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   ROBBIE to Jan Bojer Vindheim   
   Re: DJ Taylor and Captain Beefheart + Th   
   22 Sep 04 18:05:46   
   
   From: PENI@DENI.COM   
      
   "Jan Bojer Vindheim"  wrote in message   
   news:1gkj1pw.nngjni1ba18hkN%jan.vindheim@gmail.com...   
   > ROBBIE  wrote:   
   >   
   > > DJ Taylor, Orwell biographer and all-round busy bee wrote into this   
   week's   
   > > Spectator to complain that Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica had been   
   unfairly   
   > > slagged off in that magazine's worst sacred cow albums. He said Trout   
   Mask   
   > > was one of the greatest records ever made. I like 'The Dust Rolls   
   Forward   
   > > and the Dust Rolls Back' a lot but not that much.   
   > >  My alma mater Exile on Main Street took a slagging too but you either   
   get   
   > > that or ya don't and if you don't you ain't got no ass, nor soul.   
   > >  I liked a description of The Clash's London Calling: 'one half catchy   
   track   
   > > and about three hours of grey skiffle.'   
   >   
   > I actually enjoy "Trout mask replica"   
   > - especially "Ella guru" and "Mollie's garden"   
   > you have an URL for that DJ taylor piece?   
      
   I like parts of 'Trout', mainly The above-mentioned plus Orange Claw Hammer   
   and Old Fart at Play.   
   No URL for Taylor, it was in the letters section and that doesn't seem to be   
   online.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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