From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #85 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, March 30 2004 Volume 09 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Yes, ANOTHER "More Than This" cover version [Joel Hurd ] [AVALON] A fool for Jane ["Thomas Wallace" ] Re: [AVALON] A fool for Jane [Go2Sweeney@aol.com] [AVALON] Drivel thread ["Pete K" ] Re: [AVALON] A fool for Jane [Anton van Lammeren ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:26:45 -0800 (PST) From: Joel Hurd Subject: [AVALON] Yes, ANOTHER "More Than This" cover version Tying into the recent topic on the merits of cover versions, the indie band Electrolane have covered Roxy Music's MORE THAN THIS as the 'B-side' to their upcoming single release in mid-April. = Electrolane - More Than This = I've heard it on the radio, and it's a drastically different interpretation from the original. It's very slow, with plently of indie guitar riffs, and the female singer sings it very somberly. On the plus side, they've done something inventive with their cover, but on the minus side, it just doesn't work to my ears as an indie downer track. - ---joel . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:04:33 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?jeanne=20louise?= Subject: Re: [AVALON] Jane and Bryan Kari,thanks for that link,I listened to the 29 secs,it's very very good,I can't wait to hear the whole song.JL. - --- Kari Solberg wrote: > >Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:47:54 +0000 (GMT) > > You can listen for 29 secs here: > > http://www.janebirkin.net/uk/music_rendez_1.html > > Kari > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > ___________________________________________________________ WIN FREE WORLDWIDE FLIGHTS - nominate a cafe in the Yahoo! Mail Internet Cafe Awards www.yahoo.co.uk/internetcafes ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:12:20 -0500 From: "Arnold Schulberg" Subject: [AVALON] Jeff Bridges and Bryan Ferry I've listened to the cut "Movin'" twice and hear no evidence of Bryan Ferry. However, the original cover work is not part of what I received so I have no clue from that source. Don't any of the anoraks know what's going on here? Arnie ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:31:09 +0200 From: Anton van Lammeren Subject: Re: [AVALON] Jane and Bryan Citing jeanne louise: > Kari,thanks for that link,I listened to the 29 secs > it's very very good,I can't wait to hear the whole song.JL. Thanks indeed! Woow, sounds very promising indeed. I like it now already! I had some problems to get the link working, all this 'modern' software... The sample in mp3-format is at: www.avl.dds.nl/IEDAH.mp3; sorry, no time to make a HTML-webpage, so you have to find a way to download this yourself. Tara, Anton. NP - IEDAH-snippet . . . on repeat ~_^ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:17:20 +0100 From: "Thomas Wallace" Subject: [AVALON] A fool for Jane Ok so I've only listened to the snippet of the re-made version of IEDAH from the Birkin album, but if this is anything to go by than I'd have to say that it's crap. It sounds like something that somebody put together (not very successfully) with a cheapo Casio keyboard. Heck, this makes Frida's recording of "The Way You Do" sound interesting. If it wasn't for Ferry's presence on this track I'd be knotting myself at how bad a cover it is, instead i once again have to question his judgement on the material that he is putting up for release. I remember years ago Eno being described as a "non-musician", well from one extreame to the other because Birkin is certainly a "non-vocalist" If this is anything to go by then it won't be so much Sir Bryan as the court Jester that he'll be nominated for. Tom. (remembering when Ferry's name stood for quality) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:08:40 -0500 From: Go2Sweeney@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] A fool for Jane I don't think you should judge just from a few seconds. Give the whole track a chance, it might work. Sometimes songs grow on you. On numerous occasions, I( have thought that a particular song was "crap", but on closer listening it did not turn out to be "crap" at all. Cheers, Goodie N.P. VU- Venus in furs (definitely not crap) In an email dated Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:17:20 pm GMT, "Thomas Wallace" writes: >Ok so I've only listened to the snippet of the re-made version of IEDAH from >the Birkin album, but if this is anything to go by than I'd have to say that >it's crap. It sounds like something that somebody put together (not very >successfully) with a cheapo Casio keyboard. Heck, this makes Frida's recording >of "The Way You Do" sound interesting. > >If it wasn't for Ferry's presence on this track I'd be knotting myself at how >bad a cover it is, instead i once again have to question his judgement on the >material that he is putting up for release. I remember years ago Eno being >described as a "non-musician", well from one extreame to the other because >Birkin is certainly a "non-vocalist" > >If this is anything to go by then it won't be so much Sir Bryan as the court >Jester that he'll be nominated for. > >Tom. >(remembering when Ferry's name stood for quality) > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:36:04 -0800 From: "Pete K" Subject: [AVALON] Drivel thread Sure there has always been pointless drivel. But back in the Cassidey, Partridge Family days everyone knew it was drivel. The Press wouldn't legitimize that drek, it was scorned as teeny bopper marketing junk and everyone knew it. It didn't end up on shows akin to Saturday Night Live and it was much more disposable than today's crap.... 2, 3 years of the most and it was gone.. It didn't hang around endlessly like Britany Spears and In Sync and Jessica Simpson and the garbage that should have long ago faded. Sure there has always been insipid music, but I for one don't think it was as prevalent as it is today. No serious music lovers defended that crap back then, hell even the kids knew it was crap, but all their friends were buying it, and it was monkey see - monkey do, as oingo boingo said "they will swallow anything we shove down their throats". That is the nature of the masses, but even much more so with teenagers. Anyways this is the opinion of a 47 year old, I remember the putrifying bubble gum of yester year. I remember Sugar Sugar by the Archies, etc. But this stuff masquerading as music today is far worse, in my opinion, Running out of time. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:41:19 +0200 From: Anton van Lammeren Subject: Re: [AVALON] A fool for Jane Citing Thomas Wallace: > Ok so I've only listened to the snippet of the re-made version of IEDAH > from the Birkin album, but if this is anything to go by than I'd have > to say that it's crap. It sounds like something that somebody put together > (not very successfully) with a cheapo Casio keyboard. It's amazing what you can do with cheap electronics today. (Here a non- musician...) The last few years I'm trying to understand how Eno and Thomas Dolby must have been working in the 70-ies and 80-ies. And trying to figure out why The Talking Heads haven't made their come back in my mind yet... Last months I gave 'Remain in Light' another spin, and it totally blew me away. And does for weeks now. Is it because now I recognize it's about Midlife Crises? The 'crazy Eno-sounds' (to remain OT) in Born Under Punches were and still are fantastic! I've had images of me at a giant pinball machine and the lot, in my head. And later: "and the beat goes on, and the beat goes on..." Surely an alusion to 'crap songs'... But it has/had the 70-ies momentum and I really like it. About this crap-thing: I don't think we can 'define' this concept in a very constructive and verifiable way. So let's agree that we will never agree on this. But for me: things aren't crap if they touch me one way or another. And that implies an awful lot of possibilities. Then things last if the touch me in more different ways. Somehow BF/RM has done that and I expect that will never fade away... > Heck, this makes Frida's recording of "The Way You Do" sound interesting. I must have listened to it a few times, but I forgot about it completely... > If it wasn't for Ferry's presence on this track I'd be knotting myself at > how bad a cover it is ... Enjoy his presence! Some 'management-guru on self deployment...' once said to me: "Everytime time you get irritated about someone/thing, there's a chance to get to know you better." Tara, Anton. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #85 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest