From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #472 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, December 22 1999 Volume 08 : Number 472 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More technoweenie-ism [Tony.Blackman@sita.int] Re: Reveling in my own fatuousness [Joel Mullins ] Some XTC albums are more equal than others [Vivien Lyon ] Re: I bought myself a liarbird [Aaron Mandel ] Re: I bought myself a liarbird [Miles Goosens ] Re: I bought myself a liarbird [dmw ] Re: Some XTC albums are more equal than others [Joel Mullins ] Go 2 again [JudeHayden@aol.com] still Going2 [JudeHayden@aol.com] Re: One-LP wonders? [Joel Mullins ] Re: One-LP wonders? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: One-LP wonders? [Eb ] praise the lord; rock is dead [hal brandt ] Re: I bought myself a liarbird [Aaron Mandel ] Re: praise rock; the lord is dead [Jeff Dwarf ] Quiet Earth/Go2 [digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: One-LP wonders? [steve ] Re: 2% robyn ... & a little ... game shall we say ;} [fartachu ] Re: I bought myself a liarbird [Miles Goosens ] Re: One-LP wonders? ["JH3" ] Re: One-LP wonders? [Eb ] Re: One-LP wonders? [Aaron Mandel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:56:13 +0000 From: Tony.Blackman@sita.int Subject: More technoweenie-ism Ferris said; <> I use a Hoontech Digital-XG card (based on the Yamaha XG chipset). It's got RCA and TOSLINK inputs and outputs on a separate bracket (like the Soundblaster Live! add-on board they offer). I find it OK despite having read today that Hoontech are regarded as the Skoda of the soundcard world, it's certainly as good sound as the Aureal Vortex that came with the PC. It was $74 for the card and the add-on digital I/O card direct from Hoontech in Taiwan. Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:22:38 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Reveling in my own fatuousness steve wrote: > We wouldn't want to give Joel the idea that there are questionable XTC > albums, because there aren't. Buy them all Joel - buy, buy, buy! White > Music and Go2 are excellent - but might be a bit of a surprise if you're > working backwards. I'm sure I will buy them all. But if I continue with my current backwards order, then I have to buy Drums and Wires next (or Mummer, which I skipped). Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:45:11 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Some XTC albums are more equal than others > I'm sure I will buy them all. But if I continue with my current > backwards order, then I have to buy Drums and Wires next (or Mummer, > which I skipped). Avast, ye scurvy knave! Buy Mummer forthwith! 'Tis surely your very soul that hangs in the balance! Vivien But I love my miniature Drums and Wires button that JH3 gave me. Okay, I essentially demanded that he 'give' it to me, but he was most gracious about it (after the security guards pulled us apart). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:50:55 PST From: "Prevaricator" Subject: Fwd: Re: upcoming robyn h. tour From: duplanet@global2000.net To: "Certified Skank" Subject: Re: upcoming robyn h. tour Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:52:26 -0500 (EST) I believe it's a solo show, but I'm not 100% certain - I'll try and find out. Best wishes, DAvid >hi david, >do you know if any musicians will be joining robyn onstage during the >upcoming tour (and if so, which ones)? > >thanks! >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:50:43 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: I bought myself a liarbird On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, dmw wrote: > bring back barry andrews! (what is he doing now, anyway? it's what, > 3 years since the last shriekback record?) seven. i definitely like XTC with Barry Andrews and Shriekback without (or at least before he started writing the songs and Carl Marsh left). i'm surprised that people are so down on the early XTC records, if only because, to most observers, XTC is still mentioned much more often to mean jerky, "quirky" pop than pagan orchestra foofery. but then, for me XTC is a band whose high points i get excited about but whose lapses do not move me to violence. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:12:01 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: I bought myself a liarbird At 01:50 PM 12/21/1999 -0500, Aaron Mandel wrote: >On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, dmw wrote: > >> bring back barry andrews! (what is he doing now, anyway? it's what, >> 3 years since the last shriekback record?) > >seven. > >i definitely like XTC with Barry Andrews and Shriekback without (or at >least before he started writing the songs and Carl Marsh left). ???? Shriekback was never without Barry Andrews or his compositions, so you lost me on that one. It always was Andrews' group much more than anyone else's IMO. Most of the songwriting credits read "Allen/Andrews/Marsh," so it's pretty difficult to pull out what each person contributed to the process. BIG NIGHT MUSIC, the first Marsh-less album, is second only to the super OIL & GOLD in my estimation, so I'm inclined to give props to Andrews. later, Miles ====================================================== Miles Goosens UNlimited edition R. Stevie Moore CDs now available! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal website http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles "If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing." -- Anatole France ====================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:39:43 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Don't you let them make you... >We wouldn't want to give Joel the idea that there are questionable XTC >albums, because there aren't. Pshaw, son. Of course there are. But which ones are the questionable ones is entirely a matter of opinion. Re. Go2, I actually like it OK. "Red" is such an awesome song that I'm willing to overlook the album's other defects. "Meccanic Dancing" kicks some ass, too. But Go2 sure ain't no Big Express... n., who hardly ever listens to XTC anymore (burn-out!!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:54:23 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: I bought myself a liarbird On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Miles Goosens wrote: > ???? Shriekback was never without Barry Andrews or his compositions, so > you lost me on that one. It always was Andrews' group much more than > anyone else's IMO. Most of the songwriting credits read > "Allen/Andrews/Marsh," so it's pretty difficult to pull out what each > person contributed to the process. BIG NIGHT MUSIC, the first Marsh-less > album, is second only to the super OIL & GOLD in my estimation, so I'm > inclined to give props to Andrews. i thought i heard/read that Marsh had more of a compositional hand in the very early stuff, "sexthinkone," "working on the ground," etc. and _go bang!_ (marshless) was, well, totally meritless is perhaps harsh, but _sacred city_ had its moments. - -- d. - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = guitar pop ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:59:03 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Some XTC albums are more equal than others Vivien Lyon wrote: > > > I'm sure I will buy them all. But if I continue with my current > > backwards order, then I have to buy Drums and Wires next (or Mummer, > > which I skipped). > > Avast, ye scurvy knave! Buy Mummer forthwith! 'Tis surely your very soul > that hangs in the balance! Yeah, I will soon. Right now I'm in the middle of a move and buying x-mas gifts for people, so I don't really have extra cash lying around. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:27:22 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: One-LP wonders? Rosswrites: >I find it [White Music] interesting from a historical point of view, >but if the band had done that one LP and disappeared, I >wouldn't have mourned their loss. Putting aside the fact that I almost certainly would have, this strikes me as an interesting thread idea: Can anybody out there think of any bands that they really mourn the passing of who only put out ONE album, or maybe just a single or two, before breaking up and having all their members disappear completely? And not just bands that were "pretty good," or some local band that you thought were interesting when you saw them in some club. I'm talking about bands that you thought at the time could've become a genuine obsession for you if they'd only stuck around... For me it would be a band called Manicured Noise that released two singles around 1980, both of which I thought were fantastic. Other than that, *maybe* The Mothmen, though side 2 of their only album (that I know of) wasn't anywhere near as good as side 1. Another (more recent) band called Adorable technically put out two albums, but the first one was really just a collection of 12" EP's, and the second one wasn't released in the US... Anyway, I have no idea as to what happened to any of these people. Maybe they're all members of the Brian Setzer Orchestra now. >Shucks. What if I like Oranges and Lemons more than both >you guys? That's a trick question, right? The Vivster: >I love my miniature Drums and Wires button that JH3 gave me. >Okay, I essentially demanded that he 'give' it to me, but he was >most gracious about it (after the security guards pulled us apart). Those were SECURITY GUARDS?!?!? And the gNatster: >>We wouldn't want to give Joel the idea that there are questionable >>XTC albums, because there aren't. >Pshaw, son. Of course there are. But which ones are the questionable >ones is entirely a matter of opinion. I have to agree with Natalie here. Certainly with many XTC albums, you have to ask numerous questions, such as, "To what degree is this XTC album better than all other albums produced by anyone else?" ...and "Why did I buy other albums *before* buying this one?" Etc., etc. John "I KID BECAUSE I LOVE KIDDING" The Hedgester ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:38:46 EST From: JudeHayden@aol.com Subject: Go 2 again Sorry, but I have to jump in here... Natalie said: > No, no, you mean "Go2" - the album beloved by John Hedges and no-one else. No, it's my favorite XTC album too!!! He's not the *only* superfreak around here... Jude ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:40:11 EST From: JudeHayden@aol.com Subject: still Going2 Oops, sorry to steal your cool "claim to fame", Mr. 3, forget I posted my other comment. That darn Go2 cd is just OK... > >No, no, you mean "Go2" - the album beloved by John Hedges and > >no-one else... > > Yup, I'm the only one! The only one in the whole, wide world... I'm > unique! It's *JH3 vs. Earth!* My whole life is like one big Charlton > Heston movie. Or else I'm just like the guy in that NZ movie "The > Quiet Earth," except that I still have all my hair. [Knocking on wood > whilst typing] > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:45:27 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? JH3 wrote: > Putting aside the fact that I almost certainly would have, this > strikes me as an interesting thread idea: > > Can anybody out there think of any bands that they really > mourn the passing of who only put out ONE album, or maybe > just a single or two, before breaking up and having all their > members disappear completely? And not just bands that were > "pretty good," or some local band that you thought were interesting > when you saw them in some club. I'm talking about bands that > you thought at the time could've become a genuine obsession > for you if they'd only stuck around... The La's. - --Joel np: The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:01:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? Joel Mullins wrote: > JH3 wrote: >> Putting aside the fact that I almost certainly would have, >> this strikes me as an interesting thread idea: >> Can anybody out there think of any bands that they really >> mourn the passing of who only put out ONE album, or maybe >> just a single or two, before breaking up and having all >> their members disappear completely? And not just bands that >> were "pretty good," or some local band that you thought were >> interesting when you saw them in some club. I'm talking about >> bands that you thought at the time could've become a genuine >> obsession for you if they'd only stuck around... > > The La's. so the stone roses or my bloody valentine probably wouldn't quite qualify. and the jennifers de-volved into supergrass. np: the stone roses lemon scented record ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:42:03 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? JH3: >Can anybody out there think of any bands that they really >mourn the passing of who only put out ONE album, or maybe >just a single or two, before breaking up and having all their >members disappear completely? >I'm talking about bands that >you thought at the time could've become a genuine obsession >for you if they'd only stuck around... Odd...rec.music.progressive is debating almost the same issue, as we speak. Of course, all their suggested candidates are confined to prog-rock, by some peculiar coincidence. ;) Your "disappeared members" clause really limits the field, however. The only acts I can cite for me are the GTO's (breeding a writer doesn't count), Swallow, the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Napoleon XIV, Crispin Hellion Glover, Rebby Sharp, Stump, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Pianosaurus, Baby Flamehead and the *ultimate* one-shot disappearance: Robert Johnson. And of these, only Mary Margaret O'Hara and Johnson have "genuine obsession" potential for me. That Pianosaurus record sure was adorable, though. Meanwhile, lemme toss out the names of some other (semi) one-shot favorites, even though they fail your stated criteria: Brian Eno & David Byrne, Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey, Andy Partridge & Harold Budd, Eno & Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks, Skip Spence, Chris Bell, K. McCarty, Dim Stars, the Knitters, Passengers, Butter 08, Bricks, Tones on Tail, Nearly God, the Iveys, the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Sproton Layer, Thunderclap Newman, the Vaselines, Sneakers, Hetch Hetchy, Reptile and Young Marble Giants. Eb 6) Elvis Costello/Brutal Youth ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:55:39 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: praise the lord; rock is dead Here's one for Xmastime: http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html /hal PS-Farnsworth up for a Golden Globe! PPS-Happy Birthday FZ. New release "Everything Is Healing Nicely" (Yellow Shark session improvs) on sale now through 1-888-9ABSURD. [Not a paid announcement] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 20:08:33 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: I bought myself a liarbird On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Miles Goosens wrote: > ???? Shriekback was never without Barry Andrews or his compositions, > so you lost me on that one. It always was Andrews' group much more > than anyone else's IMO. oh my. i've had this idea for quite a while that Carl Marsh sang all of Shriekback's songs until Oil And Gold, which was half his and half Andrews's, and that he was the primary author of the ones he sang. am i wrong on both counts, or just the latter? "Marsh" sounds sort of strangled, while Andrews tends to murmur. also, "Marsh" is meaner and better at handling metaphor, while Andrews is sort of an urban neo-hippie. now that i think about it, i've heard Carl Marsh sing (via Happyhead). but it's certainly possible that i jumped to assumptions about the reasons for the band's change of temperament over time. this is reminding me that i need to record all of the Shriekback b-sides i find in bargain bins onto some continuous medium so that i can listen to them, because as it is i play them once and then forget i have them. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:12:45 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: praise rock; the lord is dead hal brandt wrote: > Here's one for Xmastime: > > http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html chet baker is a rock star? and since when was "nick" acland a member of lush? > > /hal > > PS-Farnsworth up for a Golden Globe! > > PPS-Happy Birthday FZ. New release "Everything Is Healing > Nicely" > (Yellow Shark session improvs) on sale now through > 1-888-9ABSURD. > [Not a paid announcement] > ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:46:51 +0100 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Quiet Earth/Go2 >Yup, I'm the only one! The only one in the whole, wide world... I'm >unique! It's *JH3 vs. Earth!* My whole life is like one big Charlton >Heston movie. Or else I'm just like the guy in that NZ movie "The >Quiet Earth," except that I still have all my hair. [Knocking on wood >whilst typing] also, he's dead now, so you're probably not like him. Useless NZ fact no 734,215: Bruno Lawrence, ' the guy in that NZ movie', and also in other such NZ films as Utu, the great Smash Palace, and the woeful Bridge to Nowhere, as well as the Australian movie Gallipoli and TV series Frontline (which I believe is sometimes shown on some US channels... keep an eye out for it, it's rfunny, but I digress even further than normal), started out his entertainment career as the drummer and leader of early 70s NZ rock band Blerta (the Bruno Lawrence Electronic Revelation and Travelling Apparition), before becoming drummer for the Crocodiles, a band which had some success in NZ and Australia. Their lead singer, Jenny Morris, has since had significant solo success in several countries. Just thought you wouldn't like to know. James (whoseinterest in XTC was first spartked by soings like "Are you receiving me?" and "B-b-battery brides" - defintely of Go@/White Music vintage!) PS: Oh, and I'm a Chalkhiller, BTW. But I'm pretty sure that terms like that only refer to list members.Other than that, it's just XTCfans. PPS: not only do I like Take Away/Lure of Salvage ("commerciali-TAEEEEE!!!"), I also like "Through the Hill", Andy's ambient work with Harold Budd. And Rag & Bone Buffet, and Barry's work with Shriekback and the League of Gentlemen. So there. :p 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 Dec 1999 20:57:50 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? >> Can anybody out there think of any bands that they really >> mourn the passing of who only put out ONE album, or maybe >> just a single or two, before breaking up and having all their >> members disappear completely? > >The La's. Certainly the classic modern example. I'm thinking maybe The Left Banke. - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:02:42 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: Re: 2% robyn ... & a little ... game shall we say ;} when we last left our heroes, randi..aka..twofangs exclaimed: >Has anyone written to "Joe Silva" ... but >received a reply from someone else? don't be alarmed: joe set up a special address for receiving contributions for his book. it probably forwards to his regular address, which is where he'll probably reply from. woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 23:25:00 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: software for creating tabulature this was sent to me, presumable because of the tabs on the fegsite. perhaps it will be of more interest to those who actually can understand tabulature and are doing something about it.... woj >From: "Ian Kirwan" >To: >Subject: software for creating tabulature >Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:22:30 -0000 > >If you need a program for creating text tabulature. Here it is. > >It is slightly restricted in the length of song you can 'tab' but if you >want the full version email me at >ian.kirwan@bigfoot.com >Cheers >IK ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 23:36:07 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: I bought myself a liarbird At 08:08 PM 12/21/1999 -0500, Aaron Mandel wrote: >On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Miles Goosens wrote: > >> ???? Shriekback was never without Barry Andrews or his compositions, >> so you lost me on that one. It always was Andrews' group much more >> than anyone else's IMO. > >oh my. i've had this idea for quite a while that Carl Marsh sang all of >Shriekback's songs until Oil And Gold, which was half his and half >Andrews's, and that he was the primary author of the ones he sang. am i >wrong on both counts, or just the latter? IMO just the latter, though Andrews sang several songs pre-O&G. I'm not the world's best at sorting out who sang what -- my first Shriekback was a cassette copy of OIL & GOLD that didn't have the "positional charts" in the sleeve, so I had assumed Marsh sang everything. Imagine my surprise when I got BIG NIGHT MUSIC and realized that Barry Andrews had been handling a lot of the O&G vocals. Speaking of those positional charts, on JAM SCIENCE, they've very specific on who sings what -- Marsh is credited with lead vox on every track except for Andrews' turns on "My Careful Hands" and "Hubris." OIL & GOLD is a lot more dicey in this respect. There are songs I could swear Marsh was singing, but he doesn't appear on the song credits on some of them. Whether this is omission (maybe fallout over his exit from the band?) or really a case of Andrews singing instead, I don't know. The only O&G tracks for which Marsh is credited with lead vocals are "Malaria," "Everything That Rises Must Converge," and "Health and Knowledge and Wealth and Power." And since Andrews is specifically credited with (IMO very Marsh-like) lead vocals on "Hammerheads," I can only conclude that there's less of a difference in their styles than one might think. later, Miles ====================================================== Miles Goosens UNlimited edition R. Stevie Moore CDs now available! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal website http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles "If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing." -- Anatole France ====================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:39:56 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? >>> Can anybody out there think of any bands that they really >>> mourn the passing of who only put out ONE album, or maybe >>> just a single or two, before breaking up and having all their >>> members disappear completely? >> >>The La's. > >Certainly the classic modern example. I'm thinking maybe The Left Banke. But didn't members of the La's "reappear" in Cast? Eb, who never heard the entire La's album but suspects he would be ambivalent (I did hear the Cast album, however) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:13:48 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? >>> Can anybody out there think of any bands that they really >>> mourn the passing of who only put out ONE album, or maybe >>> just a single or two, before breaking up and having all their >>> members disappear completely? >>The La's. >Certainly the classic modern example. I'm thinking maybe The >Left Banke. I thought of two more myself: The Spent Poets, who put out one album in 1992 that I listened to non-stop for weeks, and One the Juggler, who I saw as sort of a post-punk Mott the Hoople, for want of a better description. (But I doubt I would have gotten *obsessive* over One the Juggler... Definitely not, in fact.) From Eb: >The only acts I can cite for me are the GTO's (breeding a writer >doesn't count), Swallow, the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Napoleon >XIV, Crispin Hellion Glover, Rebby Sharp, Stump, Mary Margaret >O'Hara, Pianosaurus, Baby Flamehead and the *ultimate* one- >shot disappearance: Robert Johnson. I have Swallow's album ("Blow", right?) and Pianosaurus on tape somewhere... both pretty good! And you're right about Robert Johnson, IIRC the hype machine was in full gear for him, he was supposed to be the "savior of the blues," and then nothing, nada, nil, naught, and a few other words beginning with N (though maybe not "Napoleon"). And was that Crispin Glover the actor ("Back to the Future", "River's Edge"), or a band that named themselves after him? I can't imagine why anyone would name their band after Crispin Glover... And one more thing: Why wouldn't the Young Marble Giants qualify? I guess that guy Phil Moxham is still recording, but he isn't exactly burning up the charts - so I'd say they're at least as good an example as any, and probably more influential than most. (Didn't they write "Credit in the Straight World", which Hole did a cover of on their first album?) The only reason I didn't mention them is that I was never personally all that fond of "Colossal Youth", but I was young and impetuous back when that came out. John "they're coming to take me away ha ha" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 23:38:17 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? >>From Eb: >>The only acts I can cite for me are the GTO's (breeding a writer >>doesn't count), Swallow, the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Napoleon >>XIV, Crispin Hellion Glover, Rebby Sharp, Stump, Mary Margaret >>O'Hara, Pianosaurus, Baby Flamehead and the *ultimate* one- >>shot disappearance: Robert Johnson. > >I have Swallow's album ("Blow", right?) Yup. Blatant Cocteaus ripoff, but still, something keeps me from getting rid of it. I guess it's probably the guitar textures, which are frequently more dissonant than the Cocteaus'. >And you're right about Robert >Johnson, IIRC the hype machine was in full gear for him, he was >supposed to be the "savior of the blues," and then nothing, nada, >nil, naught, and a few other words beginning with N Right. And he really should've made a video. >And was that Crispin Glover the actor >("Back to the Future", "River's Edge"), or a band that named >themselves after him? I can't imagine why anyone would name >their band after Crispin Glover... Crispin Glover himself. One album on Restless, back around 1988. Just as bizarre as you might think (title: THE BIG PROBLEM ‚ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be.). Another one I can't quite bring myself to get rid of, just because it's such a Wild Man-esque curiosity piece. And you can't have too many albums with "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" covers.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, JH3 wrote: > And was that Crispin Glover the actor ("Back to the Future", "River's > Edge"), or a band that named themselves after him? I can't imagine why > anyone would name their band after Crispin Glover... IMDB confirms that "Hellion" is his middle name (well, whatever) and notes that he celebrates his birthday twice a year. maybe it was in the front of a bin or something; i remember frequently thinking about buying that CD at one particular store throughout 1989, but it just looked too weird. > And one more thing: Why wouldn't the Young Marble Giants qualify? I > guess that guy Phil Moxham is still recording, but he isn't exactly > burning up the charts - Stuart Moxham did an album with Barbara Manning a few years ago, and Alison Statton has put out a few records since then. ("Devine + Statton" made a very nice album in 1990 which included a cover of "Bizarre Love Triangle"; since at least two other bands have covered the same song in nearly the same way since then, they deserve some kind of credit.) a ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #472 *******************************