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Title:Alternative to what?
Notice:Boston club listings in 825.lastLA in 925, London in 991
Moderator:DECCXL::OUELLETTE
Created:Thu Apr 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1126
Total number of notes:31528

1125.0. "Flossie and the Unicorns" by ASDG::GASSAWAY (Insert clever personal name here) Wed May 07 1997 19:47

    As Morgan Andrews put it, "Buy this record for everyone you love."
    
    Especially if they like Hawkwind.
    
    You must buy this on vinyl, unlike Arzachel which you must buy on CD
    unless you want to be set back several hundred dollars.
    
    Lisa/It doesn't sound like Hawkwind, but it's much funnier if you know
    who Hawkwind are
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1125.1more data, if you please ?NPSS::BENZI'm an idiot, and I voteThu May 08 1997 23:4010
    OK - I'll bite - whazzit ?  (And who was/is Morgan Andrews ?)
    
    And which face of Hawkwind - the sci-fi (Quark, Strangeness & Charm) or
    schlock Michael Moorcock fantasy (Warrior On The Edge of Time) ?  (Hey,
    I only have those two).
    
    SLAB - I'll bet you'd like Hawkwind.  (Apologies for assuming
    that you haven't heard them already, if you have, Shawn).
    
    \chuck
1125.2DECC::OUELLETTEmudseason into blackfly seasonFri May 09 1997 13:012
Were Hawkwind an early 70's brit art-rock band or is my recolection
of the discussion in MUSIC.NOTE faulty...
1125.3NPSS::BENZI'm an idiot, and I voteMon May 12 1997 22:1611
    I dunno about the time span... maybe just plain 70's, not necessarily
    early.  Lemmy (Motorhead) got his start with them, oddly enough.
    Brit art rock is right.  Emphasis on acid-rock, psychedelia, stage
    theatrics.
    
    Was there a discussion in ::MUSIC ?  altavista.notes.lkg.dec.com:8000
    would find it in a jiff.
    
    So, Lisa - flesh out the details on the inspiration for this stream...
    
    \chuck
1125.4I didn't get a music boxASDG::GASSAWAYInsert clever personal name hereTue May 13 1997 18:3013
    Flossie and the Unicorns album is the soundtrack to a make believe
    puppet show, starring, of course, Flossie and the Unicorns as a rock
    band.  I think it's one guy with a sampler, a pitch shifter box, too
    much time and too many medicinal substances.
    
    Hawkwind is a prog/math rock band. There is a reference to "tap dancing
    to Hawkwind".
    
    Lisa/there were a few records packaged with annoying electronic music
    boxes that played "Over the Rainbow".  Morgan got one of those and
    stuck the music box up to the mic and if you tuned to WMBR at that time
    you would have heard about three minutes straight of painful
    screeching sounding vaguely like the Wizard of Oz.