From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #480 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 22 1998 Volume 07 : Number 480 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Why we haven't killed Saddam Hussein [normal@grove.ufl.edu] Re: Who Hates Love? [Zloduska ] Re: Who Hates Love? [BC-Radio@corecom.net (Brett Cooper)] Re: Feb Egg Over Easy [Eb ] A reply to a whole bunch of threads [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: Music again [The Great Quail ] Re: Music again [Gary Assassin ] XTC [Bayard Catron ] This is really starting to make me mad ["JH3" ] The abstractness of qualification [edoxtato@ssax.com] Joyeux Noel a tout les peuples feggesques! [Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Who Hates Love? Brett wrote: >>On 12/20/98 2:49 AM, Joel Mullins wrote: >> >>>Has anyone seen the latest video by that sexy horror queen Jennifer Love >>>Hewitt? >> >>Why does anybody on this list even watch videos anymore? > >Because they have women like Love in them!!! :P Ah hem. And that's exactly why they spend all that money to brainwash you; because they know a talentless sex idol will hook you and lure you in. I bet even OddEb would agree with that sentiment. ~kjs (' not really Kiefer Sutherland') ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 01:45:41 -0900 From: BC-Radio@corecom.net (Brett Cooper) Subject: Re: Who Hates Love? >Ah hem. And that's exactly why they spend all that money to brainwash you; >because they know a talentless sex idol will hook you and lure you in. I >bet even OddEb would agree with that sentiment. > >~kjs >(' not really Kiefer Sutherland') Actually, I find Jennifer Love Hewitt to be pretty talented. I'll have to say that not too many female actresses can sing as well as she does. Perhaps if she started playing really challenging roles it would give her talent a workout. I agree that being in such teeny-bopper movies that she has appeared in ("Can't Hardly Wait" notwithstanding) has not helped her credibility. Give her time and I think she'll prove to be a worthy actress. Which makes me wonder--I could just see her and Robyn doing a song together. Perhaps "Raymond Chandler"? Brett ************************************************************** Cooper Collections P.O. Box 876462 Wasilla, Alaska 99687 (907) 376-4520 BC-Radio@corecom.net http://www.corecom.net/~no6pp/Cooper_Collections.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 03:08:02 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Feb Egg Over Easy Bayard: >> Precisely the type of >> distancing gambit which keeps him trapped as a behind-the-times cult artist >> with a dwindling fanbase. > >Now you've REALLY gone off the deep end! Don't you think it has >something to do with RH's labels not doing anything to promote him, or >his lack of radio airplay, or the fact that his music has always appealed >to a specific kind of person? "Off the deep end"? Robyn's lack of sales/fame is NOT purely a case of his record labels dropping the ball. That's simply the enduring rationalization/wishful thinking of the Zealous Fan in Denial (needless to say, RH fans aren't the only ones guilty of this). RH just hasn't stayed current -- he's passe. More importantly, his music is simply too cold and unfriendly. Both lyrically and *certainly* vocally. The mainstream doesn't respond to that. No matter *how* happy and bouncy his melodic hooks are, there's still that Bored Nasal Drone(tm) to deal with. ;) That's a problem, when we're talking about reaching the mainstream. And, well, it also wouldn't hurt if Robyn was capable of smiling in public more than once a year. Approachability counts, like it or not. Being creepy and dark rarely pays off commercially, unless you have an elaborate visual image to go along with it (here's where Brett Furnier-Cooper can jump in ;)). Now, I do think that "Airscape" might have been a more successful single, if a major label had been behind it. But there, we're talking about RH's best radio single ever...that's an extreme case. And there, he's singing in his high wistful voice, instead of the BND. Crucial factor. As for his music appealing to "a specific kind of person"...yes, exactly. It doesn't cross many demographic boundaries, due to factors such as the above. And saying Robyn's fanbase is dwindling because his music appeals to a specific kind of person is practically a truism. "Robyn has limited fans because he has limited appeal" -- ok, I'll buy that. Hey, I just saw Rufus' "April Fools" video for the first time. Whee! Actually, it was a quite stupid video. And not just because it opens with Rufus in bed with five women. Ha! Not bloody likely.... Odd synchronicity: The video (mostly filmed on location in L.A.) included brief shots of the Silverlake Lounge, which is where (gasp!) the weekly "Claudine" danceclub was running for a few months. Garsh! Conceptual continuity, anyone? Eb "You throw ball against me, I throw ball against you" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:34:26 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: A reply to a whole bunch of threads > Especially in this case, because I didn't say that Robyn >*never* writes culturally relevant songs -- only that he's not very good at >it in those instances when he does. No, he's not. I agree absolutely. I don't listen to Robyn for his topicality or politics because if I did, I'd be very disappointed. I listen to him because I *like* the weird private universe he inhabits. There are other artists who tackle politics and do it better, and when I want to hear political music (which is seldom), I listen to them. Every artist has its function in my musical pantheon: I don't listen to Nick Drake for upbeat dance tunes, and I don't listen to Robyn for political commentary. It's as simple as that. (That said, I do think Robyn occasionally hits the mark with his political songs - "The President" in particular. But it doesn't happen very often.) >I'm pleased to see so many list members taking a non-Euclidean approach to >the political spectrum. Very Lovecraftian of y'all! I have to confess that the phrase "political non-Euclidean" was actually invented by Robert Anton Wilson. But he's a big Lovecraft fan, so I suppose it all ties together somehow. >should >probably clarify that I am an anarchist, not a socialist> > >i use the terms interchangeably because i think the only genuine form of >socialism is anarchism. It's one type of anarchism. It's not the kind I favor, and it's not a kind that I think would function well. (See Ursula LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" for a view of an anarcho-socialist society which is slowly coming apart at the seams.) >i see what you're getting at, but i'm not so sure i agree. i think you >can say that the more you would like people to be free, you tend toward >the left, and the less you would like them to be so, you tend toward the >right. But don't libertarians (who are usually considered right-wing) supposedly favor freedom? And don't some types of Communists (usually considered left-wing) favor a "tyranny of the people"? I think you're putting your own biases onto the concept of the left-right spectrum, to say the least. On a less political note, here are my my top albums of '98. I actually hardly bought any new records this year, so the list is a little scanty. In no order: Beck, "Mutations" Belle & Sebastian, "The Boy with the Arab Strap" Robert Wyatt, "Shleep" Slapp Happy, "Ca Va" "Storefront Hitchcock" (LP) Neutral Milk Hotel, that album that even Eb likes Disappointments: Kristin Hersh, "Strange Angels" (decent live show, though) Peter Blegvad, "Hangman's Hill" "Storefront Hitchcock" (CD) Discoveries: The Zombies, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, Elf Power, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Apples in Stereo, Mary Margaret O'Hara, the Verlaines, the Bats, Chris Knox, Robert Wyatt, Massive Attack Anticipated in '99: Tom Waits, XTC, Elf Power, "Jewels for Sophia," the Star Wars movie, XTC, the Babylon 5 spin-off series "Crusade," and did I mention XTC? n., geek-ette extraordinaire ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:58:33 -0500 From: "Runion-1, Michael" Subject: Re: Feb Egg Over Easy Bayard & Eb have been grumbling... >>"Off the deep end"? Robyn's lack of sales/fame is NOT purely a case of his record labels dropping the ball. That's simply the enduring rationalization/wishful thinking of the Zealous Fan in Denial (needless to say, RH fans aren't the only ones guilty of this). RH just hasn't stayed current -- he's passe. More importantly, his music is simply too cold and unfriendly. Both lyrically and *certainly* vocally. The mainstream doesn't respond to that. No matter *how* happy and bouncy his melodic hooks are, there's still that Bored Nasal Drone(tm) to deal with. ;) That's a problem, when we're talking about reaching the mainstream.<< My personal take on this is that Robyn is aging and both he and his record labels neither know how to market him nor even have the spunk or drive to go after much else. Robyn's enjoying his minimal laid-back success (and yeah, I call it success when you can do what you love for 20 plus years with no signs of needing to stop), sometimes wishing for more, other times just content to wander. The "mainstream" issue is more fuzzy. By mainstream, do we mean the teen/early 20's culture, or do we mean the Maria Carey / Celine Dion buying public? I for one have no idea what the mainstream is, but then again I'm 31 and "passe". Robyn will never again tap into the first definition of mainstream, simply because of his physical age. Now, I think Robyn could very well tap into the second mainstream, given the right shoves and pulls. Case in point, my wife's friend Melody strolls in and usually has derogatory things to say about whatever I might have in the CD player. She's a Celine Dion / Stones / Melissa Etheridge kinda girl...definitely the second mainstream. Anyway, one day I had Moss Elixir in and she kinda paused and said "Hey, I sorta like that...who is it?" Not that she'll rush out and buy it, but at least there was a glimmer of hope. I'm not really siding with anyone here, but I do think the mainstream, if it exists, is far too illogical and chaotic to ever say A is or could be mainstream, B isn't and can't. At this risk of sounding snobby, I don't think the mainstream is something that truly artistic people should strive for. It's much to dulled down, prepackaged, and safe for the general consumer. Sorta like mainstream politics...or sex for that matter. Mike (who likes to buck the system in his own pathetically conservative ways) p.s. A big hello to she.rex, another florida feg! Mike Runion SGS Quality 853-9177 SGS-6400 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:04:03 From: "she.rex" Subject: Music again Two things not clarified in the music post: 1) I watched 120 Minutes from 1984-88 not 98 (oops!). Then I got married and was out of the loop musically for almost 10 years. Time for another awakening! and 2) I have very young parents - they married at 19 and 16 - so their music was mainly '60s and '70s stuff, not '40s and '50s. I also like folk music, by the way - old as well as new. I've got a lot of Sandy Denny, Fotheringay/Fairport Convention, Irish folk (which is why I love the Waterboys) and Loreena McKennitt. Also Richard Thompson, with and without Linda. Something different for me also was Renaissance, esp. Tales of 1001 Nights Vols 1 & 2. And the old funk. I grew up near a largely black community and many of my best friends were black. This was an asset because I was exposed to a better variety of music than a lot of the kids in school. I never went for the Jacksons, esp. Michael & Janet, but Parliament, etc. was cool. Lastly (for now), what's the problem with Ani DiFranco? I think she really speaks for herself, on her own terms. This is good. Also, having her own record label is a good idea, too, no? She.Rex p.s. on the RH Greatest Hits cd, who did backing vocals on She Doesn't Exist and Dark Green Energy? It sounds like Michael Stipe but maybe I don't know all the Egyptians' voices well enough? There are no non-band credits listed but there aren't many detailed notes on the liner. Just wondering... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 98 11:35:41 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Music again >p.s. on the RH Greatest Hits cd, who did backing vocals on She >Doesn't Exist and Dark Green Energy? It sounds like Michael Stipe but >maybe I don't know all the Egyptians' voices well enough? There are no >non-band credits listed but there aren't many detailed notes on the >liner. Just wondering... I am sure a dozen people have already posted this to you privately, but yeah, it's the Stipe. And I think on "She Doesn't Exist" his simple "la la las" elevate an already good song way into the stratosphere. . . . - --Evenquail PS: I came home from work yesterday and I swore on a copy of the "Fegmania" CD that I would NOT mention S*x or P*litics in any more postings for a long long time. You know how it is . . .you enter the fray . . .and . . . you just can't . . . stop . . . <--sound of myself hitting myself with a big orange cone. . . .> Ahh, that's better . . . . +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "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: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:37:00 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Assassin Subject: Re: Music again > p.s. on the RH Greatest Hits cd, who did backing vocals on She > Doesn't Exist and Dark Green Energy? It sounds like Michael Stipe but > maybe I don't know all the Egyptians' voices well enough? There are no > non-band credits listed but there aren't many detailed notes on the > liner. Just wondering... You are correct. Stipend. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:01:00 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Catron Subject: XTC On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Eb wrote: > Bayard: > >> Precisely the type of > >> distancing gambit which keeps him trapped as a behind-the-times cult artist > >> with a dwindling fanbase. > > > >Now you've REALLY gone off the deep end! Don't you think it has > >something to do with RH's labels not doing anything to promote him, or > >his lack of radio airplay, or the fact that his music has always appealed > >to a specific kind of person? > > "Off the deep end"? Robyn's lack of sales/fame is NOT purely a case > of his record labels dropping the ball. That's simply the enduring > rationalization/wishful thinking of the Zealous Fan in Denial Didn't say it was PURELY a case of that. I said it had something to do with it. And then: (needless to > say, RH fans aren't the only ones guilty of this). RH just hasn't stayed > current -- he's passe. More importantly, his music is simply too cold and > unfriendly. Both lyrically and *certainly* vocally. The mainstream doesn't > respond to that. No matter *how* happy and bouncy his melodic hooks are, > there's still that Bored Nasal Drone(tm) to deal with. ;) That's a problem, > when we're talking about reaching the mainstream. And, well, it also > wouldn't hurt if Robyn was capable of smiling in public more than once a > year. Approachability counts, like it or not. Being creepy and dark rarely > pays off commercially, unless you have an elaborate visual image to go > along with it I guess he's a little old for the Marilyn Manson thing, besides which it isn't his style, to say the least. Now you're naming a bunch more factors that RH probably couldn't do much about if he wanted to. That's the way his voice sounds, etc. And I think he is approachable more often than not. Hmm, with all these new theories the "Robyn's out b/c he refuses to write songs about current events" hypothesis is looking less crucial to me. Must've been a case of Music Industry Fan in Denial. ;) (Besides, you still haven't rebutted my 2-5 songs/album assertion; should I assume you've conceded the point? It goes back at least as far as _Underwater Moonlight_... "I Wanna Destroy You" and "Positive Vibrations" were relevant, but the album, which IIRC you describe as "Perfect", broke no ground commercially. I guess _that_ time it was the industry's fault? > Now, I do think that "Airscape" might have been a more successful single, > if a major label had been behind it. But there, we're talking about RH's > best radio single ever... Don't forget "Queen of Eyes," too. > As for his music appealing to "a specific kind of person"...yes, exactly. Then we're agreed? Wooohooo! Mike Sez: Yeah... RH could probably write a whole current events album and even if it was insanely great, it would likely get ignored just b/c he is who he is. The kids aren't gonna care about him coz he's not a kid - he has a 44-year-old worldview. Older folks won't listen b/c as you said, he's shaggy and sinister (but happy!) and has that great voice. Besides which WB or MGM whoever is never, ever going to lift a finger, and probably don't even know how, as Mike says. Now admittedly a current events album from Robyn is not going to be insanely great, this is for the sake of debate. And I wouldn't want one from him anyway, you are right that it's not what he does best. But more of his songs are culturally relevant than you seem to think, and lack of same is not the biggest reason why he's pretty much known only to us. That's all I'm sayin'. > Eb > > "You throw ball against me, I throw ball against you" So that's your game! Huh, and I thought "Feb Egg" was nice. I felt nice writing it, anyway. To quote Dilbert, "one should never compose email while one is snarling." I got a nice note from one of our many mutual friends complementing me on it, too. I guess there's no pleasing you. ps. To "reverse enginneer" your argument, would you say those top-grossing "grossout" bands you reposted recently are having great success in part b/c of their topical, relevant songwriting? Or is it just that the mainstream is always largely crammed with crappy music? pps. I agree gNat, Robyn is very rarely political. "Culturally Relevant" were the words that made me jump in this third or fourth time Eb has made this complaint. :) Which reminds me of one of my favorite Robyn interviews. I'll quote a bit of it from memory. Interviewer: I read a review of your last album that said you only write songs about stuff like fish and insects and your music would be a lot better if you were angrier. RH: Who said that? Int: It was a review in... the _Voice_, I think. _The Village Voice_. RH: Well, whoever said that is a fuckhead, and should have his guts ripped out. (laughter all round) How angry does he want me? Int: He said he wished you'd take a political stand on something. RH: Well, that's for him to take a political stand on something, isn't it? Politics is about making deals with people, I haven't got time for that! My talent is to create small worlds, and then destroy them. ____ My contention, of course, is that in the course of his terraforming RH deals with real world issues -- and he does it 'HIS WAY'. :) (Too bad about my wife and my dead wife being left off the sinatra duets disc.) Anyway. Happy holiday, Ebeneezer, Tiny Eddie, and all the other happy little feggies! =b ppps. anyone have that _voice_ review? It would have ebeen around the era of queen elvis, I think. pppps. Ever written for the _voice_, Eb? :) (ebeen???) ppppps. Oh! What I really wanted to say... every year around this time, I have a few friends up to the mountain; this year they were the ones who always fill the cd changer with ccr, dylan and neil young. Unfortunately, it was already full of XTC when they arrived, and they acted as though they were being tortured. "Take that bullshit out and get the Credence," one said (he's a sort of combination of Sayer, Eb, and someone who hates XTC.) I heard that Natalie had had success with singing "Senses Working Overtime" to another big baby, so later on at lunch I tried that. "Uh yeah, great lyrics," said SayerEb. My question: is there any way to combat such heresy? They aren't even willing to give the discs a chance! I'm asking you b/c I know you are top XTC advocates. BTW, these guys do listen to some new music (at least SayerEb does.) I guess it's a lost cause. np in my head "i've got one, two, three four five.." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:08:03 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: This is really starting to make me mad Fegs! Remember a couple of weeks ago I posted something about Robyn appearing on VH1's "Midnight Minute"? Well, it happened again - this time with a different song, "Sally was a Legend." It's not even in Robynbase... But what totally pissed me off was this: They're supposed to do this spot at midnight EST, but they showed this one at 11:50! And I was CHECKING for the damn thing! I tuned in at almost 11:51, and there he was, with about 3 seconds left! I mean, fuck me with a chainsaw! What does it TAKE? So I even went so far to e-mail VH/1 and ask for a schedule, if they have one. I'll let y'all know if they reply. Sheesh. I wonder how many of these spots he's taped? I'd love to get my hands on the master of THAT one. - -JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:40:11 -0600 From: edoxtato@ssax.com Subject: The abstractness of qualification Eb: >To radically simplify: Since I view Hitchcock as a "B+ artist," I'll be >perfectly content if he continues to release B+ albums. I'm not going to >send him ferocious petitions if he fails to reach my A-/A level (which he >HAS reached four or five times in the past, yes). I guess this is the thing that's always gotten me. Why grade at all? Whassa point? Do you dig his tunes? Isn't that enough? I don't understand. - -Doc, who's bugged that he put to-gether his own "best-of" list... "'Other people have needs. He has lists.'" -Nick Hornby ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:45:24 +0000 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Joyeux Noel a tout les peuples feggesques! Gosh! I take a few days off and come back to find that fegmaniax has been exploding with all kinds of sex, violence and politics (what, no drugs and rock'n'roll?). Rather than comment point by point, let me just give you a quick rundown on Pops Godwin's 1998. Basically, I had a down sort of year (ill loads of the time) with a few highlights: *** The London fegbash was great (Nick, where are you?); ** The London Blue Oyster Cult gig was good - they played one number (Live for Me) which I'd never heard live before; ** Storefront Hitchcock was worth seeing, but RH's two-song intro to SH makes 1998 my briefest live Hitchcock year for 4 years; ** My new band, Blue Shift, were really well received at two parties for social workers, and absolutely drenched at another (outdoor) party for social workers (we've got a couple of bookings so far for '99, probably at parties for social workers); ? I've been working quite hard on a stage show 'A Budgerigar Called Spartacus', featuring original comic songs and sketches, light comedy and suchlike, which is due for unveiling on 12/13 Feb - see http://www.bath.ac.uk/~hssmrg/budgie.gif *** Went to a first-rate bash in the Quantock Hills last month with some friends from way back: walks in the hills, a proper 16mm projected screening of 'Duck Soup', then singing oldies until 3am (the medley of 'You've lost that lovin' feeling' and 'Hang on Sloopy' was especially memorable); - -* Totally failed to keep up with any new films or records, except for Kent Duchaine singing Bukka White and Peter Green singing Robert Johnson, which is not exactly up to the minute; I must track down some of these recent John Fahey and Duck Baker releases. And can anyone tell me anything about Zoot Horn Rollo's solo CD of slide guitar things? *** Malevolent performance by Robert Lindsay as Richard III. Don't believe the papers, go and see him when the production gets to London! Eddie Tews wrote: > i suspect godwin is pretty left. Depends what you mean. Most of my old-Labour friends regard me as rightish because I'm in the Liberal Democrats. But OTOOH, the Lib Dems are definitely to the left of slimy Tony Blair and his 'New Labour, New Slavish Alliegance to Clinton' government. Maybe I should rejoin the Militant Apathy Party ("We want apathy and we want it NOW!"). Gregory Stuart Shell wrote: > 'The Hobbit' came out in 1978, followed by 'Lord of the Rings', then 'Return > of the King', which concluded what was left out of LotR. I think 'The > Hobbit' was the best of the three but I recommend them all, in order of > course. I was so surprised at this that I checked it out at www.imdb.org. It turns out that TH and ROTK were US-TV productions - they certainly never made it to the UK or I would have heard of them. In contrast, Bakshi's 'Lord of the Rings' received a UK release and was well publicised. Happy Christmas! - - Mike Godwin PS to tgQ: Which bits of the plot of 'Wag the Dog' did you find unbelievable? The President caught fondling young ladies? The foreign affairs crisis precipitated as a distraction? The faking of 'documentary' footage? (incidentally, there is a real row brewing up in the UK at present about the extent of dishonesty in documentaries, from full-scale / fakery of an expose on drug dealers right down to family shots of a "den of wild bears" which turned out to have been filmed in Glasgow Zoo...) PPS Apropos of nothing, who plays the guitar solo on Roy Orbison's 'Problem Child'? My guess is Billy Lee Riley, but it could be Scotty Moore... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:00:39 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Feb Egg Over Easy In a message dated 98-12-22 10:06:01 EST, you write: << Bayard & Eb have been grumbling... >>"Off the deep end"? Robyn's lack of sales/fame is NOT purely a case of his record labels dropping the ball. That's simply the enduring rationalization/wishful thinking of the Zealous Fan in Denial (needless to say, RH fans aren't the only ones guilty of this). RH just hasn't stayed current -- he's passe. << My personal take on this is that Robyn is aging and both he and his record labels neither know how to market him nor even have the spunk or drive to go after much else. Robyn's enjoying his minimal laid-back success (and yeah, I call it success when you can do what you love for 20 plus years with no signs of needing to stop), sometimes wishing for more, other times just content to wander. The "mainstream" issue is more fuzzy. By mainstream, do we mean the teen/early 20's culture, or do we mean the Maria Carey / Celine Dion buying public? I for one have no idea what the mainstream is, but then again I'm 31 and "passe". Robyn will never again tap into the first definition of mainstream, simply because of his physical age. Now, I think Robyn could very well tap into the second mainstream, given the right shoves and pulls. >> As late as 1993, Robyn was still getting play on the alternative radio station in Denver (where I was living at the time; can't speak for other markets, of course). And, really, that was only a couple of albums ago! "Moss Elixir" was probably a little too much of a "folksy" "singer/songwriter" album to generate a good radio single, but, what with the cast of guest artists and word of a more rockin' sound on "Jewels for Sophia," I wouldn't be surprised if Robyn could get a little airplay next year. This without having hear the music (of course) to knwo whether or not there'll be a worthwhile single, but, should there be, I could see it getting some spins. There always needs to be a few quirky pop songs in amongst the Matchbox 20's and the Third Eye Blind's of the world -- something for the 23-to-27-year-old's who have outgrown a good deal of the crap on alternative radio but who are still hanging in there anyway, trying to remain hip to the pulse of the youngin's. So, while I don't see Robyn ever getting back "into the mainstream" as much as he was in the late 80's, I still think there's room for him on the fringe of the mainstream . . . depending on his output and Warner's marketing efforts. It'll be interesting to see. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #480 *******************************