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 #85 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 85 Sunday April 27 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: ------- ------- Fegmanian Graffiti cult on this matter of sugarplastic... near-end of the century show...? Wilde accusations. Wrongs I wish Id bitten Mark's furniture problem (No RH, really.) Royal Queen Albert Storefront and other live albums deni in hoboken Music In commercials Re: Royal Queen Albert Re: Music In commercials Re: Music In commercials Re: Music In commercials Re: RH cover art caption contest Re: Royal Queen Albert Re: Music In commercials Re: Music In commercials Re: Royal Queen Albert Re: Music In commercials(absolutely no Robyn) Re: Royal Queen Albert Re: Music In commercials Re: Music In commercials Re: Music In commercials Re: Music In commercials ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:13:22 -0700 From: Nick Winkworth CC: "Reynolds, Russ" Subject: Fegmanian Graffiti "Big Russ" announced radiophonically: > approaching)...the Robyn Hitchcock cover art caption contest! Pick a > picture from any Robyn Hitchcock album (front, back, inner sleeve or CD > booklet--anywhere on the package) and come up with a clever caption. > Maybe someone could scan some of the funnier ones and put them on the > web site. A totally cool idea, Mr Reynolds. Bravo! I'm running home to my collection even as we squeak. My scanner is at your disposal... ~N (If these did get on the web site, visitors could vote for their fave.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:58:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: cult Since we are in a cult, who among us wants to negotiate a contract with Reebok or adidas? ;-) griffith ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@email.csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:19:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Wet Toast Tweezers Subject: on this matter of sugarplastic... hiya-- i got today 'bang the earth is round' from sugarplastic. of course i did so solely on the advise of the list. the fact that it was 2 us dollars had nothing to do with it. but, i remember a discussion a while back about them. there seemed to be agreement that this was the weaker of their two ablums, correct? or am i smoking toast, again?? for those who have not pleasured themselves with such sounds... it is quite good. full trio action (remember trios?) that sounds really good. very XTC (i hate to say stuff like that but it is very obvious). i would even go so far as to say that it is worth it to get their first (this being their second), if i could find it in this wee town. slack, .chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:25:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Wet Toast Tweezers Subject: near-end of the century show...? i pulled this off the ticket bastard site. it seems odd but maybe this is the fegmaniax festival we've talked about??? slap me if this has been mentioned already... *********** COOLEY/CONLON PRESENTS ROBYN HITCHCOCK THE POINT * * MUST BE 18 OR OLDER TUE FEB 25,1997 8:30PM DRS THE POINT: All Events Primary Act: ROBYN HITCHCOCK City: ATLANTA State: GA Event Date: 1-JAN-99 Charge-By-Phone: 404-249-6400 ********** ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 01:50:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Wilde accusations. Ms. Copeland asked: << > I'll quote another wise woman- my mom. > > 1) The only thing worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about. Oscar Wilde is your mom? Wow. >> No, my mom isn't Oscar Wilde, but she is quite earnest. As an English major in school, I was blown away to have words I'd heard all my life credited to that fop Wilde. He stole everything. Next thing you're going to tell me is that he writes all of Morrissey's lyrics or something. ;) Jay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:54:46 -0400 From: WISNIEWSKI Subject: Wrongs I wish Id bitten -- Kay Lord Wisniewski Wis@Worldnet.Att.Net Hmmm--in a universe far way and long ago--yes, deep within the music of another womb I heard these songs Northern Sky Nick Drake Sunrise, Kids are Alright Who Hide Your Love Away, For No One Beatles What Goes On, Sunday Morning,Im set Free, Jesus, Pale Blue eyes--Velvets The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Jimmy Webb Now Be Thankfull Fairport Jesus was a Crossmaker Judee Sill I Will Go Unbounded Eric Anderson Gods Children,Days,VGPS, Waterloo Twilight Manuvers Kinks Sounds Great When Your Dead, Tonight,, Let there be more Darkness ,OneLong Pair of Eyes, Im Only You, Winchester, Glass The midnight fish who 4 out of the 5 fegs who e-mailed me privetly think is probobly uncircimscised(no one claimed expereintial knowledge). Dont Look Back, Too Much of Nothin,Desolation Row Brian Wilsons rival I Am Waiting, Sway ,Ruby Tuesday Stones Cant Hardly Wait Mats Lincoln county Mc bar gurls Into the Mystic the man Salsbury Hill, DIY, Peter Gabriel Night in my Veins, 2,000 Miles, Hymn To Her The( She could Have Been a) Contenders On My Way Home the unreal Neal Young? You Didnt Have To Be So Nice Spoonfull Broken Wing John Mayall Livin In Another Time , Allegory Murray Attaway Pilgrimage Robyns other back-up band Cruxifixtion of Christ Psychadellic Firs Sandy, Darkness at the Edge of Town The Anti-Robyn And other too, but I didnt write them down when I first awoke so they were lost again untill someone else kindly fetched them back... K, the Neo-Platonic Cap, whom Ficino{new band out of Florence) would tell to "listen to less bittersweet, --Turn up that disco beat" instead. ------------------------------ Subject: Mark's furniture problem (No RH, really.) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 97 10:32:28 -0000 From: The Great Quail I asked: >>Speaking of which, has the backmasking on Glass Flesh begun to have the >>desired effect yet on our friends, children, and spouses? Brothers >>Bayard and Mark? To which Mark responded: >So far they have less impact on >the mamalian life forms in my house so far than the furniture. The >kitchen table and walls are becoming somewhat Dali-esque, the grand >piano I wish I had is blobifying and I'm beginning to notice that all my >teeth are turning to piano keys and the cats are flying and the water >gushes from the speakers of my adorable black Powermac. . . . Thank God! And all this time I was stressing that it was my Cranberries albums that were doing it to the furniture. "It must be that damnanable pesky couch they kept moving around on that CD of theirs," I though, as I desperately tried to read my melting clocks. Which, by the way, are all digital - something Dali never had to contend with! Thanks for the tip, Mark. Not only will I stop playing Glass Flesh around the house without proper slip covers, I will bend my life on getting it blasted over every house speaker in every Ikea store in the nation, please cue the insane laughter. . . . Quail ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | "Keeper of the Libyrinth" | Sarnath - The Quailspace Web Page: riverrun Discordian Society | http://www.microserve.net/~thequail 73 De Chirico Street | Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 97 07:47:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Royal Queen Albert Got the promo CD yesterday. Someone mentioned that it sounds like an audience tape, possibly the same one that's been circulating, and I'd have to concur. You can hear what sounds like a plastic cup dropping near the microphone at the start of Tom Thumb's Blues--I think that noise is on the tape. It's in one of those cheap cardboard covers commonly used for CD singles, the kind where the disc rolls out and falls on the floor whenever you pull it off the shelf. The kind you have to foil by creating your own "inner sleeve" with a piece of folded paper. The artwork by Robyn is entertaining, though. Missing from the CD is possibly the most important part of this whole show: the very beginning where Robyn announced "I didn't write these songs but they wrote me." Still, I got a feeling this one's gonna be hanging out in my CD changer for quite some time. -russ PS: Re the cult thing...if Robyn logged on and told us all it was time to unsubscribe, would we do it? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 11:39:33 -0500 From: Lobsterman Subject: Storefront and other live albums Is there anyone besides me that pictures the upcoming RH film in black and white? It must be all that Rattle & Hum I've seen, tho I hope to god its not as pretentious. Someone asked about Green Storm Lantern and the possibility of it being in the film or the album. I think Robyn at one point hinted that the soundtrack would have songs not shown in the film, so this could be a possibility. Also, the ever-kind Hal Brandt sent me a tape this week that included 3 songs that Robyn did in aforementioned storefront right after the filming was done, but the audio was still rolling. These 3 songs could be the ones Robyn wants to include on the CD (Green Storm Lantern, I Dream of Antwoman, and Listening to the Higsons with Deni and Tim backing) Finally, I just bought Ani Di Franco's new double live (gonzo) cd _Living In Clip_. Ani is very new to me, but I thought getting this live cd would give me a good overview of her material. Well, the thing that struck me is how creatively it was edited. It definitely does NOT sound like a fake live record. Rather than overdub canned crowd noise in between the songs, they resort to other stuff like delay & echoes, fadeouts, and just straight cutting into the next song. Obviously it feels a bit uncomfortable (just because we are used to our live albums being produced a certain way), but good, like eating cheesecake with a pin in your foot. A Robyn tie-in: I find that Ani's _Not So Soft_ has a similiar feel to _I Often Dream of Trains_, while Kristen Hersh's _Hips & Makers_ (a brilliant album; I just didn't mention it in my Muses quick discography because I don't consider it a muses release) is more like _Eye_. -jbj /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-//-/-/-/-/-/-/- John B. Jones e-mail:jojones@mailbox.syr.edu web: http://web.syr.edu/~jojones "Driving Aloud" was originally called "Driving to Portland." -Robyn Hitchcock \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- ------------------------------ From: jlgr@concentric.net Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:26:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: deni in hoboken I heard that deni bonet is gonna be performing on May 4th in Hoboken at the Hoboken Music and Arts festival. It's an open air show on Washington St. and it's free. I know that Patti Smith is also playing, but I can't remember the rest of the bill. I know that there is two stages though. Maybe some of us could meet for the deni gig and throw cones at her!! cheers dobbs "What's in mind," I asked. but she kept painting a picture of two people who looked happy together. ...........I didn't understand. ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:48:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Music In commercials With "You Really Got Me", "Tired of Waiting", "Tempted", "Surfer Girl", "All Day and All Of The Night" and "Bang a Gong": (and a few others that I'm forgetting, no doubt...anyone want to remind me?), music in commercials is better than music on the radio, nowadays... (Fear: In 20 years, they'll be selling Ford trucks to the tune of The Macarena, Wannabe or Mmmm Bop)_ Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy Remember-Jesus is your friend. normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 16:22:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Royal Queen Albert On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Russ Reynolds wrote: > PS: Re the cult thing...if Robyn logged on and told us all it was time to > unsubscribe, would we do it? No. We have to wait for a sign from Dennis. We will know the real Dennis by the fact that he will ask us please not to call him Reg. Love on ya, Susan desperately searching for ritual perspex orbs...... ******************************************************************************* I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but my ma won't admit it/I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but if I say I am I GET IT! sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 14:29:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Music In commercials >With "You Really Got Me", "Tired of Waiting", "Tempted", "Surfer Girl", >"All Day and All Of The Night" and "Bang a Gong": (and a few others that >I'm forgetting, no doubt...anyone want to remind me?), music in >commercials is better than music on the radio, nowadays... I just saw some commercial using Focus' "HOCUS POCUS" as the soundtrack....blecch! :) Eb ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Music In commercials From: guambat@juno.com (Total Fat 17 g) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:33:13 EDT Terry say: >>With "Surfer Girl" (and a few others that I'm forgetting, >>no doubt...anyone want to remind me?), music in >>commercials is better than music on the radio, nowadays... Perhaps someday in the future we'll see a commercial for San Diego tourism with "Surfer Ghost" playing softly in the background... :) UmmaGuamma ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:03:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Music In commercials On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Total Fat 17 g wrote: > Perhaps someday in the future we'll see a commercial > for San Diego tourism with "Surfer Ghost" playing softly > in the background... :) Actually, the laddie friend suggested that 'Tastes Great When You're Dead' would make a good slogan for Velveeta, but so far they have yet to pick up on this brilliant idea. What I wonder is how come Jaguar hasn't used the "Jaguar" track from "Who Sell Out" :). And finally- anyone remember the urban legend that claimed that Paul McCartney had written the "I'm stuck on BandAids/Cause BandAid's stuck on me" jingle? Sounds to me like a nasty McCartney joke gone horribly out of hand! :) Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but my ma won't admit it/I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but if I say I am I GET IT! sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:23:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: RH cover art caption contest On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Russ Reynolds wrote: > A favorite pastime of radio DJs (at least at this station) is album cover > graffiti. Your mention of the supertramp album reminds me of one of my > favorites around here...this was a group effort, written one blurb at a time > over the course of a couple of weeks on the back cover, where the band is > sitting at the counter and the waitress is pouring coffee for them [and you > have to be familiar with the cover of "Flat as a Pancake" by Head East, > which features a group shot in a similar looking coffee shop] My favorites from the WHPK library- on a Kraftwerk album "Touch My Monkey" appears above the boys' heads (I guess that's an obvious one, but it made me smile anyway); on a Fall album, someone wrote above Brix's head "I'm only here because I blew Mark Smith" and about ten or fifteen people decided to call this person some extremely nasty and colorful names; the comment on an Iggy Pop record that says "some people don't like Iggy Pop because he has no talent, but this is a false premise on which to judge him" (the same record also had the comment "'Love is like hypnotizing chickens'???? Damn, James has been watching them Werner Herzog flicks again"); the Strawberry Shortcake album where someone spun out an extended commentary on how this was a part of a Tri-lateral Commission plot to warp the minds of America's Youth (alas, now missing from the library). > Some day I want to publish a book of album cover graffiti. There are some > hilarious ones around here. Hey, here's an idea (warning: RH content > approaching)...the Robyn Hitchcock cover art caption contest! Pick a > picture from any Robyn Hitchcock album (front, back, inner sleeve or CD > booklet--anywhere on the package) and come up with a clever caption. Maybe > someone could scan some of the funnier ones and put them on the web site. Excellent idea, Russ. Unfortunately I can't think of anything witty at the moment, but I'll work on it (which is not to say I'll produce anything witty :)). Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but my ma won't admit it/I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but if I say I am I GET IT! sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ From: BendMeOvr7@aol.com Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:55:47 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Royal Queen Albert ...............watching Mr. Forbes search madly for orbs for which to give Susan, but being how I am a trout it is a complicated manuver and I choose to go swallow guppies instead................. (wink) ------------------------------ From: BendMeOvr7@aol.com Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:57:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Music In commercials what is television? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:11:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Music In commercials On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 BendMeOvr7@aol.com wrote: > what is television? The drug of a nation. But as Mr. Bowie says, who needs TV when I got T. Rex? Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but my ma won't admit it/I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but if I say I am I GET IT! sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:12:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Royal Queen Albert On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 BendMeOvr7@aol.com wrote: > ...............watching Mr. Forbes search madly for orbs for which to give > Susan, but being how I am a trout it is a complicated manuver and I choose to > go swallow guppies instead................. > > (wink) I'm just wondering how you type? Do you have a special keyboard? Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but my ma won't admit it/I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but if I say I am I GET IT! sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:10:44 -0400 From: chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel) Subject: Re: Music In commercials(absolutely no Robyn) >And finally- anyone remember the urban legend that claimed that Paul >McCartney had written the "I'm stuck on BandAids/Cause BandAid's stuck on >me" jingle? Sounds to me like a nasty McCartney joke gone horribly out of >hand! :) The sad truth about this one is that it was written by none other than Barry Manilow. He also wrote the "Grab a bucket of chicken" jingle for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Regards, Stacy(back to the Barry Manilow discussion list) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This product is sold by weight, not volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during shipping and handling. ------------------------------ From: BendMeOvr7@aol.com Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:37:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Royal Queen Albert nope, I have enslaved the fleshy fingers of mermaids, promising to let them see the secret message painted on my tailfin......... Love will come of all our sins....... ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:50:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Music In commercials > > I just saw some commercial using Focus' "HOCUS POCUS" as the > soundtrack....blecch! :) 1) I like the original Hocus Pocus...(def. better than Gary Hoey's (sp) version) 2) What was it for? Terry ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:54:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Music In commercials On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 BendMeOvr7@aol.com wrote: > what is television? > what isn't television? ------------------------------ From: BendMeOvr7@aol.com Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 22:50:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Music In commercials I am not televison, although I am sometime a trailer to a Fellini movie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:14:53 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Music In commercials >I am not televison, although I am sometime a trailer to a Fellini movie Enough one-sentence posts already. Especially ones that make no sense. Eb ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .