From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #289 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, July 27 2001 Volume 10 : Number 289 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: my first CD and junior high band concerts ["JH3" ] "It's mee, I'm Catheee..." [Natalie Jane Jacobs ] consolidating, to save bandwidth [Eb ] Re: consolidating, to save bandwidth [Ken Weingold ] Re: tv show themes [Ken Weingold ] Re: consolidating [HAL ] [comics] dan clowes interview [HAL ] Catching up ["Scott McCleary" ] things are some busy again ["ross taylor" ] smiths tapes ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] anything to defuse the CD/TV threads ;) [Eb ] The Shitty Beatles [Glen Uber ] Re: anything to defuse the CD/TV threads ;) ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: feemchoons [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Paul's not dead, he's just de-composing [Glen Uber ] re: first cd... [Robcow@aol.com] Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. [Michael R Godwin ] Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. ["JH3" ] Re: Perceptual Tricks..and other Exotica ["Seth Frisby" ] Re: Crappy Beatles Songs ["victorian squid" ] Re: Perceptual Tricks..and other Exotica [steve ] Re: hostage situation [dmw ] Re: Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Crappy Beatles Songs [Michael R Godwin ] The Zombies Ate My Tampax ["Rude Becky of Goldstrum" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:43:13 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: my first CD and junior high band concerts From: "Viv Lyon" : > ps- I was such a nerd that from the age of > ten to the age of seventeen I consistently ate > lunch in the band room of each successive school > I went to. I kind of thought that was cool, to tell > the truth. I played cards in the library during lunch with three other guys for all four years of high school. Rarely did we play poker, unless someone was sick and we only had three. We started with spades, then hearts, and then finally moved up to pinochle... I wanted to take the ultimate plunge and try bridge, but everyone said "whoa boy, don't go there"! It took me years to finally understand what they meant. (And another two weeks to completely forget...) The school cafeteria was like a descent into hell, at least where I was. To this day, I almost never eat lunch. In fact, I'm not eating lunch right now! First CD I ever owned? Jeez, you'd think that after all those posts from Capuchin over the years, folks would know by now that you don't actually *own* the damn things... John H. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:06:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs Subject: "It's mee, I'm Catheee..." Drew, the other anti-gnat*, says: >So are our musical tastes _completely_ mutually exclusive -- >except maybe for XTC and Robyn Hitchcock? I dunno. Go to http://www.bitmine.net/~gnat/noise.html and see if there's anything there that you like. :) You're a Bowie fan, right? 'Cause I do *own* a Bowie record ("Station to Station"). I used to know this guy who was always yammering at me to listen to it, but so far I've only removed the shrink wrap. (I bought it about three years ago.) >'Cause, like, all-your-friends were right. ;) Says you. :P I don't really dislike Kate Bush (or should that be "KaTe"?) but her swoony, rapturous style kind of bores me. I was just in a clothing store recently and one of her records was playing, and I started mimicking her helium voice, probably confusing the shop owners. My pity and sympathies go out to LJ for enduring the Philip Glass concert. I cannot imagine a worse fate... ... except for attending another GBV show! They're playing here again in September, and god knows I'd like to go, if only there was an IQ check at the door. n. *The original anti-gnat is, of course, woj. - -- Natalie Jane Jacobs gnat@bitmine.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:20:35 -0700 From: Eb Subject: consolidating, to save bandwidth So...what was the first TV theme you ever heard? ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:24:52 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: consolidating, to save bandwidth On Thu, Jul 26, 2001, Eb wrote: > So...what was the first TV theme you ever heard? ;) Wow, you are going way back, there, Eb. :) For me it must have been either Sesame Street, Electric Company, or Magic Garden. I once met Paula. Even got a signed postcard! She had a small version of the Chuckle Patch with her. Sweet. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:26:37 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: tv show themes So did I miss it or did no one mention the Red Dwarf theme? I even found an MP3 of it on Napster a while back. Hehe. And not that it was particularly great, but the Young Ones theme is cool. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:43:28 -0600 From: HAL Subject: Re: consolidating > > So...what was the first TV theme you ever heard? ;) > Wow, you are going way back > For me it must have been > either Sesame Street, Electric Company, or Magic Garden. Captain Kangaroo. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:59:26 -0600 From: HAL Subject: [comics] dan clowes interview Dan Clowes talks about GHOST WORLD (and more) to the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:23:14 -0700 From: "Scott McCleary" Subject: Catching up First CD was Phil Woods Live at the Village Vanguard. Dolby's Flat Earth was second or third as I recall. The theme from Ironside really kicked ass. Quincy Jones (also did Sanford & Son). np -- mp3s of surf and birds from last week at the beach ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:28:31 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: things are some busy again Perception plays fun tricks-- like when your field of vision narrows to a small oval of images surrounded by a big darkness, just like in "Being John Malkovitch?" I haven't been getting enuf sleep. Playing in the Band-- The nerdiness of being in band class seems to have been destabilized by the recent swing revival. Some high school and even junior high concerts we've been to recently were pretty jumpin' with cutting contests & the whole shebang. However, a few years back when I was in a swing band & the revival was hotter, it was amusing that the horn section folks seemed less at ease w/ some of the clublife we encountered. Great guys & gals, our horns, no mistake, but it was funny that the punk rhythm section was protected in back & the horn people were down front, w/ their music stands like the shields of a Roman phalanx. And of course they were the first to take the hit if some out of control jitterbugging barbarians crashed into us. Sheet music everywhere. TV themes-- These have haunted my so called band life. In one band we did a medly of Green Acres, surf Munsters, Batman & Hawaii Five-O. Plus occasinal Spiderman impromptus. In my last band we did Perry Mason, Pink Panther & Peter Gun (see above). Secret Agent Man has been a constant in all my bands. If I had taken up guitar earlier in life I might have avoided this. Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:50:24 -0700 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: smiths tapes >From: Jill Brand > >Jill (who wants to know if Drew has listened to any tapes yet) He's listened to all of them. It's amazing how quickly they evolved as a live band -- based solely on these three tapes, it sounds like they went from being kind of shambling and awkward in '83 to being incredible in '86. >From: Michael R Godwin > > > doctor who >Totally agree with James that the original Radiophonic Workshop version is >the best - it's the only TV theme I actually have on record. And I also >second his vote for 'The Avengers'. As long as we're talking Ron Grainer, how 'bout the Prisoner theme? I have it on CD. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:19:44 -0700 From: Eb Subject: anything to defuse the CD/TV threads ;) I was fooling around last night, and narrowed down a list of my 10 least-favorite Beatle songs (not counting posthumous rarities). It wasn't especially difficult -- my initial rough-draft list only had 19 tracks. I'm confident about these 10 picks, but their internal order might stand for a tweak or two. These aren't necessarily the worst *compositions*, but just the tracks which I have the hardest time sitting through. 1. Honey Don't 2. Chains 3. Boys 4. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby 5. Blue Jay Way 6. Dig It 7. Ask Me Why 8. Devil In Her Heart 9. Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey 10. Matchbox Anyone else wanna try? Eb, obviously not crazy about some of the Beatles' musty '50s covers ;) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:39:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: The Shitty Beatles On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Eb wrote: >1. Honey Don't >2. Chains >3. Boys >4. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby >5. Blue Jay Way >6. Dig It >7. Ask Me Why >8. Devil In Her Heart >9. Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey >10. Matchbox > >Anyone else wanna try? In no particular order: 1. Mr. Moonlight 2. Dig It (the extended _Get Back_ version; the _Let It Be_ version is short enough to be mildly tolerable) 3. Boys 4. Yes It Is 5. Wild Honey Pie 6. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 7. Long, Long, Long (long, long, long, zzzzzzzz...) 8. Dig A Pony 9. The Inner Light (The instrument that sounds like a whining child grates on my nerves every time I hear it. Not to mention, the song's verse section has nearly the same melody as "Ruby Tuesday," another song I've never adored.) 10. Run For Your Life - -- Cheers! - -g- "Never waste a trip anywhere by coming home without beer." - --Russ Reynolds )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( Glen Uber // Santa Rosa, California // uberg (at) sonic dot net )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 18:44:36 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: anything to defuse the CD/TV threads ;) >I was fooling around last night, and narrowed down a list of my 10 >least-favorite Beatle songs (not counting posthumous rarities). It wasn't >>Anyone else wanna try? > >Eb Okay, tough questions, some of you may know I'm a bit obsessive about the fabs. I do like a lot of these, but in the relative scheme of things I find them weak. In no order: Revolution #9(it's good for what it's trying to accomplish) Mr. Moonlight(loose the CHEESY organ solo) Piggies(they should have put Not Guilty on The Beatles instead) The Long And Winding Road(Macca was already on his way to his boring solo formula) No Reply(An uninspired track from an uninspired album) Till There Was You(love the guitar solo though) Rocky Raccoon(loved it when I was 7 years old...) Honey Pie(Has a good feel, but sooooo retro) Let It Be (See The Long And Winding Road) I Don't Want To Spoil The Party(See No Reply) I for one like the covers of 50's tunes. I have problems with Beatles For Sale. The title is even uninspired. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:12:52 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Crappy Beatles Songs I don't have a top ten list, but I'd be curious to know which of the songs on people's lists are McCartney-based and which are Lennon-based (and which are Harrison's). I've always hated the Beatles' "kiddie" songs and sappy lovey tunes, and I perhaps mistakenly attribute them all to Paul. Some random examples: "Let It Be" "The Long and Winding Road" "Rocky Raccoon" "Hey Jude" "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" "Got To Get You Into My Life" - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:16:58 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: feemchoons >Benny Hill don't remember the theme music, though, like everyone who ever saw the show, I do remember the chase music ("Yackety Sax" by Boots Randolph). >Once at college in the middle of the night we all awoke to someone doing a >wonked-out version of the Addams familly theme on the carillon. >It was worth waking up for. > >Kay, who now can't get the Dukes of Hazzard theme out of her head. >Thaaaaanks people;-) you're lucky James np (in my head) - The Addams Family theme (dubbadeedub clickclick, dubbadeedub clickclick) James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- You talk to me as if from a distance -.-=-.- And I reply with impressions chosen from another time =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:27:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: Paul's not dead, he's just de-composing On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Tom Clark wrote: >I perhaps mistakenly attribute them all to Paul. > >Some random examples: >"Let It Be" >"The Long and Winding Road" >"Rocky Raccoon" >"Hey Jude" >"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" >"Got To Get You Into My Life" All Paul, although he had nothing to do with the strings and choir on "Long and Winding Road". Blame that on Phil Spector. My list breaks down to 4 John songs, 2 George songs, 2 covers, 1 Paul song and one Harrison-Lennon-McCartney-Starkey composition. For the record, my favorite Beatles' song was composed by George. - -- Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:06:37 EDT From: Robcow@aol.com Subject: re: first cd... #1 Jazz Butcher--Sex and Travel/A Scandal In Bohemia (expensive at the time but a worthy investment I suppose, if I wanted to sell it , since it now fetches top dollar) #2 Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians--Fegmania! (also expensive but...wheeeee!!!) There were a few more, then the CD player. Roberta ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:42:40 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, james wrote: > ...isn't this supposed to be the robyn list? i don't want to unsubscribe but > i am getting a ton of this extraneous material... I'm afraid that fegs are notoriously unable to focus on anything for more than a couple of days at a time, unless it relates to computer technology. However, I have a Hitchcock-related question. Did nobody attend last week's Clerkenwell bash? - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:35:41 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. > ...isn't this supposed to be the robyn list? i don't want to > unsubscribe but i am getting a ton of this extraneous material... Sorry, we're not going to change. But here are a couple of suggestions from http://www.fegmania.org/fegmaniax.html that you may want to consider: "fegmaniax is available as both a regular list and a digest. The digest is sent out at least once per day, and sometimes more often when the list traffic is high. You may wish to consider the digest if you do not check your mail regularly, have a limit on the total number of messages you can receive or you wish to have all fegmaniax mail collected into one large file. There is also a moderated, news-only mailing list, fegmaniax-announce. If you are only interested in news about tour dates, album releases and such, you may want to consider joining this list instead." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:40:39 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. > ...isn't this supposed to be the robyn list? i don't want to unsubscribe but > i am getting a ton of this extraneous material... > in mid-summer this becomes a psuedo-robyn list. we are sligthly deciduous but just wait awhile and the fur will return, unless of course either of the William's sisters is playing. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:36:29 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: tv themes, etc are clogging up my inbox. From: "james" : > ...isn't this supposed to be the robyn list? i don't > want to unsubscribe but i am getting a ton of this > extraneous material... I know it *seems* like extraneous material, but the fact is that despite what woj says, these seemingly- unrelated threads about TV themes, cat and baby names, the history of the compact disc, people with embarrassing names that can be easily bastardized as phallic references, and signs that are easily misread as saying something that may or may not also be a phallic reference of some sort are, in fact, *extremely* relevant to Robyn Hitchcock and the way he approaches music and lyrical content! What many people don't realize is that Robyn gets most of his inspiration from *precisely these things.* Take something like "The Moussaka Song," for example. (This dish was also mentioned in the song "Unsettled," included on one of his very first CD releases.) Clearly at this point in Robyn's artistic development, he was obsessed with the Moose as a species, or perhaps as a TV cartoon character such as Bullwinkle J. Moose, companion to Rocky the Flying Squirrel -- bearing in mind that both cats *and inappropriately-named babies* love to chase after squirrels. Even more importantly, the male moose is well-known throughout the animal kingdom for extreme well-hungness! So, if you saw a sign or billboard that said, "Most people prefer Burma-Shave", you might easily read it as "Moose people have their bums shaved," or perhaps something even more strange and terrifying, like Billy Joel's "52nd Street" album. There are, of course, many other examples, too many to go over in detail here. Just remember, ultimately all threads lead to Robyn. John "garlic, baby" Hedges III ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:53:46 -0400 From: "Seth Frisby" Subject: Re: Perceptual Tricks..and other Exotica No..no Quail visitations..I think my entertaining hallucinations are a gift of the highest order. I mean wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can get your brain unclogged for $25 dollars, and where Doctor Zaius sits in a fancy SUV idly petting a puppy? and James thanks for telling me there's a name for what happens in my brain. Jamais Vu..I'll have to remember that. Why is it that the French have a word for this but the English language doesn't? I also heard someone exclaim that the Spanish language has more words for spiritual and existential matters than most languages..I wonder what makes a language evolve to the point where terms like these are necessary. Plus why wouldn't all languages eventually get to this point? Pretty soon someone will invent the perfect language...I hope I'll be able to pronounce it ;) and yes I was slighty jealous of all those xenophobic band kids who got to eat away from the herds. I was a drama kid, which meant no special treatment really. I did get to sing though which was something those saxaphone yielding yutzes couldn't brag about. ....oh and my first two cd's were Metallica's Ride the lightening and Pearl Jam's 10. My little brother and I shared, the next I think was Achtung Baby, which I didn't like as much as my mother( boy that's an odd statement). I have grown. Though 10 still evokes fond memories of youth...as do the Moody Blues. But I reveal too much.. Seth Frisby _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:03:33 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Speaking of Zappa CDs I just noticed there is a new batch of remastered Zappa CDs issued by Ryko in Japan only: Anybody heard or own any of these? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:15:04 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: Crappy Beatles Songs - --- On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:12:52 Tom Clark wrote: >are Harrison's). I've always hated the Beatles' "kiddie" songs and sappy >lovey tunes, and I perhaps mistakenly attribute them all to Paul. Oh, I don't think that's a mistake. Most of the kiddie songs -are- Paul's. I like all the songs you listed tho. Except "Long and Winding Road", and I only don't like the Spector-ization. It'd be fine without the strings and the choir of assorted wood nymphs. In fact, somewhere I have a bootleg version with just Paul and piano that I quite like. What's strange about your list to me is, well, I guess sap is in the eye of the beholder. If I had to rank Paul songs by sap quotient I would have ranked "Fool on the Hill" or "Mother Nature's Son" much higher than "Got To Get You into My Life" *shrug*. In my case Harrison is the overwhelming winner, with a decent Lennon showing. "Happy Just To Dance With You"- I guess it's not -horrible-, but compared to the other songs on an otherwise pretty sparkling record this is just kind of a bland singsongy nothing. "Think for Yourself"- Again, I suppose it's not the most horrible thing ever but it's just so dull the way it plods along. "Within You Without You"- I've heard all the explanations about why it's there. I still think it's incongruous and dull. "Run For Your Life"- Slight tune with a really ugly (and not especially original) lyric. "Girl"- This just irritates the living hell out of me. It's mainly the "tititititit" thing. "The Word"- Say the wooooord facile. "I Me Mine"- Maddeningly self-righteous. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"- Starts out good but the "heavy" jamminess is really lame (not to mention horribly dated-sounding) and dilutes the emotional impact this could have had. "Blue Jay Way"- Tedium in musical form. "Only a Northern Song"- see "Blue Jay Way". loveonya, susan P.S. Doug votes for "Let it Be", "Mother Nature's Son", "Michelle", "Yer Blues", and "Happiness Is A Warm Gun". Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:41:44 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Perceptual Tricks..and other Exotica On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 09:53 PM, Seth Frisby wrote: > Why is it that the French have a word for this but the English language > doesn't? Perhaps for the same reason that EVOLUTION is a big hit over there. > Pretty soon someone will invent the perfect language... >www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059OLR/qid%3D996208738/104-9247524-5682337< - - Steve __________ HALTON, England  President Bush said Thursday he is having a hard time selling a missile defense plan to skeptical allies in Europe because he has only "vague notions" about what it would entail. - Ron Fournier, AP, 07/19/01 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:57:52 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: hostage situation On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Eb wrote: > I think we should all observe a reverent moment of silence for poor LJ, who > was brutally forced by the maniacal Quail to sit through a Philip Glass > concert tonight. "Down in front, Philip FUCKING Glass!!" (oops, wrong list?) First CD: I bought REM's _Fables of the Reconstruction_ and The Alarm's _Strength_ before I had a CD player. On the day I bought the CD player, I also bought the Bauhaus compilation (1980-84 or whatever) and not one but TWO Depeche Mode CDs... _A Broken Frame_ and _Black Celebration_. TV: I love the Get Smart theme. Bad Beatles: "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey" is pretty bad, I agree. "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party," which someone mentioned, is probably in my top 5 Beatles tune list. I don't like "Julia" or "Why Don't We Do it in the Road." I like the song "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" a lot, but not the Beatles version so much. I've been reading one of the Lewisohn books and I'm amazed at how completely HARD they worked in the early days...up to three gigs a day, and hardly any days off, for three years. - -- d. = i do what i am told. i am not opinionated. i accept without | dmw@ = questioning. i do not make a fuss. i am a good consumer. |radix.net = pathetic-caverns.com * fecklessbeast.com * shoddyworkmanship.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:18:26 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Perceptual tricks..and a little Beta Band Brian Huddell wrote: > > I'd pay a lot more than $25 to have *my* brain unclogged. There was a company that used to adverise in our local paper: * PEST REMOVAL * WASPS #25 PENSIONERS #12 they've since reworded it, alas. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:19:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: When Beatles Were Oarsis 1) With a Little Help From My Friends 2) Revolution 9 /too easy a choice i suppose/ 3) I've Got a Feeling 4) Maggie Mae 5) Dig a Pony 6) Words of Love /also my least favorite buddy holly song/ 7) The Inner Light 8) What Goes On 9) Matchbox 10) She's a Woman first CD purchased: Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths random thought even more off topic than everything else: whose dumber, George W Bush or Allard Baird? ===== "Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." -- Mark Twain "The divinity of Jesus has been made a convenient cover for every absurdity." -- John Adams "The jury is the last line of defense against corporate misconduct." -- Craig McDonald, Texans for Public Justice Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:51:42 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Crappy Beatles Songs I was interested in those unfavourite Beatles selections. Eb, don't you like Carl Perkins (3 songs out of 10)? Or is it just the plodding Beatles interpretations you don't like? I'm a big CP fan and constantly play "The right string baby but the wrong yo-yo" and "All my friends are bopping the blues". I loved that last TV concert with Dave Edmunds and George Harrison. 'Blue Jay Way' is of course one of my all-time favourite Beatles ditties - but you do have to be in a certain state to take off on it. I really like 'Chains' too, but it isn't as good as 'Anna' by the sensational Arthur Alexander. Glen, "Yes it is" is another of my favourites, along with "Dig a pony" and "She's a woman" (selected by Jeff Dwarf). On the other hand I can definitely live without the ultra-irritating 'Bungalow Bill' and 'Rocky Raccoon'. I do like OLDOLD and Michelle, though. Susan, I totally agree about 'I want you (she's so heavy)'. Abbey Road ought to be the Beatles best album, but this track wrecks it completely. Macca put together 60%+ of this excellent album, so why did the light go out when he went solo? No-one has mentioned 'Nowhere man', a nasty little song which clicks right in with 'Piggies'. I can't distinguish between 'Ask me why', 'No reply', 'Think for yourself' and 'Run for your life'. I remember that 'No reply' sounded great on that Beatles on 45 thing, so presumably it has a hook but no verse. And what are 'Devil in her heart', 'What goes on' and 'Maggie May'? Are they LP tracks or something? (-: 'Mr Moonlight' is a number which everyone had to play when I was learning the guitar, but I don't think I've ever heard the original. Seriously, though, I don't think it's possible to compare the Beatles originals with the cover versions. Although they established themselves as a live covers act, when they got to the studio for the first time they deliberately fouled up the Tin Pan Alley song prepared for them ('How do you do it?' possibly?) and insisted on playing original material, thereby getting their career off to a solid beginning. The weak cover versions only appeared when they were under pressure to issue more and more records; and the feeble interchangeable Lennon-McCartney songs date from a period when I for one thought they had got into a dismal rut. What is remarkable is the way that they dug themselves out of it with songs like 'Day tripper', 'Drive my car' and 'The Word'. Yes, it's a bit dreary, but that 3-note ostinato sequence going round the verse is a killer, and without 'The Word' I don't think you would ever have got 'Rain', arguably the best song of all (though I like 'Penny Lane' better). - - Mike "Charles Hawtrey on the deaf-aid" Godwin PS I think I told you about the book "50 great Beatles songs", which my oldest mate Steve said should be retitled "49 great Beatles songs and 'I'm happy just to dance with you' ". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:43:25 +0000 From: "Rude Becky of Goldstrum" Subject: The Zombies Ate My Tampax http://www.geocities.com/chenrich/Commercials/Commercials1.html Kay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:12:28 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Yummy worms! Fegs! I just wanted to thank everyone (especially Ken W. and Bayard) for the tips on all these NT/IIS self-propagating "worms" that are going around. That's what it was, and now that it's gone and the necessary patches have been applied (or so I'm told), things should be back to normal for a few days, 'til we're hit with the next self-propagating- worm-of-the-week. We used to have a guy here who knew all about this stuff, but apparently he insisted on being paid! Oh well. Those of you who wrote in to say you've had NT boxes running for upwards of a year with no downtime are right; we've got some of those too, so it isn't necessarily NT itself that's the problem. It's IIS! John "keep on checkin' that \msadc folder" Hedges ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #289 ********************************