From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #19 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, January 21 2000 Volume 09 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Who Wants to be a Jordanaire? [Eb ] Re: embarassing [John Barrington Jones ] Re: Who Wants to be a Jordanaire? [Stephen Buckalew ] Re: Who Wants to be a Jordanaire? [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Who Wants to be a Jordanaire? [Stephen Buckalew ] ARGH! (re Cat Stevens) [Katherine Rossner ] More Miyazaki (NR) [steve ] [Eb ] Warning: This message contains Tijuana! [hamish_simpson@agilent.com] Re: Argh, mateys, ahoy! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Miscellaneous remarks, some more facetious than others [Michael R Godwin ] embarrasing? [LDudich@ase.org] Re: [Stephen Buckalew ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #16 [Marshall Needleman Armintor ] Re: embarrassing records [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Miscellaneous remarks, some more facetious than others [MARKEEFE@aol.] I don't embarrass [Joel Mullins ] Re: [Capuchin ] non-guilty pleasures [mad ] Re: I don't embarrass [Aaron Lowe ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:07:39 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Who Wants to be a Jordanaire? Dave: >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. Roxy Music, Jethro Tull and UK. And I believe you mean CURVED Air, right? Capuchin: >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 suspect it takes an awful lot to make Viv feel guilty. >I really think >she should feel guilty for all those Michael Penn records. New Epic album released either on February 1st or February 8th, depending on whom you believe. I'll git me one -- he writes some nice songs. A bit bland on my scale, but he beats a lot of other pop stuff. James: >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. Whew! You win this week's Grumpy Old Poop award. Have you considered subscribing to rec.music.beatles? Doc: >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, I still gotta stick with the deposed chicken magnate. Maybe I just really hate Chubby Bearded Guys. Michael McDonald, you're next! Many folks' "nominees" have a sense of kitschy fun. They're horrible albums, but they're kinda funny-wacky. They make good conversation pieces. If I was at someone's house and they owned the Jordanaires album, I'd pull it out, read the jacket and say "Huh! Funny!" Just like I myself own about 60 similar records. I have two or three beat-up Mystic Moods Orchestra albums, for instance. And "Pop Goes the Zither!" But Kenny Rogers is just plain *worthless*. No redeeming entertainment value there, whatsoever. ;) And I agree with Terrence, for once: no way is Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Jones, Ltd. a guilty pleasure. Someone: >Oh....she's got the Moody Blues *entire* collection, even their latest >stuff...although she admits its a sickness.... Here, I pass the mike to that mellotron-sniffing Quail.... Eb, who has never heard the Monks album, unfortunately ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:11:02 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: embarassing oh, okay, you want to play that way, then?? my wife has a Basia cd. I try not to look at it. also, the last time I had a party at my house, Viv and Jeme noticed the Enya collection. I protested that they weren't mine, they were my wife's, but to no avail. and rightly so......i admit now publicly that watermark was mine. But the rest ARE hers. =jbj= On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: > 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 17:34:11 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: Who Wants to be a Jordanaire? Eb wrote: >But Kenny Rogers is just >plain *worthless*. No redeeming entertainment value there, whatsoever. ;) Are you KIDDING...What about "Coward of the County"? "The Gambler"? "You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille"? Powerful musical statements, all of these....with deep, insightful, imaginative lyrics that *resonate* right down to the very core of my emotions!! or that Masterpiece of Psychedelia: "What Condition My Condition Was In"? What could have more entertainment value than that???!!! err.... S.B. *************************************************************** "...isn't it good to be lost in the wood..."--Syd Barrett *************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:22:58 EST From: ElizaS33@aol.com Subject: Worse than a Kenny Rogers Christmas? This doesn't actually count in this thread unless someone will admit to owning it, but I just had to plug the most terrifying Christmas album ever: John Tesh's "Romantic Christmas." I haven't heard it, although I think we can just assume it sounds hideous. But what sets it apart from the pack is the cover art. On the front, we have John and his lovely spouse snuggling on a couch in a nice Romantic Christmas-y room, with a roaring fire and woolly sweaters and the like. On the back, same room... but on the couch, nothing but their discarded clothing. That is just WAY more information about Tesh's Christmas traditions than I ever needed. Regarding my own collection, some people seem to feel that I should be ashamed of my Tom Jones box set wherein Tom delivers live renditions of '60s and '70s hits, such as "Lay Down Sally" and "Listen To The Music.". But I'm just not. (I haven't posted in like 6 weeks and THIS is all I come up with?) Elizabeth ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:13:03 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Speaking of Cat Stevens and power pop... Those of you in the States might have seen a commercial for Timberland (maker of shoes and clothes for outdoor stuff like hiking) that features a song with lyrics: "I (something something) the devil's lake But I'll never ne- ver ne- ver make the same mistake.." over shots of stormy waves hitting rocks, people hiking through knee-deep mud, etc. Anyone know what song it is? Jeme and Caroline, you know people who know people, so... ALSO - speaking of power pop, I read somewhere that the Soft boys wanted to make "Where are the Prawns" a single, but "I wanna destroy you" was considered power pop, so that got picked by the record company. Can that be right? How exactly should the Soft Boys' sound be described? RH has called Invisible Hits "'heavy metal death folk,' for lack of a better description." What do you think? > Well, come on...you don't count. Your whole *collection* is a guilty > pleasure. ;) You're just jealous 'cos his is bigger. =b ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:15:56 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Who Wants to be a Jordanaire? In a message dated 1/20/00 3:06:14 PM Pacific Standard Time, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << Many folks' "nominees" have a sense of kitschy fun. They're horrible albums, but they're kinda funny-wacky. They make good conversation pieces. If I was at someone's house and they owned the Jordanaires album, I'd pull it out, read the jacket and say "Huh! Funny!" Just like I myself own about 60 similar records. I have two or three beat-up Mystic Moods Orchestra albums, for instance. And "Pop Goes the Zither!" But Kenny Rogers is just plain *worthless*. No redeeming entertainment value there, whatsoever. ;) >> I agree with this and had been thinking the same thing . . . that there are many albums that you can get away with not being embarrassed by simply because they contribute to the realm of post-modern, pop art camp. And, actually, I don't know . . . I think the same could maybe be said for Kenny Rogers' "Christmas Album." The only reason anyone *would* own that is because ol' Kenny's become such a dork with the fried chicken thing and the reservation casino bookings and his silly Santa Claus-ish appearance. I mean, ya put that all together, and it spells *kitsch*! The more I think about, if I were the judge in this silly game (and I guess I can at least count a vote as *a* judge), I might have to vote for something more like Chicago "16." The only appeal of such a record is towards one's teen/pre-teen years, when songs like "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" (or was that from "Chicago 15"?) were part of the soundtrack to lazy after-school daydreaming sessions. It's the kind of album that, yeas later, reminds you you once had no taste and that you should've been listening to the Jam or some old R&B album instead. Anyway, I think it was Mike Godwin who mentioned that album (and a couple of others in a smiliar vein!). I think he should win :-) And, Mike, until the final vote count comes in, "don't stop believin' " there, pal ;-) - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:39:17 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: Who Wants to be a Jordanaire? I agree...especially since I don't remember actually *buying* Kenny Roger's Christmas, those Jack Daniels blackouts are nasty! But I do remember buying The Who's "Face Dances" at thirteen and playing it over and over again thinking it was the GREATEST....two years later I was listening to the Dead Kennedy's and I'd safely hidden my "Face Dances" album away in the back corner of my closet where none of my bandmates would ever find it. ;-/ So I guess I Vote for Mike Godwin! ><< Many folks' "nominees" have a sense of kitschy fun. They're horrible > albums, but they're kinda funny-wacky. They make good conversation pieces. > If I was at someone's house and they owned the Jordanaires album, I'd pull > it out, read the jacket and say "Huh! Funny!" Just like I myself own about > 60 similar records. I have two or three beat-up Mystic Moods Orchestra > albums, for instance. And "Pop Goes the Zither!" But Kenny Rogers is just > plain *worthless*. No redeeming entertainment value there, whatsoever. ;) >> > > I agree with this and had been thinking the same thing . . . that there >are many albums that you can get away with not being embarrassed by simply >because they contribute to the realm of post-modern, pop art camp. And, >actually, I don't know . . . I think the same could maybe be said for Kenny >Rogers' "Christmas Album." The only reason anyone *would* own that is >because ol' Kenny's become such a dork with the fried chicken thing and the >reservation casino bookings and his silly Santa Claus-ish appearance. I >mean, ya put that all together, and it spells *kitsch*! > The more I think about, if I were the judge in this silly game (and I >guess I can at least count a vote as *a* judge), I might have to vote for >something more like Chicago "16." The only appeal of such a record is >towards one's teen/pre-teen years, when songs like "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" >(or was that from "Chicago 15"?) were part of the soundtrack to lazy >after-school daydreaming sessions. It's the kind of album that, yeas later, >reminds you you once had no taste and that you should've been listening to >the Jam or some old R&B album instead. > Anyway, I think it was Mike Godwin who mentioned that album (and a >couple of others in a smiliar vein!). I think he should win :-) And, Mike, >until the final vote count comes in, "don't stop believin' " there, pal ;-) > >------Michael K. > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:31:10 -0800 (PST) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: embarrassing records Okay, I think I have everyone beat. I still own a copy of Taco's "Putting on the Ritz" album from 1983. As for singles--in sixth grade I owned several Air Supply ones. And now, for something completely different: Randi's at home and out of the hospital. Hurrah! Her doctor told her she was okay enough to recuperate on her own. Whoo-hoo! Carole ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:55:53 -0500 From: Katherine Rossner Subject: ARGH! (re Cat Stevens) What a brain-fart! No, not "Rubylove"; I don't know where that came from. Gaa. I've got most of the song in my head now, and I don't think I ever knew the title. (I've also got all of "Rubylove" in my head--at least the English words, though I seem to remember at least some of the Greek, phonetically of course.) All right, I just cheated. I went and looked up the track listing for "Teaser and the Firecat" on EveryCD. My machine's refusing to play the samples, but I bet it's "The Wind". IIRC (I've never seen/heard the commercial, I don't have a TV): I listen to the wind, to the wind on my soul, [something] only God really knows. I (something) the setting sun, But never, never, never, never-- I never wanted water once, No, never, never, never, never. I (something) I let the music take me where my heart wants to go. I swam upon the Devil's lake, But never, never, never, never-- I'll never make the same mistake, No, never, never, never, never. OK, this is weird. I just checked MassMusic to see whether they had samples in some other format, so that I could get those lyrics my brain is skipping. The disc of "Teaser" on EveryCD lists "The Wind" as one of its songs; the disc on MassMusic doesn't. Huh? I'll go check CDNow while I'm at it...ha! CDNow includes "The Wind" too. And in RealAudio, not the format that EveryCD is using. Second line is "Where I'll end up, well, I think, only God really knows." Second verse isn't included--only the first is sampled--but that's the right song. Katherine (somehow, I don't think this is the research on which I'm supposed to be spending my time) - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:32:59 -0600 From: steve Subject: More Miyazaki (NR) If you liked Princess Mononoke and just happen to live in the NYC area, you can see more Miyazaki films next month. The world premier of the English language version of Castle In The Sky >http://www.gkids.com/opening.html< Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Winds > http://www.gkids.com/anime2.html< My Neighbor Totoro > http://www.gkids.com/anime7.html< - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:07:08 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Did any Fgz see the Brian Wilson interview segment on 20/20 tonight? I think there was a shot of my pen!!! HA!! During one of the montages, they showed footage from the aftershow meet-and-greet deal at the Sun Theater. And then they showed a close-up of Brian's hand signing an autograph with a fat, black-capped laundry pen. That's gotta be my pen -- he was only out there signing stuff for about 10 minutes, and I didn't see anyone else using that sort of pen. And he signed one or two other autographs with my pen, because a couple of other people asked if they could borrow my utensil. I can't say whether the shot was actually him signing *my* autograph, because it was too brief to see what he was signing. And obviously, I wasn't watching all that closely, because I hardly expected to see something like that. Anyway...too funny!! I hope they rerun this episode, so I can watch more closely this time. (Otherwise, ehhhh...the usual "tabloid" angle to the segment, with none of the truly interesting stuff: how Brian creates his music. And Joel Siegel is a total boob.) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:36:32 +0000 From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Subject: Warning: This message contains Tijuana! >>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. I may have an even worse one than this although I don't have a copy (hastens to add). What about Herb Alperts "Tijuana Christmas"! Chrissie tunes in a pseudo-latin stylie. I've passed up the opportunity to buy this on a number of occassions despite having a lot of Tijuana and HA albums. I think the Tijuana version of "Hava Nagila" (excuse spelling) was my limit. (Or was it the version of "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"?) 10) Crowded House - Woodface (Capitol, 1991) 109 -15 - 5 24) Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience (A&M, 1992) 67 -12 -0 31) XTC - Nonsuch (Geffen) 53 - 9 38) Radiohead - OK Computer (Capitol) 43 - 8 57) The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray (Atlantic) 33 - 8 58) Barenaked Ladies - Gordon (Sire) 32 - 5 60) Crowded House - Together Alone (Capitol) 32 - 6 82) Beck - Odelay (DGC) 25 - 4 Shit! I have eight of the top 100 albums of the decade. Suddenly I feel like a conformist. But wait, the Crowded House, Gin Blossoms and Lemonheads albums are my wifes so that doesn't count does it? Please say it's so!! Anyway, I have tickets to see Beck now so I don't care. Stewart, you'd better get a move on. (H) np PWEI - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos (probably around 3000th in the albums of the decade.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:31:44 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Argh, mateys, ahoy! > 7. Pirating every piece of goddamn software I can from the Microsoft company! For why? It's not worth going to the effort. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:01:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Miscellaneous remarks, some more facetious than others I confirm that Eddie Jobson was in Curved Air - he replaced Darryl Way when DW left to form Wolf. And didn't Jobson join Roxy Music at one point? Stephen Buckalew wrote: >Are you KIDDING...What about "Coward of the County"? "The Gambler"? "You >Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille"? Powerful musical statements,all >of these....with deep, insightful, imaginative lyrics that *resonate* right >down to the very core of my emotions!! or that Masterpiece of >Psychedelia: "What Condition >My Condition Was In"? My recollection is that record was called "Just dropped in" by The First Edition: Kenny didn't get star billing until later. And aren't you forgetting that one called something like "Ruby, don't take your knickers down"? Eb wrote: >I can't say whether the shot was actually him signing *my* autograph, You must have been disappointed that he didn't sign his own name (-: Ferris Thomas wrote: >"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. Don't understand this comment - that sentence looks perfectly OK to me (as the appeal court judge said). - - Mike Godwin (somehow, I don't think this is the research on which I'm supposed to be spending my time, either) PS Michael K. thought that I nominated Chicago, but I didn't - I was the Bee Gees fan. Oh dear... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:45:09 -0500 From: LDudich@ase.org Subject: embarrasing? I like synth-pop. I own 5 Gary Numan records. And Chris Isaak. How embarrassing is that? Talk about simple. Hey, i admit to being an Issak fan too. I don't find him chessy at all. (a bit simple at times, but still quite good.) HIs 2nd self-titled albulm ("the green album") (the first one with his backing band Silvertone) is the best. I've actually been toying with the idea of playing "Fade Away" and seguewaying into RH's "Lysander" (both are based on that F# with open strings chord). I'm not even suggesting that I'm somehow "above" liking simple things. But the stuff that really impresses me though - the stuff I would really categorize as "great" - usually has a little something more. ------------- In terms of cheese, I own Mr. T's (yes, THAT mr' T!) "treat your mother right" single. And have heard Shatner's "The transformed man" several times... << File: The Captain James T. Kirk Singalong Site.url >> http://www.loskene.com/singalong/kirk.html boldly going where no record ever went before, or since...with good reason.. > > > The other one is Prince's 1999 (and Controversy). The Artist gets a bad > rap these days for his attention grabbing stunts, and the hipper crowd of > today (the ones with the Old Navy vests) frowns upon that "skinny > motherfucker with the high voice." > > >The other one is Prince's 1999 (and Controversy). > > Prince, a guilty pleasure? Come on! quite agreed!!! He's still a genius!!! > David Allan Coe- "Live". Yes, this is the one with "Take This Job and > Shove > it". I really bought it for "You Never Even Called Me By My Name (Sad > Country Song)", which I love. This album is a total redneck experience. > [ What's wrong with that? > "Space Jazz"- a bunch of jazz guys who converted to Scientology playing L. > Ron Hybbard compositions. I got this for a buck and have never actually > listened to it, but I'm sure it's terrible. > *: Listen to it! report back how bad it is!!! -luther Luther W. Dudich Alliance to Save Energy 1200 18th St., NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 202/530-2243 202/331-9588 (fax) ldudich@ase.org www.ase.org > You sound reasonable... Time to up the medication. > "I will spend this life taking my armor off" > -Pema Chodron btm... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:13:28 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: This has always been frustrating in any documentary about musicians...little talk of influences, techniques, where ideas come from...you can find this stuff in music magazines, printed autobiographies, etc. But in T.V. interviews and the infamous VH1, there is nary a mention.... The funny thing is, most musicians prefer to talk about this stuff...while interviewers awkwardly steer them to topics that are not very interesting or are none of anyone's business, when by talking about the music they could actually learn far more about the person. The one time I actually had an extended conversation with R.H. he was obviously off somewhere else until we started talking about music, influences, guitar techniques and tunings, etc...and he perked right up. >(Otherwise, etch...the usual "tabloid" angle to the segment, with none of >the truly interesting stuff: how Brian creates his music. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:04:42 -0600 (CST) From: Marshall Needleman Armintor Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #16 > Here's a fun game: What is the cheesiest, guiltiest-pleasure album > that any of us has in our collections? Are we man/woman enough to > divulge the truth? I have the feeling that some parts of my record collection aren't exactly defensible (Steely Dan, Queen, all those damn Beatle Anthology things that I snapped up like a good little consumer [bought the majority of them used, heh], Little Feat, Motorhead, Buck Owens), but, well, I've rationalized my love for them to the point that I feel no guilt at all when I listen to them. However, I'm a little horrified to have hung on to these discs as long as I have -- Likely runner-up candidates: The Cult, _Electric_: Containing some of the inept lyrics ever written ("King Contrary Man," "Peace Dog"), it nevertheless was the best Zeppelin album of the 80s, and that includes _Coda_. Yes, I finally picked it up on CD. "Memphis Hip Shake" always gets me going. Guns 'n' Roses, _Use Your Illusion V.1_: "Dead Horse" clinches it for me. Too bad they thoroughly scuttled themselves...yes, it is. I also, on occasion, listen to "Coma" in its 10-minute entirety. The winner: Celine Dion, _Let's Talk About Love_: In my defense, I've never listened to the whole thing, which my well-meaning mom put in my stocking once for Christmas. (Perhaps because I once told her I share her admiration for the first three Barbra Streisand albums, which _are_ that bloody good.) I attempted to listen to it, though...I've got some fairly gnarly things that I like to listen to (Zorn's noise-ensemble work, early Golden Palominos, Webern, Beefheart [whom I'm sure is very dear to some, if not many, of our feghearts], etc.), and I like to think I can listen to absolutely anything. But 30 seconds in, I had to rip the damn thing out of the stereo before I went completely insane, and I swear I'm not exaggerating here. It offends my sense of musical taste on all fronts, to the depths of my soul. Can't get rid of it, though...she might come to visit and wonder where it is. marshall np Alexander "Skip" Spence, _Oar_: I heard about this several years ago, but couldn't find it at all until Sundazed reissued it...I wasn't looking all that hard. Nobody told me I'd be listening to it for four days straight. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:16:56 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: embarrassing records In a message dated 1/20/00 6:52:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, carole@technical.powells.com writes: << Okay, I think I have everyone beat. I still own a copy of Taco's "Putting on the Ritz" album from 1983. >> Cool! I bet I know all the words to that song still! But Taco is part of the still slightly fashionable new wave revival. Early 80's Chcago, though?!? Never will be found on a Living in Oblivion disc. I still vote for the cheeseball statuette to go to Mike Godwin :-) - ------Michael "tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (super-duper!)" K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:20:59 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Miscellaneous remarks, some more facetious than others In a message dated 1/21/00 7:07:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk writes: << PS Michael K. thought that I nominated Chicago, but I didn't - I was the Bee Gees fan. Oh dear... >> Drat! Okat, then, who had the Journey, Chicago, and REO Speedwagon albums? Sorry for the mix-up :-) - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:08:40 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: I don't embarrass Well, I've looked through my CDs and records and can't find one thing I'm embarrassed to own. Sorry. The closest thing I found was my John Denver albums, which I'm not at all embarrassed about, although some of you probably think I should be. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:17:36 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Eb wrote: > Did any Fgz see the Brian Wilson interview segment on 20/20 tonight? > I think there was a shot of my pen!!! HA!! Wow! I'm sure every Southern Californian is positively GREEN! I mean, you're Famous, Eb! J "Do I look like a waitress?" . - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:21:06 -0500 From: mad Subject: non-guilty pleasures Okay - I can't be the only person on the list who is not embarrassed about their record/cd collection. I'm sure I have stuff on my shelf that would make others groan, but hey, I like what I own and I'm not going to make any excuse for owning it. Sometimes I'm in the mood for Robyn, sometimes I want to hear Asia. And I like Eddie Jobson too. In addition to the groups already mentioned, I believe he did the music for a bunch of commercials - mostly "high-tech" companies like IBM. s. Mary ps - Hi Randi - glad to hear you are home! np - Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:22:43 -0600 From: Aaron Lowe Subject: Re: I don't embarrass At 03:08 PM 1/21/00 , Joel Mullins wrote: >Well, I've looked through my CDs and records and can't find one thing >I'm embarrassed to own. Sorry. The closest thing I found was my John >Denver albums, which I'm not at all embarrassed about, although some of >you probably think I should be. > >Joel I'm with Joel. I think that's why I've avoided posting during this never-ending thread, because I just don't get embarrassed about having CD's that the rest of you might think are not "cool" for me to have and enjoy. For example, I really, really, enjoy listening to my collection of the compete Falco catalog on CD. I'm sure that some of you would be embarrassed to admit that, but I'm just not. For those of you who only remember Falco for "Rock Me Amadeus," all I can say is, you're missing out. :P Aaron * Aaron Lowe [ aaron@aaronlowe.com ] http://aaronlowe.com "Und wenn ich einen Wünch frei hätte Ich wünschte würden uns versteh'n All Schatten hinter uns lassen Nur weisses Licht vor uns zu seh'n" ~Falco _Read A Book_ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #19 ******************************