From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #476 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 26 1999 Volume 08 : Number 476 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Randi all over the world [Bayard ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #475 [MPys2626@aol.com] Re: howzabout a poll? [woj sven-woj ] RE: howzabout a poll? ["bret" ] my top ten ["shane apple" ] of montreal ["shane apple" ] top ten ["Minky Sponge" ] the angry world of e... b..... all over the world ["Prevaricator" ] in the wee hours of the night, a weary DJ writes... [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: positive vibrations ["Matt Browne" ] Re: positive vibrations [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 16:44:30 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Randi all over the world JH 3.0: >Anyway, (I personally think that) Robyn Hitchcock is also better >than the Beatles [...] Damn straight! The Beatles? Feh! They sound just like everyone else... I had the immense pleasure of speaking with the feglist's beloved Randi this afternoon. I highly recommend the experience. She's every bit as delightful as you'd think from her posts/mail. Though she is amazed that everyone assumes that is true, from the get-go. Phone her at : 1-416-440-1309 Or, failing that, send her an e-letter: Happy winterfest, fegs. You too, Grinchy. I'll be checking in from the mountain. =b ps. Though the Hotel is down, Robynbase is searchable from JH3's site, and the data will be updated next week. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 17:03:55 EST From: MPys2626@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #475 In a message dated 12/24/99 4:14:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org writes: > Robyn Hitchcock does not appear anywhere in this list. > ...DUH!!!... Sleep Well~Don't Burst ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 18:50:44 -0500 From: woj sven-woj Subject: Re: howzabout a poll? also sprach Bayard (walden@eclipse.net): >Actually, in the feglist poll-of-artists-not-including-Robyn, the Beatles >scored second to XTC. There was a link to the poll results from woj's >site, but this was three years ago and more. did we do a poll like that? the only one i remember was the song poll that rex did. those results are still on the fegsite, but aren't linked to from anywhere . woj n.p. christmas music ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 19:24:09 -0600 From: "bret" Subject: RE: howzabout a poll? > > also sprach Bayard (walden@eclipse.net): > did we do a poll like that? the only one i remember was the song poll > that rex did. those results are still on the fegsite, but aren't linked > to from anywhere . I remember the poll, er.... actually I remember trying to do everythng I could to get Nick Cave's name moved up...... - --b NP: "Out of Here" --Tim Keegan and Departure Lounge ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 02:04:29 GMT From: "shane apple" Subject: my top ten 1. the flaming lips *the soft bulletin* 2. tom "dang" waits *mule variations* 3. beck *midnite vultures* 4. stereolab *midnite vultures and cobra groop play stuff somewhere* 5. olivia tremor control *wicca wicca woo* 6. robyn hitchcock *bacon for sophia* 7. sparklehorse *good morning spidernam* 8. add n to x *avant hard* 9. xtc *apple venus vol. 1* 10. (a tie!) autechre *ep7* and the tigerlillies *shockheaded peter* i also liked randy newman, ralph carney, squarepusher, momus, odb, chuck e. weiss, john linnell, and u.s. maple from this year. i should also confess here that i don't really think the tigerlillies album is very good. i'm going to try to put together a best of 90s thing even though very few people will actually care to see it. note: least favorite album of the year goes to the music tapes with that godawful piece of shit i was fooled into buying. - --shane ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 02:20:39 GMT From: "shane apple" Subject: of montreal hi, to stick with my brand new music buying philosophy (the "buy only cds that joel likes" philosophy), i picked up of montreal's *the gay parade* a week or so back. my reactions: half of the album is indeed very gay. the other half is SUPER annoying and not a good annoying at all. actually, it doesn't matter which half you play either. does anybody else feel this way about this one? listen to 25 minutes or so of this guy and his quirky little songs about these people (i do like the concept) and it's fine, but once you get into the second half, it gets a bit grating. i think the guy should try harder. i also got really bored looking for the subjects of the songs in artwork. my next move will be to re-purchase a jellyfish cd. i had one earlier this decade and sold it, but if joel likes them, they can't be bad! anybody think i need to be under the influence of a something when i listen to joel's picks? - --shane n.p. *a wacky ass christmas volume 4* -- my own christmas compilation featuring a variety of annoying christmas music including some of my own pieces. actually it just clicked off which caused my mum to exclaim "thank god" in a not-so-festive way :( ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 04:00:23 GMT From: "Minky Sponge" Subject: top ten 1. tom waits "mule variations" 2. flaming lips "the soft bulletin" 3. olivia tremor control "black foilage" 4. underworld "beaucoup fish" 5. robyn hitchcock "jewels for sophia" 6. mr. bungle "california" 7. elf power "a dream in sound" 8. stereolab "cobra and phases group..." 9. (tie) add n to (x) "avant hard" xtc "apple venus vol. 1" 10. squarepusher "selection sixteen" honorable mentions: basement jaxx "remedy", beck "midnite vultures", super furry animals "guerilla" worst album i bought: blur "13" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:11:53 PST From: "Prevaricator" Subject: the angry world of e... b..... all over the world hey, am i the only one that gets a fuckin' robyn hitchcock cd for xianmas every fuckin' year? okay, granted, one would, being exposed to my sorry ass for all the year 'round, likely presume (and perhaps rightly) that i'd no other interests apart from the aformentioned robyn hitchcock. (and pencil sharpeners depicting little children, with the sharpening mechanisms situated where their asses would be, natch. but where you gonna find one o' THEM in the oh-so-repressed u.s. o' a.?) so, sure, there is that. but, come on, how illogical is it to FURTHER presume that i wouldn't already own a copy --in multiple pressings and/or formats if need be-- of any album you could find in any store? i mean, cripes! wondering which one it'll be this year, i remain KEN "They're digging in the wrong place" THE KENSTER ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 23:08:40 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: world >hey, >am i the only one that gets a fuckin' robyn hitchcock cd for xianmas every >fuckin' year? >but, come on, how illogical is it to FURTHER presume that i wouldn't already >own a copy --in multiple pressings and/or formats if need be-- of any album >you could find in any store? i mean, cripes! Well, that's why I bought you a Dan Bern cd, instead. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 03:43:29 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: in the wee hours of the night, a weary DJ writes... >>I do believe you have said, in the past, that XTC is better than >>any other band, ever. This is a Hyperbole Crime of the first >>degree... > >True, I've said that many times, but haven't I always prefaced it >with an "IMO" or "I personally think" or something like that? No. :) >If not, I apologize. No need. I figured you were being subjective. However, there are people on the XTC list who make similar statements in what seems to be a very objective tone, and I was just poking fun at an apparent similar tendency in your good self. No offense intended. >Hmmm. I appreciate that (!), and I'm sure you mean well, but >since I'm lactose-intolerant, that would probably be a lot worse >than the bad reviews! Oops! Substitute "milk" with the beverage of your choice. (I would choose a shot of Irish whiskey, but that's just me.) I'm at the station right now, in the ninth hour of an eleven-hour radio show. My friend is asleep on the couch in the station lobby. We've played all sorts of Christmas stuff (including "Thanks for Christmas," John!) - we then followed that up with a set of songs about the Devil (including "The Devil's Coachman"). Around 2:00am we played "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" all the way through, and now (to continue in the same vein) we're playing "Black Foliage" all the way through. The entirety of "69 Love Songs" is next, I suppose... I haven't gone insane yet, but I'm getting there. tired, tired, tired n. np: "The Bark and Below It" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 07:58:28 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: positive vibrations Working on Christmas Morning after Working Christmas Eve Sucks! Especially at radio stations playing wall-to-wall f*&kin' christmas music. For the Year: 1. XTC Apple Venus Vol. 1 [but GreenMan is still the Ewok National Anthem no matter how much Andy protests] 2. Tom Waits Mule Variations ["House Where Nobody Lives" is easily the most beautiful song of the last half of the decade] 3. Matthew Sweet In Reverse 4. Beck Midnite Vultures 5. The Boo Radleys Kingsize 6. George Carlin You Are All Diseased 7. James Millionaires 8. The Creatures Anima Animus 9. Robyn Hitchcock Jewels for Sophia 10. Pet Shop Boys Nightlife my SPIN count was 21; pitchfork: 30, for what it's worth. for 1000 times what it's worth, you can buy a SF Bay Guardian*. For the decade (which slowed downed considerably a couple years back; or I just became old and crotchedy): 1. Kristin Hersh Hips & Makers 2. Crowded House Together Alone 3. R.E.M. Automatic For the People 4. Radiohead The Bends 5. My Bloody Valentine Loveless 6. Nirvana In Utero 7. PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love 8. Björk Homogenic 9. James Laid 10. Lush Split 11. The Boo Radleys Giant Steps 12. Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York 13. XTC Apple Venus Vol. 1 14. Luna Penthouse 15. Blur Modern Life is Rubbish 16. Pet Shop Boys Behavior 17. The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness 18. Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque 19. Sonic Youth Dirty 20. Billy Bragg William Bloke 21. Eels Electro-Shock Blues 22. Robyn Hitchcock Moss Elixir 23. Neil Finn Try Whistling This 24. Matthew Sweet Girlfriend 25. Beck Mutations 26. Tom Waits Mule Variations 27. Pulp This is Hardcore 28. Elvis Costello Brutal Youth 29. Sugar Copper Blue 30t Radiohead OK Computer 30t Teenage Fanclub Grand Prix 30t U2 Zooropa *a free weekly news tabloid np: elton john's miserable christmas record..... ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 18:38:57 +0000 From: "Matt Browne" Subject: Re: positive vibrations Hooray! Hope everyone's having a great Christmas! EastEnders is on here, so I've decided to catch up with a bit of email while the family is lying comatose in front of the telly. I've got to drive random family members around North London later this evening, so I haven't had a drink all day. Damnit! On 25/12/99, at 07:58, Jeff Dwarf listed: >For the Year: > 5. The Boo Radleys Kingsize Sorry to be a big old festive meanie, but Kingsize was from 1998... So there. Ner! Good album though, if a little overlong. "Interesting" question of the day: Why on EARTH did my mother buy me a copy of Death to the Pixies for Christmas?????? Bizarre! She has almost no idea about my taste in music, and I've never mentioned them, so choosing the Pixies of all people seems REALLY weird. If any of the amateur psychiatrists amongst you feel like shedding any light on this strange behaviour, I'd be glad to hear it. I mean, I have the CD already, anyway. And she's never *seen* my full record collection, let alone had a chance to browse through it. She says she'd never even heard of them, but saw the CD whilst browsing in Our Price. (!) Oh well! I was grateful none the less, of course. And impressed! Ta ta! - -- Matt Browne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 23:49:22 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: positive vibrations Matt Browne wrote: > Hooray! Hope everyone's having a great Christmas! > EastEnders is on here, so I've decided to catch up with a bit > of email while the family is lying comatose in front of the > telly. I've got to drive random family members around North > London later this evening, so I haven't had a drink all day. > Damnit! > On 25/12/99, at 07:58, Jeff Dwarf listed: > >For the Year: > > 5. The Boo Radleys Kingsize > Sorry to be a big old festive meanie, but Kingsize was from > 1998... So there. Ner! Good album though, if a little overlong. in the us though it didn't come out until last march. and since this was a weak year, i decided to cheat. hell, i included a friggin' COMEDY album..... ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #476 *******************************