From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #57 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 6 2000 Volume 09 : Number 057 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: more about Paul McCartney tribute (plus XTC news) [Eb ] I Wish I Liked You/I Used To Love You ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: Mail Order Happiness [overbury@cn.ca] Re: Mail Order Happiness [Bayard ] Re: Nov5 [James Dignan ] Re: laughs all over the world [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:03:37 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: more about Paul McCartney tribute (plus XTC news) >XTC were approached (they received a letter), but haven't replied and >won't be doing so. " I wouldn't touch a tribute album with yours " he >said. Ha. Someone posted the alleged McCartney-tribute track listing to the Beatles newsgroup a week or so ago, and I commented that the lineup looked *too* good and predicted that some of the bigger artists would fall by the wayside before the final release. And lo and behold, now I hear that the potentially best track won't happen.... Eb, figuring there's at least a 33% chance that the XTC album will be his favorite release this year ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 10:07:13 +0000 From: Anastasia Hunt Subject: Re: laughs all over the world In message , Eb writes >I see that this year's Brit Awards gave a "Lifetime Achievement Award" to >the *Spice Girls*?? > >I mean, even if their music was *great*, this would be a dumb choice >because of the brief length of their "lifetime".... > >Eb, again thankful that he avoids the UK music press I seem to recall the specific "achievement" was "outstanding contributions to British music" or something like that, i.e., "for making lots and lots of money through enormous sales." Ana ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 03:06:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: the the news. nicked from the official the the website (www.thethe.com) It (GunSluts) will be released on his own Lazarus label alongside 'Spirits' and 'The Pornography Of Despair' once the NakedSelf touring and promotion cycle is over. ===== "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: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 07:51:31 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: I Wish I Liked You/I Used To Love You Two of my favorite tunes on "A Star For Bram" are "I Wish I Liked You" and "I Used To Love You." I think these two songs compliment each other very well. There they sit, exactly six songs apart on a 12 track CD, similarly titled and each apparenly directed at someone specific. I don't think Robyn's ever written a more bitter song than "I Wish I Liked You," which blows stuff like "Trash" right out of the water. In fact the lyrical feel is similar to Dylan's "Positively 4th Street." I'm not a huge fan of Hitchcock's blues tunes but this one grabs me. Wonder if it's directed at anyone in particular. I hope so, 'cause I'm making it my goal to find out who. "I Used To Love You," has got to be about Syd Barrett. At least that's who the "You" in the song appears to be, when you take into account the copied hairstyle," the "liquid voice" and the fact that he's now "crazy". The song seems to be about Robyn moving beyond his early fixation with Syd and forging his own path as an artist, escaping the trappings that lead to rock star martyrdom ("every child must avoid its parents fate"). Sure is nice to have a new Hitchcock album to listen to. - -- rUss Pac Bell Park opens in 37 days. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 08:29:48 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: Mail Order Happiness Michael sez: > The Green Boy -- This one hasn't made much of an impression on me > yet. It sounds ever so vaguely like something David Bowie might > do, which is an interesting direction for Robyn. This one probably my favorite track on the album. I like the "hold to me kiss to me fall for me do to me" chanting...has a feel similar to the Velvet Underground's "Murder Mystery". Bowie? First of all I think Robyn's done LOTS of stuff that sounds like something Bowie would do ("Wax Doll" springs to mind). But to me this one sounds more like Fegmania! than anything else. To me it's the most Hitchcockian song on the album. Lyrically enigmatic and sonically similar to stuff he recorded between 1980 and 1984, and with Kimberly wailing away in one ear. Stuff like this is the reason I got into Hitchcock to begin with. Michael sez this too: > Antwoman (Dub) -- Not terribly offensive, as these things go. > But I don't listen to music to simply be "not offended." An > early frontrunner in the sweepstacks for song most likely to > cause me to grope around for the stereo remote. Complete agreement. Without this we've got an album that stands up on its own as a fine companion pece to Jewels For Sophia. With it we've got an album of JfS outtakes. I can see no reason for its inclusion other than to serve as a reminder that that's what this CD is supposed to be. Michael sez further: > The Underneath -- I dig this one. The instrumentation reminds me > strongly of Sleater-Kinney, of all things. The lyrics are first > rate. Is it about a backing band/session musicians? I think it's probably about being a lesser known act in a major label world. The line about treading silently "so you can do your vocal" sounds more like a jab at the big commercial rock band in the studio down the hall, and that's the feeling I get from the whole song. An anthem for lesser known rock bands everywhere. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 14:36:14 -0500 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: Mail Order Happiness On 5 Mar 00, at 8:29, Russ Reynolds wrote: > > Antwoman (Dub) -- > Complete agreement. Without this we've got an album that stands up on its > own as a fine companion pece to Jewels For Sophia. With it we've got an > album of JfS outtakes. Sheesh! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 14:43:15 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Mail Order Happiness i kind of like the antwoman dub. mind you, i have not heard it isings that lead vocal? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:54:38 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Nov5 >Also, on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album, do you know who or what = >"Cookie!" is that he shouts on "Hold On" or the date anounced at the end = >of "Remember"? being from outside the UK, you're probably unaware of the old nursery rhyme "remember remember the 5th of November, gunpowder treason and plot..." The 5th of November was the day of the plot to blow up the British parliament in (?) about 1600, and is commemorated every year by Guy Fawkes night. Of course, pagans know the original celebrations on that day date from a little earlier, but still... James now flying - the flag of Ghana (it's their national holiday). Horizontal red over yellow over green, with a 5-popinted black star at the centre of the yellow band James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:35:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: laughs all over the world On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Eb wrote: > I see that this year's Brit Awards gave a "Lifetime Achievement Award" to > the *Spice Girls*?? And don't forget Robbie Williams's eighth and ninth Brits for best single and best video (both for 'She's the One', which is a straight ripoff from some song I can't remember - 'Misstra Know-it-all' possibly?) - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #57 ******************************