[Kai]

Maybe Jeff's missus will recognise some of these?

[jahloon]

Possibly, but my missus hates the eighties with a vengeance, possibly as much as the Nazis.

OMG! She took a look, and said it was all umpha lumpha, basically strasse music, you know Eurovision bass line BUM bum BUM bum, even the one I liked "Metal Corrosion" (the alien with a gun to his head) is all pop smaltz.

Do not purchase any of these items on ebay.

[rob]

Even the guy that looks like Keith Moon?

I like the "Every Day is Yours" by the Areil group. It looks like John Denver on saccharine. The photo does look like it could have been taken in Colorado though.

I think I saw Hall and Oates in there several times.

Alexei Glyzin looks like the Soviets had an evil plot to cross breed David Bowie and Pat Boone.

I really really need to hear a clip from "The Prince of Silence." How am I going to track that down?

OK, found it on youtube. This is it, I think. What does the album cover have to do with the band/music?

[jahloon]

rob, on Jun 25 2009, 07:30 AM, said:

Even the guy that looks like Keith Moon?

I like the "Every Day is Yours" by the Areil group. It looks like John Denver on saccharine. The photo does look like it could have been taken in Colorado though.

I think I saw Hall and Oates in there several times.

Alexei Glyzin looks like the Soviets had an evil plot to cross breed David Bowie and Pat Boone.

I really really need to hear a clip from "The Prince of Silence." How am I going to track that down?

OK, found it on youtube. This is it, I think. What does the album cover have to do with the band/music?

It is a very strange genre, copying elements of US/UK music but always with a lag of about a decade.

Then there is a whole raft of singers on RTV regurgitating their hits from 30 years back every single night to a rapturous audience.

Its a bit like everything is created with parental approval, no musical revolutions here comrade.

[rob]

jahloon, on Jun 25 2009, 07:49 AM, said:

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Its a bit like everything is created with parental approval, no musical revolutions here comrade.

I was just going to ask where the Russian King Crimson was. Pretty depressing really, if none exist. There's certainly a history of high level "art music" there.

[jahloon]

rob, on Jun 25 2009, 09:06 AM, said:

jahloon, on Jun 25 2009, 07:49 AM, said:

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Its a bit like everything is created with parental approval, no musical revolutions here comrade.

I was just going to ask where the Russian King Crimson was. Pretty depressing really, if none exist. There's certainly a history of high level "art music" there.

The avant-garde is much more accepted in the Eastern block, but like here it does not go mainstream.

When I gave a copy of "Village" to Leon my friend in Riga, he was freaked out that Elliot Sharp was on it, he had saved for weeks to buy a ticket to one of his concerts in the 90's.

[rob]

It's good to hear that the out there is there. The album covers threw me off because I can't make a connection between the music and anything about the covers. It's like America related advertising in China.