Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 86 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: ------- ------- Nooo... KAY is Robyn Invisible History (d'oh! not Hits) dB's The Revolver connection Re: de Byrds and dB's (...sorry...) I Something You single Re: dB's Re: dB's Re: dB's feg something clickot something ptolemaic Re: Invisible History (d'oh! not Hits) Terry Hitchcock? Succour bingo hand job reference Bingo Hand Job" Invisible History track listing and info. Invisible History cont'd ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 03:07:29 -0400 Subject: Nooo... KAY is Robyn ...and it's painfully obvious. Robyn's far too clever to reveal himself by hewing to his well-known spelling and grammar obsessions whilst cloaked beneath an alias. That eliminates Terry immediately, and, I hasten to point out, myself, as, although I've never criticized anyone else for their transgressions, I must surely be one of the most linguistically meticulous Fegs on the list (check out the way I "quote" other posts, f'rinstance-- I'm pathetically afflicted, but at least I know it). Therefore, an incognito Robyn would be a self-consciously anti- spelling / grammar personage. The gender flip is both a facile smokescreen and consistent with Robyn's pervasive theme of sexual confusion and ambiguity. Thus "Kay"... to be read as "K", Robyn's first initial if you spell his name backwards. Which is precisely what he's telling us in "I Am Not Me", in the line "Karoline... / No need to spell it backwards / That's Enilorak"-- WHICH ALSO ENDS WITH "K"! Koincidence? I think KNOT! Of course Robyn "Is Not Me"... he's too busy being KAY! As for this whole "librarian" scam... well, now we know "who's got all the tunes"... the keeper of the LIBRARY THAT IS ROBYN'S MIND. I rest my case. -Roby-- er, that is, Ryx-- um, er, Rex... yeah, that's it. Rex. ------------------------------ From: hollie_satterfield@mail.amsinc.com Date: Thu, 09 May 96 10:31:31 EST Subject: Invisible History (d'oh! not Hits) Invisible History is listed in the latest Goldmine from Thoughtscape Sounds (1-800-435-6185) and Worldwide CD (312-665-0030) and at least one more place which I cannot detect from a casual re-inspection. These places as a rule do not sell bootlegs (or at least do not advertise them) so they are under the impression that this is a legitimate release. If anybody finds out more, like a track listing, please report back... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 96 10:41:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: dB's how come nobody's mentioned Bingo Hand Job in connection with this dB's thread? -Russ ps: I don't consider this an actual mention. In order for a Bingo Hand Job reference to qualify as an actual mention, the mentioner would have to point out that Robyn Hitchcock and Peter Holseapple were both involved in the REM accoustic gigs (using the name Bingo Hand Job) several years back, of which a rather nifty bootleg CD of superb quality exists. And the reference must be contained in the actual body of the message, not as a post script. pps. I'm not going to mention it myself because I don't have time. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 96 10:45:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: The Revolver connection Last night, while humming the Beatles "I'm Only Sleeping" to myself, I suddenly found myself humming "Queen of Eyes" instead...and it occurred to me that "Please don't spoil my day I'm miles away" is awfully damn similar musically to "Here I am again it's no surprise". And Robyn once listed "Revolver" as his all time favorite album. woah...... -russ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 14:47:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Frankel Subject: Re: de Byrds and dB's (...sorry...) Kimberley Rew had a solo album called the "Bible of Bop" which was a compilation of some of his singles. I think three of the songs featured the dB's, three the Soft Boys, and two the Waves. I haven't heard the album, but I used to have two of the singles, "Stomping all over the World" and "My Baby does her Hairdo Long." They were quite good, especially "Stomping," which was driving and had great harmonies. Speaking of the Byrds, I just saw that their first four albums have been put out with the "20-bit" remastering and bonus tracks. "Younger than Yesterday" has "Lady Friend" as a bonus track. In my opinion this might be the greatest song never to have been a hit (or at least one of them). Also, I saw Alex Chilton's "1970" which I think might be the legendary post-Box Tops, pre-Big Star demos. Has anyone heard this? Ken ------------------------------ From: msandonato@kpmg.com Date: Thu, 09 May 96 14:55:07 EST Subject: I Something You single I just found a copy of "I Something You" at a local record shop and was wondering if anyone knew anything about the photos on the sleeve. on the cover is a picture of a young child, and on the rear is Robyn with a older man. Matt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 14:07:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Bret Subject: Re: dB's In order for a Bingo Hand Job >reference to qualify as an actual mention, the mentioner would have to point >out that Robyn Hitchcock and Peter Holseapple were both involved in the REM >accoustic gigs (using the name Bingo Hand Job) several years back, as was Billy Bragg if I'm not mistaken...although the only recording I have is the 'Tom's Diner' but UNBELIEVABLEy funny..........I just like the point when M.Stipe breaks down and begins to laugh outloud during the 'song'....... although any info on the bootleg would make ma quite happy......... ------------------------------ From: "Aaron J. Sparrow" Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 15:56:18 -0500 Subject: Re: dB's Bret said, regarding Bingo Hand Job: > although any info on the bootleg would make ma quite happy......... Well, now, that's right big of you to consider her feelings, what with Mother's Day just around the bend! :) Unfortunately, mine doesn't have such eclectic tastes. Which brings up a potential thread. Does anyone have parents who have acquired a taste for Robyn, et al? Aaron ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 15:53:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Bret Subject: Re: dB's At 03:56 PM 5/9/96 -0500, you wrote: >Bret said, regarding Bingo Hand Job: >> although any info on the bootleg would make ma quite happy......... > >Well, now, that's right big of you to consider her feelings, what >with Mother's Day just around the bend! :) >Unfortunately, mine doesn't have such eclectic tastes. Which brings >up a potential thread. Does anyone have parents who have acquired a >taste for Robyn, et al? hmmmmmm another tyop..........at least this one made another word, not something silly (ie. mucky).......... ---Bret ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 05:05:00 -0500 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: feg something clickot something ptolemaic > I just found a copy of "I Something You" at a local record shop and > was wondering if anyone knew anything about the photos on the sleeve. > on the cover is a picture of a young child, and on the rear is Robyn > with a older man. the older man is robyn's father. the boy is robyn's nephew. if you find yourself shooting a pleasing black fluid out of the top of your head that not only leaves you wondering where you left your favorite set of doctor who trading cards since they will probably become collectors items with the spiffy new series with a budget coming out but also attracts apparently normal levitating midnight fish with questionable affiliations (once you dig a little bit) with pigs named MUCKY... well, that's when you know the thing is something to mess you up isn't it? don't answer me back, 'cause you just might be a feg. ken p.s. i read something about clickot being the choicest of champagne's after some woman with that name set the standard centuries ago. something about the way it's made. oh well, i'll try and get the info written down so i won't sound as stupid as this again. p.p.s. has anyone shelled out the twenty-three twenty-five (that's severely debilitated u.s. greenbacks) for the double disk offered by PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE and actually gotten it? how long does it usually take? what if i move? what about global warming? what about the prawns? ------------------------------ From: rooneya@pilot.msu.edu Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 17:30:26 +0000 Subject: Re: Invisible History (d'oh! not Hits) >Invisible History is listed in the latest Goldmine from Thoughtscape >Sounds (1-800-435-6185) and Worldwide CD (312-665-0030) and at least >one more place which I cannot detect from a casual re-inspection. The salesperson at Worldwide CD (2501 N. Lincoln, Suite 289, Chicago, IL 60614) thought it to be a collector's issue import from Japan, due out late May. The price was $25.00 (including shipping) and the only song she knew of on there was "More than This." I got only the answering machine at Thoughtscape Sounds. Perhaps someone with access to PV4 can cough up a track listing. - A & W ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 96 16:54:00 -0600 From: Jim Moore Subject: Terry Hitchcock? Feg write: >Terry is Robyn ------------------------------- Terry "Robyn" Marks write: >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 > >------------------------------ I think the REAL question is, is Terry as grumpy as he seems, or is he just playing? I mean, he's got the most wickedly dry sense of humor of all time, if that's what it is--a sense of humor. So, spill the beans, Terry... Of course, I think you're ALL tops! And Terry is just about as tops as they get in my book! Reeking in the vat of my own incapacity for understanding, James "Beaker" Moore (mmmm... I'm from the deep south, too... we gotta come up with another qualifier...) jimm@dbu.edu "My mother is a fish" - Vardemaan, in William Faulkner's _As I Lay Dying_ "You are an insect mother..." - Robyn Hitchcock OBLIGATORY MOTHER'S DAY REFERENCES ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 17:14:02 -0600 From: mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Michael Brage) Subject: Succour Ken wote: >p.p.s. has anyone shelled out the twenty-three twenty-five (that's >severely debilitated u.s. greenbacks) for the double disk offered by >PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE and actually gotten it? how long does it usually >take? what if i move? what about global warming? what about the prawns? ------- Yes, I just got mine yesterday. I sent the money last week! Amazingly fast turn around from England to Chicago. Anyway, the version of "She was Sinister But She Was Happy" is great. It is acoustic with some piano overlays. No Deni evident. I've haven't listened to the rest, yet. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 18:30:34 -0400 From: flaky white stuff Subject: bingo hand job reference Also sprach Bret : >although any info on the bootleg would make ma quite happy......... from the r.e.m. bootleg discography: "From The Borderline" - Red Phantom (RPCD 2038/2039) Recorded: [1] Borderline (London) - March 15, 1991 [2] Shocking Club (Milano) - March 22, 1991 Quality: Very Good (audience recording) Format: Double CD Released: September, 1991 Notes: Recorded under the pseudo name, Bingo Hand Job Tracks: (disc 1) [1] Intro/World Leader Pretend/Half A World Away/ Fretless/The One I Love/Hello In There/ My Youngest Son Came Home Today/Jackson-Dallas/ Disturbance At The Heron House/Belong/Low/ Love Is All Around/You Are The Everything/Swan Swan H/ Radio Song/ (disc 2) Perfect Circle/Endgame/Pop Song 89/ Losing My Religion/Fall On Me (part 1)/Fall On Me (part 2)/ Tom's Diner/You Ain't Goin' Nowhere/Get Up/Moon River/ [2] Half A World Away/Swan Swan H/Belong/Driver 8/Low/ Fretless/Losing My Religion/ "REM As Bingo Hand Job" - Religious Records (?) Recorded: The Borderline Club (London) - 3.15.91 Quality: VG Format: 2LP Released: ? Tracks: World Leader Pretend/Half a World Away/Fretless/The One I Love/Hello in There/My Oldest Son/Dallas/Disturbance at the Heron House/Belong/Low/Love is All Around/Radio Song/Pop Song/Losing My Religion/Fall on Me/Stipe at Organ/Tom's Diner/Listening to the ?/You Ain't Going Nowhere/Get Up/Moon River/ "Hitting the Note" - Backstage Records (?) Recorded: ? Quality: 1-11 Good with slight hiss in background 12 Good 13 Poor. Very quiet recording featuting only Michael Stipe 14-15 Good Format: CD Released: 1994 Length: 60:16 Notes: 1-11 Unplugged 12-13 London Borderline(As Bingo Hand Job) 14 Milan, Italy 15 Washington, DC USA (featuring A Clayton/L Mullen Jof U 2) Tracks: Perfect Circle/Low/Belong/Disturbance at the Heron House/It's the End of the World as we know it/Love is all around/Losing my religion/Fall on me/Radio song/?/Pop song '89/Summertime/Moon River/Dark globe/One/ there are also tapes of the entire shows circulating around (the bootlegs generally only include the stipe-sung tracks, not the short sets that each of billy bragg, peter holsapple and robyn perform). woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 96 17:11:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Bingo Hand Job" woj offered the following: <<"From The Borderline" - Red Phantom (RPCD 2038/2039) Recorded: [1] Borderline (London) - March 15, 1991 [2] Shocking Club (Milano) - March 22, 1991 Quality: Very Good (audience recording) Format: Double CD Released: September, 1991 Notes: Recorded under the pseudo name, Bingo Hand Job Tracks: (disc 1) [1] Intro/World Leader Pretend/Half A World Away/ Fretless/The One I Love/Hello In There/ My Youngest Son Came Home Today/Jackson-Dallas/ Disturbance At The Heron House/Belong/Low/ Love Is All Around/You Are The Everything/Swan Swan H/ Radio Song/ (disc 2) Perfect Circle/Endgame/Pop Song 89/ Losing My Religion/Fall On Me (part 1)/Fall On Me (part 2)/ Tom's Diner/***You Ain't Goin' Nowhere***/Get Up/Moon River/ [2] Half A World Away/Swan Swan H/Belong/Driver 8/Low/ Fretless/Losing My Religion/>>>>> ***note: This track contains a vocal and typically hilarious monologue by Robyn Hitchcock (AKA "Violet")*** ------------------------------ From: daramsey@vassar.edu Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 20:32:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Invisible History track listing and info. A couple of people have asked about the CD "Invisible History". It is a collection of Robyn-rarities, with and without the Soft Boys and the Egyptians. Here is a track listing: 1. Astronomy Domine (recorded March 1980 at the Hope and Anchor, originally appeared on "Lope at the Hive/Two Halves for the Price of One" lp) 2. Outlaw Blues (same as above) 3. Postman's Knock (recorded at the Portland Arms 1978; this track was one of two tracks left off the "Live At The Portland Arms" lp...the other left-off track was a version of Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole) 4. Look Into Your Mirror (recorded March 1977 in Robyn's living room by the former Chris Hamburger...the only other unreleased song from this session, It's Not Just the Size of a Walnut, is on the Ryko Soft Boys box set) 5. Like a Real Smoothie (an outtake from the "Underwater Moonlight" sessions) 6. Innocent Boy (probably an outtake from the aborted 1978 Radar Album, this song originally appeared on the lp "Lope at the Hive/Two Halves for the Price of One") 7. The Man Who Invented Himself (saxless mix from a test pressing of the lp "Black Snake Diamond Role", which apparently boasted a completely different track listing. This saxless mix is the same as the one as on the Rhino reissue of "BSDR") 8. Nightride to Trinidad (special disco remix by Steve Hillage from a 12" single on Albion Records 1982) 9. Kingdom of Love (same as above) 10. Listening to the Higsons (portastudio recording from June 1982, originally on the b-side of the "Eaten By Her Own Dinner" 7") 11. Dr. Sticky (solo recording from December 1981, also originally on the b-side of the "Eaten By Her Own Dinner" 7") 12. Surgery (out-take from the "Fegmania!" lp era, originally on the "Gotta Let This Hen Out" video and on a flexi from The Bob magazine) 13. Calvary Cross (recorded live on U.S. tour, November 1986, w/ Egyptians) 14. Legalized Murder (out-take from the lp "Globe of Frogs", originally on the b-side of the "Flesh Number One" U.S. promo 12") 15. Ruling Class (out-take from the lp "Queen Elvis", featuring Peter Buck on guitar, originally on the b-side of the "Madonna of the Wasps" promo 7") 16. More Than This (recorded live at McCabe's, July 30th 1988, originally on the b-side of the "Madonna of the Wasps" U.S. promo 12" and CD) 17. The Ghost in You (recorded live at McCabe's, July 30th 1988, originally on the b-side of the "One Long Pair of Eyes" U.S. promo 12") 18. Birdshead (recorded live at McCabe's July 30th 1988, originally on the A&M promo sampler CD "Pave the Earth") 19. Fairplay (recorded live at McCabe's May 5th 1991, originally on the "Oceanside" U.S. promo 12") 20. Linded Arden Stole the Highlights (same as above) There, I hope that helps some of you...this is a very good CD. The quality is great throughout, since most of the songs are recorded right from various legit. singles and such. It is a great compilation of rather hard to find b-sides, outtakes, and things, from the beginning to the late period of Robyn's career...enjoy. Oh yeah, and the CD leaflet also contains a cool poem Robyn wrote which was originally published in the mag. Bucketful of Brains, issue #2. daveR. ---there's only one way of life, and that's your own--- Levellers. ------------------------------ From: daramsey@vassar.edu Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 20:38:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Invisible History cont'd Oh yeah...and just to correct a post..."Invisible History" is not a collector's issue import from Japan. It's a bootleg CD pressed by SPQR Records, Im Moore 8, 3000 Hannover 1, Germany, made in the EC. Just in case anybody wants to go straight to the source. daveR. ---there's only one way of life, and that's your own--- Levellers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.