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<< Another definitely "non-prog" album I really like with some good mellotron
sounds is "Drink Me" by Salad - mid 90's Dutch, slight punky edge, probably
deleted. Anybody posting an announcement that it's all samples and the
fluffy animal gets it ... >>

dear fluffy animal,
sorry about this. I used to work with marijne van der vlugt (or "madge"), a
rail-thin painfully pretty dutch vj, back in the days when mtv had vj's and
was the same mtv all over europe. I may even have the album.....
(digs around- here's "salad bar" anyway, a singles compilation; there is no
'tron on it. if they'd wanted one, she only had to ask....)

I saw salad more times than I care to remember, once (downstairs in the
monarch in camden) in the company of the then-unknown stone temple
plot-losers, whose albums I also have and who I'd just recorded for mtv. I
liked salad a lot, I thought madge had a terrific voice, but they sort of
wore out the schizo bunny-boiler thing she used to do and then they
disappeared. they were always a good night out, I'll give 'em that.
madge played all the keyboard parts; on stage, she had a fairly ordinary
sub-M1 type all-in-oner that I can't remember what it was. might've been an
M1 but I remember it being smaller. they were english besides her, as I
recall, though I only really knew paul, the guitarist/co-writer.

so- don't track it down expecting floods of 'tron, but track it down anyway.
I just stuck the aforementioned on; the drum sound dates it a bit (even
though it's only 8) but it's still pretty fab. ("TROUBLE!!"- you had to see
that live, really).

duncan/m400nr1098 (more of a cheese butty than a salad)