From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #60 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 20 2003 Volume 12 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum [Tom Clark ] Re: Where do you hang out online? [Caroline Smith ] Hitchcock in-store ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Digna] Re: Eno [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: B(ll)arney [Eb ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] yeah [Sabina Carlson ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum [Ken Weingold ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Hitchcock in-store [Tom Clark ] The other kind of cover ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a poi] Re: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? [Ken Weingold ] RE: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? ["Maximilian Lang" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:35:44 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum on 2/19/03 2:22 PM, Mike Wells at mwells@imageworksmfg.com wrote: > Ps. the fave album cover of all time? hmm... Now that one's easy: Ween's "Chocolate & Cheese" - -tc, horny guy. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:45:16 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: Where do you hang out online? The forum "glitter" at www.getcrafty.com is one of my favorite communities. I don't spend much time there any more, but I used to spend an hour or two a day. Caroline On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > I'm currently building a web-based community for my employer (with > phpBB and > Linux, for those who care about such things), so I've been immersing > myself in > web-based community sites lately. There are several sites I frequent, > but I'd > like to know about others. > > What are your hobbies, and what websites do you use to talk about > them? For > example, I hang out at the following: > > http://www.zcar.com/ > http://www.audioasylum.com/ > http://www.stevehoffman.tv/ > http://www.phpbb.com/ > > I'm looking for examples of good practice, bad practice, and simply > other sites > dedicated to things I'm not. I'm fairly certain that if somebody's > interested > in it, somebody has a web-based community for it. So let me know > about yours. > > . > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:56:53 -0700 From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Subject: Re: B(ll)arney his Grutness sed- >XTC usually title their albums after a lyric in their previous album. How far back does that go? "Oranges & Lemons" comes from "Skylarking" but what about before that? The UK Subs albums were all alphabetical, and I believe they still are. (H) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:15:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: B(ll)arney Eb and somebody else sed: > >Straitjacket Fits' three album titles were all four letter words: Hail, > >Melt, Blow. > > Foetus do dat, too. He even did Blow. Foetus: Deaf, Ache, Hole, Nail, Sink, Thaw, Blow, Gash, Null, Void, Boil Jesus Lizard did, too: Goat, Bang, Down, Show, Head, Pure, Lash, Blue, Liar . Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:17:18 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Hitchcock in-store The in-store at Stinkweeds was "damn entertaining" (according to one fan)--it was quite good. Robyn seemed to be in a good mood and was rather talkative. The set went like this: Arms of Love I've Got the Hots switched to "the father Joseph pick, the thinnest pick known to man..." for: Dark Princess talked about meeting Arthur Lee recently Each of Her Silver Wands Vibrating talked about coming to Tucson for a break from the "fungal atmosphere" back home Cirrus Minor "this one is by Roger Waters" (new) Solpadeine on slide guitar, about a codeine and caffeine based painkiller available in Canada and the UK Heliotrope Robyn stayed around afterward talking to fans, signing things, etc. He seemed to like my Globe of Frogs LP test artwork/slick and asked were I got it. We gave him directions to tonight's show, so hopefully, he'll get there. If not, don't blame me, okay? Post you again tonight, Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:20:25 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum OOO a thread!!! >Schoolboys in Disgrace - The Kinks >Sunflower - The Beach Boys Peng - Stereolab Echodek - Primal Scream The bends - Radiohead Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega There are a couple of Zappa albums that qualify too, IIRC >HOUSES OF THE HOLY, though I don't expect a majority opinion in favor of >"good" on Feg. for the same reason, I'm reticent about mentioning "Ahead rings out" by Blodwyn Pig >> PS - but which author of juvenile science fiction made sure that she wrote >> books with titles beginning with every letter of the alphabet? > >Dunno about juvenile science fiction, but Sue Grafton is up to "Q Is For >Quarry" in her mystery series. 'twas Andre Norton who provided such a series of titles. Again, I don't think it was deliberate originally, but she realised after a while that she'd started books with most of the alphabet and filled in the gaps. 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: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:20:39 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Eno >Thanks to those who recommended the set of Nick Drake, and I'll try to >find it. KaZaA has been failing me recently, though I did find out that >it was because my computer was jammed with Betty Boop cartoon which my >husband downloaded. These are quite amazing, especially the one called >"Betty Boop for President" - in fact I am thinking that her election >could end all world aggression. I especially liked the part where a huge >mean criminal is sent to the electric chair and instead of being killed, >is changed into a simpering effeminate guy! and being pre-Hay's code, a lot of the Betty Boop cartoons are a bit of an eye-opener from other viewpoints, too! >Eno's Before and After Science is a well-worn record in my collection by >the way. Is it really not available on CD??? Strange. it is, but not as a remaster. Sound quality is pretty poor - not what you want on an Eno CD. Sebastian, if you want to look up Eno's music, but feel you would be bored by the ambient stuff, then you've got several song albums to work with His first four albums are all song-dominated, although "Another green world" (which many regard as his masterpiece) is roughly half songs and half short ambience. The song albums are: Here come the warm jets; Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy); Another green world; Before and after science; and the more recent collaboration with John Cale, Wrong way up. If the short ambient pieces on AGW and B&AS intrigue you enough to experiment further, I'd go for one of the ambient albums with short, discrete (no pun intended) tracks, such as "Music for Films" or "Ambient 4: On land" before moving onto the longer tracks such as on "Discreet music" and "Ambient 1: Music for airports", which can be pretty intimidating and, yes, boring unless you know what you're letting yourself in for. 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, 19 Feb 2003 15:21:56 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: B(ll)arney > > >Straitjacket Fits' three album titles were all four letter words: Hail, >> >Melt, Blow. >> >> Foetus do dat, too. He even did Blow. > >Foetus: Deaf, Ache, Hole, Nail, Sink, Thaw, Blow, Gash, Null, Void, Boil You forgot York, Rife and Slut. ;) Never noticed before that Jesus Lizard did this, too. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:27:05 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum Quoting The Great Quail : > Good thread! man, there are probably dozens, but all I can think about > are > these: > > "Tormato," Yes. (Let's not debate how good the album is, shall we?) Dammit, I was going to suggest that. I"ll add Joe Henry's _Trampoline_ to the list: if you're gonna have a man in his underwear on your cover, make him a hunky guy, so at least the idea is clear... Black Sabbath _Sabotage_ (scariest pants ever - uh-oh, that could be a whole 'nother category) The Who _Who's Next_ ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: we make everything you need, and you need everything we make ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:27:32 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: B(ll)arney On Wed, Feb 19, 2003, Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > Eb and somebody else sed: > > > >Straitjacket Fits' three album titles were all four letter words: Hail, > > >Melt, Blow. > > > > Foetus do dat, too. He even did Blow. > > Foetus: Deaf, Ache, Hole, Nail, Sink, Thaw, Blow, Gash, Null, Void, Boil > > Jesus Lizard did, too: Goat, Bang, Down, Show, Head, Pure, Lash, Blue, Liar I think that KMFDM did that, but with 5-letter album titles. I looked up their discog and there are a couple of exceptions it seems. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:29:02 -0500 From: Sabina Carlson Subject: yeah about the web communities thing, ignore my entry. i thought you were talking about something else, but from other people's responses i can i see i had the wrong idea. nevermind! ~sabina sheena ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:30:21 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum On Wed, Feb 19, 2003, Mike Wells wrote: > > Ps. the fave album cover of all time? hmm... Probably not my favorite, but the best I can think of right now is Voodoo You from Lords of Acid. Even better on vinyl. One of the worst I can think of is Be My Slave from Bitch. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:37:46 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum >OOO a thread!!! I have to admit to disliking about of King Crimson's album covers, especially the annoying art for Power to Believe, Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With and Cirkus. The 80s album covers were overly bland, too. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:44:28 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum on 2/19/03 3:20 AM, James Dignan at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > There are a couple of Zappa albums that qualify too, IIRC "Man From Utopia" comes to mind. Not that it was such a great album, though. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:46:05 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Hitchcock in-store Looks like Marc's hard work paid off nicely. Congrats on setting this up! - -tc on 2/19/03 3:17 PM, Marc Holden at mholden666@earthlink.net wrote: > The in-store at Stinkweeds was "damn entertaining" (according to one > fan)--it was quite good. Robyn seemed to be in a good mood and was rather > talkative. The set went like this: > > Arms of Love > I've Got the Hots > switched to "the father Joseph pick, the thinnest pick known to man..." > for: > Dark Princess > talked about meeting Arthur Lee recently > Each of Her Silver Wands > Vibrating > talked about coming to Tucson for a break from the "fungal atmosphere" > back home > Cirrus Minor "this one is by Roger Waters" > (new) Solpadeine on slide guitar, about a codeine and caffeine based > painkiller available in Canada and the UK > Heliotrope > > Robyn stayed around afterward talking to fans, signing things, etc. > He seemed to like my Globe of Frogs LP test artwork/slick and asked were I > got it. > We gave him directions to tonight's show, so hopefully, he'll get there. If > not, don't blame me, okay? > Post you again tonight, Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:40:51 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: The other kind of cover MRG: >>PS Just picked up a CD of 'Notorious Byrd Brothers' for a fiver. Amazing >>record: traditional Byrds harmonies and 12-string, plus Moog, brass >>section, string quartet, distortion guitars, pedal steel and Clarence >>White. Absolutely extraordinary - too bad the band fell apart while they >>were cutting it. I *wish* I could hear it for the first time again. Amazing goddamn record. Surely one of my top five of all time. Splits its time between Nashville, London, the open sea and the moon. It does not, however, have the best cover art ever, although the legend of the horse's ass standing in for Crosby does lend a certain prurient interest. ___ Barbara: >>"Betty Boop for President" - in fact I am thinking that her election >>could end all world aggression. I especially liked the part where a huge >>mean criminal is sent to the electric chair and instead of being killed, >>is changed into a simpering effeminate guy! At a guess, this would be a more effective "deterrant" than the death penalty. >>Eno's Before and After Science is a well-worn record in my collection by >>the way. Is it really not available on CD??? Strange. Ooopps... I meant it needs to be reissued as a less lame CD than the existing one. Sort of like the Notorious Byrds Brothers was! _____________ Eb's bad album covers: >>I've always felt like Neil's "Tonight's the Night" is sort of the >>standard-bearer. I love that one. It looks like the record sounds. LP-sized only, not CD. See "Time Fades Away" for the reverse angle. >>"Blonde on Blonde" is another major candidate. I love that one, too! Looks even worse then T'sTN on CD-- why was it deemed necessary to put that typeface on there? Admittedly I'm really attached to my particular used vinyl copy of that record, the one that made me a fan of Dylan... the scratches just sound so right... Even with a quick breeze through the database I couldn't locate an album I consider really "great" with a cover that I consider profoundly awful. It does strike me that there are certain albums that've been recommended to me where I made my final decision based on whether or not to buy the used copy in my hand ... on the cover art. And some albums that I just couldn't own based on the artwork, like any album where the cover is a closeup shot of giant cleavage (which has spared me Ween, thankfully) or, for some reason, that damn Tripping Daisy record with the guy with the orange stuff smeared all over him. I dunno why, but I really hate that cover. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:34:28 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum >From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" >Subject: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum >Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:32:53 -0800 > >Schoolboys in Disgrace - The Kinks >Sunflower - The Beach Boys I sent this once already, it lost itself somewhere on it's way. Behold, Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm comin' http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IH7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Max PS. If one were to consider ELP's Tarkus to be good, which I don't, I think it would qualify. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000033P0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:51:49 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: SOMA FM I just discovered a great online radio resource. www.somafm.com broadcasts six different stations from their San Francisco studio - the one I've been hooked on for the past couple days is the "indie pop rocks" channel. Here's a recent playlist: Played @ Song Title 16:40:31 Stereolab - Refractions In The Plastic Pul Current Song 16:38:14 Modest Mouse - Shit Luck 16:34:42 Whiskeytown - Waiting To Derail 16:30:20 Red House Painters - Mistress 16:25:24 Superchunk - European Medicine 16:25:22 Indie Pop Rocks Id Daniele 16:22:51 Grandaddy - Go Progress Chrome 16:20:31 Spoon - Back To The Life 16:18:30 Innocence Mission - I Haven't Seen This Day Before 16:13:33 Jets To Brazil - One Summer Last Fall 16:10:14 Softies - Favorite Shade Of Blue 16:10:10 Indie Pop Rocks Id Rusty 4 16:03:17 Tortoise - Ry Cooder 15:57:27 Kingsbury Manx - Piss Diary 15:53:24 Walt Mink - Showers Down 15:50:17 Magnetic Fields - Famous 15:46:01 Sunny Day Real Estate - Snibe 15:45:59 Corporate Rock Sucks 1 15:43:38 Gerbils - Ted Doesn't Mind 15:41:21 Satisfact - I'm In A Bad Way Anybody know anything about Walt Mink? I've heard a few songs by him (they?) and they were all really good. Tune in, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:22:21 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum > > There are a couple of Zappa albums that qualify too, IIRC > > "Man From Utopia" comes to mind. Not that it was such a great album, > though. I'd offer "Joe's Garage" and "Was Mothers Just Another Band from L.A.?" both as great albums with crapola covers (the entire libretto for JG is astonishing, but that cover...). Speaking of FZ, anyone heard from Ed lately? And I knew there was a couple more in this category that were bugging me..."Bona Drag" (Morrisey), "Seven" (Zap Mama), "Out of Time" (REM), "Trevor Rabin" (epon.), "Born Again" (Black Sabbath)...all good albums... Oh, and on the Joe Strummer front, I managed to get a copy of the "Permanent Record" soundtrack with Joe and the Latino Rockabilly War on 4 tracks. Interesting. Michael "put down the Air Supply vinyl, and slowly back away" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:07:50 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum Steely Dan's "Can't Buy A Thrill", "Katy Lied", "Pretzel Logic", "The Royal Scam" - uh, I guess, pretty much every one except "Aja", "Gaucho" and maaaaybe "Countdown To Ecstasy". It's always amazed me how consistently lousy their cover art was. Even the reunion album "Two Against Nature" has a lousy cover. Honorable mention: Most of Jethro Tull's '90s album covers - the 25th Anniv. box set, "Roots To Branches", "J-Tull.com" - for albums that are all pretty good, at least compared to their 80's output. Double honorable mention to "J-Tull.com" for the stupidest friggin' name for a rock album ever. Mike At 12:32 PM -0800 2/19/03, those funny voices I hear when no one else is around called themselves "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" and whispered: >Schoolboys in Disgrace - The Kinks >Sunflower - The Beach Boys - -- ======== We need love, expression, and truth. We must not allow ourselves to believe that we can fill the round hole of our spirit with the square peg of objective rationale. - Paul Eppinger At non effugies meos iambos - Gaius Valerius Catallus ("...but you won't get away from my poems.") "Moderation in all things, except Wild Turkey." - Evel Knievel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:28:32 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum Quoting "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" : > Steely Dan's "Can't Buy A Thrill", "Katy Lied", "Pretzel Logic", "The > Royal > Scam" - uh, I guess, pretty much every one except "Aja", "Gaucho" and > maaaaybe "Countdown To Ecstasy". It's always amazed me how consistently > lousy their cover art was. Even the reunion album "Two Against Nature" > has > a lousy cover. Hmmm...I'll generally agree, but I think something about the covers to both Katy and Pretzel fit the music well...and they're not *that* bad. Countdown, however... > Honorable mention: Most of Jethro Tull's '90s album covers Okay, in the '70s the album that finally made me give up on Tull: _The Broadsword and the Beast_. Yes, the cover's as awful as the title's as awful as the music. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:58:18 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? Am I nuts or are Yes playing Maxwell's on the 25th of Febuary? Max _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:10:12 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum At 8:28 PM -0600 2/19/03, those funny voices I hear when no one else is around called themselves "Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey" and whispered: >Okay, in the '70s the album that finally made me give up on Tull: _The >Broadsword and the Beast_. Yes, the cover's as awful as the title's as >awful >as the music. Funny, that's the album that got me into them. I bought it without having ever heard Tull before because I liked the cover. :-) - -- ======== We need love, expression, and truth. We must not allow ourselves to believe that we can fill the round hole of our spirit with the square peg of objective rationale. - Paul Eppinger At non effugies meos iambos - Gaius Valerius Catallus ("...but you won't get away from my poems.") "Moderation in all things, except Wild Turkey." - Evel Knievel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:07:49 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? >From: "Maximilian Lang" .org >Subject: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? >Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:58:18 -0500 > >Am I nuts or are Yes playing Maxwell's on the 25th of Febuary? > > > Max Oh yeah, link: http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/67/ _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:37:28 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? On Wed, Feb 19, 2003, Maximilian Lang wrote: > Am I nuts or are Yes playing Maxwell's on the 25th of Febuary? Not sure, but according to the Maxwells site, 2/25 is "Tues. 2/25 Gavin DeGraw/special guests 8:30 p.m. $8 (all 2/17 tickets honored)" - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:41:51 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? >From: "FS Thomas" >Reply-To: >To: "'Maximilian Lang'" >Subject: RE: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? >Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:39:29 -0500 > >Very strange. Their website doesn't list any dates until June...and >then, they're in Europe. Yes(pun intended)and John Anderson has a broken neck or something. Tempted but confused. Max _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:04:49 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum Behold, Sam and Dave - Hold On I'm Coming http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IH7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Max PS. If opne were consider ELP's Tarkus to be good, which I don't...it sure is damn ugly though. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:53:37 -0500 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: RE: Where do you hang out online? I don't hang out much anywhere online, personally. I'm into the comics community, but much more as a creator and observer than as a conversant. I ought to mention, however, www.crfh.net, which can match just about any ten other comics for sheer volume... and www.masterzdm.com, which started as a Buddhist-themed film noir detective comic, and ended up as a meta-comic, with less and less distinction between the forum participants and the comic characters. Characters post to the forums and forum regulars are awarded Character Cards. (And then you've got Gaming Guardians at www.gamingguardians.com, also in which some of the regular participants have become part of the comic itself). Terrence Marks http://nice.purrsia.com http://www.unlikeminerva.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:08:53 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Rhythm Room We just got back from the Rhythm Room. It was a great show. Robyn seemed to be in a good mood and was very talkative. Someone had loaned him a red Telecaster, so part of the set was electric. Here's the basics: (acoustic; black shirt, large white dots) Arms of Love I Got the Hots for You "...best thing about you is your collection of 45's..." Cynthia Mask Queen Elvis "...I'd never squeeze into your dress, not now..." Victorian Squid Not Dark Yet (Dylan) One Long Pair of Eyes Glass Hotel I Saw Nick Drake ______________________________________________ (electric) I Often Dream of Trains Queen of Eyes Madonna of the Wasps You & Oblivion (plus extended solo at the end) Airscape ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ (encore--acoustic; flower shirt) Ghost Ship I Feel Beautiful ______________________________________________ (electric) Only the Stones Remain Robyn told a lot of stories tonight, telling us what he thinks of the desert, how he feels about his upcoming birthday, the safety of using a plectrum rather than having the vunerability of finger-picking, increasing one's virility by adjusting the tuning of your strings, and more about the giant land clams waiting to invade from Canada "...there's nothing in the dosiers to tell how to defend against them..." I hesitate to add that at the in-store at Stinkweeds earlier in the day, there was a chance to submit your name for a drawing at the show--they were giving a package consisting of a signed 8x10 photo and 2 CDs. I feel a bit ackward, but I won. I gave the CDs to friends that came to the show with us, but will keep the photo. It's one of the few times I've seen him sign his full name rather than Robyn H or R Hitchcock. A friend who came out for the two appearances is lucky enough to be seeing Robyn again at the Largo Saturday, too, so he'll be seeing all the scheduled US shows this time around. Talk to you soon, Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 02:47:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Worst Album Cover for a GoodAlbum James Dignan wrote: > The bends - Radiohead I actually really like The Bends sleeve. ====== Miles Goosens wrote: > And then there's the cover of Joe Henry's TRAMPOLINE - ick, > ick, ick. On a similar bend, Bauhaus In the Flat Field. Though that may just be the terminal breeder male in me. I just don't really need penis on my record sleeves, though the King Missile _Happy Hour_ one is kinda funny. ====== "Maximilian Lang" wrote: > Behold, Sam and Dave - Hold On I'm Coming > http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IH7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg THAT is gruesome. Others: The Cure: Three Imaginary Boys, Boys Don't Cry, and Pornography all have terrible covers. And shut up, Eb. :) In the artists Eb doesn't dislike division: while I love the one he did for Talking Heads _Little Creatures_, I've always though the sleeve Harold Finster did for _Reckoning_ was pretty damn bad. I've also always hated _London Calling_'s sleeve, even if it is a nice Presley nod. Elvis Costello's _Get Happy!!!_ is pretty garish. nw: The Barney Miller pilot. ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:54:14 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: WTF? Yes @ Maxwell's? Got this email from the Yes people: Regarding: - ------------------------- Is Yes really playing Maxwell's on Feb 25'th as listed on the above link? - ------------------------- That is an impossibility. Jon has been forbidden by his doctor to do any performing prior to late May. It is probably just an error. This happens from time to time with all of the online ticket vendors. No telling where they get their info. But for sure, this one isn't happening. If the date doesn't appear on the YesWorld tour schedule, it isn't "official." All of the dates posted at YW come directly from management and are not posted until they are confirmed. So, ignore Maxwells. There are at this moment no concert dates scheduled for the United States during 2003. Maybe next year. Have a great day, and thanks for writing! Michele Marie Moore * YesServices http://www.zenponies.com/yes * YesServices at YesWorld, through YesNet at Sites http://yesworld.com * YES in the Press http://members.aol.com/yesinthepress/index.html _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #60 *******************************