From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #287 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 25 2001 Volume 10 : Number 287 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: did i know this? ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: did i know this? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: John Sebastian ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: CD lore [HAL ] OT tech history question ["ross taylor" ] re: CD lore [Eb ] more CD lore [Ken Weingold ] Re: John Sebastian [Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com] nothing really [Natalie Jane Jacobs ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #286 ["SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Scotland,ex1)" ] First cd [John Barrington Jones ] Re: re: CD lore ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: nothing really [HAL ] RE: tv show themes ["da9ve stovall" ] Re: tv show themes [Ken Weingold ] Re: tv show themes [HAL ] first...cd...ever ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: OT tech history question [Tom Clark ] CD lore ["ross taylor" ] Re: nothing really ["J. Brown" ] Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band ["Seth Frisby" ] RE: tv show themes ["victorian squid" ] RE: tv show themes [Ken Ostrander ] RE: tv show themes [Eb ] Re: tv show themes [Tom Clark ] Re: nothing really ["Motherfucking Asshole" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:49:27 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: did i know this? - -----Original Message----- From: steve [mailto:steveschiavo@mac.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:59 AM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: did i know this? On Wednesday, July 25, 2001, at 01:36 AM, Mike Swedene wrote: >>My 100th cd was the gold version of Synchronicity. I >> got suckered into that scam. Oh well.... Steve replyed: >If it was a Mobile Fidelity CD, then it wasn't a scam. Nevermind the >gold medium, MF remastered all their releases. I got the gold Original Master Recording of R.E.M.'s Murmur and Reckoning on cd and they sound a ton better than the first cd's of Murmur and Reckoning that I bought in the mid 80's. Fables of the Reconstruction should have a gold OMR as well. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:59:14 -0400 From: /dev/woj Subject: Re: biggus dickus when we last left our heroes, Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com (Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com) exclaimed: >My virology prof. in grad school: Maryann Jerkofsky high school english teacher's husband: jack goff. +w ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:03:16 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: did i know this? bayard wrote: > > anyone know what the first CD to be mass-marketed by anyone, was? it was by The BeeGees, alas. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:05:20 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: John Sebastian Robcow@aol.com wrote: > > Laid back country blues pickin and harmonica. you all probably know this, but Sebastian's father was one of the harmonica greats. Unusual to play it as a classical instrument, though. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:19:31 -0600 From: HAL Subject: Re: CD lore > Is this the fantastically irritating release where Zappa added new rhythm > etc parts? I heard 'Who needs the Peace Corps?' on a sampler recently, and > it has a whole rat-a-tatty added drum part which drives me up the WALL. > Why did he do it? Couldn't he have waited until he was dead before he > re-released this definitive all-time-great 60s artefact? > (whoops, bad taste) > > - Mike "I'm hippy and I'm trippy I'm a gypsy on my own" Godwin "I'm really just a phony, but forgive me 'cause I'm stoned..." I felt the same way (bleecch!) about FZ's "drum and bass" remix on WOIIFTM. I bought the vinyl LP when it was new and I was only 8 years old (!) and memorized it; suffice to say I'm extremely fond of the LP. When it came out on CD, it was an insta-purchase and an insta-disappointment upon hearing the horrid remix. FZ claimed at the time that the master tape's bass and drum tracks had been 'damaged' and needed to be re-recorded, but I think that the tracks just sounded dated to his ears upon making the initial transfer. Since FZ always continued to "tinker" with his "Project/Object", and since he didn't fetishize his own catalog like his rabid fanbase, he put out the (misguided, alien-sounding) new version. Much hand-wringing and dismay in nearly every review I read and every fan I talked to. Which leads to the GOOD NEWS Dept: Later, non-damaged tapes were 'found' and FZ re-re-issued the album again using the original mix (much to the purists delight). Accept no substitutes! /the grand wazoo PS - Paul McCartney himself is the one who nixed allowing the Pepper-parody cover on the WOIIFTM LP to be released (the two albums came out the same year). So, The Mothers reversed the images (the inside gatefold picture became the cover and vice-versa). The CD version finally remedies that. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:21:51 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: OT tech history question I have faint memories of seeing, mostly over other people's shoulders, bulletin boards in the late 80s. Seems like there was some sort of primitive "real time" messaging capability too, or am I confusing this with later stuff? Any place on the web I can see a facsimile of pre-internet computer communications? This is for a novel or short story or maybe some really complicated self-stimulation. - --- Eudora & mail-- I was at a party for Miss Welty in 1993 and she was so sweet and easy-going I wanted to speak to her, so I tried to explain that her name was probably being alluded to by a great new system of computer communication -- and made a botch of my explanation. Plus she seemed to have the old fashioned artist's take on computers as being Orwellian. In the midst of her Orwellian objections, she said something like "Somebody did tell me about that, and it's very nice." I guess Steve Dorner, the creater. But she was very generous w/ her attention -- apparently a problem, her feeling she had to entertain and feed every graduate student who showed up at her door. Ross Taylor emulating VT-100 Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:27:04 -0700 From: Eb Subject: re: CD lore MG: >> My first CD was the Mothers' We're Only In It for the Money. > >Is this the fantastically irritating release where Zappa added new rhythm >etc parts? Yup, that's the one. I have the later "authentic" version now, but I can't quite bear to dump this initial reissue. Too many unique treats: the extra spoken bits from the engineer (that line about the Velvet Underground being "just as shitty"...), the previously censored bits restored, etc. Zappa sure was uncharacteristically careless with this version, though. The synthetic bass is totally inappropriate for the time period, and it also goes glaringly astray during one or two transitions. Oh, and the tales about Billy Joel sound feasible. It would make sense that the first CD would be a Sony release.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:27:49 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: more CD lore This is really interesting: . - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:28:57 -0400 From: Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com Subject: Re: John Sebastian Subject: Re: John Sebastian >I just received an e-mail from Rhino saying that they are >re-releasing >John Sebastian's 5 Reprise albums. As a big Lovin' >Spoonful fan, I was >wondering whether these were any good? All I know >is that at the time they >came out they were getting absolutely > >terrible"Sebastian-blissed-out-and-hanging-round-with-Graham-Nash-and>-various-pets" >type reviews, so I never bothered with them. >I do suggest staying away from the King Biscuit album as at the time it was >recorded he was *extremely* bitter about the turn his career had taken, and it >really shows. Given his between song patter, it's a miracle he's still alive. >I dont recommend them. >Have 2 from thrifting and have listened to each all of once. Not bad, just >not that good. He seemed to need a good band to really get moving. The last couple of times I've seen JS (mid/late 90s at folk festivals) he's been back into "jugband" mode with a pretty good backup band including Jimmy Vivino (sp?) from Conan O'Brien's show. He's always been upbeat and smiling so maybe the return to his roots agrees with him. - -Jeffro ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:36:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs Subject: nothing really >A colleague of mine had a manager called Ivor John Thomas! (gluck gluck) A guy at the college where I work is named John Thomas, and another one is named Dan Love. Unfortunately, neither of them teach sex ed. My first CD's (purchased together) were "Oranges and Lemons" and "Hounds of Love." The latter exited my record collection after a few months of trying-to-like-it-because-all-my-friends-like-it. (I was in high school, so sue me.) My third CD may have been "Globe of Frogs." My original copy of O&L was a dubbed cassette made by my friend Lorraine, who put an awesome sampler on the other side which included "Mesopotamia" by the B-52's, some early Talking Heads, and "Furry Green Atom Bowl" (which I adored, though I didn't buy IODOT till many years later). I still have that tape somewhere... gnat "running up that hill" the gnatster p.s. Said friend Lorraine could have easily been the prototype for Enid in "Ghost World," and I have the notes passed in English class to prove it. Has anyone seen "Ghost World" (the movie) yet? I thought it was opening on July 20 in more enlightened parts of the globe (i.e., not here). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:34:54 +0200 From: "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Scotland,ex1)" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #286 > np: Snatches of Pink - Send In The Clowns "Snatches of Pink"? (beeehhhhh) Oh I'm sorry, we did that thread already. :) (H) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:44:05 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: OT tech history question On Wed, Jul 25, 2001, ross taylor wrote: > I have faint memories of seeing, mostly over > other people's shoulders, bulletin boards in the > late 80s. Seems like there was some sort of > primitive "real time" messaging capability too, > or am I confusing this with later stuff? > Any place on the web I can see a facsimile of > pre-internet computer communications? This is > for a novel or short story or maybe some really > complicated self-stimulation. How's this? http://www.netknowledgebase.com/tutorials/history.html I used to play a version of Risk through a BBS in college. There was a thing for DOS to use via Telemate to get better graphics. Funny. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:52:02 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: First cd was "Earth Sun Moon" by Love And Rockets. I didn't even own a cd player at the time! But I knew I would someday.... :) =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:54:17 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: re: CD lore Oh, my hair's getting good in the back! >From: Michael R Godwin > >Is this the fantastically irritating release where Zappa added new rhythm >etc parts? I heard 'Who needs the Peace Corps?' on a sampler recently, and >it has a whole rat-a-tatty added drum part which drives me up the WALL. >Why did he do it? IIRC, some of the tracks on the master tapes had decayed a bit and Zappa didn't like how they sounded (I guess he thought the fidelity wasn't good enough for the transfer to digital) so he re-recorded the drums. Don't recall if he re-recorded any other tracks. I heard and felt the same way about that doctored-up CD, and held out for the second reissue. Ryko got it right the second time. It's a little flat sonically at time, but not annoying like the first one. Granted, I'm sure the original vinyl (on Verve?) sounds great. >- - Mike "I'm hippy and I'm trippy I'm a gypsy on my own" Godwin - -- Gene "I'll stay a week and get the crabs and take the bus back home..." Hopstetter, Jr. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:19:48 -0600 From: HAL Subject: Re: nothing really gnat: > Has anyone seen "Ghost World" (the movie) yet? I thought it was > opening on July 20 in more enlightened parts of the globe (i.e., not > here). http://www.ghostworld-themovie.com/ Click on the globe (left) for a release schedule. /hal Now Reading: the utterly beautiful 'shamanism of childhood' THE BIRTH CAUL by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell http://www.eddiecampbellcomics.com/birthcaul/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:29:01 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: tv show themes >>In yet another case of fegSynchronicity: I mentioned to my wife just the >>other day what a great song I think "Welcome Back" is. In fact, I would >>place it in the top 5 of TV themes all-time. However, right now, I can't >>think of 4 others I'd include on that list. > >Secret Agent Man!!!!!!! >The Jeffersons >Chico and The Man >Peter Gunn >Square Pegs > >(runners up: Addams Family, Sanford and Son, Barney Miller- great heavy bassline on that one) This smells like a fertile thread. I'll throw in: The Munsters (the surf-guitar version may be slightly better than the earlier tuba(?) version) Drew Carey Show (that theme just tickles me) M*A*S*H (though I prefer the movie version with lyrics) da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:36:39 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: tv show themes On Wed, Jul 25, 2001, da9ve stovall wrote: > > M*A*S*H (though I prefer the movie version with lyrics) I think it's called Suicide Is Painless. Manic Street Preachers did a cover of it. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:40:24 -0600 From: HAL Subject: Re: tv show themes > >>In yet another case of fegSynchronicity: I mentioned to my > wife just the > >>other day what a great song I think "Welcome Back" is. In fact, > I would > >>place it in the top 5 of TV themes all-time. However, right > now, I can't > >>think of 4 others I'd include on that list. > > > >Secret Agent Man!!!!!!! > >The Jeffersons > >Chico and The Man > >Peter Gunn > >Square Pegs > > > >(runners up: Addams Family, Sanford and Son, Barney Miller- > great heavy bassline on that one) > > This smells like a fertile thread. I'll throw in: > > The Munsters (the surf-guitar version may be slightly better > than the earlier tuba(?) version) > > Drew Carey Show (that theme just tickles me) > > M*A*S*H (though I prefer the movie version with lyrics) TWIN PEAKS' haunting Angelo Badalamenti-composed theme has to be included along with Harry Nilsson's "Best Friend" from THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER. My personal fave: THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 60's cartoon theme ("Is he strong? Listen, bud! He's got radioactive blood!!") /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:32:27 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: first...cd...ever A single for Ian McCulloch's "Candleland." Bought it before I got a CD player, in fact, at a dollar store. I bought a couple other, somewhat embarrassing cheapo CDs (one was a lame classical compilation) before I got my first full-length album on CD (used), which was either Peter Gabriel's _Security_ or the Cure's _Disintegration_. The latter is the one I still carry everywhere with me (along with a few other favorites), ten years later, though I do have a new shrink-wrapped copy as understudy should anything ever happen to this one. >From: steve > >Never mind Akira, Miyazaki's made a new film - So -- this sounds pretty good, and I admire Miyazaki's films an awful lot, but I can't say that I really enjoy them very much. Kiki's Delivery Service was charming but weighed down somehow; Mononoke was splendid but soporific; Grave of the Fireflies was almost unbearably depressing (and to no discernible end). Speaking of weighed down, depressing films, I finally got around to watching Adrian Lyne's _Lolita_ last night. What a pill. Must Jeremy Irons play the same role the same fucking way in every film? Sigh. There's no point in filming this book anyway; it's all about the prose. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:44:08 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: OT tech history question on 7/25/01 8:21 AM, ross taylor at protay2@eudoramail.com wrote: > I have faint memories of seeing, mostly over > other people's shoulders, bulletin boards in the > late 80s. Seems like there was some sort of > primitive "real time" messaging capability too, > or am I confusing this with later stuff? > Any place on the web I can see a facsimile of > pre-internet computer communications? This is > for a novel or short story or maybe some really > complicated self-stimulation. > I just finished "Dealers of Lightning", about the history of Xerox PARC. It's got some great stories about the invention of ethernet, email, the laser printer, the mouse, SmallTalk, etc... It might help you in your research. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0887309895-0 A neat aspect of that book for me is that every day I drive past the two locations where PARC has been headquartered. It would have been so cool to have been there 30 years ago. Luckily, there's no mention of Microsoft Exchange servers, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:46:30 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: CD lore Being a stick-in-the-mud, I held out til late on CDs. For a while before we had a player I had a growing collection of CDs from performing friends who felt or were told they had to jump on the CD bandwagon. So my first CD is "Please Panic" 1991 by the Vulgar Boatmen. Because of them, Safe House has been my biggest ever source of free stuff. (I don't do much w/ the music industry by the standards of this list.) I still recommend their catalog, even tho they seem to have some dispute w/ the Nails over their release of the IMO stunning & brilliant "Corpus Christi." Anyway we finally did get a player -- which we still have :( -- which changes, or used to change, 5 disks, so we got a bunch to take advantage of this, particularly disks with lots of tracks, Blonde on Blond, London Calling, etc. Ross Taylor "fourteen dreams at the end of a very long night" Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:43:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: nothing really On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Natalie Jane Jacobs wrote: > p.s. Said friend Lorraine could have easily been the prototype for Enid > in "Ghost World," and I have the notes passed in English class to prove > it. Has anyone seen "Ghost World" (the movie) yet? I thought it was > opening on July 20 in more enlightened parts of the globe (i.e., not > here). It opened in seattle, nyc, and la. I saw it and loved it. I was prepared to be disapointed but it really worked. There are massive changes from the book but it stays true to its self and is really touching and hilarious. Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "Life boring when you no can die" -Solomon Grundy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:18:15 -0400 From: "Seth Frisby" Subject: Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band Hi Folks, Yesterdy I was getting out of my car in some obscure parking lot when I looked at the occupant of the nearest parked car. What I saw was shocking: Doctor Zaius holding a puppy of the same toffee color! I even tried to look again (though not for long for fear of breaking the spell) and yet again it was Doctor Zaius sitting stroking a puppy! Don't you love it when perception plays fun tricks on you like that? Like seeing a sign for "All Gay Cleaners" and looking again seeing "All Day cleaners". Does anyone else have any similar experiences, or am I alone in the wilderness of accidental insanity? Oh and does anyone else love the new Beta Band cd as much as I?(don't you hate when someone says something like that, and doesn't tell you how much they actually love something?)..Well I had a few days of addicted listening followed by an enforced two day break and then fell off the wagon again. It so much more satisfying than their last and has more of the melodic touch of the 3 e.p.'s. It's also more electronic and rhythmic than that disc which is an interesting step, especially when that approach failed somewhat last time around. I personally think it's good natured, beautiful in many places, and unique enough to bear repeat listenings. I Like It! Seth the Frisby _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:47:22 -0400 From: "Poole, R. Edward" Subject: RE: Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band Seth: >Does anyone else have any similar experiences, or am I alone in the wilderness of accidental >insanity? >Oh and does anyone else love the new Beta Band cd as much as I?.... Forgive me for seeing some connection between these two. I was pretty disappointed by "Hot Shots II." It has its moments, but it seems more in the indie-jokey-hip-hop-ish vein of the worst of "The Beta Band" (e.g., "The Beta Band Rap") than in the inspired adventurousness of 3EPs (esp. "inner meet me"). I think Beck has covered the waterfront for this type of "indie-hop," and the Beta Band has greater gifts than they show in these tracks. I'll give it a few more chances to grow on me, but I don't see it supplanting 3EPs in my heart any time soon. On the other hand, big thumbs up for Radiohead's "Amnesiac." I like it much more than the (simultaneously recorded) "Kid A," though not quite as much as "OK Computer." ============================================================================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. If you are not the intended recipient or person responsible for delivering this confidential communication to the intended recipient, you have received this communication in error, and any review, use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying, or other distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. 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The latter is the one I still > carry everywhere with me (along with a few other favorites), > ten years later, though I do have a new shrink-wrapped copy > as understudy should anything ever happen to this one. My first CD was Milli Vanilli's "Girl, You Know It's True." I was only 12, though. ******************************************** Cooper Collections http://home.gci.net/~coopercollections ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:45:07 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: RE: tv show themes On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:29:01 da9ve stovall wrote: >Drew Carey Show (that theme just tickles me) Isn't "Cleveland Rocks" an Ian Hunter song? Is the Presidents version a new version specifically for the show? Just to clarify, I don't know anyone else's thoughts on the matter, but I was trying to stick to things written specifically for shows, not that anyone else has to :). If we get to pick anything anyone ever used for TV, that expands the parameters. Altho I'd probably still pick most of the ones I picked. Tried also to stick to things I'd buy and listen to just as records if I heard them somewhere other than the show, tho "Addams Family" doesn't fit that. Can I just say, apropos of nothing, "Peter Gunn" RULES. This thread reminded me that I own the 45 (Duane Eddy version), which is now playing. The Henry Mancini original isn't strikingly differnet tho IIRC. Sometimes best not to fix things that aren't broke. loveonya, susan P.S. also, speaking of Loving Spoonful and Sebastian, anyone else seen "You're A Big Boy Now", Coppola's first film with music by LS? Like so many late 60s films, it's very frustrating. It has moments of playful charm and delightful invention and is obviously made by someone with talent, but it also features long stretches of tedium brought on by some very dubious narrative choices/pacing. I turned it off after the latter started to outweigh the former for me, but others here may like. Some wonderful shots of the inner workings of an old library, with papers flying through a complex network of pneumatic tubes that reminded me of an Orson Welles' quote. I don't recall it exactly and am too lazy to look it up, but it's something about how film equipment is the best train set a boy ever had. P.P.S. GREAT story, Kay! :) Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:20:09 -0400 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: RE: tv show themes >>>top 5 TV themes of all-time jeffersons barney miller maude gilligan's island good times yeah, it seems like the funny themes rank highest with most entertainment value. 'suicide is painless' is a song i love so much i had to learn it on guitar. 'welcome back' is great too. anyone think lauryn hill ripped it off for 'every ghetto, every city'? drew carey's music video episode includes all of the different themes. god, it's been so long i can't even remember what the 'square pegs' theme sounded like! other guilty pleasures: star trek sanford & son six million dollar man the price is right love boat hawaii five o hong kong phooey laverne & shirley doctor who rockford files muppet show monty python electric company saint odd couple kids in the hall dukes of hazzard wonder woman equalizer that 70's show x files pink panther the fall guy scooby doo sopranos taxi rocky & bullwinkle charlie's angels mission impossible malcolm in the middle wild wild west cheers simon & simon partridge family jetsons a team i love lucy miami vice flintstones hill street blues ken "turn off your mind relax and float downstream" the kenster np fever in, fever out luscious jackson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:14:44 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: tv show themes >P.S. also, speaking of Loving Spoonful and Sebastian, anyone else seen >"You're A Big Boy Now", Coppola's first film with music by LS? I adore that film! I even own the soundtrack. Note: Coppola's first film was actually "Dementia 13." I saw this years ago, but don't recall much about it. It was just your average low-budget, B&W, psycho-killer flick, a la Roger Corman. The issue of best TV-show themes is too much for me to handle. I'd have to think about that one for weeks, before I'd offer any confident reply. Especially because a great theme in no way has to accompany a great *show*. Like, I'm sure "S.W.A.T." (an early Robert Urich vehicle) must have been a crap series, but the hit theme song kicked ass. ;) I have four CDs' worth of TV themes on the TVT label, but even scanning those titles would neglect scores of other worthy candidates. I'll tell you the *worst* TV theme, nowadays: "NYPD Blue." That cacophonous mix of drum solos and vacant, sustained notes is totally unlistenable for me. Blecch! Odd too, since the similarly created "Hill Street Blues" surely has one of the all-time *best* themes. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:40:57 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: tv show themes on 7/25/01 1:20 PM, Ken Ostrander at kenster@MIT.EDU wrote: > the price is right how about "Match Game"? That funky bass and wah-wah guitar - it still gets my groove on! Man, that Charles Nelson-Reilly was funny - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:11:22 -0700 From: "Motherfucking Asshole" Subject: Re: nothing really yes. it's just okay, i'm afraid. not in the same universe as Crumb. however, when y'all see it, check out the guy at the record collectors' party, talking about how he prefers cds to vinyl (unless the vinyl's in perfect condition) -- i had to do a double, and then quadruple take. i swear to god i thought the guy was played by eb. i watched the credits to see if it could've been eb's brother, but his last name was not broome. eb, you got a cousin in the acting field? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #287 ********************************