From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #432 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, November 19 1998 Volume 07 : Number 432 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: and the green grass grows all around and around. [MARKEEFE@aol.com] I Something You Promo CD [Nigel.Jarman@frco.com] Re: dream tangent (RH content very low, writer advancing her own agenda) [Terrence M Marks ] re: Albums which one *ought* to like more . . . [Miles Goosens ] Re: Albums which one *ought* to like more . . . [Ben ] Re: welcomes (still minor RH) [dlang ] Shameless self-publicity (0RH, 100FLY) [Gary Sedgwick ] Robyn's covers/Interpretive Covers [Stephen Buckalew > Either that, or Robyn has an identical cousin! Or maybe Robyn's mom married her brother. There are plenty of reasonable explanations. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:35:51 -0600 From: Nigel.Jarman@frco.com Subject: I Something You Promo CD On http://www.fegmania.org/isomethingu.html, Aiden mentions that there is UK CD Promo available of the 'I something You' 3 track single. I have been trying to track this down unsucesfully for ages. (Because I want a digital redording of 'Zipper In My Spine') "A UK CD promo (cat. CDSEQ2) featuring all three tracks (minus the chatter at the beginning) plus for no apparent reason the Gotta Let This Hen Out version of My Wife & My Dead Wife tacked on, and with a monumentally dire cover, is available (if you're lucky) from the usual dodgy outlets." Does anybody have (in order of preference) (1) A copy they want to give me (Well you've got to ask :) (2) A copy they want to sell me. (3) Know where I can buy a copy in th UK. (4) Will lend me their copy to transfer to MD (and then return it) (5) Can transfer it to MD and send it to me. Thank you, Nigel Jarman ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:34:16 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: dream tangent (RH content very low, writer advancing her own agenda) > Vivien > just bought the train ticket, now all I have to do is think up a > plausible lie to tell my boss. Dead relatives are not an option- I'm > not superstitious, but that always seems like a karmically foolish > thing to do. Tell him that your relatives are going to die eventually and that you ought to see them while they're still around. Oh, and last night I went to see Meat Beat Manifesto. I hate techno music, but I rather liked these dudes. They played a song or two from Satyricon. They had this cool multimedia thing involving smoke machines, flashing lights and two video screens playing odd tape loops from old movies and other things. I was watching and I saw something and I was like 'That looks kinda like Micky Dolenz thrashing about in the water, from Head'. Then half an hour later, I saw something that I was almost sure was Mike Nesmith, but couldn't tell because it was all quick-cut and looped and all that. Then next song, tclearly showed the dance scene from Head, which was cool. (They also had a lot of footage from the Clockwork Orange.) Their encore was something based on The Turtle's "You Showed Me" (or at least sampled the string part from the song). It was cool because, like my band, half of the show wasn't there and half of it was. I mean, if you were to pull the dudes offstage, the drums would be gone and maybe some of the samples wouldn't trigger, but half the music would still be there. Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:39:13 -0800 (PST) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: eddie and the post office Eddie sig filed: "Obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy publications or writings, or mail containing information on where, how or from whom such matter may be obtained, and matter that is otherwise mailable but that has on its wrapper or envelope any indecent, lewd lascivious or obscene writing or printing and any mail containing any filthy, vile or indecent thing is nonmailable (18 USC, 1461, 1463)." Ha! So the post office finally refused to mail one of your creatively decorated mail packages? For shame! Myself, I quite enjoyed the cut-out cartoon of Charlie Brown say, "I'm gonna kick your motherf***ing ass!" Oh, and Bill Gates' head pasted on Bob "Supermasochist" Flanagan's body. Carole (who likes the repeated use of the word "filthy" in the post office manifesto) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:10:39 -0800 From: "Chris!" Subject: Re: Albums which one *ought* to like more (0% JLH breasts) Ben hummed: > > Hmmm... I always thought "What's Going On" was fantastic. The lush orchestral > arrangements with a bit of funk in the mix, the way that the tracks are linked > together musically and lyrically (and though the sound of the album is pretty and > soothing the lyrics are the opposite) and of course a great set of songs delivered > the way only Marvin Gaye could. > I agree the album lives up to reputation for me. The bleeding together is part of the whole thing--a sort of bleeding together of the emotions Gaye was trying to get across. How artsy!! > Is Pearl Jam critically acclaimed? I could see this to be true, that they are acclaimed, if you have an active subscription to Rolling Stone and Spin--for the music, dude!! In other words, I find a lack of substance in any argument claiming greatness to this band. Sorry, can't do it. I could add a long list of other pop bands as well, e.g. Smashing Pumpkins, that can't even move my bowels. Of course, Bush, the ultimate mistake to produce more money than the Indonesian economy in the past year, were critically acclaimed in certain circles, which anyone with one ear knows otherwise. Blah, Blah, Blah. .chris (thinking about Berkeley) .chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:36:46 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: catching up again... >>In a message dated 11/12/98 7:34:33 PM, you wrote: >><<022000 pasted for our edification...>> >>Guitar tab? I don't get it. Wouldn't that be some kind of an AMsus4? Or >>am I reading it upside down? Oh, cuz then it would be EBEGBE, right? I'm >>confused, Chris. sigh. The original message said "I had em, but I lost em". I supplied em. It was like a joke, only not as funny. And I haven't been called Chris for years [1] >>What is it with these diesels? All my environmentalist acquaintances >>assure me that diesels are cleaner than petrol engines, but - speaking >>as an asthmatic - it's always the stuff coming out of the back of diesels >>that makes me wheeze and cough. funnily enough, my asthma has improved since I started driving a Diesel rather than a petrol-driven car. YMMV, obviously, but then again, the same is true wiuth all cars >BTW, for those of you who are also in bands, what kinda stunts have you pulled? Robyn has his fruits and lamps... what have ya'll used? Pretty dull really, but I used to sometimes wear a *very* paisley dressing gown >On the Froom/Lanois point -- I'd like to bring two exceptions to the >discussion: another one: Froom: two words - Crowded House. Much of the Crowded House catalogue is Froom production, and I think it does it no harm at all. Tracks like Don't Dream its Over and Weather with You are great simply because they sound fresh, natural and unforced. Which only goes to show that Froom can handle a more naturalistic approach if he wants to. I'll admit that the likes of Suzanne Vega's 99.9F degrees goes to the opposite extreme, but IMHO that album works because of, rather than in spite of, the production values. Awses fercawses. >np: the last few days are all a blur, at this point np - Modern Life is Rubbish. Coincidence? I think so! >>>p.s. I bet I'm even grumpier than Eb! >>That's as may be, but I believe I hold the record for all out crabbiness. >Can I have 'bloody irritated', please? Well, I'm somewhat miffed. James (I don't even know what *I* did last summer) [1] actually, I don't think I've *ever* been called Chris. 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: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:49:18 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Albums which one *ought* to like more (0% JLH breasts) Chris: >Of course, Bush, the ultimate mistake to produce more money >than the Indonesian economy in the past year, were critically >acclaimed in certain circles, which anyone with one ear knows >otherwise. Blah, Blah, Blah. I can recall reading exactly one positive Bush review...EVER (and that guy said the Bush album was better than In Utero, so we KNOW he was a lunatic ;)). Based on my own experiences, I'd say Bush is about the furthest thing possible from a "critically acclaimed" artist. Just a step or two above Kenny G and Michael Bolton. Even the new edition of the Trouser Press Guide, which I think is WAY too forgiving to many clearly mediocre bands, totally trashes Bush. In fact, it's the most negative overview I've read in the entire book, as yet. Um...earlier, I started to say something about Up. Basically, I think it's all about the bottle, and not enough about the liquid inside. It's just Millsbuckstipe fiddling around with their nifty new keyboards, and saying "Hey, that electronica stuff is kinda cool, eh?" Totally unconvincing and dilettante. There's no guts to it at all. And it's a very poor album for Stipe, vocally. It's all that high 'n' ornery voice, and little of those rich, throaty, lower tones. I literally *cringe* when "Lotus" starts, and he barks out that perfunctory "Hey hey." Yuck. There are about five songs I like (um, "Hope," the Pet Sounds ripoff "At My Most Beautiful," "Daysleeper," "Why Not Smile" and "Parakeet"?), and the rest don't move me at all. Anyway, it's definitely one of this year's most disappointing releases (maybe the second most disappointing of all, after the infamous Brian Wilson fluffball known as Imagination). Lots of folks dumped on New Adventures in Hi-Fi, but I thought it was great. In fact, it was my favorite release of the year. But this time, I'm siding with the naysayers. There's gotta be at least 35 records this year which I like better than Up, including Storefront Hitchcock (of which I'm no big fan, as is well-known). I've always greatly admired REM's unwillingness to repeat themselves -- or at least, during the Warner Bros. era -- but they really stepped in a pile of doody this time. Hard to say whether things would've been different, if Berry hadn't left. A real interesting question. Eb, ignoring Terrence's Monkeebait PS James, I think part of the reason Froom's production of the first two Crowded House albums is so "natural" is that Froom simply hadn't developed his style yet. In fact, I think Crowded House's debut is badly *underproduced*. It sounds surprisingly crummy, on a purely sonic level. Especially on CD. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:41:42 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: re: Albums which one *ought* to like more . . . MARKEEFE@aol.com sed: >So, I was listening to the Smiths' "Queen is Dead" as I was driving >around in my car this morning. Now, I like this album pretty well, but I >always get a little self-conscious when I listen to it, because I don't enjoy >it as much as I think I oughtta enjoy it It was that very album which switched me from a Big Smiths Fan to a Big Smiths Hater. "Bishop in a Tutu"? Hello? You've got to be joking, Mr. Morrissee. After such charming ditties as "Rusholme Ruffians" how could he write such pap? Oh well, c'est la vie. And how did he get Vini Reilly to play with him, too? Anybody remember the Durutti Column? Lovely band. It's the only album I've ever lied about, and argued with a record store clerk just to exchange (for an Einstürzende Neubauten album, if I recall correctly). > I know it's stupid, but I'm always >looking for that one thing about the album that'll make me just love it. How about the fact that you could sell it and use the money for another album? "Hatful of Hollow" was a good one. >Anybody else have this problem with some album that's always written up as a >classic album and which everyone else seems to love, but you just like it >fine? I generally avoid classic albums. Like "Dark Side of the Moon" -- I could go another lifetime without hearing that one and still be happy. OK, well, I like it just fine, in moderation. But it's the non-classics, e.g., "Relics" which I enjoy the most. "How quickly would I die, if I jumped from the top of the parachute?" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:47:27 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: Albums which one *ought* to like more (0% JLH breasts) Did anyone else see the Monkees documentary on VH-1? It was kind pretty good, I watched it and I'm not even a rock critic. :) Ben, who has nothing to put in the obligatory post signature comment Eb wrote: > Eb, ignoring Terrence's Monkeebait ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:18:25 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Albums which one *ought* to like more . . . >Anybody else have this problem with some album that's always written up as a >classic album and which everyone else seems to love, but you just like it >fine? Two words. "Pet Sounds". I just don't get it. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:56:06 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: Albums which one *ought* to like more . . . Isn't the idea of "Bishop In Tutu", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" and "Frankly Mr. Shankly" meant to counteract the common accusation that Morrissey wrote too many serious lyrics and the "king of mope" title? I personally prefer "Hatful Of Hollow" or "Louder Than Bombs" as the best Smiths albums, but "The Queen Is Dead" is nothing less than brilliant. Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > MARKEEFE@aol.com sed: > > >So, I was listening to the Smiths' "Queen is Dead" as I was driving > >around in my car this morning. Now, I like this album pretty well, but I > >always get a little self-conscious when I listen to it, because I don't enjoy > >it as much as I think I oughtta enjoy it > > It was that very album which switched me from a Big Smiths Fan to a Big > Smiths Hater. "Bishop in a Tutu"? Hello? You've got to be joking, Mr. > Morrissee. After such charming ditties as "Rusholme Ruffians" how could he > write such pap? Oh well, c'est la vie. And how did he get Vini Reilly to > play with him, too? Anybody remember the Durutti Column? Lovely band. > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 20:11:43 -0800 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: Re: eddie and the post office I work for the post office (in case anyone doesn't know). My job: I sit at a terminal, looking at black and white scans of envelopes, reading the address and typing it out on the terminal. Computers read most of the mail you send; I get the stuff that the computer can't decipher. (i.e., handwriting.) My favorite part of the job is prison art. I've lobbied several times for a "PRINT" button on my keyboard, so that when I see an envelope with really cool prison art I could press the button, and when I clock out and go home, I could take home some of these drawings and put them up on the fridge. No one else wants that feature, tho. :( Usually the drawings are of Calvin (from C. and Hobbes fame) (yes, the one where he's peeing), or Snoopy, or the heart with the crown of thorns around it. Stuff like that. I have seen a few drawings of couples in sexual positions. But, sorry, Eddie: I send 'em right on through. The other thing I like is postcards. I used to stop and read alot of them. I don't so much anymore, because most say the same thing. But-- The best one I ever read (besides one really sexual one which I can't remember enough of to tell you) was one addressed to some restaurant like a Pizza Hut, or something similiiar. It was from Acapulco, and it read: "HI GUYS: Acapulco is great, and I'm really enjoying my vacation. Oh.....by the way.....I QUIT! (in huge letters-well, as huge as you can get on a postcard) You all can kiss my ass, and I hope I never have to set foot in that sorry-ass restaurant ever again." - -chris. >Eddie sig filed: > >"Obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy publications or writings, or mail >containing information on where, how or from whom such matter may be >obtained, and matter that is otherwise mailable but that has on its >wrapper or envelope any indecent, lewd lascivious or obscene writing or >printing and any mail containing any filthy, vile or indecent thing is >nonmailable (18 USC, 1461, 1463)." > >Ha! So the post office finally refused to mail one of your creatively >decorated mail packages? For shame! Myself, I quite enjoyed the >cut-out cartoon of Charlie Brown say, "I'm gonna kick your motherf***ing >ass!" Oh, and Bill Gates' head pasted on Bob "Supermasochist" Flanagan's >body. > > >Carole (who likes the repeated use of the word "filthy" in the post office >manifesto) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:51:51 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: re: Albums which one *ought* to like more . . . At 09:41 PM 11/18/98 -0600, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: >MARKEEFE@aol.com sed: > >>So, I was listening to the Smiths' "Queen is Dead" as I was driving >>around in my car this morning. Now, I like this album pretty well, but I >>always get a little self-conscious when I listen to it, because I don't enjoy >>it as much as I think I oughtta enjoy it > >It was that very album which switched me from a Big Smiths Fan to a Big >Smiths Hater. "Bishop in a Tutu"? Hello? You've got to be joking, Mr. >Morrissee. After such charming ditties as "Rusholme Ruffians" how could he >write such pap? Oh well, c'est la vie. And how did he get Vini Reilly to >play with him, too? Anybody remember the Durutti Column? Lovely band. Strange strange strange to me, as THE QUEEN IS DEAD is the album that made me go from Lukewarm Smiths Fan to Big Huge Smiths Fan. The first Smiths album intrigued me enough to get me to buy MEAT IS MURDER, which aside from "How Soon Is Now?" managed almost to make me forget why I liked them in the first place. MEAT IS MURDER seemed, from the cover art on, to take itself too seriously by half.* On the other hand, THE QUEEN IS DEAD leavened things with a self-depreciating humor that balanced out the scale nicely. The wonderful line in the title song where Morrissey breaks into the Queen's apartment and she says "eh, I know you and you cannot sing" and Morrissey replies "you should hear me play pianner!," the whole of "Bigmouth Strikes Again," and the wonderful juxtaposition in "There Is a Light" of some of the most beautiful and vulnerable verses of Morrissey's career with the "if a double-decker bus / crashed into both of us" chorus... Or, as I usually put it, Morrissey fans take everything he says seriously even though Morrissey himself hasn't since THE QUEEN IS DEAD. :-) later, Miles *Yes, I know there are the occasional self-depreciating lines on the first two albums, but they're well-hidden by comparison. ================================================== Miles Goosens R. Stevie Moore website, now with sound! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal page, all silent all the time: http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles Join the Wire Mailing List: http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/wire ================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 01:12:49 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Albums which one *ought* to like more . . . In a message dated 11/18/98 8:03:50 PM, you wrote: <> If so, then why does the album get so deeply steeped in sulky teen melodrama with "I Know Its Over" and "Never Had No One Ever"? The album's just a bit too bipolar for me, although I still like it. But that was my point. I only "like" it; don't "lu-lu-love" it (like I'm s'posed ta). << I personally prefer "Hatful Of Hollow" or "Louder Than Bombs" as the best Smiths albums, but "The Queen Is Dead" is nothing less than brilliant. >> "Louder Than Bombs" is fantastic. My favorite Smiths album, however, is "Strangeways." Yeah, yeah, flame away. I don't care if it doesn't convey the essence of what the Smiths were all about; I just like it a lot. Oh, same goes for "Murmur." I like that album nothing more than "just fine," too. So there! - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:00:52 -0800 From: dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders) Subject: Mr. Richard Thompson There's been a lot of talk about RT on the list lately, so I was hoping someone could point me towards a good album of his to start off with. I just got a live version of "Calvary Cross" on a Rykodisc sampler, and it really blows me away. The guitar solo of the last half is particularly amazing; I can see how it could have been the inspiration for Robyn's "You and Oblivion" solo. I'd love to hear more of this guy's work. - -- Daniel Saunders Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:00:52 -0800 From: dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders) Subject: re: LEM and robyn > Actually, it remains to be seen if it's so bright. I first of all > would like to ask if any on the list are fans of Stanislaw Lem, and > furthermore if anyone has read the Golem story-cum-philosophical essay > on the modern condition of man which comprises the second half of > Imaginary Magnitudes? And further yet, does anyone agree with me that > this, if anything in literature could, lucidly and cuttingly > approximates Robyn's apparent philosophical outlook? One thing more- > I'm thinking of buying a copy of the book for him and giving it to him > (if I can without a herculean, stalking-type effort) when I see him > (Huzzah!) on Friday. So there. God damn but this list is great! I already had the belief that eventually everyone worth talking about will be mentioned on this list, and this only confirms it. On my personal Olympus, Stanislaw Lem lives near the top, right next door to Robyn Hitchcock. Some of his books like "Imaginary Magnitudes", "Solaris", and "Fiasco" are hardcore philosophical science fiction, and for those who like that kind of thing, great. But Lem's most wonderful works are the hilarious, playful short stories contained in books like "The Cyberiad" and "The Star Diaries". "The Cyberiad" especially - the subtitle is "Fables for the Cybernetic Age", and in an ideal world it would be read to kids alongside The Wizard of Oz, Winney the Pooh, and Alice in Wonderland. It's just that good. It's a bunch of stories about two robot inventors (that is they invent robots, being themselves robots), Klapaucius and Trurl, and all their adventures. If you've ever read a book, you will probably enjoy this one greatly. Other great Lem books are "Memoirs of a Space Traveller", "The Futurological Congress", and "His Master's Voice". - -- Daniel Saunders Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 02:40:53 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Mr. Richard Thompson > There's been a lot of talk about RT on the list lately, so I was hoping > someone could point me towards a good album of his to start off with. I > just got a live version of "Calvary Cross" on a Rykodisc sampler, and it > really blows me away. The guitar solo of the last half is particularly > amazing; I can see how it could have been the inspiration for Robyn's > "You and Oblivion" solo. I'd love to hear more of this guy's work. I recommend 'I want to see the Bright Lights', Richard and Linda's first album. COntains 'Calvary Cross' and many other good songs. Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:44:21 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: Albums which one *ought* to like more . . . Miles Goosens wrote: > Strange strange strange to me, as THE QUEEN IS DEAD is the album that made > me go from Lukewarm Smiths Fan to Big Huge Smiths Fan. The first Smiths > album intrigued me enough to get me to buy MEAT IS MURDER, which aside from > "How Soon Is Now?" managed almost to make me forget why I liked them in the > first place. MEAT IS MURDER seemed, from the cover art on, to take itself > too seriously by half.* Funny, I also like "Meat Is Murder" which is universally hated by critics. I even like "Kill Uncle"... that's it I'm geting rid of my Dead tapes and going all-Moz! : ) > Or, as I usually put it, Morrissey fans take everything he says seriously > even though Morrissey himself hasn't since THE QUEEN IS DEAD. :-) This is true, it seems like most Moz/Smiths fans read so deeply into his lyrics they can't see the woods for the trees. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:48:30 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: Mr. Richard Thompson I'd reccomend the full "Watching The Dark" or "Shoot Out The Lights", one album that all critics and fans can agree on. Daniel Saunders wrote: > There's been a lot of talk about RT on the list lately, so I was hoping > someone could point me towards a good album of his to start off with. I > just got a live version of "Calvary Cross" on a Rykodisc sampler, and it > really blows me away. The guitar solo of the last half is particularly > amazing; I can see how it could have been the inspiration for Robyn's > "You and Oblivion" solo. I'd love to hear more of this guy's work. > > -- > Daniel Saunders > Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. > - Philip K. Dick ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:33:45 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Re: welcomes (still minor RH) Firstly, I droned on thus: > Secondly,welcome Keiran,nice to have you on board. However I > have to admit you disappointed me greatly in your first post > by saying I promise not to be a complete nutter. :) But Keiran reposted nicley with this. >Surely it would be more worthy of concern if I *didn't* try to >lull you into a false sense of foetal warmth & security first.. Ah, thats more like it, a man after my own heart. We'll have you posting conspiracy theories about various list members malign plans to dominate the fegiverse before long. well done ! dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:50:33 -0000 From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: Shameless self-publicity (0RH, 100FLY) Hi all, As you may / may not know, I'm in a band here in London called Fly (I did a few tracks for the Fish Gloss compilation), and we've just got a new website together. I'd appreciate it if those interested could take a look and provide some feedback - it's certainly not finished yet (the news and links pages are blank - of course we'll put a link to fegmania), and there are quite a few typos and things, but comments on how it looks generally would be useful. The main thing is if the samples page works, and how the samples sound. The url is http://www.flyonline.co.uk Thanks in advance, Gary ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:30:55 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Rufus Wainwright's big break Just thought all the fans here would like to know Rufus Wainright got mentioned on the Howard Stern show a few days ago. They were discussing a DJ they used to work with, and a fan of hers called in and said now she was playing cool stuff like Rufus Wainwright and Elvis Costello on a college station. Just add NMH and you've got the ultimate playlist, right Eb? : ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:43:23 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Robyn's covers/Interpretive Covers Robyn's covers have always struck me as very "un-interpretive." He tends not to fiddle much with them. "Wind Cries Mary" was the cover of his that I enjoy the most I think. Robyn seems to work best with his own material. Maybe he spends all his wild imagination currency on his own stuff, and playing a cover for him is like a nice quiet evening at home with a cup of tea? One great interpretive cover: "Breeze" from Spiritualized "Laser Guided Melodies" album....originally by the Allman Brothers Band (I don't know if they wrote it though). The versions are, quite predictably, very different. I like what Spiritualized did with the song. Oh, and Eb (or anyone else who has an opinion on this)....is Stereolab's "Aluminum Tubes" worth the purchase? S.B. ***************************************************************************** "...everythings all on...it's rosy...it's a beautiful day!"--Syd Barrett **************************************************************************** * ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #432 *******************************