From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #18 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, January 20 2000 Volume 09 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- news from the museum [Chris Franz ] Re: ignorant question [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: guiltiest pleasure [Jeff Dwarf ] Sorry.... [Tony.Blackman@sita.int] guilty pleasures [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: supertramp and oasis ["James Hadfield" ] Monks [Tony.Blackman@sita.int] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #17 [Doc ] guilty pleasures ["Melissa ." ] Re: ignorant question [Stephen Buckalew ] From the news... ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Re: Monks [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Auditie's best of the 90's [Capuchin ] Re: embarassing [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Guiltiest *Pleasure* [Capuchin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #17 [MARKEEFE@aol.com] record collection embarassments [DDerosa5@aol.com] Re: Monks ["JH3" ] Re: guilty pleasures [Capuchin ] Re: embarrassing [Stephen Buckalew ] Re: guilty pleasures [Terrence M Marks ] Re: guilty pleasures [Capuchin ] Re: record collection embarassments [Capuchin ] Fun with Flash ["Thomas, Ferris" ] emarrassed about my embarrassment [DDerosa5@aol.com] Argh, mateys, ahoy! [The Great Quail ] Re: Guiltiest *Pleasure* ["JH3" ] Re: emarrassed about my embarrassment [fartachu ] Fwd: fw: Geffen Sues Courtney Love [DDerosa5@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:30:19 -0800 From: Chris Franz Subject: news from the museum Just noticed at the museum that Robyn's slated to do Largo again on Feb 19 & 26, "with guests." Presumably the usual Largo suspects. Looks like road trip time again. - - Chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:57:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: ignorant question Joel Mullins wrote: > Jeff Dwarf wrote: >> there's a >> difference though in writing a simple love song ("love me >> do") and a simplistic love song (any material issue or >> backstreet boys record), > AH! You're not putting Material Issue and the Backstreet Boys > in the same category, are you? It's funny you should bring up > MI. They are exactly who I've been thinking about in connection > with this thread. Yes, their lyrics are simple. So what. > They've got some great songs. well, i was trying to think of a power pop band i can't stand, and they were the first one that came to mind. though i did almost not hate "what girls want." they always struck me as crossing the line to simplistic, but i may have been so put off by ellison's voice and the songs themselves overall to judge them fairly. feel free to insert anyone else here in your mind. except matthew sweet or teenage fanclub, cuz then i'll have to cut you. and leave the smithereens out of it too. but no, compared to the backstreet boys, material issue are fooking leonard cohen. ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:05:42 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: guiltiest pleasure Eb wrote: > Sorry folks, but the Kenny Rogers confession still claims the > #1 slot. ;) well, i wore it out when i was little, but i can't bring myself to throw away my copy of Sesame Street Fever. nah, that doesn't surpass kenny rogers christmas. i think i may still have a copy of ministry's filth pig lying around...... ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:55:22 +0000 From: Tony.Blackman@sita.int Subject: Sorry.... ...I am crap and lose everything. If Ferris Thomas is listening, can he send me address please, I've got a parcel to send him. Can't say I like this 'flu much. Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:04:07 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: guilty pleasures Since I've lost the Huey Lews & the News record I loved so much as a fourth-grader, my most embarrassing record is probably the Monkees' "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones," and goddamn it, I still like it, and I still think Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork are cute! I don't own any Cat Stevens records, but I am certainly not embarrassed to say that I like his stuff. I've often contemplated picking up a greatest hits compilation, but I've never gotten around to it. Oh, and *really* embarrassing guilty pleasure? Again, I don't own it, but.... "Fire and Rain." I've always liked that song. Now you know. I hang my head in shame. n. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:35:30 GMT From: "James Hadfield" Subject: Re: supertramp and oasis >Can I be the first to say that there are bands who seem completely >unavoidable for a few years and then shrivel only to be revived by culty >obsessives who agglomerate in the way we do. Supertramp were such and I >think the same will be true of Oasis. They are both, IMHO, almost entirely >without merit Without merit?? What does that mean? Comparing Supertramp to Oasis, IMHO, is downright silly. For one thing, they are some twenty-odd years apart. Oasis derived much of its success from being part of a generation of MTV oatmeal-for-brains many of whom I'm sure are now responsible for the unbridled success of the Backstreet Boys. For another, Supertramp produced music that was far more enduring (Even in the Quietest Moments, Crime of the Century, Crisis What Crisis, and Breakfast in America are all brilliant records) than any of the shallow tripe I've heard by Oasis. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:44:01 +0000 From: Tony.Blackman@sita.int Subject: Monks Terence said: > The Monks: Black Monk Time (The best dumb one-chord stomp album I've > heard) Not The Monks who recorded "Nice Legs, Shame About The Face" back in 1979? Who... according to the Guinness Book of Hit Singels were 1973/74 duo Hudson-Ford under a different name. On a more disturbing note, I see that "Nice Legs...." is on what looks like being a contemporary compilation CD entitled 'My Own Worst Enemy" and featuring Smashmouth/Len/Korn/Limp Bizkit/Blink 182 etc. Then again I did find it on CDDB and not anywhere else so it could be someone's own compilation I guess? All the other songs look very current (though mostly US bands) and then the last track's Monk's "Nice legs....". All very strange. I've got a Baccara LP Sorry, I'm a Lady, I would rather be, rather be, just a little shady. Tony ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:50:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doc Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #17 Eb said: >PS I doubt that anyone else here can top "A Kenny Rogers Christmas." I >think we have a winner. Late entry, just in-- I've got an "Elvis Sings Christmas" CD that was recorded in the 1980's. Remarkably, it features no Elvis. What it does feature is Elvis' backing band, The Jordanares. They play and sing the arrangements of various Christmas carols that Elvis had sung in the past, with various singers tag-team the vocal parts. - -Doc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:02:01 GMT From: "Melissa ." Subject: guilty pleasures Do the Divinyls count? The first album with Hey Little Boy and Desperate? I do own Cat Stevens but it doesn't induce the same sort of guilt. Melissa ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:18:56 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: ignorant question Hmmm...that could pull my shameful entry out of the muck....as Kenny R. does actually sing on Kenny Rogers Christmas... Actually, looking at the cover of the record, with Kenny and Wife in charming Christmas setting...I began to imagine, just what *Is* a Kenny Roger's Christmas like? Is it a surreal mix of down-home country wholesomeness tinged with a light snowfall of cocaine-induced paranoia?? At that moment, I stopped my imagination in it's tracks! Oh, I thought of another one: ZZ Top's Eliminator....oh to be a teenager again, rotting my brain, stealing dad's beer whilst watching early 80's MTV.... >Eb said: >>PS I doubt that anyone else here can top "A Kenny Rogers Christmas." >I >>think we have a winner. > >Late entry, just in-- I've got an "Elvis Sings Christmas" CD that was >recorded in the 1980's. Remarkably, it features no Elvis. What it >does feature is Elvis' backing band, The Jordanares. They play and >sing the arrangements of various Christmas carols that Elvis had sung >in the past, with various singers tag-team the vocal parts. > >-Doc > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com > > S.B. *************************************************************** "...isn't it good to be lost in the wood..."--Syd Barrett *************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:44:26 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: From the news... Girl, 12, Has 'Surprise' Baby In Toilet A 12-year-old schoolgirl who gave birth to a baby boy in the toilet at home has told her parents she did not know she was pregnant. The girl's family, who live in Devonport, Plymouth, is being visited by a police child protection team and social services officials. Her parents, who did not want be identified, said they do not condone what their daughter and her 17-year-old boyfriend had done, but they are standing by them. The girl's father said no one knew she was pregnant - not even the girl herself. Devon and Cornwall police said they knew an offence had been committed, but no complaint had been made. The police child protection team is considering what action to take. The 6lb 13oz baby was born early on Tuesday after the girl, who was playing games at school the previous day, woke with stomach pains. She went to the toilet alone where the baby was born. The first her parents knew was when they heard the child cry. After giving birth she was taken for a check-up to Plymouth's Derriford Hospital. The father of the child, also from the Devonport area, who has been seeing the girl for some time, said he would stand by her and their child. A Plymouth Hospitals Trust spokesman both the girl and her baby are well. - ---- Two things: 1: How? I mean I know _how_ but....how?! 2. "Devon and Cornwall police said they knew an offence had been committed" Devon and Cornwall police? They've got two-headed dragons as cops? Those wacky Brits. ______________________________________ Ferris Scott Thomas programmer McGraw-Hill Technology Division Farmington, CT 06032 860.409.2612 869.677.5405 (fax) mailto:ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (work) mailto:ferris@snet.net (home) THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:55:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Monks On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 Tony.Blackman@sita.int wrote: > Not The Monks who recorded "Nice Legs, Shame About The Face" back in 1979? Oh, I've got that one. And for some unknown reason I have _two_ copies of 'You've got to be a hustler if you want to get on' by Sue thingy, from the same period. > Who... according to the Guinness Book of Hit Singels were 1973/74 duo > Hudson-Ford under a different name. They were always chopping and changing. I've got an album and some singles by Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, which was an excellent psychedelic band also featuring Richard Hudson and John Ford. The other great one chord stomp is 'Neanderthal Man' by Hotlegs, who were I believe Godley, Creme and co before they formed 10cc. - - Mike Godwin PS And my recommendation for a really tripey album is another 10cc production: 'Space Hymn' by Rameses (which fortunately I don't own). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:37:06 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Auditie's best of the 90's On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, steve wrote: > 29) R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (WB) 54 - 9 > 77) World Party - Goodbye Jumbo (Chrysalis) 27 - 5 Wow. I only have two of the 100 greatest albums of the decade? And I haven't listened to either of them since 1993. Huh. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:38:44 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: embarassing In a message dated 1/19/00 9:35:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com writes: << Additions from our house. Doug has some he wants to add although he is feg by proxy. >> This leads *right* into a continuation of this thread that I was thinking of last night while looking at our CD rack at home and realizing that the CDs that *I* think are the most embarassing in our collection are the ones that I consider "belonging" to Liz. The worst one is: Billy Squire: "Best Of" But the one that actually bugs me the most is: Bush: "Sixteen Stone" What about other people's SO's? (doesn't have to be the same record collection, I shouldn't think . . . might be that one tape that makes you want to flee your boy/girlfriend's apartment in terror! :-)) - -------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:41:37 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Guiltiest *Pleasure* On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Vivien Lyon wrote: > There is a difference, and I think it is an important one, > between the album in one's collection that continues to render > one prone and feeble with guilty pleasure, and the album in > one's collection that is embarrassing but one cannot bear to get > rid of it, though one has not listened to said album in years. I agree completely with this. > Having said that, I must courageously make my bid for most > cheesy and embarrassing guilty pleasure. I hereby proclaim my > love for a Christian pop-folk band from the late 60's-early 70's > called The Good News Circle. I think if Eb knew at all what Viv was talking about, he'd agree that it blows Kenny Rogers out of the water. As for me, I don't care much about The Good News Circle. I really think she should feel guilty for all those Michael Penn records. Preparing the sofa as we speak, J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:48:04 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #17 In a message dated 1/20/00 9:57:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, blueaero@yahoo.com writes: << Late entry, just in-- I've got an "Elvis Sings Christmas" CD that was recorded in the 1980's. Remarkably, it features no Elvis. What it does feature is Elvis' backing band, The Jordanares. They play and sing the arrangements of various Christmas carols that Elvis had sung in the past, with various singers tag-team the vocal parts. >> Sorry, Eb, but I think this one's cheesier. And it gets bonus points for being revolting, as well!! :-) - -------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:50:26 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: record collection embarassments this is an interesting thread, so I thought I'd pitch in. But I don't know how, as my collection is such a mess. As someone with a working turntable, I find that many of my friends who move away feel they must give me their vinyl, since none of their other friends will take it.* It's a good way to get complete collections of the Residents or firesign theatre, and a bunch of good jazz, but also all the Dead records, middlin reggae, and weird weird shit I don't know what to do with, and which cannot be sold for anything other than scrap. Just going through now, I find Alison Moyet, whom I hate and will proceed to throw off the roof, and Bongos bass and Bob, the Penn Jillette extended joke that wasn't very funny. But if I had to pull one out that I actually listen to, and isn't some local band I remember seeing fondly at the Lounge Ax (RIP), it's......very proggy, I'm afraid. It's called Zinc, by Eddie Jobson, a cold-fusion violinist who played with Air and others, dunno whom. I'm not one who follows artists thorugh all their incarnations. However, it must be a fave, as I have two copies of it, which must mean that I saw a copy on sale somewhere, worried that I no longer had the first copy anymore, and bought it again. Harrumph. All I can say is, how you you not like a vinyl album whose last song on the first side is called "Turn it Over", for fans too stoned to figure out why the music stopped...? dave *similarly, I've dumped plenty of records on others, such as giving my little brother all my heavy metal (including rare AC/DC imports) when I went back for my sophomore year in college. I'd worked at the radio station and was too embarrassed my most of it to cart it around...now I wish I had some of it. The thing I most wish I still had as a Guilty Pleasure, since I've seen so many Deep Purple listings, is what I beleive to be the first record Billy Joel ever made. He plays organ/keyboards, and with some anonymous drummer went by the name of Attila, including an album cover of them in studded leather in a room of raw meat or somesuch. Punky vocals and Deep Purply arrangements, which makes "Cold Spring Harbor" like a year or two later such a hilarious about face. Anybody ever heard this? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:52:43 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Monks >>The Monks: Black Monk Time (The best dumb one-chord >>stomp album I've heard) >Not The Monks who recorded "Nice Legs, Shame About The >Face" back in 1979? This came up on the Wire list recently... The Monks that Terry is referring to were ex-U.S. Servicemen stationed in (then) West Germany who decided to quit the army, shave tonsure-spots (or whatever the heck you call them) on their heads and play loud/ primitive monochordal garage-rock, at least two years before the Stooges and MC5 came along. Apparently their one album was recently reissued on CD, which might mean that we're finally nearing the end of the 60's-era-obscure-classic-reissue phenomenon. Just in time for the 60's-era-not-so-obscure-classic-reissue-everything- again-in-different-packaging phenomenon! JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:58:51 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: guilty pleasures On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > Since I've lost the Huey Lews & the News record I loved so much as a > fourth-grader, my most embarrassing record is probably the Monkees' > "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones," and goddamn it, I still like it, > and I still think Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork are cute! I have said Monkees album. I also have both Sports and FORE! on cassette. I wouldn't really call them guilty pleasures since I haven't listened to either since about 1988. That is all. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:02:49 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: embarrassing > What about other people's SO's? (doesn't have to be the same record >collection, I shouldn't think . . . might be that one tape that makes you >want to flee your boy/girlfriend's apartment in terror! :-)) I don't know....Leslie's "Gary Puckett and the Union Gap" CD is pretty embarrassing..but she loves all those 60's groups like the Left Banke and the Grass Roots and such. She even went to an oldies tour show to see these bands, although she did admit that Gary's tight pants at his age gave her the creeps. She's got Jewel's album... Oh....she's got the Moody Blues *entire* collection, even their latest stuff...although she admits its a sickness.... But she has lotsa good stuff too....like Tim Buckley and the Fugs and stuff...and she likes Spiritualized and Elephant 6 stuff (she's so so about Robyn)...she's pretty much a folky at heart though... n.p. The Fugs "Johnny Pissoff and the Red Angel" S.B. *************************************************************** "...isn't it good to be lost in the wood..."--Syd Barrett *************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:25:04 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: guilty pleasures On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Capuchin wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > > Since I've lost the Huey Lews & the News record I loved so much as a > > fourth-grader, my most embarrassing record is probably the Monkees' > > "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones," and goddamn it, I still like it, > > and I still think Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork are cute! > > I have said Monkees album. Why is PAC&J so embarassing? It was their best album, they had a decent amount of control over it, and wrote a couple of the songs. No-one here is ashamed of the entirely-corporate self-titled album? No-one here will admit to owning "More of the Monkees"? (Even I passed on that one..) Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:26:55 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: guilty pleasures On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Terrence M Marks wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Capuchin wrote: > > I have said Monkees album. > Why is PAC&J so embarassing? It was their best album, they had a decent > amount of control over it, and wrote a couple of the songs. No-one here > is ashamed of the entirely-corporate self-titled album? No-one here will > admit to owning "More of the Monkees"? (Even I passed on that one..) Did I mention The New Monkees? - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:31:14 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: record collection embarassments On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 DDerosa5@aol.com wrote: > The thing I most wish I still had as a Guilty Pleasure, since I've seen so > many Deep Purple listings, is what I beleive to be the first record Billy > Joel ever made. He plays organ/keyboards, and with some anonymous drummer > went by the name of Attila, including an album cover of them in studded > leather in a room of raw meat or somesuch. Punky vocals and Deep Purply > arrangements, which makes "Cold Spring Harbor" like a year or two later such > a hilarious about face. Anybody ever heard this? I've never heard it, but it turns out that Joel released two albums with The Hassles a year or two before. I can't find a picture of the cover of the Attila albums (which is why I started looking in the first place), but I did see that it has a song called Amplifier Fire (Parts I and II). Hoowee. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:41:16 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: Fun with Flash For all you fans/acolytes of the Shatner school of acting: http://hecklersonline.com/simshatner/simshatner.html Enjoy! ______________________________________ Ferris Scott Thomas programmer McGraw-Hill Technology Division Farmington, CT 06032 860.409.2612 869.677.5405 (fax) mailto:ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (work) mailto:ferris@snet.net (home) THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:38:47 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: emarrassed about my embarrassment OK. so now I'm playing it for the first time in a year or so, and it turns out it's actually Eddie Jobson and his band Zinc, with the record called either Green or The Green Album--wonder if they ever got to pink next? Anyway, to atone, I thought I'd grace y'all with some choice progginess as Eddie plays an ode to the Pontyff... "turn around - feel the light Reflecting on you See yorself standing here Looking out at the view Mirror - frame of brass Falling through the glass In the mirror world Fantasies from the past In the mirror world Feeling estranged - what should I do? Ego unchanged - falling to you" (from through the glass, copyright 1983) dave PS I just saw the movie Cradle Will Rock last night--amazing! what an accomplishment. American audiences will largely hate--all those commies, Diego Rivera (I didn't need to see Frida dancing...), a sympathetic govt bureaucrat!--forget it. See it on the big screen while you can. On the violin tip, my fave local fiddler, Andrew Bird (who some may know from Squirrel Nut Zippers cameos) is credited with incidental violin solos. Plus PJ Harvey over the end credits. No RH, sadly... PPS Good News Circle is, it's true, as bad as Viv says, and worse. I enjoyed listening to them most when I thought of exactly where they'd be going in Hell. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:33:19 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Argh, mateys, ahoy! Well, I finally finally finally got my CD burner fixed. So I should be able to start: 1. Joining in on Feg CD projects; 2. Repaying everyone I've promised CDs to: Woj, Mike, Eddie, James, and many more; 3. Copying multiple copies of AOL CDs, as there doesn't seem to be enough of them; 4. Transfering my consciousness to the computer; 5. Joining in on the MP3 revolution; 6. Making weird mixes that will survive overnight if I leave them in my car with the sun beating down on them or forget them at a party; 7. Pirating every piece of goddamn software I can from the Microsoft company! So if I have promised you a CD in the past, please send me email to remind me. The skull-and-crossbones flag is flying from the mast! Arrrgh! - --Captain Quail, Scourge of the Digital Seas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Great Quail, Storyteller of New York by Night http://www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN "But we are pledged to set this world free -- our toil must be in silence and our efforts in secret for in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of these men would be his greatest strength." --Abraham Van Helsing, "Dracula" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:44:29 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Guiltiest *Pleasure* >> Having said that, I must courageously make my bid for most >> cheesy and embarrassing guilty pleasure. I hereby proclaim my >> love for a Christian pop-folk band from the late 60's-early 70's >> called The Good News Circle. >I think if Eb knew at all what Viv was talking about, he'd agree >that it blows Kenny Rogers out of the water. I'm not so sure. The Good News Circle were actually an interesting band, in many ways, given their tendency to constantly reinvent themselves. Their "Jesus-obsessed smiling folkie" phase was really just a short stopover between their "orally-fixated mop-top" phase of the previous year and their "harrowing LSD/percodan-cocktail trip" phase of the following year, which was itself followed by the "depressing herion junkie" phase of 1971, and finally the "comical Vegas corporate goth" era of 1972. Later on they broke up and became session musicians, specializing in TV ad jingles for popular upset-stomach relief products. Lead singer Jim "ow, that really hurts" McDammitalligiveup can still be heard on Nickelodeon's "TV Land" channel, singing the intro theme to re-runs of the popular 70's drama series, "Mannix Depressive." I think one of their members died recently, but was brought back to life as a fully-redesigned Chrysler SUV. I least that's the VH/1 version, anyway. John "and now for the bad news" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:53:00 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: Re: emarrassed about my embarrassment when we last left our heroes, DDerosa5@aol.com exclaimed: >OK. so now I'm playing it for the first time in a year or so, and it turns >out it's actually Eddie Jobson and his band Zinc, with the record called >either Green or The Green Album--wonder if they ever got to pink next? nope. jobson went newage-proggie on his second solo album, _theme of secrets_. it's a decent album -- good fall-asleep-to or background music, but not very substantial. way back when, my brother picked up _the green album_ because jobson played violin on one of the more disparaged jethro tull records (_a_, which i rather like along with _under wraps -- before you curse me as an ian anderson lackey, they lost me with _rock island_). i've liked it ever since and finally found a cd copy a few years ago. still listen to that one fairly often. woj n.p. magnetic fields -- 69 love songs v.2 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:08:48 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Fwd: fw: Geffen Sues Courtney Love - --part1_a5.11b0777.25b8c550_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit does being sued by David Geffen count as being dead? << Geffen Sues Courtney Love .c The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Entertainment executive David Geffen wants more Love in his life. Geffen Records has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson, the principal members of the band Hole, claiming the group still owes Geffen five albums under a 1992 agreement. The Superior Court suit filed Wednesday claims that Doll Head Inc., which owns the exclusive recording services of Ms. Love and Erlandson, repudiated the contract based on a California labor law limiting personal services contracts to seven years. Geffen contends recording contracts are not personal services agreements. He said the pact was extended by amendment in 1997. The suit seeks unspecified damages and an injunction barring the band from recording as Hole for anyone else. A telephone message left Thursday for Ms. Love's publicist wasn't immediately returned. AP-NY-01-20-00 1408EST >> - --part1_a5.11b0777.25b8c550_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: MEWintle@aol.com From: MEWintle@aol.com Full-name: MEWintle Message-ID: <52.78c213.25b8bf78@aol.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:43:52 EST Subject: fw: Geffen Sues Courtney Love MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 39 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subj: Geffen Sues Courtney Love Date: 1/20/00 2:08:22 PM Eastern Standard Time From: AOL News BCC: MEWintle Geffen Sues Courtney Love .c The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Entertainment executive David Geffen wants more Love in his life. Geffen Records has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson, the principal members of the band Hole, claiming the group still owes Geffen five albums under a 1992 agreement. The Superior Court suit filed Wednesday claims that Doll Head Inc., which owns the exclusive recording services of Ms. Love and Erlandson, repudiated the contract based on a California labor law limiting personal services contracts to seven years. Geffen contends recording contracts are not personal services agreements. He said the pact was extended by amendment in 1997. The suit seeks unspecified damages and an injunction barring the band from recording as Hole for anyone else. A telephone message left Thursday for Ms. Love's publicist wasn't immediately returned. AP-NY-01-20-00 1408EST Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press. Announcement: America Online has added Reuters newswires to News Profiles. To add Reuters articles to your daily news delivery, go to KW: News Profiles and click on "Modify Your News Profiles." 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