Fegmaniax Digest <==----------==> (Send posts to the list to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send adminstrative commands to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send comments, etc to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) <==----------==> Volume 3 Number 176 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Hitchcock on Computers Uncle Tupelo Single Rain Parade whereabouts Re: Hitchcock on Computers FAQ Re: FAQ FAQless CRD: Rock'N'Roll Radio Queen first week in, at number eleven notes on notes Kim Deal on Kat. & Waves (vaguely Robyn related) Re: first week in, at number eleven Re: Kim Deal on Kat. & Waves (vaguely Robyn related) Re: Kim Deal on Kat. & Waves (vaguely Robyn related) Re: first week in, at number eleven Re: Hitchcock on Computers (Internet) Robyn on computers? Trash i have this already YIP! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 12:48:08 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: Hitchcock on Computers To: Fegmaniax As in "what he has to say about them." I know that at some of the recent shows Hitchcock has commented, at times deprecatingly, on computers and people who can't live without them. Some people have also mentioned this list to him in person and gotten slightly disturbed replies. If you've heard any such remarks from him - especially if you remember (or have on tape) his exact words and not just the gist of it - please write me or the list with them. I have my reasons. Tracy "and the demon Mephistoast" ------------------------------ From: CooperTJ@aol.com Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 13:20:17 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Uncle Tupelo Single Just to confirm--the version of I Wanna Destroy You on the B Side of the Gun single is definitely cool. This brings up a question--is there a list of recorded RH covers? I'm only familiar with a few... Tim Cooper CooperTJ@aol.com ------------------------------ From: CooperTJ@aol.com Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 13:55:25 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Rain Parade whereabouts M R Godwin wrote: The last unequivocally psychedelic band I saw was the RAIN PARADE, a band who used to hang out with the Bangles. Whatever happened to them? --David Roback formed Opal with Kendra Smith---when she left it turned to Mazzy Star, his brother Steven is the leader of Viva Saturn who had a new album out this past summer. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 22:20:36 +0000 To: Tracy Aileen Copeland From: Jim Subject: Re: Hitchcock on Computers Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Some people have also mentioned this list to him in person and >gotten slightly disturbed replies. God...just think if he READ any of it... Jim Bower ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Nov 95 00:17:56 EST From: tik500@primenet.com () To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: FAQ Is there a RH faq? Normaly I would look in an usenet group, but alas Robyn does not have one. Thanks -Tik ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 00:00:26 -0800 (PST) From: Livia To: tik500@primenet.com cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: FAQ he does, actually. alt.music.fegmania but the vast majority of the rh traffic is here On Sun, 5 Nov 1995 tik500@primenet.com wrote: > Is there a RH faq? Normaly I would look in an usenet group, but alas > Robyn does not have one. > > Thanks > -Tik > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 08:33:09 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: FAQless To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Well, in the intro-to-the-list mailing, woj wrote: I have not written a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions file) for Fegmaniax and do not plan to. Why? See the next paragraph. If you wish to take this task upon yourself, feel free and let me know. i'm sure the list members will help you out. I encourage new subscribers to take a peek at the archives as there is a wealth of information there that might answer questions that you have. On the other hand, do not feel that you shouldn't ask a question fearing that it has already been discussed - I do not want new subscribers' voices to be squelched. So if you have some questions you'd like answered, please speak up. Jay Lyall is doing a favorite RH songs/albums poll, and I believe someone else is doing a favorite albums by other bands poll, so they'll be letting us know the results before too long. Tracy "and no, the toast FAQ isn't done either and won't be on the list when it is" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 14:41:34 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: Rock'N'Roll Radio Queen To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Turns out I got it a bit off.. @ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO QUEEN A DGDGDGDG Down at the convention, the frogs have got lever throats down at the convention, where they're rolling up ten-dollar notes B(2) C#(4) when she gets it all over her shirt, but it's all night A(5) G(3) DGDGDGDG 'cause she's a Rock'N'Roll Radio Queen, and it's all right and I thought that I was smart, I thought I had a business beat But I realized that the chart was just a place where you could compete and beat your meat in the street when I walked into that door, I had a fight 'cause she's a Rock'N'Roll Radio Queen, and it's all right 'cause she's a Rock'N'Roll Radio Queen well, I thought I was a heavy, thought I was a heavy dude and I thought I could make it, standing out there in the nude but when the cocaine starts to roll, it rolls all night. but she's a Rock'N'Roll Radio Queen, and it's all right one more time G#(4) F#(2) Db(1) she's a Rock'N'Roll Radio Queen, and it's all right one more for Lydia G#(4) F#(2) Db(1) she's a Rock'N'Roll Radio Queen, and it's all right If someone could work out Smoothie or Wading Through A Ventilator, I'd be much obliged Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 13:23:16 +1300 (NZDT) To: The Glass Hotel From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: first week in, at number eleven JAY LYALL intoned: >Now I know some folk hate to do this , but you have to rank the songs 1-10 >because they are weighted...so a listing of a song, say BALLOON MAN, as number >one means that BM gets 11 points in its total of tallies, a number 2 ranking on >a list gives it 10 points...etc.... ... which gives the 10th place song two points. Do you want us to vote for eleven? (Has Robyn ever sung "Eleven"? Other than at the Animosity International "Penguins for Patagonia" concert at the East Grinstead Roxy in November last year?) James James Dignan, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk St., St. Clair, Dunedin, New Zealand pixelphone james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz / steam megaphone NZ 03-455-7807 * You talk to me as if from a distance * and I reply with impressions chosen from another time, time, time, * from another time (Brian Eno) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 13:40:56 +1300 (NZDT) To: The Glass Hotel From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: notes on notes The other day, Senor jenor@csd.uwm.edu, the mighty Jeffrey, croaked out: >(Of course, you could just airlift dollars, pounds, etc. directly to >him.... By the way, James, what do you call NZ money? Well send some o' >that!) They're dollars, just like most places, but our notes are much prettier colours than yours! "$5? But it's orange! And how can you have a purple and blue $50 note???" James James Dignan, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk St., St. Clair, Dunedin, New Zealand pixelphone james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz / steam megaphone NZ 03-455-7807 * You talk to me as if from a distance * and I reply with impressions chosen from another time, time, time, * from another time (Brian Eno) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 20:06:33 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Kim Deal on Kat. & Waves (vaguely Robyn related) Found on WWW (Addicted to Noise magazine): Kim Deal talks about how she came up with the pseudonym for her new side project, Tammy and the Amps: Here's the Deal (heh heh, get it, deal?) as told by Kim, aka Tammy, to the Bay Guardian. "We were going to be Tammy and the Ants, (but) There was already Adam and the Ants, and so the Ants was out. Then we became Tammy and the Amps-- I love that pseudonym, you know. It's so silly, like Debbie or Misty or Sally, like we were Katrina and the Waves, dumb chick and a backup band. But everyone would have just called it 'Kim Deal and the Amps,' so I nixed it." Dumb chick and a BACKUP BAND? Sheesh! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu "You know Bootleg Sal used to live crosstown, The law went there and they closed him down, Now you can't get that stuff no more." -Tampa Red & Georgia Tom, 1932 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ From: ZeroSummer@aol.com Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 21:23:55 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: first week in, at number eleven <<... which gives the 10th place song two points. Do you want us to vote for eleven?>> I think the idea is to give each song a point for each vote it gets, in addition to 1-10 according to the rank. That way, a song voted by 10 people at #10 would be worth 20, about the double of a song that only one person votes for and sticks at #1 (11). Seems fair enough. Don't sports polls work as such? ------------------------------ From: MILLER@ECCLES.NZDRI.Org.NZ Date: 06 Nov 1995 17:30:01 +1200 Subject: Re: Kim Deal on Kat. & Waves (vaguely Robyn related) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Then we became Tammy and the Amps-- I love that pseudonym, > you know. It's so silly, like Debbie or Misty or Sally, Shit, thanks Kim. My good friends Misty and Debbie are also less than imnpressed Sally. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 23:55:38 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Kim Deal on Kat. & Waves (vaguely Robyn related) To: "John B. Jones" Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu While we're talking about K&W.. I heard taht they had an album coming out soon or something. Could someone tell me the deal (no pun..) Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 08:50:18 -0600 (CST) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Re: first week in, at number eleven To: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu >... which gives the 10th place song two points. Do you want us to vote for >eleven? (Has Robyn ever sung "Eleven"? Other than at the Animosity >International "Penguins for Patagonia" concert at the East Grinstead Roxy >in November last year?) > you can vote for eleven, but my counter will stop at ten...its like I used to tell my students...you can do all the extra work you want, but do you really think making ME do extra work is really gonna help your grade?.... ...its eleven because every song gets one point just for being selected...I figured it was easier to do that than give each song some Turtle Wax and a copy of the home game.... jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "If you could free my inner child hist1a@jetson.uh.edu Then I could free your inhabitions." University of Houston --Lloyd Cole "I was born to cheese you." "If absence makes the heart grow fonder --Robyn Hitchcock Then I don't want to see you any more." --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ To: "fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu" Subject: Re: Hitchcock on Computers (Internet) Date: Mon, 06 Nov 95 08:08:04 -0500 From: bjorn Levidow -- [ From: bjorn Levidow * EMC.Ver #3.0.01 ] -- Robyn had this to say about the internet and music. The following is reproduced from the New York Times without their permission. Enjoy! --- One Songwriter's Immodest Proposal Robyn Hitchcock, an english songwriter known for his inventive stories, has his own scenario of the future of record-buying. "Theoretically, the Internet will work out so that you'll become a subscriber to Robyn Hitchcock , and you'll dial him up and ask for his new album, " he said. " and Robyn Hitchcock will debit your account 400 yen - because it will all be yen by then, or yollars - and download the new record to you. It could be that Sonyweagram - because by that time Sony, PolyGram, WEA and all those major labels will have merged into one monolithic corporation that runs everything - will own the fiber-optic cable through which Robyn Hitchcock will distribute his records. And this way, they'll charge a fee for the use of their cable and still make money. "By this time, people wouldn't all need to be on the Internet," he continued. "They would have a multimedia system, which would be like a modem line attached to a TV set. I doubt the system would be perfect at first. The new Robyn Hitchcock album would probably start coming out of people's taps in the bathroom whenever the electrical circuitry got confused ." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 95 10:53:51 CST From: The Freshmaker To: Fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Robyn on computers? Disturbed replies, eh? What did you expect? Kinda like asking for Ray Davies' opinion on cellular phones (or technology in general, for that matter :)). But don't you think he might find it flattering that so many people love his work, even if their porcine opinions border on the obsessive? :) Susan ------------------------------ From: jimm@dbu.edu Date: Mon, 6 Nov 95 11:26:38 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Trash Monday question: To whom is this song referring? Beaker "God, you're embarrasing" Moore ------------------------------ From: V4vendetta@aol.com Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 17:15:47 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: i have this already i wrote this some time ago for a class i took, and since i am lazy i thought i could just paste it, hope it isn't too dated. oh, and fave robyn album is element of light, because it was the first i ever got and my fave song is I Used to Say I Love You, because I used to say that. "Brevity is the soul of wit," William Shakespeare "Brevity." Me Name: Josh (pronounced like 'flabbergasted') D.O.B.: November 27, 1969 (Thanksgiving Day, Sagittarius) Stats: Height: 5' 7", Weight: 140 lbs., Vision: 20/18 Status: Single, but quite attached Marks: Scar on forehead, no tattoos. Hair by: Paul Mitchell Super Clean gel, Aussie Spray, color by Manic Panic. Occupation: Editor for a crappy trade publication which has only one computer which is only used for bookkeeping. Hobbies: Writing, reading, listening to loud music, juggling. Religion: Jewish by birth, probably somewhere between atheist and agnostic. Mystery: Why Palindrome isn't a Palindrome. Pets: Three lady rats, Smurky, Shirley (her sister Laverne died earlier this year) and Spelunker, the Cave Dweller Also: One Lurky, a small bear named Theodore (who now insists on being called t., just a lowercase "t" and a period), a Penguin called Pengi, which is a nickname for Pennywise the self-deluded and anarchic clown who likes to feed on the blood of the innocent, a red bear named Edward, a small cow named Moocalf, a bear named Monty, a bear named Pooh, a cow named Bosco, a slightly larger cow named cRow T. servo, and a talking Stimpy. Record: None. Stopped for shoplifting at age 10, but cleared of all charges. One speeding ticket, but the cop was a bastard and I beat it in court. Favorites Books: Harold and the Purple Crayon, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Love, The Giving Tree, Good Omens, Times 17: The Amazing Story of the Zodiac Murders, Maus, Pranks!, Digesting the Child Within, Calvin and Hobbes, Life In Hell, Sandman, The Straight Dope. Movies: Blade Runner, Jacob's Ladder, Stars and Bars, The Hunger, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Akira, Lensman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. TV: 60 Minutes, The Prisoner, Battle of the Planets, The Young Ones, Cheers, Seinfeld, The Kids in the Hall, Law & Order, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Tracy Ullman, the Simpsons, the X-Files. Music: Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, Too Much Joy, Curve, Joy Division, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Revolver, XTC, the Soft Boys, Jane's Addiction, the Sugarcubes, Tones on Tail, the Wonderstuff, the Boo Radleys, 5:30, Blur, the Auteurs, Sloan, P J Harvey, Jesus Jones. Eateries: Stardust Diner, Empire Wok, Trader Vic's, Gracie Mews. Killers: Edmund Emil Kemper III, Zodiac. Magazines: Select, Murder Can Be Fun, Spy, Vox, Entertainment Weekly, NME. Artists: Man Ray, Salvador Dali, William Wegman, M.C. Escher, Dave McKean. Candy: Clark Bars, Peppermint Crisp (from South Africa). Foot Gear: Converse Chuck Taylor 1917 Classics, All Blue or Red, Dr. Marten's Coloured and Black & White Chex. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 16:12:27 +1300 (NZDT) To: The Glass Hotel From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: YIP! >RE: YIP fragment: > G A >I believe in surgery > E D >and thats a fact I concur. Warning - strange musical comparison coming up: every time I hear that ending with all the "Yip"s I think of a song from the Andrew Lloyd-Webber/Tim Rice musical "Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat" which ends with a long list of all the colours of the coat. The chord pattern for that song is identical, and the colour names are fired out like so many "Yip"s... (is there hope for me???) BTW - I wrote my favourite dozen tracks from Glass Flesh on bits of paper and drew one from a hat to see which one would eb the firt to get played on my radio show (and therefore the first track to be played from Glass Flesh on NZ radio). The winner was (drum-roll please) Vic Chesnutt's She Doesn't Exist! James Dignan, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk St., St. Clair, Dunedin, New Zealand pixelphone james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz / steam megaphone NZ 03-455-7807 * You talk to me as if from a distance * and I reply with impressions chosen from another time, time, time, * from another time (Brian Eno) [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. Archives can *not* be found at ftp://fegmania.wustl.edu/fegmaniax/archives/ The Archives are temporarily unavailable. For administrative questions, send mail to owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu For subscription requests, send mail to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu. Slipping you the midnight fish...