Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 101 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: Music for the Leg I'm Back! Tall Boys Re: Feg Digest Vol 4 Num 100 Uncarved Pumpkins Invisible Higsons (off topic) Thu Prisidunt uv Yorop.... Re: Uncarved Pumpkins Re: Feg Digest Vol 4 Num 100 McCabe's 23 Sept 95 A BIG Favour Re: Invisible Higsons Re: Invisible Higsons BIG favor statement, questions, a hyena. BIG favor Re: Invisible Higsons follow-up to statement, questions, a hyena Re: BIG favor Re: follow-up to statement, questions, a hyena rare stuff tape Re: BIG favor Re: statement, questions, a hyena. Re: BIG favor ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:02:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Music for the Leg (1) So *that's* what's on Music for the Leg (2) I think that what they used on "Good Vibrations" wasn't technically a theremin, but something that worked on the same principles. (Like the controls were different or something..) (3) I don't hear a theremin on "Velouria"... Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 10:41:38 -0900 From: BC-Radio@corcomsv.corcom.com (Brett Cooper) Subject: I'm Back! Just to let all of you folks know, I, Brett Cooper, have returned to Fegmaniax after a three-week silencing due to the fact that my high school server account was deleted because I have now graduated. I have to admit that I was going through Feg withdrawl, for I was quite irritable; irritable so that I even listened to "Luminous Rose" twice daily! However, it feels good to be back! I look forward to many more interesting discussions and debates and basic fun! Brett ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 08:22:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Tall Boys A coupla days back I asked if anyone had heard of a band called The Tall Boys...got no response. Turns out the Tall Boys were one of the bands on the "Don't Let The Hope Close Down" compilation...maybe that'll ring a bell or two. Any of you English folk know anything more about this band? -Russ and when I'm sad...I slide ------------------------------ From: CooperTJ@aol.com Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:16:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Feg Digest Vol 4 Num 100 >Did Robyn EVER do Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles) at any of the MT Stage >performances? Not in 92 or 93-- 92 93 Oceanside Driving Aloud SYTYIL Railway Shoes When I Was D Serpent.... Birds in P Yip OLPOE Airscape Uncorrected PT Only the Stones... Ride Oceanside ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 11:29:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Uncarved Pumpkins Can anyone provide information regarding the contents, history, availability, etc of the Uncarved Pumpkins cassette that is circulating? Much obliged. ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@dewey.csun.edu ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:42:04 -0400 Subject: Invisible Higsons In case somebody cares for some reason, here's my post that got lost in the Fegmaniax shuffle: Date: Sat, Jun 1, 1996 1:52 AM EDT From: RxBroome Subj: Higsons Susan, although she apparently wishes to do me bodily harm because I don't share her enthusiasm about "Invisible Hitchcock", says this: "(I always thought the Higsons represented some sort of archetypal stuffy middle-aged-type English couple- is it just me?" Yes indeed! Actually I imagined a whole sort of pudgy, doughy- featured family, kid and all... something about eating a lot of porridge doesn't quite suggest a buncha pseudo-funkster kids. 'Course I shoulda realized it was one of Robyn's throwaway rhymes... the line "I'm running out of living" delivered after an odd number of couplets has always (to me) suggested Robyn singing "I'm running out of LYRICS-- go to the chorus!!!" as a cue to the band. And hey, the Beach Boys' "Surf's Up" album is actually quite good... just don't get the real LP confused with the CD called "Surf's Up" which is one of several million knockoff BB's compilations. (Yes, this from the guy who's pissed about Robyn's upcoming vinyl- only release; I never claimed to be consistent!) -Rex, who was quite shocked upon hearing a tape of his band's Wednesday debut to realize that nobody had yet purged the lyric "Do you remember the groovy decay?" from one of his songs... ------------------------------ Date: 05 Jun 96 00:00:32 EDT From: Sillyme <102465.41@CompuServe.COM> Subject: (off topic) Thu Prisidunt uv Yorop.... I posted this over the weekend when the server was down so I'm assuming it never went through. Enjoy and delete! The following is a thingy that my darling-lover-fiancee's mom (who is a tech writer) sent to us via snail mail. It just seemed too darn fitting to this list so we retyped it fer y'all. Enjoy! TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessarily difficult- cough, slough, through, and thorough, for example. Having chosen English as the preferred language in the European Economic Community the European Parliment has comissioned a study to find ways to simplify communication between government departments. In the first year, the committee suggests using s instead of a soft c. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would reseive this news with joy. The hard c could be replased by k sinse both are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made with one less letter. Growing support is expekted when, in the sekond year, it is announsed that the troublesome ph would henseforth be written as f, making words like fotograf 20 persent shorter in print. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always been a bane to akurate speling. We would al agre that the horible mes of silent e in the languag is disgrasful. Therfor we kould drop thes and kontinu to rid and ryt as though nothing had hapend. By this tym it would be four years sins the skem began and pipl would be reseptiv to steps sutsh as replasing th by z. Perhaps zen ze funkshun of w kould be taken on by v, vitsh is, after al, half a w. Ze unesesary o kould be dropd from virds kontaining ou. Similar arguments vud of kors be applyd to ozer kombinashuns of leters. Kontinuing zis proses yir after yir, ve vud eventuli hav a rili sensibl ryting styl. After tventi yirs zer vud be no mor difikultis and evrivun vud fin it isi to understand ich ozer. "Typed from a reprint from Review, a publication of the International Association for Human Resource Information Management (without permission- so sue me! Push me over the edge why dont 'cha!) Sillyme ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 03:32:24 -0400 (EDT) From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John, Jacci, & Madison) Subject: Re: Uncarved Pumpkins >Can anyone provide information regarding the contents, history, >availability, etc of the Uncarved Pumpkins cassette that is circulating? > >Much obliged. Griffith- (and all other interested parties) This is a tape of (mostly) live rarities that I put together for my own enjoyment long before I was aware of the fegmaniax list (or even the internet for that matter!!) The tape is 100min long, and comes with nifty orange j-card and homemade liner notes too! Just send a 100min tape and $1.00 postage. Or skip the tape, and just send me $3-4 and I'll go buy the tape. John B. Jones 225 Fellows Ave Syracuse, NY 13210-2625 P.S. Hey, robyn DID do Tomorrow Never knows for Mountainstage, but the announcer talks over it, and it gets cut off about 1/3 of the way through!! I will look later and get a date of the show if someone needs it. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% John B. Jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu http://web.syr.edu/~jojones "Just because you're better than me/ Doesn't mean I'm lazy Just because you're going forward/ Doesn't mean I'm going backwards." -Mssr. Billy Bragg %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:06:20 -0900 From: BC-Radio@corcomsv.corcom.com (Brett Cooper) Subject: Re: Feg Digest Vol 4 Num 100 Another Cooper on the mailing list? Brett (Cooper) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:33:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: McCabe's 23 Sept 95 While finally doing some laundry yesterday, I came across a RH t-shirt I purchased at the McCabe's show mentioned in the subject. It made me think about that show, and I remebered something. When I went to purchase the shirt (it is the black one with 'The Afterleaf' on the front), the person selling them asked me to sign his clipboard. On his clipboard were several other names and addresses of people who had purchased shirts. I scribbled down all of the requested informantion. So far nothing has transpired. Nothing from McCabe's, nothing from the guy I wrote the info down for. Did anyone else do this at the show? just wondering.... ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@dewey.csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 11:52:23 -0400 (EDT) From: David Willems Subject: A BIG Favour I was wondering if any of you would be so kind (if you have any or all of the following) if you could tape them for me. I'm trying to collect all the different songs that robyn has written/sung etc.. Thank you very much. Withered And Died A Day In The Life Globe of Frogs (electric) Ruling Class* Watch Your Intelligence Legalized Murder* One Long Pair Of Eyes (Acoustic) More Than This* The Ghost In You* Dark Green Energy Fair Play* Linden Arden Stole The Headlights* Eight Miles High Allright Yeah The Live-In Years Bright Fresh Flower Kung Fu Fighting Wild Mountain Tyme Invisible History (* = available on this) Trilobite Cool Bug Rumble Devil's Radio Shuffling Down The Flagstones You & Oblivion A&M Cover Sessions any other rarities, things I've missed... A special note to John of "Uncarved Pumpkins" fame. Amazing tape! Is there a part II in the future? Thank you one and all!! David ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:45:47 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Invisible Higsons On Tue, 4 Jun 1996 RxBroome@aol.com wrote: > the line "I'm running out of living" > delivered after an odd number of couplets has always (to me) suggested Robyn > singing "I'm running out of LYRICS-- go to the chorus!!!" as a cue to the > band. > He definitely says "I'm running out of lyrics" on one version, and "I'm running out of (?) living" on another version. Is there a studio recording of Higsons somewhere? Can anyone clarify my befuddled memory? - Mike Godwin PS Why did Gail Collins kill Felix Pappalardi, anyway? (oops, no Robyn content)... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:05:33 -0400 From: gene@cadmus.com (Gene Hopstetter, Jr.) Subject: Re: Invisible Higsons >Is there a studio recording of Higsons somewhere? Yup. It's on the "Invisible Hitchcock" boot (cough!) CD, replete with out-of-tune and water-filled wok. "...pang pang pang, pang pang pang... Lucifer in frognal, whoa-oh-whoa, listening to the Higsons, whoa-oh-whoa..." +++++++++++++++++ Internet Publishing Specialist + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + Cadmus Digital Solutions +++++++++++++++++ http://cjs.cadmus.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 10:31:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: BIG favor David W. wondered if anyone would compile a cassette containing: >Withered And Died >A Day In The Life >Globe of Frogs (electric) >Ruling Class* >Watch Your Intelligence >Legalized Murder* >One Long Pair Of Eyes (Acoustic) >More Than This* >The Ghost In You* >Dark Green Energy >Fair Play* >Linden Arden Stole The Headlights* >Eight Miles High >Allright Yeah >The Live-In Years >Bright Fresh Flower >Kung Fu Fighting >Wild Mountain Tyme ...just wanted to say that if anyone ever does compile all these songs on one tape, I'd DEFINITELY want a copy. -russ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 14:36 EDT From: "tom" Subject: statement, questions, a hyena. first, i wanted to thank those on the list who mention king crimson every once in a while. . .it pushed me over the edge, i bought an album, then another, then another. . . good stuff. now some questions.. . as usual, i've probably managed to duplicate other posts --but i'm wondering all these things, and if anyone could just email me the info i'd be very grateful: 1: someone had said something about mrs. wafflehead's ny address not working. has this been solved? 2: what is on "give it to the thoth boys?" is it worth getting, i wonder, since i bought all the ryko reissues? 3: i missed the softboys reunion--does there exist (a) tape(s)of shows? anyone interested in trading/know where i can inquire? 4: (have you noted the softboys theme yet?) i'm wondering about those legendary (to me) songs that exist but aren't officially compiled--does anyone have a list of otherwise unavailable sb tunes, and/or know where/how i can obtain such precious recordings? (if they're any good?) 5: what is on the invisible history boot? (i know i must be duplicating someone on that one. sorry.) 6: last but not least--anyone have any input on which of the shirts available through mrs. w is the worthiest of my purchase? any reponses would be most welcome and appreciated. . . . .tom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:11:47 -0600 From: mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Michael Brage) Subject: BIG favor Russ wrote about David W. who wondered if anyone would compile a cassette containing: > >>Withered And Died >>A Day In The Life >>Globe of Frogs (electric) >>Ruling Class* >>Watch Your Intelligence >>Legalized Murder* >>One Long Pair Of Eyes (Acoustic) >>More Than This* >>The Ghost In You* >>Dark Green Energy >>Fair Play* >>Linden Arden Stole The Headlights* >>Eight Miles High >>Allright Yeah >>The Live-In Years >>Bright Fresh Flower >>Kung Fu Fighting >>Wild Mountain Tyme > >...just wanted to say that if anyone ever does compile all these songs on >one tape, I'd DEFINITELY want a copy. I can do this but it will take time. We may as well put "She was sinister but she was happy" on it from the new compliation CD. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 11:46:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: Invisible Higsons ======== Original Message ======== >Is there a studio recording of Higsons somewhere? Yup. It's on the "Invisible Hitchcock" boot (cough!) CD, replete with out-of-tune and water-filled wok. "...pang pang pang, pang pang pang... Lucifer in frognal, whoa-oh-whoa, listening to the Higsons, whoa-oh-whoa..." +++++++++++++++++ Internet Publishing Specialist + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + Cadmus Digital Solutions +++++++++++++++++ http://cjs.cadmus.com ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== I presume the boot in question is "Invisible *History*", however you'll also find the original studio version of "Listening To The Higsons" on the Rhino reissue of "Invisible Hitchcock"...and without those nasty record scratches. -russ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jun 96 14:42:57 -500 From: spine@iastate.edu (James Francis) Subject: follow-up to statement, questions, a hyena i'd also really like to know what's on "SUCCOUR," as well as on "INVISIBLE HISTORY," if anybody can tell me. grinfully uncomfortably, --jim francis lost in the midwest ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jun 96 15:23:31 -500 From: spine@iastate.edu (James Francis) Subject: Re: BIG favor > I can do this but it will take time. We may as well put "She was > sinister but she was happy" on it from the new compliation CD. > > Michael i too would be very interested in such a tape, though i have most of the tracks from the list below. i'm wondering about some of the newer and more difficult to obtain things, like "she was sinister. . ." and what about "as lemons drop," "creatures of light," and "statue with a walkman" (from PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE and the SEQUEL RECORDS COMPILATION)? does anyone have those? maybe that's asking too much??? chewing nervously, jim francis > Russ wrote about David W. who wondered if anyone would compile a > cassette containing: > >>Withered And Died >>A Day In The Life >>Globe of Frogs (electric) >>Ruling Class* >>Watch Your Intelligence >>Legalized Murder* >>One Long Pair Of Eyes (Acoustic) >>More Than This* >>The Ghost In You* >>Dark Green Energy >>Fair Play* >>Linden Arden Stole The Headlights* >>Eight Miles High >>Allright Yeah >>The Live-In Years >>Bright Fresh Flower >>Kung Fu Fighting >>Wild Mountain Tyme > >...just wanted to say that if anyone ever does compile all these songs on one tape, I'd DEFINITELY want a copy. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:30:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Eugene B Mirman Subject: Re: follow-up to statement, questions, a hyena On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, James Francis wrote: > > > i'd also really like to know what's on "SUCCOUR," If someone could post the answer to this on the list I would be pleased as well. I saw some mention of it, but not what it was... Thanks. -Eugene ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tipper Gore said to Lou Reed, "Lou Reed, how can we communicate better with our children?" Lou Reed responded, "We would probably have to sit down and talk about it over a bottle of scotch, and maybe, some crack." It's back! My lovely Humor Home page: http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ebmF92 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:28:15 -0400 From: flaky white stuff Subject: rare stuff tape Also sprach David Willems : >Linden Arden Stole The Headlights* uh, that's "linden arden stole the highlights". as for the talk about making this tape, a couple comments: 1) once upon a time, i made a tape called the "the other songs about churches and fish" which collected most of the vinyl or cassette only tracks as of 1992 or so. i'd been meaning to update the tape to reflect new releases (b-sides from the new records and other stuff as well), but if anyone else wants to do the update, they are more than welcome to! uncarved pumpkins 2, perhaps? 2) i'd suggest excluding the b-sides which are being released on the a&m compilation (such as "ruling class") woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:35:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: BIG favor What's the matter, can't wait for the A&M compilation CD to come out in a couple months? :) Most of these will be on the _greatest hits_ cd. see woj's web page for the track list, or email me if you need a repost. I'm going to do a rarities collection as soon as I'm done with this glass flesh tribute CD. (this is absolutely your last chance to get on it, musical types). Anyone have any ideas on a title for the glass flesh cd? anyways, back to the a&m disc... I believe the ones marked with "!" will be on it, as I recall. bayard "shoulda called it _greatest fish_" > >>Withered And Died > >>A Day In The Life > >>Globe of Frogs (electric) ! > >>Ruling Class*! > >>Watch Your Intelligence? > >>Legalized Murder*! > >>One Long Pair Of Eyes (Acoustic)! > >>More Than This*! > >>The Ghost In You* > >>Dark Green Energy! > >>Fair Play* > >>Linden Arden Stole The Headlights* > >>Eight Miles High? > >>Allright Yeah! > >>The Live-In Years > >>Bright Fresh Flower > >>Kung Fu Fighting > >>Wild Mountain Tyme? > > > >...just wanted to say that if anyone ever does compile all these songs on > >one tape, I'd DEFINITELY want a copy. > > > I can do this but it will take time. We may as well put "She was sinister > but she was happy" on it from the new compliation CD. > > Michael > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:37:21 -0400 From: flaky white stuff Subject: Re: statement, questions, a hyena. Also sprach "tom" : >1: someone had said something about mrs. wafflehead's ny address not working. >has this been solved? not yet. if one of the english fegs could call mrs. wafflehead and check to find out if the american wafflehead address is still active, that would be a really cool thing. >2: what is on "give it to the thoth boys?" is it worth getting, i wonder, >since i bought all the ryko reissues? "give it to the thoth boys" is a compilation of live tracks from various egyptian tours in the early 90s (1991-1993). tracks are: egyptian cream/ my wife and my dead wife/clean steve/glass hotel/when i was dead/city of shame/only the stones remain/the live-in years/globe of frogs/somewhere apart/freeze/day in the life. some tracks are different renditions of than the studio versions. is it worth it? yes, if you are a completeist. maybe, if you're not. it's not *necessary*, but it's a nice collection. basically, if you have a number of live recordings from that period, don't bother since there will be a lot of duplication (although "day in the life" is a nice plus). >3: i missed the softboys reunion--does there exist (a) tape(s)of shows? anyone > interested in trading/know where i can inquire? there are tapes circulating around. there is also a recording of the london astoria tape available through mrs wafflehead called _where are the prawns?_. >4: (have you noted the softboys theme yet?) i'm wondering about those legendary > (to me) songs that exist but aren't officially compiled--does anyone have a >list of otherwise unavailable sb tunes, anyone who wants to work on this is welcome to. i'd be happy to give such a resource a home on the fegmaniax website. gotta go play volleyball. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:39:33 -0400 From: flaky white stuff Subject: Re: BIG favor Also sprach spine@iastate.edu (James Francis): > i'm wondering about > some of the newer and more difficult to obtain things, like > "she was sinister. . ." and > what about "as lemons drop," "creatures of light," and > "statue with a walkman" (from PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE and > the SEQUEL RECORDS COMPILATION)? does anyone have those? silly boy. of course someone has them. if anyone volunteers to make a new tape and needs some tracks, feel free to contact me. i'm also willing to help distribute the tape too. woj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.