AS CLOSE TO AN INSTANT REVIEW AS YOU GET WITH A STOMACH VIRUS: Bomis Prendin, "put me down and spin me around"
Glenn Knickerbocker
to my endless procrastination in buying it, after finding this comment
in a DejaGoogle search on the band's name:
> From: Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net>
> Subject: Re: I Have A Dream
> Date: 2000/02/15
> Newsgroups: alt.friday,alt.religion.subgenius
>
> I listened to Bomis Prendin as I fell asleep and had no dreams whatsoever.
You can read a more considered review at
http://www.empireoftheclaw.com/soniccuriosity/sc031.htm
but, meanwhile, this was my first response. I have since found that it
plays just fine at home, but have not yet gone to sleep listening to it.
> Subject: Re: BP CD
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:22:54 -0500
> From: Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net>
>
> What a week. Your CD arrived, my dog died, and I got a horrible stomach
> virus! One out of three ain't, well, ain't very good, actually,
> but . . .
>
> Now, I -KNOW- how every musician hates to be told he should keep
> sounding the same forever, BUT: The stuff I really, really like on this
> album is what has that obscurity of sound that the flexis did. The real
> stand-out tracks for me in this respect are "Voices in My Head Go,"
> "Instant Nausea Pill Bottle," "Mandolin Orchestra," and "Whaling Song"
> (so, see, it's not just the oldest stuff).
>
> ON THE OTHER HAND, I was also instantly grabbed by "Cruel Babies in the
> House." So, as God said to Adam, go figure!
>
> "Whaling Song" also holds special meaning for me because I still
> remember the day down in the KTRU studio that we were making up baseless
> rumors about Roky Erickson and decided his next album would be "Roky
> sings wailing songs," except then I started in with titles like "Orca
> With the Atom Brain" and everybody fell over.
>
> I can't tell how this album affects my driving because my car CD player
> doesn't recognize it as a CD. I haven't gotten it home from work yet so
> we don't know what my home CD player will do with it yet. I suppose I
> could always do the sleep test -IN- the office . . .
>
> ŹR