> Beware there was some crazed split several years ago the begat 
> leftbankism from leftbank. As far as I know the core group only 
> frequents leftbankism. There is a 2-cd Barock compilation floating 
> around that list members put together 5-7 years ago that's pretty 
> darn good. 

*Yeah I originally signed up to the "leftbanke" group and was amazed at the tsunami of extreme political hyperbole that firehosed out of my monitor... yech-shudder-patooie.
I waited a couple days for the left banke dialogue to begin... never happened. So I switched to the other one - "leftbankism" which as a nice surprise actually discussed the music of the Left Banke.
I'm sure most of you have seen this but in case there are any Left Banke fans that haven't this site:  www.leftbanke.nu is REALLY cool. lots of interviews, music downloads, pics and info.