Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: stuff Message-ID: <8612022029.AA02370@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 15:29:41 EST Article-I.D.: p.8612022029.AA02370 Posted: Tue Dec 2 15:29:41 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 22:17:49 EST Sender: daemon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: love-hounds anonymous Lines: 33 Approved: nessus.mit.edu Really-From: hogge@p.cs.uiuc.edu (John Hogge) >[from Bill Hsu] >New EP by Plan 9 is decent (I picked it up cheap so I'm not complaining.) >This opium song on side 2 is good and comes close to the psychedelic haze >of their 10-min. version of Frustration. There's some fake '50s stuff >(is it a cover?) that I didn't care for. Ah, Bill is becoming a psych-head like yours truely. I just happened to listen to "Keep your cool and read the Rules" by Plan 9 the other night, and along with their new EP, have a fairly fresh view of their releases. First, "Keep Your Cool..." has about the coolest cartoon-like album cover I've ever encountered. It's a good album, similar to the EP in that the style is more in the direction of early progressive/later psychedelic than the standard psychedelic pop stuff everyone else does (which Plan 9 also does in fairly boring fashion on their album "Dealing With The Dead"). Plan 9's self titled first LP is also good, but has a mixture of styles from long psych jams to mindless psych pop. It has a better variety of vocal work than any of the other releases. Plan 9 isn't my favorite psych band, their main problems being: -vocalist is boring -They are too serious about their music, giving it a restrained, controlled feel (even on non-mellow material) which is probably the opposite of what most psych heads want. They never cut loose and get wild. There are good elements too; I'd rank the albums as follows: "Keep Your Cool" "Plan 9" "Anytime..." "Dealing With the Dead" However, The Fuzztones rule. --John