From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #171 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, June 27 2000 Volume 09 : Number 171 Today's Subjects: ----------------- ... if anyone wants it [Natalie Jacobs ] A note to portland (OR) fegs [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: A note to portland (OR) fegs [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: A note to portland (OR) fegs (AND) others [Bayard ] Re: Eb all over the depraved Sunset Strip [Eb ] Re: those hard to find records and cds and a lot of Robyn ["brian nupp" <] Portland Stores [Brett Cooper ] Re: Grumble ["Bradley Wood" ] Re: Eb all over the depraved Sunset Strip [Terrence Marks ] Bangles EP ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: eels concert ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: blown off [Kate Kwiatkowski ] CDNow news [clip] [Eb ] Re: unagi show [Eb ] Re: Happiness [Michael Wolfe ] Re: eels concert [lj lindhurst ] Re: Eb all over the depraved Sunset Strip ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:58:45 -0700 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: ... if anyone wants it > He was completely kind and polite at this tour > and the previous one, or he was rude on this tour but not on the > two previous? The latter. Viv swoons: > I am! I am! Oh Heavenly Pop Hit, how I love you! Oh, Martin > Phillips! Oh! Oh! I'm proud to say that it was I - yes, I - who turned Viv on to "Heavenly Pop Hit." It was played nearly constantly on our trip to Oregon. I like "Soft Bomb" a lot, personally, though I tend to listen to "Submarine Bells" more. BTW, Martin's surname is spelled "Phillipps." Too many consonants for my taste. n. (listening to Nick Drake today) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:36:57 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: A note to portland (OR) fegs Ummm. If y'all still don't have, or need to get copies for your friends, Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark's _Monday's Lunch_, Michael Keefe has some that are taking up space in his store. Rush on by soon, so your lives and your friends lives may be fulfilled for generations- and so he doesn't have to send them back to me. Michael, give people a good feg discount and pass it on to my "profit." I wish I'd been there for the fegstivities. Happies, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:28:07 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: A note to portland (OR) fegs In a message dated 6/27/00 1:54:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Mark_Gloster@3com.com writes: << Ummm. If y'all still don't have, or need to get copies for your friends, Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark's _Monday's Lunch_, Michael Keefe has some that are taking up space in his store. Rush on by soon, so your lives and your friends lives may be fulfilled for generations- and so he doesn't have to send them back to me. >> Too late, actually. Just shut the doors forever earlier today. Mark, I'm 'fraid I'll have to send them back. Closed forever . . . weird! This will take a while to sink in! :-| - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:42:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: A note to portland (OR) fegs (AND) others the Glostotron sez: > << Ummm. If y'all still don't have, or need to get copies for your > friends, Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark's _Monday's Lunch_, > Michael Keefe has some that are taking up space in his store. > Rush on by soon, so your lives and your friends lives may be > fulfilled for generations- and so he doesn't have to send them > back to me. I, too, have extras of this fabulous album, and would like to sell them to fegs and send the money to SharkDood. I am also looking for cool shops that might be interested in stocking some nifty indie type sounds. You can download free MP3 versions of "Big Spit Blues" and the acoustic "Severe Dire Tamage" from fish gloss, inc: http://glasshotel.net/gh/fish_gloss.htm On a sort of related note - apparently that IS t.m.b.g doing the "malcolm in the middle" theme. And something not so nice - a clinician friend of mine tells me that homosexuality is (again?) listed in the DSM-IV? Is this right? Or one of those pesky urban legends? Katherine? =b ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:54:54 -0700 From: Eb Subject: eels concert I've been having *dire* ISP problems for the past day and a half, so I couldn't post until now. Even now, I'm using a different phone number to dial up, which may or may not cost me Zone 3 rates. Now, pardon me while I skim through 100 or so accumulated email messages.... Anyway, regarding Sunday's Eels show. Good stuff. Interesting instrumentation. It was presented very much like an old-school jazz/blues gig -- E even opened with a cover of Ray Charles' swinging take on "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning." E played both piano and (undersized) guitar. The bassist played both electric and upright bass. Lisa Germano (whom I didn't even recognize until she was introduced at the end) sang backup, and dabbled on several different instruments (violin, mandolin, keyboards, etc.). And there were two horn guys, who switched off on saxes, trumpet, flute, clarinet, melodica, triangle and other toys. Oh, and the drummer "Butch" was dressed in a nun's habit. ;) Lots of variety in visuals, which kept me engrossed. E is a somewhat mushmouthed singer and an uncharismatic performer, but his songs are quite good. A few funny lines were tossed out, too -- there was a real jaw-dropping bit of black humor, wherein E pointed out that one of the horn players was performing for the first time since getting out of rehab (this was true). Then he proceeded to point out the guy's 10ish-year-old son in the audience, and told the kid he was sorry Daddy likes heroin better than you, but that Daddy loves you and things will work out OK. Wow. A showstopping mix of nervous laughter, tenderness and shock, palpable in the audience. RH never could've pulled that one off. I almost didn't get in the show. At first, I was told that I wasn't on the list, and the show was way sold out (surprising, given the group's poor sales...must be a regional thing). After waiting around aimlessly for a half hour, suddenly the box office magically got a new stack of tickets, and there was mine. Blah. I got in just moments before the show started and the room was *packed*, thus I never found a comfortable place to stand (I always felt like I was on the edge, getting in the way of foot traffic). That was kinda irritating. I never felt relaxed. Gen X celebs noticed in the crowd: "Brian Krakow" (again!) and actress Cheryl Pollak (you'd know her face). Afterwards, I was going to walk down the street to the Viper Room. A friend said he'd put me on the list, and a would-be "supergroup" led by Reeves Gabrels (Bowie's lead guitarist) was playing covers and things. But something went wrong there too, and I couldn't get in at all. Ah, well. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:55:44 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Eb all over the depraved Sunset Strip Oh no! DMW: >there are new re-issues of the snakefinger discs within the last couple of >months, if you want the music, not the collector's items. I'd prefer to find used Ralph vinyl, but...maybe. I assume the Snakefinger reissues are on that soulless, parasitic East Side Digital label, too? Bleh. ESD grates on me, somehow. I remember my old college radio station had a copy of Chewing Hides the Sound, but at some point, the record disappeared. Just the *record*, mind you -- the empty sleeve remained properly filed and accessible! Sheesh. At this point, I only have two Snakefinger albums (Live in Chicago and Night of Desirable Objects, both bought as secondhand cassettes), but unfortunately, they're later releases and a bit too "straight." >> np: Birthday Party reissues (mmmmmmmm...good) > >really!? given your take on bauhaus, i would've thought you'd hate the >birthday party. i'm curious as to why BP=good, Bauhaus=shite (excuse me >if i got that wrong, but i thought that was more-or-less your position.) >i always thought of them as very kindred bands. I can understand why you see them as "kindred," but the main difference for me is that I can hear the Birthday Party without chuckling at what fruity, pretentious twits they are. The Birthday Party also didn't write 19 monotonous dirges which play Chord A for eight beats, Chord B for eight beats, then back to Chord A (repeat until sullen boredom sets in...). The Birthday Party has a raw, rocking furor which Bauhaus never even approached. I haven't finished listening to the BP reissues yet, so I can't post any detailed comments. But oh, how I've tried to like Bauhaus. I've been through two greatest-hits compilations, Mask and the recent live double-disc. To no avail. But given how little respect I've had for most Bauhaus fans I've known, it's no wonder that I don't fit the mindset. >i'd pay a smaller lot for a legit CD of _d is for dumptruck_ I have it on vinyl. I doubt I've played it since the late '80s, though. Dumptruck was (is?) a good band. They deserved far better treatment from the Biz. I wouldn't say so anymore, but at the time, I griped to folks that Dumptruck's For the Country was a better record than the concurrent REM/Document. Then, Andrew "Goth is *fun*!!" Simchik sniffled about Babybird: >Bzzt! Thank you for playing. How much did you wager? Oh, I'm sorry... I have Babybird's Ugly Beautiful in one of my "sell" boxes. Not dreadful, but...ehh. I used to have a "Baby Bird" disc, too. - --- Random notes: Huh...I didn't know Robyn performed "Tangled Up in Blue." I'd be curious to hear that, since it's a fairly complex song and couldn't just be "faked" with an ironic smirk. (Um...I think?) Regarding Chills discussions (Submarine Bells...wheeeee), I coincidentally just heard elsewhere that the Chills have formally severed ties with Flying Nun. Sounded like a friendly split, but...wow. I never worked at All American Burger, but coincidentally, I ate there for the second time *ever* just the other day, prior to the Lou Reed show. I believe the girl at the next table was a prostitute. Running into Robyn at a Texaco station? Weird! Holy shit! I played A Star for Bram, but just don't feel like writing another lengthy post at this time. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:05:59 EDT From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: those hard to find records and cds and a lot of Robyn I guess this is as good of a time as any to tell this embarassing story. Back in 89, when i was a teenage born-again christian, my older brother and I went to see Robyn and the Egyptians in Cleveland. Man I was so excited! He was my favorite (and still is) artist. We got there a few hours before the show thinking maybe we could meet these special magical people. Somehow we got into the venue through the back. While we were walking up the back stairs Andy comes running by! "I think that was Andy Metcalfe" my brother said. Then he came running by once again. This time we stopped him and asked him to sign the button down shirt I was wearing. He did. What a nice guy. Any way the show happened, and all I remember was thinking "I can't believe Robyn Hitchcock is so TALL!" I remember they played "the ruling class" too. So the show ends, and we hear rumors that Robyn might come out after the show. We wait around and sure enough this TALL enchanted Hitchcock slips out from nowhere. People are talking to him, and I finally get the chance to talk with my idol. I ask him if he'll sign my shirt. He agrees and starts spinning me around while he decorates my shirt with little green lines. After speckling me he signs Robyn H. on my sleeve. Man, I was crazed with joy! So being the good christian that I was I ask him what his song "ye sleeping knights of jesus" was about. He say's "Well, what do you think it's about?" I said "God." "Well yeah, that's pretty much it then." he replies. Then I hand him a bible tract (a little pamphlet) that says on the cover "If you died right now, are you certain you'd go to heaven?" and say "I was wondering if you could have a look as this?" He says politely as he puts the tract in his shirt pocket "I'll just have a little looksie at this later." Well, I was quite popular they next day at church! I ended up regretting the whole "witnessing episode" about a year later, when I realized I was agnostic after reading Richard Bach's "Illusions." I've met Robyn a few times since then before or after shows (I've even got a photo with him somewhere), but I've never mentioned or apologised for the teenage bornagain christian episode. I guess it's kind of funny to me now. But I can only imagine the freaks Robyn's had to deal with. Not that any of you are as big of a freak as me (or was),but just the same, everybody has their moods. I never know what happens to a person, right before I see them. They could've just been robbed by gun point for all I know, or had to deal with a born-again christian (not that there's anything wrong with that!). So that's my story. Brian N. >From: Stephen Buckalew >Reply-To: Stephen Buckalew >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: those hard to find records and cds and a lot of Robyn >Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:50:44 -0400 > > >This was a couple years ago....but at at a Cambridge gig (same year as the >boat gig)...I hung out for about a half hour with him before the show >(other artists were playing and he was hanging out before going up to do >his set), and he seemed very uncomfortable (and impatient) making small >talk (and i dont blame him...I'm terrible at making small talk and was >probably boring him). > >But when we started talking about music stuff...like guitar techniques, >alternate tunings, songwriting techniques...he perked right up, and got >very talkative and enthusiastic, and seemed genuinely interested in >discussing that stuff. > >This was a few years ago though... > >S.B. > > > >At 00:08 27/06/00 -0400, you wrote: > > > >Randi: > > > >> Now I must ask a question ... > > > >> I also think if RH is going to be disrespectful to fans and fegs > >> > >> I'm quite befuddled as to why no one has told their story about Robyn > >> blowing them off. > > > > > >OK, feggies -- out with it! > >-- > >Ross Overbury > >Montreal, Quebec, Canada > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:06:57 -0800 From: Brett Cooper Subject: Portland Stores Hi, all... I'm going to be in the Portland area next week and was wondering if anyone knows of any awesome record shops in that area. If you have any idea, please feel free to pass the information on to me! Thanks! Brett ******************************************** Cooper Collections http://home.gci.net/~coopercollections ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:13:41 PDT From: "Bradley Wood" Subject: Re: Grumble Gee, I wish I would have known this before we met Robyn. Actually, we caught him at the Crocodile Cafe before the show when he went to pick up a menu. Can't say that he was thrilled for the attention, but he was affable and preemptively asked if we wanted an autograph. He mentioned that he couldn't read the menu as well as he used to unless he had his glasses, then autograpghed my copy of Element of Light, adding a pair of floating eyeglasses to the cover. Road trips can aggrevate otherwise minor inconveniences, sometimes its hard to work up to a good mood when you have to be "on" for a show. It was a wonderful evening, particularly the disco medley (Sound And Vision/Rock Me Baby/In Love With a Beautiful Woman (Can be a pain in the Ass)/Breaking Glass/Kung Fu Fighting/Disco-A-Round. Bradley ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:30:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: Eb all over the depraved Sunset Strip On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Eb wrote: > Since listbiz is dead slow beyond set-list and "where's Randi?" threads, > I'll toss out a weenie question with a bit more juice than the norm: What > rare, out-of-print albums are at the top of your frustrated "search" list, > which you can't find anywhere? Ferrrante & Teicher's prepared piano albums. The Bam/Caruso Rubble compilations (not the watered-down "Best of Rubble"...) The Great British Psychedelic Trip comp Dick Hyman, Martin Denny and Les Baxter's moog albums. Spirit - Potatoland Klaatu - Sir Army Suit Lothar and the Hand People - Space Hymn Lyme & Cybelle (and probably a whole mess of other stuff. I tend to buy what's available, rather than go looking for specific bands. Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com HCF (another comic strip) http://www.mpog.com/hcf normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:45:02 -0700 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: unagi show At 02:54 PM 6/27/00 -0700, Eb wrote: >Afterwards, I was going to walk down the street to the Viper Room. A friend >said he'd put me on the list, and a would-be "supergroup" led by Reeves >Gabrels (Bowie's lead guitarist) was playing covers and things. Sadly, Reeves Gabrels, who has been working fairly steadily with Bowie since 1988 (for the first time on a remake of "Look Back in Anger"), is no longer Bowie's lead guitarist. Earl Slick has taken up the role again, at least for the few live shows Bowie has performed this past month. Gabrels was supposedly very unhappy with how the "hours" material turned out, and decided it was time to call it quits. At least that's the rumor I heard. - --Jason, undead undead undead "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:47:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Bangles EP - --- Terrence Marks wrote: > (and probably a whole mess of other stuff. I tend to buy what's > available, rather than go looking for specific bands. I tend to get a band in my head and then snap up everything I can find in a mad rush, or in several mad rushes. Did that for the Auteurs (just picked up _How I Learned to Love the Bootboys_ at the evil Virgin), Momus, and XTC most recently (not in that order). It's not a practice I'd recommend, since (a) it severely dilutes your enjoyment and full absorption of each album, and (b) if the band turns out to be a fleeting crush you've spent a lot of money on music you won't listen to. I don't think I've done (b) in those terms exactly, but I do have a lot of Ani DiFranco I listen to only on very rare occasions; ditto Prince. Granted, on those occasions nothing but Ani or Prince will do, but I don't really need all of those albums...do I? I actually have to start rationing my CD-buying, which is going to be hell but I just have way too many, and not all of them are frequent listens. Anyway: the reason I followed up this post is that I remembered something I've been looking for for a while. The question about the Bangles brought it to mind. I have _All Over the Place_ on CD, but that very first Bangles EP or whatever it was...self-titled, with "Mary Street," "How Is the Air Up There?" and three others...is something I've only ever seen on cassette, and then rarely. My sister has it. I really want it on CD. Has anyone _ever_ seen it? I'd take it on vinyl, too. Drew, who never could stand "Walking on Sunshine" ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:49:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: eels concert - --- Eb wrote: > getting out of rehab (this was true). Then he proceeded to point out the > guy's 10ish-year-old son in the audience, and told the kid he was sorry > Daddy likes heroin better than you, but that Daddy loves you and things > will work out OK. Wow. A showstopping mix of nervous laughter, > tenderness > and shock, palpable in the audience. RH never could've pulled that one > off. Nor should've. Yikes. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:49:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Kate Kwiatkowski Subject: Re: blown off I interviewed Robyn on my college radio station in 90 (maybe it was 91?) WUOG - I was terrified - not because I didn't think I had it in me...but because I thought he would skewer me with his wit. But after I met him (we had to drive him to the station) I was so at ease it was amazing. He was great! Had a blast with him during the interview...he told me to move to San Francisco and work as a dj (said I had talent!) out there. Then MONTHS later he came back to Athens - where I was in school. I worked at a local grocery store. I was working and he came in to shop. Not only did he recognize me, but he came over to me at the Customer Service desk to chat with me before leaving the store. I have heard stories...but luckily, I have nothing negative to say about meeting him. (He was nice at the instore I went to years before the interview too) Kate ===== "Savor the moment right now. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all day today." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:59:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: CDNow news [clip] SCREAMING TREES, YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, HEART PERFORM AT EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT'S OPENING WEEKEND The Experience Music Project's opening weekend climaxed Sunday (June 25) with a day largely devoted to Northwest rock bands, past and present. While Paul Allen's stunning new museum captured most of the spotlight, performances by over 70 acts drew a crowd of close to 150,000 to the Seattle Center over the course of three days. Sunday's eight-hour show at the Memorial Stadium featured acts spanning 25 years. The afternoon kicked off with a raucous set by the poppy Young Fresh Fellows. Robyn Hitchcock joined the band for "Viva Sea-Tac," an ode to the Seattle-Tacoma region best known for "computers, coffee, and smack," and a cover of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life." The Fastbacks kept the power pop beat going with a tight set that saw Fellows' guitarist Kurt Bloch doing double-duty with the group. [clip] - Gillian G. Gaar For more information on: - --> Robyn Hitchcock http://p04.com/t.d?akKuJfze=/cdnow.com/disco/ArtistID=HITCHCOCK*ROBYN ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:04:49 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: unagi show Jason: >Sadly, Reeves Gabrels, who has been working fairly steadily with Bowie >since 1988 (for the first time on a remake of "Look Back in Anger"), is no >longer Bowie's lead guitarist. Okey dokey. >Gabrels >was supposedly very unhappy with how the "hours" material turned out No surprise, there. :P Eb (hi Quail) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:29:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: Re: Happiness >> "Let them bring you Happiness >> Happiness is hard to come by, I confess >> I'm bad at this >> Happiness, if you find it, >> share it with the rest of us" > >This song got a huge response both nights I heard it, but I >confess I'm bad at being in love with it. I found just about >every one of the other songs he performed much more involving >emotionally. Is it a big famous Grant Lee Buffalo classic or >something? Well, it's fairly well loved, I'd say, but not the big classic that "Mockingbirds" or "Honey Don't Think" are. It *is* from Mighty Joe Moon, which is quite a beloved album, and it comes right before "Honey Don't Think," which, as I mentioned waaaaay back in a post to this very list around January of '99, I think is a really wonderful, complementary song ordering. I think part of the response was due to the fact that the version that he played in concert is a complete and total re-orchestration from the version on the album. The version on the album features Grant singing in a much lower register, accompanied by a picked twelve string, not a piano. I personally prefer the new arrangement, but both have their virtues. And of course, there's also the possibility that your taste just differed slightly from the rest of the crowd's. - -Michael Wolfe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:12:36 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: eels concert >Afterwards, I was going to walk down the street to the Viper Room. A friend >said he'd put me on the list, and a would-be "supergroup" led by Reeves >Gabrels (Bowie's lead guitarist) was playing covers and things. But >something went wrong there too, and I couldn't get in at all. Ah, well. > >Eb It's that darned "No Yellow Striped Shirts" rule at the Viper Club, ain't it... Hey, the Eels were supposed to play here (NYC) last Thursday and they cancelled. I was 5% thinking about going. Anyone know what happened? I do like their new record, the one about the daisies... I'm also digging the new Belle & Sebastian-- any opinions on the box set they just put out? (the re-releases of their early ep's) lj - -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com http://www.w-rabbit.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future." --Dan Quayle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:28:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: Eb all over the depraved Sunset Strip - --- Eb wrote: > I can understand why you see them as "kindred," but the main difference > for > me is that I can hear the Birthday Party without chuckling at what > fruity, > pretentious twits they are. But that's what makes Bauhaus so much fun! I didn't realize it when I was in high school, of course. Enjoyment on two levels, just like -- we are told -- Rocky and Bullwinkle. > Birthday Party has a raw, rocking furor That's one way to describe it, yeah. > Then, Andrew "Goth is *fun*!!" It *IS*! > I have Babybird's Ugly Beautiful in one of my "sell" boxes. Not > dreadful, > but...ehh. I said that too about most of it, but it grew on me. > I used to have a "Baby Bird" disc, too. And Baby Bird took even longer to grow on me. But it did and now I think Babybird is mostly ehh again, but for a different reason. Not perhaps as..."sincere" as that Mr. E fellow, or even the Birthday Party, I'll grant you. And he probably would feel free to poke fun at "Ashes to Ashes" too, the cad. > Huh...I didn't know Robyn performed "Tangled Up in Blue." I'd be curious > to > hear that, since it's a fairly complex song and couldn't just be "faked" > with an ironic smirk. (Um...I think?) No, he did it pretty straight. Sounded great. > I played A Star for Bram, but just don't feel like writing another > lengthy > post at this time. I missed the discussion of it during the time I was offlist. Generally I can say that I like it but I don't love it. Cool to hear "1974" with full band...happy with "Philosopher" and "Green," reasonably happy with "Drake" and "Used" (stop me before I abbreviate again!), can live with the rest. I say this from memory so I'm sure I forgot something crucial... like "Nietzsche's Way," which is also in "reasonably happy." On the whole, a worthy outtakes album. I keep thinking about picking up _You and Oblivion_ again but then I think about the songs and I just can't. I'd be doing it for the cover art. Drew np. (Eb, shield your eyes) The Very Best of Jane Wiedlin ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:33:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: eels concert - --- lj lindhurst wrote: > I do like their new record, the one about the daisies... I'm also > digging the new Belle & Sebastian-- any opinions on the box set they > just put out? (the re-releases of their early ep's) I have two of the three EPs and I like both much better than the new record, which I cannot get into at all. Most critics are saying "more of the same! yay!" and a few are saying "slightly different this time out," while to me it's just night and day. I think a big part of it is more Isobel, whom I can't stand as a songwriter or as a vocalist. Anyway, _Lazy Line Painter Jane_ and _3,6,9 Seconds of Light_ are great and I need to pick up the third EP separately soon. Tried playing a track from the new eels on my show, before my show ended abruptly along with my career at Xerox. I still can't enjoy or appreciate whatever it is so many people see in that band. They give me the creeps. Must be a lot like the way you feel about Babybird. :) Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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