Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!husc6!mit-eddie!Love-Hounds-request.UUCP From: Love-Hounds-request.UUCP@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: AMBIENCE ((((brracckck...pingpingpi Message-ID: <8612010511.AA05871@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 00:11:13 EST Article-I.D.: p.8612010511.AA05871 Posted: Mon Dec 1 00:11:13 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Dec-86 02:58:56 EST Sender: daemon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 26 Approved: nessus.mit.edu Really-From: hogge@p.cs.uiuc.edu (John Hogge) [from hoffman] >---- new live skull lp sounds better than their previous work... again >mit der Sonik Youth thing-sound-wannabe but w/ more direckted lyrical >content about pain, gov't experiments on sperm and pain, and pain, and >pain... is living in NEW YORK reall-ee that bad? and hey, it's got a >"new age" cover of three nekkid wymyn hitting the surf - probably after >clubbing each other's clam while digging Tom PAine's ultima tunage, >no doubt, no doubt. anyway, a fairly good entry in the noize 'n angst >yet still rut 'n roll category. didn't exactly "kick out der Jams" but >still kicked something, probably all black and mushy and un-mentionable >on this family-oreo-induated noosegruppe. The cover of the "Cloud One" LP is from a postcard the band discovered over in Europe; it depicts the Mediterranean or other nice place to be. Live Skull's new "Pusherman EP" is pretty good. "Pusherman" is a cover tune of, done slow and deadly. The other two cuts are in their typical style, yet fairly strong. Live Skull in general aren't real diverse--all their songs tend to sound the same. I like them, but wish they'd try some new approaches, even if it's within the death rock context (suck what?). As Bill Hsu commented, Marcie plays a fretless bass, but she doesn't do anything interesting with it. --John