Calling all Greg Taylors... and a BRIGADE review ...

[hofmann@nrl-css.arpa (James B. Hofmann)]

Greg Taylor:
I'm having trouble getting mail through to you.  rsch.wisc.edu is very 
itinerant about taking a connection so any other paths you might have
that talk to astroatc would be appreciated.

To make this message kosher, I've been listening to The Brigade's "Come
Together" LP as a review assignment.  This treads down the same path
this former hardcore (nee. Youth Brigade) paved with "The Dividing Line".
More attention is paid to dance rhythms and electronic sounding drums
as well as a New Age type intro to one of the songs.  Unlike "The Dividing
Line", these guys seem a little more at ease with what they are
doing but the New AGe thing sounded kinda clunky compared to the free-
flowing stuff that abounds.  The lyrics, though, are just so blatently
obvious, though, that it all rushes into a blur (the way the lyrics are
listed doesn't help either) of cliched "New Age" type sloganeering; y'know,
"one world", "peace", "why can't races get along?" type stuff.  I've heard
more accomplished lyricists attack these same issues with more introspection
and subtlty (sic?), I'm afraid.  Still, I think if you liked the dance
type stuff such as Heaven 17 and Icicle Works but crave it in a more simpler,
rawer (but not too raw) form, this might be it for you.  Plus there's a 
Kinks Cover.  5 song mini-LP on BYO.  Greg Earle tells me his friends
in Factory say these guys have one good song that they do at the end
of their set.  He compares them with U2 but I wouldn't go that far.

					I'm burping pastrami,
						Jim