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The Anarchy, Inc. People present..
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Dave's Concept Workshop #1
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D is for Dumptruck. I knew that, you know that, and those uh, people
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over in England certainly know it. You see, they're a band, and they've
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managed to put together two albums. It's enough to make you ill.
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In my relentless quest for some good modern music to listen to, I have
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long since given up such things as KITS (Hot Hits!), T0P 40, and MTV; leaving
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me to portend with the underground movement: the Quake (defunct), NightMusic
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(also defunct), and college radio (as good as defunct).
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Now wait a second. I'm beginning to hear a lot about the college radio,
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but 1) my antenna is so bad i can't recieve any of them very well, and 2) what
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I do get sounds like screaming lunatics spewing sultry dance rhythms softly on
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magnetic tape without any regard to whether or not their music is danceable.
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My situation has gotten so desperate recently that, yes, I have even been
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willing to Spend Money just to listen to something pretty decent. And since
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Spending Money means record stores, I've chosen the two best: Tower with the
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selection, the Record Factory with the return policy. Well, I walked into
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Tower Records this past weekend and was quite astonished at what I saw.
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It seems the "Techno-synth-dirge-pop" of the early '80s has been replaced
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by "Mello-sillypop" and "Death-cult-blood-and-guts-pop" and "This-is-getting-
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ridiculous-pop".. Just look the titles in the import section and that'll give
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you the whole story.
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Yes, there is a "D is for Dumptruck". There are also "Prefab Sprout" and
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"The Plutonium Babies" (you thought the Butthole Surfers were bad enough..
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(they are)). If you look harder you can find such groups as "Postwar" and
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"Dirty Donkey Dung". If you look for the Rhino label, you'll find such
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classics as "the Royal Ketzenbarger Orchestra performs some of the old Kinks
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tunes". Or something like that. I'm not kidding.
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If you want to pay $6.99 to hear Lint Brush Residue sing the 12" (remix)
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of "Back in the Cellar Again", you just go ahead.
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I spent hours wading through the mess looking for some pretty good music,
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and here's some of what I found..
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Ultravox: "Lament" (12"), "Dancing With Tears in my Eyes" (12"),
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"Systems of Romance" (LP)
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New Order: "Sub-Culture", "Blue Monday/The Beach",
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"Shellshock" (all 12")
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Animotion: "Obsession/I Engineer" (12")
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Marillion: "Brief Encounter" (mini LP)
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Jean Michel Jarre: "Zoolook" (LP)
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Dead or Alive: "My Heart Goes Bang", "Lover Come Back to Me"
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(both 12")
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Bauhaus: "She's in Parties" (12")
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Joy Division: "Still" (LP)
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Grace Jones: "Slave to the Rhythm" (12")
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Sly Fox: "Let's Go All the Way" (12")
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Harold Faltermeyer: "Axel F" (12")
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Nina Hagen: "Universal Radio" (12")
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a-ha!: "The Sun Always Shines on TV" (12")
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Midge Ure: "The Gift" (LP)
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I don't know... maybe I just don't want to spend $6.99 on a Husker Du LP
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without having the foggiest idea what's on it. But that's no excuse to give
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up our relentless quest for some pretty decent Modern Music. It's either that
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or t0p 40, folks, it's all we got.
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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brought to you by those really mellow folks at
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the Darque Side, 408/245-SPAM
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call today, and vomit.
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apr1986, anarchy, inc.
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