Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 48 Send posts to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu Send subscribe/unsubscribe commands to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/ Archives are available at http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- songs for kids ectomobile! Y&O Re: ectomobile! songs for kids Re: shared titles Shared Titles Re: Arthur Lee songs for kids ectomobile! Robyn Interview 12" Re: ectomobile! Small children enjoying the Yip Song Re: shared titles Re: Y&O LA Show and other stuff The Record Retail Crisis Re: Same Titles Metal Machine Music More same titles(delete now if you're bored with this thread Re: shared titles Small Faces availability Re: The Record Retail Crisis Kiddie Tunes baby-songs A little more... Re: LA Show and other stuff Re: shared titles Re: shared titles Re: Minimal Robyn content Re: A little more... Re: shared titles Re: Shared Titles Re: Small children enjoying the Yip Song Re: Shared Titles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:16:48 -0600 From: mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Michael Brage) Subject: songs for kids russ wrote: > >Are any of you parents of little fegs? What are their favorite hitchcock >tunes? My daughter--who just turned three--wants to hear the Yip Song every >day. Knows almost all the words too. Yesterday we caught her hammering on >her toy xylephone and singing "this old man, he was flesh..." >Way better entertainment than anything on TV. > >She's turned on a couple of her little friends to the tune as well. -------- russ, this is unbelievable!! My 6 year old loves the "Yip Song" too. She was introduced to the song when I was making the first video compilation. During all the dubbing, she saw it multiple times and often requests it now. Shocker. I was watching some Elvis Costello on the tube the other day when she came and said,"That's not Robyn Hitchcock. I want the 'Yip Song'. Life is good. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 17:25:23 CST From: Truman Peyote Subject: ectomobile! Yes, I've found that things do tend to bounce back when I type the extra clairseach. So the simple answer is: just say ECTO! No, the title thing isn't REALLY going anywhere except into a mini-thread about "Metal Machine Music", which is definitely interesting, although I hate reading posts about an album I can't get ahold of. The radio station where I work, which often has copies of things no longer available or never released on cd does not seem to have a copy of it (probably stolen). I ran into this same problem when people on the Kinks list were raving on about "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" (I think that's it) by the Small Faces. Oh well. Clive Pig and Paul Roland are still represented in our collections (thanks Fegs, for the recommendations :)). I really wish someone would track down that "You'll Have To Go Sideways" reference, i.e., what pantomime that song is actually from and why it was sung by a crab, and also what personal meaning this might have for RH (although the crab thing probably explains it somewhat). Or was he just a big fan of E. Nesbitt? Any students of Victoriana in the house willing to track this information down? I'd be oh-so-pleased :). Actually I could probably ask my mother about this, since she's the one who transmitted the Anglophilia gene to me and gave me the Nesbitt books to read when I was but a wee babby (she also read me P.G. Wodehouse at an impressionable age, which is probably where I also get my taste for absurd and verbose humor :)). And this reminds me (yes, there's one more thing, remember I'm a charter member of on and on anon)- anyone else got any of those Rhino DIY compilations. One of them (I believe it's UK PUNK II) has "Anglepoise Lamp" on it. The liner notes in the booklet observe that "Singer/Writer Robyn Hitchcock continues to this day to delight Anglophiles all over the world" or something equally arch like that (haven't got the booklet right in front of me). I'm not sure what to make of that statement. Although of course true it seems like a rather backhanded compliment. I mean, you don't have to be an Anglophile to appreciate well-crafted melodies, verbal agility, or keen human observation, now do you? Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 18:13:00 -0600 From: Jim Moore Subject: Y&O Rx - you should've gone to Best Buy... They have Y&O for right around $12.00... They also have GOF for under $10.00. Wait a second!... I sound like a freaking Best Buy ad!!! I'd sign my name Jim but I think I'm going to start calling myself "Girn" because there are always too many Jim's and it's easy for people to forget who's who... Peace, Girn on the CD changer: "Original Sountracks" by Passengers (it only holds one CD at a time) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 16:33:45 -0800 From: Chris Franz Subject: Re: ectomobile! At 05:25 PM 3/7/96 CST, Truman Peyote wrote: [etc.] >member of on and on anon)- anyone else got any of those Rhino DIY >compilations. One of them (I believe it's UK PUNK II) has "Anglepoise Lamp" >on it. The liner notes in the booklet observe that "Singer/Writer Robyn >Hitchcock continues to this day to delight Anglophiles all over the world" or >something equally arch like that (haven't got the booklet right in front of >me). I'm not sure what to make of that statement. Although of course true it >seems like a rather backhanded compliment. I mean, you don't have to be an >Anglophile to appreciate well-crafted melodies, verbal agility, or keen human >observation, now do you? It is UK PUNK II. Now I'll have to pull that out when I get home. I recall there seemed to be a briefer description of the Soft Boys than most of the other bands featured, as though the Rhino People didn't quite know what to make of them but thought they deserved a mention. I also seem to recall that SB was one of the few bands for which they didn't provide a picture. Wonder why.... --Chris (I am not a talking head!) Franz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 12:15:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: songs for kids Are any of you parents of little fegs? What are their favorite hitchcock tunes? My daughter--who just turned three--wants to hear the Yip Song every day. Knows almost all the words too. Yesterday we caught her hammering on her toy xylephone and singing "this old man, he was flesh..." Way better entertainment than anything on TV. She's turned on a couple of her little friends to the tune as well. -russ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:26:40 -0500 (EST) From: ! Subject: Re: shared titles On Thu, 7 Mar 1996 TchdnJesus@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 96-03-06 20:47:44 EST, sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu writes: > > >"Sattelite"- Elvis Costello (from "Spike") > > also Depeche Mode (from _a broken frame_), Echo & The Bunnymen (from the > self-titled album), and something in me wants to say eurythmics, but that's > probably wrong. can't let this go, especially given that _metal machine music_ has reared its ugly singed tape-head on the thread, without pointing out that the Lou Reed-ish one has a song of this title as well, which Our Man has been coverin' in recent times. surely someone else will have pointed that out before this reply reaches the list, but, oh, well, i'm what delete keys were made for... ever more incoherently, doug n.p.: marry me jane s/t p.s. does anyone really know whether we are supposed to leave the "clairseach" in or not? posts to ecto@ecto.clairseach.org seem to bounce now and then, but i haven't had that problem here. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 13:00:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Shared Titles >>"Sattelite"- Elvis Costello (from "Spike") > >also Depeche Mode (from _a broken frame_), Echo & The Bunnymen (from the >self-titled album), and something in me wants to say eurythmics, but that's >probably wrong. The Hooters did a song called Satellite too. is this leading anywhere? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 02:25:07 +0200 CC: bhuddell@bigeasy.com Subject: Re: Arthur Lee From: akoskine@cc.helsinki.fi (Aaro Koskinen) > It just came to me. I've never read this anywhere but I'm now > arrogantly positive that IO's ancestor is "My Little Red Book" (from > _Love_). Very similar decending riff, only MLRB is perky where IO is > plodding. May seem like a bit of a stretch, but give it a chance. I > think a case can be made. Funny thing is, "My Little Red Book" is > Bacharach/David tune; imagine getting stoned with those guys. You are right... Here is a quote from Peter Jenner (from Syd Barrett biography Crazy Diamond): "I was once trying to tell Syd about this Arthur Lee song I couldn't remember the title of (My Little Red Book), so I just hummed the main riff. Syd picked up his guitar and just followed what I was humming. The pattern he worked out went on to become the main riff for Interstellar Overdrive." -- aaro@iki.fi - Well? Shall we go? http://www.iki.fi/aaro/ - Yes, let's go. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 16:30:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: songs for kids >>I was watching some Elvis Costello on the tube the other day when she came and said,"That's not Robyn Hitchcock. I want the 'Yip Song'.<< this has a familiar ring which had me howling with laughter! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 17:12:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: ectomobile! >member of on and on anon)- anyone else got any of those Rhino DIY >compilations. One of them (I believe it's UK PUNK II) has "Anglepoise Lamp" >on it. The liner notes in the booklet observe that "Singer/Writer Robyn >Hitchcock continues to this day to delight Anglophiles all over the world" I just picked up STARRY EYES: UK POP...squeeze, xtc, joe jackson, yachts, rezillos, modettes, the records, brahm tchaikovsky...saw it at Wal*Mart for $3.97, and I figured the Soft Boys would have to be SOMEWHERE in that series. Unfortunately they didn't have any of the other discs. I never would've guessed Anglepoise Lamp would be the tune, though. -russ "If there's two things worse than Country, one of them is Punk" -RH, Portland Arms ------------------------------ From: Keith Hanlon Subject: Robyn Interview 12" Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 20:07:37 -0500 (EST) Hello there! I've been browsing the digest for only a month. This is my first posting - go easy on me folks (some lists welcome you with open arms, some ignore you, some destroy you...) I have a Robyn Hitchcock Interview LP from the "Queen Elvis" years. It's an unedited interview with a Calfornia DJ - it great! A great discussion about the songs on QE, plus neat tidbits (he went to school with Brian Eno, he hates "Globe of Frogs," etc). Is this rare? I think it is... Also, I have the 3" CD single of "Balloon Man" featuring "Globe of Frogs (electric Version)." Has this track been released elsewhere? I'd be interested in trading tapes of the interview with people who have other feg stuff. Email me (I'll even dub the Clique's "Superman"for you!) Shared Title: "Tonight" David Bowie, "Love" John Lennon Bye! Keith ------------------------------ Subject: Re: ectomobile! Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 17:17:19 -0800 From: Tom Clark "Truman Peyote" Tina Weymouth's husband wrote: > I also seem to recall >that SB was one of the few bands for which they didn't provide a picture. >Wonder why.... Probably because the caption would've read: "The Soft Boys: Robyn Hitchcock, Morris Windsor, Alan Davies, er, Robyn Hitchcock, no wait I think it's Davies, or perhaps there's two Robyns...ah f**k it." Having fun with no money, -tc ************************************* * Tom Clark * Apple Computer, Inc. "Knowledge Is Good" * tclark@apple.com - Emile Faber * tclark@netgate.net * tclark@eworld.com * http://www.netgate.net/~tclark ************************************* Stop the hegemony! Join "EvangeList," Guy Kawasaki's (un)official Apple listserver of good news about Apple, Macintosh, and third-party developers. To subscribe to EvangeList, send an email to: listproc@solutions.apple.com> and include in the body of the message the text: Subscribe Macway ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 21:18:29 CST From: Truman Peyote Subject: Small children enjoying the Yip Song well...........I dunno know about this young feg indoctrination thing. Children tend to turn against what their parents like eventually. Even music they like that has no connection with their parents is often treated with scorn once they get to the ripe old age of, oh, 12 :). I, for example, was an avid fan of the Sonny and Cher Show when I was a baby, or so I am told. Needless to say this is no longer the case. But I also was a big Monkees fan and I'll still sit down and drop whatever I was doing if it happens to be on, so I guess some things stay with you :). Maybe the "Yip Song" will be one of them. So do fegbabies like anything besides the "Yip Song"? I can very easily see how that could appeal to kiddies :), but can't really see it with, say "Agony of Pleasure" (yes, I know, that also doesn't appeal to many adults either, but let's not have an "Eye" bashing thread start up again, my fragile psyche cannot bear it at this time :)). I like "Yip" a lot now actually (yes, I'll admit to liking something on "Respect" :)) but probably would have LOVED it as a kid, as we have always had terriers in my family. Yipping ones :). Susan .............or is that "Ripping Yarns"? :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:17:56 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: shared titles Tonight - David Bowie (but he loses marks for insisting that "This is *not* America") Love. John Lennon (who also wrote "Beautiful Boy", but not "Beautiful Girl") I think that Tangerine Dream released a track called "Underwater Sunlight", which is close, but no banana. > >"Satellite"- Elvis Costello (from "Spike") > > also Depeche Mode (from _a broken frame_), Echo & The Bunnymen (from the > self-titled album), and something in me wants to say eurythmics, but that's > probably wrong. so XTC had to come up with "Another satellite" and from New Zealand: David Kilgour released "Nothing #1" Shona Laing had a song called "America" 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) ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:03:44 -0500 Subject: Re: Y&O A very quick step up onto the soapbox, and then I'll vanish. >you should've gone to Best Buy... They have Y&O for >right around $12.00... They also have GOF for under $10.00. OK, this isn't an attack on anyone in particular, but I must urge you all not to cripple to the power of Best Buy. If any of you read trade magazines or even the Wall Street Journal, you'll know that Best Buy and many of the other "discount" music dealers are not providing music for us at a cheaper price, they are actually driving many mom and pop record stores out of business. I don't own a record store, so I'm not looking to save my own ass here or anything. I'd simply like all of you (especially you older fegs) to consider who had those import copies of "Element Of Light" back in the 80's when you NEEDED them? I think you'll find it was the same folks Best Buy are holding hostage right now. Rest assured, once Best Buy has closed every cool record store in the country, they will jack those disc prices up higher then ever. And they probably will stop stocking the bands we like as well. That's it. Sorry if this offends the list, but I felt compelled. Sincerely, Jay ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:15:36 -0500 Subject: LA Show and other stuff Happy Bithday to me! In the LA Weekly today it was announced that Robyn will be performing at the Alligator Lounge on the 19th of March, 25 years to the day since I was squirted onto this mortal coil. Needless to say, I'll be there with bells on. In fact, the bells are how you'll be able to recognize me. Any other local Fegs planning on showing up? Some other stuff: a) Re: Same titles. If you think this thread is annoying, you should see this list that I compiled during a slow day at work of "Artists Who Have Recorded Songs Whose Titles Include Their Own Names". It's of marginal interest to the Feglist, as Robyn appears twice-- once for "Give It to the Soft Boys" and as an honorable mention for "Egyptian Cream". Having the word "Boys" in your band's name seems to be highly conducive to this sort of behavior; also included are "I Wanna Be a Dead Boy" and "Fat Boys Are Back". If anyone wants it, I'll e-mail you privately. b) Michael Stipe's voice (for Joe)-- I love Stipe's voice! And I love "She Doesn't Exist". But Stipe's contribution invites one comment only-- "Hey, that's Michael Stipe!"-- whereas Morris and Andy, or Robyn in overdub, could've done the same thing, and probably been more in tune with the feel of the song. (Was it ever done live, and if so, how was this handled?) I actually think that Stipe's voice is such a powerful and distinctive thing that it's distracting when he backs other artists, which is why I cited the Billy Bragg track as the only Stipe backup that worked for me. As for "Your Ghost"... well, Kristin Hersh is the only artist other than Robyn with whom I'm pathetically obsessed, so I won't bore you with the details. c) "Pave the Earth", "When the Beatles..." and "Birdshead". Ooops! You're all absolutely correct. "When the Beatles Hit America" is only on "Just Say Da" and NOT on "Pave the Earth"-- which seems obvious in retospect, since John Wesley Harding was on Sire, not A&M. My ex-girlfriend had both discs and made me a mix tape with both "Beatles" and "Birdshead" on it, and I've since confused the two. Sorry! And to whomever mentioned My Bloody Valentine-- great band! Not something I'd expect other Fegs to be into, but they do evoke the phrase "Groovy Decay". d) "Metal Machine Music" and "Arc". Essential equipment for apartment living. No better way to annoy neighbors who loudly display their lousy musical tastes. (Although blaring "I Wanna Destroy You" does espress the sentiment more succinctly.) Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:58:53 -0600 From: JH3 Subject: The Record Retail Crisis Fegs! Jay Hedblade writes: >OK, this isn't an attack on anyone in particular, but I must urge you all not >to cripple to the power of Best Buy. If any of you read trade magazines or >even the Wall Street Journal, you'll know that Best Buy and many of the other >"discount" music dealers are not providing music for us at a cheaper price, >they are actually driving many mom and pop record stores out of business. You mustn't feel timid about making this point, JH (hey, my own initials). The Best Buy threat is VERY REAL. Until now, big discount stores, with the buying power to force record companies to give them big discounts, didn't stock much in the way of imports and "fringe" artists. By doing this to a greater extent than other discounters BB is marginalizing import/indie stores to the point that they have to rely on stuff like used discs and t-shirts to survive. The smaller stores don't make the majority of their money on eclectic stuff, they make it on the same records everybody else sells. The hard-to-find stuff, like all those Robyn import 12"-ers, is mainly there to bring discerning buyers (i.e. Robyn fans) into the store, in the hope that they'll buy the rest of their records there as well. Since they don't have big advertising budgets, they stay open on word of mouth and reputation. >Rest assured, once Best Buy has closed every cool record >store in the country, they will jack those disc prices up higher then ever. >And they probably will stop stocking the bands we like as well. Tell it, man! This is the nature of monopolistic capitalism! (Also, note that I don't work for a record store either.) --John Hedges ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:48:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Same Titles Sorry... been thinking about it... could't resist! As close to chronological as I can get it: "Strange"- Wire. Also REM's cover of the Wire song. "The Rain"- "Rain" by the Beatles. I'll be disappointed if Robyn has never covered this one. "America"- in addition to the already mentioned versions, I suggest "America (She Can't Say No)", Throwing Muses. "Cathedral"- The Rolling Stones, from "Their Satanic Majesties", an album so crap in its fake-psychedelicity that it's almost essential listening. "Blues in A"-- it's being played by someone right now; doesn't matter who. "The Fly"- in addition to U2's version, Wire's "I Am the Fly" warrants a mention here. "Beautiful Girl"-- I don't know if it's George Harrison, but the theme song to the recent movie "Beautiful Girls" is a song that seems to be called "(A) Beautiful Girl", and sounds like Dire Straits (or somebody of that ilk) covering a George Harrison song. (Kudos to whoever nailed "The Devil's Radio", by the way.) "Satellite"-- honorable mention-- "Satellite of Love", Lou Reed; "Another Satellite", XTC. Why is "satellite" such a common pop-ballad topic? "The Dust"-- "Dust", 13th Floor Elevators. As with "Rain", Robyn has simply added "The" to the title. "Kingdom of Love" also evokes "Kingdom of Heaven" by the Elevators. This is harder than I thought it would be, since you people have nailed so many of them already. Only two true matches in my list! Is anyone gonna compile these? Rx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:33:04 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Metal Machine Music I never heard any notes on MMM. My copy has tones, hums, crackle (from being played so frequently) and sounds, but notes? Nary a one. - Mike Godwin PS I saw Ute Lemper once and she was great - she sangs song of Kurt Weill. I wonder if she does anything else? ------------------------------ From: MSANDONATO@kpmg.com Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 09:00:16 EST Subject: More same titles(delete now if you're bored with this thread More same titles: The Replacements have a song called "Satellite" it's on the EP "Don't buy or sell, it's Crap" which BTW has a very drunk "Like a Rolling Pin" , Parody of "Like a Rolling Stone" (sample lyric "Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the 'Mats a dime in your prime, didn't you" In the close but no banana department: Boston's Gang Green have a song called "F**k in A" Matt ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 09:37:14 -0500 From: Mike Breen Subject: Re: shared titles At 02:30 PM 3/7/96 -0500, TchdnJesus@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 96-03-06 20:47:44 EST, sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu writes: > >>"Sattelite"- Elvis Costello (from "Spike") >>Some titles I was surprised not to find duplicates for include "Love" How about "Sattelite of Love" by Lou Reed ---Mike (THIS SPACE UNDER CONSTRUCTION) Check out the NEW faster home of the Other Days homepage: http://www.channel1.com/users/mikeb/odays.html Soon to take advantage of that cool Netscape 1.1 and 2.0 stuff!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:51:54 -0500 (EST) From: Dolph L Chaney Subject: Small Faces availability On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Truman Peyote wrote: [stuff about METAL MACHINE MUSIC not being in print deleted] > I ran into this > same problem when people on the Kinks list were raving on about "Ogden's Nut > Gone Flake" (I think that's it) by the Small Faces. Oh well. Actually, in case you're still looking for it (or in case anyone else wonders), OGDEN'S NUT GONE FLAKE is in print. It's on Sony Special Products. There is also a Small Faces 4 CD box set available from the UK which contains all of OGDEN'S and lots of other stuff from that period (it might even be the complete recordings) including many alternate versions and rarities. I don't have it, but I LUST for it. I've seen it for about $60 at two Borders locations. Dolph ------------------------------ From: "Brian Huddell" Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:27:37 +0000 Subject: Re: The Record Retail Crisis Fegs, I would like to request, respectfully but firmly, that the discussion regarding Best Buy vs. The Smaller Retail Stores be taken off-list immediately. Need I remind you that this is a "Songs By Other Artists That Have Titles Identical Or Even Vaguely Similar To Robyn Hitchcock Songs" list, and most certainly NOT a "Best Buy Is Killing Music" list?! Brian - the has a cold and has been coughing up irony all day - Huddell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:26:01 -0800 From: kawhite@pacifier.com (Kristine White) Subject: Kiddie Tunes My little soft boyz (ages 8 & 10) have been enjoying Robyn since birth, though I must admit it is a bit disconcerting to hear your 4 year old sing, "She's a squeaky head on a pleasure box ..." When polled this morning, they both named "Devil's Coachman" as their favorite tune. (Something about being able to sing "Yesterday I saw the devil in the nude, it was embarrassing, I turned away" really amuses them.) They've both seen Robyn in concert a couple times and are mightily pissed when he's booked into over-21 clubs. One of their most prized posessions is Morris' drumstick from a 1993 gig at LaLuna in Portland, Or. One final note: This mondo "Jesus Northwest" annual festival is held a mile from our home and it every year we are lucky to escape with our lives as the attendees, apparently in some religious bliss or a test of faith I don't begin understand, routinely drive the wrong way on the freeway and/or take unpredictable left hand turns across three lanes of traffic. Anyway, the last time this happened the little boyz in my backseat spontaneously started chanting "Jesus could raise the dead, Jesus could fly. Jesus could raise the dead, Jesus can't drive!" (to the tune of Driving Aloud (Radio Storm), naturally. K.A. White ------------------------------ From: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 14:28:24 -0500 (EST) CC: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Subject: baby-songs This is disgustingly hokey, but it may warm somebody's cockles. When I was pregnent with our daughter, my husband was rreeaallly into it(as was I, thats what happens when you do your childbearing late). Every night he would put his head up to my naked ,ever- expanding tummy, and croon IODOT, especially drawing out the, IM waiting for you babay, baby...part. Needless to say, shes found it a very soothing lullaby ever since. That and --What Goes On--(Baby be good, do what you should, you know it will be alright), are possibly her favorites. she views them as in no way different from--Orange and Lemons. -- or Frere Jaquees. Whats going to happen when she's 11, and asks what else did the VU do? Im looking forward to that almost as much as to the-- Mommy, did you ever do drugs Subject: Re: LA Show and other stuff On Fri, 8 Mar 1996 RxBroome@aol.com wrote: > Happy Bithday to me! In the LA Weekly today it was announced that Robyn will > be performing at the Alligator Lounge on the 19th of March, 25 years to the > day since I was squirted onto this mortal coil. Needless to say, I'll be > there with bells on. In fact, the bells are how you'll be able to recognize > me. Any other local Fegs planning on showing up? > i was just wondering if any other LA shows have been announced. i am not partial to the aligator lounge. i have seen a couple of bands there and it was just too "blech". and now the ever endearing feg question, should we get together for a couple of beers before hand and make a group trip to the venue? it is all about feg bonding, although feg bondage sounds entertaining as well, at least if you think real hard about it. epicuriously yours jake prometheus ps i don't live in irvine i just go to school here. ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 18:29:18 -0500 Subject: Re: shared titles In a message dated 96-03-07 17:40:26 EST, dmayowel@access.digex.net writes: >On Thu, 7 Mar 1996 TchdnJesus@aol.com wrote: >> sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu writes: >> >"Sattelite"- Elvis Costello (from "Spike") >> >> also Depeche Mode (from _a broken frame_), Echo & The Bunnymen (from the >> self-titled album), and something in me wants to say eurythmics, but that's >> probably wrong. > >can't let this go, especially given that _metal machine music_ has >reared its ugly singed tape-head on the thread, without pointing out >that the Lou Reed-ish one has a song of this title as well, which Our >Man has been coverin' in recent times. > >surely someone else will have pointed that out before this reply reaches >the list, but, oh, well, i'm what delete keys were made for... actually, isn't Uncle Lou's "satellite of love?" at least, that's what's on _transformer_ (and the boxset version of _Loaded._) ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 19:01:51 -0500 Subject: Re: shared titles In a message dated 96-03-06 20:47:44 EST, sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu writes: >Some titles I was surprised not to find duplicates for include "Love" John Lennon, off _plastic ono band_ the sundays, off _blind_ the house of love, five of them (numbered); ii-v are on _a spy in the house of love_; can't remember where "i" is ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:46:06 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Minimal Robyn content > Surprisingly, other writers don't seem to come up with titles of the 'I > wanna be an anglepoise lamp' variety. Are there any RH songs which have > similar titles to other people's songs? Hmm..."Rain" has quite a similar title to a Beatles song. wouldn't surprise me if someone did a song called "AMerica", or "Dreams". According to the songlist, Robyn covered a song called "If you go away" by possibly Jaques Brel. "Some Body" seems like the kind of thing that I know *someone* would name a song. And you know that Chaka Khan's first single was "Beetle Train with Antlers". Terry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 20:37:05 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: A little more... > And we in LA did have a local band called "Queen Elvis Experience". I caught > their act at the Aligator Lounge many months back. They opened for my > friend's vomit metal band, but they were poppy and good... This wouldn'y be Seth Rothschild and the Queen Elvis Experience, would they? Saw them in a local store. Terry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 20:42:11 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: shared titles > I wrote a song called "Ride" in the ninth grade! That counts. It rocked, too! > In the ninth grade, anyhow. > Dwight Yoakam has a song called "Nothing." > > I like the "who's going to complain about the stupid thread first" idea-- my > votes on Tom Clark or Terry Marks. As Resident Curmudgeon, I claim that right. Terry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 19:17:41 -0900 (AKST) From: Brett Cooper Subject: Re: Shared Titles Come on guys, this subject is getting a little worn out. I've been reading about it for days now. We all know that song title duplication happens. It's a fact of the recording business. Brett P.S. - Besides, what does Dwight Yokam have to do with Robyn Hitchcock? I mean, I like Yokam and everything, I just fail to see the connection. Anyone want to enlighten me? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 00:44:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" Subject: Re: Small children enjoying the Yip Song On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, the transcendentally medicated Truman Peyote wrote: > So do fegbabies like anything besides the "Yip Song"? I can very easily see > how that could appeal to kiddies :), but can't really see it with, say "Agony > of Pleasure" (yes, I know, that also doesn't appeal to many adults either, > but let's not have an "Eye" bashing thread start up again, my fragile psyche Hey! This adult likes that song--especially the second part. --Jeff Jeffrey Norman "I play the guitar. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sometimes I play the fool." Dept. of English & Comp. Lit. e-mail: jenor@csd.uwm.edu --John Lennon, _Beatles Live at the BBC_ In my CD changer: Rollerskate Skinny _Horsedrawn Wishes_ Teenage Fanclub _Thirteen_ Kitchens of Distinction _Strange Free World_ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 09:10:45 -0600 (CST) From: VERMIN-IN-TRAINING Subject: Re: Shared Titles >P.S. - Besides, what does Dwight Yokam have to do with Robyn Hitchcock? >I mean, I like Yokam and everything, I just fail to see the connection. >Anyone want to enlighten me? the link is that right before they go on stage, you can catch each performer warming up on a mechanical bull...scientists world wide are trying to determine if this explains why you can sing "achy Breaky Heart" to every one of Robyns songs...its really kinda creepy if ya think about it... ...dont ya tell my heart, my achy...ah, sorry.... 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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.