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Re: (TV) which hitchcock?



Eric,

Thanks, I'll check out that Rykodisc set and Katrina & the Waves. 
Scott

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>From: eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: Re: (TV) which hitchcock?
>Date: Thu, Jun 1, 2000, 11:47 AM
>

> actually, i was the one who compared ROBYN hitchcock's work to the worst of
> dali's worst, but i do agree with you in re: soft boys.
> thing is, they weren't JUST robyn hitchcock (& in response to the notation
that
> the early egyptians were the SBs minus k rew, i guess that just goes to show
who
> was the real guts & power in the band).
> best soft boys product is the rykodisc 2 disc retrospective....has most of the
> essential album/non-lp tracks plus some weird live oddities/covers & decent
> liner notes.
> i think the fact that hitchcock was quoted as saying rew was a detriment to
his
> vision of the band says it all.
> & i'll still say the 1st coupla katrina & waves recs were better than any of
the
> hitchcock solo
>
> SCOTT ALDRICH wrote:
>
>> While perusing this thread yesterday, I stumbled on someone's insight that
>> Hitchcock's much-touted surrealism was overstated and was more in keeping
>> with the "high school poetry" of Dali, or words to that effect. I gotta say
>> at first I thought you all were talking about about Alfred Hitchcock, not
>> Robyn, and I thought, you gotta be kidding, Dali couldn't daub the waste off
>> of Hitchcock's generous bum for trying with his forked moustachioed goatee.
>>
>> Then I realized you were talking about Robyn Hitchcock, who I don't know
>> from Adam, but I have the Underwater Moonlight album, and such songs as
>> "I've Got The Hot's For You", and especially "I Wanna Destroy You" are f-ing
>> great. I heard the early Soft Boys LP, "A Can Of Bees" is rather cool, and
>> I've never heard "I"m an Angle-Poised Lamp"(?). Is it worth getting? How
>> about the BBC stuff or other stuff from that era? Kimberley Rew's guitar
>> sound against Robyn's is beautiful, especially compared with the majority of
>> early-80's groups. Any advice on this early Soft Boys stuff is appreciated.
>> Scott
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