From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #171 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 24 2002 Volume 11 : Number 171 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: A good year for music! ["Russ Reynolds" ] have you lot seen this? [dmw ] Re: well then ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: A good year for music! [gSs ] Re: Moby: Dick? [Johnathan Vail ] Re: then well [gSs ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V11 #170 ["The Rooneys" ] Re: have you lot seen this? [Stewart Russell ] Re: have you lot seen this? [dmw ] Re: Moby: Dick? [Stewart Russell ] RIP [Christopher Gross ] Me and Moby [Christopher Gross ] Re: Moby: Dick? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Whats your handicap?(New quiz show) ["Sloe Rose" ] Re: Whats your handicap?(New quiz show) ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: A good year for music! [JH3 ] Re: you know my name, look up the number ["matt sewell" ] RE:Whats your handicap?(New quiz show) ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: shouldn't be writing cos I'm busy at work... [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffr] Re: Well then [glen uber ] Re: A good year for music! [glen uber ] Re: A good year for music! [Miles Goosens ] Kay Exposed ["Mike Wells" ] Re: A good year for music! ["Jason R. Thornton" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 06:38:46 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: A good year for music! Quail dropped: > Making a near-mid-year top ten is easy: > > 1. Elvis Costello, "When I Was Cruel" > 2. Tom Waits, "Alice" > 3. Rush, "Vapour Trails" > 4. Wilco, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" > 5. Tom Waits, "Blood Money" > 6. Trey Anastasio, "Trey Anastasio" > 7. Luna, "Romantica" > 8. Van Morrison, "Down the Road" > 9. Neil Young, "Are You Passionate?" > 10. Shane MacGowan & the Popes, "Across the Broad Atlantic" Okay, I can't comment on much beyond "When I Was Cruel" but including "Are You Passionate?" anywhere in the top ten is not supporting your argument that it's been a good year for music. That said, the year's best offering will no doubt be the new Soft Boys album in the fall. By the way...accidentally saw Travis Tritt performing "Modern Day Bonnie & Clyde" on the Country Music Awards the other night. Apparently it was some kind of number one hit or something? The things you miss when you don't listen to country stations. Anyway, I guess you can't cry plagiarism on straight blues or everybody would be suing everybody else but it sure sounded an awful lot like Dylan's "Meet Me In The Morning" to me. Also accidentally saw Hank Williams Junior and Kid Rock performing together. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?? - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:49:13 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: have you lot seen this? surrealist compliment generator: http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 06:50:52 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: well then > >Since everyone but me and one other person loves Sinister But Happy, are > >there any RH songs that people don't like? I'll go along with: > "Legalized Murder" -- ham-fisted, preachy, grating. Three things Robyn > usually isn't. not to mention a vocal that boarders on painful. and to a lesser extent: > "Superman" -- the "crunchy little Superman" line bugs me, echo that. In fact That whole 3/4 over 4/4 intro just sounds like shit to me. But the song is saved by the the chorus. I remember when The Egyptians opened for REM in Oakland, and I'm pretty sure they *opened* with "Superman". Man, you gots to go with your A material when you're opening for one of the hottest bands in the country. "Furry Green Atom Bowl" & "Certainly Cliqot" are tailor made for the 'skip' button too. I wouldn't necessarily put this one in my bottom 10 but Susan's comment is the funniest thing I've read all day so I'll quote it too... > Blues in A- I can't believe this didn't get taped over once everyone > sobered up By the way, I like "Luminous Rose" but as it always scores well in these kinds of threads I thought it worth mentioning that I had a dream the other night that a commercial came on TV which used a cover version of "Luminous Rose". I have no idea what the product was. Probably a hand soap or something. - -rUss waiting for Kobe's vomit to appear on e-bay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:02:58 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: A good year for music! On Fri, 24 May 2002, Russ Reynolds wrote: > Also accidentally saw Hank Williams Junior and Kid Rock performing together. > WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?? it's a blend. did it suck as much as the first six shots of any blended whiskey? you gotta stick with bonded bourbon or whiskey, just to be safe. but then, what kinda performance could you expect from someone like kid rock? why doesn't somone knock that fucking hat off his head and pee on it with a pure whiskey pee that looks like tea but smells like chili-powder? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:07:07 -0400 From: Johnathan Vail Subject: Re: Moby: Dick? According to http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/archive/music/97/07/04/MISSION_OF_BURMA.html they descibe him as "dance-music whiz Moby" which I guess is about right. Anyway, he's the one that covered Mission of Burma which is all I really know about him. I think of him as an American "Fot Boy Slim". jv <-- now where did I leave my Gang of Four LP? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:06:12 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: then well On Fri, 24 May 2002, Russ Reynolds wrote: > waiting for Kobe's vomit to appear on e-bay are the japs trying to lean-out their beef? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:52:11 -0600 From: "The Rooneys" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V11 #170 Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 01:07:26 -0700 > From: drew > Subject: unfavorite robyn songs > I'm not fond of "Furry Green Atom Bowl," but I can tolerate it. Then > there's: > > "Child of the Universe" > "Oceanside" > about half of _You and Oblivion_ > "Night Ride to Trinidad" > "If You Were a Priest" > And having saved this as a draft and read ahead in the digest, I see that > I agree with Miles (!!!) about more least favorite Robyn songs > ("Legalized > Murder," "Autumn Sea" (like Miles, I like the pieces but don't think they > belong together), and "Superman"). > And how could I forget the terrible "Freeze"? And I'm not really very > keen on several Bram songs, including "Adoration of the City," "The > Underneath" > (I like the lyrics but not the music), and the a-little-too-raw "I Wish > I Liked You." > And, of course, "Mind is Connected." I really like all of the above -- and also Luminous Rose and Sweet Ghost of Light; most have good energy, rawness and a lot of those have squawking vocals. For my money, the best Robyn is energy, rawness and squawking vocals (can you say can of bees?) As far as my dislikes go, about half of "Fegmania!" (except the bonus tracks), and, tragically, Wading through a Ventilator, where the energy just seems fake. - - Bill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:52:52 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: have you lot seen this? dmw wrote: > surrealist compliment generator: > http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG "Teacups smash, flounders ignite spontaneously in your presence." could almost be a Robyn line. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:54:44 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Well then On Fri, 24 May 2002, Brian Hoare wrote: > 1974: I can't get comprehensive theory of this song but I don't believe that > its about boredom. The UK half seems to be about the feeling of an end of an > era, with personal heroes finally running out of steam and abandoning you to > the gak of pop culture. Dumping Nixon, though, seems to go the other way. not really about boredom, yer right, i sloppy. but still, a grey depressing song about grey depressing circumstances. i hate that melancholic nostalgic thing. (i'm not a big fan of the boss, either) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:55:41 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: have you lot seen this? On Fri, 24 May 2002, Stewart Russell wrote: > "Teacups smash, flounders ignite spontaneously in your presence." could > almost be a Robyn line. i thought a bunchathem were rather feggy, is why i fwd'd. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:55:48 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Moby: Dick? Tom Clark wrote: > > So who is this Moby guy? The first "artist" to have every track from an album licensed for advertising. For a while, watching UK commercial television was listening to Moby. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:56:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: RIP Dave Berg, writer and illustrator for Mad magazine. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:18:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Me and Moby On Fri, 24 May 2002, drew wrote: > > Man, if my hairline was a little farther forward, > > I'd consider making myself up as Dark Willow next time I hit the goth > > club. > > I wanted to meet you before, but now I REALLY want to meet you. Honestly, the real me is even less interesting than my Feg list persona. Re: Moby, I'm glad to hear that he still has the hot bassist. Is her name Greta? Anyway, she was one of the highlights of my second Moby show, in October 2000. (Another highlight was the "Freebird" cover.) The first time I saw Moby, which come to think of it was exactly seven years ago today, he was still in his all-techno phase, so there was no hot bassist. Even then, he was unusual for his genre in his high level of audience interaction. That might have been partly due to the numerous technical problems, though. This was the first show I ever saw where a song was aborted because one of the performer's hard drives stopped working. For one song he had to get a girl (named Michelle, IIRC) from the audience to play a rhythm line on a keyboard. Despite or perhaps because of all the problems, it was a fun show. But the most important thing to note about Moby is that on the cover of his latest album, _18_, he looks *exactly* like Eddie Tews. Ramblingly, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:21:07 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Moby: Dick? >From: Stewart Russell >Tom Clark wrote: > > > >>So who is this Moby guy? > > >The first "artist" to have every track from an album licensed for >advertising. For a while, watching UK commercial television was listening >to Moby. > > Stewart It was no different here in the USA. Trust me I think everyone has heard him...they may not know it but they have. Max _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:43:26 +0000 From: "Sloe Rose" Subject: Whats your handicap?(New quiz show) Forget who posted the point that its not the least favorite songs which are the lesser songs--but the amorphous ones no one much mentions cause everyones fogotten them. Thats born out by how most of the least faves also have passionate defenders. Great point. "Superman", for me, is almost impossible to listen to cause it is so evocatively painful. Whether it is good or bad, realized or failed, is almost immaterial; its important. It -gets- you, one way or the other. But "Knife" on the same albumn ... It makes it painful point clearly, almost too clearly, but not very evocatively. Once youve gotten it, is there much reason to go back to it? I haven't heard it for years. Was the music any good? I dont rememeber the melody, just that it sounded strident. I dont like "Man with a Lightbulb Head." It scares me(yeah, I know its supposed to be funny. It still scares me.) But not many songs are powerful enough to scare me, so I like it. Even thou I dont like it. And I don't care if a chord progression is common. I luuuuv "Sallie was a Legend." Also count me in as as a big "JfS" fan. The whole JfS record is one of the ones I play without fastforwarding thru any of it(thou I do get tempted by NASA). - ------------- Stipe connection on "Superman"? ?, but in concert, didn't Mike Miles always sing this, not Stipe? - --------------- >Michael "I may be a 13, but at least it's honest" Wells What, no "gimmes";-! 13 is actually pretty good thou. - ----------------- Kay, who adores "Acid Bird" and would love to hear Soft Boy harmonies and guitars on it. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:46:10 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: rip Hole. http://cdnow.com/allstararticle/fid=325643 By the way, I have to chime in that I love "Guildford" and "Superman." Especially "Guildford," which is easily one of my top ten Hitchcock songs. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:49:25 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Whats your handicap?(New quiz show) >From: "Sloe Rose" >Stipe connection on "Superman"? >?, but in concert, didn't Mike Miles always sing this, not Stipe? > >--------------- I am fairly certain that this is a cover of someone else's song to boot. Somebody know for certain? Max _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:50:44 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: shouldn't be writing cos I'm busy at work... Randi inquires - >*Kay, Nat ... are ya both *really* willing to shave off your locks to >sell your words? Possibly - but what I meant by being bald is that I had torn all my hair out in despair. I have occasionally pondered selling my hair, as I have a nice curly mop of it. When I shaved it off in high school, I thought about weaving it into a sweater or something. More audience silliness - at that same Apples in Stereo show where a song was dedicated to the Nuge, Hilarie Sidney was talking about how she was from Battle Creek. "My father worked for Post, my grandfather worked for Kellogg..." "What about General Mills?!" someone in the audience screamed. "We don't talk about General Mills," Hilarie snapped. There used to be these great shows at the Phoenix Plaza Amphitheatre in Detroit - four or five bands on the bill, often terrific. I saw the Breeders, Urge Overkill, Alex Chilton, and Morphine at these shows. I also saw MC 900 Foot Jesus, who was pretty good, but in the middle of his set, someone threw some hard object at him which struck him in the face. Afterwards he was signing autographs and I noticed he had a cut on his nose. I asked him if he was OK and he said yes; the object in question was a cassette tape. "I guess someone really wanted me to hear it," he said. Least favorite Robyn songs... Yeah, "Legalized Murder" is pretty dumb. "Wafflehead" is just silly. The dissonant harmonies in "Trams of Old London" make me twitch, though I like the song overall. About 3/4 of the songs on Jewels for Sophia I find to be either bad or boring, but the greatest offenders are "Cheese Alarm" (stupid silly lyrics with a pointless "moral" tacked on to the end, though at least he has good taste in cheese) and the utterly tedious "Guildford." One of Robyn's worst, IMO. Every time I hear it I can't wait for it to be over. (Again I display my tendency to hate the songs that everyone else loves... I hate the Chalkhillian favorite "Wrapped in Grey," also.) back to work, chump, n. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 08:56:56 -0700 From: drew Subject: you know my name, look up the number > From: Tom Clark > > So who is this Moby guy? I see him as the Beck of the electronica world -- all style, no substance. Difference is I occasionally like Beck's style. > From: "Brian Hoare" > > Whenever I play this I wonder if there is a connection with Stipe and > REM's > Superman. Then I conclude that there probably isn't and then it stops. Yeah, given that REM's is a cover (another song I don't much like). > From: "Mike Wells" > > back, in the grass with a butterfly on your face, realizing that you've > become only 'a (phone) number in a drawer.' I always assumed the number was some sort of entomological index. But I agree that "Guildford" is on the Best Ever list. Drew ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:58:12 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Re: A good year for music! >...what kinda performance could you expect from someone like kid > rock? why doesn't somone knock that fucking hat off his head and > pee on it with a pure whiskey pee that looks like tea but smells like > chili-powder? Do you have any idea how expensive it is to engineer and grow the biosystemic implants required to produce urine that's even 40% alcohol, much less pure whiskey? Not to mention the coloration and spice content... I mean, sure, guys like Bill Gates can do it, but the problem there is that once they have that much money, they start thinking Kid Rock is some sort of bloody genius! And then the whole idea just falls apart, basically... So in my opinion, we may simply not achieve anything like this in our lifetimes. And by the time *we're* dead, Kid Rock may be dead too, unless he gets one of those secret Kim-Stanley-Robinson-novel longevity treatments the conspiracy nuts used to talk about all the time, until they all mysteriously *stopped* talking about it all at once, back on Sept. 11... *HEY*, did you all hear the Sony's fancy music-CD copy-protection scheme can be defeated by simply drawing around the rim of the disc with a Sharpie? (Maybe someone posted a link about that, and I accidentally deleted it...?) Or am I just the last to know, in general? Oh, and one more thing: > funnily enough, i been kicking recent lynch flicks around > in an alternate space lately. i think it's a real mistake to > try to crunch them into a space that allows you to say > "this happened. then this other thing happened." Not even "The Straight Story"? (That one was fairly recent!) John "still looking for Chandra's biosystemic implants" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 17:04:05 +0100 From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: you know my name, look up the number I always thought that the number in a drawer line echoes Beautiful Queen - - Every Cloud is numbered in the library... obviously Robyn's a closet cataloguer (sp?). I don't suppose you've ever seen him in his carcoat on the platform collecting engine numbers, Godders?! Cheers Matt >From: drew >>back, in the grass with a butterfly on your face, realizing that >>you've >>become only 'a (phone) number in a drawer.' > >I always assumed the number was some sort of entomological index. >But I agree that "Guildford" is on the Best Ever list. > >Drew - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:59:13 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: unfavs I've been seeing a lot of my favs on other folks hate lists, notably Lady Waters, Superman, Yip Song, President. I suspect if I tried to do a Venn diagram of people's dislikes it would look like a giant Buckyball or geodesic dome, or maybe a pile of soapsuds. My main difference seems to be my preference for the pop/rock side. Aside from Cynthia Mask I don't spend much time with Eye, and I don't spend a heck of a lot of time w/ Moss Elixir, except for Sinister, Devils Radio, Filthy Bird, De Chirico. All time least fav: One Long Pair of Eyes. He must've been trying for Barry Manilow, tho the video helps some. Join others in hating Child of the Universe, which is bad since it's a loud, upbeat number & I usually prefer those. Similarly no use for Alright Yeah. He seems to have a number of songs that specialize in saying *nothing*, self-consciously, perhaps conceptually, like Alright Yeah, I Something You. At first I thought "*something* about you and oblivion" was like that, but it grew on me. September Cones seems to also fit in this category, but I like it. I think Legalized Murder has a beautiful melody, like a Victorian hymn, which interestingly cross cuts the anger. I take it as a song, like some of Lou Reed's later ones, where there's overstatement that conveys the depth of some rage. Still weird. The Ruling Class is IMO a great, hilarious political song. "the lips that hovered slyly in the void" Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:26:35 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: RE:Whats your handicap?(New quiz show) At 03:43 PM 5/24/2002 +0000, Sloe Rose wrote: >Stipe connection on "Superman"? >?, but in concert, didn't Mike Miles always sing this, not Stipe? Stipe sings on the chorus along with Mills, at least on the record - but the bulk of the tune is sung by MM. Since someone asked - it is a cover song, originally by a band called The Clique. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:58:06 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: shouldn't be writing cos I'm busy at work... At 08:50 AM 5/24/2002 -0700, Natalie Jane wrote: >Possibly - but what I meant by being bald is that I had torn all my hair >out in despair. I have occasionally pondered selling my hair, as I have a >nice curly mop of it. When I shaved it off in high school, I thought >about weaving it into a sweater or something. I've been growing my hair out the past half-year or so, and it's now at the curly "poof-ball" stage. I suppose I could shear it off at some point and return to my state of Mobiness/Tewshood, if there were a shortage of wool or something. Perhaps we fuzzy-topped Fegs could start up our own cottage industry - animal-cruelty free wool. Cruelty free, unless someone WANTS to lasso and give me a buzz... >Least favorite Robyn songs... Yeah, "Legalized Murder" is pretty dumb. I had forgotten about this one until everyone mentioned it - definitely one of my least favorites as well. I thought this was some unknown cover for the longest time, it just seemed so un-Hitchcockish. >About 3/4 of the songs on Jewels for Sophia I find to be either bad or >boring, but the greatest offenders are "Cheese Alarm" ... Oh yeah - I'm not a fan of that song either. Although, I don't find it... erm... grating enough to bother skipping when the album is on. Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:00:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: rip hole Now what? what will this do to the NIRVANA box set? According to the article in RS and the boys of NIRVANA she is using the Nirvana catalog to help her shop for a better record deal for her music. Annoyed, Herbie np-> "Piggies" Beatles - --- "Jason R. Thornton" wrote: > Hole. > > http://cdnow.com/allstararticle/fid=325643 > > By the way, I have to chime in that I love > "Guildford" and > "Superman." Especially "Guildford," which is easily > one of my top ten > Hitchcock songs. > > > --Jason > > "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted > apples." > - Sherwood Anderson ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:14:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: shouldn't be writing cos I'm busy at work... On Fri, 24 May 2002, Natalie Jane wrote: > taste in cheese) and the utterly tedious "Guildford." One of Robyn's worst, And I think it's one of his best - just beautiful, touching, etc. Oh well. I agree with whoever said my least-fave Robyn songs are, by definition, the ones I can't remember. Except "Wafflehead." I also think a lot of the songs on Grubby Ducky are reasonably good, but none of the recorded versions of those songs have the right arranging or production. (I do like some of that album's/those albums' tracks, though.) > my tendency to hate the songs that everyone else loves... I hate the > Chalkhillian favorite "Wrapped in Grey," also.) Well, good we agree on something then. Far too somber, funereal, tedious - yeah, I know, there's that title - but it just doesn't do much for me. Even though i love its distant cousin "The Last Balloon." - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::PLEASE! You are sending cheese information to me. I don't want it. ::I have no goats or cows or any other milk producing animal! __"raus"__ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:03:34 -0700 From: glen uber Subject: Re: Well then Michael earnestly scribbled: >Many of the songs that I really like have been disliked by others, notably >The Yip Song, I liked it from the first time I heard it. I like it even more now that I realize the lyrics are so ironic given the tone of the music. The tune is almost like a child's lullaby, but the lyrics are an elegy to a dying man. I think it's brilliant! >Lady Waters and the Hooded One, I don't know how I forgot this one in my first post. I always skip this song and consider it one of the low points of that era of Robyn's career. > Acid Bird (I sometimes listen to that over and over again) and Man With The Lightbulb Head (I >once saw him do the spoken bit, wobbling his lips with his finger to get >the spooky sound). I like both of those, especially AB. > The other songs I used to listen to repeatedly were >Devil Mask, Tonight, Heaven and The Abandoned Brain - wonderful! Devil Mask and Abandoned Brain are great, but I gotta disagree on Tonight and Heaven. I guess I don't really hate either of them. They just do nothing for me. >I didn't >like Oceanside until I saw him perform it with Tim and Jake on the IoW bus >trip - maybe the recording lacks something. I agree. It was never one of my faves until I heard it live. Same goes for Lysander. I really like DeChirico Street and love love love Guildford. There's one chord change in there that just comes out of left field and hits me upside the head everytime. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - --Frank Zappa glen uber =+= blint (at) mac dot com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:07:14 -0700 From: glen uber Subject: Re: A good year for music! Russ earnestly scribbled: >Also accidentally saw Hank Williams Junior and Kid Rock performing together. >WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?? Didn't you hear? There was a question as to who was the least-talented, most overrated, least original poseur in the music business. They decided to settle the score on stage. In the Williams family, at least, talent & originality certainly skipped a generation. - -- Cheers! - -g- "In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are Consequences." - --R.G. Ingersoll glen uber =+= blint (at) mac dot com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:27:11 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: A good year for music! At 10:07 AM 5/24/2002 -0700, glen uber wrote: >In the Williams family, at least, talent & originality certainly skipped >a generation. Hank III is the only evidence we have that indicates that Hank Jr. might possibly have been Sr.'s child. later, Miles I ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:04:10 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Kay Exposed This can't be an accident...how many Wisniewski's do we know? Or should we just start calling Kay by her real name - Caryn? http://www.theonion.com/onion3819/factual_error_found.html Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:29:13 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: A good year for music! At 10:58 AM 5/24/2002 -0500, JH3 wrote: >*HEY*, did you all hear the Sony's fancy music-CD copy-protection >scheme can be defeated by simply drawing around the rim of the >disc with a Sharpie? This *sounds* too much like that urban legend about coloring the edge of a CD with a green marking pen to improve the sound quality. However, Reuters performed a little test of their own, and claims it works: http://www.msnbc.com/news/754854.asp - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #171 ********************************