The 1981 Listening Post - Von LMO - Future Language

Von LMO - Future Language #142 1981 Housekeeping Von LMO Future Language Genre: Space Wave 2.25 out of 5 Highlights: Outside of Time In Memphis there was a casino. Maybe it’s still there but my traveling companions happened upon it on our cross country sojourn. We didn’t go to Graceland but we went to a strip mall outSIDE of Graceland and tried to film the employees as we stumped them on various things Elvis. Back to the Casino. It was on the boardwalk that we happened upon. We were only in Memphis for a day. I don’t recall where we slept. I have no memory of the actual trip save for the stops. Which is weird. It was 9 full days of my life. But we happened upon a bar that was connected to a casino and we met the proprietor. He called himself Prince Mongo. His place was called Mingo Wingo or something like that. He gave us money with his picture on it. He was a hoot. I learned later that he ran for Mayor of Memphis a number of times. He was a wing nut. Von LMO reminds me of Mongo. A self-styled weirdo with his own narrative. A life story that I imagine someone has biographed. I don’t wanna read it. I’m glad he’s out there. But that’s all the exposure I need. This is a manic, synth-metal hybrid with saxophones that tries really hard to be freaky and weird but comes across as abrasive and distancing and I think that’s it’s purpose. The Space Rock of “Outside of Time” is supposed to sound like a mind-fuck and that’s what it does. But not through studio trickery or engineering mastery. It’s a constant drone of fuzz-riffs with interspersed maniacal lead licks held together by a front man who wants you to believe he’s a space traveler from another dimension. It appears that what he really wants to be is a New Wave Ziggy Stardust. Okay. Maybe we need that. But we don’t really need this album. https://music.apple.com/us/album/tranceformer-future-language-2001/828933018