From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #140 Reply-To: ammf@smoe.org Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, July 22 1998 Volume 01 : Number 140 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fruvous/TMBG Cover? [ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster)] Re: greetings from Alberta! [zardsnod@aol.com (ZardSnod)] Re: Walmart Policies (related to Warning Sticker thread) [norachica@aol.c] Re: greetings from Alberta! [zardsnod@aol.com (ZardSnod)] Re: Fruvous/TMBG Cover? [Lawrence P Solomon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 22 Jul 1998 02:27:23 GMT From: ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster) Subject: Re: Fruvous/TMBG Cover? >>Okay i knew there was a small thread on this...but it is a cool subject. >What >>song of TMBG would you like MF to cover?? There are truly too many to choose from, but on Live Noise, you can hear someone sing the line "The Statue Made Me High"...I can't remember which track though... - --Novac - ---------------------------------------- '#,:#$#. ,,, $, #, ,, ,,, :# '#; .#' `, #, ,$ .# #; .#' ` $# '# ##. : #,,#' #' '# ##. ,:' ,#' '#:,,#' ;' "#,,$#,. '#:,' - ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jul 1998 02:49:31 GMT From: zardsnod@aol.com (ZardSnod) Subject: Re: greetings from Alberta! (hi, all!! I'm back, after an all-too-brief vacation...) Chad wrote (the new Chad, not Chad Maloney): > >What is weird, I ordered a copy of "Live Noise" a couple of months >ago from CD Now and it arrived without a warning sticker on it. > >I just got another copy today (gift for a friend :) from CD Now, >and it had a warning sticker on it. I b'lieve I heard that all the copies of Live Noise were supposed to have a warning sticker on them, but somehow they got left off in the US before the release. They put 'em on in Canada. If you're now getting US ones w/stickers, perhaps that means they've either gone back and put stickers on them, or there's a whole new batch that've been sent out (good news in and of itself!), and they've remembered to put the stickers on. - -Zard "Veni, Vidi, Velcro" - I came, I saw, I stuck around. ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jul 1998 02:41:09 GMT From: norachica@aol.com (NoraChica) Subject: Re: Walmart Policies (related to Warning Sticker thread) >However in some areas, Walmart is the only >place around for many miles. Thus, they have the band in the palm of >their hand. If they don't release an edited version, an entire group >of people may not be able to get the album unless they can order it >over the internet. But not everyone who wants the music has internet >or a credit card! Umm.. is it just me in my ignorant suburban little bubble here, or do places actually exist where there are no CD stores? There has to be a mall around those people somewhere... doesn't there? ....and who doesn't have a credit card and at least access through a friend to internet? >The consumer can be cheated because he or she could unknowingly buy a >censored album and not be getting the whole thing. All of this is >entirely at Walmart's discretion. yes, that indeed sucks... also some CD mail clubs also send out edited versions only... beware people... it could happen to you.. I asked some friends where they got an edited Cake album and they didn't even know they had one......... NoraChica :) ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jul 1998 03:10:11 GMT From: zardsnod@aol.com (ZardSnod) Subject: Re: greetings from Alberta! "wild" Bill wrote: >Sigh... next we'll be rating the web sites, then the books, then the >magazines, radio shows, phone conversations, email... newsgroups! But is a rating system the worst evil we could face? It actually can be considered quite a help by busy parents or other people whom by inclination, religion, or whatever, want to have an idea of what they're buying, listening to, subscribing to, whatever, before they take that action. I agree with Vika that as long as "those in power" aren't proscribing the ACCESS to these media, then it's not so much censorship as warning. For which some may be thankful. I do find it a shame that due to the little warning labels, some folks may not listen to something that is wonderful, but it may be a risk to take, that the kids whose PARENTS are doing the censoring (yes, folks, not the government) will discover these things on their own when they're older. When the government prohibits the sale and distribution of the items they're currently warning about, that will be true censorship. And, frankly, I believe in some censorship, ie: I'm glad child pornography is illegal. So, it's not always a terrible thing, and in many ways DOES actually protect those who can't protect themselves. So pooh! (says /me, still a bit tired from jetlag, and entirely FLABBERGASTED that there are 78 messages under this one thread!) - -Zard "Veni, Vidi, Velcro" - I came, I saw, I stuck around. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:08:27 -0400 From: Lawrence P Solomon Subject: Re: Fruvous/TMBG Cover? OurHamster wrote: > There are truly too many to choose from, but on Live Noise, you can hear > someone sing the line "The Statue Made Me High"...I can't remember which track > though... as one of the resident TMBG obsessed people here, I'll chime in on this thread. :) That would be BJ Don't Cry... (apparently Jian has had many TMBG related outbursts after this song) well, ok, so that doesn't have anything to do with my TMBG-fandom. but as far as a TMBG cover, I think they could do Subliminal really, really well. It's got the perfect instrumentation - accordion, guitar, drums, and bass, and, at least at the end, has 4 distinct vocal parts.... of course, the harmony as written isn't spectacular, but I'm sure they could do something amazing with it. I also had this... not dream, because I was awake, but more a vision... of a concert, where they're about to do Gotta Get a Message to You, and after the initial "Oooohs," instead of starting with "Well, the preacher..." Jian starts singing "I... built a little empire..." for some reason I think Kiss Me, Son of God would work really well a capella. (I can't tell which is happening more - my TMBG obsession creeping into my Moxy Fruvous obsession or vice versa... either way, it's good :) ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #140 ********************************************