From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V2 #38 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, November 18 1998 Volume 02 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [a Distinct Lack of Degrees] ["Demetriou, Melanie" ] Re: Misheard Lyric Revisited [jkpolk@ntplx.net (Andrea Krause)] Re: beatle covers? ["Tyler Ward" ] Re: [Re: [Fruvous on the Brain]] [jkpolk@ntplx.net (Andrea Krause)] Re: Church of Fruvous/Satan's spawn ["KatieWow" ] Re: beatle covers? ["KatieWow" ] Re: Fru and Broadway... [ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell)] Beatles covers --> Bobby McFerrin --> Van Morrison... watch and see! [Ang] Re: Beatles covers --> Bobby McFerrin --> Van Morrison... watch and see! ["KatieWow" ] Re: [Re: A distinct Lack of Degrees] [Chewbacca ] Re: Dr. Demento and the like (was Bizarre Media/Fru and Broadway) [Chewba] Re: Ever gone frutripping and missed the fru? [Chewbacca ] fruvous time at media play [kdsinthhal@aol.comatose (KdsInThHal)] Comp Sci [caroline ] Re: i should introduce you to my friend pain... ["Bridget" ] Fruvous moment [jennifer@mail.durham.net (Jennifer Burnett)] Re: First concerts??? [lesystemed@aol.com (LeSystemeD)] Re: First concerts??? ["KatieWow" ] Re: .....clinton countdown..... ["Aye, who's asking whom?" ] Re: Misheard Lyric Revisited [puggles@mindspring.com (Kelly MacDougal)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:37:22 GMT From: "Demetriou, Melanie" Subject: RE: [a Distinct Lack of Degrees] > Lori! you're adopting a baby? congratulations! (I definitely think it > counts. And concur on the t-shirt idea...) And I hope your throat gets > better soon. Hey, Lori! You been holdin' out on us? I didn't know you were "expecting" either. Congrats and all that. I think you should name him/her Moxy. It's one of those trans-gender names, don't you think? But how are you going to explain that your last name is 9988n? Melanie Can you sing Murray's parts better with a sore throat? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:39:29 GMT From: "Tyler Ward" Subject: Re: The Daves i know.. No, I haven't heard Why Does the Sun Shine yet, actually,... Debating on >whether I should buy "Severe Tire Damage" now, or ask for it for Xmas. >Comments? I like the album a lot, but it is mostly rehashes on old songs. very cool, and some really neat stuff you won't get anywhere else, but waiting to get it as a gift would be the way I would go. Tyler Ward Denver ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:29:48 GMT From: jkpolk@ntplx.net (Andrea Krause) Subject: Re: Misheard Lyric Revisited On 18 Nov 1998 14:49:35 GMT, bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) wrote: > >"Prince and pauper, Junior and Walker" -- you know, as in Junior Walker and the >All-Stars? Figured it was cool oblique musical reference. We still like it >better than Junior and Whopper. > > I thought that at first too. :) Andrea K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:46:18 GMT From: "Tyler Ward" Subject: Re: beatle covers? >Amy Schrader wrote: >> >> > > > Well, on that very subject, has anyone heard the new George >Martin-compiled CD of Beatles covers? Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin >do a great job on "Come Together", and there's a hilarious rendering of >"I am th Walrus" by Jim Carrey. Of course, you also have to deal with >Celine Dion, Phil Collins, etc.... But at least the songs are good. HEY! What's wrong with Phil Collins?!?! Tyler Ward Denver ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:42:39 GMT From: jkpolk@ntplx.net (Andrea Krause) Subject: Re: [Re: [Fruvous on the Brain]] On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:54:58 GMT, Angie Armstrong > >ok ok, i'm probably going way too far in admitting this... but my friends and >I often joke that life should have a soundtrack. In many cases a song will >pop into my head appropriate to the situation (*sigh,* BFFive is on the radio, >anyway). Lately, Moxy has been featured predominantly in my soundtrack... >heehee. > > >--Angie, subtley ducking from suspected flying pastry > > >____________________________________________________________________ >More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail My friends tend to get a little annoyed at me because I have so many lyrics packed into my brain that anything anyone says will remind me of a song and I usually have to recite a line or I'll burst. :) (These are also the same people who don't understand why I can go to so many concerts....I'm just happiest with music around me.) Andrea K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:07:39 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Church of Fruvous/Satan's spawn "they sing like angels and curse like demons." it was from the baltimore show :). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:00:27 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: beatle covers? >Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin >do a great job on "Come Together", and there's a hilarious rendering of >"I am th Walrus" by Jim Carrey. i've heard the jim carrey, but not the bobby mcferrin/robin williams! i'm a huge fan of both williams and mcferrin--i have to get it!!! anyone else like mcferrin? "don't worry be happy" or his classical stuff? ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:02:58 GMT From: ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell) Subject: Re: Fru and Broadway... On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:12:00 -0500, "KatieWow" wrote: >into the woods is my personal favorite Mine too. Well, one of my "these are all my favorites." The others are Man of La Mancha (okay, oldie but goodie, and there are many more songs in it than "The Impossible Dream," so gimme a break), Falsettos (March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland together, two absolutely brilliant pieces about gay Jewish men), Chess (as has already been mentioned, gotta love Tim Rice!) and La Cage Aux Folles (and a great big raspberry to the guys who made "The Birdcage" out of it, ugh). >um . . . i wonder if the guys are musical theater fans? Some, if not all, of them have had musical theater training. Don't quote me on it, but I believe Mike, Murray, and Jian met in their high school theater department. Jian laughed one time when I said Sondheim was one of my favorite writers and stared singing "I am not worthy of your love" from "Assassins". . . *snicker* ceecee ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:48:28 GMT From: Angie Armstrong Subject: Beatles covers --> Bobby McFerrin --> Van Morrison... watch and see! (i've heard the jim carrey, but not the bobby mcferrin/robin williams! i'm a huge fan of both williams and mcferrin--i have to get it!!! anyone else like mcferrin? "don't worry be happy" or his classical stuff?) A friend of mine has Bobby McFerrin with YoYo Ma... Their "Flight of the Bumblebee" kicks! I can't remember everything that was on the CD, but it was all quite enjoyable. (I believe it all started with someone wanting to hear FOTB played on a Tuba...) *sproing* I have the Kings Singers doing Beatles covers... decent CD, the only reason I got it was because the Alumni group I sing with did the KSs arrangment of "Blackbird." Hmmm, there's an interesting Moxy cover. *sproing* Strangely enough, I was listening to Van Morrison last night (I go beyond eclectic in musical tastes), and in the back of my mind I heard an awesome Früvous rendition of "Moondance." In fact, I could almost hear the breakdown, who would be singing what and when (it was late, I was on drugs an light-headed from a coughing fit, I'd have to listen again and see how I broke it up). Mike had the lead, though... the mood/attitude of the song is totally him. ok, I'm done with my strange musings. *splat* like my little progressive digressions? - --Angie ____________________________________________________________________ More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:02:30 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Beatles covers --> Bobby McFerrin --> Van Morrison... watch and see! >A friend of mine has Bobby McFerrin with YoYo Ma... Their "Flight of the >Bumblebee" kicks! I can't remember everything that was on the CD, but it was >all quite enjoyable. (I believe it all started with someone wanting to hear >FOTB played on a Tuba...) the chick corea "mozart sessions" are even better. his own album "paper music" is also excellent. ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:39:07 GMT From: arctic_moose@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: speaking of frvous and broadway (sort of) . . . In article <72smal$coi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dgooding@acadia.net wrote: > In article <72oluq$k9c$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>, > "KatieWow" wrote: > > phish once did a complete cover of the beatles' "white album." every time i > > listen to the who's "tommy" i can't help but see früvous covering the thing. > > how cool would be in full, four-part, a cappella harmony? > > just a late-nite thought . . . > > ~~katie > > > > Probably not what you're looking for, but The King's Singers did an > all-Beatles a cappella album, and The Swingle Singers are doing one > for 1999 release. At the risk of veering WAAAAAYYYY off-topic, I remember seeing an all-instrumental album of ABBEY ROAD covers by BOOKER T. & THE M.G.'S called McLEMORE AVENUE (after the street where it was recorded in Memphis... or was it Detroit?) > The Bobs do rock, though, and they've done some pretty cool > Beatles covers. No arguments. - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:05:42 -0500 From: Paul Mischler Subject: Re: A Distinct Lack of Degrees Ofer Inbar wrote: > katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) writes: > > What exactly constitutes a "degree"? Do you count yourself as one degree, > > or are there zero degrees between you and anyone you know personally? > > I've heard it both ways: 1 degree of separation between you and X > means that you know someone who knows X, OR you are 0, everyone you > know is 1, everyone they know is 2, and so on. Call these "counting > nodes" and "counting edges", if you will. The second method, counting > edges, seems to be the more common one. But it doesn't really make > sense to say there is "one degree of separation" between you and your > friend, does it? Oh well. Oh yeah, you're Comp Sci! (It's obvious!) Anyone else here study Comp Sci? *** I raise my hand *** - -Paul Mischler ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:55:40 -0600 From: Chewbacca Subject: Re: [Re: A distinct Lack of Degrees] I think we fruheads should all sign up at www.sixdegrees.com and see just how far we can take this :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:58:59 -0600 From: Chewbacca Subject: Re: Dr. Demento and the like (was Bizarre Media/Fru and Broadway) > I, too, was a BIG fan of Weird Al as a young un (and today!). My I was so proud of myself for being able to quote all Fruvous and Yankovic lyrics that had ever existed, then I went to a Weird Al concert and realized something.... I was the only attendee over the age of 12 who was not accompanying someone under age 12. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:54:18 -0600 From: Chewbacca Subject: Re: Ever gone frutripping and missed the fru? Summer of 1996, I was stuck at Cedar Point Amusement Park without the day off work to drive up and see Fruvous play their gig in Michigan. My two friends, Dan and Clint, were supposed to go to the show, though, so I figured I'd get the lowdown. When I finally did get the info from Dan... it seemed no advertising was done about the show, and it was cancelled at the last moment. Dan and Clint had driven all the way across the state to see it, and ended up getting to hang out with the guys because of it. Call me 69 shades of jealous.... would have almost rather gone to hang out and chat and get some signatures and opinions. Arabel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:40:08 GMT From: McCown Subject: Re: Fruvous on the Brain Angie said: > ok ok, i'm probably going way too far in admitting this... but my friends and > I often joke that life should have a soundtrack. In many cases a song will > pop into my head appropriate to the situation (*sigh,* BFFive is on the radio, > anyway). Lately, Moxy has been featured predominantly in my soundtrack... > heehee. This happens to me too!!! In fact, one day I started singing lines of songs when one of my friends would make a comment, and then they were so fascinated by my ability to quote song lyrics spontaneously, that they made it into a game. Everyone was like, "sing a song that goes with this..." But most of the songs do tend to be Fruvous. I think it's because they have such big vocabularies, maybe, that their songs relate to tons of stuff (words used in my religion test: agrarian, refuted...). My mom is an English teacher and she is always listening to Fruvous songs and going "oooh, that was one of our vocabulary words this week..." I just realized that maybe they should make Fruvous cirriculum for schools (Entropy, YWGTTM, Laika, Photosynthesis, River Valley for science; MBLABOA for English; KoS, the Kids' Song, Michigan Militia for Social Studies; PTT for philosophy...there must be tons more, but I should be doing other things instead of thinking about this--although this is decidedly more fun). love Lizzie ------------------------------ Date: 19 Nov 1998 01:27:09 GMT From: kdsinthhal@aol.comatose (KdsInThHal) Subject: fruvous time at media play heh. i was at media play a few days ago and overheard acouple talking about "sam i am" and looking through the fruvous cd's. i observed a bit hearing "does that one have 'sam i am' on it?" so i went over and asked if they were looking for green eggs and ham ("no, 'sam i am'" ;)) and informed them it's not on a commercial album... they looked at me kind of incredulously, but i informed them how great all the cd's are... :} just ..felt like sharing.. that's all. :) sarah linnellgirl@tmbg.org http://members.aol.com/kdsinthhal/ "i'm a suuuperstar in a superstar machine!" -- david cross (singing), mr. show "You gonna fall asleep with your glasses on? Are you really that punk rock?" -- a sloan fan-fic ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 01:21:11 GMT From: caroline Subject: Comp Sci >Anyone else here study Comp Sci? That would have to include me - took it in high school and am now taking it in college, although since I was taught Pascal and my college (and any business that would hire me) uses C or C++, I have to take the intro course again. Which I don't mind all that much because it means I have at least *one* easy course this semester... ;) ~Caroline ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Point to the shortest direction around the universe. It doesn't matter where you point, it's the shortest... And you're pointing back at yourself." - RA Heinlein, SiaSL ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:25:23 -0700 From: "Bridget" Subject: Re: i should introduce you to my friend pain... ROTFL!!!!!!! excuse me while i wipe the tears from my eyes............. can anyone say, 'wag the dog'??????? over 'n' out xoxoxo bridget (o: 'He who laughs last didn't get it..........' http://www.tapetrading.com/lists/b/n/bnl_gordon@msn.com.html Brenda Longstreet wrote in message <19981118203524.20100.rocketmail@send103.yahoomail.com>... : : :do you think we could get the guys to do this one??? : : :Dr. Suess Does Politics : : : :Mr Starr: : :I am Starr. Starr I are. : :I'm a brilliant barri-star. : :I'm here to ask, as you'll soon see, : :Did you grope Miss Lew-in-sky? : :Did you grope her in your house? : :Did you grope beneath her blouse? : :Did she give you gifts and ties? : :Were you spied by prying eyes? : : : :Mr Clinton: : :I did not do that here or there! : :I did not do that anywhere! : :I did not do that in a chair! : :I went not near her giant hair! : :I did not join-even for fun, : :The Mile High Club in Air Force One, : :So stow your feathers and your tar, : :I did not do her Starr you are! : : : :Mr Starr: : :Did you smile? : :Did you Flirt? : :Did you peek beneath her skirt? : :And did you tell the girl to lie, : :When called upon to testify? : :Mr. Clinton: : :That is it, you've gone too far! : :I do not like you Starr you are! : :I will not answer any more! : :In fact, I think I'll start a war! : :The public's easy to distract, : :When bombs are falling on Iraq! : : : :_________________________________________________________ :DO YOU YAHOO!? :Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com : ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:06:33 -0800 From: Chris Ault Subject: Re: Misheard Lyric Revisited Ha ha ha! These are great. I must have missed this stuff the first time around. Is there an archive anywhere? pretty funny stuff. Let me see if I can think of any... "I like to keep it in the refrigerator...keeps the butter dry and the action quicker." And, this isn't really misheard, but on Message, I always expect to hear "it's only her love that keeps me wearing this skirt." I guess just because it rhymes better. chris! koogle@clark.net wrote: > I know the words to Love Set Fire just fine, but listening to it just now I > heard one of the lines totally differently: > > I know it's wrong to stay here so long > Haunted by her love for things > > I kind of like it that way, as it keeps with the meaning of the song. > > --Amanda > > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- > http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum - -- Chris Ault webmaster, http://www.skate-park.com/ Help Webster Get A Skate Park! - ----------------------------------------------------------- Moxy Früvous Website: http://www.frontiernet.net/~aultered - ----------------------------------------------------------- "If you like Moxy Früvous, you'll like us. If you like They Might Be Giants, you'll like us. If you like Barenaked Ladies, you'll like us. If you like KoRn - you're lame." - -- The guy from the band SNMNMNM as he stood outside the Harro East Theater to promote his show. - ----------------------------------------------------------- Swing Forever! - ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 19 Nov 1998 01:59:45 GMT From: jennifer@mail.durham.net (Jennifer Burnett) Subject: Fruvous moment I have to share my fruvous moment. I was sitting in the board room at work and I looked on the wall to see a map of North America with flags pinned where our venders are located. It reminded me of the Dunkin donut "map" at the Buffalo show. I laughed to myself and remembered I was looking all around downtown Buffalo on the Sunday morning after the show for a donut shop for coffee with a caffine withdrawed passenger beside me. I couldn't find one so I had to go over the boarder back to Canada. I went to the first exit from the highway and found a Tim Hortons on just about every second block. Can any Buffalo native tell me where I can find a coffee on Sunday morning? My friend would love you forever. Thanks Jennifer ------------------------------ Date: 19 Nov 1998 02:37:38 GMT From: lesystemed@aol.com (LeSystemeD) Subject: Re: First concerts??? In article <19981117103400.25911.00004020@ng86.aol.com>, bbwminors@aol.com wrote: << Dana is the drummer and lead singer and thank God she now has Jian as a role model instead of Karen Carpenter. >> Though he's nearly as skinny as she was, manly pecs aside. I daresay I worry about him sometimes! Yrs Truly, Mom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:52:37 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: First concerts??? are you kidding? jian skinny? i showed my non-frü friends pictures of him and all they could comment on was how built he was! and these are girls who primarily worship johns hopkins football players. he's a hit :). ~~kate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:36:27 -0500 From: "Aye, who's asking whom?" Subject: Re: .....clinton countdown..... +AFs-The following is a promo from the Mohawk Valley Fruvous Society, reminding you to submit to the will of the Clinton shows and call the Kirkland Arts Center during business hours at 315.859.8871 for tickets before any pangs of regret set in.+AF0- Yes+ACE- Another convert to the potential of the Clinton Experience+ACE- Oh my how it will rock+ACE- Zounds+ACE- A note to you: join us+ACE- See Fruvous+ACE- Hear Jess Klein too+ACE- See the Northampton of the Utica area+ACE- - -+ACI-I sound my barbaric yawp+ACI-, Dante ------------------------------ Date: 19 Nov 1998 02:37:36 GMT From: lesystemed@aol.com (LeSystemeD) Subject: Re: First concerts??? Oh, all right. Y'all think you're old? VERY first concert was the Temptations at the Steel Pier in probably '65. That *was* with parental units. First unsupervised concert was Blood, Sweat, and Tears at the Fillmore East. Sixty-eight, maybe sixty-nine. Jethro Tull, on their first tour in the US, supported. Became an ardent Jethro Tull fan until they got all fey and medieval later on. Later that year saw the Jeff Beck Group at the same venue. (this was another J Tull gig; we (my band-mates and I) went primarily to see Tull again, though Beck we all thought was no slouch. That, I later found out, by putting two and two together, was Rod Stewart's first US gig. Read in his Rolling Stone Interview a few years later that he spent the first three songs singing from behind the amplifiers...this jibed with my recollection of wondering where the heck the singer was. Regards, Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:56:57 -0500 From: Chad Schrock Subject: Re: First concerts??? krista-dawn@home.com wrote: > Chad Schrock wrote: > > > > I just sort-of mumbled incoherently when I finally met Mike, > > Dave, and Jian. (And, of course, Jian says that it is nice > > to finally me *me*. Sheash, that was my line! :) > > Ohhh, I know...I *cringe* when I think of how tongue-tied I was > this September when I briefly got to meet Jian. I'm not normally > a shy person, I am. Although, I am much better now. (As someone said before, there is something at the shows that just draws people out and all. That is definately the case for me.) > but my mind completely blanked out. That train o'though went careening over the imbankment. > I mean, here's 1/4 of a band that I have worshipped for ages, > and I couldn't think of *anything* intelligant to say. Ughh! > , sound of head banging against the keyboard. > Oh well, what can you do :-)? Smile and mumble incoherently. Just smile a lot, though. :) - -- chad at radix dot net "Well just let me remind you that the cubicle is a coffin with e-mail." --Mike Ford, Moxy Fruvous ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 04:14:10 GMT From: puggles@mindspring.com (Kelly MacDougal) Subject: Re: Misheard Lyric Revisited My misheard lyric is from 'Horseshoes'. The first time I heard the song was in concert and I would swear they said - "Stare straight at the Commandere's Aster" I knew it was wrong but it was strong in my head it took me forever to figure out what they really said. ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V2 #38 *******************************************