PS : It's like Henry Cow - filching their music wholesale from Zappa and playing it with a po-faced earnestness that missed the essential humanity, profanity & humour that made Zappa's work (Uncle Meat especially) so appealing in the first place. - not just appealing, but genuinely challenging & in every sense radical. Henry Cow's lyrical extremes made about as much sense as Tales from Topographic Oceans and, dare I say, had the same 6th form appeal. Wyatt's are a little clearer perhaps, but I've got along too well with righteousness at all, political or otherwise.

Nice idea for a thread anyway, Spleen. Shame they had to bring politics into it!