I like forms and forms like me

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I am not surprised that I had never heard of Pylon before tonight. I am also not surprised that I love them. They are spiky and spare and apophatic—the musical equivalent of Ceci n'est pas une pipe, only headbangingly danceable. Their catchiest songs are anti-anthems. This after I spent much of today plying asakiyume with mythic folk. Maybe it's the same angle of my brain that really likes Pierrot Lunaire.

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No one with any brains would have let me near the head spot.

I would totally have tuned in . . .

so something with actual drums and guitars and intelligible vocals that you could actually play on the radio at 4PM?

Yeah, okay. There may be vertebrae-jolting syncopation and a complete disregard for the concept of a stable time signature, but you can go home humming it. (Or at least I do. My soundtrack for half the summer was "Peking Spring" and "Nancy Reagan's Head.")

But you win if, if I am inferring correctly, you have heard of The Judy's.

Only heard of so far, I'm afraid. But, yes.

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but you can go home humming it. (Or at least I do. My soundtrack for half the summer was "Peking Spring" and "Nancy Reagan's Head.")

Oh, "Forget" just begs for a sing-along. I don't know how many times we played that thing, but I'm sure the whole campus was sick of it.

Only heard of so far, I'm afraid. But, yes.

There was a recent release called The Collection of everything they ever did, so I don't have to tell you to go searching high and low for their first EP, which is just more wonderful than words (and was very hard to find for a very long time). But it's definitely worth picking up ASAP. I get the feeling David Bean's sense of humor will be just as much up your alley as it is mine.

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Oh, "Forget" just begs for a sing-along. I don't know how many times we played that thing, but I'm sure the whole campus was sick of it.

You really rock.

(Also, you were not alone: "The electro-acoustic version (on TAANG!) became a minor radio tape hit for us on WMBR in 1981.")

But it's definitely worth picking up ASAP. I get the feeling David Bean's sense of humor will be just as much up your alley as it is mine.

Wonderful; now I'm curious . . . Thanks!