From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #171 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 1 2001 Volume 10 : Number 171 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Hoot Hoot and Feghoots [Viv Lyon ] Coming not very close to breaking Jeme's leangth record ["Lilac Doorway" ] Almost long enough to be Jeme's ["Lilac Doorway" ] In defense of the FISH ["Poole, R. Edward" ] Re: In defense of the FISH ["Bret" ] slippin yew ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] big express ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] the duke of squeeze! [Bayard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:58:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: Hoot Hoot and Feghoots On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Miles Goosens wrote: > I even penned one myself, though I didn't submit it for publication. (snip) > "WE MUST LEAVE NO TERN UNSTONED!" Yeowch! But I must say, Miles, that one was considerably better (if much longer) than most of the spoonerisms in the book. Many of the "punchlines" in the book are blisteringly unfunny, and some of them are incomprehensible. My dad used to tell these kind of stories, but my dad's were actually funny- or so I've been conditioned to think. Here goes: There was an African tribal chief who loved the accoutrements of power, especially large, heavily ornamented thrones. He collected them avidly, and soon ran out of room for them in the main portion of his palatial thatched hut. He took to storing them in the bedroom, then in food-preparation area, and when he ran out of room there, he began (against everyone's better judgement) to store them in the small upper floor of his hut. One day, while conquering a village many miles away, he saw the throne of that village's chief. It was magnificent, and it was huge, and he felt that old familiar acquistory urge. Of course, since they'd killed the chief and most of the villagers, there was no obstacle to his obtaining it, and home it went with him. Of course, there was absolutely no room for it in his throne room, so he had to move three of his thrones upstairs to make space for it. This he did. As he was resting in comfort and placid satisfaction on his beautiful new throne, however, tragedy struck. The floor of the upstairs room collapsed, overstressed by the addition of the three thrones from downstairs. The king was killed instantly. The moral of the story: People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:52:22 -0000 From: "Lilac Doorway" Subject: Coming not very close to breaking Jeme's leangth record Digests 167-69 Yudt on best Robyn records: >I have a fascination with Eye, although from old discussions on this >board I seem to remember it not being appreciated as much as Perspex >Island or Respect. I love both Eye and Respect(I only really like a few songs on Perspex.) They are completely different records in execution but both have alot of depth to them. In my song list for Brandon I think I forgot (c'est incoyable!) "I Often Dream of Trains." Ross-whose songs are those you posted the lyrics too? Im not quite the hep-cat I used to be, if they're not Robyn's, whose are they? Seem Robynesque. Does "Ring Them Bones" sound at all like "Miss Mary Mack"? Sister europe is from the Psychedelic Furs, right? "Take This in Rememberence" is really beautiful. Mike on Roger Waters: >I find it >unlistenable, except for the song "Sea Shell And Stone" and its > >variations, >which are great, and one of which clearly features the entire Pink >Floyd >playing on it even thought they're uncredited. This sounds amazing. Do you realize(or am I just(hmm, well guess I am) too much of a poetry person?) that sea shell and stone are central contrasting/complementing images in Wordsworth's "Prelude." Are there lyrics to this? Chris: >I was just reading that >gardening book while trying to grow illegal drugs in the back yard How many of us got our start. And Im searching for the book you recomended. Bret: Since you admit to an herb and a water garden--both of those are things I want to put in. The water garden will take some bucks so that may not be till next year, but I want to put in an herb garden(after I clear out some railroad trees and dig a bed.) Any suggestions? Jill--what a great group of categories for Robyn(and what a great love/hate question for a librarian--classify then pull down the classification.) Heres abit of my take(Thanks girl, this is -fun- question) commercially accessible Robyn: My Wife and My Dead Wife, Another Bubble, Ballon Man, Flesh #1, Airscape, Bass, Beautiful Girl, Strawberry Mind, Queen of Eyes, I Want to Destroy You, Winchester, Dark Green Energy, Raymond Chandler Evening, kick-ass rock n roll Robyn(you realize in concert he's refered to it as fuck-ass rock n roll;-): Tell Me About Your Drugs, The Cars She Used to Drive, I Am Not Me, Brends Iron Sledge, Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl, Sleeping with Your Devil Mask, Unsettled, Listening to the Higsons, If You Were a Priest, Rock n Roll Toilet, Sudden Town, I Wanna Destroy You, Ultra Unbelievable Love, Vibrating, Only the Stones Remain. hauntingly melodic and beautiful Robyn Airscape, I Often Dream of Trains--most of the album, Arms of Love, Birds in Perspex, Chinese Water Python, Cynthia Mask, Glass, Glass Hotel, One Long Pair of Eyes, Pulse of my Heart, Railway Shoes, Rainy Twilight Coast, Some Body, You and Oblivian, Aquarium scares you when you turn the lights off Robyn Man With The LightBulb Head, Eaten By Her Own Dinner, St Petersburg sounds like John Lennon Robyn Somewhere Apart--so close its spooky. pulling everyone's chain Robyn Blues in A, Midnight Fish, Give It To Gran, Let There Be More Darkness, Wafflehead, Agony of Pleasure,Gene Hackman, Do Policemen Sing, Groovin on an Inner Plane, I Got the Hots, Uncorrected Personality Traits, Sounds Great When Youre Dead, I Got a Message for You(this especially pulls mine since I actually -am- part of a Deanery:-), All I Want to Do is Fall in Love, Ted Woody and Jr, I would add these categories: Ye Olde Folkie Robyn: Bones in the Ground, Duke of Squeeze, Black Crow Knows, The Speed of Things, Lady Waters and the Hooded One, The Canopener Uncanny Robyn: Flavor of Night, 52 Stations, Im Only You, You and Me, Man with a Woman's Shadow, America, My Mind is Connected to Your Dreams, Satellite, The Crawling, The Wreck of the Arthur Lee, Abandoned Brain, Acquarium, James: >"You've got a >sweet mouth in you baby" sounds like it should be a Bob Dylan song - >the >structure and style just reek Bawb. Anyone else noticed this? Yes, Bawb blues(structure's call and response) with, yes a Blood on the Tacks guitar. Aside from Blues in A I -think- its the only blues song Robyn's done? Years ago in concert Robyn used to make really disparaging remarks bout blues-- so maybe he just thought he was doing Bawb-- and didnt realize he was doing Bawb doing blues;-) BTW, sounds like a beautiful garden youve got, even thou Im only familiar with about 1/2 of the plants that you listed. Someday, when the lilacs and roses and hydrangers and climbing hydrangers Im planting grow in, hope mine will be beautiful too. Yes Michael, Skylarking is magnificent. Gloster: >The tune of the Psychedelic Furs song (which Robyn likes to cover) >"Ghost In You" seems to be posessing much of my fascination right >now. Does anybody have any official or reasonable explanation of >the lyrics of the song? I seem to have never met a lyric question I dont like--but I really love Ghost in You, have loved it(and lived with it) for years and years and think its one great piece of songwriting. I always thought it was pretty straight-forward. I think it deals with the uncertianty factor of infatuation, infatuation probobly unrequited but the singer is so flummoxed and key-up they ve probobly been driving it away anyway, and besides, they're just too boggled to judge... The other person, the singer's memories and ideas of them, is the ghost the singer is carrying around within regardless of the passing of time. The reason the ghost dosnt fade is problamatic, perhaps its cause there has never been any closure, nothing has ever been made clear or explained, leaving too much room for unnecissary mystery. Dont ghost's hang around because something is unresolved? And if it is resolved, either for good or naught, finially the ghost is released. Must be a nice relief all around. Well, thats just my take. Probobly highly colored by the fact that its May Day and Im feeling very straight-forward myself. Ohhhh, for some actual straight-talk in this world. Maybe Im just spitting into the wind. Maybe Ive been listening to too much Hitchcock(is it possible?) but Im suddenly heartily sick of the indirect, the veiled, the could possibly mean this, could possibly mean that. Has Robyn ever covered Lennon's "Just Give Me Some Truth." I would love to hear it. Thank you Roberta. Yes Robyn sings bout plant life alot, and green appears to be his most mentioned color. So Im actually abit suprised there arent more gardeners on the list. So alittle Round-Up is alright. Thanks for the on-topic advice;-) So is Feghoot perhaps where Robyn came up with Feg? Kay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:11:17 -0000 From: "Lilac Doorway" Subject: Almost long enough to be Jeme's Yudt on best Robyn records: >I have a fascination with Eye, although from old discussions on this >board I seem to remember it not being appreciated as much as Perspex >Island or Respect. I love both Eye and Respect(I only really like a few songs on Perspex.) They are completely different records in execution but both have alot of depth to them. In my song list for Brandon I think I forgot (c'est incoyable!) "I Often Dream of Trains." Ross-whose songs are those you posted the lyrics too? Im not quite the hep-cat I used to be, if they're not Robyn's, whose are they? Seem Robynesque. Does "Ring Them Bones" sound at all like "Miss Mary Mack"? Sister europe is from the Psychedelic Furs, right? "Take This in Rememberence" is really beautiful. Robert Johnson's twin on Roger Waters: >I find it >unlistenable, except for the song "Sea Shell And Stone" and its > >variations, >which are great, and one of which clearly features the entire Pink >Floyd >playing on it even thought they're uncredited. This sounds amazing. Do you realize(or am I just overstating the glaringly obvious?) that sea shell and stone are central contrasting/complementing images in Wordsworth's "Prelude." Are there lyrics to this? Chris: >I was just reading that >gardening book while trying to grow illegal drugs in the back yard How many of us got our start. And Im searching for the book you recomended. Bret: Since you admit to an herb and a water garden--both of those are things I want to put in. The water garden will take some bucks so that may not be till next year, but I want to put in an herb garden(after I clear out some railroad trees and dig a bed.) Any suggestions? Jill--what a great group of categories for Robyn. Heres abit of my take(Thanks girl, this is -fun- softball question) commercially accessible Robyn: My Wife and My Dead Wife, Another Bubble, Ballon Man, Beatle Dennis, Airscape, Bass, Beautiful Girl, Strawberry Mind, Queen of Eyes, I Want to Destroy You, Winchester, Dark Green Energy, Raymond Chandler Evening, kick-ass rock n roll Robyn(you realize in concert he's refered to it as fuck-ass rock n roll;-): Tell Me About Your Drugs, The Cars She Used to Drive, I Am Not Me, Brends Iron Sledge, Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl, Sleeping with Your Devil Mask, Unsettled, Listening to the Higsons, If You Were a Priest, Rock n Roll Toilet, Sudden Town, I Wanna Destroy You, Ultra Unbelievable Love, Vibrating, Only the Stones Remain. hauntingly melodic and beautiful Robyn Airscape, I Often Dream of Trains--most of the album, Arms of Love, Birds in Perspex, Chinese Water Python, Cynthia Mask, Glass, Glass Hotel, One Long Pair of Eyes, Pulse of my Heart, Railway Shoes, Rainy Twilight Coast, Some Body, You and Oblivian, Aquarium scares you when you turn the lights off Robyn Man With The LightBulb Head, Eaten By Her Own Dinner, St Petersburg sounds like John Lennon Robyn Somewhere Apart--so close its spooky. pulling everyone's chain Robyn Blues in A, Midnight Fish, Give It To Gran, Let There Be More Darkness, Wafflehead, Agony of Pleasure,Gene Hackman, Do Policemen Sing, Groovin on an Inner Plane, I Got the Hots, I Got a Message for You(this especially pulls mine since I actually -am- part of a Deanery:-), All I Want to Do is Fall in Love, Ted Woody and Jr, I would add these categories: Ye Olde Folkie Robyn: Bones in the Ground, Duke of Squeeze, Black Crow Knows, The Speed of Things, Lady Waters and the Hooded One, The Canopener Uncanny Robyn: Flavor of Night, 52 Stations, Im Only You, You and Me, Man with a Woman's Shadow, America, My Mind is Connected to Your Dreams, Satellite, The Crawling, The Wreck of the Arthur Lee, Abandoned Brain, Acquarium, James: Sounds like a beautiful garden, even thou I only know about 1/2 of the plants what you listed. And yes--Sweet Mouth sounds Baubish, Bob doing call and response blues. Since Robyn is on record for saying he hates blues--do you think he knew he was doing Baub doing blues;-)? Yes Michael, Skylarking is magnificent. Gloster: >The tune of the Psychedelic Furs song (which Robyn likes to cover) >"Ghost In You" seems to be posessing much of my fascination right >now. Does anybody have any official or reasonable explanation of >the lyrics of the song? I seem to have never met a lyric question I dont like--but I really love Ghost in You, have loved it(and lived with it) for years and years and think its one great piece of songwriting. I always thought it was pretty straight-forward. I think it deals with the uncertianty factor of infatuation, infatuation probobly unrequited, but hard to tell cause the singer seems too overloaded with feelings to know what theyre doing or whats going on. The other person, the singer's memories and ideas of them, is the ghost the singers carrying around regardless of the passing of time. Why dosnt the ghost fade? Possibly for several reasons. Dont ghosts haunt because something is unresolved, unexplained, without real feedback? Mystery lingers while daylight reveals. If matters are brought into the open and resolved for good or naught, isnt the ghost then freed? Possibly the singer has been too anxious or whatever to ever really attempt to sort things out? And maybe thats just what needs to be done. Maybe the song is getting them to that point. Im in a straight-ahead May-Day mood(cant you tell?;-). Right now what Id like to hear is Lennon's "Give Me Some Truth." Does Robyn cover it? I may just be spitting in the wind but thats what I want to hear. That would be really good. Roberts Thanks for the gradening advice. So is Feghoots perhaps where fegs comes from? Kay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:34:29 -0700 From: Traveling Riverside Blues Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #170 At 1:31 PM -0400 5/1/01, fegmaniax-digest wrote: >Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:08:00 -0500 (CDT) >From: GSS >Subject: RE: non-categorizable personality benefits > >Eye is manditory and I vote that you should have to send in a copy of >the UPC before a becoming list member. Then we could set up a commission >to investigate the code scans for fraud. Caution: Strong, unpopular opinion ahead. Proceed with caution. OK. I respect that I'm in the minority here... but I've always considered Eye to be a second-rate rehash of I Often Dream Of Trains. I like "Satellite", and "Cynthia Mask" is pretty good, but other than those that album doesn't do a thing for me that IODOT doesn't do better. While I'm at it, I might as well mention that "52 Stations" is the only song I always skip past when listening to Groovy Decoy. Sorry, it's ok, the version on Kershaw Sessions is pretty good, but, man, it's just so poppy and uninteresting. Meanwhile, nobody ever mentions "When I Was A Kid" which is poppy but at least it's interesting. I respect your opinions, just so long as you understand that they are wrong. ;-) Actually, in all fairness, if you want, you can rag on me for thinking "Midnight Fish" is kinda neat. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:39:11 -0700 From: Traveling Riverside Blues Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #170 At 1:31 PM -0400 5/1/01, fegmaniax-digest wrote: >From: Capuchin >Subject: Re: how bout the spam, spam, eggs and spam? that's not got much >spam in , it... > >In those situations, I like to use root@127.0.0.1 >Woj has noted that that is extremely cruel. Hee. >postmaster@127.0.0.1 or abuse@127.0.0.1 might actually be better, though. >J. On the greentortoise.com page, I put hidden form fields (another rich source of email addresses for spammers) with values like abuse@[127.0.0.1], admin@[127.0.0.1] etc. (Root@, though, that's a good one... I have to add that.) I also added email addresses of admins & abuse departments at every major ISP I could find. By the way, if you ever encounter a web form asking for your email address and you don't want to give them your real one, and you KNOW they have no reason to contact you by email, a lot of people use . Later on: >From: Capuchin >> One thing for Mac using Fegs, OS X Mail has a "bounce" feature - it >> returns mail with a fatal error message. Don't know if it works, but >> it sure is fun! >I don't mean to sound like an ig-NO-ramus, but is this really something >that's lacking in the modern mail client, the bounce function? Yeah, Eudora on Mac will do all this sorta stuff... they call it "redirecting", although they don't create the "Fatal error" message, you'd have to create or copy that in the body yourself. There are plugins which I think come with Eudora (in a separate folder) that allow you to directly edit the "from" address, too. Incidentally, Eudora's filtering is a big help in avoiding smap. I have a separate spam folder, and incoming mail is filtered by the following rule: "if (Subject: contains '$' and body contains '$') or (Subject: ends with '!' and body contains '$') or (To: does not contain 'greentortoise.com' and body contains 'remov') then move it straight to the Spam folder." This simple rule is remarkably effective, for the email I get I'd say it's accurate about 90% of the time. (About that last conditional: If I receive an email and it doesn't have "greentortoise.com" in the 'to:' field, it means it was mass-emailed. If the body contains 'remov' also, as in "to be removed", then it is almost 100% certainly spam.) Mike >- -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 13:59:24 -0700 From: "Bret" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #170 - was RE: non-categorizable personality benefits I love this. This is the reason I read the list. Its been re-hashed thousands of times, (of course, if we were always on topec, this is all there would be) but I still love it. > > > >Eye is manditory and I vote that you should have to send in a copy of > >the UPC before a becoming list member. Then we could set up a commission > >to investigate the code scans for fraud. This couldn't be more correct. > > Caution: Strong, unpopular opinion ahead. Proceed with caution. ok. > OK. I respect that I'm in the minority here... but I've always considered > Eye to be a second-rate rehash of I Often Dream Of Trains. I like > "Satellite", and "Cynthia Mask" is pretty good, but other than those that > album doesn't do a thing for me that IODOT doesn't do better. Cynthia Mask is probably the weakest song on the record, and Satellite is marginaly good. > > While I'm at it, I might as well mention that "52 Stations" is the only > song I always skip past when listening to Groovy Decoy hehehe the song to buy the record for. \ > > I respect your opinions, just so long as you understand that they are > wrong. ;-) well, for someone woth no taste, you're doing ok. :-) > > Actually, in all fairness, if you want, you can rag on me for thinking > "Midnight Fish" is kinda neat. Someone should. hehehe again, this is what I love about this (and Robyn too along the same line of thought) list, totally different tastes, but still buying the same stuff. weird/cool/etc, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 12:08:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Mahoney Subject: mayday!MAYDAY!!!! I am sure brandon has been overloaded on suggestions to buy but here is yet another opinion: 1.eye 1.I often dream of trains (which by the way are both quite good!) 2.fegmania 3.gotta let this hen out! 4.globe of frogs is good but you will have to look in the used bins as it has been determined that it is no longer in print. AND OF COURSE THE NEW SOFT BOYS ALBUM WHEN IT COMES! K. Mcguinn: have only read ursalas book on writing which was quite good. another often overlooked sci-fi dude who lives right here in portland is Robert Scheckley, who wrote some excellent short stories in the 50's and 60's. On Tue, 1 May 2001, Traveling Riverside Blues wrote: > At 1:31 PM -0400 5/1/01, fegmaniax-digest wrote: > >Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:08:00 -0500 (CDT) > >From: GSS > >Subject: RE: non-categorizable personality benefits > > > >Eye is manditory and I vote that you should have to send in a copy of > >the UPC before a becoming list member. Then we could set up a commission > >to investigate the code scans for fraud. > > Caution: Strong, unpopular opinion ahead. Proceed with caution. > > OK. I respect that I'm in the minority here... but I've always considered > Eye to be a second-rate rehash of I Often Dream Of Trains. I like > "Satellite", and "Cynthia Mask" is pretty good, but other than those that > album doesn't do a thing for me that IODOT doesn't do better. > > While I'm at it, I might as well mention that "52 Stations" is the only > song I always skip past when listening to Groovy Decoy. Sorry, it's ok, the > version on Kershaw Sessions is pretty good, but, man, it's just so poppy > and uninteresting. Meanwhile, nobody ever mentions "When I Was A Kid" which > is poppy but at least it's interesting. > > I respect your opinions, just so long as you understand that they are > wrong. ;-) > > Actually, in all fairness, if you want, you can rag on me for thinking > "Midnight Fish" is kinda neat. > > Mike > Number of Floridian ex-cons denied the right to vote last November because of felony convictions : 525,000 Source: Brennan Center for Justice (N.Y.C.) Number of times a Floridian can be convicted of DUI before the infraction becomes a felony : 3 Source: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (Irving, Tex.) Stephen Mahoney Multnomah County Library at Rockwood branch clerk stephenm@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us 503-988-5396 fax 503-988-5178 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 15:22:43 -0400 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: In defense of the FISH >> Actually, in all fairness, if you want, you can rag on me for thinking >> "Midnight Fish" is kinda neat. >Someone should. hehehe Hey, wait just a second, pardner ... I was fond enough of this song to butcher it (no, not as in the Cockney expression meaning "have a look," but in the more common "rend the meat from the bones & utterly destroy" sense) with my own "interpretation" for the "Glass Flesh" series . . . It may be lightweight and silly, but lightness and silliness have their place (note the confoundingly successful Goldie Hawn career vector, fer example). - -ed ============================================================================This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client, work product, or other privileges. 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I was fond enough of this song to > butcher it (no, not as in the Cockney expression meaning "have a look," but > in the more common "rend the meat from the bones & utterly destroy" sense) > with my own "interpretation" for the "Glass Flesh" series . . . It may be > lightweight and silly, but lightness and silliness have their place (note > the confoundingly successful Goldie Hawn career vector, fer example). fair enough. I myself have "attempted" this song, although it was in a ska band, and I was just doing some trumpet partsies. but you just proved my point a good deal more. :) - -b ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 13:06:35 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: slippin yew >From: "victorian squid" >Yes, you read that right, I do think Groovy D has much stronger material. >People >are always ragging on it, probably because they're thinking of "Midnight >Fish" >(yes, I like it myself, but in a "so awful it's charming" way). I LOVE "Midnight Fish." That and "Grooving on an Inner Plane" (which I kept hearing as "Grooving on an Airplane" -- I pictured Robyn strutting down the aisle of a 747 while the passengers clapped or hand-jived...hand-jove?). A fellow Robyn enthusiast in college turned me on to all these albums I'd never heard, including Groovy Decoy, Invisible Hitch, Fegmania!, UM, and even a smattering of Syd Barrett (took me a LOT longer to appreciate that, but I'm there now). Those two songs really caught my ear, because they were so much fun. It took me a lot longer to get into the quieter songs on the album, but at the time I was learning that Robyn could do catchy or subtle, fast or slow, serious or silly with equal facility. Let us not malign the humble Midnight Fish. >From: "JH3" > >John "Damn, I nearly forgot 'I Something You' and 'Ted, >Woody & Junior'" Hedges I love "Ted, Woody, & Junior" for all sorts of reasons. It's funny but I also find it really charming. I sometimes feel that I'm the only feg on this list who is more than casually non-heterosexual, so perhaps I'm the only one who doesn't see it as just a send-up of homoerotic magazines. It always struck me as a really warm, happy sort of song. It's hard to convey what I mean/feel here. I always thought "Let There Be More Darkness" was a total scream. In general I think _Invisible Hitchcock_ is his funniest collection, though "Blues in A" is not as funny as it must have been intended to be. >From: Traveling Riverside Blues >Anyhow, I love "Bombers", I've always loved "Bombers". I think you can get >it on one of the Ryko reissues - I wanna say either "Hunky Dory" or "The >Man Who Sold The World", but I can't really recall. I love it too -- it's on the reissue of Hunky Dory. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 13:15:57 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: big express >From: "victorian squid" > >and (if time) St Petersburg > >*cough* > >Which of my other favorite songs scare you, Russ? :) Scary often == good. For instance, an alarmingly large number of my favorite books are (is? oh, sod it) dystopian fiction. >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) >new souls for the faith! Pretty much everything between those two albums is >essential, IMHO, although be warned that the Big Express and Mummer are a >little less audience-friendly. Go for English Settlement next! Mummer is _too_ audience-friendly, IMO...it's the only XTC album I don't have or want on CD. I bought The Big Express pretty early on in my XTC fandom (after Oranges & Lemons and Skylarking, IIRC). I'd agree that it's not initially an easy listen but it's shaped up to be one of my very favorites. More chills per song than any other XTC album, I think. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 13:34:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Bayard Subject: the duke of squeeze! "Folderol" comes from nonsense refrains of old songs, according to dictionary.com. I trudg-ed out one mornin' fair, me system to arouse, I met the maid in deep despair who told me of her vows "I'm pledged unto the Duke of Squeeze, I shall be his tonight, O wandering sir, do aid me please!" and vanished from my sight. I thought of this young maiden oft, she sought me at her leisure, And in her ma's banana-loft we used to take our pleasure Her mother tried to force the door, I smoked beneath the sheets (natch), "The Duke of Squeeze is 'ere," she swore, "he's brung his mighty fleet!" And we sang "Fal-de-drat! Fal-de-drat! That mean-old lean-old in-between-old half-unclean-old Duke of Squeeze!" "O flee, my pet, and get thee hence; don't tarry on the course The Duke has bet me fifteen pence he'd have your bits on toast!" "My bits!" I cry, "For my own sake, what kind of man is he?" "A dreadful one, and no mistake, so off ye gang!" said she. I scrambled through the aubergines and trampled o'er the brook, Bit wit' he brought the submarines; thinks I, "I'll have a look!" In lowering hail the vessels move across the briny sea, The teabag-spattered mermaids proved the Duke had had his tea! And we sang "Fal-de-drat! Fal-de-drat! That mean-old lean-old in-between-old half-unclean-old Duke of Squeeze!" For six long weeks I lay as dead in some outlandish field, But when I rose from my straw bed, fair weather had congealed... The bonny sun from up on high, it dried out my old hat, However when I look-ed 'round, I saw that all was flat. Crushed were the hills, and bent the sod; downtrodden was the vale A steamroller this way is passed by Guinness and strong ale... To my truelove's house I did go, but nothing could I find But pancakes walking to and fro, and a talking Venetian blind! And we sang "Fal-de-drat! Fal-de-drat! That mean-old lean-old in-between-old half-unclean-old Duke of Squeeze!" "The Duke of Squeeze ha' done this thing for VENGEANCE!" they all cried, "Go fight him with a burning ring until his bits are fried!" Through seven counties I will search, cleaver in hand I'll roam, And if I don't prise him from his perch, I'll flush him from his 'ome! And we'll sing "Fal-de-drat! Fal-de-drat! That mean-old lean-old in-between-old half-unclean-old Duke of Squeez-AH!" __ =the dude of you-know-what ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #171 ********************************