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 V5 #4 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 4 Sunday January 5 1997 To post, send mail to fegmaniax@ecto.org To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@ecto.org with the words "unsubscribe fegmaniax-digest" in the message body. Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@ecto.org FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/index.html Archives are available at ftp://www.ecto.org/pub/lists/fegmaniax/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Dumb and Dumber connection XTC (Was dumb and dumber connection) Re: Italian REM bootleg "The Hooded One" & "Flesh Number 1" Re: "The Hooded One" & "Flesh Number 1" 1996: it was a relentlessly mediocre year... Re: "The Hooded One" & "Flesh Number 1" Polonsky Re: Polonsky Re: "The Hooded One" That controversial RH/Beck comparison ------------------------------ Subject: Dumb and Dumber connection Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 23:16:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel Saunders" There was a bit of furor about this on the list a while ago - I don't know whether it was sorted out, but I found something that would in my local record store. It's an album called "Dumb and Dumber" (NOT a soundtrack album) and it has cartoons of the main characters of that classic movie on the cover, along with the words "Get down, get dumb" and "WDUM: all dumb, all the time". The album contained songs like "I Wanna Play My Drums All Day" and some Monkees songs, but also "Balloon Man" by Robyn Hitchcock. Think this is an insult? As an unrelated sidenote, I just found out that that terrific Crash Test Dummies single on the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack, "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead", has also been done by XTC. XTC wrote the song, right? Daniel Saunders A happy bird is an acid bird Life is heaven and hell. All else is silence. - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ From: Ross Overbury Date: Sun, 5 Jan 97 10:08:15 EST Subject: XTC (Was dumb and dumber connection) It really annoyed me when the Crash Test Dummies' "Peter Pumpkinhead" got all that airtime. Not that they did a bad version of it, but they did virtually nothing new with the arrangement (aside from the singer's very distinctive voice). That would be fine too, but the radio guys with the briefcases and the demographics studies ignored the original version here and played the bejesus out of the remake. I played the XTC version for a friend who liked the CTD version, and he said "So what, it sounds just like the CTD version". But it's all XTC's ideas, and the original's still got plenty of bejesus in it. Radio execs here playlisted one cut from "Drums and Wires", then wrote the band off forever. Pout. -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 15:49:54 -0500 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: Italian REM bootleg At 10:39 PM 1/3/97 GMT, Phil Edwards (amroth@zetnet.co.uk) wrote: >In response to the people who've mailed me about this, it's called >"Covering 'Em" and it's on the Why Not? (or possibly Backstage) >label, catalogue number BKCD 067. I bought the exact same boot compilation back in early '95 or so, only it's called "Covering Them" with "REM" in big letters and the same "recorded live in the 80s/90/s in USA" subtitle. It was released on yet another mysterious Italian bootleg label, PostScript (catalog number PSCD 1260). Info in tiny print reads "Manufactured and distributed by Red Lin S.r.l. Via Olona, 14", then "20089 Quito De'Stampi - Rozzano - Milano(Italy) Phones: 02/57512071 - fax:02/57512061" Just thought I'd add my two cents. __________________________________________________________ Mike & Dianne Runion Cocoa, Florida email: mrrunion@tng.net (home) email: Michael.Runion-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov WWW: http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/default.htm "A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends, Drink another, coin a phrase..." -REM __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 15:56:40 -0500 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: "The Hooded One" & "Flesh Number 1" Can anyone give me any information regarding the following Robyn paraphenalia (quality & track listings)? "Flesh Number 1" - it's a 12" I think "The Hooded One" - a bootleg on vinyl I believe I found them online and wonder if they're worth the money. Thanks in advance. __________________________________________________________ Mike Runion Cocoa, Florida email: mrrunion@tng.net (home) email: Michael.Runion-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov WWW: http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/default.htm "A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends, Drink another, coin a phrase..." -REM __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 11:44:08 -0500 (EST) From: mr bean jeans Subject: Re: "The Hooded One" & "Flesh Number 1" also sprach mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.): >"Flesh Number 1" - it's a 12" I think yep. it's a promo 12" single on translucent blue vinyl. "flesh no. 1 (beatle denis)" on side one b/w "legalized murder". i've seen this for as much as $15, but $10 is probably more appropriate. >"The Hooded One" - a bootleg on vinyl I believe yep. 3/28/86, washington d.c. is the date and location of the show as advertised by the sleeve. i'm assuming that the show was at the 9:30 club, but i don't know for certain. the sound quality is listenable, but not great. again, i'd not pay much more than $10 for this. it's fairly common and can be found without too much effort. woj ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 11:52:04 -0500 Subject: 1996: it was a relentlessly mediocre year... i give in. here's my taudry little list: 1) the afghan whigs _black love_ 2) bob mould 3) throwing muses _limbo_ 4) the boo radleys _c'mon kids_ 5) sir robyn _mossy elixir/moss liquor_ 6) pulp _different class_ 7) ash _1977_ [though i definitely could do without the sick party at the end] 8) love and rockets _sweet f.a._ 9) lush _lovelife_ 10) the cure _wild mood swings_ [even if it is their worst since _the head on the door_; besides, everyone needs some mind candy from time to time; that seems to far too much of what little excelled in 1996. oh well and "7" year is here, and we all know what that means...] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 14:58:32 -0500 From: nicastr@mail.idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: "The Hooded One" & "Flesh Number 1" >>"The Hooded One" - a bootleg on vinyl I believe > >yep. 3/28/86, washington d.c. is the date and location of the show as >advertised by the sleeve. i'm assuming that the show was at the 9:30 >club, but i don't know for certain. the sound quality is listenable, >but not great. again, i'd not pay much more than $10 for this. it's >fairly common and can be found without too much effort. > >woj Yes, I believe this is the first Egyptians show at the 930. It's an average audience recording, and the performance is good. If you live in the D.C. area there is a shop called Record Convergence in Fairfax, VA, that has a huge stack of these selling for $1.00 each. ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 16:38:04 -0500 Subject: Polonsky << I got the Jonny Polonsky-album: Hi My Name Is Jonny for X-mas and I like it a lot >> Agreed! The best Frank Black record Frank Black didn't do! Kicks "The Cult Of Ray"'s sorry ass to and fro. Jay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:11:29 -0900 Subject: Re: Polonsky From: Locutus of Borg (Brett Cooper) >Agreed! The best Frank Black record Frank Black didn't do! Kicks "The Cult >Of Ray"'s sorry ass to and fro. I love the "Teenager of the Year" album better than "The Cult of Ray." "Speedy Marie" is probably one of Black's best tracks ever! Brett ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 17:46:16 -0500 Subject: Re: "The Hooded One" >>"The Hooded One" - a bootleg on vinyl I believe Yes, I believe this is the first Egyptians show at the 930. It's an average audience recording, and the performance is good. If you live in the D.C. area there is a shop called Record Convergence in Fairfax, VA, that has a huge stack of these selling for $1.00 each. >> Hey, DC Fegs: "I'll buy that for a dollar!" Anyone who would be so kind to pick one up for me could get a nice tape for trade or something. Sincerely, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:56:20 GMT From: Phil Edwards Subject: That controversial RH/Beck comparison Well yes, they are very different. Yes, Beck's stuff is very American & RH's is very English (not "European"!) But I do think they share a gift with language *and* a capacity not to take what they write too seriously: a rare combination, which results in some lyrics that raise a smile, some that are genuinely poetic & moving, and some that are kind of halfway in between. More to the point, I can't think of any other songwriter I'd say this about. Comments? Phil -- Phil Edwards amroth@zetnet.co.uk "In reality, methane from decomposing manure is very unlikely to have been a hazard on the Ark" - John Woodmoroppe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .