From mr. selfish Sent Tue, Sep 15th 1998, 05:17
From mr. selfish Sent Tue, Sep 15th 1998, 05:17
>From: xxx@xxxxx.xxx.xx (Yvonne Lui) >Subject: (idm) any reviews on.... > >Quasi:: featuring "birds" (Up Records) since they're representing my hometown, i gotta respond. first, iffin' you got a turntable, buy the vinyl, cause it comes packed with 'r&b transmogrification', their previous album. the quick lowdown: sam and janet. janet also plays drums for mediahype monsters 'sleater/kinney'. sam used to be in 'heatmiser' and 'the donner party'. janet plays drums. sam plays guitar and roxichord (a fuzzy combo organ). sam and janet used to be married, are now divorced, but the musical chemistry is so damn strong, they'd be foolish to break up the band. much of the music is hooky beatlesque pop. very singalong style... but don't let that dissuade you. the lyrics reflect the difficulties of disfunctional relationships through sam's unique (and bleak) vision of ghosts, robots, assembly line cogs, science and other self-important insignificant people and acts. mind you, this is no morriseystyle whining about life and it's unfairness... quasi moves beyond the morose, examines the lifestyle and asks 'is this all there is?' any idmer who ever had a positive reaction to so called 'rock', 'pop' or even 'punk' music should check quasi out. hell, even if you were a synth and electricity only purist (like some of my close friends who dish out 'rock' barbs on this here list) could find grace and style in sam's wild roxi-manipulation. 'we went through hell... just to get to hell. die of thirst or drink up from the poisoned well. if i kept things inside, at least i never lied. i'm not trying to documet my suicide...' anyway, so sez cameron ===================================== cameron bowden xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx blacksmith on the anvil in your ear _____________________________________