On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Microdot in the Aquabahn wrote:
quoted 9 lines I follow this completely: I bought CV from '83 till I bought Code, was> I follow this completely: I bought CV from '83 till I bought Code, was
> sorely disappointed that they were trying to make funk (yes, it was well
> produced, but it was so uninventive!) and abandoned them until '92 when I
> heard Sweet Exorcist and flipped! I never did hear Groovy L, & Nasty.
> The issue was not the loss of 'industrial' soud (I've never owned a Skinny
> Puppy lp actually), nor a dislike of funk (I'm a big Stax/Tower of Power
> fan) or even Bill Nelson (the guitarist on Code who I like otherwise).
> Itis just the uninventiveness of it. Sherwood steals the show with the
> eq'ing and production, as exemplified by the 12" stuff.
I took the same path for different reasons. I was a big CV fan until
Code. I even saw them live around '84 - the same show that inspired THE
most psychotic issue of Flaming Carrot Comics, but that's another story.
I liked the music in Code, but the negativity of the lyrics turned me
off. So I dropped CV until '92 or '93, when I heard Sandoz. I was
really happy to find out that RHK had dropped the loser vocals.
quoted 7 lines I suppose the last 6-7 years of Techno immersion would probably have me> > I suppose the last 6-7 years of Techno immersion would probably have me
> > revisit such a decision (heck, I've never even *heard* "Groovy ... "), but
> > you might have seen things differently if you were a Cab Volt fanatic from
> > day one ...
>
> Yep, exactly my opinion too. I guess it is just a perspective thing, as i
> could see liking Code if I'd never heard them before...
I think the big disconnect with longtime CV fans is that for so long CV
was very varied and innovative in changing their sound. Now RHK is
drawing from the same well, album after album after album. That's hard
to reconcile with CV's past. There's also no malicious vocals from
Mallinder, so many old CV fans bitch and moan about RHK's latest. I for
one like the little patch of ground he's cultivating. A friend of mine
pointed out that he's now a lot like Philip K Dick, who kept writing
different versions of the same novel. I just wish he weren't so damned
prolific. I can't afford to buy everything he does. True the rate of
change is not so great, but CV does change. Lay off with the CV slagging,
please.
Clueless interviewer for generic Techno mag: "So, what do you do in your
spare time?"
Richard H. Kirk: "I have no spare time."
Chill
Che