From owner-fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Tue Mar 14 07:06:13 1995
From: ousley@11.116.DECNET
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 07:04:54 EST
To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu
Subject: 1985 IODOT review


Here's an amusing old review I ran across last week; Enjoy!


Option A2 (March/April 1985)

ROBYN HITCHCOCK: I Often Dream of Trains
With punk and heavy metal coming in for revision, it was only a matter of time 
before progressive rock would be changed by a new generation who harken back 
to the halcyon days of looking through the import bins for the latest releases 
on Harvest and Vertigo.  Robyn Hitchcock (formerly of the Floydian Soft Boys) 
is from England, so he could pick up the albums by the bushelful, and it seems 
like he picked up a ton of Kevin Ayers/Syd Barrett styled twisted prog-pop that 
reeks of early seventies art-deco that flourished on these labels 'til punk 
looked like a better money-maker.  Hysteria always repeats itself, and where 
the Soft Boys epitomised the British LSD experience, Hitchcock takes off into 
early deviations of the dregs of Carnaby Street.  I kinda expect Hitchcock to 
go into hiding until 1987, when he'll appear at a Mont de Marson styled punk-
fest and release a few obscure 45s until fading into retirement once again.  
(Midnight Music, POB 333, Bushey, Watford, WD2 3UN, UK)--Chris Stigliano