Fegmaniax Digest Volume 2 Number 16 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Hello? Crash Test Dummies Lost Post? Crash Test Dummies [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 15:18:48 -0500 From: rfd@buclaa.bu.edu (Richard F. Delano) To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Hello? Does this list still exist? If so and it's just really quiet, I apologize. If not, then who are you and why are you reading this? Where's the Soft Boys reunion? Where are the Prawns? Rich Boston Univ. [][][][][][][][][][] From: jilla70398@aol.com To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 22:28:45 EST Subject: Crash Test Dummies Anyone out there familiar with the currently popular Crash Test Dummies song, "MM MM MM MM"? Anyone agree with me that it sounds very Robynesque? Anyone wonder, like me, why other people can have hits with songs reminiscent of Robyn's, yet Robyn can't get any respect from radio or the record-buying public? Don't get me wrong, I like the Crash Test Dummies song...but I would have liked it even better with Robyn singing it. And Robyn has written so many songs that are as good or better! There is no justice in this world. Well, very little justice, anyway. Jill "Your childhood is over...there's nowhere you can hide." - "Executioner" [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 12 Mar 94 09:57:00 EST From: "Mike Brown - ST (EXT 230)" Subject: Lost Post? To: "fegmaniax" Did my "RE:Crash Test Dummies" post go to the list? If it went to the orignal poster only, can you forward it to the list? Thanks. Mike fmd2205@daybe3.daas.dla.mil [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 20:28:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Clinton W. Golden" To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Crash Test Dummies Cc: Give me a fucking break. Not to be an asshole, but the Crash Test Dummies suck, and anyone who thinks that they have ANYTHING on Uncle Bobby deserves a good old fashioned ass-kicking. Wake up and think about it. clint [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 02:30:06 PST From: ruppen@qal.berkeley.edu (Andy Ruppenstein) To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Crash Test Dummies Running low on Preparation H, Clint suffers a bloody-glass eruption and implores us: >Give me a fucking break. Not to be an asshole, but the Crash Test >Dummies suck, and anyone who thinks that they have ANYTHING on Uncle >Bobby deserves a good old fashioned ass-kicking. >Wake up and think about it. Suddenly the feeling of you leaves. I wonder what Elaine would say? [][][][][][][][][][] Subject: Re: Crash Test Dummies To: cg1u+@edu.cmu.andrew (Clinton W. Golden) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 13:22:55 +0000 (GMT) From: "Waldo Farfegnugen plc" Cc: fegmaniax@edu.mit.ai.gnu > > Give me a fucking break. Not to be an asshole, but the Crash Test > Dummies suck, and anyone who thinks that they have ANYTHING on Uncle > Bobby deserves a good old fashioned ass-kicking. > Wake up and think about it. > > clint > Oh dear! What a cross-patch! I too think that the Crash Test Dummies' song is rather good. I wouldn't have compared it to Robyn though. Waldo Farfegnugen plc [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 11:58:26 -0600 To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu From: gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Gene Hopstetter) Subject: Re: Crash Test Dummies >Give me a fucking break. Not to be an asshole, but the Crash Test >Dummies suck, and anyone who thinks that they have ANYTHING on Uncle >Bobby deserves a good old fashioned ass-kicking. >Wake up and think about it. > >clint Tsk tsk. Wake up and jump up my butt, Sport. I don't even know what Crash Test Dummies sound like, but I do not like your tone. Go play in another sandbox. We don't need any attention-deficit-disorder kids in Fegmaniax. We've got *important* things to discuss. Like how I'm gonna make sure you don't get copies of any cool bootlegs. So there, nyah nyah. Re: those amazing tapes, I'm still working on the tape tree. Why doesn't one person from the US and one from the UK send me their snail mail address, and I'll try to get tapes to them as soon as possible? OK, I know everybody'll mail their address in, but I need to know who is really committed (or able) to making copies of the tapes and sending them to someone else. This may take a while -- I'm in the middle of a tough period at work, and I'm moving in a week, but I am working on it. And I'm not gonna overlook you Fegmaniax in the UK and Europe -- we'll work something out. "Love will come of all our sins -- painted on our tail fins" =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Writer/Layout/WWW Guy + Tulane Computing Services =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Give me some more terminology!" -- Slovenly [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 17:38:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Elizabeth B. Myers" Subject: Re: Crash Test Dummies To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Imagine my surprise when I was browsing my mailbox and came across Clinton Golden's rather snotty missive on the relative merits of Crash Test Dummies. Finally, something a little contentious, instead of the usual "gee, don't you wish you could just sit down with Robyn for an hour sometime...." or "what is Robyn *really* saying here?" It's about time that someone started a little debating. Unfortunately, Mr. Clinton Golden (if that really is your name), I think you chose the wrong band to get into such a discussion over. It seems it all started when someone made a somewhat misguided comparison between CTD and RH, and then proceeded to bemoan CTD's apparent breakout while RH languishes in obscurity. To both Clint and the originator of the whole tussle (sorry, but I deleted the original message so I can't give proper credit) I would simply say that we should all be thankful for the success of CTD. At the very least, they are a breath of fresh air in contemporary music. Are they derivative of RH? Well, if you listen to both CTD albums I think you'd have to say no. Are they talented, eclectic, insightful and in possession of a wry sense of humor. Shit, yeah. While that sounds like a pretty apt description of RH, all of those traits go more to artistic personality than to musical style. And I'm sure RH would be the first to agree that contemporary music needs more personality. As for Mr. Golden's rather violent attitude about the whole thing, it betrays the fact that he is nothing more than an opinionated know-nothing. If his opinion of CTD was based upon a general knowledge of their work, he would have known that the person who made the comparison was simply wrongheaded and was probably operating from familiarity with a single song--"Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm." If on the other hand, he is not familiar with CDT but still chooses to announce that "they suck" (as opposed to the more civilized "I don't like them") and then compounds his ignorance by calling for a "good old fashioned ass-kicking" for anyone who doesn't agree with him, there are probably some nascent fascist organizations in his area that would want his help as tactician for a Kulturkampf. Remember, Mr. Golden, as Uncle Bobby said, "uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in the fully grown adult." One final thing: aren't there any guitar players out there? How come "Balloon Man" is the only RH entry in the Nevada music archive? I would really like to get hold of some chords and tablature for Robyn and Soft Boys material. Peace, Liz Myers [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 17:38:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Clinton W. Golden" To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Crash Test Dummies Cc: DAMN!! I forgot to put my favorite Robyn quote at the end of my post so all of you would know just how much of a Robyn Hitchock fan I am. Can I repost my statement with it so I can be part of your club?? Please??? I don't remember people ever being so uptight on this bboard before. What gives? My post was half serious. I can't stand the Crash Test Dummies (bloody Canadians) but I could care less if you do. I was just bored. Give a guy a break. Maybe I should have put one of those little ":)" things somewhere in my post. I would THINK that Robyn Hitchcock fans would understand a little good ol' fashioned cynicism. Maybe not. Sorry GENE -- didn't mean to offend you, "sport." "You know about TALCUM POWDER, I know about FLEAS -- bet you don't know which of us is ME!" - Robyn fucking Hitchcock (am I cool now guys??) [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. Archives can be found on fegmania.wustl.edu:/fegmaniax and ftp.uwp.edu:/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax. For administrative questions, subscription requests, and all that boring crud, send mail to fegmaniax-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu. Slipping you the midnight fish...