I would like to thank Skip Heller for that great post regarding the excitement of buying a new record. I turned 18 in 1978 which was an exciting time in music especially if you were into punk music. You'd buy the N.M.E, read the interviews or the consumer guides and from there you'd go the the record shop and discover Ayler because of a Pop Group interview, Can via P.I.L, Funkadelic via Gang of Four, ska was being reissued because of the Specials, mod because of the Jam, and so on. Records then became more important than drugs or food. I think then that search for something new or different became a life long search. So when we listen to things as dull as Mule Variations or Murray Street we feel that disappointment even more because these artists are justing paying the rent. SY even allude to it with their title being where their studios are and Mule Variations is probably refers to Tom saying it's really a slight variation for an ass. Edgar http://www.sold.com.au - SOLD.com.au - Find yourself a bargain!