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 
>