BOC: Re: OFF: now 90s v. 80s

[Tim Gadd]

Forgive me if I'm making mistakes with the subject line protocol here, but
my response to this seemed to belong more to 'boc' than 'off'.

At 10:34 AM 3/8/00 +0000, Nick English wrote:

>Another thing that makes the 90s better -- I think most of the 70s
>bands floundered in the 80s, trying to kneel before the altar of MTV.
>But in the 90s, they kind of re-discovered their roots. I think bands like
>BOC, Yes, Uriah Heep and many others have gone a long way toward
>recapturing the fire they left behind in the 80s.

I have to admit I haven't heard BOC's last studio album. The cover scared me
off. It was better than it looked?

I guess it depends on which period BOC you like. From my limited
observations, which will probably turn out to be totally unfounded now that
I'm actually on a BOC mailing list, people tend to prefer either their 80's
sci-fi/biker type stuff, or their early, hard-edged, surreal stuff.
Personally I love the first three albums, and adore Imaginos, and find the
'Fire of Unknown Origin' type stuff pretty bland. I think I just liked
Pearlman's lyrics.  and I just loved getting lost in his bizarre settings
and rantings about telescopes and huskies and shrubs and whatnot. I  always
considered Pearlman a genius, and it seemed that mostly when he was
involved, the music really fired, too. The Albert Bouchard/Sandy Pearlman
combination was the real essence of BOC to me, though I remember reading an
interview where AB expressed some disdain for those early albums.

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Tim Gadd
Hobart, Tasmania