Notes: Produced
by Brian Eno, this record started a whole 'nother line of thought
that ran through the eighties and still exists in some ways today.
We've all heard the syncopated "Satisfaction" and seen
the yellow jumpsuits, but there's more to these rather odd fellows
than that. They always reminded me of what the Ramones would
have turned into if they had been academically talented 'burb dwellers.
They embodied the man/machine meld we've seen in later years as
the Borg via Star Trek. But they're musical Borg. They took the
industrial beats and rhythms and married them to a futuristic,
science fiction storyline that we all bought into. The cover became
almost an icon for the college crowd I lived with. At first I was
appalled at this so called music, me of the progressive/jazz leanings,
but repeated listenings drew me in opened my inner ears to a brave
new world.
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