RE: Speakeasy Collective/Corduroy

Fischbarg, Victor (fischbav@moodys.com)
Wed, 29 Nov 95 17:54:00 EST

Dear Listers:
I guess one of the interesting things about being a part of this list is
finding opinions that so concur with your own the one minute, and the next
landing upon those which are wildly opposed...
Keith: HOW, may I ask, HOW can Speakeasy Collective be the "worst" record
you ever bought, when at the very least it contained Tuba's "Theme from an
Underground Bowling Alley"? Wasn't that song even worth something? And
then some...I guess you've never really screwed up - like I did when I
bought the dental hygienists' album of choice, the jazz instrumental "The
Music of Sting" LP thinking it was going to be acid jazz. Or Wilson
Phillips. Yes, it's true. I actually bought the last one they did because
I read articles saying it was their "breakthrough album" discovering a new
"maturity." Oh what a damn fool I was! Keith, dear, I don't think you've
ever REALLY been burned before.

But then how relieved I was to read so many of you agreeing with the
feelings I kept to myself for so long about Corduroy's Out of Here -- they
had been spoken of in such sacred terms by so many of you that I was scared
that weak Steely Dan-esque album had somehow becoming London's preferred
form of acid jazz that we were only now becoming aware of...PHHEEEEW!

Victor E. from Inviolate
e-mail: fischbav@moodys.com
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From: list-relay
To: acid-jazz
Subject: Speakeasy Collective
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 1995 2:23PM

Well after giving it a few listens I've concluded that this is about the
worst record I've ever bought (even worse than my John Travolta thrift
store find!), so if anyone would like to trade for a vinyl version of
Moonshine's Speakeasy Collective please email me. I would like any
vinyl on Mo'Wax, Ninja Tune, New Breed etc. I might trade for a cd, if
it's a good one. Of course my John Travolta record is not up for trade,
but some cold cash might lure it away :)

Keith
KWillis@vms1.gmu.edu