From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #158 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, July 31 2011 Volume 15 : Number 158 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Re: spoiler & etc. [taxi2hb ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:00:09 -0700 (PDT) From: taxi2hb Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: spoiler & etc. I fully agree with you there I can't describe it better Frank ________________________________ From: "jocelynfiske@aol.com" To: shearerandrew@hotmail.com; avalon@smoe.org Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: spoiler & etc. ... However, I Thought stood out head and shoulders above anything else, such a beautiful, charming little ditty, textural, simple and gorgeous. J - -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Shearer To: avalon avalon Sent: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:05 Subject: RE: [AVALON] Re: spoiler & etc. Still haven't read it but did I spot that it said you can usually pick one or two moments of greatness off each album? I certainly thought that of I Thought on Frantic. And Cruel too (though I always imagined him singing to himself "Oh why are you so cool?") Oh and One Way Love. (Just joking on that last bit). Andrew www.andrewshearer.com Twitter & Facebook: @shearermusic > To: avalon@smoe.org > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: spoiler & etc. > From: kwil632057@aol.com > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:43:57 -0400 > > Just read the article. Hmmm. Frantic underrated? Not at the time of > release it wasn't. Quite the opposite. I remember it getting really > glowing reviews when in reality it's all over the shop and one of > Ferry's weakest in my opinion. > Goddess of Love mentioned in the same breath as Sign of the Times? No > thanks. > > J > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Galloway > To: Avalon > Sent: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:39 > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: spoiler & etc. > > > Funnily enough, last year a colleague asked me to put together a CD of > Roxy/Ferry tunes for her younger sister who was going away to > university. I asked her which songs her sister already knew, and the > reply was 'Virginia Plain'. That was enough for me to go on. I didn't > make it too obscure, stuck mainly to Roxy/Ferry singles, mostly 1970s, > with a handful of album tracks and even slipped in To Make You Feel My > Love, which I figured she'd know thanks to the Adele version. > > But if I were to choose just one (non-compilation) album to recommend, > it would have to be For Your Pleasure. > > Simon > > On 26 July 2011 18:23, Amry K wrote: > > If you were advising someone at a young age who had never heard of > BF. & > > Roxy. what would you tell them to listen to? ---ATGB when it came > out > > I thought it was Ferry trying to grab the Senior crowd. Too mellow for > > someone to get into real good. Maybe that was his goal to get newbies > of > > the older generation. At his age could be his agenda. Got to appeal to > > all somehow to stay selling records. I do love Olympia as IMO it does > > reach out to several masses. After all look at Adele. appeals to all > in > > a crazy sort of way. ---Lets not be to judgemental on Ferry. We love > his > > works of yesterdays. Just be glad he still is around & got enough > going > > to draw for tours.---Eventually some day that voice will not be up to > > par but until then enjoy the hell out of what he can give us now. > > > > Alway's , Marlana > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > __ > > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > __ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #158 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest