quoted 9 lines There's just something a bid too middle-of-the-road about them...>> There's just something a bid too middle-of-the-road about them...
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>I think "Everybody is a Star.." has some of the happiest bleepy, filtery
>lines on it that I've yet to hear. It is happy and funky without being
>sappy or just insipid or disposable rave-crap, at least the 6 tracks on
>that LP that I like. I wasn't too interested in the green LP that came
>after it. I remember when the 12" with [?old Soft MAchine lead singer]
>came out (94?), I thought they lost a lot of their originality.
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Robert Wyatt it was (he was the Soft's drummer too). That green one, "United
Kingdoms", with 2 tracks with Wyatt, was excellently original. It was a blend of
an English folky feel with electronica and worked excellently! It was 93 I think.