Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: mod.music Subject: Love-Hounds Digest Message-ID: <2153@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 1-Jun-86 03:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2153 Posted: Sun Jun 1 03:07:00 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Jun-86 10:40:18 EDT Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 147 Approved: gds@eddie.mit.edu Love-Hounds Digest Sunday, June 1, 1986, 03:08 EDT Topics: EVOL-hounds digest :-) Sonic Youth CMI/So am I Puppeteers [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 30 May 86 10:55:06 EST From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Bill Hsu) Subject: EVOL-hounds digest :-) After desperate hunting for weeks since reading Hof's review of EVOL, (the new Sonic Youth album, for all you non-Sonic Youth worshippers), I finally have it stuck permanently (well, for a month anyway :-) to the turntable. So here's some fanzine drivel to pollute love-hounds with... The title: after sleeping on it (and dreaming about it, honest!) I finally realise that EVOL is LOVE spelled backwards. I'm slow this week... Well, SOME of the songs on the album are about love... anyone has a better interpretation? Secret messages on the vinyl: recalling that Doug used to look for text scratched on parts of the vinyl that have no grooves, I checked EVOL out and sure enough, one side has a line from Starpower (on the album), "Everything turns black to blue", and the other side has "destroy all record labels". Is this a reference to their abortive attempt to get on a major label? The monstrous "thanks to..." list on the lyric sheet: this has numerous names that I expected to see (Swans, Branca, Lydia L.(unch), Bob Bert (their old drummer)), names I wasn't surprised to see (Tesco V., Buttholes, Greg Ginn, Bukowski, Live Skull, Einsturzende Neubaten), and tons of names like Bruce S. (Springsteen???) Jesus and the (sic) Mary Chain PKD (Philip K. Dick?) Bangles (what????) The Challenger Crew (huh?) P. Benatar (no comment...) Bob Xgau :-) LL Cool J Arto L. (Lindsay?) Cagney and Lacey Most of the relevant ones are in bold face, while all of the so-out-of- place-it's-funny ones are in regular script. Well, I thought it was amusing... Oh, the MUSIC... sounds like these guys have mellowed a little. There are actually almost-tuneful little pseudo-ballads, and some really pretty delicate guitar passages. Certainly not worship-inducing like the strange and powerful Bad Moon Rising, but I really enjoyed it anyway. I hope they don't keep mellowing out tho... "inside her head my dog's a bear she's insignificant I'm insane" Bill Hsu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 30 May 86 12:36:22 EDT From: Hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Sonic Youth Yeah, D E S T R O Y all major labels. That's right - but the band has never and probably will never made any active attempt to get on a major label and they have stated their goal is to destoy them, Bill. Numorous times. No wonder they've signed to SST. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 30 May 86 12:21 PDT From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Subject: CMI/So am I I think John Lorch is probably right about the harmonizer/Fairlight issue. There's no audible sign of the harmonizer in the vocals of "Waking The Witch", as far as I can tell. The inquisitor's voice is distorted, obviously, but not in the way a harmonizer distorts. Even with spoken rather than sung vocal sounds the harmonizer produces a very distinct doubling or tripling of the sound at regular intervals of pitch. In fact, I'm not sure a harmonizer of that kind was used anywhere on Hounds of Love. A good example of the sound a harmonizer makes can be heard in Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" during the bridge where the word "sledge" is repeated by itself. Speaking of Gabriel, I just wanted to admit to the L-Hs that I, too, have to agree that So is a very disappointing record. It is too earnest, too sentimental, too preachy and completely retrogressive stylistically. These criticisms are made only as points of comparison with his own earlier work, not with anyone else's stuff. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 30 May 86 15:51:05 edt From: Joe Turner Subject: Puppeteers For background on what exactly a puppeteer is, please note the following works: TALES OF KNOWN SPACE, Larry Niven RINGWORLD, Larry Niven RINGWORLD ENGINEERS, Larry Niven and, for that matter, ANYTHING by Larry Niven As a summary: Puppeteers are a two-headed, three-legged alien race whose noteable features are brilliant spacecraft design and unbridled cowardice. Save your parity bits for big cash prizes! Joe ---------------------------------------------------------- PAPER: Joe Turner, 329 Ward Street, Newton Centre MA 02159 SOUND: (617)/965-8058 CSNET: cutter@umass-boston.csnet ARPA : umb!cutter@csnet-relay.arpa UUCP : {decvax,ima,linus,sri-unix}!cca!ringwld!cutter ---------------------------------------------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] -- It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under. Greg Skinner (gregbo) {decvax!genrad, allegra, gatech, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds gds@eddie.mit.edu