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 #144 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 144 Tuesday June 24 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! 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Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had (0%RH)Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had Rhino Release Date Re: (RH 0%) first album bought with own money Re: T-shirt Re: Terry Gilliam Pretty little discs all in a row. Re: (RH 0%) first album bought with own money Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had Re: T-shirt Re: Feg Digest V5 #143 twenty birds with one stone (no rh) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:19:08 -0400 From: twofangs/randi spiegel Subject: slap a spice girl; therefore no Robyn content I just heard about this today... Thought some of you might enjoy it... Haven't some of you always wanted to 'slap a spice girl'? http://www.head-space.com/Urban75/spice.html fading back into yesterday before tomorrow comes, Randi *what scares you most will set you free* - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:17:20 -0400 From: biggles Subject: re:Bylaws Sez Syd: > Would someone please check our bylaws and report back on exactly how long one > has to be here or how much one must contribute in order to have an opinion? > I seem to have misplaced the Feg Handbook that came with my Welcome Package. > ;) Sez I: I thought I had my Feg Handbook, but I discovered it was actually something called "Feg Hand Book" and was an instructional manual for a martial art in which one mesmerizes one's adversary with the spidery movements of the long-nailed "Feg Hand" then knocks him over with a bright orange cone. Anyway, I had just sent off some artwork of my own to Tom Clark for consideration, and didn't want to seem self serving by saying "I vote for me!" Good thing too because I would rather see something of Robyn's on the shirt anyway. As far as the quote goes, I think we should wait and see what (if anything) we get from Robyn. Personally the Robyn quote that best sums up my internet experience is, "How do you work this thing?" Chairs, Biggles p.s. thanks to Mike See how they Runion for the info on Michelle Shocked. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:46:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: slap a spice girl great fun! i got 150.. my hand is *killing* me! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 18:28:02 -0700 (PDT) From: misplaced joan of arc Subject: t-shirt Please, can we NOT have this t-shirt be in the frat-boy format, ie: big, interesting design hidden on the back, with little design on the breast pocket? Please, people, NO! Rather, let's have the design proudly displayed on the front, minus the breast pocket. (everyone cheers YES!) I like one of randi spiegel's quote suggestions: "I'm Not Afraid To Be The Only Person On The Planet" Or, here's one of my own: "I'm into you so far, I'm out the other side." And Randi's color suggestion of tomato red also sounds nice, although green could be nice too. (100% cotton should go without saying, am I right?) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:10:50 +0700 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: more subjects than Queen Victoria had Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:14:00 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) >Subject: random bits of stuff >have you ever listened to any Godley & Creme? These two erstwhile members >of >10cc, who then became top video directors, didn't they do that song "you make me wanna cry"? wild video with the faces melting together. i think that they produced all of the cool concept videos for _synchronicity_. all of the other police videos up to that point were essentially home videos. That's them - although (as always) "Cry", their biggest hit, was by no means representative of their sound. Yes, they were responsible for all the Police Videos around the time of Synchronicity, but their best (and rarely if ever seen) video IMHO was for one of their own songs, "Wide Boys". >I don't know of any stores in my area which separate out "Alternative" and >"Metal" albums from "Pop/Rock." And while ambient/techno (or "Trance") >often gets its own section, I've never seen "Dance" music separated out >either. >Eb, whose Gospel of Diversity is well-known around these parts (heh) and despite the occasionally caustic and confrontational nature of your comments, I'd say from the spread of your emailing you and I share a similar diversity of interests musically. Down in these parts though, sadly, there is a separate "techno/dub/hip-hop" section which is mainly dance, but if you want to find ambient you're equally likely to find it either there or in (bleah!) "new age". FSOL "new age"? Give me strength! (first CS - Split Enz - "True Colours". First CD - [No Pussyfooting] - Fripp & Eno) >All the recordings in my home live on the same shelf in total harmony, >undivided by categories. It's been that way for over 20 years and I've >never had a problem. If anyone ever says anything negative about it I ask >them to leave (I'm a man with principles, after all). I use the zen approach. Everything belongs in the same broad category. Actually they're all alphabetical by artist (which means that bloody ABBA album is still at the beginning. I really must hunt down something by Aalon one of these days. Warren Zevon holds the other extreme (I've never been a fan of southern guitar trios with beards). 'Course I have a problem with whether to put by Robyn stuff under H or E (for Egyptians). At the moment he's between Jimi Hendrix and the Hollies, which seems fitting (although I almost bought a High Llamas CD today). >It's called 'philology' and it began with Sir somebody something in 1786 >who showed that Sanskrit was an ancestor of Greek and Latin. The brothers >Grimm (of fairy-tales fame) developed this in the context of primitive >German languages. The technique is that by studying old texts and >comparing the spellings and sounds through time, you build up a picture of >words that "must have been there" as roots in order to produce the >closely-related modern German, Dutch and English vocabulary. You also >develop a picture of the primitive society (e.g. "daughter" derives from >the Sanskrit for "milkmaid"). and also e.g. (this is from distant hazy memory so apologies if it is somewhat distant from veridical) the effect on the Russian psyche of the seemingly endless forests. Their word for field originally mean "clearing in the forest". And the Russian word for forest is never used in the plural. It's also interesting to see which words are the oldest. There are a very small handful of words that are so old as to have similar derivations in Indo-European, Semitic, Hamitic and Malay-Polynesian languages. There are probably no more than half a dozen of these, one of which is the subject of various of Robyn's songs (he says, desperately trying to get back on topic) - Death: Mort (French), Muerte (Spanish), Moarte (Rumanian), Sm'ert (Russian), Mavet (Hebrew), Ma'wt (Arabic), Mat (Persian), Maut (Hindi), Mati (Indonesian), Mate (Maori), Make (Hawai'ian). Oh, and Wanusqa (Quechua). Talking of which: >>however, i find the plague story, while old, fascinating. i haven't had >>the time to properly investigate the roots of these kinds of tales, but i >>recall that the motif is common plague folklore. i asked about this once >>before on the list. as i said, i haven't looked into it any further. >It seems obvious to me that the song was inspired by The Masque of the Red >Death by Edgar Allen Poe. And the variation didn't seem too interesting. Hmmm. It's much much older than that. The dance of death and the masked lady dates back centuries before Poe, I am sure. >>But then again, I think Simon & Garfunkel had some punk moments. > >Who was it that did the punk version of "I am a rock"? I heard that ages >ago. A punk version, I'm not sure, but there's a punchy little new waveish version on the first (and exceedingly rare) EP by the Church. James, who's beginning to wonder exactly what he's talking about. PS: Biggles wrote: >My first album bought with my own money was Jethro Tull, "Aqualung". [...] >So now the only question is, James, can I have my ear back now? Your ear is in the post. Oh, and if Neil Finn is out there somewhere - did you ever get that tongue I mailed you? James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ From: Ken W Subject: Mossy Liquor Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:53:04 -0400 (EDT) If anyone needs Mossy Liquor, Newbury Comics in Peabody, MA, has a copy. It's probably about $10. -Ken -- hazmat@shore.net panic@io.com http://www.shore.net/~hazmat ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:08:32 -0700 From: Nick Winkworth CC: ahardy@companet.net Subject: Les Movies Magnifiques On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:33 LSDiamond raved: > > Okay, I must take it all back now. I have but one favourite movie. > > "City of the Lost Children" > > It's a French film (w/ english subtitles) with Ron Perlman, done in > such a bizarrely psychedelic style that it makes Tim Burton movies > look like cotton candy. Magnifique. > > I highly reccommend it. Well I must admit *I* didn't submit my movie list either. No good reason. I have no excuses. LSDiamond has woken me from my sloth, however, with her interesting selection. I don't know "City of the Lost Children" but by your description it sounds as if you might like *my* absolute-favourite-movie-of-all-time- ever... It is "Celine et Julie vont en bateau" (="Celine and Julie go Boating"), by Jacques Rivette. Another French film with English subtitles, and long too, but don't let that put you off if you ever come across it (I was unable to find it in the US, but picked up a PAL tape one time in the UK). Its a girl buddy movie, fantasy, comedy, mystery, ghosts, magic, weird circular time-lines, bizarre logic... I couldn't possibly describe it. Something tells me woj might appreciate it too... Here are some other movies I might put on my list should Eddie ever do a "round 2" (so you don't think I'm *totally* weird - or maybe you want to know how weird I really am). Off the top of my head, and in no particular order: THX1138* 2001 The Blues Brothers A Fistful of Dollars Brazil The Jungle Book (the cartoon, of course) The Maltese Falcon African Queen Monty Python and the Holy Grail Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead Mon Oncle (gotta get one Jacques Tati film in here) I could go on. I'm sure that as soon as I hit "send" I will remember a whole bunch more which will make me say "Duh, how could I forget that, it's gotta be in my top 10". So it goes. ~N * My friends from that time and I still ask each other, "could you be a little more.... specific?", to this very day. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Feg Digest V5 #143 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 97 23:09:59 +0400 From: Karen Reichstein > Re: Robin & Timmy @ KCRW available via Real Audio Ack! I wrestled with downloading the latest version of Real Audio, went to the KCRW site, and when I finally got to listen to the radio show I was extremely disappointed. Coming through my computer (i also have a slow--14.4--modem), Robyn and Tim sounded like they were underwater. You could hear the radio announcer's voice clear as a bell, but you had to strain to even make out the sentences Tim and Robyn said in between songs. Dang! So much for technology. karen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:13:40 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Wombles and a Vegetable Man Hey!! I'm looking for 2 things--one of which I know I can get. 1) Wombles on Video (is there such a thing and if so how can i get it?) 2) Soft Boys - "Underwater Moonlight" I seem to have left the latter at work. (that or it's just in the ruins which I call my room.. :) Either way, a coworker or the dustbunnies have scavenged my copy of UM and I've a craving for Vegetables........... If you're willing to dub me a copy, I'm sure I've got something worth trading... Thanks! LSDiamond, looking a jerk in her yellow shirt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have you been exceptionally bad lately? Come serve your penance at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542/penance1.html You'll never commit THAT sin again! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:23:21 -0500 From: Outdoor Miner Subject: Punky Garfunkel At 02:29 AM 6/23/97 -0700, Eb wrote: >Capuchin wrote: > >>But then again, I think Simon & Garfunkel had some punk moments. > >You mean, like "Punky's Dilemma?" ;) I think most of them actually occurred on the Coolies' DIG?, which, aside from "She's Having My Baby," consists entirely of Simon & Garfunkel covers. later, Miles, who never misses a chance to mention the Coolies ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:49:04 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had James wrote: >Warren Zevon holds the other extreme (I've never been a >fan of southern guitar trios with beards). So go buy the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle album already, sheesh! :) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:01:16 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Z Or some John Zorn! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:28:30 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Terry Gilliam What strikes me about these film lists is that everybody likes Terry Gilliam. I wans't surprised to see Brazil well-supported, but Baron Munchausen, the Fisher King, the Holy Grail - I even voted for Time Bandits, which I haven't seen on anyone else's list so far. Great performances by Ian Holm, Sean Connery, David Warner and John Cleese. - Mike Godwin PS I assume TG directed Holy Grail but I'm not certain. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:41:20 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Eb wrote: > James wrote: > > >Warren Zevon holds the other extreme (I've never been a > >fan of southern guitar trios with beards). > > So go buy the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle album already, sheesh! :) You mean you guys haven't got "Zodiac Cosmic Sounds"? - Mike "Aries, the Fire Fighter" Godwin PS That's "Odyssey" with two Ys and one E! <:-} ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 02:51:09 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had Godwin wrote: >On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Eb wrote: >> So go buy the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle album already, sheesh! :) >PS That's "Odyssey" with two Ys and one E! <:-} Nothing sweeter than telling a spellchecker he's full of sh*t. Check the damn record, cupcake! ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:18:35 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Eb wrote: > >> So go buy the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle album already, sheesh! :) MRG replied: > >PS That's "Odyssey" with two Ys and one E! <:-} Eb riposted: > Nothing sweeter than telling a spellchecker he's full of sh*t. Check the > damn record, cupcake! ;) MRG: May I draw your attention to para 6/W/4.52 subsection (xxvii) of our mission statement: "Disclaimer: The spellchecker accepts no resposibility for the illiteracy of the record company" Come to that, isn't Kupcake spelled with a K? Or is that a special brand name? - Mike! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 07:06:45 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: Soft Boys 1980 Rehearsals I love the opening track on this, or I think I would if it were audible. It's listed as "Unknown Title" and I can't make out a single syllable of it. Anyone know its real name? -- How is it that you fail to perceive that I did not speak about bread? - Matthew 16:11 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:21:26 -0400 (EDT) From: lj lindhurst Subject: anyone want to trade? (rh! rh!) While rummaging through my T-shirt drawer this morning, I came across a "Man With A Woman's Shadow" T-Shirt that someone had given me a while back. I don't want it because it fits funny-- you know, like all concert T-shirts seem to do (they're all long and narrow and cling to your butt), but it appears to be in perfect shape (albeit a bit wrinkled). Anyone want to trade me something for it? I will cling to my Respect T-shirt though until it is just a few threads on my cadaver! (yes, another closet Respect lover!) what are you waiting for? A big grim reaper in a long black limousine? lj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:07:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, M R Godwin wrote: > Come to that, isn't Kupcake spelled with a K? Or is that a special brand > name? Only if you are a Kink or a Kula Shaker. Wow, Kosmic. Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:15:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, James Dignan wrote: > I use the zen approach. Everything belongs in the same broad category. > Actually they're all alphabetical by artist (which means that bloody ABBA > album is still at the beginning. I really must hunt down something by Aalon > one of these days. Me three, I'm alphabetical like ABC, though I haven't yet figured out how to be a zillionaire. > Warren Zevon holds the other extreme (I've never been a > fan of southern guitar trios with beards). Hmmm...I put compilations and movie soundtracks at the end. Anyone else? > 'Course I have a problem with > whether to put by Robyn stuff under H or E (for Egyptians). At the moment > he's between Jimi Hendrix and the Hollies, which seems fitting (although I > almost bought a High Llamas CD today). I have it all under H, snuggled between the Hindu Love Gods CD and Billie Holiday (who is snuggled right up to Buddy Holly :)). > A punk version, I'm not sure, but there's a punchy little new waveish > version on the first (and exceedingly rare) EP by the Church. Didn't the Lords of the New Church do a fun new-wavish version of "Like a Virgin"? I seem to remember somebody did, think it was them. Lots like fun Boy Three's "Our Lips Are Sealed". Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:40:51 -0500 From: Hal Brandt CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: (0%RH)Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had Mississippi Malcolm McDowell wrote: > Didn't the Lords of the New Church do a fun new-wavish version of "Like a > Virgin"? I seem to remember somebody did, think it was them. It was them. I also thought their cover of the obscure "A Question of Temperature" by The Balloon Farm (another one of the first singles I ever owned) was truly inspired. > Lots like fun > Boy Three's "Our Lips Are Sealed" ...or Aztec Camera's slow and suave version of Van Halen's "Jump"! hal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:49:52 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had All those "muerta" words bring us back to that Murder Mordor Moriarty discussion that got annoyingly out of hand some time ago (my fault, I expect). Mind you, it looks as if Quechua has split off from the main stem - who speaks it, anyway? Incas? Mixtecs? As for these strange ideas about filing under H or E, the only possible place is under R for Robyn. This is a totally foolproof system: thus S for Syd Barrett, C for Captain Beefheart and Country Joe, W for Warren Zevon and J for Paul Kantner because he goes under Jefferson Airplane. Eric Burdon and the New Animals is a bit of a problem, though, and I tend to file them with "Animals". And yes, the compilations go at one end, and the cartoon soundtracks (H. Hound, Cinderella, Top Cat etc) at the other. Ivor Cutler goes in with the cartoon soundtracks, not sure why. "Yes son, now you can have gruts for tea - every day" - Mike ------------------------------ From: firstcat@lsli.com Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 13:36:09 Subject: Rhino Release Date I dunno if anyone's mentioned it yet, but Rhino has Aug 5 as the Due Date for "Uncorrected Personality Traits: The Robyn Hitchcock Collection." Cheers Jay ------------------------------------- Jay Lyall Channel Sales Director Livermore Software Laboratories, Intl. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 160 Houston, Texas 77042-3358 1-713-974-3274 jay@lsli.com Date: 6/24/97 668 - The Neighbor of the Beast ------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:04:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: (RH 0%) first album bought with own money On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Runion, Michael R. wrote: > It's my experience that a sustained period of drought in popular, readily > available music (what we're in right now) leads the music addict to one of two > choices: What does popular have to do with it? > (1) seek out the hard to find, the new and unheard, the first > stirrings of possible future greatness, I think that's a constant patrol. > (2) delve into the wealth of past > greatness. Until the last few years, I've always done the first. Now, > nearing 30 and firmly realizing that the world's been around a lot longer than > my measly generation, I wholeheartedly do number 2 (no bathroom jokes, > please). I realize the world's been around a lot longer than me (and yeah, I'm of the opinion that the idea of future 'generations' died about 25 years ago and people since then are not in such generic and coincidental groupings). And I recognize the great music of the past. However, I don't find it in Hendrix, Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Who, or The Rolling Stones. To paraphrase Susan (and strip out the sarcasm), a person can enjoy pre-1976 music and still not be a big fan of those particular kids. To expand something I said earlier that is only slightly related: I do tend to collect and enjoy particular artists more than any particular genre. I received several affirmations from my distinguished (and indistinguishable) list-fiends telling me that's what they do as well and making fun (with various degrees of success) of folks that do dig into categories more than artists. However, I think I was misunderstood a little. My tendency to enjoy a particular artist is largely independent of the artist's style. When someone comes to me and says "Oooh, you like ____. You love _____!", I almost invariably don't. I would say the closest and most similar things in my collection would be Robyn and Syd and most every other gap is wide. > Well-roundedness is a virtue...and also very expensive. As I once said in college (and have repeated frequently since), People are so obsessed with becoming well-rounded that they're positively pointless. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:16:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: T-shirt On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Russ Reynolds wrote: > If it turns out we > don't like Robyn's design (which I think highly unlikely) we can either > shrink it way down and use it as a tiny little emblem on the left > breast...or we could put it on the inside. I'm probably the only one to take this seriously, but I think it's the coolest idea I've heard in a long time. We should print a second design INSIDE the shirt. I can't get over how great that would be. Something nobody ever has to know about. Is it just me? Man, I'm all for that. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:22:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Terry Gilliam On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, M R Godwin wrote: > What strikes me about these film lists is that everybody likes Terry > Gilliam. I wans't surprised to see Brazil well-supported, but Baron > Munchausen, the Fisher King, the Holy Grail - I even voted for Time > Bandits You left out 12 Monkeys. 12 Monkeys is right up there with Brazil for Gilliam's work. Yeah, well... we see those things for which we look. Me, I noticed all the Coen Brothers flicks. I can't believe Barton Fink got more votes than, say, The Hudsucker Proxy or Miller's Crossing or even Fargo. Goodness. > PS I assume TG directed Holy Grail but I'm not certain. And I'm not sure who got actual credit for directing this, but as far as I know, it was mostly Terry Jones' work. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:29:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Pretty little discs all in a row. I suspect this thread won't last long, but I'm just the sort of freak that thinks it's interesting: How's your record collection organized? We've hit upon the subject several times and heard a few interesting responses. As for me, well, I am into the alphabet. It's a good thing. But my discs are ordered alphabetically from the bottom right to the top left, which confuses many. Anthologies, collections, compilations, and soundtracks are ordered by their title. I used to keep, say, all of my Danny Elfman soundtracks together, but decided that was just too messy. Robyn's stuff is under H (just like Susan, between Hindu Love Gods and Billie Holliday) except the Soft Boys which sit between Social Distortion and Talking Heads (I think). I have a variety of CD Singles that I picked up here and there for odd reasons and they are collected at the end under the same ordering method. Cassettes are ordered identically. For some reason, though, my LPs are organized by a tricky pattern wherein the last one I listened to is in front. Odd how that happens. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 15:44:08 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: (RH 0%) first album bought with own money Capuchin wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Runion, Michael R. wrote: > > It's my experience that a sustained period of drought in popular, readily > > available music (what we're in right now) leads the music addict to one of two > > choices: > > What does popular have to do with it? I guess my point is something like this...if, as I stroll into my favorite record store, there are a slew of great items sitting in the 'Just Released' racks right by the door (ie. popular IMHO) and I happen to be on a limited budget, I'm less apt to seek out that one album I heard about on a mailing list (be it new or old). If the new album by (insert your favorite) is being released today, that's what you're intention is when you zip by the record store on the way home from work. > a person can enjoy pre-1976 > music and still not be a big fan of those particular kids. I entirely agree. On a slight aside, I think it's much harder to 'get into' an older artist whose heyday is long past simply because the method of exposure is so different. With someone new, you get maybe 10 songs a year. There's time for an album to grow and get ingrained in your brain while you wait. With someone like Dylan or even Hendrix, you've got their whole catalogue there in front of you. You have to pace yourself. Plus there's no videos. (I'm being sarcastic here guys!) Then again, nah, I don't believe this at all. There are new groups I can't stand, and there are older ones (Dylan, of late) that I take too numbingly after just one listen. Forgive my babble. > I would > say the closest and most similar things in my collection would be Robyn > and Syd and most every other gap is wide. This is something I just don't get (and I'm speaking to the list in general here). I only started listening to Syd stuff during the last 2 years or so, and, I know I'm daft, but I just don't see the overwhelming resemblance that most everyone else does. I'm sure a big part of this is that I've been listening to Robyn consistenly since around '85 or so, so he's one of those artists I've 'followed' as compared with Syd. Maybe one day when my brain expands and I get out of grad school I'll have time to make the connection. Mike "Let's Go Runioning" ------------------------------ Subject: Re: more subjects than Queen Victoria had Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 13:19:38 -0700 From: Tom Clark "The Lobster Gang" ** Caution: Boring shit about Tom and his idiosyncrocies follows ** On 6/24/97 8:15 AM, Mississippi Malcolm McDowell stated emphatically: > >Me three, I'm alphabetical like ABC, though I haven't yet figured out how >to be a zillionaire. > Didn't mention this earlier, but the first CD I bought was ABC's "Lexicon of Love". And like other people I've seen mention, it was well before I even had a CD player. >Hmmm...I put compilations and movie soundtracks at the end. Anyone else? Most of my CD's are in two wall mounted thingy's that have different sized compartments. Everything is very loosely based on genre, but some shelves are dedicated to one artist. Luckily the bottom part of the main shelf has just enought room for all my RH CD's. Similar shelves contain all Replacements and all Butthole Surfers. Compilations go with the genre they are compiling while soundtracks have a shelf of their own. Oh yeah, and CD's with cool cover art always make their way to the outermost slots. Looking down one side you might see MC 900 Foot Jesus' "Welcome To My Dream", Wayne Kramer's "The Hard Stuff", and the "Pulp Fiction" Soundtrack (mmmmm, Uma...) > >Didn't the Lords of the New Church do a fun new-wavish version of "Like a >Virgin"? I seem to remember somebody did, think it was them. Lots like fun >Boy Three's "Our Lips Are Sealed". > FB3's was the original version, right? Ob T-Shirt: I'm starting to like this big-artwork-on-the-front idea. -tc http://twentiethanniversary.apple.com/ <--Order yours today! ------------------------------ Subject: Re: T-shirt Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 13:42:22 -0700 From: Tom Clark On 6/24/97 12:16 PM, Capuchin stated emphatically: >We should print a second design INSIDE the shirt. I can't get over how >great that would be. Something nobody ever has to know about. I'd have to check on this, but I believe it would add signifcant cost. Plus, what about those of us who like to wash their printed shirts inside-out? -tc ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Feg Digest V5 #143 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 13:45:51 -0700 From: Tom Clark "The Lobster Gang" On 6/23/97 12:09 PM, Karen Reichstein stated emphatically: >Ack! I wrestled with downloading the latest version of Real Audio, went >to the KCRW site, and when I finally got to listen >to the radio show I was extremely disappointed. Coming through my >computer (i also have a slow--14.4--modem), Robyn >and Tim sounded like they were underwater. You could hear the radio >announcer's voice clear as a bell, but you had to strain to even make out >the sentences Tim and Robyn said in between songs. Dang! I had the same problem, even coming off the company's LAN. Is there such a large difference in amplitude on the tape? -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:31:53 -0400 From: the woj of noise Subject: twenty birds with one stone (no rh) fegs, never being one to ignore silly threads and since i'm sure y'all are just *burning* to know these tidbits about me: first non-cd albums: _breakfast in america_ (supertramp) and _rumors_ (fleetwood mac). first cd: _the sensual world_ (KaTe bush), followed closely by _i often dream of trains_ (fall of 1989; the cd player came along in the summer of 1990, by which time, i had about 35 discs). first concert: jethro tull (1984 -- the under wraps tour). music library: those one the shelves are alphabetical, except that classical stuff is broken out and not alphabetized. robyn stuff: has their own small shelf (as do KaTe bush and tori amos discs). compilations/soundtracks: at the end in no particular order. pink floyd/jethro tull: if i had discs by either, they would be filed under "p" and "j" for reasons i can no longer remember. cassettes: stored by general category (i.e., compilation tapes that people have sent me or r.e.m. concerts or stuff i taped while working at ye olde college radio station) in photocopier paper boxtops (4 rows of 17 tapes fit in each very nicely -- and they stack!). +w ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .