From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #58 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 058 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [vtsusan@earthlink.net: more about RH & Paul McCartney tribute] [Mich] More Mail Order Happiness [mrrunion@palmnet.net] SxSW (No RH content) [Dede Davis ] i used to love who? [Thomas Rodebaugh ] Re: i used to love who? [Marcy Tanter ] Re: i used to love who? [Michael R Godwin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #57 [Doc ] Re: surprising statistic [Ken Ostrander ] Re: surprising statistic [Eb ] eb! all over the world ["FukStik 2000" ] Re: eb! all over the world [Aaron Mandel ] Effective vs. non-effective bitterness [Vivien Lyon ] Re: eb! all over the world [Eb ] The sound of rereleased pets. [Capuchin ] Royalties all over the world ["JH3" ] PAF 1 [hal brandt ] Re: Royalties all over the world [hal brandt ] hard to please [dmw ] Re: hard to please [Eb ] Re: Royalties all over the world [dmw ] Re: Royalties all over the world ["JH3" ] I *knew* the lineup looked too good... [Eb ] more on PAF1 [hal brandt ] a bad case of history? ["FukStik 2000" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:16:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: [vtsusan@earthlink.net: more about RH & Paul McCartney tribute] On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, woj sven-woj wrote: > Robyn Hitchcock & Mary Hopkins - Goodbye This is even stranger than the earlier announcement that Robyn would sing 'Goodbye' on his own. Mary Hopkin (singular) had the original hit version on Apple Records. IIRC, 'Goodbye' was the follow-up to her smash hit 'Those were the days' which was arranged by Macca but written by some other people. Then after 'Goodbye' she released 'Temma Harbour' which was considerably less successful, and she quit the music business. I find it hard to conceive what Robyn could add to the original, but no doubt we will find out in due course. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 05:10:49 -0800 From: mrrunion@palmnet.net Subject: More Mail Order Happiness Excuse me if this has all been discussed lately...haven't checked my email all weekend... My copy of the Storefront DVD was a-waiting for me when I arrived home on Friday. Hooray! I bounced through it a bit, checking on those non-existent extras before having to run out and do my weekly Friday acousta-gig (which sucked by the way...one of those nights where you can't wait for every song you begin to be over). Anyway, watched it later that night. I have to say I'm not as upset about the aspect ratio as I thought I'd be. There's a few shots where just another inch or two to the right might have helped me make out a chord or something, but in general this works very well in the standard ratio. Perhaps a bit more intimate, if that makes any sense. I'm trying to remember the theater showing to no avail, but am imagining lots of dead space to either side, especially during the wide shots. Now, if they could have at least thrown on some sort of extras! Jeez! I mean c'mon here. The DVD of the Dylan film "Don't Look Back" has 5 audio tracks that supposedly were never released in their entirety. Something like that would have been nice and fairly easy to do, right? Or maybe just a short text page on Robyn's history, or a listing of his albums? Something? Ugh...that I'm a little peeved about. On Saturday, more Mail Order Happiness. My copy of the Circuit #4 DVD arrived (along with the Criterion Collection of Brazil!). While the disc as a whole isn't that impressive...I probably won't buy another of these unless there's a really great segment or something...the Robyn bit is pleasant fun. As mentioned before, two songs done on the fly acoustic in a parking lot (Nasa Clapping, Dark Princess). The interview is basically more of Robyn's weirdness and vague not-answering-the-question monologues ("You CAN say Cheese on DVD, can't you?"). Now, at least here you do get some text background on Robyn, albeit pretty scant. Okay, enough babble. Back to it... Mike - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 05:30:52 -0800 (PST) From: Dede Davis Subject: SxSW (No RH content) This is addressed to all Austin fegs or anyone going to SxSW this year. I have dubbed myself the unpaid promotional machine for some friends of mine, The Mayflies USA from Chapel Hill, NC. They will be playing at Opal Divine's Freehouse on Wednesday, March 15, at 10pm. You MUST go see them--they are an absolutely marvelous pop band. You will not be disappointed. Tell 'em Dede sent ya! ===== Dede "After all is said and done; I gotta move while it's still fun; Gonna walk before they make me run."--Steve Earle __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:36:33 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Rodebaugh Subject: i used to love who? someone mentions "i used to love you" about maybe syd. another interpretation has to do with a comment robyn made a while ago: "i'm not gay, i just went to good schools." is it just me, or does the song at least suggest the interpretation of a same-sex affair at a boy's school before robyn went to cambridge (assuming he went to cambridge, can't remember)? the "i had no choice" and "i am straight" lines are the ones that most clearly fit this hypothesis. it's odd, because i can definitely see the syd interpretation, too. i'm not sure what to make of the "cat" line, though. maybe robyn's imagining his relationship to syd as a boy's school relationship. . . dunno. what do y'all think? tom *************************** *Tom Rodebaugh * *Graduate Student, UNC-CH * *tlr3@email.unc.edu * *************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:55:54 -0600 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Re: i used to love who? At 09:36 AM 3/6/00 -0500, you wrote: > >someone mentions "i used to love you" about maybe syd. > >another interpretation has to do with a comment robyn made a while >ago: "i'm not gay, i just went to good schools." > >is it just me, or does the song at least suggest the interpretation of a >same-sex affair at a boy's school before robyn went to cambridge >(assuming he went to cambridge, can't remember)? the "i had no choice" and >"i am straight" lines are the ones that most clearly fit this hypothesis. Robyn went to Winchester College, which sees itself as tops (as opposed to Eton and Harrow). When he went, it was all boys ("Ted, Woody and Junior" is Winchester-influenced, I think). I don't know that Robyn ever had any "affairs" at Winchester, but it's not all that uncommon at single-sex schools for heterosexuals to have crushes or flings and flirtations with members of their own gender. Lots of Winchester boys go on to Cambridge and Oxford--I believe that when the school was first founded, it was a feeder for Oxford, but that was about 700 years ago...! Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:47:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: i used to love who? On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Marcy Tanter wrote: > Lots of Winchester boys go on to Cambridge and Oxford--I believe that > when the school was first founded, it was a feeder for Oxford, but > that was about 700 years ago...! Still is, I imagine. We're talking top of the range expensive public schools here. Winchester is generally more serious-minded than Eton - Prime Ministers (e.g. Clement Attlee) rather than authors (e.g. Anthony Powell). However, my understanding is that Robyn did not go on to university at all, but went to art college instead. This is remarked on in 'Live at the Portland Arms', where he(?) says 'Kimberley is the only one of us with a degree'. - - Mike Godwin PS Is there an FAQ anywhere with info on RH's eddication? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:55:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doc Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #57 Hey all. Finally, a moment's peace. I had my first and only RH dream last night. I dreamt he was playing a show at the Metro with the Johns from "They Might Be Giants". I get my ticket and I go into the Metro. Nobody's on stage, so I make my way to the front of the balcony, and lean against the rail. The rail moves all the way past the main floor and down to stage level. I hop over the rail, and there I am on the stage. I go backstage, and it's someone's house. (Actually, a lot like Viv's old place in Chicago.) I'm sitting on the floor in the kitchen, when there's a knock at the back door. I get up, open the door, and there's Robyn, dressed as King Lear. "You ready, yeah?" he says. I say, "Yeah," and then myself and the thousands that have gathered go out the back door. We go out on the back deck and there's Robyn and the Johns, all dressed as Shakesperian characters. The three of them have no instruments, it's all acapella. Robyn does this tune about being the moon which is so heartbreakingly beautiful I woke up crying. Look after yerselves - -Doc now ehhhing... Eb's posts for the past three months p.s. Susan Dodge, give us an e-mail at the above address, please. ===== "I have been a member of the Committe of the MCC and of a Conservative cabinet, and by comparason with the cricketers, the Torries seem like a bunch of Commies." -Viscount Mockton __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:10:39 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: surprising statistic >On February 11th, 2000, Pet Sounds was certified as a Gold seller by the >RIAA. In *February, 2000*! wasn't the album just re-released with a bunch of extra tracks? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:23:19 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: surprising statistic >>On February 11th, 2000, Pet Sounds was certified as a Gold seller by the >>RIAA. In *February, 2000*! > >wasn't the album just re-released with a bunch of extra tracks? Well, the latest issue contains both the mono and stereo versions (plus "Hang Onto Your Ego," I believe). I've hedged on getting one, because my older version adds "Trombone Dixie" and I *like* that track.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:05:45 PST From: "FukStik 2000" Subject: eb! all over the world the first thing i thought after watching the movie was, "we've gotta somehow get Editions PAF! to do this thing up right." (or criterion. don't know if they're robyn fans, but they're definitely demme fans.) a letterboxed edition with commentaries from robyn, john, tim, and deni. and, of course, supplements. we know they shot four shows from four different cameras, and no retakes. what i don't know is whether everything got all chopped up in the editing process. if not, then why not put *everything* onto dvd? all four shows, all four cameras (perfect for dvd, as you can manually switch off camera angles), all the way through. with the "verbals" and the songs all separately indexed, so you can program your own movie any which way you please! if that's not possible, then here's what you do. hessu is credited in both the movie and on the soundtrack, which presumably means that he independently audiotaped each show. so, give us the movie, with any extra footage available. then, press all four shows onto audio cd, and include them. one big boxed set: "The Storefront Sessions". any other ideas? i'm definitely going to mail greenberger. hmm, maybe we should *all* do so, so they'll get the message. well, it sure sounds to me as though it was intended to be some sort of film score. listen to it with that in mind, and it makes a lot more sense, i think. which doesn't mean it should've been included *instead* of Flesh Head. but they had 24 extra minutes of space anyhow. they could've included *both*. ouch. i find I Wish I Liked You to be terribly sophomoric and jokey. (which is fine if that's what you're intending. Gene Hackman, for example. but if you're *trying* to sound bitter, then it just makes it come off incredibly lame, which I Wish I Liked You does. *easily* one of robyn's worst songs.) it's not even in the same *ballpark* as Trash, Empty Girl, Earthly Paradise, Mexican God, Executioner, Innocent Boy, The President, I Wanna Destroy You, and others, in the robyn hitchcock pantheon of spite. i mean, just compare, for example, the enmity in his voice as he spits out "i hope you fry in hell" to close PERSPEX ISLAND to the yawn-inducing pleas of "you moralise, yeah you moralise" and its ilk. it's no comparison. KEN "The big red sun that won't go down" THE KENSTER ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:39:42 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: eb! all over the world On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, FukStik 2000 wrote: > any other ideas? i'm definitely going to mail greenberger. hmm, maybe we > should *all* do so, so they'll get the message. my copy of Storefront hasn't showed up yet, but the promise of captions in Spanish and French appealed to me. if i ran the world (and with a big studio owning the movie, i can't imagine a better release IS forthcoming, even if the Museum is interested), i would caption it in every language i could find a translator for. perhaps with an extra captioning track that switches language every line. > which doesn't mean it should've been included *instead* of Flesh Head. > but they had 24 extra minutes of space anyhow. they could've included > *both*. Robyn seems to like the number 12. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:41:19 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Effective vs. non-effective bitterness - --- FukStik 2000 wrote: > ouch. i find I Wish I Liked You to be terribly sophomoric and > jokey. (which > is fine if that's what you're intending. Gene Hackman, for > example. but if > you're *trying* to sound bitter, then it just makes it come > off incredibly > lame, which I Wish I Liked You does. *easily* one of robyn's > worst songs.) Solid and right on, brother. Testify. > it's not even in the same *ballpark* as Trash, Empty Girl, > Earthly Paradise, > Mexican God, Executioner, Innocent Boy, The President, I Wanna > Destroy You, > and others, in the robyn hitchcock pantheon of spite. Amen. > i mean, just compare, for example, the enmity in his voice as > he spits out > "i hope you fry in hell" to close PERSPEX ISLAND to the > yawn-inducing pleas > of "you moralise, yeah you moralise" and its ilk. it's no > comparison. "I'd give my life for just a gun and an hour, you know I'd murder them out in the street..." Coming from anyone else, this would be sheer (self)righteous indignance. But Robyn's voice as he sings this line is full of delightful bitterness and spite....to much greater effect than on "I Wish I Liked You," which just seems trite and petty. Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:54:36 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: eb! all over the world >the first thing i thought after watching the movie was, "we've gotta somehow >get Editions PAF! to do this thing up right." (or criterion. don't know if >they're robyn fans, but they're definitely demme fans.) >a letterboxed edition with commentaries from robyn, john, tim, and deni. >and, of course, supplements. You folks are hard to please! It's remarkable enough that the film came out on DVD at *all* (at least, at this stage of the DVD's market penetration). How many pop artists who sell worse than Robyn have DVDs out?? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:12:51 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: The sound of rereleased pets. On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Eb wrote: > >wasn't the album just re-released with a bunch of extra tracks? > Well, the latest issue contains both the mono and stereo versions (plus > "Hang Onto Your Ego," I believe). I've hedged on getting one, because my > older version adds "Trombone Dixie" and I *like* that track.... The remastered mono rerelease of a couple years back includes Hang On To Your Ego. The stereo reissue contains the mono album with Hang On To Your Ego as well as the original tracks in stereo after that. I'd swear they BOTH contain Trombone Dixie, but I could be wrong. I only have my dubbed minidisc with me here at work and I didn't bother titling it (damn, I need one of those sony decks with a keyboard port). I'm not at all happy with the way the stereo disc is laid out with the mono version first. I'd love to have the stereo mix on a single disc exclusively. Is this in the Pet Sounds Sessions box? Man, I don't know if I want to buy another box for ANOTHER copy of Pet Sounds. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:26:53 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Royalties all over the world >>which doesn't mean it should've been included *instead* of Flesh Head. >>but they had 24 extra minutes of space anyhow. they could've included >>*both*. >Robyn seems to like the number 12. That sort of piqued my interest too. On the face of it, ASfB is basically a vanity pressing, right? It's on "Editions PAF!" (I still don't know what PAF stands for), and it's only being sold direct, so there shouldn't HAVE to be any involvement from Warner Brothers at all - but the credits state that the CD is "manufactured under license" from them. Maybe that just means that WB insisted on retaining some rights to the material - in other words, on the off chance that some radio station starts playing songs from ASfB and that song takes off and gets enough listener requests, WB wants to be able to release it themselves. But knowing what we know about the music biz, it could easily mean that WB, not Robyn, had the CD's manufactured in the Czech Republic and then *took their entire cut off the top,* out of Robyn's cash account, presumably minus the royalties Robyn would have been paid for selling the entire press run (since he's handling the sales himself). That might explain the fact that the CD isn't filled up - WB might only have been willing to pay royalties on the standard 12 songs. I'd assume Robyn wouldn't have paid for the pressing out of his own pocket, up front, if WB was paying him royalties. If that's true, then the question is, does Robyn get the label's share of net sales, or just the artist's? If it's the label's share, then every copy of ASfB sold would probably be the equivalent of 4 or 5 copies of JfS, financially speaking, for him. (Royalty rates can vary, of course.) Anybody know? John "I'm not a businessman, but I'll steal your TV" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:52:24 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: PAF 1 JH3 wrote: > It's on "Editions PAF!" (I still > don't know what PAF stands for) I'm guessing "PAF!" is like a comic-book sound effect (i.e. POW! BAMF! SHAZAM!) It seems to imply that these are quick, limited releases that may be out of print after the initial run...that is, before you can say POIT! Here's hoping for many more to come. (I love PAF1 and think "Daisy Bomb" sounds like it could've come from The Beatles "Revolver".) /hal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:06:21 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: Royalties all over the world Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit JH3 wrote: > That might explain the > fact that the CD isn't filled up - WB might only have been > willing to pay royalties on the standard 12 songs. I recall Robyn complaining that Y&O was "too long". This seems to be the most plausible reason for Bram not being "filled up". /hal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:17:16 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: hard to please On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Eb wrote: > You folks are hard to please! It's remarkable enough that the film came out > on DVD at *all* (at least, at this stage of the DVD's market penetration). > How many pop artists who sell worse than Robyn have DVDs out?? well, how many pop artists have had films directed by someone of demme's prominence? it does seem to me that they're slitting the throat of the product as described. if they're appealing to the sort of film snob who loved _swimming to cambodia_ (i.e., me) letter-boxing would seem almost de rigeur. if they're appealing to the die-hard hitchcock fan, some sort of extra commentary would seem a logical enhancement (and, more-to-the-point, cheap -- couple hours of robyn/tim/whoever in a studio and a day or two of DAT editing ought to be ample for some running commentary garbage. as described on the list, there's no way on earth i'd buy the thing, even in the unlikely event that someone were to give me a dvd player. if it were letter-boxed and had some really tempting extra, i might conceivably buy it even though i don't have a player -- i could watch it at a friend's place or some such. - -- d. - - share our futile whinging. 9mar2000 velvet lounge, 9&u st nw wdc - - w/lincoln brigade, traylor park romeos - 25mar2000 studio 1019 - - 1019 7th st nw wdc w/555, arise from thorns, ether net, moodroom, - - naughty pine, the no-gos, rupert, signspoint to yes & smartbomb - - 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: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:24:06 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: hard to please >> You folks are hard to please! It's remarkable enough that the film came out >> on DVD at *all* (at least, at this stage of the DVD's market penetration). >> How many pop artists who sell worse than Robyn have DVDs out?? > >well, how many pop artists have had films directed by someone of demme's >prominence? Well, Demme's prominence didn't get the film shown in theaters, did it? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:34:12 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: Royalties all over the world well, Eddie probably expects me to yawp about this, so i guess i'll take a stab. should be too obvious to state, but: ah's talking out of mah rear end, since i have no specific knowledge of details of mr. hitchcock's actual contract, and only theoretical knowledge about the "typical" recording contract in general. but: On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, JH3 wrote: > don't know what PAF stands for), and it's only being sold direct, so > there shouldn't HAVE to be any involvement from Warner Brothers > at all - but the credits state that the CD is "manufactured under > license" from them. Maybe that just means that WB insisted on > retaining some rights to the material - in other words, on the off the way most record contracts work, the artist is essentially an employee of the record company, and work done under the contract is done for hire. that means warner bros. owns unused tracks that didn't make the "real" album in exactly the same sense that they own the songs that were chosen for the official release. i think you're right; WB is likely to charge something for the privilege of making its property available for editions paf (i can't type/read that w/o thinking Edith Piaf) to distribute. that may be part of why "star" costs more than the other items in the museum. this is the part of the message where i say that i don't endorse this state of affairs or think it's right or sane or fair and we are as on a darkling plain, swept with confus'd alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant promoters clash by night, but this is a topic about which i consider it in my enlightened self-interest to be as well-informed as possible. - -- d. np(ewds): dido _no angel_ - - 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: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:15:34 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Royalties all over the world Hal writes: >I'm guessing "PAF!" is like a comic-book sound effect (i.e. POW! BAMF! >SHAZAM!) It seems to imply that these are quick, limited releases that >may be out of print after the initial run...that is, before you can say >POIT! Hmmm. The exclamation mark does suggest that somewhat, but for some reason I still think it's an acronym... My best *serious* guesses are "Past And Future" or "Plants And Fish", and of course my best silly guess is "Perverse Angora Fetish." But hey, I'm wrong quite often. >I recall Robyn complaining that Y&O was "too long". This seems to >be the most plausible reason for Bram not being "filled up". I'm not so sure I agree with that either! If that's true, why include "Antwoman Dub"? ASfB is a much better album than Y&O anyway, and "Fleshhead" is a better song than many of the tracks on ASfB. Even if royalties aren't an issue here, I'd still be more inclined to think he wanted to work on "Fleshhead" some more and put it on the next album, than to think that he'd include "Antwoman Dub" because he thought it was a better track. dmw writes: >...WB is likely to charge something for the >privilege of making its property available for editions paf (i can't >type/read that w/o thinking Edith Piaf) to distribute. that may >be part of why "star" costs more than the other items in the >museum. And I'd also presume that Robyn is making whatever a record store would make on its regular markup (minus postage) by selling the CD himself for $16 US. He's probably splitting it with David Greenberger somehow, but it still has to be a whole lot more than he'd make if he sold it through an indie distributor, or (perish the thought) tried to distribute it to stores on his own. And that's irrespective of whether he gets the label's share or the artist's. I guess the point is that folks should encourage this sort of thing wherever possible (by buying extra copies!), because the artist probably makes more money per CD *even if* he or she is under contract to a major label -- as long as the entire press run eventually sells out. JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:58:45 -0800 From: Eb Subject: I *knew* the lineup looked too good... http://www.billboard.com/daily/2000/0306_05.asp March 6, 2000, 4:00 p.m. EST Reported Tribute Album Is News To McCartney Reps Paul McCartney's publishing company MPL Communications North America and his London spokesman, Geoff Baker, are denying involvement in a McCartney tribute album that Internet reports say is to be released on an undetermined independent label. The reports say the album will have tracks by Brian Wilson, Foo Fighters, Neil Finn, Matthew Sweet, Ben Folds Five, and others. "We are not mandating or working on any current Paul McCartney tribute record," says a source at MPL. Baker says he is not aware of the record, adding, "and I don't think Paul is either." Andy Partridge of XTC, who according to reports had covered "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" for the set with a guest vocal by John Cleese, denies any involvement in the project. "This is really annoying," he tells Billboard Online, "because I had about six requests to do this and I just tore them up. We don't want to get involved in any tribute records." - -- Paul Sexton, London ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:33:51 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: more on PAF1 > >I recall Robyn complaining that Y&O was "too long". This seems to > >be the most plausible reason for Bram not being "filled up". > > I'm not so sure I agree with that either! If that's true, why include > "Antwoman Dub"? Everyone's down on "Antwoman Dub"! I liken it to "The Pit Of Souls". A weird, RobynH sound collage ala Revolution 9. If you just forget that it's a remix of backing tracks for the finished Antwoman and take it on it's own merit, it works by providing an unexpected interlude. I wish he'd do a whole album of instrumentals/experimental noise. (Maybe for PAF2 or PAF3!) /hal (who is also hoping "Fleshhead" has a future release) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:35:45 PST From: "FukStik 2000" Subject: a bad case of history? "It's very significant that PERSPEX ISLAND was knocked off the top of the alternative charts by Nirvana." so said robyn in 1996, and he's uttered similar words at other times. is this literally true, that PERSPEX was knocked from the #1 spot by NEVERMIND? (and was it actually called the "alternative" chart at the time, or was it factually the "college" chart?) not that it so much matters, and certainly it's *metaphorically* true, but it'd be an interesting little bit of trivia were it literally the case. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #58 ******************************