David wrote:

several people on the list who seem to have been here since the year dot have all surprised me over the past week by saying that they didn't want to hear too much of the album too early as it would spoil the surprise.

That's me. Or one of them is me. I like hearing people talk about it when they've heard it on the radio though.

weird huh? people who can lay their hands on the thing turn it down!?

That's not me. Incidentally, it sounds like a Sid Krassman line from "Blue Movie". Not only do I not want to hear, read or see the album before it's released, I won't be hearing it until at least two weeks after it's released, as I fully intend to take advantage of Jeepster's fantastic V!A!T! free on-line shopping facilities. If everyone keeps going on about how good Salako are I might get that too. I liked "Dead Man" very much. I also liked "Lost Highway", even though I didn't understand any of it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I really like the little man who says "I'm in your house". The music's good, I don't think it's an attempt to be with it and groovy. It reminds me of another nice film, "The Doom Generation". I think of that film whenever we get a message from our Transatlantic cousins about record shops. I also think about the video to 1979 (?) by Smashing Pumpkins. Are you all like that? I'm like Blakey in "On the Buses". I remember "The Girl in the Picture", but not much. Big windows that let in the light. WHO fans: I once met one in Pasajes Antxo, which is the pits of the world, very late at night. He was quite old and was wearing a WHO t-shirt. In a spirit of alcoholic bonhommie, reminiscent of Rab C. Nesbitt's "Bandage! Bandage!" incident on holiday in Spain, I went up to him and gestured enthusiastically at his WHO t-shirt. He completely freaked me out by beckoning me closer to him and giving me a quiet but spirited private rendition of "We are the mods, we are the mods, we are, we are, we are the mods!" What a lovely man. Peter "I'm in your house" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+