HW:/OFF: '80's sound

[Sprawl]

aww, Jon, don't mind me.  I just felt the need to say something.
(anything,,,)
I have almost all of the "Official: Ozrics releases, and a few tapes.  I
like it all, but the
truth is, that if you put five discs in the carousel, there are only a few
tracks that
might allow me to guess the album.

I have seen them 3 times live, and each time I made it about 3/4 thru before
I started to
wish they would hurry up and finish.

I think they are great, but the lack of vocals can make it a bit monotonous
at times.  That
goes with the territory, I guess.

I hope my comment didn't put anyone off to them, I was really exaggerating a
very small point.

=)
R





>On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Sprawl wrote:
>
>> Ozrics....  ya got "Afterswish," ya got 'em all....
>> IMO of course.  RJ
>
>        Well, though _Afterswish_ has loads of the good stuff on, assuming
>you like the Ozrics in the first place, it doesn't have the sort of
>eleven-minute epic like `Imhotep' from _There Is Nothing_ or indeed
>`Vibuthi' from _Become The Other_, and those are definite points for the
>Ozrics I reckon. On the other hand, though I _like_ almost all Ozrics,
>it's not terribly startling stuff, and `Vibuthi' was the last thing they
>put to record that actually excited me. I haven't heard _Waterfall Cities_
>yet but I've not been warned to expect different. On the other hand, I've
>not heard much Ship of Fools but what I have heard was electric
>stuff. Still, I reckon _Live Ethereal Cereal_, _There Is Nothing_,
>_Erpland_, _Strangeitude_ and _Become The Other_ would be worth rescuing
>from the Vogons (see ObCassette).
>
>        Indeed, I gather from from alt.fan.ozric-tentacles that after all
>the palaver with Snapper, whom the Ozrics joined because they decided
>Dovetail were ripping them off (and wasn't Dovetail their manager's own
>label?), now they've again got their own label, Stretchy, not only do they
>have to get all their back catalogue under control _again_, but also that
>Snapper are refusing them any royalties off _Curious Corn_, _Spice Doubt_
>and _Floating Seeds_, the remixes, for breach of contract; and,
>furthermore, that Snapper are about to release a new album of recently-
>recorded stuff, from all of which the band will be getting no money at
>all. There are therefore grand plans on the newsgroup to CD-tree the new
>release and _Floating Seeds_ and order fresh covers for them from the band
>so that they'll have Blim artwork and the band gets some money. In't the
>music business wonderful? Yours,
>                                 Jon
>
>ObCassette: _Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ Fit the 4th
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