From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #235 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, September 27 2000 Volume 05 : Number 235 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: rollingstone.com forward from Elaine! [Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: rollingstone.com forward from Elaine! Elaine just showed me this great quote she found at rollingstone.com, and I just love it... she loves it too but wasn't sure if it was fit enough to post on Alloy. I think it is, without a doubt!! It's a review written upon the release of the Blinded By Science EP, and as Elaine says, it's great fun to read such things. It falls in a little with our Song Interpretations too (note the lyrical interpretation at the end of the first paragraph!) Thanks Elaine!! :) And concerning the last sentence of this review..! "this boy wonder can whip it, if he wants to..." Let me tell you, I am *far* from being in any condition to hear such a thing, having gone to sleep (well, not exactly) with Thomas' live rendition of Jungle Line blasting through my headphones last night at 2am. Someone may have to help me home after reading this just now. Anyway, the review follows... :) xxxx Robin T "Thomas Dolby is the most formally compelling of the current crop of high-tech computer touts. An ace interfacer (of course), Dolby is also an accomplished musician who's capable of laying on complex orchestral colors in a refreshingly unselfconscious way - "One of Our Submarines," on this five-song EP, being a particularly vivid example. He's witty, too - an unusual quality in Computerland - and when one hears a line like "Bye-bye, empire/Empire, bye-bye" (could it be a Four Seasons pun?), one wishes he'd included a lyric sheet. But Dolby's multifaceted musical facility (he popped into the rock mainstream on Foreigner's 4 album) can also be problematic. The Kraftwerk influence on "One of Our Submarines" and "She Blinded Me with Science," his otherwise daffy, dizzying and well-deserved new-radio hit, is probably unobjectionable, as is the thematic resemblance of "Airwaves" to Kraftwerk's "Radio Activity" - copping from computer-rock's creators may be unavoidable by now. But Dolby's occasional penchant for slickness and glib riffing is annoying: "Airwaves," with its smooth backup vocal by ex-Buggle Bruce Woolley, verges on easy listening, and "Windpower," despite its delightfully percussive use of signal decay, finally sounds more inspired by machine than man. Dolby may be too broadly talented for his own good, but that's an awfully rare affliction, and one suspects this boy wonder can whip it, if he wants to. (RS 392) KURT LODER" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #235 ***************************