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- From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
- Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
- Subject: Re: Poppies
- Message-ID: <ibhan.725988518@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 15:28:38 GMT
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- ajaffray@quads.uchicago.edu (alan jaffray) writes:
-
- >Speaking of the Poppies, I was very disappointed by their latest album.
- >I liked _This Is The Day, This Is The Hour, This Is This!_ very much
- >because it has a lot of energy but is still catchy, because of the
- >darkly amusing lyrics, because of the interesting noise and the layering
- >of effects and samples continually in the background.. (which isn't a
- >very good description if you haven't heard them before, but will suffice
- >if you have). _Cure For Sanity_ was good, but too tame and not as
- >complicated... _The Looks Or The Lifestyle_ is, at least from the first
- >couple of listenings, just boring rap over pure pop music... though that
- >"power exists in everyone!" sample they use in Karmadrone is funny as
- >hell, at least to me...
-
- I don't know if I'm really a good person to compare the albums, since the
- one I have is The Looks Or The Lifestyle, but after the first few
- listenings, I really got into it. It's one of the best albums I've bought
- this year.
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- - Ishir Bhan - ibhan@husc.harvard.edu -
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- "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
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