From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #360 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, September 23 1999 Volume 08 : Number 360 Today's Subjects: ----------------- re: yellow submarine ["Russ Reynolds" ] inkblot review [puppycakes ] Got yer XTC weenieism right here, pal [steve ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #357 [James Dignan ] RAndi [tanter@tarleton.edu] Re: feg nest V #357 [Eb ] ...outside the epicentre ["Tony Blackman" ] RE: Beatles Questions [Michael R Godwin ] who's gone and been a careless boy...ME! ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: all in a day's work for Programme Control [Eb ] Re: Let the west coast tremble! [Capuchin ] Re: "Hey Jude" - Beatles Questions [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Boot question [Marshall Needleman Armintor ] dingwalls, and the divinity of Kim ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Yellow Sub again ["Russ Reynolds" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:02:06 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: re: yellow submarine >Oh, and you would LAUGH if you read all the newsgroup Beatlepeople >screaming about the 20/20 voiceover. I didn't see the program so I can't >comment, but the fanatics were practically organizing to storm the ABC >building and demand 20/20 be taken off the air. well, yeah, but they're right. The VO was not just unnecessary, it was poorly written and just plain moronic. That show has gotten so retarded in recent years it probably SHOULD be taken off the air. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:39:02 -0400 From: puppycakes Subject: inkblot review Robyn Hitchcock Jewels For Sophia Warner Bros., Released 1999 Any career that spans a quarter century is bound to have its ups and downs - - this record is somewhere in between. Robyn Hitchcock has been responsible for some absolutely fantastic music like the pensive, mostly acoustic I Often Dream Of Trains, the playfully psychedelic Fegmania, and the tunefully misanthropic Black Snack Diamond Role. Stylistically diverse, these records are unified by Hitchcock's expressive voice, indelible melodies, and colorfully bizarre lyrics. On the other hand he's churned out blandly produced duds like Respect and Perspex Island. This record was recorded in two countries with four co-producers; its sound veers from acoustic balladry to punchy up-tempo rock without ever really establishing a unified feel. This wouldn't be a problem if the songs were all up to snuff, but they're not. Hitchcock scores a bulls eye whenever he sticks to personal, relationship-oriented "Dark Princess," the contentedly domestic "I Feel Beautiful," and the loss-laden "I Don't Remember Guilford." But like well polished apples that are bad at the core, the peppy up-tempo arrangements of "The Cheese Alarm" and "Viva! Sea-Tac" dress up banal lyrics that, in another age, would have ended up in the discard pile. Hitchcock devotees will doubtless already have this, but if you're thinking of checking him out for the first time try one of the records mentioned below first. -- Bill Meyer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:42:09 -0500 From: steve Subject: Got yer XTC weenieism right here, pal http://www.geocities.com/xtcliveanddirect/visit.ram Enjoy - Steve ____________________ ...Apple is the tail that wags the Wintel dog. - Herb Bethoney, PC Week ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:45:34 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #357 >I wonder how the Lilys write songs? I've probably never heard a band >whose songs were as convoluted and, I dunno, *all over the place* as >on their last two albums. FWIW I've heard (probably false rumour, so YMMV) that Genesis, immediately post Gabriel, sometimes used the weird technique of having one person write music, one person write words, and then everyone got together and tried to fit the two parts together. It would explain some of the more convoluted poieces like Mad Man Moon... I wonder whether the Beta Band uses this technique... another annoying anecdote: Once, the band I was in had an instrumental with the chord structure A, A7, A, F#, A, which (because of this structure) became known as "Arfur". One day, we decided that it needed lyrics, so I disappeared into one room and wrote a verse about a man walking down a country road into a fishing village, and Derek, our bassist, went into another room and wrote a verse about a man going to his doctor and asking to be turned into a dog. Two different lyrics, with completely different melodies. Then we went back into the room where the rest of the band was, and played the thing through, with me singing the first verse, Derek singing the second verse, and the two of us singing a weird and discordant counterpoint to each other for the third verse. In some strange way, it worked nicely. >It was just the opposite with me! When I'd hear something that >really impressed me, I'd just think "what's the point? I'll never even >come close to approaching this, so why bother trying?" And then when >I heard something I thought was terrible, it was "hell, I could do this, so >why the hell aren't I?" I still feel that way, to some extent. (I also hear >a lot fewer things that impress me these days, but that's just because >I'm getting really, really old.) to me the best music is that which makes me want to write something but realise it wouldn't match up with what I'm listening to. Such as the John Lennon music I've been listening to this week. Oh, and one more comment, Eno-style Oblique Strategy cards are very useful! If you can't get originals, make up your own ideas for them. >The second: Who sings "She Loves You" in the fadeout of "All You Need is >Love"? Even when I was a widdle 12-year-old, I thought it was obviously >John (especially after SEEING him sing it in the original broadcast!), but >oh my, some Beatletwits still ferociously insist it's Paul. Amazing. Paul? Don't be daft. It's John. He also has a go at putting "Yesterday" in there, before realising it wouldn't work. Perhaps it's just having come from Britain, but their voices are so completely different (even their *accents* indicate they didn't all come from the same part of the 'pool!). It's a bit like the TV series "Bread" (a mainly comedy series about a large working class family from Liverpool), where every member of the family seems to have a slightly different accent. Then again, it could be just that I've known British accents enough to spot these differences, same as I can spot several different Australian and NZ accents (whereas I'm sure a lot of furriners wouldn't even be able to pick NZ and Australian accents apart). >There's a couple of other ongoing controversies like this, but I forget >what they are right now. There's "What are those words which start off >'It's All Too Much'?", etc etc etc. tsyuww wuh mupp, IIRC. Probably something backwards. James (still tossing up whether to get the new version of Yelklow Submarine. I've got all the songs on CD already, but I'm curious about the remixes. How different are they? And how sacrilegious ?:) PS - Bayard and the Quail - I have cassettes just about ready to send out to you both, but I need addresses! Bayard is probably still in MD, but I know full well that TGQ is no longer near that strangely glowing island... PPS - Andrew sez: 'n.p. Tori's latest (_To Venus and Back_). I suspect there are few Tori fans on the group'. There are a few of us still around, including the great wojbeing himself! 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: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 23:12:22 -0500 (CDT) From: tanter@tarleton.edu Subject: RAndi Randi is so sick. There is treatment out there but it's ridiculously expensive. We need someone with a lot of money who could bring Randi to the States to live for a year or so and pay for her treatment. The drug companies shouldn't be allowed to gouge ill people. It's not fair. (she can't get this treatment in Canada). It makes me sad to know she's so ill and there's nothing I can do for her. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 01:25:23 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: feg nest V #357 James: >FWIW I've heard (probably false rumour, so YMMV) that Genesis, immediately >post Gabriel, sometimes used the weird technique of having one person write >music, one person write words, and then everyone got together and tried to >fit the two parts together. It would explain some of the more convoluted >poieces like Mad Man Moon... I wonder whether the Beta Band uses this >technique... Jeez, I finally heard the new Beta Band album this week...well, actually it was my first Beta Band exposure altogether, because I still haven't heard The 3 EPs. I thought I might like the group and was really curious about the album, but my jaw just DROPPED at how lousy it was. Another one to add to my short list of the year's most infuriating releases. Were these songs even written, or just improvised? What a confused mess. And could their singing POSSIBLY be more characterless? Blecch. Certain folks assure me that The 3 EPs is better, but how MUCH better could it be than this? I'm freshly back from seeing Chris Cornell. It was...pretty good. The band was kinda characterless, and that hurts a lot when you're talking about hard rock where the lead singer never plays an instrument. Also, the keyboardist (Natasha Schneider, also of the band Eleven) was maddeningly pretentious. She didn't play anything of any technical complexity the whole night, yet she was a-swaying, a-grimacing, a-swooning...she had all her damn rockstar faces and poses entirely worked out. Really painful to watch. The only keyboardists I've ever seen which were more annoying (I think) are Keith Jarrett () and some anonymous guy I saw playing behind Laurie Anderson about 15 years ago. (No, I haven't actually seen a Keith Jarrett concert, but I've seen him on television plenty of times.) Oh, another peculiar thing about this keyboardist: She had her keyboard so that it was tilted FORWARD, toward the audience...very strange. Thus, you could see all the keys as she played, and she had to clumsily bend her wrists down in order to play. Extremely awkward. Never seen anything like this before. I wonder if she does this when practicing at home, or if she just wants the audience to see what a "masterful" player she is? I still think the Cornell album is quite good, however. Dropped by a record store on the way to the show, and bought a cheap used copy of Bruce Gilbert's "Music for Fruit." Huh. I don't think I've even seen this for sale before. I hope it doesn't suck as hard as In Esse. Miles? EB "Hey, I *like* 'Mad Man Moon'" THE EBSTER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:27:03 +0000 From: "Tony Blackman" Subject: ...outside the epicentre The Stables, Wavendon, Milton Keynes. This place isn't the easiest place to find... it's virtually in the middle of nowhere at the end of a dirt track. If any of you are thinking about going to see Val Doonican or Beverly Craven here in the near future, I can give you more explicit directions. For those who need to know, Robyn was wearing the same clothes as detailed in Chris's Dublin review. We did argue if the black boots he was wearing were Doctor Martens or Red Or Dead. The venue is small and some of it was divided by curtains to make it appear even smaller as there were only about 70-80 of us there. All seated, all 3 sides of the stage.... we bought tickets on the night and still ended up with front row seats on one of the sides of the stage! Set List Gene Hackman Arms Of Love (swap from 7.3mm Baby jesus pick to 8.8mm durable, butch Hail Mary pick) Glass Hotel Trilobite (enter Tim Keegan) Queen Elvis I Feel Beautiful (enter Jake from Homer) I Saw Nick Drake (enter Rob Allan (from Add N to X as I was told by Jonathon Turner) and Kimberly Rew) Jewels For Sophia Cheese Alarm Sally Was A Legend Queen Of Eyes Viva SEATAC Sleeping With Your Devil Mask Beautiful Queen There was no encore. I guess this was due to the fact that two people got up at the end and over three quarters of the rest of the audience followed them out of the door. Very bizarre for the 10 or so of us left sitting around. Dingwalls tonight! Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:44:40 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: Beatles Questions On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Eric Loehr wrote: > All seriousness aside, I do like Badfinger (you do know that Come and Get > It was written and arranged by McCartney, right?) -- mostly the No > Dice/Straight Up period -- and the best songs on those albums are as good > as lots of Beatles songs, but for me there just aren't enough of that > quality to make that kind of comparison; There was an excellent Badfinger article in Mojo a year or so back. Apparently both of the principal songwriters have now committed suicide. I think that the fate of Badfinger just illustrates what good timing the Beatles had in breaking up in 1970. Badfinger were just too 60s pop to survive in the mushy era of Elton John and the Eagles. > (WARNING! gratuitous British comedy reference!) I view it as analagous to > Mr. Spiggott applying for the Tarzan role* -- nothing wrong with the one > good leg, but it doesn't appear to meet the minimum requirements for the > role. ;-} Apparently the sketch originally ended with a two-legged man applying for the role of Long John Silver, but they dropped it as unnecessary. - - Mike Godwin "I've got nothing against your right leg - the trouble is neither have you". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 07:02:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: who's gone and been a careless boy...ME! Duh. I forgot to include my next questions! > From: "JH3" > >I've got a number of riffs and chord sequences and > things > >that suggest moods and other possibilities to me, stuff > >that would serve as a basis for something. > > There's always trance, house, acid-house, > acid-trance-house, > etc., y'know. I'm not a good enough guitarist to stand around riffing for hours. The riffs and chords are all in the service of one goal: giving me an opportunity to sing my own songs. > From: Aaron Mandel [who who wrote the book of emo?] > i personally like some of it; Sarge, The Shyness Clinic > and Rainer Maria > played a show together this spring and i had a great > time. Huh! I didn't know Sarge were emo. They sound so poppy to me. My girlfriend likes them and she doesn't like emo. Unless Hum are emo...I just thought to wonder about that. Rainer Maria don't excite me too much. I like them OK as long as I don't pay attention. They played a Gay Pride event at the U of Rochester recently, along with the Butchies and See Jane Run. We left after a couple of RM songs. And I *still* haven't asked the questions. They must have come from the digest I haven't responded to yet. Drew === Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:37:19 +0000 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: RAndi Marcy said: > Randi is so sick. There is treatment out there but it's ridiculously > expensive. We need someone with a lot of money who could bring Randi to > the States to live for a year or so and pay for her treatment. The drug > companies shouldn't be allowed to gouge ill people. It's not fair. (she > can't get this treatment in Canada). It makes me sad to know she's so ill > and there's nothing I can do for her. Americans: Please support socialised medicine. Canadians: Please don't vote for politicians who reduce the deficit/debt by dismantling the health care system. Health shouldn't be a privilege.  - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 07:26:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: all in a day's work for Programme Control Some of you plainly count yourself Python geeks. First one to give context for the subject line wins the entire Norwich City Council (some assembly required). > From: Joel Mullins > The only tip I can really give you > is to try and > be completely honest. Don't always try to write a song > that's "about > something." Just start singing. There doesn't have to > be a profound > statement or story or anything. Just make sure you're > always honest, > which is not the easiest thing to do, by the way. I think the advice "don't sit down to write about X" is good. The advice "always be honest" probably is, too, but what does it mean? ("He lied to us through song! I *hate* when people do that!") Does it mean singing nothing but confessionals? Does it mean always singing about yourself? Does it mean never making anything up? Does it mean never singing sad songs unless you want to kill yourself? I really admire the band Rasputina, and in particular Melora Creager, the main songwriter. She seems to have written a song ("E. Leon Rauis") around an old photograph she stumbled across. Presumably she was speculating about who Rauis was and what the meaning of the note on the back was. She's written other songs about the "Shirtwaist fire", Howard Hughes, and Rose Kennedy. A spoken-word piece is about the Donner party. I don't expect to be able to pull this off, but I find her choices of subject matter inspiring, and here's the point: I think her treatments of these things feel honest. They're not autobiographical or confessional, but they don't feel contrived, either. Is this what you meant? > From: dmw > make more sense -- songs about putting toner in the > copier are not likely > to be very exciting. or you could be gbv -- have they > done a song about > toner yet? beat them to the punch! This would be easier than you think. I work for Xerox. > oh yah, and 3.99 write/tape everything. otherwise you'll > lose stuff you > swear you'd never forget, and you will almost certainly > regret it. if > you've got it written down or on tape, you can go back > and say, "no, it > was crap after all"...or not. This was the main question I wanted to ask, which some people have answered already: how do you hold on to these bits of songs? I don't have handy recording equipment (unless you count the Mac) and anyway, it wouldn't help much. I'm not so good at translating what I hear into fingerings and chords; I have the theory but my ear isn't trained well. So I write down whatever I'll need to remember what I've been playing with. Usually this is a snippet of tab along with some rhythmic notation (of my own invention -- I'm absolutely the *worst* at transcribing rhythms), and a sequence of chords. Last night the cutest melody popped into my head and I just turned on the light, wrote down the notes, and went back to bed. (It requires a xylophone and a very high soprano, but it still might be cute if I sang it. Er, in one of my octaves.) Those of you who write it down...how do you do it? > From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) > Be guided by odd phrases you hear, rather than sitting > down and saying I > WILL write lyrics NOW. This seems like a good strategy also. I can't just sit down and write how I'm feeling -- it's either depressing or boring. But I'm good with taking a grain of inspiration and turning it into a pearl. What I read in the last digest about Robyn starting with titles was something that had occurred to me as well, and I think I might try it. > From: Joel Mullins > I was once writing a really great song...then I realized > I was writing > Radiohead's "Creep." Oh well. I did the same thing once with "Losing My Religion." Damn, damn, damn! Drew P.S. A hint on the Python question: "Well...it doesn't always work the first time." === Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:23:58 -0500 (CDT) From: tanter@tarleton.edu Subject: Re: RAndi On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 overbury@cn.ca wrote: > > Americans: Please support socialised medicine. > Canadians: Please don't vote for politicians who reduce the deficit/debt by > dismantling the health care system. > > Health shouldn't be a privilege. AMen! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:45:02 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: all in a day's work for Programme Control Andrew D. Simchik wrote: > I think the advice "don't sit down to write about X" > is good. The advice "always be honest" probably is, > too, but what does it mean? ("He lied to us through > song! I *hate* when people do that!") Does it mean > singing nothing but confessionals? Does it mean always > singing about yourself? Does it mean never making anything > up? Does it mean never singing sad songs unless you want > to kill yourself? It means "don't try to be something you're not." Confessionals are good, songs about yourself are good, making things up is good. (I find that my own fantasies make great song "topics"). Anyway, what I'm trying to say about being "honest" is a little hard to explain. It's kind of like this: Say exactly what you want to say. Don't hold back. And personally, I find that the longer I spend on a set of lyrics, the worse they get. I just think lyrics should just be written quickly without putting much thought into it and without having a good idea of what you're righting about. Done that way, no matter what you actually say in the song, it'll be a closer representation of who you are than something you spent days crafting into poetry would. Hell, I don't know what I'm saying. This is how it works best for me. I like to write spontaneously. But everyone's different. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 08:43:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: relieve me, adia > From: Eb > You," "Adia" (which she reported Kenny Rogers has just "Adia" is such an incredibly vapid and circular song. Naturally, it was the biggest hit from a real dud of an album. > From: Jeff Dwarf > Madonna's press person said she's never heard > of > Love, which is possible, maybe even probable. I was always under the impression that Madonna didn't have much of a hand in writing the music she performs at all -- that she contributed germs or finishing touches (and lyrics) and that her various collaborators were the ones doing most of the composing. Is that giving her too little credit? I doubt she'd lie about it, though. I don't think of Madonna as someone who'd be afraid to wear her influences on her sleeve. I really adore Madonna, by the way, which should be a surprise to no one. Drew === Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:26:31 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: all in a day's work for Programme Control >"Adia" is such an incredibly vapid and circular song. >Naturally, it was the biggest hit from a real >dud of an album. I thought it was real purty, and it's my favorite SM album as well. (However, there's nothing by Sarah McLachlan which I would actually recommend to a friend.) >Some of you plainly count yourself Python geeks. First >one to give context for the subject line wins the entire >Norwich City Council (some assembly required). >I really admire the band Rasputina Eb Tuttle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:28:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Let the west coast tremble! On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Capitalism Blows wrote: > > capuch'n shares a birthday with my mother. exciting! i expect a gift. That's the same as my friend Maria's mother's birthday! Wow. Is Maria your sister? > this year, by the way, it'll also be on the tenth anniversary of the san > francisco quake. In fact, every year for the last nine it has fallen on some anniversary of the San Francisco quake! Woo hoo! Eddie, you gonna come down and see our new home when Gnat stays with us? Who else is coming? J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:47:21 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: "Hey Jude" - Beatles Questions In a message dated 9/21/99 7:53:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, quail@libyrinth.com writes: << 2. Why has "Hey Jude" not been released on CD? What's with that???? >> I didn't see anyone give the *actual* answer to this specific question. The simple reaosn is that "Hey Jude" was NOT a British release and was, rather, a collection of singles and other stuff lying around which Capitol decided would make a fine record. And it did! Maybe one day, just to keep milking the catalog for all it's worth, they'll actually put out "Hey Jude" on disc. I'm sure it'd be a good seller -- much better than the closest thing to it, which is (as someone else pointed out) "Past Masters, vol. 2." BTW, I've seen bootlegs of "Hey Jude" before that have the whole album, plus alternate/early/whatever versions of the same songs at the end of the disc. FYI. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:02:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Marshall Needleman Armintor Subject: Boot question Hey, whadya know, the first post I've ever written with 100% RH content. Dunno if I'm talking out of turn or anything, but is there a boot of 2 July 1992 at the Liberty Lunch? Email me privately, please. marshall np Flaming Lips _The Soft Bulletin_ Oh yes. Only question is, why the hell did I wait so long to pick this up? Because I'm an idiot at heart, that's why. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:22:29 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: dingwalls, and the divinity of Kim Excellent gig, lots of people. Hadn't been to Dingwalls since its reconfiguration. Much better venue now. Same plain black shirt and silly flowery trousers as already documented for this tour. Boots are also very silly, and more likely Red Or Dead (I saw a version of Hamlet costumed by them recently) than Docs. (Solo) Mexican God Clean Steve Chinese Bones (+Tim) Queen Elvis I Feel Beautiful (+Tim and Jake) I Saw Nick Drake (+above and Rob Allam(?)+Kim) Jewels For Sophia Lost Madonna Of The Wasps Cheese Alarm Queen Of Eyes Birds In Perspex Devil Mask (Encore - Solo) She Doesn't Exist (+Kim) IODOT Kingdom Of Love (+everyone else) Sally Was A Legend Beautiful Queen Elizabeth Jade (2nd Encore - Solo) Speed Of Things (+everyone+Terry Edwards from the Higsons [and support band T.E.+Scapegoats]) Listening To The Higsons Not much chatter between songs (though he did wish us Happy Christmas at the end). Rew is God. (Okay Christians, pipe down at the back there...). jmbc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:51:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Two Bells More details on the Two Bells gig that yours truly missed, courtesy of The Rocket: "...other folks a little bit less lucky but just as in the know were enjoying an intimate set of quirky tunes from the king of quirky tunes himself, Robyn Hitchcock (whom Mr. Renton later caught at Bumbershoot, if you remember from the last ish). Playing at Seattle's Two Bells Tavern with Grant Lee Buffalo's Grant Lee Phillips, Robyn treated the lucky guests to favorites like "Viva Sea-Tac" before ending with a medley of David Bowie's "Sound and Vision," Dr. Hook's "When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman," and Nick Lowe's "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" -- as well as a nice little dance to please the masses. If Mr. Renton's source is to be believed -- and Mr. Renton is confident that he is -- a most excellent time was had by all." Damn. Damndamndamndamndamn. Fuck, even. That a' woulda' been fun. I realize that I'm in the minority on the list, but I REALLY liked Grant Lee Buffalo, and even though they've split up as a band, I would dearly love to see Phillips and Hitchcock tour together, a la Hitchcock and Bragg, or, even better, a la Hitchcock and Keegan, where the latter joins the former for his set. I'll keep my fingers crossed for Robyn's rumored full band tour this fall/winter. It makesit arf prejty harad to trypeem, tjough. - -Michael Wikklfe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:35:22 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Yellow Sub again Finally got the new Yellow Sub CD. In short: Ill-advised remixes mar an otherwise great collection of tunes. And what's this about an extra verse in "It's All Too Much"? Not only are all the verses exactly the same as on the previous CD issue, the total song time is actually three seconds shorter! - -rUss ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #360 *******************************