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 #168 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 168 Thursday July 17 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: ------- ------- Re: A More Robust Globe Of Fegs! Steve's Disgraceful Brain Another Music Survey Re: Dave Kendall Re: Most Embarassing Robyn Moment? Got out my copy of The Flat Earth this evening. He Must be something in the water Re: Feg Digest V5 #167 Re: Crystal Branches - Now Beta Testing on a Browser Near You Re: A More Robust Globe Of Fegs! country, Dolby and a final Brenda comment embarrassed by robyn flying hats and unfurnished rooms (re: feg digests #166-7) septicemia and meeting Robyn Re: flying hats and unfurnished rooms (re: feg digests #166-7) Antwoman mailers Captain Sensible, first RH story, etc. a very small introduction Re: 120 Minutes Sleeping Knights, Blur, etc Re: Steve's disgraceful Bbrain Re: Steve's Disgraceful Brain Re: me and robyn g-e-n-e-h-a-c-k-m-a-n Re: g-e-n-e-h-a-c-k-m-a-n Guitar Rock Martin Newell (RHC 0.01%) Top 100 singles of all time guitar cover art Re: Top 100 singles of all time Top single ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:27:56 -0400 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: A More Robust Globe Of Fegs! Ah! I wondered if someone would question this. Here's the deal. A small dot (5 pixel diameter) on a fegmap represents a town with one and only one lonely feg. A large dot (8 pixel diameter) bespeaks of an area rich in fegs, be there 2 or 10,000. I contemplated color schemes, increasing dot size, etc, but didn't want to clutter the pristene simplicity required of a true fegmap. Hope this helps. Someone mentioned wouldn't it be great if Robyn used the fegmaps to plan his next tour. Ah! Then perhaps he'd come back to Florida (as Gainesville grew from a small to a big dot today!) Mike Cartographer-to-be Runion At 05:20 PM 7/16/97 -0500, you wrote: > > I looked at the map. It is indeed groovy. One question, though - >when I checked it looked as though the diameter of the dots was directly >proportional to the number of respondents. At this rate, won't the dot >for NYC or Chicago or LA end up bigger than the whole map? You might >consider a smaller multiplier. Then again, you probably already thought >of that. > > Tracy > >-- >How is it that you fail to perceive that I did not speak about bread? - >Matthew 16:11 > > > ******* Mike Runion email: mrrunion@tng.net ******* * Virtual Cone Museum * * http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/cones.htm * * Globe Of Fegs * * http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/fegmaps/ * ********************************************************* "Wait a minute! Time for a Planetary Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ From: "Eddie Tews" Subject: Steve's Disgraceful Brain Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:17:33 PDT this post is dedicated to everyone who started out as an animal and ends up as a processing unit woj, you forgot to mention that GOTTA LET THIS HEN OUT! also contains the video for Surgery, which is one of the freakier videos i have ever seen. does anybody know whether this ever got played on MTV, or even submitted? it includes the video for Trains, as well. mike, are you capable of and/or willing to include pictures on the fegmaps if we send them with an SASE? does anyone have that interview with allen havey on tape? i'd like to hear it. i used to love that show. any audrey hepburn feelers smelt out a date for Sea-Tac II.5 yet? how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's got to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, BROTHERS IN ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. "Joan Baez -- wasn't she a singer like Pat Benatar? I want to play Pat Benatar in, like, a made-for-TV movie. She had a really dramatic life." --Tori Spelling scott hunter mcleary's fave flicks: Street of Crocodiles, Brazil, The Tin Drum, Comfort and Joy, The Front/Crimes and Misdemeanors, Alien, Blade Runner, Empire of the Sun, Ed Wood, Orlando pete bilderback's fave flicks: High & Low, The Loved One, Sherlock Jr., La Jete, Enthusiasm, I Was Born But..., Wavelength, Gates of Heaven, The Earrings of Madame de..., The Tingler russ reynolds' fave flicks: Life of Brian, Holy Grail, This is Spinal Tap, You Can't Take it With You, Destry Rides Again, Slapshot, Zelig, Casablanca, The Whole Town's Talking, Bull Durham gary assasin's fave flicks: Heathers, Time Machine, Total Recall, This is Spinal Tap, Repo Man, Three O'clock High (the high school one), Scream, By Dawn's Early Light (HBO movie) ------------------------------ Subject: Another Music Survey Date: Wed, 16 Jul 97 17:40:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark fegs - Since you are the most musically literate group I know of, I thought you might be interested in this. AT&T Laboratories is conducting an online survey which contains some of the same questions we've been asking lately. Your help is appreciated at: http://www.research.att.com/~s_niki/music_survey.html -tc <== Got my resume in for the CEO position! ******************************************* Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://www.netgate.net/~tclark "Cheez Whiz is not something you eat... It's something you see a urologist for." - Dennis Miller ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:23:50 -0400 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: Dave Kendall Miles mentioned something today about knowing you're a 80's alterna-120 Minutes hanger-on type person if you occasionally pine away for Dave Kendall. Yes, I admit it. I do spend many a night thinking nostagically of Dave. For those of you who are either too old or too young or just hate MTV, Dave was the host of 120 Minutes from around 1989 to maybe 1993 or so. Before that, he played the shadowy sidekick of host Kevin Seal, only appearing in mono-colored silhouettes to present that week's Top 10 Alternative Countdown. Dave was a English bloke who was fond of black t-shirts and funky punk haircuts and dj'd at certain NYC nightclubs both before and after his MTV days. I daresay Dave introduced many of us to a whole host of fantastic alternative/progressive bands (back before alternative was a dirty word and when progressive was slowly trying to pull away from its Yes roots). I watched avidly every Sunday, eagerly counting down the minutes, as Miles put it. This weekly ritual let to watching many a great pre-show, such as the Young Ones, during the half-hour before midnight. I became virtual friends with Robyn, Julian, Peter Murphy, Stipe & Co, etc and ad nauseum because of Dave and 120. I admit fondly to even zipping a snail mail or two off to MTV (as Dave would request at the end of each show), one even about his hair (remember the period where he kept getting hate-mail concerning his current cut?) Ah well. I'm sorry for the long post. Miles just sparked a nasty rash of the God-remember-when's. Or maybe it's because I just turned 30. Mike Runion ******* Mike Runion email: mrrunion@tng.net ******* * Virtual Cone Museum * * http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/cones.htm * * Globe Of Fegs * * http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/fegmaps/ * ********************************************************* "Wait a minute! Time for a Planetary Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 97 17:54:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Robyn Moment? >Does anybody else have a "Most Embarrasing Robyn Meeting" story to tell? >I remember someone posting about standing next to Robyn in a urinal, but >does anybody else have any weird /embarassing "I Met Robyn!" stories to >tell? Do share. How 'bout meeting him backstage during the REM tour, showing him an 8X10 A&M publicity shot of him resting his head dreamily on his hands, which were folded across his upright accoustic guitar (it looked like something you'd see from Susannah Hoffs, not the guy who sang "St. Petersburg" and "My Wife & My Dead Wife") and saying "what's that, your Bangles pose?" blink blink. My wife, who uttered those words, has never been able to live that one down. -rr ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Got out my copy of The Flat Earth this evening. He From: Scott McCleary Got out my copy of The Flat Earth this evening. Here's what Robyn says at the end of The White City. It sounds like it's been cut together from multiple takes, but you can plainly hear most of what he says -- and it's VERY Robyn. Where Was I? Batesfordshire-that's a lousy place.... 8:45 and you go out and it's utterly flat. I can't see any enthusiasm for that kind of thing at all. My idea when we started out was to have a-you know-a rising up, a sort of an undulating, ovulatiug ground, which you don't get so much nowadays. Everything tends to be sort of piecemeal and staggered, which I don't think is very exciting, do you? Ah, hm, you're not there, either. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 21:13:14 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: Must be something in the water This is the third time in something like a month that someone has quoted personal mail from me on this list. I realize nothing nefarious is up, but I entreat y'all - especially folks who concatenate several replies into a single post - to check the headers on the mail you're responding to before following up. There's a long-standing net.tradition that private mail remains private*, regardless of its content. If you think something was meant to be posted and not just sent to one person, it's best to check with the author before re-broadcasting the message. Thanks. * though many feel that people who send threats or unsolicited advertising have forfeited this courtesy -- How is it that you fail to perceive that I did not speak about bread? - Matthew 16:11 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:36:55 -0400 From: Dave Dudich Subject: Re: Feg Digest V5 #167 > From: Miles > Subject: more boneyard chains 'I have lost > some interest in Sinead too, though I think everyone should own a copy of > Jah Wobble's RISING ABOVE BEDLAM, which features a boffo Sinead vocal on > "Visions of You." ' Hi, I'm Luther Dudich, a feg loyal who has been 'lurking in the shadows' for some time. I gotta say that all Robyn fans oughta check out Wobble- His "Bedlam" was good, but "Take Me to God" is better. Odd lyrics, a definate spiritual bent, total british accent- some of the stuff we love about Robyn, Jah Wobble's got. ...plus, it's the most danceable stuff I've heard yet... ...to hell with 'electronica'!!! On another note, I've noticed stuff about Robyn tape trees. Can anybody mail me off-list and tell me how to get on one of them? I'm afraid all I have to trade is some old Dead (yeah, I know- I used to like them) bootlegs, along with a good Neil YOung bootleg with Danny Whitten singing lead on 'Downtown' (the original, not the one with Pearl Jam). But I will mail a blank tape. any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!! 'All you need is love. All you get is afraid.' Uncle Bobby ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 06:44:40 +0300 From: Noah Shalev CC: The Warm Long Heat Of Love Subject: Re: Crystal Branches - Now Beta Testing on a Browser Near You ello. great idea, and so long - nice performance. I think a word a two should be given to - Robyn as a musician and a guitarist. Robyn started up in England, where the island and most of its - folowers at the time (which basically includes most of western eurup), knew only one thing - punk, british punk. later on during the 'new wave' era, britians rock consisted basically on post punk sorts of music (exept maybe - dire straits), throughout, this period RH, came out with an astonishing, British Garage, music, involved psycadelic, and progresive rock, in a gentle mix of 60s and 70s. I hear in it the major influance of early pink floyd (goo old cyds days), Lennon, and of course Eno. this development, was completely departed from the american rock in this days, which had it own revival of rockabily and Garage - psycadelia rock. Robyn plays the guitar in a unique way, and along with his way of singing, lyrics writing and the creation of this unique British Garage music, establish a new unique cult. i agree, that some of, or maybe most of his new made stuff, would not fit exactly in that garage slot, yet, the Hitchcock style, run through most of his albums. seems pretty logical, init?! love to hear contraversials. Noe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 06:50:19 +0300 From: Noah Shalev CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Re: A More Robust Globe Of Fegs! ello. visited the site. only thing could i say: great idea great performance!!! 10x noe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:53:14 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: country, Dolby and a final Brenda comment >> 'Sides, anyone who rejects anything country-sounding out of hand is cutting >> themselves off from not only a load of crap (and tell me 90% of college >> radio isn't crap too, huh, huh?), but from Merle Haggard, the Mavericks, >> Bob Wills, the Louvin Brothers, Wayne Hancock, BR5-49, Emmylou Harris, >> large portions of the Kinks' MUSWELL HILLBILLIES, and the Greatest American >> Songwriter Ever, Hank Williams. And that's just for starters. And to do >> that is a cryin' shame. > >I agree here. While I always liked a slight touch of psuedo-country in my >music (ala REMs "Rockville", John Doe, Lone Justice, etc), it wasn't until I >met my wife that I finally dropped my fear and loathing and actually listened >to some Gram, Emmylou, and Hank. Stuff that shouldn't be dismissed lightly. I used to thoroughly hate country. I still do to a large extent, but I've softened to some of it. If you're a Robyn fan, and want to see what he's getting at with more country tinged numbers, I suggest listening to the Byrds reissue albums, preferably in some sort of roughly chronological order. There's a gradual but distinct drift from the jangly guitar pop of Turn Turn Turn through to the out and out hoedown approach of Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde. I find that their best work is that which has just enough country edge to make it less than straightforward pop - songs like Goin' Back, and Wasn't Born to Follow. All this talk lately of "Where has robyn been on other people's albums". Lots of talk about Thomas Dolby, but none about Capt. Sensible! >hssmrg again:: >Have another look at the cartoon on the cover of the 12". Definitely a >caricature of HMQE2, I'd say. not all of us have the 12". And I'm still sure he's equated the song with "Britain under Thatcher". Not that it's really worth either of us getting into a lather over - both HMQ & Queen Maggie represent different parts of "the ruling class" James 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") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 01:03:28 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: embarrassed by robyn a POME by pathetic doug had the good fortune to work in a bldg with a radio station in. friend called, said, 'did you know that robyn hitchcock is four floors below you *right now??*' down the stairs all mumbly and fanboyish for receptionist. sweaty twenty minutes radio station lobby, clutching pad of graph paper. (graph paper?? why?? who knows.) him so tall, look up figuratively, literally. friendly shake of hand, his opening salvo: 'oh, so you're the one without the gun, then' drained all vestige of smarts from my tongue (despite my utter inability to frame a single coherent sentence, our Robyn was v. gracious and appeared not at all freaked. drew me a lovely little cartoon on the graph paper of an undecided globe. i've often been at a loss for words, but i've seldom been as tongue-tied as that. while i was pleased that RH didn't seem to think i was an assassin, it really threw me for a conversational loop. perhaps he thinks many of his fans are braindamaged.) d. - oh,no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmayowel@access.digex.net - and dmw@mwmw.com ... get yr pathos at http://www.mwmw.com/pathetic/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 02:18:35 -0400 From: twofangs/randi spiegel Subject: flying hats and unfurnished rooms (re: feg digests #166-7) Miles murmured: > I've heard Robyn's explanation for closing with "Wafflehead," I just > don't agree with it! Pardon me for my ignorance on this matter...but I would muchly appreciate it if you could paraphrase and post Robyn's explanation... A few of you have mentioned MTV's 120 minutes...and it seems some of you discovered Robyn through this show...as a Canadian without a satellite dish...I am unaware of the content of "120 minutes", and if it still runs on MTV...could I ask someone to fill me in on this as well? :) Okay, and one more question...John Hedges heralded (in Feg #166): > The version of "Raymond Chandler" (on Brenda Of The Lightbulb Eyes) is > the Ghosts Before Breakfast-esque flying hats version, not the > Robyn-alone-in-the-unfurnished-room version. Where can one find this alternate version? fading back into yesterday before tomorrow *cones* (thanks woj), Randi who is proud to be a dot on the fegmap... *what scares you most will set you free* - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 03:12:58 -0400 From: twofangs/randi spiegel Subject: septicemia and meeting Robyn Karen Reichstein requested: > Does anybody else have any weird /embarrassing "I Met Robyn!" stories > to tell? Do share. The first time I had the guts to talk to Robyn was during the "Perspex" tour. After the gig, having heard a *new* song with the line "septicemia always wins," (I've had blood poisoning twice,) I gathered up my courage and waited by the dressing room. He came out, my heart stopped, and I blurted, "septicemia doesn't always win!" (sauve I am not). My face went beet red, there was an eternity of dead silence, and then Robyn started to laugh. I must have looked horrified for his laughter cut off as suddenly as it had started, and then _he_ blushed. I was hoping the creaky floorboards under my feet would give way so the whole horrible ordeal would end without me dying of embarrassment, when he asked me my name, shook my hand and said, "Randi, give me a second to talk to some of these people, then we'll have a chat." To make a long story short, he told me about his dad, I told him about my Crohn's Disease (he'd never heard of it before) and when I woke up from surgery in March of 1993, there was a cd of "Respect" waiting for me, along with a "get well soon" and a joke about "septicemia." Something Shakespeare did say was "All's Well That Ends Well." fading back into yesterday, Randi *That which you fear the most will meet you halfway* - Victoria Williams (thanks Debora) *what scares you most will set you free* - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:42:24 -0700 Subject: Re: flying hats and unfurnished rooms (re: feg digests #166-7) >>Pardon me for my ignorance on this matter...but I would muchly >>appreciate it if you could paraphrase and post Robyn's explanation... Hi Randi. Robyn said on _Spectre_, a promo version of _Respect_ something like that the album was about death and dying, and it was a relief to himself and his audience to do something very different. I completely agree with his idea, and I think it might have otherwise been a drag to listen to. Because of the humorous gallop in the waffleiron, I never get tired of that CD, But what do I know? I'm just a weirdo with vestages of heat transfer letters and waffle iron burns in my head. Admittedly, my taste is in question, as are my ironing skills. Happies, and I know my email program sux. It was not my choice, I was lucky to get my choice of computer to put it on. -Markg Gol blimey mates, I'd better put on me railroad shoes lest I be unable to suffer the slings and arrows of the winters of the discontent of others whose taste be better-endowed with large truck tires and heavy power tools and really big vegetalia than my audio preferences. ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 03:51:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Antwoman mailers Hey Feggies, I accidentally deleated the last two post from Antwoman. Can anyone forward them to me??? THANKS! Hey, I miss you guys! Blinking On And Off, Jay ------------------------------ From: jpartridge@accel.com Date: Thu, 17 Jul 97 04:30:26 EST Subject: Captain Sensible, first RH story, etc. PART 1: Sure, I'll pick up that thread although there's not much to tell: Robyn co-wrote some songs that appear on the Captain's first two albums, "Women and Captains First" and "Power of Love". And very nice songs they are too. And neither is or ever was available on CD. Someone gave me The Damned's "Strawberries" and I liked it quite a bit. Can any of you fellow fegsters recommend some more Damned? Which of the other albums most resembles "Strawberries"? PART 2: 1. The first Robyn album you purchased... Black Snake Diamond Role 2. The first Robyn show you saw... Last 10 minutes of his gig at The Pali...sade? The Pala-? I can't remember: it's the club on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. 3. How you found out about/discovered Robyn's music - This girl I was utterly in love with leant me BSDR. Not only that but she loved me in spite of my owning (and playing) albums by Boston, Cheap Trick, ELO, and (this still stings) Styx. 4. Steve would also like to know where you live... Yes, I bet he would. PART 3: Funny story about Robyn. Don't get your hopes up - this is at the drole end of funny, not the weeping end. So a friend of mine and I are at Irving Plaza in NYC, Don Dixon's acoustic set is over, and we're waiting for Robyn to come on stage. It's dark but we see a tall figure moving round the rear of the room heading towards the men's room. Yep, it's Robyn. We are struck silent as we feverishly calculate how much self-esteem is left after you've introduced yourself to your favorite musician in the men's room. We conclude that some things are fundamentally uncool no matter what the motivation. Thankfully, Robyn emerges before we can reconsider. He heads for the stage and, in the dim lighting, stumbles on the half step leading down to the dance area. And smirking my friend says, "Woah, we saw Robyn tripping." That's it. That's the joke. Okay, so I guess it's more at the shaggy-dog end of not-funny. PART 4: Palladium! Good brain! Here's a biscuit! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:45:30 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: a very small introduction Hi - I just subscribed to the list but I've been lurking in the archives for several months now, so I feel like I already know you - well, actually, I *do* know some of you, my fellow XTC fans from the Chalkhills list. I've followed you here. I hope you don't mind. . . Some information: I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I'm 24. I believe I first heard Robyn when I saw the video for "Raymond Chandler Evening," but I didn't get interested till "Queen Elvis" came out - the first album of his that I bought, and a much-maligned one, but dammit, I like it! I've never seen him live but I have missed him three times for various reasons (including stupidity). I am just starting to get back into the Hitchcockian oeuvre after a long hiatus, so I don't own all, or even half, of his albums. Therefore, I probably won't be saying much on this list since otherwise I might betray my shameful ignorance. But I will continue to lurk, and maybe someday, when my collection is sufficiently expansive, I'll actually have something to say. There are certain people out there who have constructed their own private universe, complete with its own flora, fauna, and language. Some of these people are willing to let others have a peek inside. Robyn Hitchcock is one of those people, and that's why I like him. - Natalie P.S. The Great Quail is way cool. P.P.S. Now that I'm officially on the list, does that make me a "feg"? Or do I have to earn that title? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:11:52 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Re: 120 Minutes Warning: long nearly-Robynless post. twofangs/randi spiegel wrote: > A few of you have mentioned MTV's 120 minutes...and it seems some of you > discovered Robyn through this show...as a Canadian without a satellite > dish...I am unaware of the content of "120 minutes", and if it still > runs on MTV...could I ask someone to fill me in on this as well? :) 120 Minutes started on MTV back around 1986 or so. It played (and continues to play) at midnight eastern time on Sunday nights and runs for...120 minutes. It has always billed itself as "two hours of cutting edge alternative music video", or something like that. My interest and addiction to the show died around the same time that 'alternative' went 'mainstream' in the US, say around 1993 or so. Then again, that was also around the time I was getting engaged and married and buying a house and planning a kid and all that kinda stuff, so maybe I'M to blame. Um...120 usually showed stuff that normal daytime MTV wouldn't touch (all the greats: Cure, Smiths, Camper Van Beethoven, Depeche Mode, They Might Be Giants, Dead Milkmen, REM, Ministry, Robyn H., Julian Cope, and on and on and on). The shows antithesis was MTV's Headbanger's Ball (Saturday nights at around the same time)...all heavy metal. For a while in the late 80's, Headbanger's Ball ratings far outdistanced 120, but time has shown us the better show. Headbangers is no more. 120 remains. (My favorite Headbanger's Ball, not that I ever watched, was when Kurt and Krist from Nirvana showed up...Kurt had a huge boofy yellow ball gown on). 120 Minutes has always had a guest on each Sunday, some artist they'd talk with and usually let play something, often acoustic. I've got two clips of Robyn on the show, one from around '88 and one from around '90. One of my favorites was when Kevn Kinney did "McDougal Blues" backed up by Pete Buck. I also have about 10 VHS tapes full of videos and snippets that I taped from the show ('87 - '93)...my VCR was always on pause, waiting for a cool video. These days, 120 is still going strong, but just doesn't give me the kick it once did. The videos have gotten fairly routine and stale, and the show seems more about plugging new "buzz clip" artists than really looking for the obscure wonders. I rarely get to watch it anyway (maybe four or five times a year). They still have great guests and the new VJ Matt Pinfield, while being a drone and bore to listen to, is quite the enthusiastic music fan and expert, which is nice...he knows way to much about every band in the world and lets you know it, which can get annoying. Not sure if anyone catches MTV's AMP, but I've seen it several times and it gives me the same vibe that old 120 used to. Whatever that means or implies. Mike Rambler Runion ------------------------------ From: TROYD1_at_REF@westatpo.westat.com Date: Thu, 17 Jul 97 10:46:16 EDT Subject: Sleeping Knights, Blur, etc Miles said: *The real problem with BLUR (the album) isn't that the band's trying to do different things than they have before; the problem is that in their haste to escape their self-made Brit-pop straightjacket, they forgot to write any songs! "Death of a Party" is almost worth the price of admission, but beyond that? One of the year's disappointments, though I reserve the right to change my mind if BLUR *finally kicks in the way I'd like it to. I can't stop listening to new Blur CD. I don't particularly care for "Killer for Your Love" or "Essex Dogs", but there's more than enough fun elsewhere to make up for those. "Beetlebum", "You're so Great", "Death of a Party", the Bowie-esque "Strange News from Another Star" plus the Ian Hunter impersonation in "Look Inside America" are all gems in my book. I agree that much of the lyrical wit of the previous albums is missing, but I much more inclined to listen to BLUR than to The Great Escape, which seemed to be following the Parklife by Numbers coloring book. For those fegs that don't know Blur very well, I highly recommend Parklife for its wit, joy, and clever pop music references. I hear a lot of Kinks, XTC, Gary Numan, in Damon Albarn's songwriting - plus he often sings a little like John Lydon would if the intention were to entertain rather than annoy - if you know what I mean. Miles also said: *Since I don't possess the terminal country-avoidance bug, it never occurred to me for even a second to dislike this clever, dee-lightfully dark song. The Roy Clark big-note guitar approach is a *hoot! I always saw Sleeping Knights as a song that made fun of cliched country music (lost my wife, job, dog, etc., and now I'm crying in my beer). I thought it was kind of funny the first few listens, but find it hard to get through, now, as the joke goes on about two minutes longer than necessary. A few more Miles to go: *'Sides, anyone who rejects anything country-sounding out of hand is cutting themselves off from not only a load of crap (and tell me 90% of college radio isn't crap too, huh, huh?), but from Merle Haggard, the Mavericks, Bob Wills, the Louvin Brothers, Wayne Hancock, BR5-49, Emmylou Harris, large portions of the Kinks' MUSWELL HILLBILLIES, and the Greatest American Songwriter Ever, Hank Williams. And that's just *for starters. And to do that is a cryin' shame. Right on! I'd like to add Gram Parsons, early George Jones, and Johnny Cash to the list, if I may. And don't forget the so-called alt-country of Uncle Tupelo and their spin-offs, Wilco and Son Volt. Dan Whose favorite albums of the 90s are Blur's "Parklife", Uncle Tupelo's "Still Feel Gone", and Julian Cope's "Twenty Mothers." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 97 10:33:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: Steve's disgraceful Bbrain >how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's got >to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, BROTHERS IN >ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. There's a guitar on BSDR? I can't picture it. Back cover I guess? I'll Chime in with AXE VICTIM by Be Bop Deluxe before our resident Bill Nelson fan gets a chance to... -rr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:30:14 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: Steve's Disgraceful Brain Eddie Tews wrote: > how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's got > to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, BROTHERS IN > ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. How about: Love & Rockets "Sweet F.A." album, the one with the crisped up, burnt out ashen shell of a guitar gracing the cover. U2's "Rattle & Hum", with Bono shining the hand-held spotlight down onto the Edge, whose crouched in a low riffing pose. Uncle Tupelo's "Anodyne", showing a empty studio littered with 20 or so guitars. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:59:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: me and robyn On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, dmw wrote: > and i live in the cesspool called by some the capitol of the us of a. Wow. You live IN the capitol? Do you sleep in the Senate chambers? I don't think it's much of a cesspool (ok, maybe the contents are mostly rotten, but the digs are swell in their gaudy colonial way). J. (a capital is a city, a capitol is a building) ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:28:12 -0700 (PDT) From: griffith Subject: g-e-n-e-h-a-c-k-m-a-n The local WB network here in Los Angeles has been broadcasting movies featuring Gene Hackman all week. I wonder if Hackman's people (or Hackman himself) are aware of Robyn's song? Speaking of movies, wasn't "Storefront Hitchcock" to be distributed by Orion? If I remember my current facts, Orion was taken over by (I think) MGM. I wonder what the status of the film is now. Another thing about the movie that concerns me is the content and timing. The movie will be released more than one year after it was initially filmed. I seem to remember from the posted set lists, none of the performances featured any songs that haven't been previously released. To the casual or new Hitchcock fan, this might seem irrelevant, but to a fegmaniac like myself, it leaves me concerned. I'm guessing that the film will include somthing more than just the performance - this is where new songs could be included. Don't get me wrong, I am still looking forward to seeing the finished product. I am just a little concerned about the non-feg audience. just ramblin griffith ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@email.csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:26:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: g-e-n-e-h-a-c-k-m-a-n On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, griffith wrote: > Speaking of movies, wasn't "Storefront Hitchcock" to be distributed by > Orion? If I remember my current facts, Orion was taken over by (I think) > MGM. I wonder what the status of the film is now. Recently? I thought this happened before Storefront Hitchcock was even begun in earnest. > The movie will be released more than one year after it was > initially filmed. > none of > the performances featured any songs that haven't been previously released. So? > To the casual or new Hitchcock fan, this might seem irrelevant, but to a > fegmaniac like myself, it leaves me concerned. Well, to a fegManiac like MYSELF, it seems just fine. > I'm guessing that the > film will include somthing more than just the performance - this is where > new songs could be included. Well, in nearly every press release and article, Demme and the production company have referred to it as a concert film/documentary. So my guess is that it's more like Rattle and Hum than, say, Stop Making Sense. > Don't get me wrong, I am still looking > forward to seeing the finished product. I am just a little concerned > about the non-feg audience. It seems really deeply irrelevant that the songs are all previously released. ESPECIALLY to the non-feg audience. Remember, to the rest of the world, they're all new songs. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: "Merle Haggis" Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:58:20 -0800 Subject: Guitar Rock CC: "Eddie Tews" , "What's Your Frequency, Russell?" , mrrunion@tng.net On 16 Jul 97 at 17:17, Eddie Tews wrote: > how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's > got to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, > BROTHERS IN ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. And then, on 17 Jul 97 at 10:33 Russ Reynolds wrote: > I'll Chime in with AXE VICTIM by Be Bop Deluxe before our resident > Bill Nelson fan gets a chance to... After which, Michael "Looking Through The Glass" Runion, on 17 Jul 1997 at 14:30, contributed these: > How about: > > Love & Rockets "Sweet F.A." album, the one with the crisped up, burnt > out ashen shell of a guitar gracing the cover. > > U2's "Rattle & Hum", with Bono shining the hand-held spotlight down > onto the Edge, whose crouched in a low riffing pose. > > Uncle Tupelo's "Anodyne", showing a empty studio littered with 20 or > so guitars. > To which I say: "Lone Rhino", "Mr. Music Head" and "The Guitar As Orchestra" by Adrian Belew "Kiss My Axe" by Al DiMeola "Oranges And Lemons" by XTC "Beat Crazy" by The Joe Jackson Band The truckloads of equipment on the back cover of Ummagumma" by The Pink Floyd The guitar cases on the back of "Travelling Wilburys: Vol. I" Acoustic Alchemy had a cover which featured the X-Ray of an inside of a guitar. I don't know the name of the album, though. And, of course, there's our very own feg who works for the company formerly known as Candlestick with "Monday's Lunch". They don't come any dirtier than me, --g "If you like it, it's probably been done before." --Cliff Malloy *************************************************************** Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:46:21 -0700 From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik) Subject: Martin Newell (RHC 0.01%) After the many raves of praise for Martin Newell's THE GREATEST LIVING ENGLISHMAN here on this mailing list, I picked it up and I have to agree with everyone who recommended it. This is a fantastic record! If the element of Robyn's music you like is the Multilayered English Whimsy Pop, you will almost certainly like this one a lot. [There, that's the sum total of the Robyn Content; those of you who remain unconvinced can move along now, there's nothing to see here...] A better comparison would be "XTC plays _Something Else By The Kinks_." I found my attitude towards it went in three stages: 1. Wow, this is really immediately appealing. 2. But I'm not sure there's not anything here but a formal exercise in retropsychedelia, like "The Dukes of Stratosphear." 3. (after letting the songs stew a whole unheard, and then listening with headphones) Actaully, there's a lot going on that's pretty interesting musically in here, and the lyrics are good too. So my question to everyone who raved about it is this: is the new CD (called, I think, THE OFF-WHITE ALBUM) as good? And how much of the scads of albums listed in the Trouser Press Guide by The Cleaners From Venus and that other Newell band are vital for me to seek out? - David Librik ------------------------------ From: Rob Collingwood Subject: Top 100 singles of all time Date: Thu, 17 Jul 97 21:30:48 PDT The August edition of Mojo (very high brow UK music mag) has a list of the top 100 singles of all time as voted for by a panel of over a hundred luminaries, including Robyn Hitchcock. Here's a brief rundown of what is printed (it takes up 42 pages in the mag) Voting panel included : T-Bone Burnett, Ray Davies, Chris Difford, Noel Gallagher, RH, Trevor Horn, Chrissie Hynde, Jeff Lynne, Vanessa Mae, Curtis Mayfield, Ian McCulloch, Roger McGuinn, Joey Ramone, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, Don Was, Brian Wilson. The main rule was that the song had to have been released as a single in the UK. Each voter gave in their top 10. A selection from the list : 96 Subterranean Homesick Blues - Dylan 94 Virginia Plain - Roxy Music 86 Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood 83 Autobahn - Kraftwerk 82 Wonderwall - Oasis 77 Stupid Girl - Garbage (I'm surprised this was included, I can't see it being regarded as 'great' in 10 years time) 76 Mystery Train - Elvis P. 69 Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison 68 Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols 65 Starman - Bowie 56 Help - Beatles 49 Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell 43 Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Experience 40 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen 36 Imagine - Lennon 30 You Really Got Me - The Kinks 26 When Doves Cry - Prince 20 God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols 17 Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding 12 Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix Experiance 11 Don't Worry Baby - Beach Boys 10 What's Going On - Marvin Gaye 9 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 8 River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner 7 Hey Jude / Revolution - Beatles 6 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones 5 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 4 Be My Baby - The Ronettes 3 Like A Rolling Stone - His Bobness 2 Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane - The Beatles 1 Call me all the names under the sun, but I'm going to leave you guessing for a couple of hours. I'll post the no. 1 later tonight. -- Rob Collingwood Rob@nimbus.demon.co.uk Warrington, UK. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:08:34 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: guitar cover art > how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's > got to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, > BROTHERS IN ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. how about: RETREAT FROM MEMPHIS mekons TAKE A LOOK INSIDE folk implosion BASEMENT TAPES bob dylan DEFINITELY MAYBE oasis ROCKY ROAD young dubliners BLUE MASK lou reed THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS talking heads THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST david bowie SHUT UP AND PLAY YER GUITAR frank zappa MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE AND HATE godfathers HINDSIGHT church BORN TO RUN bruce springsteen ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE beck ELECTRIC WARRIOR t.rex HOUSE TORNADO throwing muses REVOLVER beatles and of course, my favorite: LONDON CALLING clash KEN ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:25:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Top 100 singles of all time >The August edition of Mojo (very high brow UK music mag) has a list of the >top 100 singles of all time as voted for by a panel of over a hundred >luminaries, including Robyn Hitchcock. > >Voting panel included : >T-Bone Burnett, Ray Davies, Chris Difford, Noel Gallagher, RH, Trevor >Horn, Chrissie Hynde, Jeff Lynne, Vanessa Mae, >Curtis Mayfield, Ian McCulloch, Roger McGuinn, Joey Ramone, Lou Reed, Todd >Rundgren, Don Was, Brian Wilson. You know, that doesn't seem like a diverse enough panel to me. I mean, look at all the Beatle worshippers. Fifties rock & roll isn't really represented, for one thing. >1 Call me all the names under the sun, but I'm going to leave you guessing >for a couple of hours. I'll post the no. 1 later tonight. "MMMBop?" Eb ------------------------------ From: Rob Collingwood Subject: Top single Date: Thu, 17 Jul 97 22:55:52 PDT The no. 1 single in the Mojo top 100 singles of all time was : Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys At the risk of reopening old wounds, I wouldn't have put it in my top 100 but I can see that it has merit. Also in the article were published a few of the voters' top tens (not RH unfortunately). Here are a couple: Ray Davies : Me Myself I - Joan Armatrading Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis River Deep Mountain High - Ike & Tina All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats Smells Llike Teen Spirit - Nirvana Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor Maggie's Farm - Bob Dylan I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye Paul McCartney: All Shook Up - Elvis God Only Knows - The Beach Boys Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown Long Tall Sally - Little Richard Searchin' - The Coasters That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band Ain't That A Shame - Fats Domino I'm away for a week now, so I'm looking forward to getting back to see what you've all made of this. -- Rob Collingwood Rob@nimbus.demon.co.uk Warrington, UK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .