From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #100 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 18 2000 Volume 09 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Greatest Album Titles Ever? [hal brandt ] Re: RIP: Edward Gorey ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: the bestest Elian ever [Jason Thornton ] Re: Floored - RedAnt Records Goes Bust [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Look at them TITleS! [BLATZMAN@aol.com] Re: RIP: Edward Gorey [Marcy Tanter ] Album titles [The Great Quail ] Re: Greatest Album Titles Ever? [mapslegends@juno.com] Re: RIP: Edward Gorey [Capuchin ] Re: Album titles ["brian nupp" ] Re: RIP: Edward Gorey [jill@naxs.com (Jill Sunderlin)] Re: Album titles [Jason Thornton ] More album titles [Tom Clark ] Re: Album titles [Terrence Marks ] Re: Album titles [Jonathan Moren ] More Red Ant weirdness - Fwd: Apology for last mailing (loveandrocketslist) [Jason Thornton ] Nobody loves you... ["matt sewell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:39:12 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: Greatest Album Titles Ever? I can't come up with the name of the band (I'm remembering something like 'The Faith Band', but I'm not at all sure), but they released an album produced (and titled) by Joe Walsh in the late seventies called "Excuse Me, I Just Cut An Album". /hal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:59:27 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: RIP: Edward Gorey I'm utterly despondent now; reduced to tears, no less. Look after your national treasures. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:31:54 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: the bestest Elian ever At 12:57 AM 4/17/00 -0500, JH3 wrote: >PS. Favorite album title: "What Does Anything Mean? Basically", >though it probably isn't as good as "Let the War Against Music >Begin" The reminds of the John Cougar album title, "Nuthin' Matters & What If It Did." I doubt I'd submit it as a nomination for the best or my favorite album title ever, but still, it has a certain white trash charm. - --Jason "a tiger got him" Thornton "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:45:21 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Floored - RedAnt Records Goes Bust It hardly seems like it could possibly even be real! Maybe RNG, Inc. just doesn't know how to write a compelling enough plea for money. They'd have to do a lot to convince most people that these real audio samples are valuable enough to save and that any money sent would actually go toward this specific fund. And, even then, one would still have to question the value of such a thing. Really, though, it seems like RNG is just trying to recoup some losses incurred by Red Ant declaring bankruptcy. The whole thing seems at least a little bit shady to me. It's things like this that aren't even all that totally strange that make me realize just how incredibly strange the world has become. - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:49:25 EDT From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Subject: Look at them TITleS! The Golden Age of Wireless-Thomas Dolby, always ahead of his time!!!!! Runners Up: Flaunt the Imperfection- China Crisis Apple Venus-XTC(Too bad it sucks the big one, what a title!!!!) Skylarking-XTC- Are these guys just brilliant with this stuff or what??? Virgins & Philistines-Colourfield North of a Miracle-Nick Heyward The Way I Feel Today (Stan Croons the Classics)-Stan Ridgway (his finest) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:05:41 -0700 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Re: RIP: Edward Gorey At 03:59 PM 4/17/2000 +0100, Stewart C. Russell wrote: >I'm utterly despondent now; reduced to tears, no less. >Look after your national treasures. he was such a clever man--he wasn't very old. I wonder what he died of. Dr. Marcy Tanter Department of English and Languages Box T-0300 Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX 76401 phone/voicemail: 254 968-9892 "He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's [sic] most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce." - --Thomas Jefferson, rough draft of The Declaration of Independence, 1776 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:08:20 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Album titles My favorite album titles . . . ah, what a lovely thread! In fact, the obsessive list-maker that I am, I even keep a small list on file -- a place I drop some favorite names into since I was sixteen years old. As could probably be predicted, I favor long, pretentious titles.... My top ten: "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun" -- Dead Can Dance "Starless and Bible Black" -- King Crimson "Strategies Against Architecture" -- Einsteurzende Neubauten "More Songs About Buildings and Food" -- The Talking Heads "Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To" -- Spaceman 3 "Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin" -- Hawkwind "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" -- Frank Zappa "In Search of the Lost Chord" -- The Moody Blues "Three of a Perfect Pair" -- King Crimson "Tales from Topgraphic Oceans" -- Yes Let it be said that I am generally fond of titles chosen by Hawkwind, the Rolling Stones,U2, Rush, Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, Frank Zappa, The Flaming Lips, and King Crimson. Other favorite titles include, in no real order: "I Advance Masked" -- Fripp & Summers "Ship Arriving to Late to Save a Drowning Witch" -- Frank Zappa; though this one definitely relies on the visual pun on the album cover! "Talking with the Taxman about Poetry" -- Billy Bragg "The Head on the Door" -- The Cure "Return of the Frog Queen" -- Jeremy Enigk "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)" -- Brian Eno "Hit to Death in the Future Head" -- Flaming Lips "The Sky's Gone Out" -- Bauhaus "Compact Disc" -- PIL "Radio Gnome Invisible II: Angel's Egg" -- Gong "Globe of Frogs" -- Robyn "It Is The Business of the Future to Be Dangerous" -- Hawkwind "The Xenon Codex" -- Hawkwind "In the Court of the Crimson King: An Observation by King Crimson" - -- King Crimson "Before and After Science" -- Brian Eno "Veedon Fleece" -- Van Morrison "Let it Bleed" -- The Rolling Stones "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" -- Pink Floyd "A Saucerful of Secrets" -- Pink Floyd "Tales from the Lush Attic" -- IQ "Underslinky" -- The Ozric Tentacles "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" -- The Red Hot Chili Peppers "A Farewell to Kings" -- Rush "A Slight Case of Overbombing" -- Sisters of Mercy "Pisces Iscariot" -- Smashing Pumpkins "Run Sodomy and the Lash" -- The Pogues "If I Should Fall From Grace with God" -- The Pogues "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boyes" -- Traffic "H to He Who Am the Only One" -- Van der Graaf Generator - --Quail +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ 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: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:36:15 -0400 From: mapslegends@juno.com Subject: Re: Greatest Album Titles Ever? Celibate Rifles - Turgid Miasma Of Existence Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land...(Huh ?) Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip - Explosions In The Glass Palace m. "Happier due to listening to Tunnel Into Summer" Sleep Well~Don't Burst http://homestead.juno.com/mapslegends/files/mapslege.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:33:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: RIP: Edward Gorey On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Marcy Tanter wrote: > he was such a clever man--he wasn't very old. I wonder what he died of. As the obit Chris posted clearly stated, Mr. Gorey suffered a heart attack on Wednesday last. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:20:04 EDT From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Album titles My Favorite, gotta be "Black Snake Diamond Role." Brian >From: The Great Quail >Reply-To: The Great Quail >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Album titles >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:08:20 -0400 > >My favorite album titles . . . ah, what a lovely thread! In fact, the >obsessive list-maker that I am, I even keep a small list on file -- a >place I drop some favorite names into since I was sixteen years old. >As could probably be predicted, I favor long, pretentious titles.... > >My top ten: > >"Within the Realm of a Dying Sun" -- Dead Can Dance >"Starless and Bible Black" -- King Crimson >"Strategies Against Architecture" -- Einsteurzende Neubauten >"More Songs About Buildings and Food" -- The Talking Heads >"Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To" -- Spaceman 3 >"Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin" -- Hawkwind >"Weasels Ripped My Flesh" -- Frank Zappa >"In Search of the Lost Chord" -- The Moody Blues >"Three of a Perfect Pair" -- King Crimson >"Tales from Topgraphic Oceans" -- Yes > >Let it be said that I am generally fond of titles chosen by Hawkwind, >the Rolling Stones,U2, Rush, Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, Frank >Zappa, The Flaming Lips, and King Crimson. > >Other favorite titles include, in no real order: > >"I Advance Masked" -- Fripp & Summers >"Ship Arriving to Late to Save a Drowning Witch" -- Frank Zappa; >though this one definitely relies on the visual pun on the album >cover! >"Talking with the Taxman about Poetry" -- Billy Bragg >"The Head on the Door" -- The Cure >"Return of the Frog Queen" -- Jeremy Enigk >"Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)" -- Brian Eno >"Hit to Death in the Future Head" -- Flaming Lips >"The Sky's Gone Out" -- Bauhaus >"Compact Disc" -- PIL >"Radio Gnome Invisible II: Angel's Egg" -- Gong >"Globe of Frogs" -- Robyn >"It Is The Business of the Future to Be Dangerous" -- Hawkwind >"The Xenon Codex" -- Hawkwind >"In the Court of the Crimson King: An Observation by King Crimson" >-- King Crimson >"Before and After Science" -- Brian Eno >"Veedon Fleece" -- Van Morrison >"Let it Bleed" -- The Rolling Stones >"A Momentary Lapse of Reason" -- Pink Floyd >"A Saucerful of Secrets" -- Pink Floyd >"Tales from the Lush Attic" -- IQ >"Underslinky" -- The Ozric Tentacles >"Blood Sugar Sex Magic" -- The Red Hot Chili Peppers >"A Farewell to Kings" -- Rush >"A Slight Case of Overbombing" -- Sisters of Mercy >"Pisces Iscariot" -- Smashing Pumpkins >"Run Sodomy and the Lash" -- The Pogues >"If I Should Fall From Grace with God" -- The Pogues >"The Low Spark of High Heeled Boyes" -- Traffic >"H to He Who Am the Only One" -- Van der Graaf Generator > >--Quail > > > > > > > >+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ > >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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:42:20 -0400 From: jill@naxs.com (Jill Sunderlin) Subject: Re: RIP: Edward Gorey A friend of ours who we stay with on the Cape is one of Ted Gorey's cousins, and she took my husband Brad to meet him at the Cape house some years back, knowing that Brad was a huge fan. Brad's descriptions of Gorey and the house echo a lot of what was said in the article. They had to wade through knee high grass to get to the house, which looked like something out of a Gorey drawing. The house was full of cats, and what struck Brad the most, little figures of all his characters that he had made, randomly appearing amongst the incredible clutter. The visit made quite an impression on Brad, though he always seems to talk more about the house, than actually meeting Gorey himself. Brad also came back with several souvenirs of the visit -- a sort of evilly grinning furry elfin character (not made by Gorey) and a long wide shoelace, printed all the way down it with alternating black cats and the words "lost shoelaces." It has a paper tag attached to it that reads: "With a lost shoelace you can: 1. Tie a necktie. 2. Tie back curtains or drapes. 3. Tie 2 together for belt or sash. 4. Make a headband or ........" I'll have to get out a bunch of his books to read them with our daughter tonight. We have a large framed print of the The Gashlycrumb Tinies, so we look at that one often, and, as she's three she finds it highly amusing. Always good to let children know what may befall them at an early age. Well, I have to forward this sad news on to Brad now -- jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:25:30 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: Album titles REM - "Murmur." I've always liked Stipe's reasoning: it's one of the easiest words in the English language to pronounce. np: The Apples in Stereo - "The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone" (the extra "e" makes the title "cute"). Definitely fun stuff. SpinArt sent me a poster, a sticker and erasers with my copy. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:04:58 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: More album titles Almost everything in the Butthole Surfer's calatogue can be included here: Brown Reason to Live Psychic Powerless...Another Man's Sac Hairway to Steven Locust Abortion Technician Electriclarryland Independent Worm Saloon Rembrandt Pussyhorse Nick Lowe - "Jesus of Cool" Same album, equally cool U.S. Title: "Pure Pop For Now People" The Replacements - "Stink" - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:16:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: Album titles I'm sorry, but fellow-feg Kevin Z. Slick's "I Have Dreams That I will be the World's Tallest Person And I don't Want to Be" has to win some sort of prize. I'm also partial to The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon (Sopwith Camel), Record Low Turnout (Noah's Red Tattoo), Gideon Gaye (The High Llamas), Miscellaneous T (TMBG), Medazzaland (They Might Be Giants), They Only Come Out At Night (Edgar Winters), Medazzaland (Duran Duuran), The Brain Thief is Congratulations Fruit (Congratulations/The Congratulations Fleet), and I Often Dream of Trains (RH). Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:27:13 +0200 From: Jonathan Moren Subject: Re: Album titles Favourites: "In search of the most unforgettable tree we ever met" - David Arvedon "Provisionally entitled the singing fish" - Colin Newman "Jag rear ut min själ - Allt ska bort!" - Bob Hund (sorry, untranslatable) "The sound of a goat in a room" - Twice a man and the most bizarre of all: "21" - Chicago J.M. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:29:23 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: More Red Ant weirdness - Fwd: Apology for last mailing (loveandrocketslist) >To: >From: "Mail Administrator" >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:20:18 >Subject: Apology for last mailing (loveandrocketslist) > >Apparently a mass mail was sent out earlier today >to the recipients of this list by accident. I do >apologize for whatever inconvenience may have resulted >in it's sending. >Here are the facts: >* First, RedAnt is no longer in business. >* Next, This list is now defunct and you will not > receive any more mail from it. >* They did leave owing us money. > >Again, I'm sorry for this apparent SPAM mail, it was >mis-directed to this list by accident. No other mail >will be sent to this list so there is no need to >un-subscribe. > >Thank you for understanding. > >Mark >Mail Administrator - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:36:22 +1200 From: digja611@student.otago.ac.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #99 >Edward Gorey, Artist and Author Who Turned the Macabre Into a Career, Dies >at 75 that does it. Tomorrow, I wear a black armband. :((( James 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: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:43:18 +0100 From: "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Scotland,ex1)" Subject: Re: great album titles What about Colourblind James Experience - "Why Should I Stand Up?" (What happened to them by the way?) BTW, before anyone suggests otherwise, it WASN'T clever of Peter Gabriel to have four eponymously titled albums! And my fave song title is fiddlin' fool, Bobby Valentino's "He's Sure Got A Way With Women, He's Just Got Away With Mine". (Hamish) np Colourblind James Experience - "Why Should I Stand Up?" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:54:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: great album titles "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Scotland,ex1)" wrote: > What about Colourblind James Experience - "Why Should I Stand Up?" > (What happened to them by the way?) > > BTW, before anyone suggests otherwise, it WASN'T clever of Peter > Gabriel to have four eponymously titled albums! but was it clever of the house of love to have 5? of course, over here in amuricka, they both only had three. > And my fave song title is fiddlin' fool, Bobby Valentino's "He's Sure > Got A Way With Women, He's Just Got Away With Mine". i've always liked the joy division/new order school of naming songs; a short, seemingly obscure phrase that 3-4 years later suddenly makes complete sense and isn't as random as you thought it was. especially "atmosphere" or "ceremony." ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:00:23 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: Nobody loves you... ...but Jesus and Robyn http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://www.fegmania.org Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #100 *******************************