OFF:Faves of 1997

[cannibal at CUTEY.COM]

At 22:16 16.12.97 -0000, Andy Gilham wrote:

>Spooky - I just got the OP8 album (_Slush_) yesterday, great sultry stuff.
> They're Giant Sand, of course.

Sultry!! THAT's the word! Would fit nicely into a Tarantino flick...
Are they Giant Sand? Heard good things about Giant Sand!

>My fave of 97 - really has to be _Lower Yourself_ by the New Christs!  Does
>it fucking rock out or what!

Don't ask me man! Are they the Aussie punk band?

BTW, on the reissue front I forgot to add the surprisingly GREAT
remix/remaster
of Iggy & The Stooges / Raw Power! Does THAT fuckin rock out or what!!!
As Iggy sez: everything is in the red... still, hard to fix such a fucked
up recording in the first place (which of course is part of its skanky
glam-junkie-death-rock charm!!)

Christian