From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #448 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, December 7 1998 Volume 07 : Number 448 Today's Subjects: ----------------- oops! [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: Top 5 1998 [Joel Mullins ] Amoeba stuff ["J. Katherine Rossner" ] Uncorrected personality traits ["J. Katherine Rossner" ] Re: Uncorrected personality traits [Joel Mullins ] Re: Top 5 1998 [Joel Mullins ] storefront hitchcock? worthy purchase? [jeffery vaska ] Re: Re: Top 5 1998 [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Fave 15 of 1998 ["Michael R. Runion" ] Re: Uncorrected personality traits ["Michael R. Runion" ] Re: Uncorrected personality traits [John Barrington Jones ] crazy, daddy-o! [Bayard ] Re: Well you just wait they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you in the A-S-P-C-A you mangy MUTT! [] KCRW-Elliot Smith [Joel Mullins ] Re: Top 5 1998 [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] Re: dire tragedy for proggies (especially Susan) [Stewart Russell 3295 An] it's too early for me to think of a subject line [Natalie Jacobs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 23:50:27 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: oops! I know I haven't gotten to getting stuff to my branch either... my apologies, I will do this soon! -luther >Date: Sun, 6 Dec 98 14:05:42 -0600 >From: steve >Subject: Open letter on FegTree 1 > >My branch on FegTree 1 failed to respond to my two emails so I asked one >of the "super dupers" if he could help me out. Turns out that he never >got the tapes from *his* contact. > >So folks, if you're going sign up for a tape tree, PLEASE fulfill the >responsibility you're taking on. FegTree 1 should have been finished >*weeks* ago. > >- - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 18:02:53 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Top 5 1998 Eb wrote: > >>I heard the new Jason Falkner album (Can You Still Feel?) a few days ago. I loved the debut, but unfortunately I was disappointed with the new one.<< That's disappointing to hear. Do you know who produced the new album? Author Unknown was a terrific debut and I've always wondered if he'd be able to follow it up with another great album. I'm still looking forward to hearing it though. Like you said, the first album really grows on you so maybe the new one will too. >> (I never was a The The fan at all,<< I'm not a huge fan either. But I think Dusk is possibly the best album of the decade. Then again, I was doing a lot of drugs when the album was released, so maybe that influenced me a bit. >>and I think Dean Wareham -- hi, LJ -- has exhausted all his ideas, at this point.<< I can see where you might come to this conclusion. All of Galaxie 500 and most of Luna sounds pretty much the same and after Penthouse, I wondered if he'd ever try anything new. But the last album, Pup Tent, is a move in a completely new direction. I don't think he's exhausted all his ideas. He's just now starting to branch out and come up with new ones. I'm very excited to hear what he does next. If he continues to move in the direction that Pup Tent was going, then I think it'll be great. If he goes back to his old ideas, then it will be disappointing. >> Hard to predict whether a new Weezer album will be good or not.)<< That is very hard to predict. The bassist has quit the band for good to spend his time playing with the Rentals. I'm looking forward to hearing the new album. I have my doubts about it. But maybe they'll surprise me. They sure did with Pinkerton. >> Offhand, I'd say that I'm most curious about the new albums from XTC, > Olivia Tremor Control and Tom Waits coming next year.<< I wasn't aware that XTC was releasing a new album this next year. Has anyone heard anything off it? - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 15:59:25 -0800 From: "J. Katherine Rossner" Subject: Amoeba stuff Wandering through Amoeba Records in Berkeley this afternoon, I looked through the RH section. In the "used" area there were several discs--Uncorrected Personality Traits, Perspex Island, You and Oblivion, Invisible Hitchcock, Storefront--and one tiny one: a 3" (?) disc with Globe of Frogs and two other songs (of course now that I'm posting I forget what they are, but probably the rest of you know anyway). It was marked rare and out of print, so I thought I'd mention it in case anybody's looking for this... Katherine - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 16:12:55 -0800 From: "J. Katherine Rossner" Subject: Uncorrected personality traits Since this list is probably the most musicallly knowledgeable group of people in my acquaintance (and undoubtedly the most knowledgeable about the more unusual stuff), it seemed the appropriate place to ask for help with a current project: I'm TA'ing classes in Diagnosis and Assessment of Psychopathology this quarter and next, and remembering some of the disorders by associating them with particular songs. The professor has agreed to let me play appropriate songs as part of the lessons for the class, next term--that's when we'll do the Axis II Personality Disorders, for those of you familiar with such things. (Yes, I'm hoping to play Uncorrected Personality Traits at the first class meeting; but the professor, for whom English is a second language, sometimes doesn't understand English or American humor, and was offended by the song when I played it for him. He's otherwise a lovely person to work for...oh, and he can't help with this project because he's completely unfamiliar with American and English pop, folk, etc.--listens only to classical.) Anyway, having said I'll do this, I'm having trouble coming up with some of the songs...the only perfect illustration I've found is for the Schizoid, expressed perfectly by Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am a Rock", and maybe "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" for the Antisocial Personality. I'm looking for songs describing the other types--and preferably catchy, melodic stuff: not only because that's what I'd rather listen to, but also because songs that stay pleasantly in the head seem to me to make better mnemonics. The other Personality Disorders are Narcissistic, Histrionic, Avoidant, Schizotypal, Paranoid, Borderline, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive. I'll post a list of the diagnostic criteria, or just email privately, if anybody's interested. Suggestions? Katherine - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:24:09 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Top 5 1998 Joel: >That's disappointing to hear. Do you know who produced the new album? >Author Unknown was a terrific debut and I've always wondered if he'd be >able to follow it up with another great album. From the blurb: "Co-produced by Jason and Nigel Godrich, who helmed Radiohead's OK Computer." Which makes it all the more puzzling, because the one positive thing I'd say about OK Computer is that the production is absolutely spectacular. Song titles (if you care): The Invitation, Author Unknown, Revelation, My Lucky Day, Holiday, Eloquence, I Already Know, See You Again, Honey, The Plan, All God's Creatures, Goodnight Sweet Night. >>> (I never was a The The fan at all,<< > >I'm not a huge fan either. But I think Dusk is possibly the best album >of the decade. Um, I think that makes you a huge fan. ;) >But the last album, Pup Tent, is a move in a completely new direction. Yeah...but it kinda sucked, didn't it? ;) >>> Offhand, I'd say that I'm most curious about the new albums from XTC, >> Olivia Tremor Control and Tom Waits coming next year.<< > >I wasn't aware that XTC was releasing a new album this next year. Has >anyone heard anything off it? Why, what's this? About 16K's worth of gush from Steve Schiavo? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 18:19:00 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Uncorrected personality traits Well, there's an old song that might decribe a Paranoid personality. I don't know what it's called or who it's by, but it goes something like this: "There coming to take me away, oh oh there coming to take me away, ah ah ho ho he he (something like that) to the funny farm......." It goes something like that. That sounds pretty paranoid to me. Anybody know the title and artist for Katherine? - --Joel J. Katherine Rossner wrote: > > Since this list is probably the most musicallly knowledgeable group of > people in my acquaintance (and undoubtedly the most knowledgeable about the > more unusual stuff), it seemed the appropriate place to ask for help with a > current project: > > I'm TA'ing classes in Diagnosis and Assessment of Psychopathology this > quarter and next, and remembering some of the disorders by associating them > with particular songs. The professor has agreed to let me play appropriate > songs as part of the lessons for the class, next term--that's when we'll do > the Axis II Personality Disorders, for those of you familiar with such > things. (Yes, I'm hoping to play Uncorrected Personality Traits at the > first class meeting; but the professor, for whom English is a second > language, sometimes doesn't understand English or American humor, and was > offended by the song when I played it for him. He's otherwise a > lovely person to work for...oh, and he can't help with this project because > he's completely unfamiliar with American and English pop, folk, > etc.--listens only to classical.) > > Anyway, having said I'll do this, I'm having trouble coming up with some of > the songs...the only perfect illustration I've found is for the Schizoid, > expressed perfectly by Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am a Rock", and maybe > "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" for the Antisocial Personality. I'm looking for > songs describing the other types--and preferably catchy, melodic stuff: > not only because that's what I'd rather listen to, but also because songs > that stay pleasantly in the head seem to me to make better mnemonics. > > The other Personality Disorders are Narcissistic, Histrionic, Avoidant, > Schizotypal, Paranoid, Borderline, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive. > I'll post a list of the diagnostic criteria, or just email privately, if > anybody's interested. > > Suggestions? > > Katherine > -- > Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge > Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho > That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge > Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. > - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 18:30:03 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Top 5 1998 Eb wrote: > > Joel: > >That's disappointing to hear. Do you know who produced the new album? > >Author Unknown was a terrific debut and I've always wondered if he'd be > >able to follow it up with another great album. > > >From the blurb: "Co-produced by Jason and Nigel Godrich, who helmed > Radiohead's OK Computer." Which makes it all the more puzzling, because the > one positive thing I'd say about OK Computer is that the production is > absolutely spectacular. > That's right. I had heard that Nigel Godrich was producing the new Jason Falkner album but I guess I forgot. Didn't he turn down an offer from U2 to work with Jason? Anyway, the fact that he produced the album does make it more puzzling. OK Computer is a great album! > >>> (I never was a The The fan at all,<< > > > >I'm not a huge fan either. But I think Dusk is possibly the best album > >of the decade. > > Um, I think that makes you a huge fan. ;) > I'm a huge fan of that one album. But I've never liked their other albums. So I wouldn't say that I'm a huge The The fan. I'm just a huge Dusk fan. > >But the last album, Pup Tent, is a move in a completely new direction. > > Yeah...but it kinda sucked, didn't it? ;) > Actually, I think Pup Tent is the best album Dean Wareham's done yet. A lot of Luna and G500 fans were disappointed with the album. But I wasn't. Fuzzy Wuzzy has some of the best guitar work I've heard from Luna, and the melodies on Beggar's Bliss and Bobby Peru are just about perfect. - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:38:22 -0800 (PST) From: jeffery vaska Subject: storefront hitchcock? worthy purchase? hi fegs, i don't think i've posted anything pertinent for many months. i've been on auto ignore due to a heavy volume of work - ick. i'm sure there has been much discussion about this subject, but i just deleted about 3,000 emails from the feg group - i wasn't about to deal with all of that... is storefront a worthy album to purchase? and is there anything new out besides this? email me on or off the list...preferably off actually... many thanks and happy holidays to you all...jv _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 19:43:14 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Top 5 1998 In a message dated 12/6/98 4:26:40 PM, you wrote: <<>>> (I never was a The The fan at all,<< > >I'm not a huge fan either. But I think Dusk is possibly the best album >of the decade. Um, I think that makes you a huge fan. ;)>> As a once-huge fan of The The, I'd have to say that not liking "Soul Mining," "Infected" and "Mind Bomb" as much as "Dusk" makes one only a huge "Dusk" fan. Now, don't get me wrong, I like "Dusk" a lot, but the other three are all way up there on my list of all-time faves. No, what makes one a huge The The fan is really liking "Hanky Panky" (also makes you a traitor to Hank Williams, in my opinion). But, yeah, I can't wait for that new The The! My expectations for that and "Jewels for Sophia" are both pretty high . . . I just have a feeling that each album is going to be the best by that artist in some time. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 19:44:18 -0800 From: "Michael R. Runion" Subject: Re: Fave 15 of 1998 woj wrote regarding Kristen Hersh's new one MURDER, MISERY AND THEN GOODNIGHT: > have it. like it. it's good, but not great. exemplifies how twisted kristen > hersh is. she does a pretty mean appalachin impersonation. it's not a > hassle to buy if you don't mind shopping cdnow. Now see, I could see why someone might simply like it, or even not like it, as the guitar work and melodies are fairly simplistic (yet highly effective and of the genre), and the whole recording really goes along splendidly with the casual photo inside of Kristen, her two young kids, and her guitar, all sitting outside just...you know...being content. I personally don't see this record showing the twisted KH though. If I was still blissfully unaware of bluegrass-type music (my wife had to drag me forcefully to several bluegrass festivals in the past), I might be taken aback by all the murder and misery in the songs, but that really is just a big part of the whole "scene", as it were. I pulled out a record of my wife's called "Smokey Mountain Bluegrass" or something like that, all old timey set of Library of Congress field recordings where the artists weren't even named (probably never even written down) and half the songs off of Kristen's record were on it. Actually, I can pretty well take Kristen singing this stuff, but it sends a damn Deliverance-type chill up my spine listening to some of those old recordings, imagining these toothless mother's singing this stuff on firelit porches in foggy Carolina valleys. (Ever see a photo of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, of Hazel & Alice "fame"? Brrrrrr!) Something too real about it or something. My dad is from Yancey County, North Carolina, north-west corner of the state, way way too far back in the mountains, and this is the kind of stuff that still fills the few radio stations you can get up there, along with programs like "Car Talk". Kristen doing this stuff brings it sorta into the light, makes it easier to swallow. Hmm. I'm rambling again...too many glasses of wine already tonight. Maybe I just proved woj's point...it DOES show how twisted Kristen is! Anyway, I think it's pretty good. Mike (now scared shitless and thanking holy Jesus that there's no dark mountains in range as far as his eyes can see...Thank you Florida, thank you Florida...) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 19:59:03 -0800 From: "Michael R. Runion" Subject: Re: Uncorrected personality traits Joel Mullins wrote: > > Well, there's an old song that might decribe a Paranoid personality. I > don't know what it's called or who it's by, but it goes something like > this: > > "There coming to take me away, oh oh > there coming to take me away, ah ah ho ho he he (something like that) > to the funny farm......." I know this song from the swell Lard album, Last Temptation of Reid. Not sure if it's a cover version or not though. Damn, I'm looking at that record again, and everthing on it is rather Personality Disorder-ish! Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:02:33 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: RobynTalks! (from 1989) In a message dated 12/6/98 2:16:00 PM, you wrote: <> Yeah, that's what I was thinking. A little confusing with the spoken word parts maybe, but definitely not abarsive. And I don't think there are any weird variations of time in there, either, as is definitely the case with "Superman." Somewhere, I suspect, there's a lost summary of "Autumn Sea" that got squeezed out. Too bad. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 17:17:44 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: Re: Top 5 1998 >In a message dated 12/6/98 4:26:40 PM, you wrote: > ><<>>> (I never was a The The fan at all,<< Man, the only cd of The The i own is "Mind Bomb", but it is INCREDIBLE!! blew me those first few years i owned it. 'specially Good Morning Beautiful. How are the other albums? The only other song i've heard (non mind bomb) is infected, which i thought was pretty cool. - -jbj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 17:26:42 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: Uncorrected personality traits >The other Personality Disorders are Narcissistic, Histrionic, Avoidant, >Schizotypal, Paranoid, Borderline, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive. >I'll post a list of the diagnostic criteria, or just email privately, if >anybody's interested. Narcissistic: Something by Morrissey- "Last of the Famous International Playboys", perhaps?? Obsessive-Compulsive: "I Can't Stop" by Gary Numan somewhere in there you have to include "Mania" by Throwing Muses and some stuff off Lisa Germano's albums "Geek the Girl" or "Love Circus" how about Dan Bern's "Jerusalem"? - -jbj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 17:30:33 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Well you just wait they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you in the A-S-P-C-A you mangy MUTT! >Joel Mullins wrote: >> >> Well, there's an old song that might decribe a Paranoid personality. I >> don't know what it's called or who it's by, but it goes something like >> this: >> >> "There coming to take me away, oh oh >> there coming to take me away, ah ah ho ho he he (something like that) >> to the funny farm......." > >I know this song from the swell Lard album, Last Temptation of Reid. >Not sure if it's a cover version or not though. Jeeeez...OK, guess I gotta step in again. The original song "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" is by Napoleon XIV, which was released on a same-titled 1966 album. "Napoleon XIV" was the nom de plume for a comedy writer named Jim Lehner. The album also includes such unforgettable hits as "I'm in Love With My Little Red Tricycle," "Photogenic, Schizophrenic You," "Bats in My Belfry," "Dr. Psyche, the Cut-Rate Head-Shrinker," "I Live in a Split-Level Head" and "The Nuts on My Family Tree." Recommended. Can a Wild Man Fischer thread be far behind? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:51:00 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Uncorrected personality traits > "There coming to take me away, oh oh > there coming to take me away, ah ah ho ho he he (something like that) > to the funny farm......." > > It goes something like that. That sounds pretty paranoid to me. > Anybody know the title and artist for Katherine? It's "They're coming to take me away" by Napoleon XXVI. (At least I think it is. I may've gotten the roman numerals wrong, but it's not like there albums by Napoleon XIV and Napoleon CXLV.) Their album (probably self-titled, but it was their only album) is similarly themed gag songs about being crazy. I don't have the album. I've heard Jello Biafra did a cover of it with Lard. Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:55:04 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Well you just wait they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you in the A-S-P-C-A you mangy MUTT! > Jeeeez...OK, guess I gotta step in again. The original song "They're Coming > to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" is by Napoleon XIV, which was released on a > same-titled 1966 album. "Napoleon XIV" was the nom de plume for a comedy > writer named Jim Lehner. Dang. I was off by 12 Napoleons. > Can a Wild Man Fischer thread be far behind? At the risk of a withering comment about my taste in music, who's Wild Man Fischer? Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:01:53 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Well you just wait they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you in the A-S-P-C-A you mangy MUTT! On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Eb wrote: > >Joel Mullins wrote: > > Jeeeez...OK, guess I gotta step in again. The original song "They're Coming > to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" is by Napoleon XIV, which was released on a > same-titled 1966 album. "Napoleon XIV" was the nom de plume for a comedy > writer named Jim Lehner. > > The album also includes such unforgettable hits as "I'm in Love With My > Little Red Tricycle," "Photogenic, Schizophrenic You," "Bats in My Belfry," > "Dr. Psyche, the Cut-Rate Head-Shrinker," "I Live in a Split-Level Head" > and "The Nuts on My Family Tree." Recommended. > > Can a Wild Man Fischer thread be far behind? > > Eb If I remember correctly (too lazy to go dig it out), the 45's B-side was "They're coming to take me away" played backwards. Miss Jennifer Jones is lying dead on my porch. Doo doo doo do-ooooh. Eric ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 98 20:54:28 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Gush (was Top 5 1998) >>I wasn't aware that XTC was releasing a new album this next year. Has >>anyone heard anything off it? >Why, what's this? About 16K's worth of gush from Steve Schiavo? I merely told Eb that I thought XTC is the second greatest band ever, after The Beatles. I never gush in public. JH3 will have to do that, now that Natalie has fallen from the garden. ;) - - Steve 99 *is* looking good - two new XTC albums, Robyn, possibly Aimee Mann, Jon Brion, and a new Star Wars movie. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 22:52:56 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: crazy, daddy-o! 21st Century Schizoid Man - king crimson, ELP, etc. Crazy - Afghan whigs, _1965_ Destroyer - the Kinks (rhymes with paranoia) Paranoia - Hawkwind, Klaatu, etc etc etc Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues - the Kinks again Paranoid- Black sabbath Paranoid Blues - Paul Simon Diary Of A Narcissist - Herd Bauhaus - paranoia, paranoia Devo - Too much paranoia Mark Gloster and Big Rubber shark - Big Spit Blues (illustrates Borderline, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive, and possibly Bulemia- and i've heard it live!) let me know if you need more! =b ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:48:42 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Well you just wait they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you in the A-S-P-C-A you mangy MUTT! On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Eb wrote: > The album also includes such unforgettable hits as "I'm in Love With My > Little Red Tricycle," "Photogenic, Schizophrenic You," "Bats in My Belfry," > "Dr. Psyche, the Cut-Rate Head-Shrinker," "I Live in a Split-Level Head" > and "The Nuts on My Family Tree." Recommended. I never knew that I Live In A Split-Level Head was by the same fellow. Personally, I'm rather sick of the Coming To Take Me Away thing. It's corner and makes me feel like... well, I won't disclose that publicly. However, Split Level Head is absolutely great. As I recall, it goes something like: I live with two people. I like both of them. He likes both of me and I like both of him. That's just fantastic in my book. Rambling and fearing the time-loss of general anasthetic. Je. -- under the knife Wednesday. Randy give me strength. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 01:56:32 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: KCRW-Elliot Smith Sorry folks. Let me try sending that link again. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:53:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: Top 5 1998 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Mullins writes: Joel> 2. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs Yep. Just gets better the more you listen to it. 1998 sure has been a great year for music with saws in it... - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:36:26 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Grant Lee Buffalo Advice needed Grant Lee Buffalo are performing here in Adelaide in Jan .Should I go and see them ? I read a positive review of their live act once, what are they like now ? dave Visit me pages me hearties, Great British Rock festivals website http://sawdust.maxisp.com.au/~mudfest/index.html dead,Robyn, posse, beef pages http://210.8.25.3/sharkfiles/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 13:13:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: dire tragedy for proggies (especially Susan) > Greg Lake has released the following statement. So if Greg has left the band, they're looking for a vocallist and bass player with a last name starting with L . . . step forward, Geddy Lee! - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:05:02 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: it's too early for me to think of a subject line Also sprach woj (re. Peter Blegvad): >as it turns out, she was sitting >next to him the entire flight from chicago and never knew it. I would be wildly jealous, but I probably wouldn't have recognized him either... >2. Having now finally gotten Martin Newell's Greatest Living Englishman >(which I love!), which other Newell/Cleaners from Venus/Brotherhood of >Lizards would you recommend? Susan? Michael K.? Anybody? "The Off-White Album" (Newell) and "Lizardland" (Brotherhood of Lizards, duh) are both pretty good, but not quite up to the level of "Englishman." I saw a Cleaners from Venus compilation in a shop a few months ago and didn't buy it - now it's gone! D'oh! Also, if you want an amusing angle on the whole Cleaners/Newell phenomenon, try to find Giles Smith's book "Lost in Music" - Smith was Newell's fellow Cleaner, and the book is a very funny chronicle of their adventures and Smith's own musical obsessions. It's not available in the US, but you can probably order it. >in the start-'em-when-they're-young category: Let's Lynch The Landlord >(c'mon, admit it all: it's a bloody *wonderful* sing-a-long song! oh >god! i would LOVE to hear a bunch of kids belting that one out!), >Solidarity Forever, Ludlow Massacre ("i said, 'god bless the mine >workers' union,' then i hung my head and cried." yes. perfect.) Eddie, you rock. My friends will seriously go for this - I'm not kidding! One of their favorite songs is this Welsh miners' protest song called "Black-Leg Miner" - they've probably already taught it to their kid. (Isn't "Bells of Rhymney" in the same vein?) Thanks to all the rest of you for your kid song suggestions. Little Gwynneth is already poised to grow up to be Wednesday Addams - all she needs now is a couple of doses of "Brenda's Iron Sledge" to push her over the edge. :) I'll post my top records of 1998 when I've bought "Shleep." It seems to have vanished from every record shop in town just when I want to buy it. You can probably guess which record is number one on my list, though. ("And in my dreams you're alive and you're cryyyyyiiiiinnnggg....") n. p.s. New Tom Waits next year?? Wheee! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 11:21:22 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: Gush (was Top 5 1998) >99 *is* looking good - two new XTC albums, Robyn, possibly Aimee Mann, >Jon Brion, and a new Star Wars movie. not to mention tom waits, the meltdown of the polar ice caps causing ocean levels to rise and encroach upon the very rich folk living on beachfront property that refused to embrace alternative energy, and the probable destruction of new york city by not a falling meteor or a nuclear device but by too many people on the island of manhattan at once for the new millenium. oh, right, and the new austin powers flick, the spy who shagged me. ken "it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)" the kenster ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #448 *******************************