From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V6 #94 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, December 11 1997 Volume 06 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Brushes with Fame [TROYD1@Westat.com (TROYD1)] Re: Glen Uber's Big, Ballsy Dan Bern Review [M R Godwin ] RE: (Fwd) Re: Embarassing "I Met Robyn!" story [Tom Clark ] more ambience ambiance [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] stuff off the r-thompson-digest V2 #400- 100% ROBYN CONTENT!!! [dwdudic@e] Re: The Kinks (no RH) ["Baker, David(KWI-C09)" ] no robyn - Atari Teenage Riot ["jeffery vaska" ] more robyn and Richard [dwdudic@erols.com (luther w dudich)] Re: Freebird -- a possible history [Hedblade ] Re: no robyn - Atari Teenage Riot [Eb ] Re: Get Your Prawns Right Here [Ner ] Re: The Kinks (no RH) [Terrence M Marks ] Re: The Kinks (no RH) ["Baker, David(KWI-C09)" ] Re: i'll never find that recipe again (no RH content) [Ner ] Re: i'll never find that recipe again (no RH content) [Eb Subject: Re: Glen Uber's Big, Ballsy Dan Bern Review On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Kyrie Liason wrote: > Score of the day: In the bargain basement of Rasputin Records, I found > the UK-release twelve-inch single of "Brenda's Iron Sledge", taken > from _GLTHO_. On side one is "Brenda" and "O.T. Stones...". Side two > has "The Pit Of Souls, Pts. I - IV". The kewylest thing about it, > however, is the Robyn cartoon on the front. It's entitled, "Brenda's > Iron Sledge" and each frame represents a different line from the song. > If anyone would like me to scan the cover, let me know and I'll either > email it to you, or post it on the WWW. Then you will certainly agree with me that "Brenda shovels on the wurst" features a cartoon of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, _not_ Margaret Thatcher. As I have said before, Brenda = QE2. - - Mike Godwin I've been off sick. I can see I am going to have trouble catching up on 400 and odd messages... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 97 13:16:45 EST From: Ross Overbury Subject: Brenda, oh Brenda's Iron Sledge Mike said: > [ ... regarding "Brenda's Iron Sledge" ... ] > Then you will certainly agree with me that "Brenda shovels on the wurst" > features a cartoon of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, _not_ Margaret Thatcher. > As I have said before, Brenda = QE2. Here's R-man Robyn's "Brenda", submitted without further comment: And when I wake Amazing how the difference Between what it seems in your dreams And the day when it gets light And when I sleep The patterns that resemble you Arise in my eyes and collide I don't care 'cause it's alright Brenda, oh Brenda I wish I was with you Brenda, oh Brenda won't you tell me that it's true And tell me how do all the people in your tent make you feel... A little cramped? And when you laugh delightful how the echoes Ring the eaves and the leaves on your sleeves Tumble down onto the ground And when you kiss I've got to have another slice of the stuff It's enough when you're around Brenda, oh Brenda I wish I was with you Brenda, oh Brenda won't you tell me that it's true And tell me how do all the people in your tent make you feel... A little cramped? ====== - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 97 10:21:40 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: RE: (Fwd) Re: Embarassing "I Met Robyn!" story On 12/9/97 8:49 PM, Bret wrote: >........at this point Robyn is talking to Laura about the next day's >in-store (which I also attended I had an in-store at Tower the same >day)....... >Robyn still has my hand, and I'm trying to figure out how to politely get >it back, which I cannot seem to do so I just sort-of pull my hand from >his, which brings him back to the realization that he still had it. >" oh sorry about that, I had forgotten we were both still here" > >do I win a prize for the most embarrassing meeting robyn story? Actually, I think this rivals Quail's lavatory tale as the funniest "M.R.S." - -tc, "whose various run-ins with RH have been quite uneventful for him, but epiphanous(?) for me." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:04:38 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: somebody ring the sleaze alarm (he's posting again) oh, you wacky wacky europeans. over on this side of the lake, 10/4/94 means october 4, not april 10. you've got some great stories, jason. i think you should tell the one about your granddad saving the young dan rather's life, even though it's quite off-topic. people are always asking chomsky during q & a sessions, What Should I Do? he says that he doesn't have any answers, except the same one that there's always been: get organized. so, if that person *is* reading, there's your answer --dump the bosses off your back! does robyn regularly do q & a sessions? i've never heard of such a thing. if anyone's got a tape of this particular time, i'd love to hear it. would carter burwell's score for Barton Fink be considered minimalist? if so, that would be my choice for fave minimalist soundtrack. what's the biggest band in the world right now? i don't think you could really say anymore that it's pearl jam, u2, or r.e.m.. i suppose it could be the smashing pumpkins, but i'm almost thinking it might just be the stones, which is kind of scary. yes, i'm aware that biggest doesn't mean best. maybe it's hanson? there have been some questions about catalog samplers recently. so, here's the rundown. the rhino catalog sampler (prcd 7083) contains: Acid Bird, City Of Shame, America, Fifty Two Stations, Uncorrected Pesonality Traits, I Used To Say I Love You, Autumn Is Your Last Chance, Nocturne (Demise), Another Bubble, Heaven, My Wife And My Dead Wife (HEN OUT!), If You Were A Priest, Airscape, The Crawling, All I Wanna Do Is Fall In Love, Eaten By Her Own Dinner, Queen Elvis, Beautiful Girl, Glass Hotel, Goodnight I Say sequel records, which handled the reissues in the kingdom, released one as well (rsa cd 899): City Of Shame, Night Ride To Trinidad, Heartful Of Leaves, I'm Only You, Listening To The Higsons, Airscape, I Got A Message, Queen Elvis III, Surgery, Statue With A Walkman ...so, even though the rhino sampler features many more tracks, the sequel sampler is the one with a song off YOU AND OBLIVION, and, of course, the unreleased song. here's something i just noticed. on the KERSHAW SESSIONS, it's listed as "52 Stations," but everywhere else it's "Fifty Two Stations." i guess because i love the KERSHAW version so much, that's how i'd always thought it was spelled. also, do y'all not put the hyphen in there in britain? (we would spell it "Fifty-Two.") well, i guess i'll chime in with my embarrassing story, which one unlucky feg has already heard, and i'm sorry to subject you to it again. one year, i'm pretty sure now that it was '94, i went to see robyn at the backstage. i was coming from work, and arrived about 15 minutes into robyn's set. i had my camera on me, and when i went to purchase my ticket, they told me i couldn't take my camera into the seating bowl. i asked if they'd hold it for me, and they said, "sure thing, jellybean." so, it was a great show and so on and so forth. after which, i went up to the box office to get my camera back, but the box office door was closed and locked. so i went back down, down, down into the backstage, looking around for someone to go unlock it for me. there just weren't any employees to be found, so i went behind the bar and started snooping around, and found a door and walked through. there in a little room was robyn, you know, kicking it around with no shirt on, talking to michele i guess it was, and eating from a nice big fruit tray. i don't remember what sentence i heard him say to michele, but i remember he was agitated enough already. then he looked up at me, as if to say, "who the fuck are you, and what do you think you're doing in here?" i squeaked, "oh, hi robyn, sorry." and left. then i went back up to the box office and knocked on the door. a kind person answered, and handed me my camera. this is the same camera, by the way, that took the bumberphotos now displayed on nick's web page. for what that's worth. Fuck You! I won't do what you tell me! (repeat fourteen times) --Rage Against the Machine ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:03 +0000 (GMT) From: jharrisc@cix.co.uk (Jeremy Harris) Subject: Homer acoustic CD (featuring Andy Metcalfe) in Fegdigest #93, Karen Reichstein asked: >What's this about a new Homer *acoustic* cd? Is this different from the >"Superkeen" cd single? If anyone knows how to get a copy of this, please >let me know. I picked up a leaflet about it at the gig, which I'll quote here in case it is of interest to other Fegs, esp since it's got Andy M. on it; "New CD 'Grow Your Own' - available at gigs and mail order only. 9 smashing tracks - recorded at various points during 1994-95 including guest musicians such as Andy Metcalfe (Egyptians), Kevin Jamieson (Sundays) and Warren Huart (Star 69). This is a collector's item that was originally available only to Homerama members and only on cassette, but due to overwhelming demand it is now available on CD for everyone's listening pleasure. How do you get your copy? Well you can either buy one at the gig, or send 7.50 UKP, payable to T. Keegan, to Homer, Grow Your Own, PO Box 12994, London NW5 2WT. For more info on Homer send an SAE to this address." And it quotes the website http://www.foresight.co.uk/homer and an email address of homer@keyevents.demon.co.uk Hopefully they will be amenable to negotiations over paying from overseas! - -Jeremy- Jeremy Harris jharrisc@cix.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:55:22 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: somebody >what's the biggest band in the world right now? i don't think you could >really say anymore that it's pearl jam, u2, or r.e.m.. i suppose it >could be the smashing pumpkins, but i'm almost thinking it might just be >the stones, which is kind of scary. yes, i'm aware that biggest doesn't >mean best. maybe it's hanson? As long as it's not Tool, I'm content. ;) Or Radiohead or the Verve. Maybe Oasis? And I'd say that the Pumpkins are definitely bigger than the Stones. >there in a little room was >robyn, you know, kicking it around with no shirt on, Somewhere in Chicago, a young woman just moaned with envy. Eb, bummed out because he's probably not going to get to see Dylan play next week :( ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 11:21:15 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: more ambience ambiance >On another note, Harold Budd started his musical career as a bee-bop >drummer. He was also considered a minimalist/avante garde composer long >before the term "ambient" was ever applied to music by Brian Eno. true. Then again, Ambient was a term first used in the 1920s by...hmm..Satie? And its root go back all the way to Pachelbel and beyond. Eno himself coined the (now disused) term Discreet Music before discovering the term Ambient. But it's his name that's usually linked with coining it for some reason. As to the Baconising Budd thread we had recently: seasy! Harold Budd->Andy Partridge->Thomas Dolby->Robyn Hitchcock. Next! Hmmm. Hitchcock->Dolby->Dr.Magnus Pyke How come no-one's mentioned Gavin Bryars yet? James (so glad to be on the ambient Kinks list. Who's this Hitchcock guy? ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:55:58 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: stuff off the r-thompson-digest V2 #400- 100% ROBYN CONTENT!!! =20 >>Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 22:43:24 +0000 >>From: Robert Renton >>Subject: [RTLIST] Anyone for Hitchcock? >> >>Speaking of undervalued singer/songwriters, is everyone here up to = speed >>with Robyn Hitchcock? The best album (IMHO) is I Often Dream of Trains, >>and you have to be careful how you start collecting (Eye is another = good >>one). I saw him last week in Cambridge UK playing to a pub audience, = and >>he was excellent. I guess that US readers of this list will be more >>familiar with him than English ones, since I understand that he has >>generally received more recognition over there. On the cold day in hell >>that everyone starts listening to RT, the next CD in the machine will >>probably be RH. >=09 >=20 >>Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:02:59 -0500 (EST) >>From: Dan Sallitt >>Subject: Re: [RTLIST] Anyone for Hitchcock? >> >>> Speaking of undervalued singer/songwriters, is everyone here up to = speed >>> with Robyn Hitchcock? The best album (IMHO) is I Often Dream of = Trains, >>> and you have to be careful how you start collecting (Eye is another = good >>> one). >> >>I'll bet we have a lot of Robyn fans on the list. I personally don't >>think there are that many bad places to start with him, but I'd opt for >>the amazing 1980 Soft Boys album UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT, or the first = solo >>Robyn album, 1981's BLACK SNAKE DIAMOND ROLE. >> >>As you probably know, Robyn has covered various RT and Brit folk songs >>over the years, and his affectionate parody of Martin Carthy on the = LIVE >>AT THE PORTLAND ARMS album is a must. - Dan >>=20 > Robyn is GREAT! Get onto the Fegmaniax! mailing list, and ask >about getting a dub of the "a&m covers album". sitting there in the >middle of it is a GORGOUS acoustic rendition of RT's "Calvary Cross" >(not as good as that on "watching the dark", but what is?) > > As I said some months ago, get Moss Elixir, or better yet, > SEE ROBYN'S FILM WHEN IT COMES OUT NEXT YEAR! > > Personally, for RT fans, I would have to say get "eye", then >"Black Snake Diamond Role", then "respect", then "underwater >moonlight", then "gotta let this hen out", and go from there.] > >=20 >On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Tom Booth asked:=20 > >> Anyone know if R. Hitchcock's version of "Wild Mountain Thyme" >> shows up on any of his recordings? I've heard him perform it >> twice in concert, but have never been able to track it down on an = album. > >Hitchcock version is one of the highlights of the Byrds tribute album >"Time Between", the same that features RT doing "Here Without You" with >Clive and Christine. (I just have the vinyl, but I think the CD reissue >has RT doing a second tune.) "Wild Mtn Thyme" is credited to Nigel and >the Crosses, an occasional side project featuring Hitchcock and REM's >Peter Buck. =20 > >Gary Annable =20 >It may be sooner than you think. I read that Jonathan Demme is busy >directing a "Stop Making Sense" type movie about RH. This will likely = put >Robyn on the map in a BIG way. > >- -al=3D >"Honesty is money in the cemetery." >- ---Robyn Hitchcock > =20 > >Robyn's version of "Wild Mountain Thyme" is included on a "Tribute to=20 >the Byrds" CD called, if memory serves, "Time Between." The label=20 >which released the CD is, I believe, Imaginary Records. OH also=20 >appears with Clive Gregson and Christine Collister doing a nicely=20 >down-home version of "Hickory Wind" (with spritely mandolin work and=20 >harmonizing by RT). The overall quality of the cuts on the CD is a=20 >bit uneven, but is probably worth the price for the two=20 >aforementioned songs alone. > >It's been gratifying to see Robyn Hitchcock fans weighing in lately.=20 >I'm a longtime fan and got a chance to see him solo-acoustic out in=20 >San Francisco one night (at, as I recall, The Great Western Opera=20 >House," a beautiful venue) and it remains one of my all-time favorite=20 >concerts. > >And, yes, I, too, often dream of trains. I've even been to=20 >Basingstoke and Reading! > >Cheers, >Andy > =20 -pretty cool, huh? -luther w dudich ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 08:28:00 +0800 From: "Baker, David(KWI-C09)" Subject: Re: The Kinks (no RH) Eb stated: >And Susan, I didn't dismiss everything post-1971 except "Sitting in my >Hotel." I dismissed everything except "Sitting in my Hotel" AND "Celluloid >Heroes." Heh heh heh. But if people want to post the best post-1971 Kinks >songs, I'd be curious to see if there are some jewels which I've missed. I >don't claim to have heard all the later stuff in full...I do know for sure >that I bought Soap Opera, Preservation, Everybody's in Showbiz and >Sleepwalker and traded them back without a second thought. I have UK Jive >though, for some reason (it was a gift) -- that's the only later Kinks >album I still own, and I'm sure I'll get rid of that one day. Before I give my recommendations for this, I'll give my answer to some of the earlier questions. I too feel that the Kinks peaked from 1966-1969 with Face to Face, Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur. Come to think of it, I think that they improved with each of those, although it is pretty damn close between the last three. Just outside those periods they also produced exceptional albums in Lola Vs Powerman, Muswell Hillbillies and (to a slightly lesser extent) Kontroversy. As an intro to the Kinks, I would think that the Hit Singles is probably a better introduction then Kronicles because it includes some essential early singles (You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, See My Friends) which aren't on Kronicles. And the Well Respected Men collection is a better way of picking out 99% of the rarities later on once you have been converted (or should that be konverted). Anyway, as for post-Hillbillies Kinks, my favourite album by a considerable distance is Misfits. This is a close as Ray gets to regaining his 60's pop muse (lyrically and me) and it is a strong, varied set of songs, with only a little bit too much sheen production-wise. As for individual songs, the following come to mind.... Celluloid Heroes (Everybody's in Showbiz) Sitting In My Hotel (") Sweet Lady Genieve (Preservation) I'm In Disgrace (Schoolboys) Full Moon (Sleepwalker) Juke Box Music (") Misfits (Misfits) Rock and Roll Fantasy (") Live Life(") Better Days (Give the People What They Want) I must admit to being quite partial to Come Dancing as well, although I recently made a compilation tape of mostly 60's/early 70's Kinks stuff and I included Come Dancing and I found it stood out and not in a good way. I also included Sweet Lady Genieve and it fitted in nicely. >Final general query: Is there any strong reason to buy The Live Kinks >(released in 1965, I think)? That's the only early album I don't have. I got given this as a present a few years back and thought it would probably be a waste of money because I had all the songs already. In fact, I found it one of the very few live albums worth owning. It really captures the live madness of a 60's concert accurately, screaming teeny boppers and all, and Ray's attempts to get some kind of organised cooperation from the crowd are quite amusing. The band itself cooks and the audience sing-along to Sunny Afternoon (before it dissolves into screaming again), is pretty special. It was recorded late 66 or early 67 but for some reason released after Something Else by which time it was a bit redundant as a commercial release. If you really want to feel like you were at a Kinks concert at their prime, this is worth getting. Dave. Alcoa of Australia Ltd ACN 004 879 298 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:22:02 -0800 From: "jeffery vaska" Subject: no robyn - Atari Teenage Riot "fuck the government, fuck the KKK!," so said Alec Empire over and over and over and over to the same effect. But then again you could tell a group of 14 year olds that you once played geetars with Kurt Cobain and they'd be pretty excited and believe it. The crowd went nuts. It was, as it may be apparent already, an all ages Atari Teenage Riot show in Seattle. I went. They were more theatrical than I thought, but coming from Germany/Berlin I can understand this. I wore earplugs. I still went deaf. WAY loud. WAYY. If you haven't heard of them, have had enough minimalist crap (of which I too am a fan of), remember what it was like when you were six years old and your kitten crawled into the engine of your car and got killed when the ignition was lit, happen to have a need for ear damage in your life (a good thing if you can't stand your significant other), then check them out. I really have no point, but as i check email before i plunk to bed, i am feeling the blowup of evil mimes and strobe lights. ciao...jv - ----------------------------------------------------------------- vaska & co. design - "cultured by design" www.cultureddesign.com seattle, washington - usa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 03:52:27 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther w dudich) Subject: more robyn and Richard =20 >Somebody wrote >>Speaking of undervalued singer/songwriters, is everyone here up to = speed >> with Robyn Hitchcock?=20 > A truly great performer,either solo or with The Egyptians or the Soft >boys.Sometimes I used to think that some of his lyrics are a bit >obvious, in a early Syd Barrett sort of way,you sometimes can guess what >rhyme he is going to use ( something really rare in OHero's numbers )=20 >but he is also capable of creating some truly epic songs, with wildly >wacky lyrics that defy description. He is also a mean gutarist capable >of using truly transcendent sounds as well as delivering a tough >rocker. =09 > There are some good live tapes out there of his shows which are well >worth investigating if only for his inspired stage banter which goes off >in inexplicable tangents which SOMEHOW MAKE SENSE even though they are >almost completely off the planet.There are also a couple of video's. A >legitimate vid of his is " Gotta let this hen out", which features some >of his best songs such as "I Often dream of trains", "Leppo & the >Jooves"," My wife and My dead wife" and The Man with the Lightbulb Head" >(which is very weird!). I don't know if this is still available,but the >address on the video is=20 >Jettisounds. Po box30 Lytham St Annes Lancashire. England.Much of this >tape is live at the Marquee Club 4-27-85 and features the Egyptians.A >good introduction to early period Hitchcock if you can get a copy of it. >Dave Lang > >---- Well, just get on the Robyn list, like I did. Ask politely, and some loyal feg (that's the short for 'Robyn fan', taken from the 1st egyptians album, 'Fegmania') will offer to make you a copy...Myself, I have about 2 1/2 HOURS of Robyn on video coming my way soon...(I still have to send plank video tapes...) >=20 >Robyn's rhymes are pretty distinctive, I think. Often he resorts to >Dylan-style whatever-I-can-lay-my-hands-on rhymes, but I think he does = it >out of playfulness rather than carelessness (unlike Dylan, in my = opinion). >Sometimes he pushes the envelope on stupid rhyming so that it becomes >absurdism, as with his penchant for sticking in irrelevant first names = to >complete rhyme schemes. Occasionally the effect is priceless: "All >aboard/Brenda's iron sledge/Please don't call me Reg/It's not my name." = - - >Dan >=20 Well, there is actually a website up called 'Crystal Branches' which is compiling all the common references in his songs. (And you thought *we* got obsessed at times with minute details of RT!) seriously, some of his use of first names (my personal favorite is still "Sandra's having her brain out"!) actually connects between songs...For example, 'Reg' has appeared in other songs, usually as someone Robyn doesn't want to be or want someone to be around (ex: "Don't go messing with a guy like Reg/ he'll just leave you there behind the hedge"- Bass)...and so on, and so on, and scooby-dobby-do... Does anybody know if Richard or Robyn has ever said anything in interviews (or even- gasp- actual conversation! :-) ) about each other? -luther w dudich ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 23:57:20 EST From: Hedblade Subject: Re: Freebird -- a possible history Feggers, Just to take this thread into the "ridiculous"... Upon seeing Glenn Tilbrook play an acoustic show this past summer, an audiecne member, at Mr. Tilbrook's urging for suggestions, yelled "Firestarter!!!" We ALL busted a gut, including Mr. Tilbrook. Blinking on and off, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 21:24:39 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: no robyn - Atari Teenage Riot >"fuck the government, fuck the KKK!," so said Alec Empire over and over and >over and over to the same effect. But then again you could tell a group of >14 year olds that you once played geetars with Kurt Cobain and they'd be >pretty excited and believe it. The crowd went nuts. It was, as it may be >apparent already, an all ages Atari Teenage Riot show in Seattle. > >I went. They were more theatrical than I thought, but coming from >Germany/Berlin I can understand this. I wore earplugs. I still went deaf. >WAY loud. WAYY. > >If you haven't heard of them, have had enough minimalist crap (of which I >too am a fan of), remember what it was like when you were six years old and >your kitten crawled into the engine of your car and got killed when the >ignition was lit, happen to have a need for ear damage in your life (a good >thing if you can't stand your significant other), then check them out. I'm going to see ATR on Sunday. Wish me luck. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:37:19 -0500 From: Ner Subject: Re: Get Your Prawns Right Here JH3 wrote: > All of those things will potentially ruin tapes, as will placing them near > magnets (such as speakers), storing them in damp/humid conditions, lending > them to your brother, or attempting to smuggle them into Afghanistan. (The > latter being the most sure-fire method.) So just how close is too close to a speaker? Can anyone enlighten me on this? I have cassettes stored in racks that are 2-3 feet beneath one of my speakers. Two wooden shelves separate speaker from tape. Is this too close? I know my tapes won't last forever but I'd like to preserve them as long as possible so I'd appreciate any advice on this subject. Thanks. - -Ner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:35:22 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: The Kinks (no RH) Am I the only dude on this list who thinkgs that "Face in the Crowd" is a great song? (off of Soap Opera) [Or am I the only dude on the ist who has a copy of Soap Opera, for that matter?] Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:04:00 +0800 From: "Baker, David(KWI-C09)" Subject: Re: The Kinks (no RH) ---------- From: Terrence M Marks >Am I the only dude on this list who thinkgs that "Face in the Crowd" is a >great song? >(off of Soap Opera) Possibly - it doesn't quite make it into the great song category for me, although it's not without merit. >[Or am I the only dude on the ist who has a copy of Soap Opera, for that >matter?] Nope - I've had a copy of it for about 8 or so years now and I haven't once been tempted to trade it back. Although no one particular song stands out for me, I actually enjoy this one a lot. Ducks on the Wall ('those ducks they've got to go, those ducks are getting up my nose!), Holiday Romance, Everybody's A Star, You Can't Stop the Music, etc. are all great fun and certainly miles away from the typical pretentious concept albums of that era. Not up there with Arthur by any means but I'm certainly glad I own it. It is albums like State of Confusion where I largely lose interest and struggle to find those special Kink-like qualities beneath the tired, turgid rock sound. But even that has it's moments. Dave. Alcoa of Australia Ltd ACN 004 879 298 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 02:04:28 -0500 From: Ner Subject: Re: i'll never find that recipe again (no RH content) Eb wrote: > I like Nyman's stuff (particularly his score for The Cook, The Thief, The > Wife & Her Lover) > > And my favorite minimalist will always be Steve Reich. Reich rochs! I loved the The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover! I remember liking the music alot, too but, since I've never been big on buying soundtracks I never got into Nyman. I think I'll seek his stuff out, though. My favorite minimalist is, and has always been, Philip Glass but I agree that Reich rochs! I only have a couple of his CDs though (Different Trains and the one with Four Sections/music for mallet instruments, voices and organ). Anyone have any recommendations of the rest of his work? I'm also partial to Arvo Part (is there a way to get those two dots on top of the letter 'a'?) but I don't know - would he be considered minimalist? See ya.... - -Ner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 02:20:11 -0500 From: Ner Subject: Re: Freebird -- a possible history Russ Reynolds wrote: > Am I the only one who yells "Bohemian Rhapsody!" at every show? Yes. - -Ner ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 23:36:58 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: i'll never find that recipe again (no RH content) >I only have a couple of his CDs though (Different Trains and the >one with Four Sections/music for mallet instruments, voices and organ). I like Drumming, Early Works and The Desert Music an awful lot.... Eb, who once just about bumped into David Bowie at a Reich show ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V6 #94 ******************************