RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled Music

Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:09:51 -0400 (EDT) Bill Hagen is right, many Patti Smith songs fit the Hardboiled
description. I've got two more. The first was one of Smith's
contemporaries, Suicide. "Frankie Teardrop" tells the harrowing tale of
an unemployed man who comes home, kils his children, his wife and then
himself.

There is also "Moss Side Story" by Barry Adamson, a mostly instrumental
album, which is the soundtrack to a movie which doesn't exist. But how
can you go wrong with a movie whose poster quote is: "In a black and
white world murder brings a touch of colour . . ."? As a clue to where
Adamson is coming from, he tacks two covers from previous singles on to
the CD: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Man with the Golden Arm."

Mark

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