From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V1 #88 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, July 23 1998 Volume 01 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: idealcopy-digest V1 #86 [ubaran@iclretail.icl.com] idealcopy-digest V1 #87 -Reply ["Trevor Dutton" ] AW: idealcopy-digest V1 #87 -Reply [dieter.loos@ubs.com] Re: AW: idealcopy-digest V1 #87 -Reply [flaherty michael w ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:45:10 +0100 From: ubaran@iclretail.icl.com Subject: RE: idealcopy-digest V1 #86 I used to see the Passions in '80, they were great and had a terrific first LP. They never recovered from their minor hit with 'german film star'. I believe that they were fronted by one of the 'grogan?' sisters the other was the lead singer with 'Prag Vec' who I remember fondly. Uri > -----Original Message----- > From: charles / wmo [SMTP:wmo@interserv.com] > Sent: 21 July 1998 2:54 PM > To: idealcopy@smoe.org > Subject: Re: idealcopy-digest V1 #86 > > Anyone remember the Passions? The were fronted by the Gogan sisters. Great > "post-punk" pop from the period, with that guitar sound we all love. I > think > they had a biggish hit with "Africa Mine" and "I'm in Love With German > Film > Star". Barbara, the singer, just released an album with Hector Zauzo > (sic), > which I haven't heard. > > The other band I haven't seen someone talk about is Fad Gadget. Great > Great > great stuff. Though once he turned into Frank Tovey - I don't know - it > all > turned folk or something... > > charles > -------------------------------------------- > wmo@interserv.com > http://wiremailorder.com/ > catalog@wiremailorder.com > updated: June 29, 1998 > -------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:37:56 +0100 From: "Trevor Dutton" Subject: idealcopy-digest V1 #87 -Reply Dear alll Would anyone care to expound upon the connection between 154 and Eno. Up to now the two main threads to my CD collection have been Wire and Mr Eno but, other than the latter's DX7 on Hail (which I have never heard I confess) I was not aware of any connection. Please enlighten me! Trevor Dutton snip---------------------------------------------------------- Haven't listend to them yet, but was interested when I heard their name as it reminds me of Brian Eno's "Here come the Warm Jets". I was an Eno fan in the early 70's starting with Roxy Music, and this is one of my favourite Eno albums. I then was happy to hear, that Wire had contact to Eno (154-period) and later he appeared on Graham Lewis' "Hail" album. When I saw Wire live they were supporting Roxy Music and when I heard "Midnight Bahnhoff Cafe" which was released sometime after that tour I belived to hear some Roxy-influence. Looks like circles tend to close. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:00:22 +0200 From: dieter.loos@ubs.com Subject: AW: idealcopy-digest V1 #87 -Reply - --MimeMultipartBoundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="AW:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="AW:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There was an interview with wire in the german "Sounds"-magazin in 1979. Apparently the Interviewer talked to the 4 of them in a Cafe an was wondering, who the fifth man was. Only on leaving he realized that it was Brian Eno. - ---------- >Von: trevor.dutton / zhuxsh > >Would anyone care to expound upon the connection between 154 >and Eno. - --MimeMultipartBoundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:19:20 -0500 (CDT) From: flaherty michael w Subject: Re: AW: idealcopy-digest V1 #87 -Reply I remember that In Nick Kent's review of "154" for the NME he said that it was the album that Eno and Bowie wanted to make but couldn't. I don't really believe that, but Eno is certainly a major influence--in both songs and sounds. Michael Flaherty On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 dieter.loos@ubs.com wrote: > There was an interview with wire in the german "Sounds"-magazin in > 1979. Apparently the Interviewer talked to the 4 of them in a Cafe an > was wondering, who the fifth man was. Only on leaving he realized that > it was Brian Eno. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:36:32 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Passions/154 Uri wrote: >I used to see the Passions in '80, they were great and had a >terrific first LP. They never recovered from their minor hit >with 'german film star'. That's pretty much how I remember it, too... IMO they kind of sold out for commercial acceptance - a fairly common story really. >I believe that they were fronted by >one of the 'grogan?' sisters the other was the lead singer >with 'Prag Vec' who I remember fondly. The lead singer was Barbara Gogan - no "r" in there, so presumably she wasn't related to Clare Grogan (Altered Images). I've never heard any of Prag Vec's stuff - were they any good? More recently Michael Flaherty wrote: >I remember that In Nick Kent's review of "154" for the NME >he said that it was the album that Eno and Bowie wanted to >make but couldn't. I think ol' Nick could have added a whole bunch of people to that list! For example, I remember reading not too long ago in The Big Takeover how Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices considers 154 to be just about the greatest album ever made... John H. Hedges ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V1 #88 ******************************