"That guy over there has some coke." Friend: "Awww, he's a fag." WG: "Oh. Hey, I'm jetting out to LA tonight to do some studio work" - at this point I broke in to tell him he must be suffering from pre-jet lag since he played like beached porpoise. They roundly ignored me so I struck up a conversation with the Portugese barmaid. She had just gotten of a "crew ship" and was good friend with Rod Stewart:"He get up at 11:00 each day and run 6 miles until he drop then he go to bar and you know drink until he drop." Gee, sounds like a fun guy. Can I meet him? >hofmann [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 16 Dec 85 13:22:45 EST From: Jim Hofmann Subject: kb rarities ... recently while christmas shopping I came across this k bush stuff. Anyone care to comment: A Kate Bush Christmas album?????? A bootleg (?) from the Tawian Fan club. What's on these LPs? hofmann [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 16 Dec 85 23:13:42 est From: nessus (Doug Alan) Subject: Re: kb rarities ... > From: Jim Hofmann > recently while christmas shopping I came across this k bush stuff. > A bootleg (?) from the Tawian Fan club. There are two bootlegs from the Fan Club of Taiwan that I know of. One is called "Paris 1979" and has some stuff taken from a recording made on a cheap hand-held tape-recorder of one of her 1979 concerts. It has an early danceable (!) version of "Egypt" on it, that is so different from the version of "Never For Ever" that it's really wild to hear. I wish I could get a high fidelity copy of this version of the song. The other Fan Club of Taiwan album is a double album. It is called "Kate Bush Live in Europe 79 & 80". One record is the soundtrack to the "Kate Bush Live at the Hammersmith Odeon" video tape, and the other album is the soundtrack to the hour long Christmas special called "Kate" that she did in 79. The Christmas special, besides having some somewhat different versions of some of her early album songs, as well as videos for Egypt, Ran Tan Waltz, The Wedding List, etc., also has a duet of Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel singing Roy Harper's "Another Day" and a short little song for three acappela voices (that people call "The Angel Gabriel") to introduce Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes The Flood". > A Kate Bush Christmas album?????? I've never seen this? It must be a bootleg. Does it look like a bootleg? It's probably also the soundtrack to the "Kate" TV special. There is a real Kate Bush Christmas *single*, though. It's from 1980 and is called "December Will Be Magic Again". It's a *wonderful* song! "Oooh, and see how I fall" Doug [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 17 Dec 85 00:07:31 est From: nessus (Doug Alan) Subject: What an endorsement! In the current issue of "No. 1", Simon Le Bon reveals that his favorite female singer is Kate Bush. And that he thinks her new album is great. What an endorsement, huh! Maybe now millions of rabid Duran Duran fans are going to run out and buy KB's new album. Oh boy! Hungry like the hound, Doug [][][][][][][][][][] Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Date: Fri, 13 Dec 85 13:38:44 est From: Chris J. Valas Posted-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 85 13:38:44 est Subject: SISTERS OF MERCY -=- Have any of you in there heard these guys latest, _First and Last and Always_ ? NO? Go find a copy and play it really LOUD, but you better nail your door shut because your neighbours are going to be coming up to kick it in with their shiny jackboots when they hear this one. Because, "There's a black planet, a black planet hanging over the highway, Out of my minds' eye, Out of my memory, There's a black world, black world." HA!-HA!-HA! Chris J. Valas {decvax,utzoo,philabs,security,allegra,genrad}!linus!cv -=- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 17 Dec 85 01:20:42 est From: nessus (Doug Alan) Subject: Re: SISTERS OF MERCY > Have any of you in there heard these guys latest, _First and Last and > Always_ ? NO? YES! Wonderful album! Great for dancing around to when you when you wanna be depressed. -Doug [][][][][][][][][][] From: umcp-cs!aplcen!uucp@seismo.CSS.GOV Return-Path: Date: Tue, 17 Dec 85 01:00:29 EST >From ins_aset@jhunix Mon Dec 16 15:30:45 1985 remote from jhunix Date: Mon, 16 Dec 85 15:30:37 EST From: Susanne E Trowbridge To: love-hounds%mit-eddie.arpa@seismo.UUCP Subject: The lush life Kate confesses in MUSICIAN magazine that she gets drunk before recording some of her vocal performances!!! She was a little sussed while singing "The Big Sky," and very drunk while recording either "Waking the Witch" or "Jig of Life" (can't remember which she mentioned). Hic! -Sue [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 17 Dec 85 02:25:15 est From: nessus (Doug Alan) Subject: London Vice > [Sue:] Kate confesses in MUSICIAN magazine that she gets drunk before > recording some of her vocal performances!!! She was a little sussed > while singing "The Big Sky," and very drunk while recording either > "Waking the Witch" or "Jig of Life" (can't remember which she > mentioned). And a couple years ago Kate said she didn't like alcohol. Gee, she drinks, smokes, tokes, and is addicted to Kit Kats. Who knows what's next? Already she's singing about poppies and cutting little lines.... And she probably doesn't get enough complete protein and trace elements because of a vegetarian diet. Oh well, live fast, die young, and put out a bunch of wonderful albums, Kate! Sport death, Doug [][][][][][][][][][] -- It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under. Greg Skinner (gregbo) {decvax!genrad, allegra, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds gds@mit-eddie.mit.edu