OFF: The Tea Party

[herbert rosenberg]

> At 09:46 AM 12/02/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >On tor 12 feb 1998 00.02 -0800 "herbert rosenberg"
> ><chuck at GENESISNETWORK.NET> wrote:
> >> Does anyone remember my urging 1-2 years ago about how everyone should
> >go out and buy The Tea Party? Well, Transmission wasn't what I had in mind
> >at the time (especially since it wasn't released yet). I still say buy
> >Splendor Solis and Edges of Twilight. Transmission is, in my mind, a
> >sell-out, catering quite a bit to the current electronic-pop trend...
> >(though, if you can get your mind off that, it might not be too bad,
> >actually).
> >****
> >
> >     I picked up Splendor Solis, and it is damn good.  Haven't gotten
> >Edges of Twilight ... yet.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Carl

It's even a notch above SS, I think. Too bad they couldn't maintain that style for another album...

>
> SS and EoT are the only two I've got and I heartily agree that they are
> both well worth having. Fine songs, powerful vox, sharp playing. I haven't
> heard Transmission, though - after hearing an interview with the band when
> they toured Oz I didn't think it would appeal to my biased tastes in music.
>

Oh yeah--I'm not Australian either! :) The second largest contingent of TP fans in the world, after Canada.

> Oh, and while I think of it, does anyone know how a tBS' _Eponymous_ CD
> turned up in a Brisbane 2nd hand shop recently? Surely it didn't come from
> a boc-ler?! My good fortune, of course, but really...
>
> Pete.
>

Charlie