BOC: Lyric discussions

Paul Mather paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU
Mon Oct 4 15:07:59 EDT 1999


On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Goran Janicijevic wrote:

=> It happen to be in the early eighties, I used to compare 'Cultosaurus'
=> with the IM actual 'Killers'. Light years of quality between these two
=> bands. A single note on Lips In The Hills beats the whole opus of IM,
=> and says more than they ever could.

I thought I'd read a lot of BOC hagiography on here until now, but
this takes the biscuit!

Still, it made me chuckle, so thank you for your post.

=> >influence on metal in the 80s is probably just as significant as BOC's.
=> >And, as pointed out above, they actually have a pretty good range of
=> >subject matter, much of it taken from some great literature.  Don't let
=> >the rotting corpse that is their mascot fool you into thinking otherwise.
=>
=> It was named Freddie, I recall.

Actually, "Eddie," but you're near enough...

Cheers,

Paul (who prefers "The Marshall Plan" to "Lips in the Hills" anyway...;)

NP: Iron Maiden, _Live After Death_ >:-)

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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