CD query and gratuitous rambling

[Niels P. Mayer <mayer%hplabsz@hplabs.HP.COM>]

Just went compact disk spreeing and thoroughly overstepped my CD diet (1 cd
per week) by buying Eno's Desert Island Collection, Pink Floyd's Piper at
the Gates of Dawn (groovy!.... a necessary fix while I wait for the next
Robyn Hitchcock) and Hendrix's Live at Winterland.

While I was perusing the Rykodisk selection, I noticed 2 possibly
interesting CD's -- DEVO's "Easy Listening Music" and the compilation
"HeartBeat Reggae". I'm particularly interested in the former. Is it really
easy listening? Is it cheezy listening or is it simply a mellow reworking
of old DEVO hits? And what is the FDS (full dimensional sound) feature that
is advertised on the cover of the CD?

Also, a while back someone posted that "The Compact XTC" and the Dukes of
Stratosphear's "Chips from the Chocolate Fireball" are available in CD?
I've looked all around and couldn't find 'em. Any clues on where I could
get them (anyplace in San Francisco, New York, Paris or London would do it
as I'll have done those cities by the end of September).

..

Right now I'm listening to my new "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" CD and boy
am I glad I bought it. I guess I shoulda had my ears pricked back in 1967
when it was introduced, but what dya want from a 3 year old anyway?  Well,
it's rediscovery time now and I note how lame Pink Floyd got after the
demise of Syd Barrett...  This album is good-n-silly through and through
from the sinister lysurges of "Lucifer Sam" (wasnit covered by Bauhaus?) to
the trippant flippancy of "Flaming"... 11 tracks, 10 pints of
cerebro-spinal fluid, billions of misfiring neurons, cosmic dandelion fu, 3
breasts recursively flowering into buttercups, bimbo limbo fu, Joe Bob says
check it out!

-- Niels Mayer.
"Yippee, you can't see me, but I can you"