From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #245 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, July 25 1998 Volume 04 : Number 245 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: dating stereolab (part iii) [Neal Copperman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:57:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: dating stereolab (part iii) On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, charley darbo wrote: > Well, I was wrong about the origin of the phrase. From Bar/None's > Esquivel page (Bar/None is the label that started reissing Esquivel in > 1994): > > ". . . the music was re-christened Space Age Bachelor Pad Music by > used record scavengers in the 1980s. . . ." From the Equivel cd booklet (which has a Matt Groening quote on the back): " The phrase "Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music" was coined by artist Byron Werner, of Los Angeles, in the mid-1980s to describe a genre of Eisenhower-Kennedy era instrumental pop. Werner summed up the style in a 1990 interview in the desktop publication Audio Carpaetorium: "use of a theremin, discordant harmonies, exaggerated stereo effects, zippy , optimistic meloidies." The original target market, he said, was "lonely guys with too much disposable income who are nitpicky abou their stereos." The phrase entered the collector's lexicon, and was adapted in 1993 by the British band Streolab as an album title. They, too, are fans of Esquivel." So, not only did I miss the obvious reference point of the ectophiles guide, I actually had the answer in my own house. But I got answers out of all non-feline members of the Graham/Gurley household, which should be worth something. neal np: sohre - who will know ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #245 **************************