-----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of skip Heller Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 8:37 AM
Agree with you wholeheartedly on MULE VARIATIONS tho. So, around here, we'd both better duck. This crowd gets ugly somethimes.
Skip and Maurice must be on drugs. One of my favorite Waits albums -- okay, it's not as good as "Franks Wild Years" or "Rain Dogs" or "The Heart of Saturday Night" or "Bone Machine" (it comes in fifth, then) but the worst? Here's my list: - JZ: Cobra Live at the Knitting Factory (never did like the game pieces, except for Xu Feng), Aporias (just didn't work for me) - Bob Dylan: Knocked out Loaded (except for "Brownsville Girl," just miserable) - Pavement: everything after "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" has been unlistenable - R.E.M.: everything after "Out of Time." Now I buy their albums with a feeling of joyless obligation, hoping that this one would be better than the next. Instead, it just gets worse and worse. They truly jumped the shark with that "Love Is All Around" cover... - Keiji Haino: that Purple Trap album with Laswell and Ali. Man, is Keiji Haino saving his throwaway releases for Avant/Tzadik or what? (Okay, I really liked the Cohen/Baron trio album...) - Current 93: The Great in the Small. David Tibet's audio collage of everything he's ever released, mixed onto one CD-length track. Utterly pointless. - Kronos Quartet: Caravan (uninspired and sometimes atrocious pieces; the most forgettable of all their releases) All right, I'll shut up now. Later, Ben http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: thewilyfilipino / Yahoo!: sunny70