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 #189 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 189 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: ------- ------- CineRobyn; more misheard lyrics Re: Hanks, etc. Absolument cinq croyantes... Another ME review Re: What did you say? Boston date RH dates Robyn (was) on VH1 Re: Which comes first?? Re: What did you say? That Thing You Do I forgot one (no Robyn content) Re: That Thing You Do Enough already... all vinyl for sale DARK GREEN ENERGY Re: Absolument cinq croyantes... Re: What did you say? Movie idea Re: What did you say? RE: What did you say? RE: What did you say? Re: What did you say? RE: What did you say? ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 02:05:09 -0400 Subject: CineRobyn; more misheard lyrics As a counterpoint to those of you who've had trouble finding info on Robyn / Billy tix, the LA Weekly came out last Thurs. with an unanticipated ad for their show, stating. "On Sale Now!" as if 'twas nearly sold out. Usually the first appearance of such an ad would read "Get your sorry ass in gear! Tickets on sale 6:35am GMT Saturday! Ya snooze ya lose!" James the Almighty confesses: "If you listen to the Glass Flesh tapes you'll find that, to my embarrassment now that I know the truth, I sing "siotting in a carriage in the pouring rain, and swimming in an Anorak", instead of "...in Swindon, in an Anorak" Blatzman and I spent many a drunken evening working on just this passage, as I knew the guitar line... best we came up with (right, Dave?) was "swindlin'... with an anorak". But neither of us knew what the hell an "anorak" was until I took one of my habitual field-trips through my Webster's Collegiate (territory I share with precious few, whose ilk include one incomparably gorgeous Feglister) and came across a suitable definition. As I've mentioned, "anorak" ain't exactly common argaut americain... Vis a vis Royn movie news... shocked to learn that Tom Hanks is involved, and nice to hear that the NY dates are to be filmed, but don't we Fegs have some alledgedly firsthand knowledge that SOME footage has already been shot by Demme-- weren't those mysterious transcripts a few weeks ago from some shoots by Demme back in Merry Ol'? I've been long lusting after some precise description of their circumstances. Rex PS-- where's Truman these days? As if you were just apples. Miss you. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:29:38 -0700 From: gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) Subject: Re: Hanks, etc. >From: Tom Clark > >A few weeks ago - actually it was the day of the big west coast power >outage - my wife and I and another couple were down in Orange, California >strolling through antique shops when we stopped into this little Mexican >joint for lunch. They had a big sign in the window that said that Tom >Hanks had eaten there recently while filming his new movie, "That Thing >You Do." I live near Orange, and there indeed was a big hoopla several months ago, because Hanks was filming some scenes from that movie in Orange. (I believe he filmed some exterior shots around the famous traffic circle area.) GB PS Regarding the Dunedin phenomenon, some famous NZ musician (I don't wanna be a name-dropper, but it was either Robert Scott, Graham Downes or Martin Phillipps...I'm not sure) once told me that another factor is that unemployment is really easy to get (and retain) in NZ. So lots of musicians find it easy to live "on the dole" and spend all their time working on music. ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 02:48:36 -0400 Subject: Absolument cinq croyantes... Someone said: "I once read that Dunedin NZ has more musicians per capita than anywhere on the planet. (And judging by the size of my Flying Nun collection, I tend to belive it.) The writer postulated the reason for this might be because the only things to do there are (1) making music, and (2) drinking beer. ; )' EXPLAINS MY WHOLE LIFE. James, look up Keyser, WV on a US map and tell me whether or not it correlates to Dunedin, musicians, my father, and my born-and-bred belief (much contradicted by my experience on the LA music scene) that it is every musician's God-given right to recieve FREE BEER, ferChrissakes, if nothing else... Susan, about whom I need say nothing more other than that... well, you all get it by now... mentions, appropos to misheard lyrics: "the Peter Gabriel garble (the one I always thought was "she's so popular", and I even speak French, fer chrissakes)." C'est-ce que j'ai entendu initialemant aussi, cherie. Some have even heard "She's so funky, yeah!" ...back to lovely Susan... "My own personal favorite, however, has to be "Shine On You Crazy Blind Man"... How 'bout the Stones' "I'll never be your pizza burnin'"... "(well, actually, that great J. Geils band smash "My Anus Is The Center Hole" comes awfully close)- which I read about in a whole book of similar hysterical lyrical misprisions entitled, fittingly, "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy". Go seek this tome immediately, it provides hours of side-splitting fun for the whole family :). I still crack up to this day when I think of the illustration that goes with "Jacques the Monkey" Yes, but none other than the immortal Blatzman actually penned the lyrics to "Elton John Lives in My Cat's Anus". Mail HIM privately for the details. This also from the Beautiful Queen: "My own theory (I know you're all holding your breath :)) is that this is why Robyn's titles are usually so brilliant- because he thinks of a striking phrase and builds the song around that, rather than titling them after they're done. What say you, fegs?" I think that he actually achieves great songs on the basis of great titles, unlike others, initials "M", who have denied too many others the opportunity turning phrases like "we hate it when our friends become successful" into worthy compositions. A mon-H-avis. Equally briliant writers title the whole thing after incongruous, decontextualized excerpts from their finished texts. I mention this chiefly because you asked after Dylan's affinity for adverbs, Beloved... Positively like a pop-geek, Rex ------------------------------ From: atonal apples and amplified heat Subject: Another ME review Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 01:32:09 -0700 This appeared in the 'On Q' section of Sunday's _Press Democrat_ (Santa Rosa's local paper). My comments follow. ------------Beginning of review------------ Robyn Hitchcock/"Moss Elixir" Could anyone but Robyn Hitchcock have written a lyric like "She was sinister but she was happy/Like a chandalier festooned with leeches"? Maybe, but it's certain no one else could have found those words a melody as appropriate as the one Hitchcock gives "Sinister But She Was Happy," one of a dozen engageingly surreal songs included on his 15th album, "Moss Elixir." Hitchcock's morbid whimsey has been widely celebrated, and rightly so; few writers since Edward Lear have taken as playful approach to language and the grotesque. But Hitchcock is also a first-rate tunesmith, and it's that element of his charm that comes most to the fore in "Moss Elixir." His songs are not just tuneful, but irresistibly so, spinning their choruses so seductively that it's hard not to hum along. And that's true whether he's [laying off the classic cadences of English folk balladry, as he does in "Heliotrope" and "The Speed of Things," or updating the melodic tradition forged by the Beatles, as he does in "Beautiful Queen" and "DeChirico Street." --Baltimore Sun ------------End of Review------------ 1) The review seems a bit short. Would anyone happen to have the original Baltimore Sun review that they could post to the list? 2) The review diesn't say who the reviewer is. I presume it's J. D. Considine. Anyone disagree? 3) It's nice to read a Robyn Hitchcock review in which neither Syd Barrett nor John Lennon is mentioned. Yours feggingly, --g ______________________________________________________ "We're all different versions of the same thing..." --Robyn Hitchcock, 'Statue With A Walkman' ______________________________________________________ Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen/ ------------------------------ From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 12:19:25 +0100 Subject: Re: What did you say? Item Subject: cc:Mail Text > similar hysterical lyrical misprisions entitled, fittingly, "'Scuse > Me While I Kiss This Guy". I saw a Hendrix gig where he almost certainly said this. Especially since he pointed at Noel Redding when he said it. Presumably joining in the joke? Hamish (nothing else to say) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:52:36 -0400 From: Alex Tanter Subject: Boston date The RH web site DOES show a Boston date--the 16th at the Orpheum. It hasn't been officially announced yet so the Orpheum and Next say they know nothing about it. Marcy Tanter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:20:54 -0400 From: Alex Tanter Subject: RH dates Sorry....I didn't realize that the web site isn't updated as regularly as I thought. I wonder if the WB site is more accurate...? I can't believe they wouldn't come to Boston, altho' both have been to Northampton. Maybe they'll play in Noho instead. Marcy Tanter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 16:14:24 BST From: jturner@rpms.ac.uk (JT) Subject: Robyn (was) on VH1 Apparently Robyn was on VH1, one of those cable/satellite channels here in Europe, possibly elsewhere. His appearance was a couple of weeks ago, supposedly comprising a couple of songs and a bit of interview. Does anyone have any details ? I'm just curious to know what was broadcast. Jonathan. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:48:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Which comes first?? that's interesting that Kimberley remembers playing the songs in the can of bees notes-- esp. as in a private interview, Robyn confessed that they were mostly fictional! (; or so i'm told. ------------------------------ From: atonal apples and amplified heat Subject: Re: What did you say? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:18:03 -0700 At 18:51 23.09.96 -0500, Truman Peyote wrote: > >I'm sure we've all got a million of these. Okay, you guys asked for it ;) > > >A few culled from my own archives: > >My dad fondly remembers singing along as a child with that great Big Joe >Turner/Bill Haley classic "Jake's Valley Road". My mom always sings along to an Air Supply song called 'Alan Alda's A Doll' and she insists that Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers once sang a song called 'Eyeballs In The Street'. > >Another good one- my friend >Dave knew someone who insisted that Mr. Mister's "Kyrie Eleison" (spelling? >that doesn't look right!) was in fact "Carry A Laser". Reminds me of the line from the Beatles song, 'Baby you're a rich fag Jew' >My ex-boyfriend >keeps on insisting that Morrissey sings "If it's not love then it's the >bong the bong the bong that will bring us together", to my everlasting >annoyance (usually he mentions this when we have a new eruption of the >"everybody's gonna wanna dose/doze" argument- it's doze, dammit, and I >don't want to hear another word about it, specially since he didn't get his >life saved by Dylan the way I did, so my word on these matters should be >law :)). Speaking of Dylan, I still hear "You do the funky jime in your prime, didn't you?" In fact, that's how I sang it in every band I was ever in. >And then of course, there are the perennials: for example, the Peter >Gabriel garble (the one I always thought was "she's so popular", and I even >speak French, fer chrissakes). Rex chimed in with: >C'est-ce que j'ai entendu initialemant aussi, cherie. Some have even heard >"She's so funky, yeah!" That's exactly what I used to hear. >My own personal favorite, however, has to be "Shine On You Crazy Blind Man" >(well, actually, that great J. Geils band smash "My Anus Is The Center >Hole" comes awfully close)- That J. Geils song is reminiscent of the XTC track "Bunghole". My all time favorite remains that great Rascals line: "That would be ecstasy, you and me and Leslie". Sounds like a great afternoon to me. Close behind would be the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit, "There's a bathroom on the right". Some others: Steely Dan were testing the limits of decency when they requested, "Give us some fucked up music..." "I got it made, got it made, got it made, I'm Hot for Teacher" I also thought that Frank Zappa was on a breakfast cereal kick when he sang "Fresh flakes". Another Robyn one: "Vera Lynn, Vera Lynn, cleanse us with your healing grin, sad to see ya always wins" 10cc, while describing a prison riot, said, "But the cons were indiscreet, they were balling in the street". I always thought that Rick Nelson had a "sweet brown-eye" down in Birmingtown. And I even speak German, fer Chrissakes :) 'Dear God': "And all the people that you made in your image still believe in that chunky stew..." Enough for now, --glynyrd skynyrd ______________________________________________________ "We're all different versions of the same thing..." --Robyn Hitchcock, 'Statue With A Walkman' ______________________________________________________ Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:14:47 -0500 From: Brandt Subject: That Thing You Do I was flipping through TV Guide and saw that HBO will show "The Making of 'That Thing You Do'". The listing I happened upon is Monday Sept. 30 11PM EDT, but it will most likely be shown numerous times. Don't know if there will be any talk of Robyn's involvement, but it's worth a look..! hal ------------------------------ From: atonal apples and amplified heat Subject: I forgot one (no Robyn content) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:44:32 -0700 Geez...I almost forgot John Mellencamp's dissing of the leader of the Silver Bullet Band..."Don't wanna be no Bob Seger, don't wanna sing no Bob songs..." Bye, --g ______________________________________________________ "We're all different versions of the same thing..." --Robyn Hitchcock, 'Statue With A Walkman' ______________________________________________________ Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen/ ------------------------------ Subject: Re: That Thing You Do Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 10:58:36 -0700 From: Tom Clark Hal informed us of: >I was flipping through TV Guide and saw that >HBO will show "The Making of 'That Thing You Do'". >The listing I happened upon is Monday Sept. 30 >11PM EDT, but it will most likely be shown numerous times. >Don't know if there will be any talk of Robyn's >involvement, but it's worth a look..! I happened to catch this last night. It was a 15 minute behind the scenes thingy hosted by the perpetually teen-esque Martha Quinn. They showed the filming, interviewed the actors, blah blah blah... We did get to see a little bit of Jonathan Demme and hear (ad nauseum) the title track, which, even if Robyn wrote it, is no Oscar contender. I listened really hard and failed to hear even one sealife reference! Overall, it looks like a cute little flick. -t "Somewhere between Siskel and Ebert" c p.s. oh yeah, the female lead is played by the scrummy-mouthed Liv Tyler. ------------------------------ From: atonal apples and amplified heat Subject: Enough already... Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 11:36:55 -0700 At 10:44 24.09.96 -0700, atonal apples and amplified heat wrote: >"We're all different versions of the same thing..." Maybe this should read, "They're all different versions of the same song..." ;) All temperature cheers, --g ______________________________________________________ "We're all different versions of the same thing..." --Robyn Hitchcock, 'Statue With A Walkman' ______________________________________________________ Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen/ ------------------------------ From: SPIFFINGNY@aol.com Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:54:36 -0400 Subject: all vinyl for sale Sadly, I'm getting a bit tired of lugging my vinyl about when I move, and it's finally come to the point where it all must go (most of it anyway). With that, most of my Hitchcock collection is up for grabs, and some assorted other pieces, so if interested, please email me privately (spiffingny@aol.com). Most of the Golden Prince discography was based on this stuff if that's any indication of what lurks on the shelves. Thanks all, look forward to hearing from you.... Tartan Keats ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:25:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ole Skjefte Subject: DARK GREEN ENERGY Anyone out there that ave an extra copy of the CD5 incl.DGE with Michael Stipe contributing on vocals??? E-mail oskjefte@online.no ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:59:52 -0500 (CDT) From: sdodge@inforel.com (Truman Peyote) Subject: Re: Absolument cinq croyantes... (musings on deserving musicians and fermented hops deleted) >"the Peter >Gabriel garble (the one I always thought was "she's so popular", and I even >speak French, fer chrissakes)." > >C'est-ce que j'ai entendu initialemant aussi, cherie. Some have even heard >"She's so funky, yeah!" As is mentioned in another post, some have also heard "She's so fuck me yeah". I think "she's so popular" remains the most common. The least common hearing of it is probably the lyric he wrote in the first place. This tends to happen with foreign lyrics by primary English speakers. Someday if I am feeling bored and self-indulgent (no! could it ever happen! :)) I will type out a high school friend's hilariously complicated misunderstanding of Roxy Music's "Song For Europe" (she wrote it all out for me when I challenged her on some of her more blatant mishearings), which includes the peerless lines "Here, as I sit at this swanky cafe, thinking of shoes/ I remember, all those moments, lost among them/ That I'll never mind again". That sounds like a pretty interesting song, but it's not the one Bryan Ferry wrote. >"My own personal favorite, however, has to be "Shine On You Crazy Blind >Man"... > >How 'bout the Stones' "I'll never be your pizza burnin'"... Never heard that one before! Although to reference one of my own humorous misunderstandings- I remember my friend Will and I were at one time delighted with the notion that Neil Young had a friend he never sees who hides his head inside a tree. I don't think either one of us ever really got over the crushing disappointment. >Yes, but none other than the immortal Blatzman actually penned the lyrics to >"Elton John Lives in My Cat's Anus". Mail HIM privately for the details. That's ok. Really. I'm not THAT curious. >This also from the Beautiful Queen: >"My own theory (I know you're all holding >your breath :)) is that this is why Robyn's titles are usually so >brilliant- because he thinks of a striking phrase and builds the song >around that, rather than titling them after they're done. What say you, >fegs?" > >I think that he actually achieves great songs on the basis of great titles, >unlike others, initials "M", who have denied too many others the opportunity >turning phrases like "we hate it when our friends become successful" into >worthy compositions. A mon-H-avis. But this "M" fellow is pretty brilliant at the title game, a mon egalement-h-avis - as examples, I will briefly mention "Vicar With A Tutu" (who exactly did he deny the opportunity to write a song with that phrase in it? Robyn, maybe?), "Shoplifters of the World, Unite" (this I can see being a Kinks title, actually, though perhaps "ShopKEEPERS" would be more in Ray's line), "Hairdresser on Fire", and my own personal favorite, "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" (maybe the young Bryan Ferry, but I think it would have been too obvious a choice), all of which are wonderful songs with wonderful titles. I am a big fan of this individual known as M and find that his dryly wicked sense of humor delighteth me much ("spending warm summer days indoors/writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg", indeed!), although in truth, he doth verily preach and whine unbearably sometimes ("Meat Is Murder" even makes me cringe a bit, and I'm a passionate vegetarian, myself, not to mention "Please Let Me Get What I Want". Aaaaargh.). It is because of individuals like M that there are skip buttons on CD players. >Equally briliant writers title the whole thing after incongruous, >decontextualized excerpts from their finished texts. Hence Tom Waits' brilliant, sadly unreleased effort known as "Pasties and a G-String" :) :). I believe that around the time this album was in its embryonic stages, poor Tom was opening for Frank Zappa and being hit with all kinds of nasty missiles on stage by persons deeply impatient with T.W.'s rather idiosyncratic and admittedly sentimental brand of barroom film-noir poetry and anxious for the opening strains of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and other such exquisite flights of literary brilliance (Can't imagine whose demonic imagination was responsible for putting this pair together, really. I'm not a Zappa fan. Does it show? :)). I mention this chiefly >because you asked after Dylan's affinity for adverbs That doesn't really explain it. I mean where does he actually even MENTION 4th Street in ANY song? Even weirder to me is "Temporary Like Achilles". Where does THAT come from? I just realized I have sent two posts that had absolutely nothing to do with Robyn Hitchcock. I will now walk around in virtual sackcloth and ashes :). Susan P.S. To whom it may concern- sometimes it cuts you up and sometimes it blesses you. I wish I knew some way to help you, but I don't. Rest assured, however, that you are on the side of the angels. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:02:49 -0500 (CDT) From: sdodge@inforel.com (Truman Peyote) Subject: Re: What did you say? >>A few culled from my own archives: >> >>My dad fondly remembers singing along as a child with that great Big Joe >>Turner/Bill Haley classic "Jake's Valley Road". > >My mom always sings along to an Air Supply song called 'Alan Alda's A Doll' >and she insists that Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers once sang a song called >'Eyeballs In The Street'. ROTFL. Surely you made this up. >> >>Another good one- my friend >>Dave knew someone who insisted that Mr. Mister's "Kyrie Eleison" (spelling? >>that doesn't look right!) was in fact "Carry A Laser". > >Reminds me of the line from the Beatles song, 'Baby you're a rich fag Jew' Where on earth did that one come from? I never could figure out where people got that. >Speaking of Dylan, I still hear "You do the funky jime in your prime, didn't >you?" In fact, that's how I sang it in every band I was ever in. The thing about Dylan is, of course, that he could very well HAVE said something like that. >>C'est-ce que j'ai entendu initialemant aussi, cherie. Some have even heard >>"She's so funky, yeah!" > >That's exactly what I used to hear. Some others have reported hearing "She's so fuck me yeah". >>My own personal favorite, however, has to be "Shine On You Crazy Blind Man" >>(well, actually, that great J. Geils band smash "My Anus Is The Center >>Hole" comes awfully close)- > >That J. Geils song is reminiscent of the XTC track "Bunghole". Which XTC would that be? I'm wracking my poor befuddled brain trying to figure out which song that could possibly be a misunderstanding of. >My all time favorite remains that great Rascals line: "That would be >ecstasy, you and me and Leslie". Sounds like a great afternoon to me. I always thought that it was "you and me and Nestle". What a great shoulda been jingle! >Close behind would be the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit, "There's a >bathroom on the right". > >Some others: > >Steely Dan were testing the limits of decency when they requested, "Give us >some fucked up music..." As to this, there are times when "fucked" is what's meant and the actual word is deliberately slurred to sound like it. The Kinks' "Apeman", for example- does anyone who's heard this seriously believe that Ray Davies meant that the air pollution was fogging up his eyes, which is the "official" lyric? :) Another Kinks deliberate slur, from "Berkeley Mews"- "I staggered through your ----- dining room", the ommitted word being chilly slurred in such a way that it sounds suspiciously like shitty (which is the word screamed out with gusto by Kultists when the song is played live, to R.D.'s tolerant but nonetheless genuine amusement). >"I got it made, got it made, got it made, I'm Hot for Teacher" I thought that's what that lyric actually was. Please don't tell me what it is, I'm sure I don't want to know. >10cc, while describing a prison riot, said, "But the cons were indiscreet, >they were balling in the street". That's a good 'un :). >I always thought that Rick Nelson had a "sweet brown-eye" down in >Birmingtown. And I even speak German, fer Chrissakes :) AHAHAHAHA! Glen, you're killing me. STOP IT! :) >'Dear God': "And all the people that you made in your image still believe in >that chunky stew..." And I have to add this one, as it pertains to matters feggish- there are artists far more mainstream than Robyn who have romantic visions of sea creatures. Witness the Go-Go's and their impassioned lyric concerning "Alex The Seal" (a.k.a. "I Love Cecille"). Ok, I'll stop now. Love on ya, fellow fegs, Switchboard Susan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 10:44:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Movie idea I was pondering the movie idea over the weekend and had a few suggestions. If this movie is going to happen, and an album is taken from it, couldn't Robyn do a "Frampton Comes Alive" kind of thing? What I mean is do a film of previously unreleased material and release that as his next album. >From there he would *not* go back into the studio to produce studio versions of those songs. I'm sure Warner Bros. would hate that. It seems most record companies frown upon live albums. However most live albums are just live versions of previously released songs. Why not release a live album of new songs? Moss Elixir is pretty bare in terms of production, except for a few songs. If Robyn is to record a new album in October, as rumour has it, why not do it in front of an audience? Just my two cents.... griffith ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@email.csun.edu ------------------------------ Subject: Re: What did you say? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 16:41:25 -0700 From: Tom Clark "The Lobster Gang" Susan by way of Glen: >>"I got it made, got it made, got it made, I'm Hot for Teacher" > >I thought that's what that lyric actually was. Please don't tell me what it >is, I'm sure I don't want to know. > It's "bad" instead of "made", right? -tc (Whose wife sings the Marshall Tucker Band song: "Heard it in a l-o-o-o-ve song Heard it in a l-o-o-o-ve song Ten feet long") ------------------------------ From: Livia Subject: RE: What did you say? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:56:09 -0700 >>Some have even heard "She's so funky, yeah!" > >That's exactly what I used to hear. that's what i still do hear i realize that this game is more amusing if played by assuming that everyone already knows the correct version of whatever it is, but it would be nice if there could be occasional parenthetical comments for the occasional moron like me who still doesn't ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:01:23 -0500 (CDT) From: sdodge@inforel.com (Truman Peyote) Subject: RE: What did you say? >>>Some have even heard "She's so funky, yeah!" >> >>That's exactly what I used to hear. > >that's what i still do hear > >i realize that this game is more amusing if played by assuming >that everyone already knows the correct version of whatever it >is, but it would be nice if there could be occasional parenthetical >comments for the occasional moron like me who still doesn't Happy to oblige. It's "Jeux Sans Frontieres" (Games Without Frontiers :)), which is actually the title of a French children's TV show where children from different countries, uh, play games together (I think there may be a British edition of this show as well, if I'm not mistaken). The show is vastly less interesting than the song its title inspired. Susan P.S. It just occurred to me that "she's avuncular" is a misprision that no one has ever made, to my knowledge, but I kind of wish that someone had ("I know what you are, you are a Gigolo Uncle"!!- oowee, am I slap happy today, kids!). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:46:04 -0500 From: alexfw@mail.utexas.edu (Alex Wettreich) Subject: Re: What did you say? >>Reminds me of the line from the Beatles song, 'Baby you're a rich fag Jew' > >Where on earth did that one come from? I never could figure out where >people got that. > > Well, Susan, since you asked... It is rumored that The Beatles actually sang that in the fadeout to Baby I'm A Rich Man. Apparently this was a none-too-sensitive reference to their manager Brian Epstein, who had passed away shortly before recording. Never been able to hear it myself -- I've always been too busy groovin' to Macca's bassline. Alex ------------------------------ From: Livia Subject: RE: What did you say? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:58:15 -0700 Truman Peyote wrote: >Happy to oblige. >It's "Jeux Sans Frontieres" (Games Without Frontiers :)), which is actually >the title of a French children's TV show where children from different >countries, uh, play games together (I think there may be a British edition >of this show as well, if I'm not mistaken). The show is vastly less >interesting than the song its title inspired. thank you! just to show that i'm not a total hypocrite, here are a couple of mine: in the (wonderful) roxy music song mother of pearl, i heard "no dilettante fillet we fancy" (as opposed to "filigree fancy"). and in some david bowie song that i haven't heard in so long that i don't remember the title or even which album it was on, i heard: you my love were kind but love has left you dreamless the door to dreams was closed your path was...real dreamless (the last line should be "your park was real and greenless") this one has stuck in my head because i actually wrote it out and sent it to an ex-boyfriend. i thought the last line was kind of lame, but the rest of it was so much what i wanted to say that i didn't care. i felt quite stupid when i found out what it really was a few months later oh, and here's one i never did figure out, and would still like to know. it's from a boz scaggs song called "we're all alone" (later covered by rita coolidge) that was my favorite song in junior high or so. he says: "close the window, the light, and it will be all right". sounds like it might be "can" or even "calm", but mostly sounds like "cah". i've wasted many minutes over the years trying to figure out what it could possibly be. what could you do to turn out a light that would sound like cah? damned if i know. if anyone here does, please please tell me! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .