From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #340 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 7 1999 Volume 08 : Number 340 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: crickets chirping [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #339 [Doc ] Re: eb all over the world [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Mats do Softboys [Aaron Mandel ] Re: eb all over the world ["Capitalism Blows" ] Bumbershoot ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Starfucking for Sophia ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Robyn at Nick Drake tribute [Jonathan Turner ] smile, you're on Candid Crematorium [Eb ] pale zeroes tinge the tiger skin ["Andrew D. Simchik" ["Linnig" ] Re: crickets chirping [West ] I'm ashamed that I know this... [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: I'm ashamed that I know this... [Bayard ] RE: I'm ashamed that I know this... ["Bachman, Michael" ] re: criquet shirking.... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: Walking on Sunshine [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Robyn at Nick Drake tribute [The Great Quail ] Re: [dmw ] Re: [Eb ] I've got to be kidding. [Capuchin ] Re: [Tom Clark ] Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs" [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Robyn at Nick Drake tribute [puppycakes ] Robyn interview alert [steve ] only the cones [hal brandt ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #339 [James Dignan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:25:24 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: crickets chirping In a message dated 9/7/99 2:23:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << >oh--duh! UB40, Labor of Love, Labor of Love II & Labor of Love III I dunno...is that band really "ordinarily known for original songwriting"? Seems like they'd be pretty lost by now, without cover songs. >> Actually, their pre-"Labour of Love" material is pretty good. I have (the now out of print) "1980-83," which is a darn good collection of their early singles. This has since been replaced with some kind of a "greatest hits" or "best of," vlume one of which goes up through maybe 1986. Still not too bad, but contains a few tracks from the first "Labour of Love" album. They became totally intolerable around this time. Oh well. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:11:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doc Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #339 Eb said: >>>OK, the other day, I was casually trying to think of cases where an >>>artist or band *ordinarily known for original songwriting* decides >>>to do an album entirely of covers. Lots of albums were offered, then Quail was told EP's don't count, and he said: >Oh, just because you made up this game, you have to go and be a >control freak, huh? You just can't stand seeing Phish get mentioned. >I bet you don't even eat Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Oh yeah? Howsabout: The Church, "Box Of Birds". All covers. Came out two weeks ago. I don't remeber-- did anyone mention the Erasure album that's all Abba covers? Phish Food yum. I like the sardines myself. So good with the marshmellers. - -Doc, who's thrilled his sweetie got her visa! n.p. Spiritualized, "Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:23:53 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: eb all over the world Yes, the Bumbershoot show was indeed fantastic. Eddie and Jeme despised Cat Power (aka, Chan Marshall); Michael Wolfe and I seemed to think she was all right . . . I liked her set better than I thought I would, actually. If she weren't so obviously on the verge of falling into a pit of depression and/or a panic attack, it might have been more enjoyable. On record, her material can be a bit too minor/diminished-chord-and-wailing/yowling-vocalsy, but the stuff she played yesterday wa smostly just super-duper-slow, "no depression"-esque country/folksy stuff. A little reminiscent of "Days in the Wake" by Palace (Brothers). Anyway, enough about the horribly dissheveled and over-photographed Cat Power . . . Robyn was great!!!! I loved the more downtempo set. And I think it's worth repeating just how good Robyn's guitar playing was. I often find myself thinking, "Oh yeah -- Robyn's a really good guitarist, too." Yesterday I found myself thinking, "Holy shit! Robyn's a great fucking guitarist!" Whew! And I think his voice was in really good form -- better than the past couple of shows I've seen. Oh, and he was wearing purple trousers and a cool B&W shirt comprised of postcard-sized prints of old movie actors (I think) and a few cars (alternating white-on-black and black-on-white). His hair was particularly shaggy. He had some cool yellow shades which he pretty promptly removed. Oh, and it was great to see him in such a beautiful venue and with such an elegantly simple stage setup (one mic stand and a couple of monitors, black stage and black curtains, simple white overhead stage lighting). Almost as good as the show itself was hanging out with our small-ish group of Fegs beforehand (especially since I found them at the front of a very long line). I got to meet the pocka-dotted Viv Lyon -- I was hoping that she and her Monkey would make it up there! :-) Eddie, Cynthia, and Michael W. were there as well. As Eddie mentioned, we got a picture of all of us. Due to some peculiar artifacts surrounding the magnetic properties of Bumbershoot, however, it's believed that Eddie may appear upside-down in the photo. There is, however, no truth to the rumor that he stood on his head. Nor did he sing a verse of "Balloon Man" for the woman working security (accompanied by my own bashfully muted attempts at harmonizing). As for other Bumbershootin' stuff, I, too, saw the first few songs of Roy Harper's set. Where I was standing, though, the sun was right in my eyes. And my feet were tired. But I liked what little I heard . . . so did 3/4 of Sonic Youth, who were hanging out off to the side of the stage and eating snacks. I saw about 60% of the Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris set. Great musicians playing with those gals. Everyone played everything -- drums, guitar, mandolin, accordian, bass, etc. And, man, that Linda can really belt it out! Nice stuff. I also saw a little bit of Mark Olsen's set. Good songs and a good band, but I hated his voice. It was really gravelly and whispery and not very emotive. Too bad, because the music had this sort of Jeff Buckley-like anthemic rock quality to it (only a little more straightforwardly Americana). What're ya gonna do. Each day (only went Sunday and Monday), I ate the same thing there: the #2 combo from the Bahn Thai booth (phad thai and chicken in peanut sauce over white rice) followed by a scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in a waffle cone from Ben and Jerry's. Yes, much suffering was had by all ;-) That's about all I have to say. Hopefully Jeme will delight us all with a travelogue combining his and Viv's moving out to Portland and their trip to Seattle. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:28:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Mats do Softboys On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Lyall, Jay PJ SSI wrote: > There is an MP3 of the Replacements singing "I wanna destroy you" on this > site. http://www.wwwebworld.com/mp3/mats.htm they think of everything these days, don't they? that seems to be Robyn's most-covered song (the Circle Jerks and Uncle Tupelo also took swings at it -- released, no less), which surprises me. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 12:43:00 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: eb all over the world and let me throw in that i think his harmonica playing oughta get more notice. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:45:24 -0400 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: Bumbershoot Hey, Fegs. Just got back Saturday from a week-long whirlwind jaunt to the UK. A long plane ride and 1200 rental-car miles later, I'll admit I'm a bit out of it. I had logged off the list while I was gone and was wondering if anyone has the setlist for the well-touted Bumbershoot gig? More importantly....anyone record it? Hope all's well. To those who care: the intinerary, as far as I can remember Heathrow Stonehenge (over-rated, but one of those things I thought I ought to do) Bath (overnight) Bristol (in honor of the late Sarah Records. More of a drive-through, actually) Cardiff Caerphilly (sp?) Swansea Tenby St. David's Solva (overnight) St. David's (for the cathedral, which was shut) Fishguard Aberystwyth Shrewsbury (2 nights--the wive's family) Liverpool (overnight--sister-in-law's) Blackpool Liverpool (overnight--ditto) Shewsbury (overnight) Warwick Gatwick > _________________________________________ > Ferris Scott Thomas > programmer > > (860) 409-2612 > McGraw-Hill Technology Division > Farmington, CT > mailto:ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (work) > mailto:ferris@snet.net (home) > http://pages.cthome.net/hellhollow/ > Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons. -PROTEUS The Two Gentleman of Verona, I.i ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 12:48:19 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Starfucking for Sophia >Lots of albums were offered, then Quail was told EP's don't count, and >he said: ... >I don't remeber-- did anyone mention the Erasure album that's all Abba >covers? That's an EP too, gawddammit. ;P On a completey unrelated note, I was in a local coffeeshop called Java Joe's last night for their "open mic night." I went to see a friend of mine play jazz guitar. Well, actually, he plays two guitars at once, by tapping the strings, much in the same manner as Stanley Jordan or anyone on the Chapman Stick would play. Anyhoodles, whilst one of the many folk singers of the evening was playing, Jewel walks in and stands by the counter... which is really not a big surprise, as Java Joe's was one of the places where she used play before she hit the big time. She left after about a minute. I almost didn't recognize her, because she had a big smile on her face, as opposed to her almost ever-present pout, and her hair seems to have gotten a lot poofier. - --Jason "disco will never die" Thornton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 20:43:57 +0100 From: Jonathan Turner Subject: Robyn at Nick Drake tribute Not seen mention of this (at least, Robyn's billing in an otherwise pretty unappealing line-up): Nick Drake tribute night The Barbican, London September 25th 1999 Bernard Butler Ben & Jason Boris Grebeshnikov Nigel Kennedy Robyn Hitchcock Nick Laird-Clowes Pete Vuckovic www.barbican.org.uk 0171 638 8891 Jonathan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:53:27 -0800 From: Eb Subject: smile, you're on Candid Crematorium >Oh yeah? Howsabout: > >The Church, "Box Of Birds". All covers. Came out two weeks ago. Well, preferably, the suggestions would be bands which don't stink. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: pale zeroes tinge the tiger skin > From: MAustin802@aol.com [all covers] > primus-misc. debris (making plans for nigel was a nice > cover) _Rhinoplasty_ is an EP, and not all covers, but it's still intriguing. They did a sweet "Scissorman" on it, as well as Peter Gabriel's "The Family and the Fishing Net." (Other covers include Metallica and the Police. Go figure!) > From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com > > No one has yet mentioned Dwight Yoakam's "Between The > Covers", which I > guess shouldn't surprise me overly much. It's pretty good > stuff- the best > cut is probably his soulful bluegrass-y take on "Train in > Vain". Oh yeah -- Annie Lennox's _Medusa_ is all covers. Drew === Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 13:21:59 -0700 From: "Linnig" Subject: Re: What about The Coolies "Dig"? As I recall, it was all covers (most were Simon & Garfunkle). Terry - -----Original Message----- From: Eb To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 1:35 PM Subject: >OK, the other day, I was casually trying to think of cases where an artist >or band *ordinarily known for original songwriting* decides to do an album >entirely of covers. My thoughts were mostly inspired by the new all-covers >Mark Lanegan disc, I'll Take Care of You. Might as well throw the question >out here, since the list is currently moribund. > >The first albums I thought of: Lennon's Rock & Roll, Costello's Almost >Blue/Kojak Variety, Lovett's recent Step Inside This House, Cave's Kicking >Against the Pricks, that Kristin Hersh mail-order deal, Bowie's Pin-Ups and >Ferry's These Foolish Things/Taxi. Oh, and that crummy Siouxsie album from >awhile back and the Ramones' Acid Eaters just popped into my head, as I >write this. > >Other candidates? McCartney's Russian album isn't *entirely* covers, is it? >And let's eliminate nominations in the jazz genre, because that would open >a can o' worms. > >Eb, thinking he'd love to hear an all-covers Bjork disc > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:30:20 -0700 From: West Subject: Re: crickets chirping > Did anyone mention Bowie's "Pinups"? For that matter, has anyone mentioned Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive? West ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:54:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: I'm ashamed that I know this... ... but didn't Duran Duran do an all-covers album? I remember they covered "911 Is a Joke" or something similarly incongruous. The album was called "Thank You," as I recall. No, I haven't heard it. n. p.s. Here in the Detroit area, they not only yell "Freebird!", they also yell "THE NUUUUUGE!" Lucky us. p.p.s. Remember to listen to my show tonight at 8:00! Unless you don't want to. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:11:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: I'm ashamed that I know this... And who could forget Pat Boone's 1997 release _in a metal mood: no more mr. nice guy_. covers of all kinda shite: 1. You've Got Another Thing Comin' 2. Smoke On The Water 3. It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N Roll) 4. Panama 5. No More Mr. Nice Guy 6. Love Hurts 7. Enter Sandman 8. Holy Diver 9. Paradise City 10. The Wind Cries Mary 11. Crazy Train 12. Stairway To Heaven Fegchronicity/sf dept: at the wedding i was just at in wisconsin one of my cousins told me that last week at a party he met the guy who sings last on the Gap commercial with "dress you up" (and first in the one with "mellow yellow", iirc.) In case you were wondering, they aren't lip-synching (the guy claims). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:07:29 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: I'm ashamed that I know this... Detroit area yells. Back in in the 1970's, It was always "Whipping Post" that was THE yell. I did it at a Martin Mull concert in 1975, thinking that it made some sense as the Brothers and MM were both on Capricorn and Martin intro'd them from time to time. Martin promtly banged off the first notes. Pretty Cool. This was at the old Shelby Hotel in downtown Detroit. This is the city of Robocop! (Robyn quote from the Royal Oak Music Theater, early 1992) Michael - -----Original Message----- From: Natalie Jacobs [mailto:gnat@cyberspace.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 4:55 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: I'm ashamed that I know this... ... but didn't Duran Duran do an all-covers album? I remember they covered "911 Is a Joke" or something similarly incongruous. The album was called "Thank You," as I recall. No, I haven't heard it. n. p.s. Here in the Detroit area, they not only yell "Freebird!", they also yell "THE NUUUUUGE!" Lucky us. p.p.s. Remember to listen to my show tonight at 8:00! Unless you don't want to. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:19:07 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Ferris's Missed Opportunities, Pt. 6 Ferris writes: >...the intinerary, as far as I can remember: >Cardiff...Caerphilly (sp?)...Swansea...Tenby...St. David's... >Solva (overnight)...St. David's (for the cathedral, which was shut)... >Fishguard...Aberystwyth...Shrewsbury (2 nights--the wive's family)... >Liverpool (overnight--sister-in-law's) So instead of going straight from Aberystwyth to Liverpool, which would have brought you within a mere 25 miles (to the west) of Portmeirion Village, you went to visit your wife's family and completely bypassed North Wales? I just hope she realizes what a huuuge sacrifice you made! Then again, maybe you aren't a Prisoner fan. (It's a pretty neat place, even so.) Eb: >>The Church, "Box Of Birds". All covers. Came out two weeks ago. >Well, preferably, the suggestions would be bands which don't stink. ;) I'm just gonna ignore that, except to say that even though it's not their best work - possibly their worst, in fact - I personally like Box o' Birds more than anything I've heard by Mark Lanegan and/or the Screaming Trees... John "call me Stinky" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:42:21 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: re: criquet shirking.... I bought a Shawn Colvin covers album because all of my friends had been raving for years about her. Partly because _Naive Melody_ was on it. It was intensely and insanely boring. I have heard her do some of her own material since, for which I didn't have such a powerful disliking. Added to my specific feelings about the CD: in Northern California there are thousands of singer-songwriters. About half of the female ones cop Shawn's vocabulary of vocal idiosyncrasies, which often range on the emotional richter between ennui and indifference. It is entirely possible that her treatments were just too subtly wonderful for me to pick up on them, as I am not subtly wonderful myself. My feeling is that if you decide to do a cover, make it different- throw yourself at it, have fun with it, or at least kick its ass- probably all three, unless you hate the original in which case you shouldn't do it in the first place. Happies, - -Markg, filling a much needed void.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:57:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Walking on Sunshine Keith Hanlon wrote: > What band is covering the La's "There She Goes?" Female > singers... Sixpence None the Richer. god it sucks. === "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:06:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Joel Mullins wrote: > Eb wrote: > > OK, the other day, I was casually trying to think of cases > where an artist > > or band *ordinarily known for original songwriting* decides > to do an album > > entirely of covers. My thoughts were mostly inspired by the > new all-covers > > Mark Lanegan disc, I'll Take Care of You. Might as well > throw the question > > out here, since the list is currently moribund. > > The The's Hanky Panky. And Paul McCartney has a new album > coming out soon that is all covers. supposedly the mccartney record has a couple originals on it though it is mostly covers. and there's always Martin Gore's _Counterfeit._ === "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 15:17:18 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: At 03:06 PM 9/7/99 -0700, Jeff Dwarf wrote: >and there's always Martin Gore's _Counterfeit._ ...another EP. :) - --Jason "revealing too much synth-pop knowledge here" Thornton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:27:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: "Jason R. Thornton" wrote: > At 03:06 PM 9/7/99 -0700, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > >and there's always Martin Gore's _Counterfeit._ > > ...another EP. :) shhh...don't tell eb > --Jason "revealing too much synth-pop knowledge here" Thornton only when we break into discussion of alphaville, red flag, anything box, or real life. or especially the beloved (though i did like parts of that one video they had; too bad they had to have the guy from the band in it). but camouflage were cool!! ;) and mentioning them doesn't count! === "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:27:05 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Robyn at Nick Drake tribute Jonathan Turner writes, >Not seen mention of this (at least, Robyn's billing in an >otherwise pretty unappealing line-up): > >Nick Drake tribute night >The Barbican, London >September 25th 1999 > >Bernard Butler >Ben & Jason >Boris Grebeshnikov >Nigel Kennedy >Robyn Hitchcock >Nick Laird-Clowes >Pete Vuckovic Let me put in dibs for Nigel Kennedy. He is a great violin player, if not a wee bit controversial. I have no idea what he's doing at a Nick Drake concert, but he's the only person who can make me really *like* Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." I know he played on a Kate Bush CD -- Sensual World, I believe -- and I think he has a CD of original work out. Anyway, interesting! Oh, yeah, and I have heard a few good things about that "Robyn" guy. - --Quail +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) 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, 7 Sep 1999 19:04:10 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Eb wrote: > >There are probably dozens of tributes to Dylan > >including ones by Joan Baez, Sebastien Cabot, > >Flatt & Scruggs and Richie Havens. > > None of those artists are particularly known for original songwriting, as I > stipulated. er, sorry, joan baez isn't known for original songwriting? - - "seventeen!" cried the humbug, always first with the wrong answer. - - oh no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net dmw@mwmw.com - - get yr pathos:www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:44:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: >On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Eb wrote: > >> >There are probably dozens of tributes to Dylan >> >including ones by Joan Baez, Sebastien Cabot, >> >Flatt & Scruggs and Richie Havens. >> >> None of those artists are particularly known for original songwriting, as I >> stipulated. > >er, sorry, joan baez isn't known for original songwriting? No, she isn't. Her reputation is founded on being a vocal interpreter. I wonder how many songs on a "Best of Joan Baez" disc would be originals. Yes, there's "Diamonds & Rust"...what else? Eb (don't get me started on how annoying Joan Baez is...) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:02:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: I've got to be kidding. OK, I'm still a couple hundred messages behind and I'm working on a Chicago to Portland to Bumbershoot epic, but I have to post this as soon as possible. I was thinking about some things from a couple of years ago while bored at work this afternoon. I'm pretty sure Eb's middle name is Dolly. Hoo boy. That explains heaps. J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:39:45 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: On 9/7/99 1:21 PM, Linnig wrote: >What about The Coolies "Dig"? As I recall, it was all covers (most were >Simon & Garfunkle). D'oh! You're right! - -tc, kicking myself for not thinking of that one. p.s. gnat just dedicated a Chris Knox song to James Dignan (http://www.wcbn.org) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:56:07 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs" Well, since I was raving about the 12 song sampler, I thought it'd only be right if I followed up by raving about the whole entire 3-CD set, now that I've listened to it in its entirity twice today (probably a health risk, yes). Rave, rave, rave! Yay! Whoopee! Okay, there ya have it. That was about the only way I could think of summarizing something that's 69 songs long. Those of you who like quir . . . um, not necessarily mainstreamed pop songs about love (the goods and the bads of it) should check this out. Oh, but you *shouldn't* check it out if you have a fear of banjos or baritone vocals or keyboards with lots of chorus and reverb or lyrics whose appeal is a certain naivete and an unapologetic use of classic rhyme schemes (which are twisted just enough to be completely original). Or maybe you shold get beyond these little hang-ups of yours. I mean, rilly. - ------Michael K. "Yeah! Oh, yeah!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:22:37 -0400 From: puppycakes Subject: Re: Robyn at Nick Drake tribute when we last left our heroes, The Great Quail exclaimed: >Let me put in dibs for Nigel Kennedy. He is a great violin player, if >not a wee bit controversial. I have no idea what he's doing at a Nick >Drake concert, but he's the only person who can make me really *like* >Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." I know he played on a Kate Bush CD -- >Sensual World, I believe -- and I think he has a CD of original work >out. Anyway, interesting! he's most well-known for playing violin on "experiment iv", but the quail is right: he also played on two songs on _the sensual world_ ("the fog" and "heads we're dancing", in case anybody is keeping score at home). woj not playing -- alphaville now playing -- sorten muld -- mark ii ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:55:53 -0500 From: steve Subject: Robyn interview alert Issue 12 of Fright X Magazine ("a MultiMedia Magazine for the culturally progressive") has interviews with Robyn, XTC, and The Flaming Lips. Partridge and Moulding are on the bottom part of the cover. - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 21:39:15 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: only the cones Thrust.com wrote: > My favourite site is one that shows your traffic cone art. > ROBYN: Oh really, I haven't seen it. > > It's quite nice, they have rotating pictures of about eight of your pieces. > ROBYN: Eight? Geez, I did over three-hundred, that's pretty feeble. I'd > love to see all the cones. I wonder where they went. Well, last count had twenty cones (and 1 tomato!), but maybe it's time to call for more, since no cones have been added since '98 and lots of new people have added themselves to this list. I've taken the liberty of sending the URL to David Greenberger at the Museum so maybe Robyn will have a chance to see that Mike's site is not at all 'feeble'! Personal to Mike: Plan on receiving a pic of the green cone from the Twist & Shout in-store signing in Denver soon. Send me your address. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 15:43:59 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #339 >> OK, the other day, I was casually trying to think of cases where an artist >> or band *ordinarily known for original songwriting* decides to do an album >> entirely of covers. > >Rob Forster did one... Warm Nights? i forget. in a recent interview he >said it would have been better off unreleased. "Once I had a New York Girlfriend". By far his best solo album! Good version of Grant Hart's '2541' on that one... Oh, and I don't think anyone's mentioned Icehouse's "The Berlin Tapes", which does remarkably reasonable covers of XTC's Complicated Game, VU's All Tomorrow's Parties, and a few other goodies. Much better than I would have guessed. For some reason, most recent Icehouse B-sides (or, should I say, CD single bonus tracks) have been covers of Brian Eno songs. Oh, and welcome back Bayard! 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 V8 #340 *******************************