Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:18:41 -0700 From: "Senex R. Rupicapra" <olgoat-AT-kdsi.net> Subject: Re: This Whole Abortion Debate... Dave Coull wrote: > Like my father, Angus can't read music, he just sits down > at the piano and starts to play. The musical talent skipped > a generation - I can't play any instruments. Keri and Nadja > both like my singing, but I think they are in a minority! Whereas > my dad only played tunes other people had made up, Angus > only plays his own stuff. When Angus was a lot younger, > he used to make up these really honky-tonk, boogie numbers > on the piano, which I really liked. But then he got into the Pet > Shop Boys a few years back, and ever since then I reckon I can > hear traces of that in a lot of the stuff which he does. Personally, > I never liked the Pet Shop Boys, so I don't like stuff that sounds > a bit like them. I can recognise the musical skill involved, but > I'm not very keen on a lot of what Angus produces nowadays. > Some of it, I like ; he produces so much stuff that the odds > are I will like some of it. But I wish he would go back to his > earlier honky-tonk boogie style. As for the words of his songs, > there is a lot of fin-de-siecle (or fin-de-millenium) doom and gloom. > Angus is actually a cheerfull sort of person, he makes everybody > laugh, he's quite a comedian, but his songs aren't cheerfull. > Maybe it's something to do with knowing that he was an "accident" > and the medical advice was for abortion ! hey, Dave, is Angus' group famous? please excuse my aksing, i lost track o the pop music scene right after Buddy Holly was killed. old goat. oú sont les nieges d'antan? ÐÏࡱ
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