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  • From: "sara jaffe" <inconvenientpress AT hotmail.com>
  • To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] the cardiacs
  • Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:50:53 +0000


Don't know much of anything about them either except I was given a CD at a show in London a few years ago by someone--maybe she put it out?--of what she described as "the best band ever" or some such hyperbole. "a remorseless and insouciant compendium of Songs by Cardiacs and Affectionate Friends" on Organ Art records. Other groups on it besides Cardiacs "proper" include Spratleys Japs, The Lake of Puppies, and Catherine in a Cupboard. It has since languished in my "music people handed me while on tour" pile, but this mention has reminded me to take it out and pay attention...

I'll report back if they're the best band ever--
Sara J.

From: weasel walter <weaselw AT juno.com>
Reply-To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [TypicalGirls] the cardiacs
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:50:54 -0800

what's the vibe on this weird british band the cardiacs? never heard of
them in my life until yesterday, but i'm finding their music, at the very
least, somewhat interesting. apparently they go back as far as 1977 and
they have been pretty much totally ignored ever since, even in the
underground. it sounds like some bizarre mix of prog
fantasy/bombast/complexity filtered through a rough hewn post-punk
aesthetic . . . please let me know if anybody has an opinion on this
band.

saying positive things only, forever,

ww
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