From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #247 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, September 4 2000 Volume 09 : Number 247 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Since the list is moribund (1% Oliver content) [Eb Subject: Re: Since the list is moribund (1% Oliver content) >does everything old trent reznor touches turn to twinkie filling? i >mean, the the, EN, PWEI, ... can trent sell anything except himself and >marilyn? Apparently not, as yet. I think the basic problem is that Trent has fairly lame, one-dimensional tastes in music. I've heard some pretty dreadful stuff on Nothing -- I believe I picked the 12 Rounds album as *the* worst release of that year (see my review, out there in webland). I don't think I have anything on Nothing in my permanent collection beyond NIN, the Lost Highway and Natural Born Killers soundtracks, and the EN and Plug albums. >> If you would call Beck a simple "rap" act, you can't have heard his >> whole catalog. > >i wouldn't, but he has his moments. especially on the hits. my point on >"who gives a shit" whether it's "alternative" or "rap" or whatever >stands. Whadevah. >>what makes robyn "alternative" and mann not. I've never heard anything disturbing and/or dissonant from Mann, nothing which would sound out of place on commercial radio. She has a very bland, ordinary voice which immediately makes my attention wander. I find her pretty generic and conservative, for the most part. Lucky for her she has such striking looks. And heeeeere comes Elizabeth to protest.... ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:39:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Since the list is moribund (1% oliver content) Eb wrote: >>> If you would call Beck a simple "rap" act, you can't have heard >>> his whole catalog. >>i wouldn't, but he has his moments. especially on the hits. my point >>on "who gives a shit" whether it's "alternative" or "rap" or whatever >>stands. > Whadevah. the trend up here seems to be to segregate bands by micro-sub-genre, which can be really annoying if you're trying to find someone refuses easy definition. but i'm still pissed about having such a hard time trying to find where the hell ray charles was supposed to be the other day, and why kraftwerk was either rock/pop or metal/industrial. >>>what makes robyn "alternative" and mann not. > > I've never heard anything disturbing and/or dissonant from > Mann, nothing which would sound out of place on commercial radio. She > has a very bland, ordinary voice which immediately makes my attention > wander. I find her pretty generic and conservative, for the most part. > Lucky for her she has such striking looks. And heeeeere comes > Elizabeth to protest.... ;) but generally speaking, at this point in time, most people would call her some sort of alternative. probably adult alternative or female focused alternative; probably not korn alternative though. nice to hear cracker still have a deal though. even if their albums always seem to be only 3/4 done (writing wise, not production wise). now occurring: An earthquake!!! ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:04:51 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Dwight's in his Light Bite, All's Well With The World Richard Fortey's book "Trilobite!" (a serious discussion of trilobites and evolution, not a horror title where they come out of the ooze and click menacingly at terrified teens) doesn't mention Robyn's song once. A great omission. Another great omission is that some people don't yet have Badly Drawn Boy's "Hour of th Bewilderbeast" album. You have no excuse. Stewart (who saw ET for the first time last night, and found its Xtian allegory rather heavy-handed.) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #247 *******************************