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- From: HCROSS@kentvm.kent.edu (Heather Cross)
- Subject: Re: TMC slaughteres
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- References: <025LXB7w165w@Nocturne.Boulder-Creek.CA.US> <1993Jan23.154535.4985@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:09:13 GMT
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- >In article <025LXB7w165w@Nocturne.Boulder-Creek.CA.US>, nadja@Nocturne.Boulder-Creek.CA.US (nadja) writes:
- > Passing an anonymous club (the dark, smoky, noisy meat market music hall,
- > not a neandrathal's weapon) in S.F (not science fiction, but San
- > Francisco) a few months ago, I heard a grotesque rendition of "Kangaroo"
- > being scraped to bits by a bad 80's punk-cover band...... It was so
- > obnoxious, I had to go home and cover myself with white gazue and listen
- > to the 'Aria' soundtrack................. yikes.
- > nadja :)=
- >
- Don't know if anyone has told you this yet nadja, dahling, but "Kangaroo",
- (and "Holocaust", and "I am the Cosmos" BTW,) are covers themselves. They were
- written by Alex Chilton, who was in a band called Big Star in the'70's.
- Perchance the horrible cover you heard was a decent rendition of the way the
- songs were originally recorded. Chilton, by the way, produced The Cramps first
- album, and influenced a whole slew of bands in the past 15 years or so.
- You might want to check out the original versions-- they were pretty ahead of
- their time, and obviously, This Mortal Coil didn't have too much of a problem
- with the originals. Not trying to be catty dahling, just "enlightening" a bit
- and clarifying the original source of the song.
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- -Heathen
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