From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #260 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, August 14 2002 Volume 11 : Number 260 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Soft Rush [gSs ] Re: sae thuh werd luv [Sebastian Hagedorn ] K-Regina ["Silver Leaf" ] "Forfeit your identity, sell a video game" [gSs ] Re: K-Regina [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] More Gene and Linguistic Anomalies ["Rex.Broome" ] bowie and friends ["Jason R. Thornton" ] RH: Edinburgh ["Tony Blackman" ] Re: RH: Edinburgh [Stewart Russell ] nextdoorland [guapo stick ] Schooner and spots [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Films which aren't likely to appeal to zitty, teenage Nintendo junkies [E] Re: nextdoorland ["jude hayden" ] new album apprehension [Aaron Mandel ] not Fish, but PHISH [Mike Swedene ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:44:27 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: Soft Rush On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, R Edward Poole wrote: > ...rush... rush baby, monday night at the vodka playhouse! i probably won't recognize half the songs as I have not listened to a rush album since power windows. gSs np fernando - abba ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:07:02 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: sae thuh werd luv - --On Friday, August 02, 2002 11:09:17 -0400 ross taylor wrote: > Sebastian-- >> I didn't study comparative linguistics, but generative >> linguistics. That entails that the only language you really need to know >> is > English > > As spoken by Noam Chomsky? Exactly. Like he said so succinctly: "Strictly speaking, phenomena tell us nothing." >From his POV you don't need to know any language in order to talk about UG and the "language faculty". It's all a priori. He's really Kantian that way ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ Being just contaminates the void - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:54:53 +0000 From: "Silver Leaf" Subject: K-Regina Rex: >My final solution to this was to buy two 400-disc carousels and slave them >up and randomize them. While it still only holds about 1/3 of my >collection, 50 of the 800 discs are self-burned compilations >ofsingles,b-sides, and highlights of so-so albums, so it works out >okay. >I call it K-REX. Why K-Rex? I'm lost. >(Yours could be K-KAY, how cool is that? Although I guess it would >be W-KAY, geographically speaking. Geograpahically? Now Im -really- lost. > But that's somehow reminiscent of that >bloody-faced guy who records beer advertisements...) Lost to the 3rd power? - ----------------------------------- Soderbergh, Clooney, "Scanner Darkly." Promising. - ----------------------------------- Ed: >Well, is there anyone here who WON'T buy the disc if they get mp3's in >advance? Not me, not you, not most of us. - --------------------------------- Thank you Stewart for the dictionary advice. Kay Carpe rutrum _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:27:17 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: "Forfeit your identity, sell a video game" - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acclaim UK is seeking applicants who will legally change their names for one year to promote the latest installment of its video game series about Turok, a time-traveling American Indian who slays bionically enhanced dinosaurs. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/08/13/human.branding.ap/index.html gSs np hello stranger - emmylou harris "...i can see my baby peeping through the bars, he bowed his head and waved both hands at me, he is prison bound and longing to be free. well i'll see you when your troubles are like mine, i'll see you when you haven't got a dime, weeping like a willow and moaning like a dove..." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:57:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: K-Regina On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Silver Leaf wrote: > Rex: > >I call it K-REX. > > Why K-Rex? I'm lost. > > >(Yours could be K-KAY, how cool is that? Although I guess it would > >be W-KAY, geographically speaking. > > Geograpahically? Now Im -really- lost. Are you not in the US? US radio stations are named using usually 4 letters (older ones 3), with those based east of the Mississippi River beginnnig with W and those west beginning with K. There are a few exceptions - I don't know why. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::The more you drive, the less intelligent you are:: __Miller, in REPO MAN__ np: Neutral Milk Hotel _Avery Island_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:21:04 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: More Gene and Linguistic Anomalies James on Gene Clark: >>another one I've been going to try. Alice pointed out recently that most of >>her favourite Byrds songs were by Clark (she's likely to burst into "the >>world turns all around her" without warning - "it's on high brain rotate"), >>and many of mine are too. Yeah, Gene flies under the radar, as it were, because people think of him as the guy with the tambourine. But he wrote the best pop songs. I just noticed that somebody's finally issuing his self-title "glam" LP (also called "White Light", I think) on CD for the first time next month... I'm looking forward to that. It's pretty well-regarded but I've never heard it. >>(note that in Maori, 'ng' and 'wh' count as one letter. They are pronounced >>like the the 'ng' in singing and as a soft 'f' sound respectively. As evidenced also in the Finn Brothers song "Newhai" (spelling approximate). How do those non-intuitive spellings get arrived at? And odder still, why do they get changed over the years... as in the slide from Mao Tse-Tung to Mao Zedong, while the Mao stays Mao and never turns into Mow (which admittedly looks like it should be pronounce "moe", but nobody would ever write "poppa ooo-mao mao", except perhaps as part of a really strange play on words)? ________ Steve: >>iPod + car connection kit. Thought about it, but the iPod actually holds about 1000 tunes, right? I have more *albums* than that, plus the loading process seems somewhat more involved. I figure my carousels scramble about 16,000 tracks for me, although admittedly they ain't too portable. And I'm always grabbing empty jewel cases for the road. My car radio is busted anyhow... - -Rex "Run Silent, Run Deep" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:42:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: List/Database Suggestions? Hey fellow fegs and feg-ettes. I am working on revamping my list on my websight and I was wondering if anyone knows of any good programs that can keep a database (list) of my stuff that is easy to use or where I could go to look for one. Any and all help would greatly be appreciated. Herbie np-> "Pencil Skirt" PULP BBC SESSIONS ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:20:50 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: bowie and friends I attended the Area Two mini-festival yesterday in Irvine, CA, at the Verizon (what was once Irvine Meadows) Amphitheater, which is the same venue where I went to my first two concerts back in my early teens, yesterday, so I'll give a short review. Bowie was pretty amazing, as always putting on a terrific show. He's still got IT, in spades. Finally, this made up for the debacle in NYC in 2000, where the show at the Roseland was cancelled - his first cancellation in 35 years, supposedly - due to throat problems. The core of the Heathen band is basically the same band as the Earthling tour (Mike Garson on keys, Sterling Campbell on drums and Gail Dorsey on bass) with a few additions. Reeves Gabrels has been replaced by three guitarists, one of them being Earl Slick, and a lady playing percussion and I think keys (my view of her was mostly blocked by one of the speaker stacks) has been added. The setlist was pretty well varied for a somewhat shorter set. Bowie played for about 75 minutes, 16 songs in all, which was to be expected in a "festival" situation. The most obscure tunes of the evening were probably the two songs off of Low, my favorites: Breaking Glass and Always Crashing in the Same Car. With so much good material under his belt, you can't complain about what Bowie doesn't play. If he played every great song, his concert would last two days. You just have to sit back and bask in the glory of what he does play. Heh. The crowd reacted most explosively to Ziggy Stardust and the 80s material. He was very jovial, talking to the crowd between every song, making a lot of jokes, and mentioning the year of release for each tune - usually getting the date incorrect. I'm Afraid of Americans was another stand-out performance. As he's promoting Heathen, he threw in some choice selections from that album as well, although the Neil Young cover fell flat, as it does on the disc. The rest of the material held its own with the classic Bowie. Here's the setlist (pilfered in part from a website): 1 life on mars 2 ashes to ashes 3 breaking glass 4 cactus 5 china girl 6 slip away 7 stay 8 fame 9 i'm afraid of americans 10-12 Heroes, 5:15 The Angels Have Gone and I've Been Waiting For You 13 Heathen (the Rays) encore 14 Always Crashing in the Same Car (supposedly a request for "someone" - I'm betting Trent Reznor was in the crowd) 15 Let's Dance 16 Ziggy Stardust Moby was only so-so live, so I left midway through the set. Good records, boring concert. All he did was run back and forth across the stage. When your set mainly consists of instrumentals on which you play nothing, you don't have much to do. He should have just faked it and stood behind a keyboard like Depeche Mode. I would have had more respect for him. He just seemed too excited and energetic for the amount of stuff he was doing. Or not doing. He played a little guitar and percussion, and sang a couple of songs. I've seen him before, and was more impressed the first time. But that time he had Bush opening for him rather than Bowie, so he probably seemed a lot better by comparison. The Blue Man Group was extremely fucking boring. A couple of cute gimmicks and funny gags. About three minutes worth of interest for a 50 minute set. Then the rest was rather generic with too many drums. There were like 4 or 5 percussionists, not counting the three blue dudes, who stood before the rest of the band hammering away on PVC pipe. Cute and entertaining at first, but it got old real fast. Busta Rhymes was surprisingly good. He really hooked me, and the rest of the audience, in. I'm a little sad I missed the first half of his set wandering the Area 2 food booths and eating a slice of pizza. I also went to a wedding this weekend, up at a fancy country club up in LA. I missed seeing Arnie the Terminator, who walked through the lobby during the rehearsal, because I had gone on an errand to pick up some glass hearts that the staff needed to decorate the tables. Ming Na Wen was a guest at the wedding, and wore a VERY sexy dress, so that made up for it. The guy playing the music at the ceremony is the lead cellist for the LA Philharmonic (the groom, his brother the best man and the bride are all professional classical musicians with big symphonies - Cincinnati and Hong Kong). - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:50:52 +0100 From: "Tony Blackman" Subject: RH: Edinburgh Have I missed it (I'm a digest speed reader these days) or has anyone reviewed the Edinburgh gigs? If nobody's done so already, I'll work out the set list tomorrow morning and post it. Didn't see anyone I recognised there (Jerry Sadowitz excepted as I'd taken it as read that he'd be present). Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:57:56 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: RH: Edinburgh Tony Blackman wrote: > > (Jerry Sadowitz excepted as I'd taken it as read that he'd be present). Is he a big fan, or was he compering? Or was it for his show? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:40:25 -0700 From: guapo stick Subject: nextdoorland i probably shouldn't be telling you all this, but there's an advance copy of nextdoorland on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=899739033 one bit of useful information in the item's description is a track listing: I LOVE LUCY/PULSE OF MY HEART/MR KENNEDY/UNPROTECTED LOVE/MY MIND IS CONNECTED TO YOUR DREAMS/SUDDEN TOWN/STRINGS/JAPANESE CAPTAIN/LA CHERITE/LIONS AND TIGERS does this sync up with the track listing of your copy Eb? the item title says "special ed cd" which could mean it's a sampler of some sort (albeit a rather track-laden one) or, more likely, it's just seller hype. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:40:57 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Schooner and spots > >Just received this nice spoonerism: > > > >Uttered by a don in rage to a student: "Sir, you have tasted two whole > >worms, you have hissed all my mystery lectures, you will leave Oxford on > >the next town drain". > >I think it's a Spooner original, or at least I remember it being so in the >"People Who Became Words" section of the first PEOPLE'S ALMANAC. > >the Lord is a shoving leopard, indeed it is a Spooner original. We shall now stand for a toast to the queer old dean. I love Spoonerisms. I know a cat called Grug which, when her coat is shiny, I refer to as 'a greek slug'. - --- Stewart wrote, the noo: >> >> 'wh' ... pronounced ... as a soft 'f' sound > >Ah, that proves conclusively my theory that Aotearoa was settled by >ancient Aberdonians. In Aberdeen, "what" is pronounced "fit". well, there goes the theory that the town of Karamea was named by an Italian Maori for his loved one. James 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: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:00:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Films which aren't likely to appeal to zitty, teenage Nintendo junkies Aww, I'm only kidding. You didn't think I'd go *that* far off-topic, did you? No, this post contains my first/second impressions of Nextdoorland. A few of you have seen these songs performed live, so you'll already have your own opinions about them. I think I heard a couple of these tunes at the past Soft Boys reunion show ("Mr. Kennedy"? "Sudden Town"?), but I don't really recall them now. So, this seemed like all-new material to me. 41:15 is a pretty skimpy album length by modern standards, but I suppose Hitchcock fans are used to this by now. The tracks: 1. I Love Lucy (3:00) A somewhat jarring title, conceptually speaking. What, has Robyn gone "American" on us? The album opens uneventfully with a near-instrumental. I might be more inclined to place this at the end of the disc, myself. No, there aren't any obvious musical references to the Loo-see theme. Just a steady, easy-going, mildly peppy groove with intertwined guitar lines on top. Very "functional," workmanlike backing from the drums and bass -- Seligman is practically playing a one-note part. If my assumptions are correct, Robyn fingers the main melody in the left speaker, using a pure, languid, almost surf-rock tone. Meanwhile, Kimberley adds grittier, stinging punctuation in the right speaker. Enjoyable enough, but it doesn't have anywhere near the fire of, say, "You'll Have to Go Sideways." The track doesn't really develop, but just continues onward to set a mood. Then, suddenly near the end, harmony voices burst in with two, mantra-like repetitions of "Carry me back to nooooow." I like this bit -- I wish the song had just faded out with this lick, over and over. But instead, we get an enigmatic "IIIIIIIIIII love Looceeeeee...though she's gooooooone," and the song slows to a stop. 2. Pulse of My Heart (3:46) I know I've seen this song mentioned in others' show reviews. This sounds like one of Robyn's typical, late-period singles, with easily digested lyrics, simple hooks and a vaguely romantic theme. I never get much out of these. "Arms of Love," "So You Think You're in Love," etc. Again, Robyn's doing clean, tremulous-jangle guitar, while Kimberley's contribution is more choppy and dirty. "Her wings are folded in her chrysalis"...oh, whaddya know? Robyn tries some insect imagery. There's a surprise. Kimberley goes a bit wah-wah funky in the somewhat lame "ALL RIGHT...ALL RIGHT" chorus. Followed with a short, psychedelic, flanged solo. Much like "I Love Lucy," the song softens/deacclerates to its finish, this time with repeated croons of "Alllllllllll right." More wah-wah scrapings from Rew. The final closing is strange -- it sounds like the song was first intended to fade out, and then someone decided it needed a cold ending. So, there's an extra splatter of two chords which just comes out of nowhere. 3. Mr. Kennedy (6:03) Another song which many Fgz are well-acquainted with, and another very accessible tune. Some low, droning synthesizer growls and theremin-like twitters add body to the arrangement. Hey, a Sebadoh namedrop! "Me and Mr. Kennedy haven't seen a blade of grass in months"...I like that line. I'm not really getting the point of this lyric, though. Approaching various cities by plane...mmm, ok. Opens up into a big "Maybe it'll rain, maybe it'll rain toniiiiiight" chorus...a classic Hitchcock move. Eventually, the arrangement adds flashes of faux-sitar guitar. With three minutes left, the song turns into an excellent, old-school guitar duel. Bravo. Seligman is still sounding very one-note to me, though -- I just may not be a fan of his New Wavy style. And now, it's three for three -- yet another trickle-to-a-halt ending, as the guitars get very, *very* sitar-like. Ends with a cute left-to-right string glissando, which again sounds very "Eastern." 4. Unprotected Love (3:18) OK, so we're finally hearing some real fire! It's almost a sped-up Bo Diddley beat under this tune. One guitar has some of that vibrating "How Soon is Now" flavor, while Rew does his choppy, rhythmic thing again (which he does quite well). This lyric has some nastiness to it, sounding like a bit of a character assassination. First line: "You are as hard as a diamond/You could be used as a cutting tool." Later: "Nobody wants to be vulnerable/Everyone wants to be horrible/Just like that pig in the underpass/Sharing a trough with the Anti-Christ." Good stuff. A drawn-out "You arrrrrrrrre so harrrrrrrd" is the hook. The song switches to almost a Merseybeat groove when the title lyric ("Give me unnnnnnprotected loooooooove....") pops in, as Seligman changes to more of a boogie-scale bassline. Then, an ascendant, short but fiery guitar break. Digging this song a lot. With 30 seconds left, some really *neat* rapid-fire, percussive vocal embellishments come in: "Muhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuh ma ma ma...muh ma ma ma." Plus, more vocal layers. I like this part a lot. Robyn breaks back in with another dramatic "You are as hard as a diamond!" and the song ends dead. My favorite track, so far. 5. My Mind is Connected to Your Dreams (4:05) One of his mellower, arpeggio-up-and-down type of songs, except the guitars are arranged a la Soft Boys rather than in a solo-Hitchcock style. Robyn punctuates the verses' opening lines with a "bu-zpp bu-zpp bu-zpp bu-zpp bu-zpp ah ahh" buzzing-bee imitation, and I'm wincing big-time. Some pretty off-the-wall lyrics: "The butler emerges from the hall [buzzing-bee riff]/The butler emerges from the underside/With a tray of diamond/From the horn of Florida/And I left [loved?] your tennis court/And the head that fell on it...was YOOOOOOURS." Then, an abrupt switch to a "And I want you to remember everything..." bridge, which starts off in a warm McCartney vein but lamely aborts itself. "Gimme a part of rock 'n' roll" is a dull, repeated refrain. Ends with a reiterated "And it's only a poisonous plant, and it's calling your name" fade, then a final, sustained major-sixth chord which is straight out of the Beatlemania songbook. 6. Sudden Town (3:45) Hey hey, it's the Monkees! Almost? A repeated guitar figure with a strong "Paperback Writer"/"Last Train to Clarksville" feel, except the drums/bass are more subtle and restrained. It finally opens into a bigger (but too quick!) chorus/bridge, and the full band power comes in for the second verse. "Chimneys are lit by a fading sun/That tapers away on a cold horizon/Yeah...it's just a sudden town." Some nice harmonic dissonance in the second chorus, but the chorus is again gone before you even register it. A short, guitar-duel break. This song should be more fun than it is. A more extroverted, exclamatory vocal would help -- a few Dylan-style, singshouted lines would work wonders. This lyric doesn't do much for me, in any case. With a minute or so to go, a good new bridge suddenly enters the picture, and the song oddly switches into an entirely different melodic sphere: "Heaving up and down your [life? light?] beside you/Nobody talks to you anyway/Nobody knows how you even got here/And the ghouls will come/Singing sha-la-la-la-la-la-la." Finally, the Monkees lick returns, and another abrupt ending. 7. Strings (6:11) A chunky, growling guitar foundation. Between the track length and this moody riff, I can already tell this song will turn into a guitar jam. The vocal melody has a labored, against-the-rhythm feel which fits in very well with the old Soft Boys material: "I've got my mojo and I am a piece of the action of striiiiiiiings/Got every black dog that crawls through your undergrowth...striiiiiiiings." Either this doesn't make much sense, or I'm hearing it wrong. He's just killing time until the guitar jam, I tell ya. "Father in heaven, or father in purgatory/See what you see from the hill of the dead/See into all of this little [glass?] family...striiiiiings." "Harmony ruins a bloody good racket"...OK, there's a line for all the reviews to quote. And at 2:06, here comes the guitar jam. Almost a train-engine feel to the momentum. Lots of moaning guitar lines, but the mood cools rather than heats up. Seligman is sounding quite Tony Levin-esque here. A minute and a half later, the vocals return with a spooky chant of "Evil is the new enemy...Evil is the new bad." The whole band sings the second repetition. Whoa, now here is a MAJOR surprise. Robyn does a...RAP? Or a SQUARE DANCE CALL?? Holy mackerel! "Swing your partners round and round/Hanging just above the ground/[This?] may quickly wish me luck/Detonating in a ten-ton truck/Love me tender on the roof/[Arthur?] would tell me no proof/Take your partner by the middle/Like a burger in a griddle/If you would retaliate/Just remember love is hate." Reminds me of Madonna's climactic rap in "Vogue"! Back to the crossrhythm vocal melody, and I still don't know what the hell this song is about. ;) "Mother is coming, she wants to be friends so the poison can get in you/She's got a map of you/She knows the pressure points." Then, repeated, harmonized moans of "IIIIIIII wish that IIIIIIII was just paranoid." And then, the return of the guitar duel, almost nearing Sonic Youth turf now. DAMN. My eyes are watering. That song really was something. As far out on the edge as I've heard Hitchcock in quite awhile. Never mind "I Love Lucy" -- *this* track should have ended the album. Things are bound to be anti-climactic from here. 8. Japanese Captain (3:24) A light, clipped beat...sort of an unusual rhythm for Hitchcock. And a monolithic, descending, buzz-guitar line out of early Pink Floyd. There's also a high, ambient keyboard bit which sounds influenced by OK Computer. "I keep on working like a Japanese captain/Touch me, baby/Rinse me, please...." Did he just say "Fuck me, darling"??? Not sure! "Under the table is good/But under your fingers is better/You know I'm in love/Like a Japanese captain." Now, the entrance of a totally new section: "Today is the same as tomorrow but this time it's happened befooooore/Today I will kiss you somewhere that is dark/I adooooore you." Oh my...all the females on this list have melted into pungent, sticky puddles by now. As various orgasms fade into spent, breathless languor, the song pretends to end with echoing repetitions of the title line, but then the Pink Floyd lick returns again. Psychedelic instrumental grooving. As the song fades again, there's a weird, buried spoken line which has been slowed down electronically. Maybe it says "So sweet and so small...ho ho ho"? I suppose this is one of the more interesting tracks, but I think my feelings about it haven't congealed yet. It certainly defies Hitchcock's usual formulas, so at least that's welcome. 9. La Cherite (5:11) "Cherite" has an accent, but those never translate in mailing-list posts. Another tune in that mellow, arpeggiated mode. Sort of an unravelling, one-chord groove. A quite romantic opening: "As I sit here, softly strumming/Underneath the lemon moon/In my heart, I feel you coming/It's you, my girl." A minute and a half into the track, and I'm bored. A few more chords enter with a new melodic idea, but I'm still not encouraged. I'm really waiting for this one to end. Some more faux-sitar guitar lines wander in, buried deep in the mix. "From your grave, your skull is grinning/Back at you." OK, there's one interesting line. I will usually skip this track, in the future. Surely Robyn must have had something stockpiled which was better than this. 10. Lions and Tigers (2:28) Perkyjerky little pop song, with mischievously interlocked guitar lines. Let's hear Superchunk cover this. The sustained guitar figure finally veers into a chorus...and an abruptly slower, plodding tempo. "Lions and tigers/Eat the same bits as each other." Whatever. A bridge, still plodding. Key, repeated line: "I know your life gets painful sometimes." And then he goes personal: "I screwed up when I was young/But must I keep on PAYING for it?" The cold answer comes back: "Yes, you muuuuust/Yes, you muuuuust/Until you let yourself go." It's still plodding. What happened to the fun opening riff? The song ends without ever returning to it. Not a real satisfying track. Overall, I'd say the album's not a disappointment, but it's no Underwater Moonlight either. I guess I'd rank it on a level pretty similar to Moss Elixir and Jewels for Sophia. Maybe my sixth or seventh favorite release of the year, so far? If the whole album was as good as "Strings" and "Unprotected Love," I'd be thrilled. But it ain't. The good news is that it gave me less deja-vu than typical Hitchcock albums, and it's probably due to the Kimberley Rew factor. I'm seeing Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, tonight...last night, I saw a quite good (if somewhat short) Enon show. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:32:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "jude hayden" Subject: Re: nextdoorland Howdy all- I must add that my local independent music store coincidentally put on their own advance copy of Nextdoorland when I was in yesterday, and it sounded great- unbelievably "poppy"- but great. (I heard only the first 5 or so tracks, though...) They sometimes slip me their advance cd's, but alas not this time... Over and out- Jude - ------------------------------------------------- Get your free @Elvis e-mail account at Elvis.com! http://www.elvis.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:44:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: new album apprehension I have to admit, I wasn't looking forward to this record that much on account of the new material I remembered hearing at shows all sounding relatively limp. I do not like those arpeggios, no sir. Eb's description makes it sound like at least some of it will be juicy, though. And now I find myself humming the "Maybe it'll rain..." bit of Mr. Kennedy, which I had forgotten enjoying. The website says a six-song EP to be thought of as "Side Three" will be on sale at shows. That's an interesting attitude, to say the least -- the extra songs aren't (supposedly) filler or experiments or a special treat for the fans; it's just "There's more where that came from!" Which is how I always felt about A Star For Bram; would've made a perfectly good double album with Jewels, but I suppose this way the casual fan is left wanting more. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:43:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: not Fish, but PHISH Looks like PHISH is back.... http://mtseccom3.mtsecurecommerce.com/splash/193Psplash.asp Selling tix for some of the upcoming shows. Herbie np -> "Zoo Station" U2 ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #260 ********************************