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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 01:03:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 01:03:17 1985
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["Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine."]

A couple of corrections:

> From think!mirror!rs Mon Jul 1 10:59:00 1985

> The band [Birdsongs of the Mesozoic] was founded by two members of
> "Mission of Burma," a "noise" Boston band that was idolized here, and
> achieved some fair among of recognition outside of the area (i.e.,
> their final concert was opening for PiL in Manhattan).

Maybe Mission of Burma was "noise" band at one time, but they don't
sound that way from the E.P. I have (I don't remember the name of the
E.P. offhand, but it has the song "That's When I Reach For My Revolver"
on it.  It also came with a very unusual lyric sheet too.  All the words
for the songs are in alphabetical order, rather than in the order in
which they occur in the songs -- this, of course, makes it rather
unhelpful in figuring out the meaning of the songs....)  They'd fall
roughly into "post-punk" or something like that.  They sound maybe a
little tiny bit like R.E.M. or something like that.

> They [Birdsongs of The Mesozoic] have apparently since decided to make
> a real band out of it, and added percussion and (occasionally)
> stringed instruments like guitars and basses.

They don't add guitar "occasionally".  At least in their current lineup,
there is a full-time guitarist.  The other three guys are keyboardists,
but also play drums and other stuff.

> They are really, really good.  Doug Allen posted a review of one of
> their concerts about a month ago (I think it was the only net.music
> article he/she has posted that wasn't about Katey-poo :-)

They are really good!  But you can't be serious about me posting stuff
only about Katey-poo...  Oh, is that what the smiley face is for....

> (Husker Du's "Zen Arcade" has been very tenacious, throwing down any
> other platter that attempts to mount the turntable for more than one
> cut.  Shriekback's "Nemesis," however, seems to show signs of hanging
> out for a while.)

Dunno about Husker's dues, but yeah, Shriekback is pretty good.

				"You dreamed of a big star
				 He played a mean guitar
				 He always ate at the Steak Bar"

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