BOC-L Digest - 31 Jan 1996 -Digest Mode On

[john paine]

On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Andy Gilham wrote:

> John said, re CE:
>
> >Perhaps this goes back to better support from Columbia?  In retrospect,
> >it would seem to me that songs like "Black Blade" or "Lips in the Hills"
> >could have made killer singles -- "The Marshall Plan" is an o.k. song,
> >but never seemed to me to be something that would appeal to the masses.
> >How about "Divine Wind"?  Hey, with all the anti-Iran sentiment in this
> >country at the time, this could have become the national anthem!  Well,
> >maybe not . . .
>
> "Fallen Angel" was the single, wasn't it, with "Lips" on the flip?  Though it
> was "Lips" that spent several weeks in the _Sounds_ Heavy Metal chart.
>  "Hungry Boys" was always one of my faves, plus "Monsters" of course (any
> song about mutiny and gang rape in hyperspace is off to a good start already
> :)...  but I liked BOC, at least in part, *because* they were never going to
> "appeal to the masses"!
>
> - Andy
>
        Gang rape?  I think I missed something somewhere.  It was more
like a 'free love' deal I thought.

        -       Passerby in Times Square (whats wrong with us masses?)