Re: Best New Old Thing?

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> Jyoti Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> What's the best new old thing you've heard this year? By this I mean
>> an old musical endeavour that you've only just discovered and fallen
>> in love with.
>> 
>> Mine would have to be The Poppy Family:
>> 
>> http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesP/poppy.html
>> 
>> Although I loved Terry Jacks proto-Goth classic 'Seasons In The Sun'
>> as a kid, I'd never heard of this previous band with Susan
>> Pesklevits. 
>> 
>> It's some of the strangest pop music I've heard. If I had to sum it
>> up, I'd say they sound like a Goth Carpenters. Where every normal,
>> sunny 60's pop song goes 'tweet' and 'twoot' and 'look at the purty
>> burdies', they go 'death' and 'madness' and 'her very blood was in
>> his veins.' 
>> 
>> It's excellent stuff. There isn't that much on the web about them but
>> quite a bit in Google Groups. 
> Sorry to be so old hat and mainstream, but I just realised how fxxking
> good 'revolver' is by the Beatles 

I was given that for my 21st birthday.  Being the first Beatles album I had 
ever listened to, I thought subsequent ones I heard were crap by 
comparison.

It is an awesome album.

> - I had heard about the
> revolutionary techniques used etc. etc. and bought it about a year ago
> - but it really is the best thing they ever produced. Started REALLY
> listening to it about 3-4 months ago and it is as good as everyone
> says - tomorrow never knows is probably 25 years ahead of its time.
>> 
>> Check them out if you like doomed, mad, 4ADish pop music,
>