The Paranoid Pope

To the Paranoid Android, may your bolt get rusty, may your arms fall off from overuse for slurring good music.

With ultimately good taste I too fear and loathe the hip swinging energy of Disco. Too many instant replays of Rivers of Babylon on Saturday Night Fever. I cringe at the sound of Bawy Mauwice, and Wobbin whom I believe love furry little animals.

West Coast rock is supposed to be an even greater trap to fall into with "Don't they ever Fuck" being the order of the lyrics (tongue in cheek) maybe the Paranoid Android could understand the sublety if he took his metal head out of his tin ass long enough to see the logical progressions of "middle class rock."

As for his utterly and completely fallacious statements about Genesis' success (top live band 1977 Rolling Stones) spelt Genesis, peasant, what rubbish. He says that their success is due more to the manufacturers, in that does he mean a) they have lots of instruments so it sounds good or b) sound engineers do a marvellous job of mixing in the studios. What shit!

Sheer graft and brilliant genius have got Genesis their great reputation and nothing else. Their music is sensitive and encompassing not obtrusive like punk, "acts" who bash shit out of their guitars in the hope that they will hit the right combination to make a note.

To be a successful live band raw talent must be there and Genesis proves the fact with the eminent Peter Gabriel, flavtist vocalist and God extraodinary, playing the beautiful, haunting flute solo on firth of fifth and the sheer brilliance of the amnipresent Steve Hatchett on lead guitar on Genesis's Live Album "Seconds Out" not to mention Mike Rutherford's individuality in hit base pedal solo on "Genesis Live", nuff said about the ace group.

As for punk, what can you say morons with supposed right wing tendencies and meaningful lyrics such as, "God save Martin Borman and Nazis on the run they didn't mean any harm they were only having fun, what impressions can you formulate as a relatively sane weirdo. Talking about New Wave, Devo the in group, it in fact as we were told making chart headway and could be classed as commercial as it was aimed towards a certain market, when it was billed as the world's greatest rock group (good propaganda) people just like the Bee Gees' fans (publicity for Spirits Flown bought the album.