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 191 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Re: My California Office (small peas and pods) I've got it! Re: My California Office Nick Lowe: In the Road? ALT - no Robyn content Re: My California Office Re: My California Office Route of the Clones... RE: My California Office (small peas and pods) RE:Rout of the Clones How lowe can I go? (no RH content.) Re: Short end of the pole Re[2]: alt.tim-finn/no rh content Things Shakespeare never said. The Beastie Soft Boys Re: alternate lyrics video update (sorry, no Robyn Content)Re: I've got it! Re: Things Shakespeare never said. Robyn interview WoJ??? McCartney out of touch - latest (NRC) The Chords for "Do Policemen Sing?" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 02:56:57 +0000 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: Jim Subject: Re: My California Office (small peas and pods) >I have found it. A piece of magic that escaped me for the past six >months. It was not found in her lips, nor in his teeth (the names >are left out but the body parts are real) but the magic was found >in the snow. And it is only in the snow that I can cry and wimper >about the few things that make me stop breathing. I had to stop at >a Mobil station to sweep my arms wide over the city I live in and >scream loud. The snow captured it all. My sound was damp but carried >farther than I could have thrown it. That is where I rest, where the >last parts of me lay. There are pieces of flesh laying outside the >door of my apartment. Do you want some? I can send them air-frieght >but it will cost a little more. I have no bride, although a girl >kissed me just last week. She is beautiful and cried afterwards >and talked about how she wanted to feel what it was like to actually >kill someone (I agree) but she wanted to go to jail for it after >and she didn't think that was what she wanted to do now (she's only >22). I have gone astray. I have licked my own blood. I am a frozen >animal. I know that I am not understood, but my free-will is over. >I am life-less and free. I am complete and utterly destroyed (and >happier than ever for it!) > >Vanya Marie Miller Hmmm...I enjoyed that. ...But I'm on drugs too. ************ Jim Bower ** ******** ** * * * """" """" * ** (@) (@) * oh yez oh yez oh yez hear ye hear ye hear ye { ' ` } FREUD SQUAD CD 'IN A PREVIOUS LIFE' NOW OUT *l (oo) l* I AWAIT YOUR EMAIL REQUESTING A COPY l ' WITH UNFOUNDED OPTIMISM l )======( l Current count of feglist Freuds CD owners: 3 l` ' It's the ideal xmas gift!!!! l `________' A bargain at only $20 or equivalent l l ------------------------------ From: bing@student.umass.edu Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:49:28 -0500 Subject: I've got it! To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Wandering aimlessly through record stores, coffee houses, and book stores today an amazing idea came to me. What if Nick lowe produced Robyn's next album! Could it get any cooler then that? BTW- anyone else aware that Upstart has reissued "Party of one" with a couple of bonus tracks? Anyone heard this? I hope it can get some attention now. Although, I must say, it's the first time i've seen a tiny independent label re-release a major label record that was released not all that long ago. Uh oh-- I think i'm on drugs too. long live Nick Lowe! Bradley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:25:20 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jh3@ns.cencom.net (JH3-O-RAMA) Subject: Re: My California Office Hmmm. >I have found it. A piece of magic that escaped me for the past six >months. It was not found in her lips, nor in his teeth (the names >are left out but the body parts are real) but the magic was found >in the snow. And it is only in the snow that I can cry and wimper >about the few things that make me stop breathing. I had to stop at >a Mobil station to sweep my arms wide over the city I live in and >scream loud. The snow captured it all. My sound was damp but carried >farther than I could have thrown it. That is where I rest, where the >last parts of me lay. There are pieces of flesh laying outside the >door of my apartment. Do you want some? I can send them air-frieght >but it will cost a little more... Sounds neato! Please send as many pieces of flesh as you can spare to: "Guess the Robyn Content" Third Stall Down, Behind the Coat-Rack Paddington Station London, England UK SW6 Please don't bother with the air-freight; I like that aged aroma, and besides the snow should keep the pieces from rotting too badly. >...I have no bride, although a girl >kissed me just last week. She is beautiful and cried afterwards >and talked about how she wanted to feel what it was like to actually >kill someone (I agree) but she wanted to go to jail for it after >and she didn't think that was what she wanted to do now (she's only >22). I have gone astray. I have licked my own blood. I am a frozen >animal. I know that I am not understood, but my free-will is over. >I am life-less and free. I am complete and utterly destroyed (and >happier than ever for it!) >Vanya Marie Miller If only more people could be made to understand the wondrous joys of total self-annihilation! I just annihilated myself the other day! Topping experience! Grew a moustache while I was at it... Rum things, moustaches... And free will. --John H. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:38:56 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jh3@ns.cencom.net (JH3-O-RAMA) Subject: Nick Lowe: In the Road? Hello yet again... >Wandering aimlessly through record stores, coffee houses, and book stores >today an amazing idea came to me. What if Nick lowe produced Robyn's next >album! Could it get any cooler then that? Maybe, maybe not. Actually, Nick seems to be into some rather laid-back country-type truck-driving boogie stuff these days, as evidenced by "The Impossible Bird" and his collaboration with "Tombstone Every Mile" author and D.C.-area-guy Bill Kirchen. Still, I like the idea, if only theoretically. Robyn might even go for it, as he's clearly an Elvis Costello fan, or was. Sort of a connection there, anyway. >BTW- anyone else aware that Upstart has reissued "Party of one" with a couple >of bonus tracks? Anyone heard this? I hope it can get some attention now. >Although, I must say, it's the first time i've seen a tiny independent label >re-release a major label record that was released not all that long ago. I know at least one of the bonus tracks is called "You Stabbed Me in the Front." I've been told by record store people (who may have been lying for all I know) that there are versions of the reissue that DON'T have the bonus tracks, and though it seems hard to believe that a small company would reissue a record in two separate versions, one with bonus tracks and one without. Still, _caveat emptor_. I should be getting the disk via mail-order in the next couple of days... (Bradley -- I'll e-mail you with the title on the other bonus track...) Upstart is actually run by Rounder, if I'm not mistaken, so they're not THAT tiny or independent. >Uh oh-- I think i'm on drugs too. long live Nick Lowe! You should have married my wife instead of me, she's a total Nick Lowe freak (though she doesn't use drugs). I wonder if there's enough interest out there for a Nick Lowe home page/mailing list/newsgroup... Perhaps we could all buy his next cassette and play it in the road... John H. Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:46:08 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin To: An ironing board in the Sahara Subject: ALT - no Robyn content This is what I know about ALT: One of the members is an Irish guy called Andy White. He was at Cambridge with John Wesley Harding and David Lewis (who I have mentioned before), where they apparently formed a sort of loose 'let's write songs like Bob Dylan' club. But since Wes's career has taken off they have drifted apart. Andy has done a couple of solo albums without making much impact. I saw an article about ALT in a colour mag, but didn't keep it. I know that A stands for Andy and T for Tim, so presumably the other one is called something like Leonardo, Leopold or Llaregub. Poll comments: I would have voted for Jonathan Richman and the Bonzos if I had had a few more votes. And Buddy Holly and Lloyd Cole. Perhaps I should have sent in multiple votes like other electors seem to have done... - Mike Godwin "You recall a girl who's been in nearly every song? This is what I heard (of course the story could be wrong)" (C H Holley) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 09:52:56 -0800 Subject: Re: My California Office From: Tom Clark To: "JH3-O-RAMA" , "fegManiax" On 11/28 at 10:25 PM, John just confused the issue with: > >If only more people could be made to understand the wondrous joys of total >self-annihilation! I just annihilated myself the other day! Topping >experience! Grew a moustache while I was at it... Rum things, moustaches... > >And free will. > OK. Now I'm totally lost... ************************************* * Tom Clark * Apple Computer, Inc. "Knowledge Is Good" * tclark@apple.com -Emil Faber * tclark@netgate.net * tclark@eworld.com * http://www.netgate.net/~tclark ************************************* ------------------------------ Date: 29 Nov 1995 10:18:40 -0800 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: Re: My California Office To: "fegManiax" , "JH3-O-RAMA" , "Tom Clark" Reply to: RE>>My California Office >OK. Now I'm totally lost... I've stayed up all night again working on computers for the rest of us, and suddenly the whole thread came into focus: I am the lizard king. Gugugachoo. Gezundheit. And mountains come out of the sky and they stand there... Cause I been through the desert on a horse with no name. And a kid'll eat ivy too wouldn't you? I hope that this might straighten things out. Mark (brains of jelly) Gloster "Knowledge Is like a strawberry pizza" -yet another thing Shakespeare unfortunately never wrote ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:25:47 -0500 (EST) From: Eugene B Mirman Subject: Route of the Clones... To: Robyn I was in Boston this past weekend and I saw a Route of the Clones cd in Newbury Comics in Harvard Square. I've seen one there the last few times I've been in Boston. -Eugene ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods" -Emo Phillips Eugene's Humor Page: http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ebmF92 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: "Winkworth, Nick SJ" To: Vyrna Knowl Subject: RE: My California Office (small peas and pods) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 12:58:00 PST No. I lost it. I thought it was knocking at my door with the head of a pickled herring, but that was last week, I searched for relevance in the glowing Helvetiva, in the sinuous Times Roman Bold and the stolid Courier (the nouns are left out but the smells are real) but I spilled ketchup on my email. It was on her whiskers, it was in her nostrils. I thought she was going to stop breathing. Luckily we were near a filling station so I decided to open a jar and spread marmalade over the whole town. I semaphored loudly but failed to attract the attention of a passing delicatessen. The last pieces of cheese expired where they lay outside the door of my mobile home. The post office won't touch them, but I'll try UPS Ground 2nd day if you like. (That will wipe the smile off that smug brown- suited delivery person!) Seeing as I'm just a single guy, I tried to kiss the boss's secretary last week. She's ugly as sin but still wants to press charges and send me to jail for it. She beat me up afterwards and nearly killed me. I sure tasted my own blood that time! Can I help it if my wife doesn't understand me? Unfortunately "Free Willy 2 - the early years" is over, so I guess I'll just have a few beers and get wrecked (I'm only truly happy when I'm miserable). Edwin J "Robyn who?" Thribb aged (only) 22 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:08:07 -0800 From: cagedrat@ix.netcom.com (Captain Quiff ) Subject: RE:Rout of the Clones To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Eugene Wrote (hi Eugene) > I was in Boston this past weekend and I saw a Route of the Clones >cd in Newbury Comics in Harvard Square. I've seen one there the last few >times I've been in Boston. Does anyone else think this CD sounds slow? Compared to the officially released Live Soft Boys found on the Ryko stuff, it sounds like this CD runs a bit slow throughout. (unless me brain is slowing down) Rob Oozing in the disco ------------------------------ From: bing@student.umass.edu Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:57:11 -0500 Subject: How lowe can I go? (no RH content.) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu I broke down and picked up the Upstart reissue of Party of One today-- good bonus tracks, and nice different pictures-- haven't noticed anything different about the sound or mixes, but I haven't listened too close either. Everyone should go pick this up-- vastly underrated album. The incside cover has great email quotes, too (ie "The doughnut man is our friend-- he plays fuzzbox rock n roll!") BTW i've noticed that a hand full of artists have been mentioned on all three of the mailing lists i'm subscribed to (Hitchcock, Loud Family, Beach Boys.) It's an interesting list: Beach Boys Big Star Beatles Nick lowe Crowded House R.E.M. db's There are probably a few others-- good list, eh? Now back to whatever the hell was already in progress-- weird stuff, Bradley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 20:13:14 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Assa To: roLLerCOasTEr boy cc: Engulfed in Living Slime Subject: Re: Short end of the pole > > I must point out something that I found interesting. Sure, Teenage > > Fanclub sounds nothing like Robyn, but I would like to think that I am > > not the only person on the whole list who would give them a vote! Are > > they unknown to the voters, or is it that you really do not like them? > > > > Teenage Fanclub, and the Kinks, and other people would probably make > a top one hundred list of mine, but are not, for me, top ten material. > True, and there is plenty of room to argue. However, with the 130 or so bands on the list, I was just saying how surprised I was that I was the only one who voted for them. I know, I know, it all comes down to it having to make it into someone's top 10. ------------------------------ From: C.J.Burnham@physics.salford.ac.uk Date: 29 Nov 95 15:01 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re[2]: alt.tim-finn/no rh content ALT's record is actually a current favourite of mine. They may not be the Beatles but they're worth checking out. The Finn record collaboration twixt the brothers Finn is quite an interesting experiment but doesn't quite have the power of say an album like Woodface. Anyway try them out. See Yous Christian 'tin-ear' Burnham ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:10:26 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Things Shakespeare never said. To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Hasn't someone made up a list of 15 or so things that Shakespeare never did? I remember reading about that when the unearthed that play that Shakespeare may or may not have written. One of them was that he never used contractions, so he never would have said "You've got to be kidding" If someone can send alternates for this line, and if someone could send the list of non-Shakespearian things, we could check and see if Robyn is accurate about this. :) Oh...and for some reason, I've been putting that "The line between us is so thin..." bridge in Tropical Flesh Mandala in my head... Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:49:10 -0600 (CST) From: JAY LYALL Subject: The Beastie Soft Boys To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu I haven't had time to do the Top 10 stuff like I was supposed to 'cause since I got back to my desk of work I had even more thrown my way with a promotion and a raise woo Hoo!, but it is slated to get done this weekend... For those who want to see the initial work on the "trip ot Scotland web" its kinda up and in working order at http://www.america.net/~beinfang/scotland.html...my pal Jim is taking the lead in that arena with my snide comments thrown in on the side...it should be finished sometim next week, once I get the last of my snaps developed.... jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "All my friends do the model girl thing hist1a@jetson.uh.edu So I found me one University of Houston Now she wears my nose ring" --Lloyd Cole "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip" "There's liquor on my breath --Robyn Hitchcock And you on my mind" --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 10:02:44 -0600 (CST) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Re: alternate lyrics To: RREYNOLD@ksjo.com Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu >still 1967", adding later that the Raiders need to stop being Ringo and >start being John Lennon again ("roughly elegant with a don't-give-a-damn >edge"). you sure they don't mean DEAD? cheers (I picked that up in Scotland...though at first I thought they were saying chairs) jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "All my friends do the model girl thing hist1a@jetson.uh.edu So I found me one University of Houston Now she wears my nose ring" --Lloyd Cole "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip" "There's liquor on my breath --Robyn Hitchcock And you on my mind" --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:36:05 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Michael Brage) Subject: video update Fegs! The video (as it currently stands) contains the following and in this order: MTV 120 Minutes circa 2/14/93 Arms of Love Yip Song MTV 120 Minutes circa 1987 Uncorrected Personality Traits Vibrating Live in Washington, DC, 1992 Young People Scream She Doesn't Exist Queen of Eyes MTV 120 Minutes, circa 1990 Birds in Perspex Dennis Miller Show, 1992 Ultra Unbelievable Love Oceanside David Letterman Show So You Think You're In Love Live at Golden Gate Park, SF, 7/3/89 I Often Dream of Trains I Watch The Cars Queen Elvis Love Ten Fingers I've Got a Message for You Cutting Edge Raymond Chandlier Evening Old Grey Whistle Test Heaven Brenda's Iron Sledge Live at McCabes, 4/25/89 Strawberry Fields Forever Element of Air The Librarian Charlotte Anne David Letterman Show, Madonna of the Wasps If any of you know exact dates or spot errors, let me know. I was guessing on some of the dates because some of the tapes are not marked. I am waiting to receive a few more clips and cover art. I should be done with this real soon. It has been fun. There is definately enough material for a second tape. If everybody wants, I'll start a new one in January. Michael Sincerely; Michael Brage ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:45:33 -0800 (PST) From: Brooks Martin To: bing@student.umass.edu Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: (sorry, no Robyn Content)Re: I've got it! Bradly said: I must say, it's the first time i've seen a tiny independent label re-release a major label record that was released not all that long ago. Agreed...However, Upstart isn't exactly a tiny label. Their catalogue is small but they are a division of RYKO which is one of the larger and more successful independant labels. Just thought I'd pint that out, Brooks ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 13:05:45 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard To: Terry Marks cc: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Subject: Re: Things Shakespeare never said. I have heard these: "What time is the party" "You're gonna be sorry" "It's killing me, honey" and "I'm gonna git you sucka" BTW, I now has some great new equipment and thus the ability to re-make the first two glass flesh tapes. if there is enough demand, I will. If you were not satisfied with the sound on yours just let me know, and I'll give you the address to send two blank tapes and some stamps to. Also, I'm dying to hear new robyn covers, so do those when you can. And to the person who voted for jojo (jonathan richman) on the poul, i was the other one ;) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 14:57:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Frankel Subject: Robyn interview To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu There's a good interview with Robyn from the Respect period at the following URL: http://k12.cnidr.org:90/hitchcock.html It looks like it originally came from a Chicago magazine called Art + Performance. Enjoy, Ken ------------------------------ From: jimm@dbu.edu Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 15:35:00 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: WoJ??? Is there anybody out there??? I haven't heard anything from Feg in about 12 days...? Am I still connected? What's up? Jim Moore jimm@dbu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:58:28 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin To: An ironing board in the Sahara Subject: McCartney out of touch - latest (NRC) I just found this on the net: Ex-ELO mainman JEFF LYNNE will produce PAUL MCCARTNEY'S next solo LP. Macca was said to be very impressed with Lynne's co-production work on THE BEATLES single Free As A Bird. Time Paul subscribed to fegMANIAX to find out what the rest of the world thinks, n'est-ce pas? - Mike G ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 16:17:17 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jh3@ns.cencom.net (JH3) Subject: The Chords for "Do Policemen Sing?" In my never-ending quest for a copy of "Netsurfer Ghost" I decided to take the kind, generous, desperately-trapped Terry Marks up on his recent "Tabbing Bounty" offer. Many of you will disagree with me on some of these chords, but I promise not to take it personally this time. Just remember, the guitar and bass in this song are often playing 5 half-steps apart... Also, I didn't include all the lyrics, as I thought that would be excessive. Oh, and this is for LORDK: I'm already married, but no, I wouldn't tease you, and besides you should propose to that Nick Winkworth guy--his reponse was about 1,000,000 times better and funnier than mine! I nearly shat... -------------------------------------- DO POLICEMEN SING? The opening riff isn't really a chord, but tabbed out I guess it would look like: Bass plays low E... Gtr. slides down from XXX9-11-X on beat 2, Then X12XXX, and pull off on the A string to X02XXX. The chord would be Em, and in both cases the two notes are E and Bb, so let's just refer to them as Hi and Lo, shall we? (Added later after query from Terry M.) --------------------------------------- I play it with the index finger on the G string (9) and the pinky on the B string (11) for the high part, slide almost all the way down the fretboard, and then switch to index finger on the A string (1) and the ring finger on the D string (2); and quickly pull off with the index finger. Just two strings each time. --------------------------------------- Between couplets in the verse, the Asus2 is just X02200, picked, with the bass going up to B on beat 4. Hi Lo Hi Lo "O do policemen sing?" I heard a person cry... Hi Lo Hi Lo Asus2 "We can do anything!" I heard the force re- ply... And so on until...the chorus: B: X24442 E: X79997 (bass plays A) D: X57775 (bass plays G) C#: X46664 C#maj7: X46564 F#: 244322 D#m: X68876 Bsus2 E D It's true becauzza... Never argue with a rozzer... D C# C#maj7 Never show him insolence... F# D#m Confidence... The next 5 measures are picked, but if they were chords they'd be C#: 9-11-11-10-9-9, B: 799877, and B7: 797877. Some might choose to play these all as 7ths if they were playing them as chords. C# B 'Cuz who supplies the evidence? C# B It's not your mother, or your lover, B7 Or your best friend's dog... ...And back to Em and the Hi-Lo verse part. The end section: -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- ---2---1---2---1---- 0-----------------3- D (XX0232) ...Our law and or-der's never-never-never-never-never gonna break down Repeat 3 times, and on the last repeat (remember there's an extra "never"), end (on "Down") with a chord which might be described as E5 (add Bb): 022300. As for the outro, it starts with the same E5 (addBb) chord, then switches to XX4442, and up to XXX775, XXX997, XXX9-12-10, and XXX-9-11-9, as the song fades out. Gotta get back to alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die now...Good luck! -John H. "JH3" Hedges [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] 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...