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From: jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods)
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Subject: (more than you wanted to know about the) FABULOUS POODLES (and pink disks)
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Date: Sun, 29-Jul-84 16:05:53 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 29 16:05:53 1984
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#  "Anything too stupid to be said, is sung." -- Voltaire

#  "Poodle bites, poodle chews it." -- F. Zappa

     OK, you asked for it ...

     The Fabulous POODLES SOUND:  Very Ray Davies/Kinks-like.  Check out
Mirror Stars (1977).  Songs include the title cut, with syn drum phasing,
new at the time.  "Toytown People," not to be confused with the later
"Talk in Toytown" (Polystyrene?).  There's "Mr. Mike", about a very personal
relationship with a microphone (done somewhat microphone-in-cheek, natch).

    Best of all is "Tit Photographer Blues", where we must feel sorry
for the poor bloke who sets up beautiful women in soft, relaxed country inn
settings, only to be snubbed at the end of a hard working day.  Their debut
album featured such ditties as "Bike Blood" and "Rum Baba Boogie", but is more
ignorable than Mirror Stars.  A rather wry pop sound--people would think
they are the Kinks.

     Fabulous POODLES PACKAGING:  Even better.  I have a CBS poster on the
wall (sandwiched nicely between the Grace Jones and Marianne Faithful
studies in contrast) that shows a Poodle with Lolita glasses and a big
THINK PINK banner.  And the disk itself -- quite a shocking pink, to
go along with my yellow vinyl Incredible Shrinking Dickies disk, my
white Residents Eskimo disk, my clear "No Wave" sampler, my blue Code Blue
(gotta get that Purple Rain--is it really deep purple plastic?)... 
These daze, it's not the message, but the medium, and all that rot.

	-- James A. Woods  {dual,hplabs,hao}!ames!jaw  (jaw@riacs.ARPA)