Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 85 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: ------- ------- Re: You know you're a feg when... sinister but pointless. No useful comment of any kind Re[2]: dB's records info request (basically Robyn-free) Queen of Eyes holding out Invisible Hits Re: you might be a feg Invisible Hits Re: you might be a feg Black-out Re: Invisible Hits Re: Black-out Re: Black-out Re: Black-out Impotence de Byrds and dB's (...sorry...) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 19:23:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Interstellar Underpants Subject: Re: You know you're a feg when... If you transpose the letter of adjectives beginning with 'l' to the next letter in the alphabet, 'm', thus having weird pronunciations like 'mucky', instead of 'lucky', you might be a feg. he who swears by 'lucky', .chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 16:55:17 +0400 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: sinister but pointless. No useful comment of any kind >>>the end and a track by fresh young Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck (who?) >>>which sounds absolutely New Zealand-y. from where I'm sitting, that means it sounds like a pneumatic drill. Damn road works!!! :( >>if this was Bonnie Hayes, it could be because she was diddling Huey Lewis at >>the time...if I recall correctly...(though I never actually saw it happen). > >Nope. Not Bonnie Hayes. Was Bonnie Tyler. look on the bright side - at least it wasn't Bonnie Langford. >Well, yes it was Bonnie Tyler and yes it was horrible and no, I can't explain >why it was a hit. But it was weird and overblown and histrionic because it was >written and produced by Jim Steinman. Steinman was was cooling his heels after >Meat Loaf's nervous breakdown following the first BAT OUT OF HELL, waiting for >some other hellish minion to give voice to his ongoing attempts to corrupt the >youth of America, and still years away from BAT OUT OF HELL 2: BACK INTO HELL. Steinman redeemed himself IMHO by turning a Sisters of Mercy track into full-blown neo-Wagner with his production of "This Corrosion". But no, I'm not a fan (I only bought it for the articles, m'lud). >If _____________, you might be a feg. (a la Foxworthy) if you think that condensation on windows is caused by fish in the atmosphere breathing on the glass, you might be a feg. ObRobyn: Bucky, dammit!!! :) James (the one in the deep south) :( Barnet failed in their bid to get into the promotion playoffs, and the Highlanders are doomed to miss the Super-12 semi finals, possibly by as little as one point. Waah. ------------------------------ From: jpartridge@accel.com Date: Wed, 08 May 96 01:08:53 EST Subject: Re[2]: dB's records info request (basically Robyn-free) "(you might recall the wonderful "Cara Lee" from this Scott Litt- produced pluperfect pop gem)" "Pluperfect" is right - "It's Alright" (and definitely "Cara Lee") is Stamey's best effort so far, I would say, and although "Fireworks" is a little weaker, I think his solo career is very promising. Robyn content: the obligatory dB's/Soft Boys connection on Kimberley's "Bible of Bop" album. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 10:04:09 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Queen of Eyes I always play C#m G#m A B E I don't know why she never gets anywhere with you No idea whether it's 'right' or not, I just like it! (none of the above is true actually because I always play it in D, but you get the idea). - Mike Godwin PS Any offers for my FOLD-OUT PICTURE SLEEVE copy of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'? No? Well, it was never as good as her version of 'Have you ever seen the rain?', anyway... ------------------------------ From: hollie_satterfield@mail.amsinc.com Date: Wed, 08 May 96 10:32:21 EST Subject: holding out RH question below, but first Tom Clark exclaimed >it was Bonnie Tyler. A voice like Kim Carnes and a face like Mick Hucknall. >The video age definitely killed her career. Uh, what? Her video "Holding Out For A Hero" was played at least every eleven seconds on MTV when it came out. Her career has had its ups and downs because she doesn't write her own material. Her latest album has just been released in the United States. It includes, among other things, a dance mix of "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad". I am not making this up. Further insults should be referred to the Jim Steinman mailing list (e-mail me for the address). The latest issue of Goldmine has a "new" Robyn Hitchcock rarities import CD listed by at least three advertisers. Unfortunately I can not recall the title, but it is a name I have heard before. (One of the ads says it is a "fan club" release.) Anybody know anything about this? Has a bootleg recently been reprinted? ------------------------------ From: hollie_satterfield@mail.amsinc.com Date: Wed, 08 May 96 10:51:02 EST Subject: Invisible Hits Now that the coffee has kicked in, my brain tells me that the new import rarities CD being advertised is called Invisible Hits. ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 12:08:38 -0400 Subject: Re: you might be a feg you are willing to fight for beliefs to the death....even if you ARE one of those idiots who think it's Lucky the Pig...... well, maybe not fight....talk to the death maybe, but....really just until the cucumber sandwiches run out........ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 12:07:02 -0400 From: gene@cadmus.com (Gene Hopstetter, Jr.) Subject: Invisible Hits >Now that the coffee has kicked in, my brain tells me that the new >import rarities CD being advertised is called Invisible Hits. What? Who? When? Why? Is this a re-released of the old (and unauthorized?) Invisible Hits collection? The one with the giant crabs on the cover? And where did you see it advertised? "...feeling young and dignified..." +++++++++++++++++ Internet Publishing Specialist + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + Cadmus Digital Solutions +++++++++++++++++ http://cjs.cadmus.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 13:31:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Bret Subject: Re: you might be a feg > >well, maybe not fight....talk to the death maybe, but....really just until >the cucumber sandwiches run out........ hmmmmmm I always thought more of radish sandwiches that Rachel's mom used to make......but not the red radishes, the long white kind.......... oooops, was that outloud???????? ---Bret ------------------------------ From: LORDK@library.phila.gov Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 9:57:50 -0400 (EDT) CC: LORDK@library.phila.gov Subject: Black-out Im afraid my platform system here at the libes went kappuey for a few days. If anyone sent me anything during that time--I didnt get it. Nor could I send out. For the moment Im back, and hope any of you that sent me anything, off or on list, will excuse my machines bad manners. The last message I got was terry asking me the meaning of polyvalency--which Im sure I mispelled --I think he sent me back the misspelling. Well terry, I actually looked it up(imagine, a libraian actually using a refrence tool and not just going off on her own, what is this world coming to?). the above is the proper spelling. Its from polyvalent American Heratige gives its meaning from chemestry(I figured, Terry you would like a scientific term, so presise.) Page 1405 of the 3rd ed. "Having more than one valence". Lets move on to page 1971--Valence--not the town on the Rhone, but"the combining capacity of an atom or radical determined by the number of electrons that it will loose, add, or share when it reacts with other atoms. A positice or negative integer used to represent this capacity." In short, something that is capable of combining with more than one thing , and is therefore capable of becoming several things, depending on the chemical circumastances it finds itself in. Its a usfull term for describing some people's sexuallity, which is how I first thought of stealing it from its purely literal, chemical meaning, and turning it into a metaphor for reality. Sorry to be so boring, but you did ask. Anyway--while we're on the subject of interperting reality(were we on that subject?--oh, why not)--Ive figured it out. the literal evidence is incontrovertable. this might I add, will be of utmost importance to all fegs, unlike the verbiage above. Terry is Robyn. It all fits. Robyn, with his fluid identity, his paranoid and inhibited exhibitionism, is posing as a student in florida(lots of beachs, water, crabs and prawns down there, you know)learning to use an outdated synthasizer(ehat a perfect metaphor for reality), from which he takes his nick-name, distributing goodies of a sort to all of us(hmmm--where does he get that stuff, anyway), THE EVIDENCE IS CLEAR. Now Robyn--or should I say Bob, didnt you know we'd catch up with you sooner or later. And if I might assume a Hercule Poirot pose--Ill even tell you how I, the brilliant detective before whom all veils rend and tear, the one to whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hid, how I uncovered youre deception. It was the quizzing me about my spelling. Yes--think of that interview we just read online with Robyn. What was its main drift? that Robyn cant abide bad spelling or grammer. that correcting it is of paramount impotence. And what did this so called terry guy do. He corrected my spelling. Case closed. Kay the very overworked on the verge of, Cap ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 18:28:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Invisible Hits On Wed, 8 May 1996 hollie_satterfield@mail.amsinc.com wrote: > Now that the coffee has kicked in, my brain tells me that the new > import rarities CD being advertised is called Invisible Hits. Invisible Hits is a very normal CD. Re-issued and all. Maybe it's Invisible History that's the rare import. [ROIO that's hard to find because it got busted] Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 22:02:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Black-out Picky about spelling? You bet! You should have seen what he wrote to me when i forgot to put [sic] after the _Punk Diary_ entry regarding "Andy metcalf and Maurise Mindsor"? Shees! You're a mean one, Mr Grinch... Terry is Robyn? nah. Terry is Syd. bayard ....but _which_ syd... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 22:53:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Black-out > It was the quizzing me about my spelling. Yes--think > of that interview we just read online with Robyn. > What was its main drift? that Robyn cant abide bad > spelling or grammer. that correcting it is of paramount > impotence. And what did this so called terry guy do. ^^^^^^^^^ I think you mean impoRtance. However, with some of the threads around here, you can never be sure. [Yeah, that's it...say I can't abide bad spelling, then include something like that that you know I'll jump at. You're a mean one, Lord K.] Terry "Really Terry" Marks ------------------------------ From: rooneya@pilot.msu.edu Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 23:16:16 +0000 Subject: Re: Black-out Kay deduced: >Terry is Robyn. >It was the quizzing me about my spelling. Yes--think >of that interview we just read online with Robyn. >What was its main drift? that Robyn cant abide bad >spelling or grammer. that correcting it is of paramount >impotence. And what did this so called terry guy do. Gramm_a_r? Robyn? A grammarian who can't abide by bad spelling? The same man who scribes (can't blame it on a printing error like the inconsistent use of 'cause and cause or the error "Yes, but whose got all the tunes?" in the RESPECT lyrics) on IODOT "uncorected personality traits" (well, actually, "UNcOrecTEd PerSOnaLItY tRaitS")? The man who ignores the subjunctive case of wish fulfillment (It should be "sometimes I wish I were a pretty girl")? The man who overcompensates in "Lysander" and uses I as a direct object? Ahah! Or do you mean a truly incognito Robyn would obsess about trivial matters that he likely ignores in day-to-day life? Just a curious nit-picking Aries who assumes Robyn must be pandering by being colloquial.... ------------------------------ From: rooneya@pilot.msu.edu Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 23:19:11 +0000 Subject: Impotence Kay deduced: >Terry is Robyn. >It was the quizzing me about my spelling. Yes--think >of that interview we just read online with Robyn. >What was its main drift? that Robyn cant abide bad >spelling or grammer. that correcting it is of paramount >impotence. And what did this so called terry guy do. Gramm_a_r? Robyn? A grammarian who can't abide by bad spelling? The same man who scribes (can't blame it on a printing error like the inconsistent use of 'cause and cause or the error "Yes, but whose got all the tunes?" in the RESPECT lyrics) on IODOT "uncorected personality traits" (well, actually, "UNcOrecTEd PerSOnaLItY tRaitS")? The man who ignores the subjunctive case of wish fulfillment (It should be "sometimes I wish I were a pretty girl")? The man who overcompensates in "Lysander" and uses I as a direct object? Ahah! Or do you mean a truly incognito Robyn would obsess about trivial (impotent, even) matters that he likely ignores in day-to-day life? Just a curious nit-picking Aries who assumes Robyn must be pandering by being colloquial.... ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 00:31:53 -0400 Subject: de Byrds and dB's (...sorry...) Oddly, I just picked up a copy of that Holsapple/Stamey album for a buck-- has a cool cover of the Byrds' "Here Without You" on it, BTW-- and was just pitching the dB's to James Dignan as the "American Go-Betweens"-- y'know, great writers, pop classicists, two different but complementary frontpersons, etc. If you like the first two dB's albums, you should definitely check out Rhino's "Ride the Wild Tom-Tom", a collection of demos, rarities, demos, jingles, instrumentals etc. from the Stamey years. Hardly a cohesive album , but it has some unissued treasures and lets you hear some classics songs before they got worked over in the studio. Plus there's a priceless "Hardcore" vivisection of the band's own pop gem, "Judy", which ends with Holsapple screaming... um... well, I won't spoil it, and some of you might take offense... Could someone refresh my memory on the dB's / Kimberley "Eng" Rew connection-- am I right in thinking that they backed him on a record between the Soft Boys and Katrina & the Waves? If so, does it suck or what? Has anyone heard it? For that matter, did Katrina & the Waves actually suck as much as they seemed to? And nobody ever answered me-- is Kimberley really a common male name in England? Rex PS-- no, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" had nothing to do with Robyn and, no, I don't know why the hell I brought it up. But I'm totally apalled at the number of you that responded, much less actually knew who was responsible for such an abomination against God... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.