From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #49 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 9 1998 Volume 07 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Eb, list Grim Reaper.... [Eb ] Re: Strange Robynesque writtings [dlang ] mourn [Eb ] Cale + VU Banana + Recycling (1% Robyn) ["Matthew Knights" ] Re: Cale + VU Banana + Recycling (1% Robyn) [Eb ] from two fangs/randi - Syd has a new band? [Tim Fuller ] Re: ? [Ross Overbury ] 20 depressing!!! (no robyn, but a good cheap laugh) [dwdudic@erols.com (l] Re: ? [Capuchin ] Re: weirdness abounds (RH=1%) [Miles ] Re: weirdness abounds (RH=1%) [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 00:35:28 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Eb, list Grim Reaper.... >...No. But, It would be sweet irony if Brian Wilson outlived them all. >Not that it would mean anything in terms of product or output... Brian supposedly has an album coming out on Mercury in just a couple of months.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:36:17 +0510 From: dlang Subject: Re: Strange Robynesque writtings Tanter wrote: You "ozzies" have to copy everything those of us in the western world do, don't you? Another Robyn site, just what the world needs. Why aren't you out there curing AIDS or something? look I've already done all that shit in my spare time, I haven't made a web site yet , Ok? Any how it won't just be a Robyn site, it will also feature all of the boring old shits I like like MIles, beefheart, dead, RT,. etc . I have a proto site up already. Try it if you want but its not really ready yet.http 210.8.253/~LangD. no RH content as yet , I still have to do the graphix and the text and the links ....... DL. ( the boring olde farrte , etc, etc, ) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 02:36:27 -0700 From: Eb Subject: mourn http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/5461/ http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Loge/4060/geobook.html Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 11:16:13 -0000 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: Cale + VU Banana + Recycling (1% Robyn) Luther asked: I think Fear is excellent see http://www5.cddb.com/xm/cd/rock/6d099509.html Susan cordially disagreed: Well this is a track I fell out of love with. On my first hearing I thought European Son delivered the most shock value on the album and for this reason it *used* to be my favourite track. I once took it into school and played it on a Saturday really loud to annoy my drama teacher. It worked. I still like that crazy breaking glass and flushing toilet sound effect but the reason I don't like it is that, IMO, musically the whole track degenerates into a fourth rate jamming session that goes on to long and gets nowhere. This is a difficult one because "What goes on" is not much more than a jamming session and yet it's my favourite off VU'69. But for some reason "What goes on" just works for me whereas I really think they should have ended European Son after three minutes. I'm a fan of loud feedback and screechy noises but I think that a better place to find this is on "I heard her call my name" off Sister Ray. <"Femme Fatale" is great just for the way Nico says "what a klon"> I still think it's a highly over rated track. I far prefer "Mirror" and I think I once heard Robyn cover this track but I can't remember where and when. Thanks for the explanation. Do you mean someone who is naturally severely introverted socially or do you mean drug withdrawal symptoms as in "Cold Turkey". >IMO, most other cans belong where god and the beatles intended - in the trash. >Are you trying to imply that recycling bins are evil? No some of my best friends are recycling bins. I just think cans and trash have an affinity for each other. I do feel some guilt at not bothering to recycle my metal waste but this is moderated by a recent report I heard into recycling which concluded that the amount of energy and resources expended by everyone driving around the country recycling their waste vastly exceeds the amount of energy and resources saved. I approve of the idea of recycling and I have an open mind but I remain to be convinced about its practical value. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk `Ton ame est un lac d'amour dont mes desirs sont les cygnes...' _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 98 12:45:33 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: mourn On 2/8/98 1:36 AM, Eb wrote: >http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/5461/ A sampling of the condolences: > > Michael - 02/08/98 09:37:03 > My URL:http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h85/h8551159/local.html > My Email:michael.melzer@vienna.at > Country: Austria > > Comments: > The day Austrian Pop Music died. > Gee, I didn't even know it was born! Alles klar, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 13:30:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Cale + VU Banana + Recycling (1% Robyn) Um, any particular reason why this needed to be posted 13 times? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 15:55:09 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Fuller Subject: from two fangs/randi - Syd has a new band? Hi all... At my friend Tim's again...looking through the January 1998 edition of *VOX* issue number 87...page 15...under *this month's news*... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mystery of the month...a nameless, phone numberless piece of paper arrived in the VOX offices asking the cryptic question; "Is it true that _*Syd Barrett*_ has a new band called *Hieronymus Fin*?" Anybody out there able to elucidate? No time wasters, please. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Does anyone know anything about this? Is it a joke that I have missed the punchline on? If this has already been discussed on-list...then please accept my apologies...having been in Montreal a few weeks back...I'm still playing catchup with feg-digests. So email me privately...... Or if this is actually a new thread then please...post away ;} Thanks again to all... muchly... And special thanks to the sweetie named Dolph for his *Danielson* help :} fading back into yesterday before tomorrow comes, Randi Toronto, Ontario, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:06:42 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: ? >P.S. saw a couple excerpts from "Rocky Horror" last night (in a movie bar >between flicks) and the question occurred to me- does anyone else think >RiffRaff is rather humorously like Brian Eno? :) :) not only that, but David Byrne looks like Brad... Do you mean there are people on this list who have not seen Rocky Horror??? Fie! Next you'll be telling me that there are people here who don't like the Beatles! James "enjoying rock music and not liking the Beatles is as perverse as living and not liking the sun" (Rolling Stone Album Guide) 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: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:55:30 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Canchester >I too fell in love with Tago Mago the minute I heard it (yup, in 1990). I >couldn't >believe that whole "Manchester Beat" was ripped straight from "Hallelujah." And >repeated over and over and over and over.... you want to hear where the Manchester Beat came from, listen to Donovan's "Barabajagal" and the Doors' "Peace Frog". Or did I misunderstand this post? James ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:06:22 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: weirdness abounds (RH=1%) >A growing number of Japanese are signing up for classes in Welsh as the >language develops a cult status that its devotees say gives them a sense >of individuality in group-oriented Japan. >Throughout his life Nicholas Saunders dared to be different. At one stage >he lived in a house in London with a duck pond in the front room and a >machine that blew giant bubbles into the road. The property was later >destroyed after a Danish girlfriend set light to a papier mache igloo >where she had been meditating. argh! the real world's found out about this list and is trying to out-weird us!!! AND NOW, SOME ROBYN CONTENT! (well, close...) Here's some useless info I read yesterday: The film "Percy", based on Raymond Hitchcock's novel, had music written by... Ray Davies! Anyone confirm? James PS - hi to Danielle! I wondered if you'd eventually turn up somewhere like this... Michael! Prepare another Kiwi feg-dot!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:59:08 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: okay, so it's not about Robyn, it's about Krautrock With all this talk about Can and Kraftwerk... I need some advice. I have an album I really like by Amon Duul II called "Wolf City". Anyone advise me what others by them I might enjoy? James ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:06:30 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: The Ghost Cat and other robynisms ok, i'm about to post some personal and off-topic things, but i waited until i had three of them so that i could post something semi-substantial and not a bunch of annoying one-liners. but first: woj recently placed a great deal of faith in me and gave me the go-ahead to move the data from all existing robyn hitchcock discographies into robynbase. this (in theory) will allow personalized data retrieval based on any criteria the user specifies. It also will hopefully solve the problem of no complete discography existing. so here's what i have and what i need. what i have: the hamilton discography (just found it last night, coincidentally, after it had gone missing for about eight years) russ reynolds' musicography (out of order.) the _PVs_ discography (HTML). The first volume of _The Golden Prince_. The goldmine article "invisible hitmaker" from last year or so, with the discography that (as i remember) cuts off halfway and never starts up again (twerps). IIRC this is also just a selected discography. What I Need: =Any discography materials you may have, in straight ASCII file format or printed (I have an OCR scanner.) I think Pam Martin did a brief egyptians disco; woj, I know you have/had a soft boys disco on your site. =Any information you have that you don't think would be on any existing discography, that you think should be included. =Data input assistance. This should mostly be cutting and pasting. Please get in touch! I need all the help I can get. __Ok, now the "stories from life." 1. a week or so ago i noticed what i assumed was a hallucination, moving around corners just as i would look at them. when i turned the corner, of course there was nothing anywhere to be seen. i asked my roommates about it and one of them said she had seen it too. this house is pretty old, but i don't really believe in ghosts, so i assumed it was an animal, and indeed it turned out to be a cat, lurking about, and it never wanted to eat any food i put out. just lurked in the shadows-- a shadowcat, if you will. 2. a couple onions i bought have started growing spontaneously. the intertwining stems are now a full 18 inches tall in the dark kitchen. 3. the church near my house has one of those signs with the movable letters out front. a little while ago it read: AFTER DEATH WHAT NEXT PRE RECORDED MESSAGE they didn't add the phone number for a few days. i thought it was hilarious! =b ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 98 21:06:00 EST From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: ? > Do you mean there are people on this list who have not seen Rocky Horror??? I've seen RH, but I've never heard it. Did I miss anything? - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 03:33:32 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: 20 depressing!!! (no robyn, but a good cheap laugh) On Fri, 6 Feb 1998 03:25:15 -0500, you wrote: >Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits=20 >Lou Reed - Berlin -----have this >Nick Drake - Way To Blue=20 >Joy Division - Closer=20 >Tindersticks - Second Album=20 >Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible=20 >Red House Painters - Double Album=20 >Baby Bird - Dying Happy=20 >Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension=20 >Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads=20 >American Music Club - Mercury -LOVE this!=20 >Pink Floyd - The Wall -have this (I woulda gone with 'animals' myself >The Cure - Disintegration -check >Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks -check >Japan - Tin Drum=20 >Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska -check >Depeche Mode - Black Celebration=20 >R.E.M. - Automatic For The People -check >Nirvana - Unplugged -got the studio albums, does that count? :-) >David Bowie - Low=20 So, do I get some kinda goth medal or something? :-) Ok, who else out there owns more than five albums on here? Also, should any of Robyn's stuff ("Blues in the Dark", "Aquarium", "She Doesn't exist", "Autum is your last chance", etc.) be on the list? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 20:28:32 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: ? On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, James Dignan wrote: > :) not only that, but David Byrne looks like Brad... Goodness, no. > Do you mean there are people on this list who have not seen Rocky Horror??? > Fie! Next you'll be telling me that there are people here who don't like > the Beatles! While I dance pretty happily to The Time Warp on any given Friday or Saturday out, I've only sat all the way through Rocky Horror once and that was in something like ninth grade. Yick. > "enjoying rock music and not liking the Beatles is as perverse as living > and not liking the sun" (Rolling Stone Album Guide) And at the risk of losing all possibility of running away with the lovely Ms. Dodge, I only have one Beatles album (Revolver) and listen to it only very rarely. I also live in Oregon and am not a really big fan of the sun. Call me perverse. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 23:16:10 -0600 From: Miles Subject: Re: weirdness abounds (RH=1%) At 01:06 PM 2/9/98 +1300, James Dignan wrote: >AND NOW, SOME ROBYN CONTENT! (well, close...) > >Here's some useless info I read yesterday: The film "Percy", based on >Raymond Hitchcock's novel, had music written by... Ray Davies! Anyone >confirm? But of course -- I don't think the Kinks soundtrack ever came out in the U.S., but it's been available on import for years. The movie was about the first "male organ" transplant (never read the novel), so asking a man who wrote disapproving songs about photography to write the soundtrack was an odd choice. And true to form, the first song on the soundtrack, "God's Children," goes "they got no right to change us... we gotta go back the way the Good Lord made us all." later, Miles ============================================================== JASON WILKINS (of Neilson Hubbard): Victor's was just starting to happen, then it burned down. BILL LLOYD: That's a pretty good metaphor for the Nashville rock scene. -- NASHVILLE SCENE, Jan. 15, 1998 Miles Goosens outdoorminer@mindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles ============================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:46:59 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: weirdness abounds (RH=1%) >>Here's some useless info I read yesterday: The film "Percy", based on >>Raymond Hitchcock's novel, had music written by... Ray Davies! Anyone >>confirm? > >But of course -- I don't think the Kinks soundtrack ever came out in the >U.S., but it's been available on import for years. The movie was about the >first "male organ" transplant (never read the novel), so asking a man who >wrote disapproving songs about photography to write the soundtrack was an >odd choice. And true to form, the first song on the soundtrack, "God's >Children," goes "they got no right to change us... we gotta go back the way >the Good Lord made us all." Now, this is actually one of the most interesting things I've learned on this list! I knew there was a film called Percy, which Davies/Kinks did music for. But I never knew that Papa Hitchcock wrote the book! Did he write the screenplay, too? Eb, still cringing from tonight's unbelievably terrible X Files and wondering why the HELL Stephen King is successful ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #49 ******************************