It will come, it will come, it will surely come

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My love of weird underground "popular" music began in my teens. I subscribed to LMNOP and got the New Music Distribution Service catalog to find more of it. I listened to KPFK's "12 O'Clock Rock" with Andrea 'Enthal, Chris Morris, Beau Clifford and company. And at the time the local teen radio station, KROQ, was inventing the Rock of the 80s format

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[childlaborcheap]

One of my favorite songs as well. I'm surprised you didn't find out about the Talking Heads reference until so much later. The second half of that album makes me all swoony, especially "Spider and I".

Charming picture, by the way!

[maps_or_guitars]

That's a great story, and it resonates. I had a great college radio station nearby when I was a sprout, and would hear the strangest things I'd ever heard in my young life by tuning in late at night with the big clampy headphones on. I remember the time that I was about to take the cans off, thinking the station was going off for the night ('member when stations went off the air?) because of a particularly long pause after a song. When all of a sudden a vocordered "AaaAh Ah AaahA Aaaha Ah,AaaAh Ah AaahA Aaaha Ah,AaaAh Ah AaahA Aaaha Ah ,AaaAh Ah AaahA Aaaha Ah" came on with

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that would rule! conrad at fringehead dot org

[nickjb]

I really love Fripp'solo on that

[planetdracula]

every time I read your music-related posts I feel more and more certain that we were at a number of the same shows throughout the mid-eighties to early-nineties

yeah it's likely

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Especially since from about 1984 to 1988 I was at every possible club show and quite a few impossible ones!