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- From: weitzman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Adam J. Weitzman)
- Subject: Re: Carl Stone, Holger Czukay & Front 242
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.141903.15932@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Organization: Brandeis University
- References: <BzM5s5.4yv@emu.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:19:03 GMT
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- In article <BzM5s5.4yv@emu.com> rickk@emu.com (Rick Kleffel) writes:
- >And finally, here's my 2 cents worth on Front 242..."No, sir, don't like
- >'em. Don't like 'em at all." I have the CD with "Quite Unusual" on it,
- >and find each and every instance of Bill Leeb's singing makes me wish he would
- >just shut up. Otherwise, the music is OK, but nothing to write home about.
- >I had also bought the "Tyranny For You" single which was so bad it went right
- >back to the shop where it strayed from. Their musicians are occasionally
- >OK, but never inspired, and Bill Leeb seems to annihilate whatever appeal they
- >might have for me. But...
- >
- >How does FLA sound in comparison? Does Leeb sing and destroy for them as well?
-
- Um, Bill Leeb does not sing for Front 242. Jean-Luc DeMeyer does (and
- occasionally Richard 23). Based on your past reviews, I could have told you
- you wouldn't like F242. You should have asked! Save yourself some dough. :-)
- As for FLA, well, Bill Leeb *does* sing for them, and as much as I like F242
- (fanatic level, basically), I just can't get into FLA nearly as much. It
- seems, well, more *boring* for the most part. I guess if you like the
- Cyberactif single that you mentioned ("Temper"), then that's generally
- Bill Leeb's voice (if I recall correctly), so you might like his FLA stuff
- if you can imagine less-interesting-than-F242 music with more-tolerable
- (to you, anyways) singing. Don't waste any more of your money on F242,
- though, because you just won't dig it.
-
- --
- - Adam J Weitzman
- weitzman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
- "All our life is spent in this permanent brainwashed contempt."
- - Meat Beat Manifesto
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