From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #468 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 17 1999 Volume 08 : Number 468 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Jason and Albert [Tony.Blackman@sita.int] Portland feg city! [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: the beatific meditations of hal brandt [Eb ] oh, and speaking of Portland (well, bands from Portland, anyway) [Natalie] In interest of sparing the list Hal's further snits... [Eb ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #466 [DDerosa5@aol.com] Reverting to: No Subject [Michael R Godwin ] Re: The Pilgrim's Quest (pt. 1) [The Great Quail ] Re: In interest of sparing the list [hal brandt ] Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working [GSS ] Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working [Baya] CD-R burning from minidisc QUESTION [Briannupp@aol.com] It's a Nick Drake Day [Tom Clark ] Re: CD-R burning from minidisc QUESTION [Bayard ] Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) [Michael Wolfe ] Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working [GSS ] Re: It's a Nick Drake Day [steve ] It's an East River Pipe kind of day [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working [Capu] Re: It's an East River Pipe kind of day ["Dolph Chaney" ] SPIN's 90 revisited [Eb ] you got a sweet mouth onion baby [Lazerlove5@aol.com] eric and hal chat like adults [hal brandt ] RE: you got a sweet mouth onion baby ["bret" ] robyn neus! [fartachu ] Re: SPIN's 90 revisited [MARKEEFE@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:39:37 +0000 From: Tony.Blackman@sita.int Subject: Jason and Albert Joel said: > 2. SPIRITUALIZED / ROYAL ALBERT HALL LIVE (1998) > This is literally some of the greatest sound my ears have ever had the > pleasure to experience. Everytime I hear it, I'm flabergasted that it > really is as incredible as I remember it. This is truly beyond belie= f, > my favorite live album of all-time, and more dangerous to mix with > driving than a bottle of tequila. I went to this gig suffering from an ear and eye infection and having s= eats on the front row of the very steep top part of the Albert Hall where yo= u feel like you're just hanging over the edge. With all the strobe lighti= ng, the fact that it was the loudest gig I'd ever been too and near vertigo= , Ladies and Gentlemen, I nearly did come out of there feeling like I was= floating in space. Still haven't got round to listening to the album though. 27 from the Spin list if anyone's counting. Tony. = ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:10:01 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Portland feg city! > I say we all give Jeannine a big howdy-do :-) A*nother* PdxFeg on the > list now? Wow! We will soon be taking over the known Universe! And as of this coming spring, there will be yet ANOTHER Portland feg on the list... my move is about 90% official now. Still trying to decide the means of transport and what I'm going to do with my cat... Viv and Jeme are being immensely helpful in the whole process. (Thank you, Viv and Jeme!) n. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:09:43 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: the beatific meditations of hal brandt /hal, floating on an idyllic sea of Zen-like calm, mused: >You shot first this time, Eric. And you lunged for that trivial bait, as if your life depended on it. You're so easy.... >> 1. How much time do you think I've spent this year, actually *listening* to >> Claudine Longet's music? >I really don't know or care. Good. Evasive answers will serve you well. >When the world needs to know about >some has-been French chanteuse, Our Boy Eric's leading the way! Not >fanboy-ish at all, I say. Important stuff. I'm glad to have been able, >in some small way, to contibute to your worthy effort. Waaaah! I'm so ashaaaamed now. My whole Claudine-saturated world is crumbling.... And what worthy information/entertainment do YOU contribute to the online world? SET LISTS? Meanwhile, your sneering point about "important stuff" is completely futile. Didn't I just say in my last post that CL's career was "utterly trivial"? Do you honestly think I have any delusions about her place in history? Your posts just get sillier and sillier. Your buttons get pushed, you shift into Childish Rage mode and your brain switches off. Wipe the foam from your mouth, you un-angry little man, and try to think straight. And please quit the phony posturing about how my "anger" merely "amuses you" -- nobody's buying it. The tone of your posts negates any such pretensions. I mean, what am I supposed to do here, get upset and start DEFENDING Claudine? Yeah, right! >Dead: I think I bought three Dicks Picks. No tapes. >Robyn: A helluva lot. He was on tour just recently. Great stuff. >Non-RH/Dead: I didn't count. A few. >What's your point again? Never mind, you already made it. >Is this answer going to earn me a "Hrm"? Or, an "oof!"? Boy, this is tired. You know, when a stand-up comedian realizes that his material is weak and gets no response, he moves onto something else. I dunno...maybe you could start attacking me for using the word "is" too much, or something? >I could rave about plenty, >though. I like film as much as music. Oh, so you embarrass yourself by fawning over an isolated set of directors, too? Nifty. But yes, you're right. I forgot that you exhibit the same sort of sulking, insult-him-you-insult-me, obsessive protectiveness when it comes to Kubrick, too. Quite a pattern you have going, there. Tell me, is there any artist whose work you just "like"? Or must every admired figure become a feverish, life-and-death crusade for you? >However, spewing my psyche on internet mailing lists is not compulsory, >as it seems to be for you, "Eb". >See #3. As far as providing RH facts when I have something to offer or >when asked, what's so bad about that? This is an RH mailing list. Because that's ALL you have to offer: soulless, fussy facts. Meanwhile, you petulantly attack someone who IS able to put his own interpretative spin on things, and even manages to entertain others in doing so. Wouldn't it be nifty if YOU were able to say/write anything which others were interested to hear? >> 5. How often do I introduce a topic, which doesn't focus on Claudine Longet? > >Constantly. Exactly. You lose again. >Not to mention cutting and pasting crap from newsgroups that >you think no one else is 'hip' enough to find. And entertaining plenty of people, in the process. When's the last time your contributions entertained anyone? >Maybe then you can start writing something besides CD reviews of E6 >bands. *snore* The increasing desperation of your flailing insults is truly embarrassing. Are you sure that I'm the "angry" one here, snugglepuss? Aww, c'mere, you big lug. Have some hot cocoa. Your favorite chewtoy, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:19:17 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: oh, and speaking of Portland (well, bands from Portland, anyway) There's two new reviews on my website: seshat.homepage.com/spleen.html. I posted a little about both shows to the list, but these reviews are much longer and more detailed. I especially urge you to check out the Minders review, because I feel the world needs to know about El Chile. (Who is El Chile? Read the review and find out!) Something not mentioned in the OTC review: I found out that Deanna the baritone saxophonist is actually Deanna Varagona from Lambchop. Cool! n. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:41:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: In interest of sparing the list Hal's further snits... Let's just sum up Hal's points, which he has tediously recycled from several earlier occasions: 1. I'm "angry." [hypocritical] 2. I use parenthetical words like "Hmm," "Oof" and "Ouch" too much. [trivial] 3. I designed a website about Claudine Longet, and thus should be ashamed about what a "fanboy" I am. [hypocritical, fallacious] I think that's the entire argument in a nutshell. Gripping stuff, I must say. Can we move on now? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:08:22 PST From: "Certified Skank" Subject: "Freep" spotted in seattle had intended to post about this last week. but sometimes life just gets the better of you, y'know? the background was as follows: mr. chris franz (of the bay area fegs group), having failed miserably to meet up there with other travelin' fegs, decided to get the fuck out of Canter's, and tear up hollywood but good. so we walk outside, and there's a fairly old dude there, nice head o' white hair, sorta intense look on his face, repeating the following tape-loop in a dead monotone: "The Los Angeles Free Press is back and on sale here. The 'Freep' is back!" (i know, a monotone and an exclamation in the same speech seems a bit of a contradiction. but you've got to imagine them both, or it ruins the whole ambience.) so then last week i was making the ets! rounds, and noted a pile of "Freep"s at many of the stops. (i figure they were laid there by some enterprising angelenos, up for wto.) that's it! that's the whole motherfucking story! you got a problem with that? <> 6. Is there *anything* interesting about you, besides your infamous hometown? Just ask your mommy!> this has got to be the funniest thing i've ever read on the feglist, ever! and the post leading up to it was some of the most brilliant flaming conceivable. has eb finally been ko'd? this thread rules! (and to think, i unwittingly touched the whole thing off! for the record, it wasn't hal that i'd been referring to, but the ava's film reviewer (arthur winfield knight), who, as i mentioned here before, all but named The Straight Story best film of the decade in his review of it a few weeks back.) KEN "Allow me to...fold my pants" THE KENSTER ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 05:38:56 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #466 In a message dated 12/16/99 11:13:29 AM Central Standard Time, owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org writes: << TRIVIA: Jerry Rafferty had a hit single in the mid seventies- "Baker Street". What early seventies band did he sing for, & what was the title of their hit song? >> wasn't he in Stealer's Wheel, with that pseudo-Dylan song, "Stuck in the middle with you"? Sorry if this question was already answered before I got the digest... dave PS it's Gerry. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:06:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Reverting to: No Subject All you fegs who have gone rushing off to Swanage, Dorset to see the Hawaiian ne-ne, the scaup and the white crested touraco are going to be disappointed. Peter Scott's Wildfowl Trust is actually in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. The usually reliable James Dignan's memories of the old country are beginning to fade ... OTOH, they tell me that there is a nice steam railway at Swanage, so your journey wasn't totally wasted. - - Mike "bar-tailed" Godwit On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com wrote: > goo goo barabajagal, what's my name now? "Love is hot, truth is _Motown_" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:57:46 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: The Pilgrim's Quest (pt. 1) >and there will be liars and cozeners along the way who *Cozeners?* Natalie, I think you have just won the Secret FegList Award for the First Person to Use Cozeners in a Post! woj, tell her what she wins! And by the way, I just want to say that I am so happy to see the Surreal Posse making some posts lately. Hail to gnats everywhere! And Dave Lang -- your brilliant flame war between "Eb" and "Hal" has been endlessly amusing! I can hardly wait to see what you have them do next! - --Quail, male concubine to the Thoth Mother (Just don't tell LJ) +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ 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: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:16:43 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: In interest of sparing the list Eric wrote: > Can we move on now? Yes, we may. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:56:03 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working Come on, don't wheedle. There hasn't been this much excitement here since we found out why Hitler didn't drink tequila. Maybe I missed it in the list, but who the heck was the keyboardist that played with Keegan? I wonder why he didn't do any songs with Robyn On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, hal brandt wrote: > Eric wrote: > > > Can we move on now? > > Yes, we may. > > /hal > "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the thought is equally shocking." - Arthur C. Clarke ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:19:44 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working > Maybe I missed it in the list, but who the heck was the keyboardist that > played with Keegan? Chris something-or-other? > I wonder why he didn't do any songs with Robyn He played the (oboe? clarinet?) during Antwoman, right? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:31:21 EST From: Briannupp@aol.com Subject: CD-R burning from minidisc QUESTION Does any one know the best or easiest way to burn a cdr from minidisc on my computer? Is there some software I can down load from some place? I have no problem burning CD's from CD's, but I need to know how to burn from an anolog or an external source. I assume I make it into a wave file first, but I don't even know how to do that. Any help would be most appreciated! Thanks Brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:32:44 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: It's a Nick Drake Day I've got three Drake CD's on shuffle right now and it's making this a fabulous morning. I suggest you all do the same. Ironically Very Happy, - -tc np. "Poor Boy" (Bryter Layter) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:11:00 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: CD-R burning from minidisc QUESTION Does your minidisc have a digital output? If so, you should get a sound card with digital in... for a long time the Zefiro ZA2 was the weapon of choice, now there is something called the DATport, and your most economical solution would be a card from Turtle Beach, I think. (JH3 has one I believe.) Otherwise, if you don't have digital out, just plug it into your soundcard and use any recorder, I guess. There will be an digital-to-analog (and back to digital) conversion, which is a pity. And right, you want to make a WAV file. Then just split it up using CDwav, a shareware program you can download from download.com. It's a great program. It makes smaller WAV files, one for each track on the cd. Then just drag those new WAV files into your CD-burning program and go! there is a very helpful CDR listserv - see http://cdr.navpoint.com/ any other questions, email me and I'll do my best to help. =b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:41:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) > I say we all give Jeannine a big howdy-do :-) A*nother* >PdxFeg on the list now? Wow! We will soon be taking over the >known Universe! One of us... One of us... >- -----Michael K., who also refers to Viv as Adrian Hey, at least Viv got refered to at all. I didn't even make enough of an impression to warrant any kind of mention. I mean, she could have said, "and a big shout goes out to Bob, too!" That would have been an improvement, as far as I'm concerned. How does someone 6'5" get to be invisible? - -Michael "sulking like the" Wolfe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:11:09 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working >>> Maybe I missed it in the list, but who the heck was the keyboardist that >>> played with Keegan? >> I wonder why he didn't do any songs with Robyn >He played the (oboe? clarinet?) during Antwoman, right? Right. Definitely an oboe. Not a clarinet and not an english horn. He was having some trouble keeping the reeds wet. An oboe is a difficult instrument to play. It has a double reed instead of a single reed/whistle arrangement like a clarinet. I used to play one. Badly. Happies, - -M(sh)ark(boy)g ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:12:49 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: "the new girl" (was: No Subject) In a message dated 12/17/99 10:39:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, Michael.Wolfe@kp.org writes: << Hey, at least Viv got refered to at all. I didn't even make enough of an impression to warrant any kind of mention. I mean, she could have said, "and a big shout goes out to Bob, too!" That would have been an improvement, as far as I'm concerned. How does someone 6'5" get to be invisible? >> Well, Michael, it could be that *you're* Adrian. It is the masculine spelling of that name, after all (rather than, say, Adrienne). Or maybe "Adrian" is a catch-all, like "everybody else" or "et al." - ------Michael K., now sitting in a much more comfortable (and far less dangerous!) chair than I've been accustomed to these past 2+ years here at Discover Music. Ahhhhh . . . :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:02:11 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Best film of 2001 Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh yes. "And while we're on the subject of Tom Cruise and contract issues, here's one that is in writing: Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner have optioned the film rights to Susan Orlean's New Yorker piece "Meet the Shaggs." Who are the Shaggs? Only a better pop group than the Beatles themselves, if you take Frank Zappa's word for it. Hailing from tiny Freemont, N.H., the Shaggs were composed of three teenage sisters who reluctantly cut a rock record at their father's insistence after their mother had a premonition they should make music. What resulted was the 1972 album Philosophy of the World, which languished in obscurity until it was discovered, and subsequently immortalized, by Zappa. Variety says Cruise and Wagner will develop a Shaggs film through their Paramount-based C/W Productions. Recent films to have been based on magazine articles include the tobacco-industry expose The Insider, and last spring's little-seen Pushing Tin, about the high-stress lives of air traffic controllers." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:18:26 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working Interesting, I don't remember seeing him play again at the first Austin show, after the Keegan set. I found his name - Chris Anderson. He played with Lindsay Jamieson in Supermodel. On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 Mark_Gloster@3com.com wrote: > >>> Maybe I missed it in the list, but who the heck was the keyboardist that > >>> played with Keegan? > >> I wonder why he didn't do any songs with Robyn > > >He played the (oboe? clarinet?) during Antwoman, right? > > Right. Definitely an oboe. Not a clarinet and not an english horn. > He was having some trouble keeping the reeds wet. An oboe is a > difficult instrument to play. It has a double reed instead of a > single reed/whistle arrangement like a clarinet. I used to play > one. Badly. > > Happies, > -M(sh)ark(boy)g The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings. - - Mencken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:14:50 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: It's a Nick Drake Day Tom Clark: >I've got three Drake CD's on shuffle right now and it's making this a >fabulous morning. I suggest you all do the same. A local NPR talk show host does an "any question answered" show now and again and one of todays questions was, "Who is that singer on the new VW commercial?" The lady got the whole rundown on Nick, so it's clear that VW is doing a public service. - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:17:14 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: It's an East River Pipe kind of day I'm giving my second listen to their(his) 1999 release, "The Gasoline Age." This is the kind of music that makes you want to stare out the window all day and sigh. I'm having a hard time coming up with an adequate way of describing the music. Indie, for sure. Bittersweet, definitely. Something about a lot of it makes me think of mid-80's post-new wave alterbative pop, like later Psych Furs. It doesn't really *sound* like that, per se, but that's kind of the feeling. If John Hughes were making a budgeted documentary about bad luck lovers teenage lovers (and cars), then he might have FM Cornog (the man behind East River Pipe) do the soundtrack. Anyway, I recommend it a lot. I can feel myself falling in love with this album. I might even come to have regrets over posting my Top 10 of '99 in the first week of December. Check out this rekkid! :-) - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:40:32 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working Bayard: > > Maybe I missed it in the list, but who the heck was the keyboardist that > > played with Keegan? > > I wonder why he didn't do any songs with Robyn > >He played the (oboe? clarinet?) during Antwoman, right? On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, GSS wrote: > Interesting, I don't remember seeing him play again at the first Austin > show, after the Keegan set. > > I found his name - Chris Anderson. He played with Lindsay Jamieson > in Supermodel. Robyn introduced Lindsay and Chris both with the last name Anderson erroneously at one show. It confused me at first. I guess Chris' involvment grew over the course of the tour. He played on both Antwoman and America at pretty much all the shows I saw. And perhaps another in LA? I don't recall. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:16:26 EST From: "Dolph Chaney" Subject: Re: It's an East River Pipe kind of day haven't got the new one yet, but I also recommend East River Pipe's _Poor Fricky_ -- uses the portastudio so well, completely without using it as a kitsch gimmick and sounding just plain good, that I feel ashamed to listen to my own demos. and the songwriting is sooooo dreamy. Dolph who is temping because there are too many librarians in this town ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:18:53 EST From: "Dolph Chaney" Subject: Re: In the interest of giving me something to do instead of working re: Lindsay Jamieson, Chris Anderson 1) Robyn heard "Lindsay" and "Anderson" close together and put 'em together, because of the director Lindsay Anderson? 2) Chris is cool. He was very nice after the Chicago show. "he plays the oboe I knew he would he does it better than a guitarist like me could" Dolph again ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:58:38 GMT From: "Minky Sponge" Subject: tom news New Tom Waits Songs On 'Liberty Heights' LP Two new compositions by raspy-voiced singer Tom Waits will appear on the soundtrack (Jan. 4) to the new Barry Levinson–directed film "Liberty Heights," according to an Atlantic Records spokesperson. The songs, "Putting on The Dog" and "It's Over," will be featured alongside selections by Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, as well as a score by Andrea Morricone, son of renowned Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. The film stars Joe Mantegna ("The Rat Pack") as well as Bebe Neuwirth ("Celebrity") and Adrien Brody ("Summer of Sam"). ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:55:32 -0800 From: Eb Subject: SPIN's 90 revisited The top 12 albums on SPIN's 90 which I really want to hear, and haven't: 1. DJ Shadow, Endtroducing... [the only album here which I'm fairly sure I would want to own] 2. Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die 3. Slint, Spiderland 4. The Fugees, The Score 5. Massive Attack, Blue Lines 6. The Orb, the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld 7. Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 8. Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club [why has this album sold so massively??] 9. Ice Cube, Amerikkka's Most Wanted 10. A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory 11. Cornershop, When I Was Born for the 7th Time [didn't like the earlier Cornershop stuff, but who knows...] 12. Beastie Boys, Check Your Head Anyone wanna weigh in on these? You know, I'm starting to suspect that Moby's Play will end up being "The Album" this year, pollwise. Odd...adored with Everything is Wrong, total outcast with Animal Rights and now he's adored again. I can't think of another double reversal as abrupt as this. Maybe Prince pulled it off, somewhere along the line. Eb 7) Nirvana/In Utero ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:57:34 EST From: Lazerlove5@aol.com Subject: you got a sweet mouth onion baby To whom is concerned. I have recently been introduced to this music of Robyn Hitchcock and I find it to be very good. My good friend Habebe to be playing a song called you got a sweet mouth onion baby, of which I reaaly like! I would be pleased to know more of this song and what a onion baby is. Thank You Ondola Abdelmalek ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:02:26 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: eric and hal chat like adults Immersed in SPIN, Eric makes another list: > 8. Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club > [why has this album sold so massively??] Get the CD or see the movie and you'll understand the appeal immediately. Ry Cooder tracks down these all-but-forgotten Cuban musicians, gives them a new audience (deservedly), and a hit record/tour is launched. Ruben Gonzales' piano playing is amazing, just to mention one of the performers. They are all worthy of your ears. /hal np-the fireman "rushes" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:08:07 -0600 From: "bret" Subject: RE: you got a sweet mouth onion baby I call BS. Bayard is responsible for this. - --b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:07:34 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: robyn neus! latest tour dates from the museum: ITALY * Jan 13: Sarzana, Jux Tap * Jan 14: Florence, Auditorium Flog * Jan 16: Arezzo, Storyville * Jan 17: Atri (Teramo), Teatro Communale * Jan 18: Campobasso, Blue Note * Jan 20: Parma, Rovi Bar * Jan 21: Ferrara, Circolo Renfe * Jan 22: Limatola, Rebecca SWITZERLAND * Jan 24: Berne, Uptown U.K. * Jan 30: Birmingham, Ronnie Scott's * Jan 31: Bristol, Fleece & Firkin * Feb 1: London, Highbury Garage a release of storefront hitchcock in 2000 is also mentioned. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:12:12 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: SPIN's 90 revisited In a message dated 12/17/99 3:07:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << 1. DJ Shadow, Endtroducing... [the only album here which I'm fairly sure I would want to own] >> I, too, am fairly sure. << 2. Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die 3. Slint, Spiderland 4. The Fugees, The Score >> Three "yeah, whatever's" from me on those. Nothing wrong with them. In fact, they're probably all pretty good. But I don't care. << 5. Massive Attack, Blue Lines >> Obviously, this is considered a classic. And it's quite good! But I'm sort of a sucker for "Brit-Hop." << 8. Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club [why has this album sold so massively??] >> Because it's great!! Oh, man, is it ever good. << 12. Beastie Boys, Check Your Head >> For a time, *I* even liked this album. Me! Mr. "I hate rap as a vocal style"! Great grooves, good tunes. If you can get beyond their annoying voices, it's a winner. If not, just get "In Sounds From the Way Out," which features instrumental versions of many of the same songs (plus lots of others). << You know, I'm starting to suspect that Moby's Play will end up being "The Album" this year, pollwise. Odd...adored with Everything is Wrong, total outcast with Animal Rights and now he's adored again. I can't think of another double reversal as abrupt as this. Maybe Prince pulled it off, somewhere along the line. >> Well, Moby's style changes so much from album to album. Parts of "Animal Rights" was okay, but I'm just way more into what he's doing on "Play" (as are, apparently, lots of people). I think the new Prince is his best since "Diamonds and Pearls" and is maybe the first album of his I'll end up keeping since "Lovesexy." Well, objectively, I could see how the "Symbol" album was good; just not my cup of tea. - ------Michael K., weighing in ps - it's been a long time since I looked at that Spin Top 90 list, so I have no idea how many I own . . . 10-20? . . . I just tried to find the list at www.spin.com, but didn't see an obvious link to it. Oh well. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #468 *******************************