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 #190 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 190 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: ------- ------- Funky Gabriel Re: Dunedin (one last time!) Re: Which comes first?? Re: What did you say? RE: What did you say? RE: What did you say? ALERT! *Robyn, Bob and Albert TAPE TREE STRUCTURE!* Bobby, Bob and Al RE: What did you say? That Thing You Do ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:49:17 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Funky Gabriel >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. It's not children - it's teams of adults who play weird and wonderful sports concocted mainly for the benefit of the audience watching them make idiots of themselves. Teams arte organised on a town vs town basis, and there is a national competition between about a dozen towns every year. The British version - also a line from Gabriel's song - is "It's a Knockout". Jeux Sans Frontieres is not only the French version, but the international version, competed for by the winning towns in about a dozen European countries. I've no idea whether this stupid TV programme still exists, but I used to *love* it as a kid back in the 1970s. Here in NZ they tried a similar thing called "Top Town", which ran for a number of years. James James Dignan, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk St., St. Clair, Dunedin, New Zealand pixelphone james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz / steam megaphone NZ 03-455-7807 * You talk to me as if from a distance * and I reply with impressions chosen from another time, time, time, * from another time (Brian Eno) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:51:07 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Dunedin (one last time!) >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. Martin wrote a song about that ("Doledrums", a single now found on the Chills "Kaleidoscope World" album. This song is slyly referred to in passing on the Verlaines' song "Don't send me away"... 'slum chums on the doledrums, on a good day they feel nothing') James (completing his Dunedin music quota for the day) ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 01:07:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Which comes first?? Also, Kimberly admits to doing "Jet Set Flier", while Robyn denies its existence....I'm suprised that Robyn hasnt' claimed that he was born at age 22, the day after "Can of Bees" came out...He seems to edit his past a log.. Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Bayard wrote: > > 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: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:51:13 -0700 At 18:02 24.09.96 -0500, Truman Peyote wrote: > >>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. You don't know my mom... :) >>>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". I like that one even better. >>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. It would be 'Bungalow'. Colin's phrasing makes it sound like bunghole. >>10cc, while describing a prison riot, said, "But the cons were indiscreet, >>they were balling in the street". > >That's a good 'un :). I guess it could also be bawling. After all, they were being hit with "Rubber Bullets". >Witness the Go-Go's and their impassioned lyric concerning "Alex >The Seal" (a.k.a. "I Love Cecille"). > Uh...My lips shall remain sealed after that one. ;) ;) ;) --g ______________________________________________________ "What you get is all real, I can't put on an act. It takes brains to do that, anyway." --Andy Partridge "The Mayor Of Simpleton" ______________________________________________________ Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen/ ------------------------------ From: atonal apples and amplified heat Subject: RE: What did you say? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:51:48 -0700 At 18:58 24.09.96 -0700, Livia wrote: >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! YOU HAD TO BRING UP THIS SONG!!! This is my ex-girlfriend's favourite song. I haven't been able to stomach the mention of Boz Scaggs' name the past few weeks. The lyric is indeed "calm". The after "all right." is "No need to bother now". Sorry for the sudden outburst :) Forgive me? --g ______________________________________________________ "What you get is all real, I can't put on an act. It takes brains to do that, anyway." --Andy Partridge "The Mayor Of Simpleton" ______________________________________________________ Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen/ ------------------------------ From: Livia "'atonal apples and amplified heat'" Subject: RE: What did you say? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:57:01 -0700 atonal apples and amplified heat wrote: >>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! > >YOU HAD TO BRING UP THIS SONG!!! This is my ex-girlfriend's favourite song. >I haven't been able to stomach the mention of Boz Scaggs' name the past few >weeks. > >The lyric is indeed "calm". no shit? but it doesn't make sense. i mean, if he wanted something that meant "shut off" (or reduce) that preserves the meter, why not use "dim"? sometimes i really wonder about these lyricists... >The after "all right." is "No need to bother now". i know. the second was a reference to the first. but thanks anyway >Sorry for the sudden outburst :) Forgive me? of course. just let it out, let it all begin :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:24:32 -0500 From: Brandt Subject: ALERT! *Robyn, Bob and Albert TAPE TREE STRUCTURE!* Here's the tree structure! If your name is indented, you are a leaf. If not, you are a branch. All leaves should contact their branches to set up trades, or to send blanks/postage. If you have any questions or catch any typos, please feel free to email me. Enjoy the tapes! A whole lot of you sent thanks with your sign up sheets. You're welcome! And, thanks again to Bayard for the seed. Even the leaves get a great quality DSBD/2 tape due to all the branches generous dubbing efforts!! seed: walden@universe.digex.net DAT>DAT: car3@acpub.duke.edu rreynolds@ksjo.com jh3@netins.net DAT>Analog: walden@universe.digex.net hbrandt@centralnet.net mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu pearceja@wl.wpafb.af.mil car3@acpub.duke.edu firstcat@lsli.com cfranz@sb.grci.com dmayowel@access.digex.net jh3@netins.net schiavo@airmail.net tclark@apple.com gene@cadmus.com Analog>Analog: hbrandt@centralnet.net parkernw@wcg.co.uk (UK contact) brasheas@coral.indstate.edu woj@remus.rutgers.edu normal@grove.ufl.edu jmmontgo@indiana.edu mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu Ginger89@aol.com stevenso@ssc.wisc.edu akoskine@cc.helsinki.fi (non-UK Euro contact) sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu pearceja@wl.wpafb.af.mil gokhman@zakuski.utsa.edu tom@tlr121.rh.psu.edu alexfw@mail.utexas.edu tintin@io.org firstcat@lsli.com dwillem1@ic3.ithaca.edu neffkee@gort.canisius.edu gondola@deltanet.com cfranz@sb.grci.com mjk.apa@email.apa.org rooneya@pilot.msu.edu David881@aol.com dmayowel@access.digex.net ksabatin@uga.cc.uga.edu jnaito@reed.edu hbrtv219@csun1.csun.edu If you are NOT on the tree and want to be, contact one of these folks: schiavo@airmail.net tclark@apple.com gene@cadmus.com BEAT THE BOOTS!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:40:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Bobby, Bob and Al >thanks to bayard for the seed Thanks to *Bill* for taping the show! There's little chance the boot CD of this dylan covers show will sound as good. ps: anyone have a more complete version of "Rabbit Train" than the rough trade instore 4-29-93 (my 24th birthday!) for the rarities tape? Digital types interested in getting on the Crablings tree, contact terry (normal@grove.ufl.edu). He needs digi-branches. (thanks for the tapes btw, JH!) better get on the tree, it's gonna be super cool. ------------------------------ From: Andy Holyer Subject: RE: What did you say? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:09:59 +-100 ---------- >From: Truman Peyote[SMTP:sdodge@inforel.com] >Sent: 24 September 1996 21:01 >To: fegmaniax@ecto.org >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. The show in Britain was called "It's a knockout" (hence the line Gabriel = sings), and it wasn't just for children - it was on prime time over the = summer. The show was sort of like an international competitive version = of Gladiators, without the professional gladiators... When I was eight, = I loved it. ObRobyn: On mishearings, I'm still sorry that Robyn doesn't sing "so I could wet = myself in the shower", which is what I always heard... It just appeals = to my sense of humour I suppose... ObMishearings: OK, so what's with "Brass in Pocket?" What does "Got muskrat, so reet" = mean? What's "detour leaning"? Just asking.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:14:58 -0500 From: "John, Jacci, & Madison" Subject: That Thing You Do A friend told me yesterday that the soundtrack is finally out, so I hopped down to my local record store to have a look. The band names and songs look fairly normal and very 60's, until about halfway down in the tracklisting, where the following song and band name stick out like a sore thumb: Shrimp Shack- CAPN GEECH AND THE SHRIMP SHACK SHOOTERS Could this be the song Robyn contributed? Can someone who owns the disc or someone who has access to it verify this? PS--got the new Rolling Stone today. Fairly glowing review of Moss Elixir and Mossy Liquor. I'll try to copy it and send it out later on. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .