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  • From: Perfect Sound Forever <perfectlist AT furious.com>
  • To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] Re: die matrosen
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:39:15 -0500


Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:27:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Shirley Braha <littleshirleybeans AT yahoo.com>
Subject: [TypicalGirls] die matrosen

listening to book of love today i was surprised to hear a cover of liliput's
"die matrosen." whats up with that? how known were liliput in the US during
that time?

As far as I know, they never played in the U.S. and their music was available almost only on Rough Trade imports. They did get props from Christgau, Marcus and others at the time, which probably helped somewhat. I would think that some enterprising label then would have seen the potential of "Split" as a novelty hit or something.

Best,
Jason

Perfect Sound Forever
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