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...will understand references to Down Under phenoms like "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" and "Kosciusko." It doesn't matter, though. Doubling as a lawyer, lead singer Peter Garret shouts and screams about the problems of Australian land settlement and aboriginal rights to a beat so fierce it could have John Lydon running for cover. I'm no big fan of Australian music, but this album made me want to forsake Budweiser for Fosters...
Desktop Computing, a monthly magazine with about 50,000 readers, has published its final issue. So has Compu-Kids, Educational Computer, Computer-Fun and two dozen other computer magazines. "Anyone wanting to start a new magazine had better research another field," says Robert Lydon, publisher of Personal Computing. "This one is dead...
...fallout has started, so has the industry infighting. Byte Ad Sales Manager Peter Huestis sent out hundreds of letters proclaiming that Lydon's Personal Computing had failed to meet its promised circulation increases. Lydon rebutted that Byte had "gone berserk...
...previously unreleased in America, debut single "Public Image"), two funky dissections of cultural conditioning from the Gang of Four, and a pair of selections from the new, hardbitten Marianne Faithfull Collectibles include a pair of live cuts from the Sex Pistols' San Francisco swansong (distinguished chiefly by John Rotten/ Lydon's obvious disgust with the whole affair) and previously unreleased tracks by Devo (first LP era), John Cale and Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers...
...Reed: Growing Up in Public (Arista). Wherever Lydon and all other assorted punks, new wavers and no wavers may have come from, no matter where they are all headed, Lou Reed has already been there. Public Image owes a debt to the saber-toothed experiments of Reed's late '60s band, the Velvet Underground, and Reed still remains several furlongs ahead of anyone in laying down jagged fragments of autobiography that cut like pieces of a shattered mirror. Growing Up in Public is a collection of primal assaults and tentative love songs that all together are like...