Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 82 Send posts to fegmaniax@ecto.org Send subscribe/unsubscribe commands to majordomo@ecto.org Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@ecto.org FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/ Archives are available at http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- all you've got to do in this world is... Re: Thisishowitfeels... Woman in You and Evil5 FnarpleMania Re: FnarpleMania VH1 Re: FnarpleMania RE: FnarpleMania Cobalt Blue Sonata ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 17:43:40 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: all you've got to do in this world is... >Tonight, I came across mail addressed to the following NY destinations. >Oceanside, NY >Lysander, NY And on the Isle of Wight, a mere 15 miles from Robyn's favourite beach, is the town of Ryde. Perhaps he can't spell! :) James ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 13:23:14 +0100 From: redsfan@dircon.co.uk (Mark McKeown) Subject: Re: Thisishowitfeels... On April 28th, Eric N. wrote: >>I don't know if anyone here will know this, or even care. But >>there was a song that RH played during an appearance on Toronto radio >>station CFNY about 2 years ago called "This is how it feels," which at >>the time, he announced as a new song. Does anybody know if this will be >>on the album, or if he's released it anywhere else? On the KCRW interview of a few weeks back, Robyn said that This is it how it Feels will appear on the new record sounding quite different as it will have accompanying violin by Deni Bonet. I was surprised to learn that THIF was the name of the song as I think most people were calling it Woman in You as that is what it says on my Netsurfer Ghost tape. As far as the song being released somewhere else, I dunno but don't think so. Mark McKeown Reds News: The Reds surrendered 9 runs 16 Wellington Court to the Pirates in the 4th inning last Mayfield Road night and haven't won a game since London W12 9LU April 20th and that's the good news. England Want the bad? Home: 011 44 181 743 0164 Work: 011 44 181 742 2422 Internet: redsfan@dircon.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 96 17:00:00 -0600 From: Jim Moore Subject: Woman in You and Evil5 FIGURE A: --------------- Beg my pardon, beg my pardon. Yesterday I conjectured that "This is How It Feels" was from the song "Shadowcat". Well, I was wrong. It is a lyric from "Woman in You". It just goes to show you, you're only as right as you think you are. Unless you ARE right, of course--then you're right as you're right. Trilobyte. Right. CASE 2: ----------- I have some suggestions for the evil pentavret (sp?). These five artists can all be heard on the devil's radio: Michael Bolton, Green Day (I'm asking for it), David Hasslehoff, Slim Whitman, and Trish Yearwood. I'd give my reasons why, but I don't have any. TOPIC X: --------------- Here's my vote for the songs I'd like to see on RH's new album: Shuffling Down the Flagstones Each of Her Silver Wands She Was Sinister but She Was Happy A Happy Bird Is A Filthy Bird You & Oblivion Speed of Things Shadowcat DeChirico Street Wide Open Star Devil's Radio Heliotrope Another Song That I've Not Heard Yet but That's Really Cool The Feelers Was Everywhere (which although I haven't heard it yet -- it sounds cool) Erroneously eating my own toast (or, circumspect wax), Jim "graduating in 18 days with a Master of Divinity and thenceforward becoming divine" Moore jimm@dbu.edu (Tongue-in-cheek, of course) "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see" - John Lennon "Just direct me to the cheese!" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 23:59:44 -0400 Subject: FnarpleMania Susan asks: "P.S. Does REM really have to be part of the evil pentagram? There are many bands out and about today who deserve the bashing much more than M. Stipe and company, who seem to me to have done a fairly decent job of maintaining their musical integrity." Whoops! I wasn't bashing REM-- I would not, could not in a boat; I would not, could not with a goat. The "points" of the Pentagram were supposed to be artists who are "cool" because they're influenced by other great artists. Y'see, when I say "evil", what I really mean is "beautiful languidly enduring autmnal drunkenly profound". Anyway, since the Pentagram will never be completed, it don't matter none; those "family trees" are a lot more valid anyhoo. And then she asks: "P.P.S. what's a fnarple? is it like a fnord? or more like a feg? or perhaps it is like a fren (a dear friend of mine's definition of the evil anti-Nerf (tm) represented by fake Nerf products)? I am eagerly awaiting enlightenment on this question." Where did this word appear--did I use it? Anyway, now at least I know what Mark E. Smith was going on about when he barked "MY FRENZ AIN'T ENOUGH FOR ONE HANDUH! MY FRENZ DON'T ADD UP TO ONE HANDUH... TALKINBOUTMYFRENZUH!"-- clearly he'd been traumatized by wasting too much money on inferior faux-Nerf products, which would also explain a few other things about the Fall. Hey-- what's the bass voice singing on the live version of "Kingdom of Love" on the SB's compilation? Rex ------------------------------ Subject: Re: FnarpleMania Date: Thu, 2 May 96 12:11:55 -0700 From: Tom Clark >Hey-- what's the bass voice singing on the live version of "Kingdom of Love" >on the SB's compilation? > >Rex There's at least "Harold isn't here, he's in the Kingdom of Love" towards the end, but it seems he's saying something different at the beginning of the track. -t "One day away from a six week sabbatical" c ************************************* * Tom Clark * Apple Computer, Inc. "Knowledge Is Good" * tclark@apple.com - Emile Faber * tclark@netgate.net * http://www.netgate.net/~tclark ************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 12:45:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: VH1 Just a quick note. I saw a commercial on VH1 for their new series "Storyteller." It appears to be an "Unplugged" style of program, but with more interplay between performer and audience. The first installment has Ray Davies as the musician/storyteller. Doesn't this seem like a grand environment for Robyn to perform on TV? The show looks like it was design for Robyn, I'd like to see him on an installment of the program. What do y'all think? gdd3 ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies griffith.davies@csun.edu ------------------------------ From: "Brian Huddell" Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 15:26:01 +0000 Subject: Re: FnarpleMania Rex asks: > Hey-- what's the bass voice singing on the live version of "Kingdom of Love" > on the SB's compilation? I always hear "Norman isn't here he's in the kingdom of love." And then I laugh so hard I wet my pants (all feg-mail should contain references to urine from now on; it's just plain better that way). --brian ------------------------------ From: Livia Subject: RE: FnarpleMania Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 13:50:44 -0700 > There's at least "Harold isn't here, he's in the Kingdom of Love" how bizarre i've always heard it as "harold is adhering to the kingdom of love". = which doesn't really make much sense, but it does have a nice sort of = semi-alliterativeness ------------------------------ From: KCasey@aol.com Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 13:49:51 -0400 Subject: Cobalt Blue Sonata Hello, I've been away awhile so I hope this isn't old news, but I picked up a book recently entitled "Rolling Stone's Alt-Rock-A-Rama: An Outrageous Compendium of Facts, Fiction, Trivia, and Critiques On Alternative Rock". (I realize that, on the face of it, this sounds incredibly lame and begs the question, just who decides which rock is alternative and which is authentic? and once the alternative has become the mainstream then haven't our options become as limited as they were before we were offered an alternative? Perhaps "Assimilated Rock" would be more apropos.) Anyway, among other mentions of Robyn and the Soft Boys, it includes a seemingly semi-autobiographical short story by Robyn entitled, "Cobalt Blue Sonata". It is about a touring rock artist, referred to as "Mr. H.", whose guitar amp stops producing sound and instead spews out different colored paints depending on which chord he plays. It reads like an extended, refined Robyn song intro and, leaves me hoping that Robyn will write more stories. If thats not enough, the very next article in the book is "Eight Really Dumb Things The Replacements Did" by Chris Mars. Look for it at your local library. Sincerely, Kevin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.