From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org To: fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Reply-To: fegmaniax@ecto.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Subject: Feg Digest V4 #176 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 176 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: CreA&M Re: Oasis Broke up Re: Oasis Broke up Oh, Nothing but Robyn, I Assure You! Re: GREATEST HITS? Re: A Great Show Coming Up Re: Oasis Broke up Stale Joke of the Day GH liner notes query Re: GH liner notes query She worships the sun Re: Oasis Broke up Odds & Sods Re: Oasis Broke up Re: His favourite songs [Fwd: Re: Feg Digest V4 #172 -Reply] Re: Feg Digest V4 #172 -Reply Re: Baffling, contrived, miserable nonsense Re: Little Fish Eat Big Fish Re: Robyn vs. Julian? Re: LIGHTBULB HEAD AND A GOLDEN ARM? Re: Robyn vs. Julian? Nicky the Stooge (long) Some discography questions. I DISed a girl A&M ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:11:31 -0700 From: gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) Subject: Re: CreA&M >From: ! > >> >Anyone for tennis? >> Wouldn't that be nice? ;) That's the third reference to that song I've heard >> in as many days. Think I'll have to go by a copy of the album (_Fresh Cream_ >> or _Disraeli Gears_?). If I'm not mistaken, it was originally a B-side and now is a bonus track on the Goodbye CD. >From: Basil The Rat > >I thought about that myself, but reasoned that there are more artists that >A&M neglected than stood behind. The Police are the exception rather than >the rule. No kidding! It seems like every A&M act I've liked in recent years has either been dropped or has left the label (except for Soundgarden and Suzanne Vega, and I'm pretty lukewarm on Soundgarden). Think about all the acts that have passed through A&M lately: Hitchcock, Soul Asylum, Mekons, Feelies, Blue Nile, Kitchens Of Distinction, Squeeze, Swervedriver...yikes! On a more historical note, A&M also took The Best Of The Move out of print, never reissued the ultraneato Merry-Go-Round and Emitt Rhodes albums and sold off rights to a couple of Fairport Convention records. Phooey on A & M! Eric (They do have a new band called Blinker The Star who ain't half-bad....) ------------------------------ From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 08:33:40 +0100 Subject: Re: Oasis Broke up Item Subject: cc:Mail Text Mr. Mello wrote: > Oasis is like The Rutles, only without the humour. They didn't have > an original sound and they didn't play well live. They got as far > as the Beatles would have, had the Beatles decided to sound exactly > like Elvis Hmmmm.....but what exactly is it you're getting at? Surely you're not trying to imply that they are plageristic cak are you? Hamish (who thought an oasis should be a refreshing change from the musical desert but turned out to be a mirage) P.S. BTW The Rutles are excellent!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:37:09 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Oasis Broke up Hi Hamish The Independent (of "baffling, contrived, miserable nonsense" fame) had a headline today: "Young persons' popular light music combo have spat" which I quite liked. Robyn content: Has anyone noticed that the 'Words' section of the Warners website contains the lyrics to ML _not_ ME? As soon as I found myself reading Swedish (or rather, not reading Swedish) I smelled a dormouse. Weird, huh? - Mike Godwin PS Thanks for the tape. Just listened to 'Dominoes': RH irritatingly changes 'You and me' to 'You and I'. I don't think either is gramatically correct: "Dominoes and us" is correct grammar, but ruins the scansion... ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 05:55:31 -0400 Subject: Oh, Nothing but Robyn, I Assure You! James, the most wise antipodean pop scholar/prof, says: " To whomsoever it was who said that Speaking in Tongues was the biggie for Talking Heads," I said "Stop Making Sense", but 'twas me who brought it up... " I always though Remain in Light was their biggest seller. It was certainly their best, IMHO." Well, James, sales be damned, your HO is the correct one. But since you actually have opnions on RH, TH and the Byrds, I must respond to the following: "RH2) Robyn has said before that "Arms of Love" was the song of his he wrote thinking of Roger McGuinn's music. But the track that always strikes me as being the most Byrdsian (in the sense of being the one that wouldn't have sounded out of place on a Byrds album) is, of all things, "Ye sleeping knights of Jesus", which would have fitted beautifully into an album like Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde. Anyone agree? Anyone disagree? Anyone for tennis?" Agree. But Byrds influences run rampant through Robyn. For the second time in as many posts, and under someone else's influence, I cite "Queen of Eyes" as an ideal "5D"-era Byrds track (Robyn as Dylan to the Byrds? Creamy! He sort of embodies both in one person). Not to further my rep as an off-topic poster, but "DB&MH" has shown up on this list many times recently since I mentioned it as the home of the original "Child of the Universe"- what gives? "Mr. T-Man", if memory serves, is the only Byrds album listed in Robyn's top 10 albums (and he HAS covered "Bells of Rhymney")... but his other Byrds covers thus far have been "8 Miles High" and the trad. "Wild Mountain Thyme", both from "5D"... however, if any Byrds record relates directly to RH, it's "5D"'s successor, "Notorious Byrds Brothers", IMHO-- Leads me to another topic: Blatzman asks which "Alright Yeah" is better-- the A&M or the WB. Well, the Warners one IS better, because-- and Dave, you've gotta know I feel this way-- 12 strings are better than 6. Yeah, the harmonies are better on the A&M version. Sure. That's why you were the vocalist and I was the guitarist. The 12-string guitarist, in fact. And why I piggy-back my opinion on a pro-McGuinn post... Victor asks: "Home brewers have had their say; any home growers? " Not I, but I use it as a cheap segue to the "Moss Elixir Homebrew" thread which has alienated so many. I have tasted the brew of the one known as Blatzman, and-- his multitracked vocals vs. swell-sounding guitar prejudice notwithstanding... it is exquisite. Seek ye his wisdom and guidance. If you want a Robyn -related beer but have no homebrew experience, well... thematically, you could do no better than Old Crustacean. Experientially... well, Guiness is the only beer I've ever heard Robyn mention by name... Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:14:24 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: GREATEST HITS? On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Basil The Rat wrote: > Come to think of it, the only artist they went out of their way to promote > was Herb Alpert. Hmmmmm..... Isn't he the "A" in A&M? - Mike G PS I think they were well behind The Carpenters... ------------------------------ From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 12:17:06 +0100 Subject: Re: A Great Show Coming Up Item Subject: cc:Mail Text > 11:00 Health & Happiness Show (features James Mastro of the > Bongos, Richard Lloyd of Television plays with them too) Steve, Isn't that show related to Hank Wangford in some way? If so I'm impressed, if not etc. Hamish (easily impressed) ------------------------------ From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 12:34:04 +0100 Subject: Re: Oasis Broke up Item Subject: cc:Mail Text Mike "Guitar" Godwin sayeth > The Independent (of "baffling, contrived, miserable nonsense" fame) > had a headline today: > "Young persons' popular light music combo have spat" > which I quite liked. My life will be over if Get Happy and the Groove Puppies (my band) ever get called a "beat combo", popular or otherwise. > Robyn content: Has anyone noticed that the 'Words' section of the > Warners website contains the lyrics to ML _not_ ME? Yes > PS Thanks for the tape. Just listened to 'Dominoes': RH irritatingly > changes 'You and me' to 'You and I'. I don't think either is > grammatically correct: "Dominoes and us" is correct grammar, but > ruins the scansion... I think 'You and I' rolls out better but it depends how fussy you are. (I hadn't noticed though.) I got my tape as well but so far have only got to the end of Devils Radio. Good so far except for the light aircraft. To add some more RH, does anyone have a website with some decent piccies (esp live and with the Egyptians). I know about Andy Holyer's page, but was looking for something bigger and clearer (for use as computer wallpaper). Hamish (We play Heaven again on Monday. Oooooh the excitement. It hasn't been this good since we sacked our last guitarist.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:32:42 -0400 From: Victor Triola Subject: Stale Joke of the Day ** Low Priority ** Q: How do you find a blind man in a nudist colony? A: It ain't hard! Another blasted Friday the 13th.... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:06:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric R Neffke Subject: GH liner notes query Okay, Maybe it's just me, but it seems a little strange that in the liner notes to Greatest Hits (what a misnomer), something is said to the effect that all the album tracks are readily available. Uhh... isn't at least QE out of print (I'm not sure about the rest)? I know I can't readily find RH's A&M albums at record stores around Buffalo. So, is A&M planning to keep all of Robyn's catalog in print or are they just playing with us (I also found the "wouldn't want to make your vinyl collection obsolete" comment offensive...). Annoyed at corporate marketing schemes, Eric ************************************************************************** * Eric R. Neffke - Amateur Musician and Student at Canisius College * * e-mail me: neffkee@gort.canisius.edu * * "I only get jealous when I listen to the Beatles" - Raymond McGinley * ************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:39:26 -0700 (MST) From: Chris Donnell Subject: Re: GH liner notes query > Okay, > Maybe it's just me, but it seems a little strange that in the > liner notes to Greatest Hits (what a misnomer), something is said to the > effect that all the album tracks are readily available. Uhh... isn't at > least QE out of print (I'm not sure about the rest)? I know I can't > readily find RH's A&M albums at record stores around Buffalo. So, is A&M > planning to keep all of Robyn's catalog in print or are they just playing > with us (I also found the "wouldn't want to make your vinyl collection > obsolete" comment offensive...). I think (I don't have it on me, actuallly) that he said the album tracks 'weren't too hard to find.' Here in Phoenix there is a pretty good chain called Zia's and if you hit all 4 or 5 of them you'd probably get the whole A&M collection (Greatest Hits excepted) used. I'd check places that have used stuff and a fairly high volume... I wouldn't expect to find it at The Wherehouse or anything. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:51:18 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: She worships the sun On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, jeffery j vaska wrote: > i sit in my classes all day and discuss poetry much of the time. > i constantly come across lines and ideas i hear in robyn's songs. > today's was regarding heliotrope. the poem is from emily dickinson > -- #754. > Dickinson used a lot of flower/sun imagery. For me, one of the most striking pieces is from her 1852 letter to Susan Gilbert: How dull our lives must seem to the bride and the plighted maiden, whose days are fed with gold ... but to the *wife*, Susie ... our lives perhaps seem dearer than all others in the world; you have seen flowers at morning, satisfied with the dew, and these same sweet flowers at noon with their heads bowed in anguish before the mighty sun; think you these thirsty blossoms will *now* need nought but - *dew*? No, they will cry for sunlight, and pine for the burning noon, though it scorches them, scathes them; they have got through with peace - they know that the man of noon is *mightier* than the morning and their life is henceforth to him. Oh Susie ... it does so rend me ... the thought of it when it comes, that I tremble lest at sometime I, too, am yielded up. "My life has stood - a Loaded Gun --" is so much more complicated than it appears; anything one says about it seems incomplete. For me, it's similar to "He fumbles at your soul" (#315) and "He put the Belt around my life*" (#273) in that it's about irresistible possession - "Behold a power greater than I, who coming shall rule over me," as it says in the Inferno. It differs notably in that it ascribes a power to the narrator that's absent in the other two - "I speak for Him," she says; "I guard His head;" "I have ... the power to kill." > it all began with one line - the obvious one. (Which I have happily ignored.) > but as i looked a little > closer i think there might be more here (as far as when the two are > juxtaposed), possibly. I myself find it a little closer to "Madonna of the Wasps" - "Her service is perfect pain ... She's riding you ... she settles on you ...is this love?", at least as far as the possession theme goes, though in "Madonna" the speaker seems more passive, a mortal enthralled by a force of nature. ("Kingdom of Love" takes on the same idea of capture equalling love, with the captor consuming the captive's identity.) "The Leopard," especially the demo version on the Rhino _EoL_, is also similar ... a supernatural being who seeks to stalk, possess ("and then you are on a chain", and consume ("hear the crunching sound ..."). Funny ... as I started to write this I was certain there were a lot more of these songs, but now all I'm coming up with is fluid identity boundaries ("The Shapes Between Us," "I'm Only You," and the like). Tracy "and in the _Inferno_ we all realize that the descent into Hell and ascent into Heaven is an allegory for the bread that descends into the fiery toaster and is lifted up when it pops up as the divine Toast, right?" Copeland ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:45:04 +0100 From: Andy Holyer Subject: Re: Oasis Broke up At 12:34 13/09/96 +0100, HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com wrote: >Item Subject: cc:Mail Text > Mike "Guitar" Godwin sayeth > > > The Independent (of "baffling, contrived, miserable nonsense" fame) > > had a headline today: > > > "Young persons' popular light music combo have spat" > > > which I quite liked. > > My life will be over if Get Happy and the Groove Puppies (my band) > ever get called a "beat combo", popular or otherwise. > Reminds me of the only time I ever read the Daily Telegraph (they'd delivered it by mistake). It was the day of Andrew and Fergie's wedding. I gave up trying to read the Torygraph when they mentioned the Sex Pistols, and had to explain who they were. They said they were "a Pop group". Ob-Almost-Robyn-Content: Have you had Kula Shaker over in the 'States yet? I've seen them on Top of the Pops and they don't half sound like the Egyptians to me. Whats-his-name-Mills has even picked up Robyn's thing of stooping playing his guitar and waving his arms around... Thoughts? This isn't a reccomendation, by the way - I'm not 100% sure I actually like Kula Shaker yet, and besides, I'm over 15 years old. Andy Holyer, London, UK ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:12:28 +0800 (SST) From: Kevin M Mathews Subject: Odds & Sods Oasis breaking up - it's unlikely - I think they will still get back together and record that next album with original innovative songs like "It's Getting Better, Man " Even if they do - so what ? - there are better British bands around like Blur, Boo Radleys and Kula Shaker. In any case, if you wanted an artist who made proper use of his Lennonesque influences then it'll be wiser to stick with Robyn. Cheers, Kevin. P.S. REM are such bastards - multimillionaires with their artistic integrity still intact. How DO they do it - "Leave" - simply gorgeous ! ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:08:37 -0400 Subject: Re: Oasis Broke up In a message dated 96-09-12 15:19:56 EDT, mlang@inch.com write: >What is the general response to this? I am quite saddened. I think What's >the Story is one of the few deserved sellers out there. as the cat and chihuahua one said "HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY............." ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:08:41 -0400 Subject: Re: His favourite songs In a message dated 96-09-12 23:40:30 EDT, avarice@getnet.com writes: >This actually was one of those tracks that they wouldn't want us to become >worthless from our vinyl collections. I'm not sure what the a-side of the >promo 12" inch is, but it's another live McCabe's thing. "one long pair of eyes." ------------------------------ From: headfx@ix.netcom.com Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:38:28 -0400 Subject: [Fwd: Re: Feg Digest V4 #172 -Reply] X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Message-ID: <3238C8CF.30D6@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:37:03 -0400 From: headfx@ix.netcom.com Organization: Enzyme, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02Gold (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Feg Digest V4 #172 -Reply References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Victor Triola wrote: > > ** High Priority ** > > Yeah, me and the working girl from Seattle started a whole whirlwind of > controversy on this list and I do accept all the criticism. They've got a > point, Christine; this is supposed to be about Robyn. Who are we to > Kamikaze their forum? Just thought I'd spice things up a wee bit > because quite frankly the usual "How I Would Rearrange The Songs On > Moss Elixir" postings were getting kinda stale. Mind you, that's just my > personal opinion. So to all you college students who put a grown man in > his place: Please forgive my brief foray into individuality. I shall now > return to meek, non-threatening conformity. Thank you. AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Don't conform! Conformity is one of the many little deaths. Stick with individuality. Every once in awhile things should be stirred up. Otherwise it starts sticking to the bottom of the pan. -Ner ------------------------------ From: headfx@ix.netcom.com Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:08:28 -0400 Subject: Re: Baffling, contrived, miserable nonsense M R Godwin wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Jonathan Turner wrote: > > > > PS Absolutely stinking review of last week's 12-bar show in the > > > 'Independent on Sunday' newsapaper. I'm not going to post it - in fact I'm > > > going to throw it away. > > > > Oh no, go on, post it - there's far too much niceness around here. > > MG: Niceness? I thought this was the new, no-nonsense, tough feg forum! > However, you asked for it - and so did woj - so here it is: Thanks for posting the above-mentioned review. Even though it stung a little it helps to keep things in perspective. Besides, as the reviewer himself said: he obviously just doesn't get it. Too bad for him. -Ner ------------------------------ From: headfx@ix.netcom.com Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:23:25 -0400 Subject: Re: Little Fish Eat Big Fish Victor Triola wrote: > I was just wonderin' (it beats doing work): Have any of Robyn's past > opening acts gone on to bigger & better things? (I believe the industry > term is "Headliner") Example: Once unknown entities Bryan Adams & > Cyndi Lauper opening for The Kinks. Well this wouldn't be on the same level as Cyndi Lauper or Bryan Adams (at least not yet) But when I saw Robyn at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia last year there was an unknown opener by the name of Jill Sobule. Since then I have seen her video on MTV (I think it might even have been a Buzzclip) and her CD is listed in either or both BMG and Columbia House. If they were to tour together now it might be Robyn opening for her. The second opener at these shows (4 shows in 2 nights and I got to see 'em all!) was Deni Bonet's band. I think there's a connection between Deni's husband and Robyn which is how they hooked up. By the way, a friend of mine just did a telephone interview with Robyn within the last two weeks (in fact they just spoke again yesterday). I forget the name of the publication he is doing the interview for but when I find out I'll let you know. I'll also try to get my hands on a transcript or a tape of the conversations and post. I'm outta here... -Ner ------------------------------ From: headfx@ix.netcom.com Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 23:56:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Robyn vs. Julian? Dmitry Gokhman wrote: > > Brett Lanier writes: > >Fried and Jehovahkill (IMHO,his best.) > Like both of those, but my fave (by far!) is Peggy Suicide. I like 'Fried' myself but I think his latest '20 Mothers' is right up there. -Ner ------------------------------ From: headfx@ix.netcom.com Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:20:34 -0400 Subject: Re: LIGHTBULB HEAD AND A GOLDEN ARM? Victor Triola wrote: > Have you fine folks ever discussed if the > deliriously-twisted images Mr. H concocts are inspired by any sort of > hallucinogen? (Linda Ryan in the sky w/diamonds....) > It's possible but I never know for sure anymore. I used to think some of the imagery in Peter Gabriel's lyrics from his days with Genesis was certainly influenced by the use of hallucinogenics only to find that he never touched drugs. I heard that he smoked hashish once in the early days of Genesis and got so wasted that he ended up falling into a ditch. After that he decided drugs were not for him. If Peter can write such surrealistic lyrics without being influenced by drugs than so could Robyn. Then again there's John Lennon and Syd Barrett - acid heads to the core and big influences on Robyn. > Home brewers have had their say; any home growers? I'm gonna go out > on a limb and assume not all potheads listen only to Sgt. Pepper and > XTC's "Skylarking." You are correct, sir. I have been a huge Robyn Hitchock fan since 'Fegmaniax' was released. I am also, I must confess, a pothead of 20 years. I also know several other potheads (also several non-potheads, including my girlfriend) who are also very big RH fans. Speaking of homegrown: anyone heard of Northern Lights, Creme, Silver Pearl 3 or Silver Pearl 4? Just curious. If you do then you know where I'm coming from. -Ner ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 15:36:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Robyn vs. Julian? On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 headfx@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I like 'Fried' myself but I think his latest '20 Mothers' is right up there. is it true that Cynthia is pictured on the cover of said album? and if so, which is she? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 15:45:52 -0500 From: pokey@uti.com (Greg Landry) Subject: Nicky the Stooge (long) Greetings fegs, I am primarily a lurker here on the list, but the Nicholas "Nicky" Barber review of the 12-Bar show really got me stewed. The review doesn't even mention how the show went, it just hammers Robyn and his music. Nicky seems to have been harboring a certain contempt for Robyn, even before seeing the show. I think he should have had one of the grown-ups he works with go in his place. This seems to me like the professional thing to do. Following are my humble opinions regarding Nicky's review. I left the entire review in tact in case someone hasn't seen it yet. I also retained the address info so kindly provided by Mike Godwin. Hmmm, lets see what we've got here: >"I don't get it and I don't want it either" by Nicholas Barber >Independent on Sunday, 8 Sept 96. > >"In rock terms, the first week in September is the Twilight Zone, the >interregnum between the summer's big festivals and autumn's big tours, the >week when we get over seeing bands in field and get ready to see bands in >arenas. A perfect time, then, to go to London's smallest venues. The >smallest of them all is the 12-bar Club, a room of such doll's house >proportions that the singer balanced on the soapbox stage can read what >the reviewer is scribbling in his notepad: an especially unnerving >situation on Tuesday, because the singer was Robyn Hitchcock and I wasn't >scribbling anything very nice. > >"When the rest of the country was going punk, Hitchcock was flying the >goat for surreal psychedelia of the English-eccentric variety, in the hope >that he would be mistaken for the long-lost son of Syd Barrett and >Sergeant Pepper. So I assume the complaint here is that Robyn didn't march in lock-step with the rest of the pack? A non conformist if you will -- can't have that! I'd love to see what this clown would have written (or did write) about these "punk" bands before punk had become palatable. Also . . . what's this garbage about S. Barrett and Sgt. P.? Perhaps I am alone in this, but I find little thematic comparison between this artist, album, and Robyn. > In the 12-Bar Club there was no room for a band to help >foster this illusion. Instead we had to concentrate on the sweating, >sinister man himself, If Nicky is lucky, maybe Madonna or Michael Bolton will play at the 12-Bar soon. >and his lyrics, which are baffling, contrived, >miserable nonsense about German planes circling a chessboard, and a woman >asking the Egyptian god of death to lengthen her headphone lead. It would >have saved us all time and discomfort if he'd just worn a baseball cap >with an arm and mallet sewn on, and emblzoned with the words: 'I'm >kerrrazy! Honest!' > I find that while Nicky tries to slam Robyn here, Robyn still seems to shine through the onslaught. If I had never heard of Robyn, the above comments on his lyrics would have sent me racing to my local record store to find one of his CDs. German planes circling chess boards, you simply have to love that! >"And yet, Hitchcock is a cult celebrity. He has been adopted by American >college radio, and by REM, who were heavily influenced by his former band, >the Soft Boys. You either get it or you don't, I suppose. I don't get it, >and I don't want it, either. After all, rhyming 'Stalin' with 'darling', >as he does on his new album, 'Moss Elixir' (Warner) is not big or clever; Yes Nicky, you're right, you don't get it. That doesn't seem to stop you though, does it? I think Nicky should write a book that explains the various religions being practiced around the globe. That's another item I would race out to buy. >the trick is to make it seem as if the words are where they are for some >purpose other than to rhyme with each other, and Hitchcock never pulls it >off. It's possible that he's a misunderstood genius, but if so, he's not >one of those useful geniuses who invent helicopters or formulate laws of >physics, he's one of those lesser geniuses who irritate people with their >persistent daftness". > Nicky sure has Robyn's number doesn't he. Ya can't fool ole Nicky! He's a smart one. I've rambled on enough now. But I feel much better : ) GL > * * * * * * > >MG: It's not exactly damning with faint praise, is it? > >Note for US fegs: The IoS is a national quality broadsheet newspaper - >probably sells 400,000 or so, to supposedly 'intelligent', >politically-aware graduate readers (like me!). I haven't got an e-mail >address for them, but this is their postal address. > >Independent on Sunday >1 Canada Square >Canary Wharf >London >E14 5DL >Telephone No: 0171 293 2000 >Fax No: 0171 293 2047 > >- Mike Godwin > > > Greg Landry Morris, IL U.S.A. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As Trout departed, he sent this telepathic message to the Creator of the Universe, serving as His eyes, ears and consience: "Am headed for Forty-second Street now. How much do you already know about Forty-second Street?" * * * K. Vonnegut BoC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ From: avarice@getnet.com (Christopher Donnell) Subject: Some discography questions. Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:27:07 GMT Okay, hard-core fans! Here's a few questions about Robyn's catalogue that I can't answer myself (but what to know!) Is the version of Surgery on the BOB flexi-disc the same as the You & Oblivion version? Is the version of Birdshead on Pave The Earth (A&M sampler) the same as the one on You & Oblivion. The A Day In The Life felxi from the BOB IS the same as the Live Death version, isn't it? Are the Ptolematic Terrascope versions of As Lemons Chop/Drop and Sinister But She Was Happy the same as the ML/ME versions? (And a somewhat more complicated question) The only songs that were changed between the original CD and the Rhino reissues are the two off BSDR (TMWIH and BIS). I'm sorta working on a 'functional discography' of Robyn's stuff including every version of every song properly availiable, and since my record player is gone now I'm having some difficulty (coupled with the fact that I don't yet own Pave The Earth or any PT stuff - Not too mention that pesky Oceaside 12"... I don't own Live Death either, but ummm.. I've got a tape of it!) Thanks for any help. This information should all serve the public in making the web pages I'm working on quite accurate... (not that we really need more RH web pages, but I like doing it). -Qrys ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:31:35 -0400 Subject: I DISed a girl >Well, the first time I saw Robyn H., They Might Be Giants opened....I >suppose they had their moment of fame after that (the show was in 1986 or >1987)....Alex Chilton has opened for him (although his fame probably >preceded Robyn's)....Jill Sobule had her one-hit wonder..... Couldn't let Ms. Sobule take a slap like that without a few words. Now, I'm not saying she's riding up there with Robyn, however, the album from which that "one hit wonder" came from is far more interesting and deep than the single might lead you to believe. In fact, it's a top notch record. To judge Jill Sobule on "I Kissed A Girl" is to judge Robyn on "Balloon Man" alone. Point made? Sincerely, Jay ------------------------------ From: Putney Swope Subject: A&M Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:41:45 -0700 At 11:14 13.09.96 +0100, M R Godwin wrote: > >On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Basil The Rat wrote: > >> Come to think of it, the only artist they went out of their way to promote >> was Herb Alpert. Hmmmmm..... > >Isn't he the "A" in A&M? Yes he is...hence the trumpet design in their logo. Jerry Moss was the 'M'. Mit freundlichen Glueckes, Glen "I could have been the next Herb Alpert had I not given up trumpet upon discovering guitar" (*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*) "When you're out there trying to heal ( Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net ) the sick, you must always first forgive ( http://metro.net/glen/ ) them." --Bob Dylan (*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .