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From | mkropp@comcast.net |
Subject | Re: Todd, Wanna Drive My Car? |
Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:51:47 +0000 |
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I hope this does not make me an Audities outcast, but I am not a huge TR fan. However, the stuff of his that I have I really like: Something/Anything, two Utopia LPs, and one Nazz LP. With all of this Todd talk, I dug out Utopia's "Deface The Music" (you know, the Beatley one) last night and listened to it all the way through for the first time in ages. My question - has this ever been issued on CD? Thanks, Michael
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> On 11/16/05, Dave Seaman wrote:
> >
> > And I hope the tour does well. I'll catch a show, if I get the chance.
> >
> > (Actually, it might be more interesting than seeing the original Cars - I
> > like much of their music, but I think of them as a singles band - I like
> > them best a song or two, or even an album side, at a time. Too many Cars
> > songs in a row leaves me a bit cold. And I thought the band was actually
> > kinda boring on stage.)
>
>
> Interestingly, I watched a TR "Liars" concert video on cable "on
> demand" last night
> (twas free). The set was cool in a Utopia sort of way, but the music
> left me cold.
> Even the 2 songs from Nearly Human weren't nearly human enough. The
> Liars material,
> like much of TRi output since No World Order, isn't much fun though on
> occasion is
> electrically exciting. Put me in the camp that feels - mostly - music
> & politics don't
> mix. There's an uneasy feeling of TR (in lyrics since Initiation)
> talking down to his
> audience from above (his flock?); sometimes - like Freedom Fighters - he
> does that well, but other times - eh?
>
> After reading in Todd's message hints of the discord that broke up
> Utopia, I wonder
> if the other 3 just wanted to have fun...
>
> What will he bring to the New Cars? The Philly songsmith, the progmeister, the
> angry political man, the sideman? IMO, some of the Wizzard/True Star & Oblivion
> technics would mix well with the Cars catalog.
>
> - michael
>
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