From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #174 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, September 12 1999 Volume 02 : Number 174 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fw: wire shock horror ["tube disaster" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:14:09 -0700 From: "tube disaster" Subject: Fw: wire shock horror Well, duh. Having sent the following to a couple of music lists last night, it just occurred to me to send it along to the *Wire* one, too ... > >OK, I thought I was just being flippant somewhere on-line about a year ago >when, in extolling the virtues of Wire's first 3 albums, I advanced the >theory (hardly original with me) that they constituted sort of the punk >Rosetta Stone, containing the signposts for virtually everything that came >afterward, from not only hardcore (12XU) to pop-punk (Mannequin, Fragile) to postpunk >(Heartbeat) to neopsychedelia (The Other Window), but even goth (I Should Have >Known Better). Well, lo & behold, I just came home from a chain store where >I saw a gothic compilation called Dark Pleasures, & among the obligatory >Bela Lugosi's Dead & Specimen, what do I see? I Should Have Known Better ... > >Dan > And apologies if this info has been posted before (I've been more inattentive than usual lately), but this also popped up on punk77 -- >>I saw the big Elastica comeback gig at Reading Festival a couple of weeks back and can confirm that having shamelessly rewritten I Am The Fly and Three Girl Rhumba (not to mention No More Heroes) on their first album, they have done a similarly blatant job of rewriting Lowdown, presumably for the new album; and actually covered 12XU for the encore!<< Dan ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #174 *******************************