My
original notice (below) that this album was coming
out was written before i'd had a chance to hear it.
Now i have heard it.
While it's not at all bad -- pretty good for its type -- it's not what i
had either anticipated or hoped for. I was sort of hoping for an acoustic
album of more-or-less classic rock, given that we've twice seen ASH performing
much that sort of thing on Buffy, but that was not to be.
What we have here is basically a sort of low-key techno/electronica album
-- not a genre with which i am particularly comfortable. I can appreciate
its finer qualities, without finding the genre particularly appealing.
My stepdaughter (18) liked it fairly well, i believe, which tells me that
it's a decent example of its type, hence a three-star rating i will probably
not listen to again of my own choice, but i would not walk out of the room
if someone else played it.
Again, i find myself repeating a quote from the Firesign Theatre's bizarre
electric western film, Zachariah -- "[It's] what yer lookin' fer,
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My Original Notice of the Album's Release
Anthony
Stewart head was once best known in this country for coffee ads.
These days, he's better known as Giles, the Extremely Tweedy British
librarian/Watcher/magic-store owner on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
But, before that, he had an Interesting History.
In 1990, i was in London; there were posters up
all over the place for a new production of "Rocky Horror"; the name i recognised
was Ade Edmondson, which i recognised as that of the actor who had played
Vivian, the punk med student, on the British teevee series "The Young
Ones".
If one remembers that series and that character, then one may imagine my
bemusement to discover that Edmondson was playing Brad.
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Now imagine my bemusement a few months back when i discovered that Anthony
Stewart Head, good old tweedy Giles {sometimes known to his fans as "ASH"}
had played Frank N. Furter.
And then i found pics of him in costume on the Web.
And now he's got a CD out. I haven't heard it, so i can't actually review
it, but i've heard him sing, and it's prolly worth a listen.
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