--- Sez Kenneth Newman to David Marheine ---
 DM> ObProg: I heard Horslips' "The Man Who Built America" on the radio 
 DM> driving home from the zoo... 
 KN> Aw c'mon, that album ain't prog, it's just bland late 
 KN> 70's pseudo-new wave, a tremendous dissappointment after 
 KN> some of their fine earlier albums, such as _Book of 
 KN> Invasions_. 
Okay.  It wuz on the Prog radio show, though.  Their first two plus
a later live album (_Belfast Gigs_) are about all I've heard from
them.  I like the early stuff pretty well, and it's perhaps in that
proggy folk category, but the live album shows effort at removing
idiosyncracies to connect with the mainstream, to the detriment of
the music.  Bland pseudo stadium rock, even.  The main interest in
listening to it was trying to guess if it was intended as a tribute
to immigrants in the construction trade or what.
DM
... Carp Diem: Catch of the Day
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