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 #56 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 56 Saturday March 22 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: ------- ------- Egyptians Range List You and Oblivion Re: Egyptians Range List HELP!!!! Re: More cartoons Re: You and Oblivion Re: Egyptians Range List Re: the whole lot Allright Yeah! The REAL lyrics Re: Allright Yeah! The REAL lyrics longevity 1st posting, Iron Horse show Re: Perspex Syd, innovation and whatnot Re: lengthy and good! more of the same re: more of the same re: more of the same Live pics on my WWW site Re: Allright Yeah! The REAL lyrics Re: more of the same re: more of the same Re: more of the same Re: Egyptians Range List Range list addition Re: Range list addition Boston show Dali ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:52:22 -0500 (EST) Subject: Egyptians Range List Just something I thought up in my spare time, really... Singing Range List: Because I felt like compiling it... (btw, it goes bass->baritone->tenor->alto. There's a fair amount of overlap between these, so a tenor can sing things in baritone or alto range.) (and please correct if you can. This is not a professional judgement as I am not a professional, and this is usually judged after only a few songs in the cases on Non-Soft Boys. If I got you pegged wrong, let me know.) Robyn Hitchcock Baritone. Can sing tenor now, though. He did the baritone on "Most Peculiar Voice" Andy Metcalfe Baritone. Can someone with a copy of Fish Turned Human (w/ Andy on lead vocals) confirm? I believe that he sings bass on MPV, but I'm not sure. He does, though, sing the low vocals on the studio Surfer Ghost, I think. Morris Windsor Tenor or alto. I believe that he sings the high Egyptians Backing Vocals and that he did the tenor on MPV. Roger Jackson Unknown Jim Melton Unknown. Probably Baritone. Matt Seligman Unknown Kimberly Rew Unknown James Fletcher Tenor, probably (he sings high vocals on Ye Sleeping Knights) Other: The Kinks: Ray Davies Tenor, but can sing alto Dave Davies Baritone, but sings in tenor range. Vic Chesnutt Baritone. Definitely. The High Llamas: Sean O'Hagan Alto or high tenor The Favourite Colour: Tris McCall High tenor or alto James Dignan Bass or low baritone Mark Gloster Baritone. Possibly tenor. Mike Godwin Bass Dolph Chaney Baritone Other Days: Mike Breen Baritone Nathan Dunne Tenor (maybe) (note. I may have them switched, because I'm not sure who sings what. I assumed that Mike sings lead on Not This Way, and Nathan sings lead on Infinite Girl. This is up for correction.) Kevin Z. Slick Tenor The Delusions: Matt Doberman Baritone Jeremy Enigk Tenor Donovan Baritone Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett Baritone Roger Waters Baritone. I think. David Gilmour Tenor Richard Wright Tenor Howlin' Wolf Bass Frank Black Tenor, but very versatile. Brian Wilson Tenor. Used to be very versatile. Viva Saturn: Steve Roback Tenor Yes: Jon Anderson Tenor I'd like to add in The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Squeeze The Monkees and Bob Dylan, but I don't have access to their materials and/or I don't know who sings what. (oh..I believe that standard Egyptians vocal arrangement is Robyn singing low vocals, Morris singing high and Andy signing falsetto to match Morris. That's not always what they do, but they do it sometimes, at least) Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ From: tanter@econs.umass.edu Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 18:11:51 -0500 Subject: You and Oblivion A source I can't name told me today that there is a lot more stuff than what's on Y&O--about 9 hours worth. There's food for thought! Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 18:24:53 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Egyptians Range List I thought Andy was a bass (Robyn can sing low, but I thought Andy did the bass part in the live 'uncorrected personality traits..'?) All well and good, but who sings which verses of 'The Can Opener'? And if Andy is a bass, does that make Robyn a trout (saw that one coming, didn't you.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:34:20 -0600 From: mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Michael Brage) Subject: HELP!!!! Fegs, The conversation thus far has been: Jay pleaded: >A while back I ordered this from a store in New York at which a list member >works (sorry- forgot who you were). There were several in stock as reported >at the time, but I never received mine. My order was phoned in and my credit >card number was given. If the kind member of the list could contact me, I'd >appreciate it! > ><<"Deck Of Cards" (performed by The Soft Boys) b/w "Flesh Number One" >(performed by Robyn Hitchcock) From Bucketfull Of Brains magazine (1988) >flexi.>> >I sent an order also and still have not heard anything. >I believe the list member's name was Tom, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't >me. This happened to me too. I called the store and they had my order but just didn't send it. The store guy didn't know what happened. Anyway, I saved the phone number on an old email. Here it is. "Yeah, it's 1-(212)-463-8900 and ask for Mike and please tell him that Tom told you about the Robyn Hitchcock records. Have fun!! p.s. if Mike's not there, you can order it through whoever's working at the time probably!" Good luck, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:53:51 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: More cartoons >From: Terrence M Marks > >G-Force (the version of Battle of the Planets/Gatchaman with all the >interesting stuff edited out so it's just a bunch of people in bird >costumes beating up uniformed bad guys) was on the Cartoon Network...may >still be (they now have Thundercats and Voltron. I used to love >Thudnercats when I was younger..) OK, I got one...does anyone here remember a cartoon show called Prince Planet? It was contemporary to Speed Racer and Kimba The White Lion and had the same anima look, and was my very favorite show when I was 4-5 years old. That was when I lived in Miami, and now that I've been on the West Coast for years and years, I have yet to meet ANYONE who has even heard of this show. I didn't just imagine it, really! ;) The truth is, I can hardly even remember the show's content anymore, beyond the basics (sort of a Shazam-type concept involving a "P" pendant which was the boy's "power source"). Any help? ;) Eb, who kinda likes the ring of "Thudnercats" ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:40:53 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: You and Oblivion Odd...according to Robyn (or at least according to Robyn, according to the Goldmine article), Y&O was pretty much the best 22 songs out of 35... but your source is prolly more reliable than Goldmine was (no sarcasm) Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 tanter@econs.umass.edu wrote: > A source I can't name told me today that there is a lot more stuff than > what's on Y&O--about 9 hours worth. There's food for thought! > > Marcy > ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:19:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Egyptians Range List Mr. Terrence, in a very interesting thread, mentions: << I'd like to add in The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Squeeze The Monkees and Bob Dylan, but I don't have access to their materials and/or I don't know who sings what. >> I'll take on Squeeze. Glenn Tilbrook, the main singer for the band, is a pretty solid tenor, although probably one of the most versatile and vocally developed crooners in rock, and therefore more than likely an equally gifted alto. Like them or not, Tilbrook is an ace singer who manages dramatic vocal "readings" without (too often, anyway) drenching his songs in overblown preciousness or mellowdramatics. I'll leave the cheap shot examples of the latter for you all to pick- more fun that way. ;) Chris Difford, main lyricist for the group, usually sings one or two songs per record. He's best remembered for the song "Cool For Cats." He'd be a low baritone or a bass. His versatility is for shit, as he willingly admits, but he's got a lot of character that suits the songs he sings. Well, there you have it; another typical non-Robyn related post from yours truly. Oh wait, didn't I just get done embarrassing myself over some stuff that hasn't been re-issued? Which reminds me.... ;) Blinking On And Off, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:49:09 From: Keith Hanlon Subject: Re: the whole lot >They seem to be flogging the >idea that if they reissue enough stuff then it will eventually hit, >that RH will become the next Oasis minus the bickering brother act. >My theory is this: if he hasn't sold big numbers by now, it isn't >going to happen (no fault of RH, mind you!). First off, welcome to the list! It's a pleasure to read your post. Many people have mentioned that Robyn won't sell in the future because he's missed his chance, that was then this is now, he's only a cult artist, blah blah blah... and I see your point. But, I can't help thinking about other quality acts that have been rediscovered after the fact. Big Star would be the big one. Can is starting to get very, very, very hip. Yoko Ono. Or - why not? - 70's Miles Davis and Esquivel! (I'm saying this without having any data on the above artist's record sales, so feel free to kill my little theory). All I'm saying is that Robyn has a big enough cult status to pull off a second coming. It may not be probable, but certainly not impossible. Keith ...................................................... Norton's Orchestraville Homepage http://www.frognet.net/~khanlon/Nortons_home ...................................................... ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:46:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: Allright Yeah! The REAL lyrics Here's the REAL Swedish lyrics...don't let that foreign language thing fool you... The Swedish Version lyrics: [as per Mossy Liquor. I think that this is probably Robyn's most inventive song, akin, perhaps to some of Syd Barrett's later material :) ] Y'all must've gone Men that ate into at yaw, in the commoner's bath Y'all must've bicker When grow into eight feet at the commoner's bath Nay nay nay nay Are they into Tina Turner? Nay nay nay nay nay Okay, yeah. Y'all must've gone In your league are many gavel into the shade Y'all must've run After all that's said at, lend the room at all Hmm? See the brain on the left? Look for love nay nay nay nay nay okay, yeah Far to inverting Pay a tilt into her You fulbar the fur piano far it was a day now [need help on the two lines above] Y'all must've struck men healthed in Achmed, a sickened ate old goat Y'all must've run after all that's said at sale, hey do, hey do goodbye, Leighton morgue it's an instant brother on tinfoil nay nay nay nay nay okay yeah okay yeah okay yeah! Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 02:05:28 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: Allright Yeah! The REAL lyrics On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Terrence M Marks wrote: > Here's the REAL Swedish lyrics...don't let that foreign language thing > fool you... > The Swedish Version lyrics: > [as per Mossy Liquor. I think that this is probably > Robyn's most inventive song, akin, perhaps to some > of Syd Barrett's later material :) ] Terry, will you marry me? :) :) Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ From: tanter@econs.umass.edu Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:10:21 -0500 Subject: longevity Until Robyn is dead/stops making music, he will have an audience. It may not be huge, but it will be there even when he's stopped touring. My kids like some of his stuff and they're 3 3/4 and almost 2!! Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 10:09:37 -0800 From: Deborah L Subject: 1st posting, Iron Horse show Hi all- I've been lurking for two months now and decided it was time to say hi; I love finding so many people as enthralled with Robyn as I am! I got the Glass Fish CD recently, and I really enjoy hearing some of my favourite (and not-so-favourite) songs redone in such a way that they make me think about them differently. One short Robyn encounter to note: my best friend went to see Robyn at the Iron Horse (I'm trying to be patient til he comes to Seattle in June; just couldn't afford the air fare this time...) and bought me a cone. Well, at that venue the band has to share the bathroom with the audience, and she bumped into Robyn in line (I understand he was very aggravated he had to wait and apologized to the fans for his lateness once he made it to the stage). The cone she'd gotten was one with a parachute turning into something else (she's keeping me in suspense til I get it in the mail), and she explained to him that she'd picked that one because I took her skydiving once. Robyn was quite taken aback by that idea, and asked all sorts of questions about how long she fell before the chute opened, if she could breathe up there (? There's lots of air up there, Robyn!) etc. Then he just muttered half to himself "better you than me" and wandered off shaking his head. Her description of the show sounds similar to ones I've read about other shows, i.e. the lime, all those new songs, the book. He sang a very morose Raining Twilight Coast and then introduced DeChirico St with "When I was in a better mood I wrote this song..." Thanks for listening! -Debora (I used to have an "H" at the end but when Robyn signed my cone he asked my friend how to spell it, and then while signing he thought a minute, shook his head and said "no H, definitely not for her". The great one spoke!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:51:37 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Perspex Syd, innovation and whatnot On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Phil Edwards wrote: > > Soft Boys Barrett sighting: "Gigolo Aunt" (introduced by RH as "Moving > around in a trenchcoat"). But I guess you knew about that one. I thought it was "Grooving"... - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:43:10 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: lengthy and good! This is a good interview with Robyn, and very interesting to hear him talk about art and literature. The 2 pictures there are strange-- I had to look at the first one about three times before I was convinced that it truly was Robyn, and in the second picture it looks like he's wearing a marching band hat. Does anyone know exactly what this Microsoft thing is? He wasn't very clear about it. It sounds intriguing. Also, what about the writer Mervyn Peake? Does anyone know anything more about him? On a completely unrelated subject: The new Pavement album is SMASHING! I have been listening to it at least twice a day ever since I got it. I am convinced that Steve Malkmus will one day be THE Mr. lj Lindhurst!!!! By the way, I love that story about Robyn deciding not to put an 'H' at the end of Debora-- though it is sad to think of Robyn having to wait in line for a public restroom at his own show. lots of 2's and 3's in this...must be a signal lj ------------------------------ From: RIELWJ@sbu.edu Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:45:25 EDT Subject: more of the same Been thinking even more about this Rhino/compilation/reissue debate that's been so popular. Keith Hanlon made a really good point that I seemed to have neglected:everybody has a chance for a second coming did. Jesus Christ did. The Stone Roses did (and didn't fare quite as well, or as worse, depending on which side you're on, boy). Yes, Robyn still has an opportunity this late in his career, and might I say he looks physically better than those rotting corpses posing as Aerosmith on the cover of the most recent EW magazine. Nobody would be happier to see him get fat rich and successful than me, and he deserves it. I tend to think about the fact that many of us can claim our first exposures to certain bands/musicians came through a Greatest Hits effort. Keith mentioned Big Star, and I'll admit that my first Alex Chilton CD was the "19 Years..." compo a few years back and I love it. Echo & the Bunnymen's strongest lp (for my $) is "Songs to Learn & Sing." There are some amazing success stories as far as comp's go. "Standing on a Beach" broke the Cure and probably quadrupled their fan base (if not more). The Best of Van Morrisson is nearly always a top seller in back catalogs. I don't know. It'll either succeed in a big way or drop right through the cracks. I've never thought of Rhino as being a major label--perhaps I'm wrong-- but I hope they do it right and get some promotion behind it if they're going to do it. The A&M Hits CD came out of nowhere for me. The first time I even heard of it was by seeing it listed in a BMG Club ad. As some have said, I kind of like the idea of having all the "best" songs on one disc, but a lot of times they aren't the best songs. We all disagree with some choices and simply putting together the singles isn't necessarily an acurate presentation of the best. I don't know if I'll buy it or not. Another good example of career energized by reissues:the Ramones (bear with me, here). The pretty much floundered through the eighties but when Warner released the remastered versions of the first four lps, along w/ some rarities, I think it inspired them a lot. As far as I'm concerned, their 3 1990's studio lps were a fabulous close to their days (untill the reuinion...) One more thing. In response to some comments on the quality of "Groovy Decoy"..."Decay"...whatever it's called today, the only version I have is the Glass Fish cassette of "Decoy" w/ "How Do You Work..." Now, with out the others to compare with, I will say that I, too, think it's a strangely week lp. I can listen to individual songs and be pleased, but as a whole it sounds oddly...sterile? Forced? I can't put my finger on it. Just for the record, my ranking of the lps I have: Globe Of Frogs Eye Perspex Island BSDR Gotta Let This Hen Out Give It To The Toth Boys Queen Elvis Respect Element ... Fegmania! IODOT Moss... Invisible Hitchcock Y&O Groovy... One last thought. My dream movie: A David Cronenberg film written by Robyn Hitchcock. Starring who? Any ideas? Hold My Life, RIEL ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 16:57:20 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: re: more of the same DANGER! WARNING! Obsessive, weird, silly, and not particularly Robyn-related stuff to follow. (Forgive me, it's been a very long week.) RIEL sed: > One last thought. My dream movie: A David Cronenberg film written >by Robyn Hitchcock. Starring who? Any ideas? Uh oh. Will strong, mind weak. Ideas pouring forth. Sweat is beading on brow. This really hits a nerve with me, being that I'm way into Robyn and Cronenberg. And all of a sudden there seems to be quite a few similarites between the two. How about Robyn's life story, with Jeremy Irons playing Robyn, who's a taxidermist looking for a fight, except there's another evil twin Robyn which has a woman's shadow and follows in James Dean's Porsche 356? You could call it "Dead Wife Ringers." Or, a remake of "The Fly" based on Robyn's song of the same name? Or a "Madonna Butterfly," a redo of "M. Butterfly," which is basically a rehash of "Egyptian Cream" anyway. Or a remake of "Videodrome" starring Clean Steve and justice herself, Elaine, except they both live in East Grinstead and they're controlled by hats instead of TVs. OK. I'm better now. Thank you. __________________________________________________ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. +++ Internet Publishing Specialist E-DOC +++ http://www.edoc.com/ Voice: (410) 691-6265 +++ Fax: (410) 691-6235 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:50:35 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: re: more of the same On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > How about Robyn's life story, with Jeremy Irons playing Robyn Really? I'd prefer "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, myself. Tracy "with dual doneness controls" Copeland ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:02:50 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Live pics on my WWW site I'd like to invite all of you WWW-enabled fegs over to my webspace to check out five pictures of Robyn I took at the 8 by 10 Club show in Baltimore on March 5, 1997. If you're not WWW-enabled, I could probably send you the pictures (they're 72-dpi .gif scans of not-very-great photos). Just point yr browser at and click away. (Warning: it's full of Netscape 3.0-dependent stuff, but anybody should be able to see the pictures.) I also have a 90% up-to-date list of all the Robyn stuff I own (and trade), if you're so inclined. Hope y'all enjoy the pictures. __________________________________________________ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. +++ Internet Publishing Specialist E-DOC +++ http://www.edoc.com/ Voice: (410) 691-6265 +++ Fax: (410) 691-6235 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 15:38:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: Allright Yeah! The REAL lyrics >Here's the REAL Swedish lyrics...don't let that foreign language thing >fool you... >Y'all must've gone >Y'all must've bicker I thought the first verse was about Al Gore and Newt Gingrich! "Ya Mr. Gore....Ya Mr. Speaker" (but then I was the leader of the Bucky bandwagon). -russ ------------------------------ Subject: Re: more of the same Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 15:28:17 -0800 From: Tom Clark RIEL proposed: > One last thought. My dream movie: A David Cronenberg film written >by Robyn Hitchcock. Starring who? Any ideas? William Burroughs as "The Professor" Andy Metcalfe as "The Body On The Railings" David Cronenberg as "The Director Cameo" I kinda like the idea around _Raymond Chandler Evening_: A guy running from a crime that hasn't happened yet. Hey wait - isn't that the "plot" of Lynch's "Lost Highway"? In that case, a frequently nude Patricia Arquette is in order! Weekend! -tc ******************************************* Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://www.netgate.net/~tclark "Knowledge Is Good" - Emile Faber ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:52:27 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: re: more of the same On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Tracy Aileen Copeland wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > > > How about Robyn's life story, with Jeremy Irons playing Robyn > > Really? I'd prefer "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, myself. > > Tracy "with dual doneness controls" Copeland No, no, no. In an ideal world where one could manipulate time and space, one would be able to choose the young Peter Cook, the -obvious- choice :). An odd note- the other day I was hanging round one of the used record stores here in the hood, which happens to have a gorgeous old Victrola prominently displayed (the owner lets people play it too, he has lots of nifty old 78s, but anyway....). Inside it he has an advertisement for it from a publication entitled "the Successful Farmer" extolling the wonders of Victrola ownserhip- "HEAR Toscanini in your own home!" or whatever. Anyway, one of the things it exclaims you can do is "HEAR the witticisms of Raymond Hitchcock". As his son says, you could have knocked me down with a feather. Anyone heard these records or seen them? I didn't even know they existed. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:04:33 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: more of the same On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Tom Clark wrote: > RIEL proposed: > > One last thought. My dream movie: A David Cronenberg film written > >by Robyn Hitchcock. Starring who? Any ideas? Christopher Walken as a fruit-eating vampire (yeah, I know, that's been done, but it was too good to pass up, what with the "fruit par Robyn" marketing tie-in possibilities) Harry Dean Stanton as Sam Spade Elvis Costello as a guy who watches Sam Spade Ray Davies as a guy who watches -him- meet a mysterious woman at a large train station every Friday night Roman Polanski as the Fearless Vampire Killer Donovan in a cameo appearance performing "Atlantis" (it -must- be "Atlantis") at the seedy bar where all of these characters hang out Tom Waits as the Bartender Who Has Seen It All, Buddy Love on ya, Susan please forgive me, I just finished finals and I'm a little giddy :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 19:10:16 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: Egyptians Range List On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 Hedblade@aol.com wrote: > Mr. Terrence, in a very interesting thread, mentions: > > << I'd like to add in The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Squeeze > The Monkees and Bob Dylan, but I don't have access to their > materials and/or I don't know who sings what. >> Paul is a sweet choirboy tenor (what, you have no Beatles records? are you from Mars? :)), and so is Lennon (a tenor that is, not a sweet one), and although he usually sings slightly lower than Macca I wouldn't peg him for a baritone. Bob Dylan, huh, that's a tough one. Bobby-D sounds tenorish to me most of the time, though he has moments where his voice sounds considerably lower (witness the bizarre vocal transformation of "Nashville Skyline"). I actually don't own any Monkees records, but I remember Davey Jones was definitely a (whiny, squeaky, annoying, supposed to be boyishly cute) tenor, and I think Mickey Dolenz was a baritone. the vast majority of pop singers tend to be tenors. My amateur and completely fallible way of gauging this is if I can sing along with them without straining, they are probably tenor (my singing voice is in the a bitta tenor/a bitta alto range, just slightly higher pitched than Nico but not with the same funereal quality :)). > I'll take on Squeeze. Glenn Tilbrook, the main singer for the band, is a > pretty solid tenor, although probably one of the most versatile and vocally > developed crooners in rock, and therefore more than likely an equally gifted > alto. Like them or not, Tilbrook is an ace singer who manages dramatic vocal > "readings" without (too often, anyway) drenching his songs in overblown > preciousness or mellowdramatics. I'll leave the cheap shot examples of the > latter for you all to pick- more fun that way. ;) I think Glenn Tilbrook is aces. Occasionally I get annoyed with him because he just sounds a bit "adult contemporary" in his vocal stylings. I should emphasize that this is rare, but it DOES happen. What's that song they do about a guy being in love with his best friend? Blech. Love on ya, Susan also guilty of long-winded non-Robyn stuff on occasion :) ------------------------------ From: normal@grove.ufl.edu Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 23:51:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: Range list addition Well, Beck is a tenor...(First day of a weekend of good music Atari Teenage Riot/The Cardigans/Beck I feel so poppy. Unfort, Olivia Tremor Control, which would have been Saturday's listen, cancelled. So now I just gotta be content with a local band...) And M. Doughty of Soul Coughing is a tenor, I believe, but his singing style makes it hard to tell.. Hmm...gotta be someone else I could add... (I think that Jim Melton is a baritone...) Julian Cope is a tenor...(or at least he was on Wilder) (dang..I keep thinking that I've got something really cool to say..) Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 23:07:57 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: Range list addition On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 normal@grove.ufl.edu wrote: > Hmm...gotta be someone else I could add... > (I think that Jim Melton is a baritone...) > Julian Cope is a tenor...(or at least he was on Wilder) > (dang..I keep thinking that I've got something really cool to say..) You forgot John Cale (baritone), David Bowie (started out as kinda strained tenor, eased into baritone), and Bryan Ferry (also baritone, would be my uneducated guess- I know I can't sing as low as he does). Baritone would also be my guess for Elvis Costello. Love on ya, Susan babbling as usual ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 01:42:21 -0500 (EST) From: Eugene Subject: Boston show The Boston show was great. He played a lot of non-album stuff. The Gene Hackman song was particularly pleasant and also he did a great cover of Some Kind Of Love. I was pleased that he didn't play so much off of Moss Elixer, at least not many of the songs he was doing on his tour two years ago. (Sinister But Happy, Filthy Bird, DeChiraco Street) I've just heard them so much live lately. Though he did play some of the newer ones from the album and they were excellent (Speed Of Things, You & Oblivion). I'll post a set list as soon as I listen to the tape. :)! -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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 19:05:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: Dali Saw a Salvador Dali exhibit the other weekend.. He has a painting entitled "Madonna of the Birds". I forget what it was about..coincidence? Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .