From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #80 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, March 30 2000 Volume 09 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: NMH Austin ["Joel Mullins" ] Re: I'm an idiot. ["Joel Mullins" ] Re: More fun with name generators! [Capuchin ] more than this tab? [fartachu ] more about the American cultural hegemony, etc. [Marshall Needleman Armin] NR: New e-mail for me...or the story of my ass. [Chris Gillis ] Bitching about cinematic hegemony [The Great Quail ] The Quality of Quailness [mrrunion@palmnet.net] Re: yo la tengo [Stephen Buckalew ] live Robyn a-go-go [Bayard ] Re: Bitching about cinematic hegemony [Stephen Buckalew ] Re: yo la tengo [Stephen Buckalew ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:37:30 -0800 From: "Joel Mullins" Subject: Re: NMH Austin >Any of you Austin fegs have any info on the Austin show? >NMH's site shows a show at Electric Lounge, but I believe it is closed. >if it had indeed closed, has it been moved? canceled? whatever? I don't know anything about the show, but the Electric Lounge is now called Gallery Lombardi Lounge or something like that. What are the dates for the show? I'll start checking the Chronicle and maybe make some calls to find out about the show. I definitely want to go to it if it is in (look at all those 2-letter words) fact going to happen. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:38:41 -0800 From: "Joel Mullins" Subject: Re: I'm an idiot. >ignore my last post. in that case, ignore my last post too. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:44:41 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: More fun with name generators! On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, The Great Quail wrote: > http://www.brunching.com/toys/toy-cyborger.html > --Q.U.A.I.L. (Quantum Upgraded Assassination and Infiltration Lifeform) Nice one. I shit you not: J.E.M.E.: Judge Engineered for Mathematics and Exploration - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:06:26 -0500 From: fartachu Subject: more than this tab? if you can help out, please respond to him/her at . woj >From: NS4R2@aol.com >Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:53:17 EST >Subject: robin hitchcock tablature >To: woj@remus.rutgers.edu > >Hi, > >I found your Robyn Hitchcock tablauture site on Lycos. You wouldn't happen >to know where I could find the tablature to for Robyn's version of Roxy >Music's "more than this'"? It appeared on the greatest hits compilation that >A&M put out a couple years ago. I'm not a big pop music fan but I think that >is one of the best pop songs of all time and Robyn's live acoustic version is >great and I like to try and learn to play it. > >If you know where I can find it that would be cool. If I find it, i'll send >to you if you'd like. > >thanks >NS4R2@aol.com > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:48:14 -0600 (CST) From: Marshall Needleman Armintor Subject: more about the American cultural hegemony, etc. Eb said: << Eddie cornholed me: >countries are interested in eavesdropping on a major ritual of American >entertainment culture> > >i think you may have missed marshall's point. though perhaps i should >let him speak for himself, it seems that whereas he was decrying american >cultural imperialism, you're celebrating it. [snip] What Marshall (and you, apparently) "decry" is that the Oscars claim to be a ceremony honoring the *world's* best films. My counterpoint: I don't believe the Oscars make any such claim. And if that's true, then you can't call the Oscars "imperialistic." >> Thanks for coming to my defense, but I think what Eb says here is also true: the global audience tunes in because they're fascinated with Hollywood, sure. At the same time, however, American film's got a defacto stranglehold on the global entertainment market, whether or not the oscars are intended to celebrate the achievements of Hollywood alone. If indeed a billion people were watching Sunday night/Monday morning-afternoon, then roughly 90% of the audience for the show whistles a different national anthem than Uma Thurman does, if indeed she does know how to whistle. This is also part of what I'm talking about: on my first trip to Europe in 1991, I got off the S-Bahn at Zoo Station in Berlin, only to be greeted with a 20 foot picture of Kevin Costner's windswept profile and the legend DER MIT WOLF TANZT underneath it bigger than life. It repulsed me at the time (and does now), but then again, I don't know what I was supposed to have expected: a revival of "Fitzcarraldo"? What the hell, I dunno...like it or not, American culture is foisted on all corners of the globe. At that time in '91, I remember reading about the British film industry being convulsed with self-doubt about whether it could survive given the preponderance of Hollywood product at the box office. As far as I know, they're probably still having the same debate. What I'm really saying here is, as long as I'm indulging in wishful thinking because that's all it is, I wish that the American film industry could be more sensitive about its ghettoization of foreign films by sticking them in a little category all its own, and do more to incorporate them into the mainstream Oscar ceremony. Again (Jonathan is right here), it's an L.A.-centered contest, and to be eligible, movies have to run somewhere within the city environs sometime during Christmas week, so a lot of movies don't even get consideration when they should (_Brazil_ barely did, as I recall). My point here: if it's just American (and sometimes British) films that get a real look, why in the hell was _Life Is Beautiful_, an Italian film shot in Italian made with Italian lire (as far as I know, hell) nominated in the major categories? Obviously AMPAS's rules didn't preclude it from consideration as Best Picture....I believe it was (I remember reading something about this) Benigni coming to LA on a press junket, a few well-placed dinners with well-placed people (Elizabeth Taylor, for one), and bingo, his fortunes mushroom, and he gets a Best Actor statuette, over Tom Hanks. All because he had a few radicchio salads with some air-kissing California types who took to him and had Academy muscle. This is just me whining about the unfairness of the way the world is: all I want is just a little delusionary cushioning so I don't have to be so unrelievedly confronted with the venality and greed of the American entertainment-industrial complex. I don't necessarily put any stock in the awards (how many of my favorite films won one? Damn few), but as we all love movies, I'm sure we'd like to think that, somehow, it's not just a popularity contest and some appreciative thought at least goes into the voting process. (Otherwise, Pia Zadora would've been nominated for one at some point in the 80s.) Particularly in a year where some gigantic epic 3-hour thing doesn't win, and the Best Picture took $15 million to make, roughly a quarter of what it usually costs. (This is probably because there wasn't a 3-hour historical epic in contention.) When I saw American Beauty, my immediate thought afterward was, "That was pretty good. But there's no reason that ten more movies precisely like that, with the same level of star power and script polish and crisp direction and imagination, couldn't've come out of H'wood this year. Tom Cruise could've funded this movie with the change hidden in his couch." Look for Hollywood to go broke this year trying to duplicate the success of AB, the same way they went youth-culture apeshit after _Easy Rider_ was a hit. *sigh*...anyway, I don't really think we're arguing about anything here, we're all on the same side. Except for those of us who really liked "All About My Mother" and those who disagree. :) whew, now I'm going back into lurk mode. Thanks for letting me get it off my chest, y'all. marshall np Marc Ribot, _Rootless Cosmopolitans_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:46:48 -0800 From: Chris Gillis Subject: NR: New e-mail for me...or the story of my ass. Howdy-- In case you care, which is most likely three of you, my e-mail is more than officially changed. With my old account dying, this is a permanent thing. So, if you think I should be in your address book, make sure it is chris@photogenica.net. If Eddie is really clever, he can find my home phone from that information. .chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:51:55 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: robyn news > Is Western Electric the same band that used to be called the Coal Porters? Still got Pat McGarvey in it. As (I believe) The Coal Porters were originally Pat's band, which Sid later joined, it's hard to say if they're still going. They've always had a variable lineup. Sid and Pat have been the core of it, though -- make your own mind up. More info from http://www.sidgriffin.com/ run by the elaborately-sideburned Phil Dennison, who seems to share an almost identical taste in music to mine, as we always meet at concerts. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:46:56 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Bitching about cinematic hegemony See, here's why I really can't take any of this bitching about American entertainment seriously. Prepare yourself for a cranky, dare I say Jemèsque, post: People turn out to watch movies, all over the globe. If no one watched "Dances with Wolves," it would vanish. If everyone boycotted the next Bruckheimer Testosterone Jubilee, and then the next one, and then the next one . . . well, Bruckheimer would go broke and no one would make his movies. People are the "popul" in popularity. And popularity means money, and money begets more money, and that eventually spawns such cultural artifacts as ten-hour Oscar ceremonies where a bunch of Hollywood wankers act like they know *anything* at all about dysfunctional life in the suburbs. It is my conviction that people all over the globe can be mindless, and if a Hollywood movie plays well in Kreblakistan or Elbonia or Marklaar, it's for the same reason it plays well here -- people want to see it, dreck or not dreck. Hell, as most of you know, *I* saw "Titanic" twice. (Ah, that Leo! What a scamp.) Now, Eddie's going to jump in with his comments on the imperialistic capitalistic marketing machine, and Marshal may go on about poisonous hegemonies, but my belief is more simple -- people like trash, wherever they are, and we are a large, rich nation, and we produce lots of trash, and people want to consume it, and that desire constructs, fuels, and empowers the marketing machines and the toxic hegemonies and the McDonalds and the Starbucks and the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I do not think any country is comprised solely of people who are dying to produce, as a nation, Great Works of Cinematic Art, but the United States is holding them down because of Hollywood's hegemony. Hell, we produce enough Good Movies that won't play well overseas for the same reason they don't reap in profits here -- it is very rare when popular taste and cinematic art go smoothly hand in hand. In fact, part of the reason our movies are so mass-consumed is we have the luxury of making brainless entertainment that appeals to the lowest common denominator. A culture in our stages of relaxation and stability rarely produces Great Works of International Relevance. If anything, I would think our "legitimate" works of art tend now to be more introspective and personal; except of course for postcolonial streams of concept art, which I'd rather not get into, and aren't that palatable to a mass audience anyway. But back to my point: Our blockbusters are often mindless fun, sheer escapism -- and what's so wrong about that? I hear Iranian cinema -- at least the stuff that slips through the brave efforts of censorship and purification of the Board of Turbaned Nannies -- is supposed to be very good. But hell, does that mean as a whole, the Iranian people are more noble, being unfettered by the US Entertainment industry? In my heart, I think the average Iranian Joe would probably rather watch "Braveheart" on a Saturday night. And that's why these movies are so darn profitable. (I'm not sure I can say this about the French. They seem to just hate us instinctively, so all bets are off with regards to what movies they'll enshrine.) Confusing the movie industry with the cinematic arts is a dead-end street -- so let the Oscars pat themselves on the back as lick the toes of Mammon and throw an occasional sop to the Muse. She'll get by, she always does, no matter how many talented directors or actors sell out their souls. And the "Best Picture," what a laugh. It's just another marketing device, nauseatingly peddled as a stamp of some intrinsic worth. Especially the last two years, where it comes with loads of pretension -- While certainly good movies, personally I don't think *either* "Shakespeare in Love" or "American Beauty" were all they are cracked up to be; but then again I don't think that it matters one whit in the long run, because we only have ourselves to blame. Shifting one's dull, throbbing hatred or acidic contempt from We the People to the Sleaze-Thing That Is Hollywood may be a cheap way to avoid general misanthropy, but it doesn't address the real issue. Oh, and one last thing -- foreign and indie films can suck pretty bad, too. And to address a question brought up recently, I think "Life is Beautiful" was accepted because of Oscar's Holocaust Clause*, part of the General Catasrophe Rule that takes precedence over such niceties as Country of Origin. Crankily, - --Quail *Note trendy use of "Oscar" as a personal noun +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:19:51 -0800 From: mrrunion@palmnet.net Subject: The Quality of Quailness Quail sputtered: > Shifting one's dull, throbbing hatred or acidic contempt > from We the People to the Sleaze-Thing That Is Hollywood > may be a cheap way to avoid general misanthropy, but it > doesn't address the real issue. I revel in misanthropy. I hate all people, or at least realize we're all just batches of quivering nerve endings...real pathetic boobs. > I'm not sure I can say this about the French. They > seem to just hate us instinctively, so all bets are > off with regards to what movies they'll enshrine... Case in point. When Dianne and I were over in France last May, the big movies that were playing absolutely everywhere, with big humongo posters filling park kiosks and subway walls, were: Cube Breakfast of Champions Existenz Arlington Road So...don't know what to make of that. At first I thought maybe that Cultural Behemoth known as Hollywood dumps our shitty movies overseas in order to recover their costs, since they know no one here will waste their time. But all these posh Parisiens were flooding in and apparently loving these movies, so who knows. By the way, has anyone seen Breakfast of Champions yet? Looks intriguingly bad based on the poster I saw...definitely one to rent here soon. Mike (a true lover of bad film) - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:24:30 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: yo la tengo I don't like all of Yo La Tengo's albums....but "Fakebook" and "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One" are both beautiful albums (with lotsa hooks too Michael :-) "Damage" on "I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One" is worth the price of the album to me...gives me chills... "President Yo La Tengo" and "New Wave Hot Dog" are both good too (IMHO of course). I haven't heard their new one, and some of their other albums are too full of, as Michael put it, noodly, awash in feedback, hookless tunes for me...maybe someone who likes Sonic Youth would like their feedbacky-kinda-stuff. Fakebook is almost more of an indie-rock version of a folk-rock album....I think it's their best (not many of the songs on it are their's though...it's mostly cover tunes....but I like their interpretations of the songs). I like their version of Cat Steven's "There Goes My Baby" better than the original for instance. Come to think of it, I wonder what songs Robyn would pick for an all-cover album....kinda like Fakebook or Bowie's Pinup's? He's scattered a few cover songs throughout a few albums...what are all the cover tunes Robyn's commited to vinyl/cd? Anyone? S.B. *************************************************************** "...isn't it good to be lost in the wood..."--Syd Barrett *************************************************************** >><< I know I've heard of them, but who is yo la tengo? >> >> >> I'm not an expert on Yo La Tengo and I'm not even all that wild about >>them, but maybe that makes me a good candidate for offering a good, >>non-gushing opinion. Basically, they're a New Jersey-based indie rock band >>(always been a trio?) that's been around since the mid- or late-80's. I >>think of their sound as being equal parts Velvet Underground (or maybe more >>like Galaxie 500/Luna) and Sonic Youth. They used to be way more into the >>kind of silly, noisey guitar noodlings that just make my skin crawl. Of >>late, they've mellowed considerably. To the point where I quite enjoy their >>new album. I'm not sure if there are enough hooks for me to get *really* >>into it, but I definitely like putting the CD on from time to time. >> There you have my Joe Sixpack summary of Yo La Tengo. Do with it what >>you will :-) >> >>------Michael K. >> >> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:14:01 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: live Robyn a-go-go Hi, I'm experimenting with http://mp3.freediskspace.com They are giving out 300 free megs and all you have to do is look at (or ignore) a couple banner ads, apparently. Anyway, I put the November 2, 1999 Rock Armada show up there for your listening enjoyment. Sign up at the URL above and then go to http://mp3.freediskspace.com/Folders/1586784/ If you want, give them my referrer code: U000EFF46 and i'll get a little bit more space to put stuff up for y'all. IMPORTANT: all I ask is that you let me know how this service works for you - transfer speeds, any annoyances, etc. Share and enjoy, =b ps- the 11-2-99 show is from Maxwell's, Hoboken NJ. Note that even tho Gene Hackman is the first song, it's numbered 02 in the file name. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:15:20 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: Bitching about cinematic hegemony Interesting post Quail... BTW, I just saw the DVD of the Terry Gilliam film "Time Bandits" (not the first time I'd seen the film), it has an option of running commentary from Gilliam during the film....fascinating stuff, and interesting commentary on filmaking and how he made certain filmaking decisions in reaction to "Hollywood" style (i.e. American) films. He doesn't seem very fond of our culture...especial the lack of a reading public (the kid is one of the heroes in the film, and he is introduced as a book-reader with a well developed imagination, while his parents are t.v. focused consumers). My jury is still out on the validity of all his observations, but they are thought provoking none-the-less. If anyone has access to this DVD, I highly recommend it...not just because it's a good and very fun movie, but because Gilliam's commentary is so interesting. One weird fact I'd never noticed....the kid's parents had plastic over their furniture to "preserve" it (like some of my older relatives used to do)...and the servants of "Evil" are covered with plastic as well...a symbol of the evil of base materialism...also...one of the time bandits also was R2D2 in Star Wars... S.B. *************************************************************** "...isn't it good to be lost in the wood..."--Syd Barrett *************************************************************** At 09:46 AM 3/30/00 -0500, you wrote: >See, here's why I really can't take any of this bitching about >American entertainment seriously. Prepare yourself for a cranky, dare >I say Jemèsque, post: > >People turn out to watch movies, all over the globe. If no one >watched "Dances with Wolves," it would vanish. If everyone boycotted >the next Bruckheimer Testosterone Jubilee, and then the next one, >and then the next one . . . well, Bruckheimer would go broke and no >one would make his movies. > >People are the "popul" in popularity. And popularity means money, and >money begets more money, and that eventually spawns such cultural >artifacts as ten-hour Oscar ceremonies where a bunch of Hollywood >wankers act like they know *anything* at all about dysfunctional life >in the suburbs. > >It is my conviction that people all over the globe can be mindless, >and if a Hollywood movie plays well in Kreblakistan or Elbonia or >Marklaar, it's for the same reason it plays well here -- people want >to see it, dreck or not dreck. Hell, as most of you know, *I* saw >"Titanic" twice. (Ah, that Leo! What a scamp.) > >Now, Eddie's going to jump in with his comments on the imperialistic >capitalistic marketing machine, and Marshal may go on about poisonous >hegemonies, but my belief is more simple -- people like trash, >wherever they are, and we are a large, rich nation, and we produce >lots of trash, and people want to consume it, and that desire >constructs, fuels, and empowers the marketing machines and the toxic >hegemonies and the McDonalds and the Starbucks and the other Horsemen >of the Apocalypse. I do not think any country is comprised solely of >people who are dying to produce, as a nation, Great Works of >Cinematic Art, but the United States is holding them down because of >Hollywood's hegemony. Hell, we produce enough Good Movies that won't >play well overseas for the same reason they don't reap in profits >here -- it is very rare when popular taste and cinematic art go >smoothly hand in hand. In fact, part of the reason our movies are so >mass-consumed is we have the luxury of making brainless entertainment >that appeals to the lowest common denominator. A culture in our >stages of relaxation and stability rarely produces Great Works of >International Relevance. If anything, I would think our "legitimate" >works of art tend now to be more introspective and personal; except >of course for postcolonial streams of concept art, which I'd rather >not get into, and aren't that palatable to a mass audience anyway. >But back to my point: Our blockbusters are often mindless fun, sheer >escapism -- and what's so wrong about that? I hear Iranian cinema -- >at least the stuff that slips through the brave efforts of censorship >and purification of the Board of Turbaned Nannies -- is supposed to >be very good. But hell, does that mean as a whole, the Iranian people >are more noble, being unfettered by the US Entertainment industry? In >my heart, I think the average Iranian Joe would probably rather watch >"Braveheart" on a Saturday night. And that's why these movies are so >darn profitable. (I'm not sure I can say this about the French. They >seem to just hate us instinctively, so all bets are off with regards >to what movies they'll enshrine.) Confusing the movie industry with >the cinematic arts is a dead-end street -- so let the Oscars pat >themselves on the back as lick the toes of Mammon and throw an >occasional sop to the Muse. She'll get by, she always does, no matter >how many talented directors or actors sell out their souls. > >And the "Best Picture," what a laugh. It's just another marketing >device, nauseatingly peddled as a stamp of some intrinsic worth. >Especially the last two years, where it comes with loads of >pretension -- While certainly good movies, personally I don't think >*either* "Shakespeare in Love" or "American Beauty" were all they are >cracked up to be; but then again I don't think that it matters one >whit in the long run, because we only have ourselves to blame. >Shifting one's dull, throbbing hatred or acidic contempt from We the >People to the Sleaze-Thing That Is Hollywood may be a cheap way to >avoid general misanthropy, but it doesn't address the real issue. > >Oh, and one last thing -- foreign and indie films can suck pretty >bad, too. And to address a question brought up recently, I think >"Life is Beautiful" was accepted because of Oscar's Holocaust >Clause*, part of the General Catasrophe Rule that takes precedence >over such niceties as Country of Origin. > >Crankily, > >--Quail > >*Note trendy use of "Oscar" as a personal noun >+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ > >The Great Quail, K.S.C. >(riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) > >For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, >and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail > >"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability >of the human mind to correlate all its contents." > -- H.P. Lovecraft > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:20:18 EST From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: yo la tengo >From: Stephen Buckalew >Reply-To: Stephen Buckalew >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: yo la tengo >Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:24:30 -0500 > > > >I don't like all of Yo La Tengo's albums....but "Fakebook" and "I Can Hear >the Heart Beating as One" are both beautiful albums (with lotsa hooks too >Michael :-) "Damage" on "I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One" is worth the >price of the album to me...gives me chills... > >"President Yo La Tengo" and "New Wave Hot Dog" are both good too (IMHO of >course). I haven't heard their new one, and some of their other albums are >too full of, as Michael put it, noodly, awash in feedback, hookless tunes >for me...maybe someone who likes Sonic Youth would like their >feedbacky-kinda-stuff. > >Fakebook is almost more of an indie-rock version of a folk-rock album....I >think it's their best (not many of the songs on it are their's >though...it's mostly cover tunes....but I like their interpretations of the >songs). I like their version of Cat Steven's "There Goes My Baby" better >than the original for instance. > >Come to think of it, I wonder what songs Robyn would pick for an all-cover >album....kinda like Fakebook or Bowie's Pinup's? He's scattered a few cover >songs throughout a few albums...what are all the cover tunes Robyn's >commited to vinyl/cd? Anyone? Vegetable Man Gigalo Aunt Mystery Train Cold Turkey Bells Of Rhymney Eight Miles High Outlaw Blues Open the door homer Almost the whole Portland Arms Record... I'm sure there are more. Brian >S.B. > >*************************************************************** >"...isn't it good to be lost in the wood..."--Syd Barrett >*************************************************************** > > > >><< I know I've heard of them, but who is yo la tengo? >> > >> > >> I'm not an expert on Yo La Tengo and I'm not even all that wild >about > >>them, but maybe that makes me a good candidate for offering a good, > >>non-gushing opinion. Basically, they're a New Jersey-based indie rock >band > >>(always been a trio?) that's been around since the mid- or late-80's. I > >>think of their sound as being equal parts Velvet Underground (or maybe >more > >>like Galaxie 500/Luna) and Sonic Youth. They used to be way more into >the > >>kind of silly, noisey guitar noodlings that just make my skin crawl. Of > >>late, they've mellowed considerably. To the point where I quite enjoy >their > >>new album. I'm not sure if there are enough hooks for me to get >*really* > >>into it, but I definitely like putting the CD on from time to time. > >> There you have my Joe Sixpack summary of Yo La Tengo. Do with it >what > >>you will :-) > >> > >>------Michael K. > >> > >> ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:25:03 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: yo la tengo Thanks Brian, I remember there were a couple on that soft boys compilation (the double one...can't remember the name)...like "We like bananas because they have no bones" and "that's when the heart-ache begins"....these are covers right? cant remember the names or who wrote them.... Steve >>Come to think of it, I wonder what songs Robyn would pick for an all-cover >>album....kinda like Fakebook or Bowie's Pinup's? He's scattered a few cover >>songs throughout a few albums...what are all the cover tunes Robyn's >>commited to vinyl/cd? Anyone? >Vegetable Man >Gigalo Aunt >Mystery Train >Cold Turkey >Bells Of Rhymney >Eight Miles High >Outlaw Blues >Open the door homer >Almost the whole Portland Arms Record... >I'm sure there are more. >Brian > ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #80 ******************************