From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #474 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, December 23 1999 Volume 08 : Number 474 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: top...whatever ["Dolph Chaney" ] Re: praise the lord; rock is dead [Capuchin ] Re: One-LP wonders? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: One-LP wonders? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: One-LP wonders- that reminds me [hal brandt ] leaving for a week [Joel Mullins ] AV2 news (NR) [steve ] Re: One-LP wonders ["JH3" ] Re: One-album wonders [Eb ] three votes for TW...huh, really didn't expect this [Eb ] Re: One-LP wonders? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] fegmas greetings - Friends of Feg status report. [corin lang ] Re: One-LP wonders? [Michael R Godwin ] Re: One-LP wonders- that reminds me ["Dolph Chaney" ] Re: praise the lord; rock is dead [hal brandt ] Re: One-LP wonders? ["Richard Zeszotarski" ] Re: don't just stand there...shriek back! [Michael R Godwin ] Re: fegmas greetings - Friends of Feg status report. [lj lindhurst Subject: Re: top...whatever My 10 Favorite 1990's Albums: 1. Sugar - Copper Blue 2. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand 3. Radiohead - The Bends 4. The Mutton Birds - Envy Of Angels 5. Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixir 6. The Posies - Frosting On The Beater 7. Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record 8. Jeff Buckley – Grace 9. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock 10. American Music Club - Mercury Wow. Look at all the mopey white guys. Oh well, there they are. (I have a top 50 list which I will spare the mailing list, but you may request it privately.) - ------------------------------- One-album wonder: Verbow. - ------------------------------- Happy: Holidays. - ------------------------------- D: olph ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:13:56 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: praise the lord; rock is dead On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, hal brandt wrote: > Here's one for Xmastime: > http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html This is such an obvious misuse of statistical information. Let's take a look at it, shall we? Rock 'n' Roll (as they say) has been around for just about the latter half of this century, yes? Rock music is primarily generated by young people, yes? So let's say that the first rock musician was born in something like (let's blow it way out of proportion) 1920. If we are to assume (for lack of evidence to the contrary) that rock musicians live the same average life span as Americans, then we'll find that most rock musicians are still alive (having not yet reached ~75 years). Furthermore, if Rock music has been around since 1950 and the number of notable musicians (notable enough to make such a list) has grown at, say, 60% per decade (which is way low), then the average age of the rock musician would be something like 33 years. So if ALL rock musicians died right this minute, this guy's numbers would only go up by three years. I'm sure that if he waited a few decades and only counted rock musicians working between 1950 and 1960, he'd get numbers much closer to the national average. I'm too tired and sick right now to give real numbers, but I'm sure a similar statistical analysis could be drawn about preachers who started working after 1950 up through today. They're average age of death would be slightly higher due to the higher average age of a preacher, but still FAR below 75.whatever years. This is not sensible because I'm tired and fevered, but let me sum up aby saying that most rock musicians who started recording in the sixties are still alive and therefore not being counted. That's that. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:17:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? JH3 wrote: > I thought of two more myself: The Spent Poets, who put out one > album in 1992 that I listened to non-stop for weeks according to my brother, who talked to matt from the poets (he used to next door aeons ago; he co-produced much of primus's _Frizzle Fry_ in the garage there in fact), they recorded a second album which was sat upon by geffen and broke up. matt then formed a band called slider which released an album on A&M around his heroin problem which may or may not be solved. his mom moved to utah 4-5 years ago, so i don't know nothing beyond that. it was a pretty good record though. ===== "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 16:26:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? Ruby? [and if the pink floyd and sex pistols are gonna count, how about jello biafra & mojo nixon with the toadliquors?] ===== "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 18:06:53 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: One-LP wonders- that reminds me Did The Jody Grind put out more than one? I remember hearing a CD by them and not liking it much, but I really enjoyed them when they opened for Robyn at the Lounge Ax in Chicago during the EYE tour. I think some band members met their demise in a car accident soon after that. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:56:35 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: leaving for a week Well, I have to unsubscribe now. I'm going to see my brother for a few days, and then I'm moving. Once I get moved in and my computer's hooked up, I'll resubscribe, which should be about a week from now. If anyone needs me in the meantime, I can be contacted at joelmullins@yahoo.com. Hope you all have a wonderful week celebrating whatever it is you celebrate. Talk to you soon. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:14:40 -0600 From: steve Subject: AV2 news (NR) Stolen from Chalkhills: >Yes I've just done the improbable and spoken to Colin. Believe it or not, >XTC has 2 or 3 days of recording left and then they are ready to mix AV2 on >January 11th. It will be done at Rockfield with Nick Davis (like AV1) and >then mastered by Bob Ludwig in NYC in February. Release is still scheduled >for April. Colin says that it sounds very up and fun and very >electric. Chuck Szabo's drums are used on about 7 songs, some of Prairie >Prince's work can be found on about 4 tracks and a guy that Nick knew was >brought in to program some nice little percussive touches to several of the >songs which supposedly really sound excellent. >By the way Chuck Szabo played on Madonna's "Ray of Light" album and has >toured with her. As far as packaging/cover art is concerned, they are >trying to do something to the peacock feather design of AV1 and convert it >to a neon/electric version of the same image. We'll see. The album still >has the same 11 songs as previously mentioned: (though not necessarilly in >this order) > >Playground >The Wheel and The Maypole >We're All Light >Wounded Horse >Stupidly Happy >I'm the Man Who Murdered Love >Church of Women >You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful (all by Andy) >and >Boarded Up >Standing In For Joe >In Another Life (by Colin) > >To further clarify sales for AV1 worldwide, it sold about 100,000 in the >USA, 75,000 in Japan, 15, 000 in Italy and about 36,000 in the UK. Natalie Jacobs: >Ha ha, or "arf arf" as Chairman Partridge would say. Me and my crack team >of Hyperbole Police are on to you, buddy! (We have a special alarm that >goes off any time someone says a band is "second only to the Beatles.") If The Beatles are the Big Bang, then XTC is the Speed of Light. - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:01:37 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: One-LP wonders From: Aaron Mandel : >i would love to hear if there exists more than one record by: >Memluks, the Stickmen, God And The State, Cuppa Joe, the >Names who did "Calcutta", Mood Six, Househunters... I can tell you about the Names, at least - they were a huge favorite of mine and I really should have included them along with Manicured Noise and the Spent Poets. Their only album was "Swimming," but they put out three 12" singles: "Calcutta", "Spectators of Life," and "The Astronaut," though only "Calcutta" and the LP are worth seeking out (IMO). Even better, though, was their debut 7" single, "Night Shift" b/w "I Wish I Could Speak Your Language." They also had a tune called "Cat" on a cassette- only release entitled "From Brussels With Love", and they were also on two of those Disques du Crepuscule compilation LP's, "Fruit of the Original Sin" (they did an instrumental called "Music for Someone") and "Chantons Noel," a collection of Christmas tunes by European art-rock bands (their song was called "Tokyo Twilight"). But despite all that output, only one genuine LP. Btw, I didn't mean to be excessively legalistic about what bands consititute One-LP Wonders, but the challenge is half the fun, isn't it? So presumably the Sex Pistols and Tomorrow wouldn't qualify, since they all went on to do other projects and either became or remained famous... And it's never too late for Steve Howe and John Lydon to collaborate, either. They could call themselves THE YES PISTOLS! I can hear it now: "Don't know what I want but I know how mountains come out of the sky and just fooking stand there, you fooking brat." From Natalie J.: >Ha ha, or "arf arf" as Chairman Partridge would say. Me and >my crack team of Hyperbole Police are on to you, buddy! (We >have a special alarm that goes off any time someone says a >band is "second only to the Beatles.") Well then, whew! At least *I'm* in the clear, since I've never said anything of the sort! John "yeah, I know I should just give up" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:23:18 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: One-album wonders JD: >There was a band from the US Southeast >called Zeitgeist that qualifies, though. ...who morphed into the Reivers, thus making them ineligible. Boy, I haven't thought about THAT group in a long time. In fact, the original Zeitgeist album was issued under the name "Reivers" with identical artwork and graphics. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 23:27:09 -0800 From: Eb Subject: three votes for TW...huh, really didn't expect this http://wallofsound.go.com/features/criticsTop25/critics_top25_99.html http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=128609315/pagename=/RP/GENRES/cms_genre s.html/fid=6810/gid=0 http://www.cmj.com/Reviews/bestof99.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:26:09 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #473 In a message dated 12/23/99 12:29:42 AM Central Standard Time, owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org writes: << Ken Nordine - "Colors" >> how can that count? I have like 12 albums by this man. not to mention him on Public radio every Sunday night at Midnight. dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:42:41 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: hey, stewart... Certified Skank wrote: > > just discovered that "moreso" is not in the dictionary I don't think it's in any dictionary; it looks like a run-together of 'more so', which is. While I was at the OED, I did find the word "morethrumble", an obscure form of "mire-drum", itself an archaic term for "bittern" [a shy marsh bird that makes a strange booming sound.]. Hope that assuages your word needs for today. > also, could you give the address to send tix stubs to? scruss@enterprise.net > and the url to view them? I'm fair affronted to admit that the page isn't up yet. I had ample opportunity to do it over the past few days, as I was laid up in the house with a really bad bout of the flu. I updated all the rest of my site, got it all written against one stylesheet, validated, etc, etc, but never thought to add the ticket museum. Guess that's what listening to The Ladybug Transistor and Built To Spill while on strong cough syrup does to you... - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:46:33 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? Joel Mullins wrote: > > The La's. I read an article earlier this year that The La's were probably reforming. Something about a quantity of unrecorded material, plus the usual "lead singer getting his head together" sort of stuff. Glad someone mentioned The Poets. "Wooden Spoon" has to be one of the catchiest songs ever. Oh yeah, and they were from Glasgow... - -- Stewart C. Russell Analyst Programmer, Dictionary Division stewart@ref.collins.co.uk HarperCollins Publishers use Disclaimer; my $opinion; Glasgow, Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:49:23 +1030 From: corin lang Subject: fegmas greetings - Friends of Feg status report. In my self anointed role as the Grand Pumpernickel of the most Exalted Coven of the Innermost Secret Chamber of the Friends of Feg, I have returned after a lengthy exile . The duties to which I have been committed in the past months are , needless to say , too portentous and arcane to mention to mere feglings such as yourselves, but you can of course, rest assured that we have been working ceaselessly to ensure that you Feglings still possess your accustomed freedom to go about your mundane little feglives , making your lists , pursuing your weenie-istic pursuits, free of the malign influence of such creatures as the Great Quail - of which ,more later. . I have attempted to read forty digests in the space of three hours. Not to be recommended. To be truthful , I had tended to put off this daunting exercise as I have been some what pissed off with lists of any kind over the past six months or so and in particular I have been disappointed with some of the content of the Feglist, which I have always expected to be of a higher standard than any other. However, whilst I did have to wade through much in the way of dross, I was pleased to see that there was something on a renaissance in the past few months. In particular it was comforting to see that although Eb has , to a great extent, become almost nice , he still has the ability to flame viciously when he is riled and it is reassuring to know that the olde tradition of his flaming partner being a Deadhead has also not been overlooked . I was delighted to follow the saga of two grown men pitting wits and puffing themselves up into a mutual fury like a pair of prize Turkey cocks ( and so much more interesting than watching enraged testosterone filled Stags or Buffalo locking horns on some boring wildlife doco) I do hope we can look forward to more of this in the future. Also, it is pleasing to our eyes that there has been a slight return of the Surreal Posse, in the form of several postings from Ms Gnat . Well done m'dear. Your FOF commemorative T shirt , inscribed with the immortal lines, "Real Fegs Don't Like the Grateful Dead" is at this very moment winging its fetid way towards your tinfoil domain . Wear it with pride as you create your little Thoths and Old Great Ones in the wee small hours. Lastly , one of the major feather in our caps of this year has been the almost complete cessation of posts by the Great Quail. This is almost entirely due to the efforts of FOF , who have been responsible for introducing him to LJ Lindhurst, moving him to NY , getting him his job in the fashion house, introducing him to his "backers" for the Libyrinth and in short, distracting him from carrying out his malicious and positively nasty plans of world fegdomination. We realise that professor Fane has posted his latest fulmination to the list and I am sure that the good profs intentions are nothing but benign . But we at FOF believe that in this case he is acting as a helpless dupe of the GQ. Fegs, fear not !.This is the last ditch attempt to put the shits up you from this Quail. This beopinioned has been , this spectre in human guise , who , after realising that his attempts to frighten all of us into retreating into concrete bunkers and stockpiling enough food to last us for the next millennium via the Y2K fiasco have failed, is attempting to firstly distract you with filth ( the large breasted Feg thread ) and then once your moral defences are sufficiently worn down , to deliver the coup de gras via the well worn path of Fane warnings . DO NOT BELIEVE HIM. This is the last ditch attempt by a broken thing to scare you.. We now have him electronically bricked up in his libyrinth and although he can infrequently manage to sneak out the occasional garbled cyber treatise of Feg speak, this is harmless. Or at least it is if you do not allow its warblings to permeate your Feg Defences . Remember oh you Fegs - - " YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF " Fegfriends , feel secure in the knowledge that this broken cypher of a Quailthing has no more power. You have FOF to thank for this ,but we do not need your thanks , We sleep deeply , secure in the knowledge that the debeaked Quail can no longer threaten our community and that we are can go forth in to the next millennium safe from the bepinioned machinations of the GQ and his now shattered and demoralised minions. a merry Fegmas to ye all from feg x. BTW : For those who are new to the list, and who have no idea of what the fuck I am talking about , go here http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/ebony/546/Robyn.html to read something of the history of the Great Quail and the role of Friends of Feg in combating his plans for world domination , etc, etc, etc.............. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:20:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: hey, stewart... On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > While I was at the OED, I did find the word "morethrumble", an obscure > form of "mire-drum", itself an archaic term for "bittern" [a shy marsh > bird that makes a strange booming sound.]. Hope that assuages your word > needs for today. Patrick O'Brian comes up with a few goodies in his nautical novels: wariangle: some sort of game bird (snipe, possibly) marthambles: a ghastly disease which strikes down sailors. I don't know that Poets record - the only single I've got is "We're through", which has a very clangly one-chord (12-string?) riff going almost all the way through. It is credited to Gallagher, Paton and Myles, which makes me wonder whether there is any connection with the Gallagher of Gallagher and Lyle or the Paton of Pilot? Probably not. I saw them once on Ready Steady Go, and they looked more like a Kinks / Merseybeats beat group than a psychedelic band. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:22:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? Thanks to all those with extensive collections of Ken Nordine records - I guess 'Colors' was the only one to cross the Atlantic. Today's offerings: Skip Bifferty (their single 'On love' has been near the top of my want list for 20 years); Jackson C Frank, whose song "The blues have run the game" was a staple in folk clubs during the 60s and 70s. (I've only seen one CD, but it might have been drawn from more than 1 original LP); Junior's Eyes (great name, weird band); Eire Apparent (produced by JMH). And did Fat Mattress ever produce a 2nd LP? If they did, it was after Noel was kicked out. - - Mike Godwin PS Could I have some more details on Tintern Abbey? Is there a Nick Lowe / Brinsleys connection, or am I confusing them with Kippington Lodge? (I tried a web search, but all I got was a load of stuff about William "Daffodils" Wordsworth). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:19:28 EST From: "Dolph Chaney" Subject: Re: One-LP wonders- that reminds me The Jody Grind did 2 albums -- ONE MAN'S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE and LEFTY'S DECEIVER. Then Kelly Hogan released her solo album, and several members of the band ended up playing for the Opal Foxx Quartet and Smoke. Kinda wild seeing the Jody Grind *and* the Swimming Pool Q's mentioned onlist in the same week! It's like, all this cool Atlanta music -- and there's not very much of that, so it's particularly surprising... have a merry, dolph np: The Caulfields, L (not Atlantan) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:39:01 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: don't just stand there...shriek back! On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, James Dignan wrote: > James (whose Christmas wish is that Jam Science will one day be released on CD) i think between the best-ofs, all but about 2 tracks from jam science are already accounted for, aren't they? from the shriekback pages at www.emdac.demon.co.uk/phil/shrk, it sounds like the 1995 unreleased shriekback album _naked apes and pond life_ has found aus & nz distribution through mushroom, with uk, etc. distribution still sought. early 2000 release projected. i'd say that's worth a... woohoo! i did my folk-punk version of "nemesis" the other night, and to my amazement some folks recognized it. - -- 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: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:12:32 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: praise the lord; rock is dead somebody wrote: > Eat your heart out, Joe Chick. JACK Chick: http://www.chick.com/default.asp "If you find yourself laughing at this story, think about this: where will YOU spend eternity? In heaven? Or in the LAKE OF FIRE?!" -J. Chick Happy Xmas! /hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:20:13 EST From: "Richard Zeszotarski" Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? >From: Eb >Reply-To: Eb >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? >Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:42:03 -0800 > >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... > Gee, this a tough one, as I can only seem to come up with semi-one lp wonders. These would be The Slits (Some of whom went on to be in the Raincoats), The Swinging Erudites (who put out two albums and then broke up),and,if you really want to stretch the rules a bit, Arcadia and The Power Station, both spin-offs of Duran Duran. As for legitimate one-lp and then we never hear from them, I just thought of a few: The Tooba Blues, X-Ray Spex (but I could be wrong about that one),and Daisy Chainsaw. - -Rich "not very good with these kind of questions, but trying anyway"Z ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:24:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: don't just stand there...shriek back! On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, dmw wrote: > from the shriekback pages at www.emdac.demon.co.uk/phil/shrk There's just an ftp-type list of files at that url. A better starting point is: http://www.emdac.demon.co.uk/phil/shrkindx.html - - Mike Godwin PS I found out from these pages why I thought Sara Lee was the Shriekback bassist. I saw Shriekback once and the League of Gentlemen twice through the alcoholic fug I was in between 1979 and 1987, and my abused synapses seem to have fused them into one band. I do, however, remember that they had those nice Travis Bean amps with lots of green lights ... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:46:35 EST From: "Richard Zeszotarski" Subject: Re: One-LP wonders? Just thought of another one:The Catholic Girls, whose self-titled debut was just re-released, or so I've been told. Also for the semi-one LP's there's the Rezillos, Scottish new wave/punk band that put out two albums. - -Rich Z ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:19:23 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: fegmas greetings - Friends of Feg status report. feg x writes: >but you can of >course, rest assured that we have been working ceaselessly to ensure >that you Feglings still possess your accustomed freedom to go about your >mundane little feglives , making your lists , pursuing your >weenie-istic pursuits, free of the malign influence of such creatures >as the Great Quail - of which ,more later. . Yes, yes-- VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!!! I am sorry that the whole "Entrapment in the Fashion Industry" conspiracy didn't work...I tried my hardest. I even tried to support the whole notion that "grey is the new black". But it just didn't work; he escaped, and now you *would not believe* the atrocities I am seeing carried out in the name of POSTMODERN LITERATURE!!! Oh mercy mercy mercy...you should see the view from the front lines... your ever-faithful foot soldier, [double-agent] feg z ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:02:44 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: don't just stand there...shriek back! On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, dmw wrote: > i think between the best-ofs, all but about 2 tracks from jam science > are already accounted for, aren't they? "Achtung", "Partyline", "Suck" and "Hubris" were left off of Evolution, aka the second disc of Natural History. (the live "Suck" on The Dancing Years is pretty good, but it is not a substitute for the original.) oops, "Achtung" and the studio "Suck" were on Priests and Kannibals. so doug is right. then there are the tracks on the *other* version of Jam Science, "International" and "Putting On The Pressure". > from the shriekback pages at www.emdac.demon.co.uk/phil/shrk, it > sounds like the 1995 unreleased shriekback album _naked apes and pond > life_ has found aus & nz distribution through mushroom, with uk, etc. > distribution still sought. early 2000 release projected. is it wrong to be skeptical? seems like, off the top of my head, i can think of more long-delayed albums that have just never come out (and seem less likely to with every passing month/year) than that eventually have. announcements of impending release are de rigeur regardless of likelihood. like, are there really 5 Blue Aeroplanes records coming out next year? (a two disc EP whose name i forget, Art Star, Rodney's solo album, Gerard's solo album, and a reissue of Swagger with gobs of bonus tracks. these have all been promised by various Aeroplanes people.) wanked by the terrapins of christ, aaron ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:12:42 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: fegmas greetings - Friends of Feg status report. The inestimable Cmdr. Lang writes: >I have attempted to read forty digests in the space of three >hours. Not to be recommended. I tried it once, and it wasn't so bad, I thought. I especially liked the way those fuzzy pink lightning bugs seemed to pierce my skull with their multicolored laser-beam devices that looked like tiny cheez-whiz containers. And the way everybody's face became a giant buffalo head... >I have been some what pissed off with lists of >any kind over the past six months or so and in particular I >have been disappointed with some of the content of the >Feglist, which I have always expected to be of a higher >standard than any other. YEAH!!! Standards really HAVE been falling. I get especially miffed when people refuse, for *no logical reason whatsoever*, to insert blank lines between paragraphs in feg-posts. What do they think, it's gonna COST more? Sheesh! Oh, and folks who put spaces before commas... what's up with THAT?!? >Remember oh you Fegs - " YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR >BUT FEAR ITSELF " I dunno... I have this inordinate fear of people who quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for some reason. Just makes me uneasy, like maybe we're all headed for another Great Depression. Say it ain't so, Dave! >Fegfriends , feel secure in the knowledge that this broken >cypher of a Quailthing has no more power. You have FOF >to thank for this,but we do not need your thanks , We sleep >deeply , secure in the knowledge that the debeaked Quail >can no longer threaten our community and that we are can >go forth in to the next millennium safe from the bepinioned >machinations of the GQ and his now shattered and demoralised >minions. I'm not so sure about THAT, either! I was at the mall yesterday to do some last-minute shopping, and I noticed a distinct *increase* in the number of people wearing those "hmuh" things. I asked a few of them and they mostly told me it was related to something they called "pokey mawn," but we all know how deluded people are can get. John "Me, deluded? Pshaw" Hedges PS. Another one for Eb's "TW is #1" list: Mojo Magazine. I might actually have to buy this record... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #474 *******************************