On 06-20-97 DAVID MARHEINE wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 DM> That's a Modern Lovers song, innit? 
 
        I'm sorry Dave, but the Modern Lovers are OFF TOPIC. 
        Mention them again and I shall read to you from one of my 
        many masters' theses. 
 
 DM>  KN> No, _TOtR&RTYtD_ is a terrible album, but _Bursting Out_ is OK. 
 DM> 
 DM> That was my impression too, though I expressed it diplomatically 
 DM> since Pete served very fine turnips.  He and Carole had some unusual 
 DM> tastes in music, Noel Harrison, for example, but they both really 
 DM> got off on the Nice's "Rondo (69)". 
 
        Ah, one of the many Rondo's done by Emerson. Noel 
        Harrison is OFF TOPIC btw, though he actually did do an 
        album, didn't he? Not as bad as Captain Kirk singing "Hey 
        Mr. Tambourine Man" or anything, which is probably why we 
        only remember it vaguely. 
 
 DM> Well, I'll have to try it again sometime.  Yes really lost me after 
 DM> _Fragile_ back in the 70's 
 
        I imagine that once Tony Kaye was out of the picture they 
        held little attraction for you. Though he's back with the 
        band now and you may enjoy their recent album _Talk_, 
        that is if you've recently had a lobotomy or banged your 
        head into a concrete sidewalk repeatedly. 
 
 DM> and I haven't been totally impressed 
 DM> with much that I've gone back to investigate later. 
 
        _Relayer_ and _Close to the Edge_ both came after 
        _Fragile_ and they are both excellent, and not just in my 
        opinion. 
 
 DM> I don't think 
 DM> I've ever even heard all of _Topographic Oceans_.  Let me know if 
 DM> you come upon an extra (cheap) 8 track of that one... 
 
        Believe me, if I found an extra cheap 8 track of _TfTO_ I 
        would, though I would carefully wipe it off after. 
 
 DM>  DM> Got to hear about a side of _Space Ritual_ last week... 
 
        And the day after that message I did infact find an extra 
        cheap 8 track of _Space Ritual_ which I cleaned up and 
        repaired and it sounds absolutely delightful. 
 
 DM> A guitarist pal in college who was a big Steve Hillage fan also 
 DM> liked Three Man Army a lot, which I understood much better than 
 DM> the guy who loved all of Wakeman's solo album but got all offended 
 DM> by the Ramones. 
 
        I'm sorry Dave but the Ramones are OFF TOPIC, though you 
        may discuss all of Rick Wakeman's solo albums no matter 
        how bloody awful some of them are. I have a New Age 
        sewage album he did called _Airs and Graces_, just plain 
        solo piano, and it is excruciatingly awful. I think his 
        wretched pop crap is even less intolerable than this. 
 
 DM> Anyway, I like BGA's "Hearts On Fire" pretty well 
 DM> cuz it almost sounds like Sharks... 
 
        I'm sorry but the Sharks are OFF TOPIC 
 
 DM> ObProg: The first _Gun_ album was Roger Dean's first album cover. 
 DM> There was still a little Gahan Wilson in his style at that point. 
 
        Oh yeah, and Gahan Wilson is OFF TOPIC, too. 
 
        For that matter, the entire state of Wisconsin is OFF 
        TOPIC, unless they came up with some indigenous "Cheese 
        Prog" I don't know about. 
 
        Actually, I remember back in the late 70's a rumour that 
        Guru Guru went to play some gigs in WI, apparently 
        there's a German connection there Hmong others, and ended 
        up staying and becoming a biker gang. I'm not making this 
        up and I'm not joking. Seriously. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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