From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V7 #211 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, June 20 2002 Volume 07 : Number 211 Today's Subjects: ----------------- "More Than This" cover (was Re: [AVALON] slave to love remix?) [Colleen M] Re: "More Than This" cover (was Re: [AVALON] slave to love remix?) [RoxyM] [AVALON] Re: The Covers Project--the Roxy Music page ["Don Schultz, Jr." ] [AVALON] The really big show ["Jas" ] [AVALON] bonus tracks on Japanese cds ["aranemgale" Subject: "More Than This" cover (was Re: [AVALON] slave to love remix?) > From: RoxyMuzick@aol.com > Haven't heard that one. I did hear a remix of More Than This while at > the supermarket and I don't know who it was singing but it was a girl > and she sucked but no worries immitation is the highest form of flattery > I guess. Does anybody know who that singer is? The first hit when I searched google.com (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22more+than+this%22+%22roxy+music%22+cover) was this one from The Covers Project--the Roxy Music page (http://covers.wiw.org/artist.php/726) lists covers by 10,000 Maniacs, Emmie, and Robyn Hitchcock. As the first 2 are female or have female lead singers, I'd bet it was one of those. Colleen ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://web.tiscali.it/cecilya/roxy/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:31:26 EDT From: RoxyMuzick@aol.com Subject: Re: "More Than This" cover (was Re: [AVALON] slave to love remix?) In a message dated 6/19/2002 8:16:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cjem@his.com writes: > was this one from The Covers Project--the Roxy Music page > (http://covers.wiw.org/artist.php/726) lists covers by 10,000 Maniacs, > Emmie, and Robyn Hitchcock. As the first 2 are female or have female lead > singers, I'd bet it was one of those. > > Colleen > > > Yes it probably was one of those, at first when I heard it though I thought it was Sheryl Crowe and I got upset thinking she was covering it because I don't like Sheryl Crowe as an artist. Gregory Roxymuzick@aol.com http://www.hometown.aol.com/roxymuzick ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://web.tiscali.it/cecilya/roxy/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:22:46 -0400 From: "Don Schultz, Jr." Subject: [AVALON] Re: The Covers Project--the Roxy Music page >was this one from The Covers Project--the Roxy Music page >(http://covers.wiw.org/artist.php/726) lists covers by 10,000 Maniacs, >Emmie, and Robyn Hitchcock. As the first 2 are female or have female lead >singers, I'd bet it was one of those. > Well, I see from the song chain at The Covers Project that Marianne Faithfull did a cover of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (circa '88)... just imagine, she and Bryan could have done a duet at Crans-sur-Nyon! (Might have been as interesting as her and Bowie's take on I Got You Babe on the 1980 Floorshow, but then again, maybe not) Don ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://web.tiscali.it/cecilya/roxy/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:29:06 -0500 From: "Jas" Subject: [AVALON] The really big show Excuse me if this has been discussed before so bear with me. I'm just catching up on my e-mails. While watching the Queen's Jubilee Celebration on VH1 last week (very boring I might add), I was wondering, in all that talent ( best days behind them all), was Bryan Ferry even asked to perform? I looked for him, but did not see him. Everyone else it seems was there! Hey, I thought I saw Geri Halliwell up there backing Brian Wilson ( was that the best WE could send over?) It seemed as though most of them just phoned just to be just there to try to rub it with the royals. Ozzie?? Paranoid? Whaaaa? Could we expect future Knighthoods from Charles or Wills? Sir Ozzie and Dame Sharon? Hmmmm... Speaking of which.. Does Bryan or Roxy have fans in Parliament or Buckingham Palace? Is Tony Blair a fan? He's a fan of Mick J and he just got knighted ( what no Keith or Charlie?). Did Jeri get pissed after that? Should we care about any of this? Royal watching in Chicago Jas ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://web.tiscali.it/cecilya/roxy/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:37:43 -0400 From: "aranemgale" Subject: [AVALON] bonus tracks on Japanese cds Hey all, If what I remember about Japanese cds is true, there is a fairly good reason why they have the extra tracks added on. It seems that in Japan, an impoted cd actually costs less that a domestic one for whatever reason. So in order to sell their own domestic cds they add on an extra track or two or how ever many they want in the hopes that they will sell that copy instead of an import. It does make some sense when you think about it that way. I don't know if other countries are the same way or not. take care Rob Check out my cd-r trade page at http://www.fortunecity.com/uproar/celebrity/20/index.htm You never know what you might find... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://web.tiscali.it/cecilya/roxy/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:22:20 -0700 (PDT) From: David Firmin Subject: [AVALON] That's how strong his love is Article: http://www.salon.com/sex/turn_on/2002/06/20/ferry/index.html Bryan Ferry has always been a Casanova -- helpless in the face of love, transforming his lust into flights of ardor. By Charles Taylor June 20, 2002 | If he seduces, it is because he is seduced. The first dupe is always himself, incorrigibly in love, open to any stratagem to preserve the illusion of infinite love, like the endless reflections cast by the beveled edges of the Venetian mirrors. - --Lydia Flem, "Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women" Being a Don Juan, a lounge lizard roui who racks up conquests for the sheer pleasure of accumulation, was Bryan Ferry's pose, a thin, brittle shell of protection. The true, beating heart beneath that exterior was that of a Casanova. Helpless in the face of love, transforming his lust into flights of ardor, Ferry, as Lydia Flem wrote of Casanova, "cannot help being sincerely infatuated by each woman he desires ... for him, love is neither philandering nor vanity. It is a kind of madness, an incurable disease." Or, as a crystalline song on his new CD "Frantic" so simply puts it, "a fool for love." The humor and the veneer of camp with which Ferry has overlaid some of his most moving music (the quavering "Oy vey" in the midst of "The Thrill of It All"; the bizarreness of any number of cover versions, especially his breakneck take on Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall") has always functioned as a defense mechanism. You can't avoid the wit, but to hear only the wit is to miss the soulful emotion beneath, the same as experiencing Noel Coward's "Private Lives" as only a comedy. But then, style has always carried its own curse, the assumption that the surface is all there is. And who is more stylish than Bryan Ferry? Last year, on Roxy Music's reunion tour, a regrouping so vital and strong it banished all traces of nostalgia, Ferry, in black leather tuxedo jacket and crisp white French-cuffed shirt, was as handsome as he has ever been. Better-looking than when he first appeared in the early '70s, Ferry has acquired the delicately chiseled face of a great beauty, the aquiline nose denoting both strength and vulnerability. But his handsomeness and the clothes he wears with the unconscious elegance of a second skin have always seemed an emanation of the sensibility underneath. Where Lotharios are boastful, Ferry has been reticent. Think of how he details the lead-up to a one-night stand on "Love Is the Drug," only to pull the plug on our voyeurism with a cutting "You can guess the rest." The man who Greil Marcus once wrote had "enough soul in him to record for Motown" has sung most often as a romantic seeker, looking for a love that was "out of reach, gleaming, very Holy Grail." Never more soulfully, or more devastatingly than on 1978's "The Bride Stripped Bare." Befitting the art-school vein of English rock, the title was from Duchamp. The sensibility was from Raymond Chandler and cutout bins. Philip Marlowe rose from the dead on the album and walked the streets of L.A. with a mix tape of Sam and Dave, Al Green, ancient folk songs of dread and longing, the Velvet Underground, the ageless voices of blues singers echoing through his head as he made his way through bars and ballrooms before ending in a self-imposed exile that might as well have been another planet. Elvis Costello may have proclaimed himself a man out of time, but it's Ferry who deserves the title. Not just because he understands that style is a different thing from the ephemeral nature of fashion. And not just because of his predilection for standards (explored on the lovely 1999 set "As Time Goes By") or oldies ("Frantic" opens with a version of Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" that seems meant to test the song, to see how much of a rocker it can become and still retain its poetry). Ferry is the eternal lover, whether he's singing with the dry irony of Dracula cruising a singles bar, a '30s crooner at an enormous old microphone, or the soul singer he has always longed to be and, at his best, has been. He's been the songbird, way up there, going with love most everywhere. That's how strong his love is. *** Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://web.tiscali.it/cecilya/roxy/meetup.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:21:36 +0200 From: "Han Snijders" Subject: Re: [AVALON] I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know four letter love and You are my sunshine are ok I even like amazing grace! But almost all of those remixes from the eighties and ninties are 100% crap, still can't imagine that Ferry got anything to do with that. Ah and remember My little girl, Brrr. Han > --- OBrienFerry@aol.com wrote: > > > I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know doesn't even fit > > on this chameleon album > > of changing moods. I don't think it even makes a > > good extra track or b-side. > > > > Why did he bother to record such a sh*t song so > > badly?? > > > > > Seconded ! File along with Four Letter Love, You Are > My Sunshine, and One Way Love. > > Reecey... (ready to be flamed) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon Avalonians on tour 2002: http://web.tiscali.it/cecilya/roxy/meetup.html ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V7 #211 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest