From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #199 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 21 1998 Volume 07 : Number 199 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Bootles solo (Bootle?) and other place names [tanter ] concept..... ["J.M. Brown H9602040" ] Re: Concept..... [Ross Overbury ] Re: Beach Boys list acrimony [Eb ] Re: Beach Boys list acrimony [Eb ] Re: Beach Boys list acrimony [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] Re: Concept..... [Eleanore Adams ] Mmmm . . .Tastee squid! [The Great Quail ] recommendation (no rh, of course) [dmw ] Re: Concept Albums (was: a pair of pants) [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: Concept Albums [MARKEEFE ] Re: Concept Albums (Red) [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Re: Concept Albums [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Journey Game [MARKEEFE ] Re: Concept Albums [Tom Clark ] Fave Concept Albums ["JH3" ] Re: Concept Albums ["Coolio Iglesias" ] Re: Concept Albums [tanter ] Re: Fave Concept Albums ["Coolio Iglesias" ] AWAD [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Concepts... ["Scott (Ferris) Thomas" ] Re: Quick party note [Ross Overbury ] Moody death concept children's party, plus one white duck [james.dignan@s] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:07:22 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: Bootles solo (Bootle?) and other place names At 05:36 PM 5/21/1998 +1200, you wrote: >and yet you never had the wonderful, very children's-ish "London Town" >album? And why has no-one mentioned this album? If and when I hear the >scrambling of little tuatara feet that will be how they get introduced to >McCartney! "Children, children where are you? Hiding in the forest, playing in the rain. Hope you're not too far away for me to play again....." I love that album! Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:34:25 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Beach Boys list acrimony >I've noticed that a lot of music mailing lists take on the same general >feel as the subject. This list is whimsical, the Kinks list is generally >utilitarian but becomes really nasty if you say anything specific about >Ray or Dave, the Monkees list is kinda newbie-ish but really friendly and >lighthearted, The beach BOys list is vicious... > >Am I just anthropomorphising things, or do lists take after their >subjects? Well, it would make sense that people who love the given music enough to join a discussion list devoted to it may have similar personality traits/quirks/emotional makeup (notice I said -may-, before you get your flamethrower out) or be people who really dig that artist(s)'s way of communicating or identify with it, hence theirs will be similar. I think it is something to do with fan character, is what I'm saying. I've noticed that the John Cale list is a good deal more somber than this one, for example, and whimsical humor appears there rarely, if ever. Also there are discussions that take place there about things that would -never- take place here, because the atmosphere is so different. Everyone there is verrry serrrious much of the time. I once mentioned this there with a side observation that Cale himself isn't exactly noted for his whimsicality or amazing sense of humor (when it does appear it usually so dark/bitter that it hardly registers as humor per se), and was treated to some highly serrrious discussion on the topic. Though actually I have noticed a few "Cale fashion reports" similar in tone to the Robyn "shirt-spotting" appearing from time to time :). Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:41:16 +0100 From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: Gloss Fish and concept albums > Woohoo!! Thanks a million Terence for putting this together. > > Just for the record, and in case anyone comes to see our band 'Fly' at > any stage, I thought I'd better point out that Bar Street 1 and > Hello... are *not* Fly songs, but actually date back to a concept > album about a post-school holiday to the Greek island of Kos, written > and recorded by myself and one of the others who went (Ian Cullen - > we called ourselves The Midnight Ramblers, and it was Ian that came up > with the title for the album, "Kos It's Good!" - !), way back in '92! > I put this album on side 2 of Terence's tape for a bit of a laugh - I > didn't expect to see any songs from it on GF! Me & My T.V. *is* a Fly > song, although it's written and sung by our lead guitarist, Jack > Button. Of the other two, Marble Arch is a recent solo recording, and > London Is Great is another written a while back with Ian (it's very > much a novelty number...) > > Hope you enjoy them, and I'm looking forward to hearing what other > Fegs do with their spare time. Thanks again, Terence. > > > Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 14:01:22 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Terrence M Marks > > Subject: Gloss Fish Tape Tree/List Info > > > > > >Gary Sedgwick: > >Me and my TV > >Marble Arch > >London is Great > > > >Fly: > >Bar Street 1 > >Hello... > > > >Gary Sedgwick: Member > >Fly: Features Gary Sedgwick. > > > > > >Terrence Marks > >normal@grove.ufl.edu > > > PS Favourite concept albums: > > The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust > Part One: Lola vs Powerman And The Moneygoround > 70's Pink Floyd albums > Kos It's Good! :) > > Favourite concept-ish albums: > Sgt. Pepper > Astral Weeks > What's Going On > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 98 18:46:00 bst From: "J.M. Brown H9602040" Subject: concept..... how about Spiritualized? One could describe their albums as being concept-esque? Julian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 98 14:11:39 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Concept..... > > > how about Spiritualized? One could describe their albums as being > concept-esque? > Julian > Have they done anything that's not about drugs? - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 11:42:54 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Beach Boys list acrimony Dlang wrote: > Jeez Vinnie, if you think they are vicious, then they must be REALLY >bad, as its not been unknown for you to"twist the knife again" on dis >here list ( in the nicest possible sadistic way of course) BTW, I'm >waiting for you to say something controversial about one of my icons so >I can insult you using Aussie vernacular as you requested ,so come on , >get weaving, you bloody rats arse ( just a taster for you of the >delights to come ). >dave Well, I already dismissed Paul Kelly yesterday.... ;) Cracklin' Ebran ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 11:48:36 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Beach Boys list acrimony >>I've noticed that a lot of music mailing lists take on the same general >>feel as the subject. This list is whimsical, the Kinks list is generally >>utilitarian but becomes really nasty if you say anything specific about >>Ray or Dave, the Monkees list is kinda newbie-ish but really friendly and >>lighthearted, The beach BOys list is vicious... >> >>Am I just anthropomorphising things, or do lists take after their >>subjects? > >Well, it would make sense that people who love the given music enough to >join a discussion list devoted to it may have similar personality >traits/quirks/emotional makeup (notice I said -may-, before you get your >flamethrower out) or be people who really dig that artist(s)'s way of >communicating or identify with it, hence theirs will be similar. I joined the John Cage mailing list once, but after four and a half months without seeing a post, I decided it wasn't worth staying subscribed. Eb PS SF Sorrow rules and so does Red, but I wouldn't call the latter a concept album ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:08:03 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Beach Boys list acrimony >>flamethrower out) or be people who really dig that artist(s)'s way of >>communicating or identify with it, hence theirs will be similar. > >I joined the John Cage mailing list once, but after four and a half months >without seeing a post, I decided it wasn't worth staying subscribed. Well, that explains John Cage but I'm afraid it doesn't explain how silent the jangly list is. Could it be that they are all out gardening? Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:11:29 +0000 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Concept..... > > how about Spiritualized? One could describe their albums as being > > concept-esque? > > Julian > > > > Have they done anything that's not about drugs? > Not really. Spiritualized was a spin-off, evelution group of a band called Spaceman 3, and the point of the band was to create music to do drugs to. Gish ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 98 14:38:08 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Mmmm . . .Tastee squid! Well, Jon Fetter -- American Feg in Taiwan -- recently posted that his package of Chinese delicacies and mixed tape would not reach the party in time . . . alas, I fear to report that it was waiting on my steps when I got home this afternoon. Um . . . .Jon? Can we *really* eat this stuff? - --Quail - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 73 De Chirico Street | Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 98 15:26:28 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Concept..... > > > > > > how about Spiritualized? One could describe their albums as being > > > concept-esque? > > > Julian > > > > > > > Have they done anything that's not about drugs? > > > > Not really. Spiritualized was a spin-off, evelution group of a band > called Spaceman 3, and the point of the band was to create music to do > drugs to. > Then I'd say their releases aren't concept pieces any more than Beach Boys albums are concept albums for being about surfing and cars, or Roy Rogers albums are concepts for being about life in the old West. Is that fair? I've only got two things by Spiritualized: "Lagwafers" and the single "Fun in the Sun (IIRC)". When all I'd heard was the former, I would have said it was a concept album. The single sounds like a Tommy James song about drugs. My brother-in-law confirms that Spaceman writes about drugs all the time although I didn't know if he meant "a lot" or "always". That's why I axed use guise. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:54:31 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: recommendation (no rh, of course) those of you on loudfans are probably sick to death of references to this band already, and i'm sure eb's long since dismissed them, but for the rest of you i recommend heartily cotton mather's _kon tiki_ doing lots of spinning last night and this day, reminding me in bits and pieces of john lennon (vocal resemblance mostly, but also a near homage to "for no one" for a few seconds and similar oddments), bob dylan (on purpose), big star (surely ditto), xtc, game theory, the pixies, and, yes, his robyn-ness. also some of the ramshackle over the top melodicness of gbv, but without the slipshod production and the eensy song shards. haven't figured out yet if the words are pleasing nonsense or worth puzzling out -- kinda suspect the former, but, y'know, how many aeroplanes fly over the sea in a single year -- it sounds yummy even if it signifies nothing. looking forward to seeing a few of y'all in the near term future. king of cowering frazzled. - -- d. - - oh,no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmayowel@access.digex.net - - and dmw@mwmw.com ... get yr pathos at http://www.pathetic-caverns.com/ - - new reviews! tunes, books, flicks, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:11:17 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Concept Albums (was: a pair of pants) >> > This got me thinking... what is everybody's favorite "concept album"? >> > >> >> The Julian Cope Trilogy of Peggy Suiside, Jehovakill, and Autogeddon. >> >> - Gish >> Oakland, CA >PS: I forgot to add King Crimson's "Red" and Orb's "Orbus Terrarum", if one >can have more than one favorite. I highly recommend any of these albums for >purchase. I have other Hitchcock friends in Detroit with my same taste, so >maybe some of you might want to give these a spin. One great thing about _Red_ is that the first track, incidentally called "Red", is the greatest piece of instrumental music written in my lifetime. Not just an opinion- it's a fact. Okay, it is an opinion, but nobody's going to talk me out of it. - ---- I've received some kind and concerned emails, so: For those of you at all concerned about the state of the sharkboy's depression levels: I'm a Capricorn with lots of Sagittarius- my worst days are better than some people's best. But this doesn't keep me from whining. Sorry. Also, if I suddenly send messages that are less silly, this doesn't mean that I've become a gun-owner and am contemplating dispersing the contents of my head in wide array decorations ala Kasa De Kobain. This could change if I woke up one morning and realized that I was married to Courtney Love, but I am wandering far afield. You may also worry about me or yourselves if suddenly my posts start making sense. You'll know it's you if "everything" becomes "perfectly clear." If I wasn't me, I would probably wish I was. This is not to say that there isn't a hell of a lot of room for improvement. Maybe I'll join Quail's sect of Scientology for Speed Readers, though I don't read that fast any more and my comprehension is lower than even that which I write. Big relief- you've reached the bottom of my post! - -Markg "I'm cold and the wolves are after me!" - -Abraham Simpson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:43:10 EDT From: MARKEEFE Subject: Re: Concept Albums Well, I guess I'll have to do my semi-annual (when you're lucky) Marillion plug here. Their 1985 album "Misplaced Childhood" is not only my favorite concept album, I'd probably have to say that it's my favorite any- kinda album. I love concept albums, though. Nuthin' like hearing a good story and listening to music at the same time. In fact, I'd venture that 3 of my Top 5 Favorite Albums Ever and of All-Time are concept albums -- the aforementioned Marillion album, Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" and Floyd's "Dark Side." John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" would also be really high on my list. . . a concept album? I think so. I wonder if Robyn will ever put out a concept album. Or maybe he has, and we just don't know it. I guess he's probably more the type to see the subtler connections between things and, therefore, might be less likely to draw an obvious common thread throughout all the songs on an album. It *would* be interesting, however, to see what kind of a concept he might come up with. Certainly, it would be easy enough to make RH comp tapes that are sort of quasi-concept albums -- "Songs about Vegetables," etc. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:09:16 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: Concept Albums (Red) >>PS: I forgot to add King Crimson's "Red" and Orb's "Orbus Terrarum", if >one >>can have more than one favorite. I highly recommend any of these albums >for >>purchase. I have other Hitchcock friends in Detroit with my same taste, so >>maybe some of you might want to give these a spin. > >One great thing about _Red_ is that the first track, incidentally called >"Red", is the greatest piece of instrumental music written in my lifetime. >Not just an opinion- it's a fact. Okay, it is an opinion, but nobody's >going >to talk me out of it. "Red" is indeed a great album, but is it a "concept" album? I don't really remember what the lyrics are like, do they outline some sort of theme? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:16:16 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: Concept Albums >aforementioned Marillion album, Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" and Floyd's "Dark >Side." John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" would also be really high on my list. >. . a concept album? I think so. Isn't "Hounds Of Love" sort of a dual-concept album? I know one side is supposed to be about a woman drowning ("The 9th Wave" I think), I forget what the other side is about. Also, has anyone have any idea where to find the "Anniversary" edition of "Hounds Of Love"? In case you don't know about it, it is a boxed version of the album that includes bonus tracks, and I believe the sound is remastered, which is good since the CD I have sounds pretty bad! > I wonder if Robyn will ever put out a concept album. Or maybe he has, >and we just don't know it. I guess he's probably more the type to see the >subtler connections between things and, therefore, might be less likely to >draw an obvious common thread throughout all the songs on an album. It >*would* be interesting, however, to see what kind of a concept he might come >up with. Certainly, it would be easy enough to make RH comp tapes that are >sort of quasi-concept albums -- "Songs about Vegetables," etc. Yeah, it would be great to hear Robyn do a musical version of one of his stories like "The Professor". He is so good at creating characters and stories that a concept album would come easily to him I think. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:19:12 EDT From: MARKEEFE Subject: Journey Game In a message dated 98-05-21 04:45:55 EDT, you write: << (Who the fuck has JOURNEY albums? And can anyone else back me up on the Journey arcade game? That's the only way I know them at all.) >> Yeah, I actually played that one a few times. It was all right. I've still got a soft spot for "Don't Stop Believin'." Hey, how many other Portland Fegs on the list have had occasion to see Tony Starlight and the Arte Dayvis Trio/Quartet peform their masterful 80's medley, which is centered around going back and forth between "Don't Stop Believin' " and U2's "With or Without You" (lyrical lines alternating back and forth), with a lot of other stuff thrownin for good measure? I'm not as much of a Tony fan as I once was, but that's some damn funny stuff right there! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 98 15:09:06 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Concept Albums On 5/21/98 2:43 PM, MARKEEFE wrote: > I wonder if Robyn will ever put out a concept album. Or maybe he has, >and we just don't know it. I guess he's probably more the type to see the >subtler connections between things and, therefore, might be less likely to >draw an obvious common thread throughout all the songs on an album. It >*would* be interesting, however, to see what kind of a concept he might come >up with. Certainly, it would be easy enough to make RH comp tapes that are >sort of quasi-concept albums -- "Songs about Vegetables," etc. Didn't fegMANIA! start out as a concept from The Man With The Lightbulb Head? Or was that just the video... It would be an interesting project to take a long Robyn story, like "The Professor", and find songs that tie everythong together. Gee, maybe we could break up into small groups at Quail's party and do some team building exercises.... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:56:23 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Fave Concept Albums Favorite concept album? Hmmm... I guess it would be a toss-up between ELP's "Tarkus" and Rick Wakeman's "The Six Wives of Henry VIII"... Ha ha! JUST KIDDING! Let's seeeeee, it would have to be "Skylarking" if I really thought that was a concept album - but I don't. (Maybe because whatever concept was involved seems to have been more Todd Rundgren's idea than XTC's...?) So my favorite concept album is probably Captain Sensible's "The Universe of Geoffrey Brown" - admittedly, much of it is terribly self-indulgent, but that's the whole point, right? And it's definitely a concept album, or so the Captain says. John "Susquehanna HAT COMPANY? Slowly I turn... step by step... inch by inch..." Hedges PS: Possible title for a "Best of Rick Wakeman" comp: "The Six Wives of King Arthur and the Knights of the Center of the Earth" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:07:38 -0700 From: "Coolio Iglesias" Subject: Re: Concept Albums Ben dixit: > Yeah, it would be great to hear Robyn do a musical version of one of > his stories like "The Professor". He is so good at creating > characters and stories that a concept album would come easily to him > I think. Hey! How's about a rock opera based on RH songs? I can see it now: Reg and Brenda are followed home by a 73 on DeChirico Street when they are engulfed by a dark green energy which causes blinding headaches. They must take a nightride to Trinidad in order to fight the evil hooded one whose foeted breath is responsible not only for the headaches, but for a scourge which roves about the seven seas in dismal squalls and gales: The Can Opener. However, Reg and Brenda are captured by one of the hooded one's assistants, Lt. Hodges, who mistakenly believes the pair are Mr. and Mrs. Watson -- two mystical beings who, despite having reams of sticky things, could not prevent their children from being certified insane and whose Globe of Frogs the hooded one has been trying for years to overrun. Meanwhile, Balloon Man and Bruce are dispatched by the Enchantress to make an offering of one, small, upright Mexican Bean to the one known as Clint, who vows not only to save our heroes, but also to force the Soft Boys to reunite for the album's final track ("I Want To Destroy You", of course) as well as an exclusive concert with the members of fegMANIAX! in attendance (Eddie, Bayard and Luther would be front and center, I guarantee!). As an added bonus, Robyn closes out the album with a Grateful Dead-Kinks-Beach Boys-Neutral Milk Hotel medley in the key of Eb. Naahhhh...maybe not. Loopy cause it's the beginning of a 4-day weekend for me, - -g- n.p. Projekct Two - _Space Groove_ - Disc Two - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 19:04:29 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: Concept Albums At 05:43 PM 5/21/1998 -0400, you wrote: > Well, I guess I'll have to do my semi-annual (when you're lucky) >Marillion plug here. Their 1985 album "Misplaced Childhood" is not only my >favorite concept album, I'd probably have to say that it's my favorite any- >kinda album. I love Marillion! "Script for a Jester's Tear" is a brilliant album--I prefer it to MC but, boy, that Fish..! Wings' "Back to the Egg" isn't bad. I always felt that Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" is a concept album, but it might not be.... Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:01:56 -0700 From: "Coolio Iglesias" Subject: Re: Fave Concept Albums JH3 dixit: > PS: Possible title for a "Best of Rick Wakeman" comp: "The Six Wives > of King Arthur and the Knights of the Center of the Earth" This illicited the best laugh I've had in awhile. I spat Guinness all over my keyboard! - -g- - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:18:19 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: AWAD I sometimes wonder whether the a.word.a.day list is run by a feg... recently we had a spate of very feggy words appearing, and today: >superman (SOO-par-man) noun > > 1. A man with more than human powers. > > 2. An ideal superior man who, according to Nietzsche, forgoes transient > pleasure, exercises creative power, lives at a level of experience > beyond standards of good and evil, and is the goal of human evolution. > In this sense, also called overman. > >[Translation of German Ubermensch : uber-, super- + Mensch, man.] TGQ mentions Nietzsche, and now Nietzsche is indirectly connected with the word Uber on another list while discussing the title of a Robyn Song! What gives??? James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:13:10 -0400 From: "Scott (Ferris) Thomas" Subject: Concepts... >This got me thinking... what is everybody's favorite "concept album"? I don't know about favorites, but Lou Reed's "Bells" is pretty bad... Tull's "Thick As A Brick" was well packaged when it first came out--the fold out newspaper full of bogus stories, etc. A bit long at, I think it was, 47 minutes non-stop, but interesting. - -ferris. - --- Ferris Scott Thomas Funnybone Interactive Pecking for the pellet. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 May 98 13:50:03 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Quick party note > > Some friends of Mr. H have a new cd out-- check out > http://www.unstable.demon.co.uk/computer.html So who's Simon Kunath? The name does sound familiar, but I can't place it. What's the connection? > > I predict some of you will like it.. the first track sounds like "The > Moodies do 'Happy the Golden Prince'". the second track is having tech > difficulties and will be fixed soon. That's a good call on the sound of the first track! I'll be back for the second track in a day or so. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:45:39 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Moody death concept children's party, plus one white duck >"Days of Future Passed" and "Every Good Boy >Deserves Favour" are still two of my favorite "classic" rock albums. now this is scary.... I thought I was the only person on the planet who saw any merit in "Every good boy...". I almost added that "You can never go home" track to my tearjerkers of rock but thought that everyone would pan it. All together now... desolaaaaa-SHUNNN! >My celebrity Death List, in order of how hard I was hit: 1. John Lennon (yes, I remember where I was...) 2. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Allah wanted to hear his voice from closer to) 3. Bobby Moore Sporting symbol of the 1960s and early 70s when I was growing up in Britain. Tragically young. 4. Bruno Lawrence. Will mean little to you if you are not a New Zealander, but if you get a chance, check out one of his movies (The Quiet Earth, maybe, or Utu, or Smash Palace) 5. Marc Bolan 6. Jeff Buckley (so much talent gone so soon) 7. Lillian Board. Who? you ask. She was an athlete. Super fit, hero of the British olympic team. I was a sports mad eight year old. And she dropped dead. She must have been about 23. To an eight year old, that wasn't unfortunate, or sad, it was impossible. 8. Heinlein 9. Zappa 10. Roy Orbison. A comeback after years in obscurity for that voice. And then, gone. >Can someone give us a good workign definition of "concept album"? h9ow about an album where a continuous narrative thread runs through the songs, either in the form of a consistent or logical theme (lyrical or melodic) or interconnectedness. Personally I think side 2 of Abbey Road is far closer to the idea of a concept album than Sgt Peppers. >This got me thinking... what is everybody's favorite "concept album"? hmmm. good question. Dark Side of the moon will garner a few votes, surely, but I'll be different and plump for Simon and Garfunkel's "Bookends". This might not count though, as only one side of it is a concept (a life cycle from childhood to old age). A fairly-loose-concept album that I love is XTC's Skylarking - a season's cycle from a spring morning to a winter's evening. Also worthy of mention (of course), is The Who Sell Out. As for worst (and weirdest) concept album... apart from one lovely song ("Friend", IIRC), Spirit's "The adventures of Captain Kopter and Commander Cassidy in Potatoland" must just about take the cake (or pottle of chips, anyway). >When I was a >child I sang all the time, and my favorite shows on TV by far were music >shows (I was an indiscriminate child- I may have cottoned onto the Smothers >Brothers but I also loved Sonny & Cher, Hee-Haw, & Lawrence Welk, and a >little later would never miss Sha-Na-Na, much to the chagrin of those >babysitting :)). So I was wondering if other music fiends around here were >the same way as children. as I used to sing when I was a wee kid: "One banana two banana three banana four, four bananas make a bunch and so do many more..." >I'm flying out of Sillycone Valley Friday morning to the exciting >metropolis of Harrisburg, PA. Along with my superb mix tape (IMHO), I'll >be packing ten cellophane wrapped "Monday's Lunch" CD's courtesy of our >good friend Mr. Gloster. One goes in the grab bag, but the rest are for >sale - so bring your checkbooks! daing! Why didn't I think of this! I hope someone remembers to bring a copy of "Partial Rapture Theory" along as a 'promotional item'! ;) Have fun, folks! BTW, while you are all doing this gathering thing, don't feel too sorry for me missing out - next weekend (30th-3rd, which includes my Bththdy) I will be at the 1998 NZ national science fiction convention. So I won't miss out too much on the weird partying! And good to see more Jethro Tull fans coming out of the woodwork too! I'll meet you all down by Dun Ringhill... 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") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #199 *******************************