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From: hsut@purdue-ecn.ARPA (Bill Hsu)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 86 14:20:52 EST
Subject: Sonic Youth, Keith Haring and other neat people
Found this neat-looking compilation album last week called A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse, put out by Giorno Poetry Systems, poet John Giorno's label (I guess). If you ever wondered if the National Endowment for the Arts ever finances anything interesting, here it is... This looked like a really interesting album, with a bunch of Keith Haring sketches (he's the guy who draws the stick figures in NY subways) on the cover, and in the background of the photos of the bands. The actual music on the album was a little disappointing, despite some nice tracks (maybe I was expecting too much). Sonic Youth had an ok song (inferior to most tracks from Bad Moon Rising), and there were contributions from Husker Du, David Johannsen and Coil. I enjoyed the Cabaret Voltaire track (my first exposure to CV). The spoken pieces by William Burroughs and Michael Gira were amusing but hardly earthshaking. If anyone else picked up this album, could you identify some of the photos? I recognized Husker Du, David Johannsen and Sonic Youth, and William Burroughs (I think...) but which one is Coil?... Cabaret Voltaire?... Bill Hsu