From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #80 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, March 1 2003 Volume 12 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: anti-war songs [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Down with Scott McCaughey [Aaron Mandel ] RE: Down with Scott McCaughey ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat"] Re: Top posting ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] down with everybody ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: Top posting [Steve Talkowski ] Hey, you got Tweedy on my McCaughey! ["Rex.Broome" ] Lord of the G-Strings: The Femaleship of the String (update) [steve ] Re: Blame the ion storms... [rosso@videotron.ca] Forward into the past [Eb ] Re: Forward into the past [Jeff Dwarf ] in amongst all the "Buffy" reaps... [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Forward into the past [mary ] RE: Forward into the past ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: Forward into the past [Miles Goosens ] Re: Re: Forward into the past [Miles Goosens ] Re: Forward into the past [rosso@videotron.ca] Re: Forward into the past [Eb ] Re: Forward into the past [Eb ] Re: Re: Forward into the past [Jeff Dwarf ] Big Lebowski [Eleanore Adams ] Arrrgh [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:46:46 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: anti-war songs y'know, I've just realised that no-one's mentioned one of my all time favourites: Generals and Majors (XTC) >That's "perpetrate", James! told you I was tired. Why the hell do they play the matches in the cricket world cup at 3 in the morning? >> "It succeeds both when it rises into the sky and when it descends into >> the ground," said John C. Whitehead, the chairman of the development >> corporation. > >This is why, perhaps, people should *only* be allowed to dance about it. with all due respect, etc, I would have thought they didn't want this one to descend into the ground. 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: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:50:31 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Down with Scott McCaughey On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Eb wrote: > np: some dull alt-metal band called Memento who ain't nearly as good as > the movie I don't know if they got their name from the movie or not in this case, but there's a certain type of pop-culture reference that makes me flinch when I see it enshrined on a CD case. At used record stores I inevitably run into some band's album titled "Festavus For The Restavus" (the web says it's Everready) and it's like, what the hell? That's a line from Seinfeld. It doesn't make sense as a title for something. I feel like I've also seen a lot of musical Pulp Fiction references that gave me the jitters in the same way. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:04:01 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: RE: Down with Scott McCaughey At 11:46 AM -0800 2/28/03, those funny voices I hear when no one else is around called themselves "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" and whispered: >Scott MCCaughey on record is not a always a sure fire winner but he >always is live. It life affirmingly good shit. I'm gonna second that emotion - I've caught YFF and -5 live a few times and they are always a great show. I know somebody else on this list must've seen YFF open for the Soft Boys at the Fillmore - they were fantastic! Mike - -- ======== 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: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:26:35 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Top posting > From: Tom Clark > Subject: RE: Top posting > > How's this for top posting? Now *this* is a good thread. I can eavesdrop on other people's CPU cycles. Sweet. Processes: 57 total, 3 running, 54 sleeping... 179 threads 17:22:02 Load Avg: 2.19, 1.88, 1.62 CPU usage: 65.4% user, 26.8% sys, 7.9% idle SharedLibs: num = 7, resident = 1.94M code, 196K data, 552K LinkEdit MemRegions: num = 6891, resident = 314M + 8.61M private, 114M shared PhysMem: 69.2M wired, 212M active, 310M inactive, 592M used, 48.5M free VM: 4.08G + 3.62M 94851(0) pageins, 138124(0) pageouts PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE 3624 top 5.6% 0:01.03 1 14 18 288K 336K 584K 13.6M 3622 tcsh 0.0% 0:00.04 1 10 15 336K 600K 784K 5.73M 3621 login 0.0% 0:00.73 1 12 33 244K 388K 576K 13.7M 3618 Terminal 16.6% 0:02.61 4 70 151 1.89M+ 12.5M 18.6M+ 77.9M 3465 Konfabulat 6.1% 2:28.04 2 72 188 6.39M+ 13.3M 16.6M+ 81.3M 3128 Konfabulat 13.5% 9:16.78 2 65 692 142M+ 11.0M 148M+ 215M 3127 Konfabulat 0.4% 0:15.68 3 95 166 3.77M 12.4M 15.0M 77.5M 3126 Konfabulat 0.0% 0:03.03 5 71 178 4.23M 16.4M 12.0M 83.6M 3123 Safari 1.3% 6:42.54 7 468 1259 87.0M 45.0M 105M+ 301M 3001 check_afp 0.0% 0:00.16 3 29 23 280K 672K 632K 14.9M 2976 iTunes 9.6% 33:25.54 9 166 395 9.20M 21.1M 22.9M 107M Yep, I'm using Konfabulator. So far, it shows a lot of promise. Most of the widgets are completely useless, productivity-wise, but I do get a kick out of the UFO I have hovering on my left monitor. But it doesn't rock nearly as much as Safari .62. Tabbed browsing in Safari rocks! It rocks almost as much as editing files in a Samba server with vi on a Mac. OK, Ken, where's your top posting? . Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:48:01 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: down with everybody >They sadly have departed after all these years. But Kim Warnick's new >band Visqueen is most excellent and their first album came out last >week. Huh, and they're opening for the Minus 5 next week... I think the tale that Kim Warnick told me and my friend Marc, about Tabitha Soren and her pencil fetish, bears repeating. But not now. >Really? I can hear Wilco all over album especially in the rhythm >section and production touches. Maybe it takes repeated listenings to bring that out. Certainly nothing jumped out at me on my first listen. Comparison with past Minus 5 records might also bring out the influence, but I haven't heard any. I should probably give the album another chance before I write it off. As I said, it might grow on me. But for now, I would urge Miles, and any other Wilco fans jonesing for some side-project fun, to buy the Loose Fur album first, if you haven't already. Deemed "pretentious and unlistenable" by a guy on Postcard, so you know it's good! you know >what makes this list much better than most other lists? The almost >complete absence of non-editing top-posters! Oh my god! There was this guy on Postcard who posted the *whole digest* something like THREE TIMES - with no message at all! And then there was the guy who never shut off his "on vacation" message, so it kept getting posted over and over... On a midwifery list I was on a few years ago, about 80% of the posters top-posted, with a large proportion of one-line or "me too" posts. C'mon, you can deliver a baby but you can't figure out how to edit? Yeesh. n. (maybe there's a class on top-posting at my midwifery college...) _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:08:43 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Top posting On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:26 PM, Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > But it doesn't rock nearly as much as Safari .62. Tabbed browsing in > Safari rocks! > > It rocks almost as much as editing files in a Samba server with vi on > a Mac. Officially, it doesn't rock just yet. (.62 hasn't been made public) But it IS pretty cool http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030110063041629 - -Steve (graciously sparing the list from yet another top posting ; ) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:30:52 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Hey, you got Tweedy on my McCaughey! Miles: >>I sure think so. Then next, I'd make sure that the other three females from >>FIREFLY resurfaced on ANGEL or the probable Faith spinoff. You missed the one whose absence I feel most keenly... Jewel Staite. She might actually get me over to one of those other Whedon shows. But everyone was great on Firefly. Can't even mention it to the wife for fear of upsetting her. >>The Genre Formerly Known As Alternative Formerly Known As Modern Rock >>Formerly Known As Indie Formerly Known As Underground Hey, it was also briefly known as "Postmodern". And I remember people used to use the term "progressive" to describe '80's college rock as well. But that's just too confusing. While on the subject of Music Which May Contain 50% Or Less of the Following: Tweedy, does anyone have any opinions on the Loose Fur record? I've seem to have heard more from that than the Minus 5 album. Tweedy: 2003 is becoming as Thom Yorke: 2001 or Michael Stipe: 1989 (can't buy a record without him on there somewhere), isn't he? I'll start the betting on which indie chanteuse he'll do the first duet with. Scott McCaughey... odd case. I like his stuff when I hear it, and have tended to buy it in recent years, but I rarely play it consistently enough for it to stick with me. To compare him to fellow faux-REM/Minus 5 guy Ken Stringfellow, if asked I'd say I appreciate and admire McCaughey more, but I sure as hell have listened to my Posies records more than my YFF/M5 ones. I really liked the two-band-two-disc combo record, but it may have been too much to process at once. Hmmm. _______ Michael: >>I recall giving this very reason {{consistency, lack of concessions to style }}to Ed >>when he asked why there where people >>who liked both Rush and Robyn (seemingly disparate tastes). Now, that makes sense. I'm sometimes surprised that Rush fans still like their new albums, which seem (to the nonfan) to show so little progress over their old ones. That's in contrast to the fans of, say, Yes, or as recently seen here, Jethro Tull. But your statement kinda puts things in perspective: Rush albums must actually *be* consistent. (I couldn't get the example of the Stones out of my mind.) So they have that over everyone else who did their grunge album, their trip-hop album, their "hey-I'm-just-a-guy-in-a-band" album, their Pet Sounds knockoff, their "look at us being cool electronic club kids in our early 40's" album, their Rick Rubin and/or Steve Albini produced album, etc. etc. etc. Unless I'm wrong and Rick Rubin did produce a Rush album. - -Rex (average sized head, rather small feet) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:50:58 -0600 From: steve Subject: 1000 years not up yet http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030225-083116-7747r.htm - - Steve __________ Variety reveals that Disney is negotiating with Yuen Wo Ping, choreographer of groundbreaking actioners The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, to helm a live-action take on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Penned by scribes Josh Harman and Scott Elder, the Snow update is set in the 1890s and follows a woman who returns home to Hong Kong to attend her father's funeral after 20 years abroad. She discovers that her stepmother is plotting against her and escapes to mainland China, where she seeks solace with seven Shao Lin monks who, in turn, come to believe the woman holds the fate of the world in her hands and protect her. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:04:16 -0600 From: steve Subject: Lord of the G-Strings: The Femaleship of the String (update) > In the mystical land of Diddle Earth live bisexual folk called > Throbbits, although as Dildo Saggins (Mundae) explains, they'd be more > accurately dubbed trisexuals as "the horny little bastards will TRY > anything! http://dvdtalk.com/cineschlock/column/index.html Microsoft goes open source with the Red Chinese, what's up with that? - - Steve __________ American non-Christians told pollsters that evangelical Christians are better than prostitutes but worse than lawyers or lesbians. - Harper's Magazine Weekly Review, December 17, 2002 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:58:34 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Okay, guys, for this record we can only be influenced by artists who start with "B"... Tom C: >>Yeah, the back story makes a good VH-1 special, but geez it's hard for me to >>keep from puking whenever "Wouldn't It Be Nice" comes on the radio. >>Flame away, I wouldn't flame you for this, but I'm surprised that particular tune evokes so strong a response when there are so many Hotels Californias and Stairways to Heavens being overplayed and taking up WAY more of your time. Now, Barbara Ann, that I would understand... But anyhow, one of the highlights (for me, anyway) of All Tomorrow's Parties in LA last year was when, after a two days of largely experimental and/or Euro/NY/Japanese stuff (much of it great), Big Star threw down with a seemingly off-the-cuff cover of "Wouldn't It Be Nice", and the crowd went nuts. It was like a nod to what experimental music, in a weird way, sounded like on the West Coast back in the day. And right after that, as you might guess, Wilco showed up. Because they're never far away! Just looking at some reviews on "Down with Wilco" and in addition to the Beach Boys, Barrett & the Byrds came up a few times... and, no, that ain't always good, but it tips the scales of my interest to a probable purchase. - -Rex "Really, A Record With Pete Buck On It Earned A Byrds Comparison?" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:42:41 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Top posting >How's this for top posting? what strange machines you all run: load averages: 3.05, 2.68, 2.62 231 processes: 213 sleeping, 13 zombie, 2 stopped, 3 on cpu CPU: 15.3% idle, 57.6% user, 20.9% kernel, 6.2% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 2048M real, 42M free, 931M swap in use, 2129M swap free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 11807 software 1 0 2 2272K 816K sleep 314.7H 3.21% do_tests 13251 oa-run 1 60 2 3648K 3224K sleep 0:00 1.07% fxprtrates 28722 root 1 42 0 76M 16M cpu1 100:00 1.05% fxpd 12640 root 1 0 0 2312K 1744K cpu2 0:00 0.49% top 5869 oa-run 1 58 0 16M 12M sleep 18:13 0.34% fxhistory 13370 oa-run 1 28 0 4584K 4240K sleep 0:00 0.33% fxml 6026 oa-run 4 32 0 13M 8896K sleep 31:26 0.26% classic 6065 oa-run 4 38 0 11M 7944K sleep 31:33 0.23% classic 6117 oa-run 4 28 0 12M 8240K sleep 31:23 0.21% classic - -- $,="\n";foreach(split('',"\3\3\3c>\0>c\177cc\0~c~``\0cc\177cc")) {$a++;$_=unpack('B8',$_);tr,01,\40#,;$b[$a%6].=$_};print @b,"\n" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:48:30 -0500 From: rosso@videotron.ca Subject: Re: Blame the ion storms... On 28 Feb 2003 at 13:48, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > There's no way it could beat Conway's Red Top in > Colorado Springs. Burgers the size of your head: > Canada has one too, or at least had one last time I was in Edmonton. It's the "monster burger", from Motor's -- a bus turned burger joint. The burger is the size of a dinner plate. Just for fun, when you order one they ask you if you want fries with it. I had one once for lunch *and* supper. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:15:41 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Forward into the past I came across an interesting smear of information on Usenet...someone had posted the Top 106's from my local commercial-alternative radio station (KROQ), for the years 1980 through 1989. Ah, memories...sometimes sweet, usually cringeable. Just curious...does anyone remember a thing about these '80s one-hit wonders? These names seem totally alien to me now, and their corresponding hits don't ring a bell either. Baltimora ("Tarzan Boy") Barbie & the Kens ("Gigolo") Boom Boom Room ("Here Comes the Man") Boy Waiting ("Girl Waiting") Brian Briggs ("See You on the Other Side") Caution ("U.F.O") Ceta Javu ("Situations") Device ("Hanging on a Heart Attack") Eye Protection ("Take Her to Where the Boys Are") Jimmy the Hoover ("Tantalize") John Polumbo ("Blowing Up Detroit") Ken Heaven ("The Calling") King Cotton ("Stick to the Grind") Living Daylights ("Catbox Beach") Love and Money ("Candybar Express") Machinations ("Pressure Sway") Magazine 60 ("Don Quichotte") P.S. ("Mother's Little Helper") Pat Wilson ("Bop Girls") Private Domain ("Don't Need That Much") Red Rider ("Lunatic Fringe") Robert Roll ("The Dog Boat") Spandel ("Long Story") Spider ("Better Be Good to Me") The Penetrators ("I'm With the Guys") The Romeos ("Seriously Affected") Trans-X ("Living on Video") Venetians ("So Much for Love") Video Kids ("Woodpeckers in Space") ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:05:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Forward into the past Eb wrote: > I came across an interesting smear of information on > Usenet...someone had posted the Top 106's from my local > commercial-alternative radio station (KROQ), for the years > 1980 through 1989. Ah, memories...sometimes sweet, usually > cringeable. > > Just curious...does anyone remember a thing about these '80s > one-hit wonders? These names seem totally alien to me now, > and their corresponding hits don't ring a bell either. > > Baltimora ("Tarzan Boy") "OH-OH-OH-AH-OH-AH-OH-OH-AH." Was in a mouthwash commercial a few years back. Truly hideous. Like Melissa Rivers, but as a song. I think the guy died from AIDS a few years back. > Ceta Javu ("Situations") I remember the name. I think it's one of those male and female voices cooing over a 5th rate Vince Clarke concoction. No clue on the others. Probably should be thankful of that. ===== "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: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 21:24:12 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: in amongst all the "Buffy" reaps... In amongst all the "Buffy" reaps did anyone here do a reap for Johnny Paycheck? Or Chris Brasher, for that matter... 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: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 08:44:44 -0500 From: mary Subject: Re: Forward into the past At 11:15 PM 2/28/2003 -0800, Eb wrote: >Just curious...does anyone remember a thing about these '80s one-hit >wonders? These names seem totally alien to me now, and their corresponding >hits don't ring a bell either. > >John Polumbo ("Blowing Up Detroit") John Palumbo is the only name I recognize on the list. He's the lead vocalist and songwriter for Crack the Sky. Because I'm an east coast baby, I know a lot of Crack the Sky stuff but don't recall any of the John Palumbo solo material. s.mary ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 07:52:27 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Forward into the past > Red Rider ("Lunatic Fringe") This one got a good bit of MTV play. I bet you'd recognize it if you heard it. And I guess their writer/singer Tom Cochrane counts as a two-hit wonder: "Life Is a Highway" in the early 90s. Now a pickup-truck-commercial staple. Of the rest, Brian Briggs rings a bell, but it's a really dim, rusty bell. +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:20:17 -0600 (CST) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Forward into the past Quoth Eb: > I came across an interesting smear of information on Usenet...someone >had posted the Top 106's from my local commercial-alternative radio >station (KROQ), for the years 1980 through 1989. Ah, >memories...sometimes sweet, usually cringeable. > >Just curious...does anyone remember a thing about these '80s one-hit >wonders? These names seem totally alien to me now, and their >corresponding hits don't ring a bell either. While in the context of KROQ, and possibly commercial-alternative/college radio, these might have been "hits," I'd say it's another example of how the "'80s lunch" and '80s nostalgia in general are creating an '80s that never existed *unless* you lived in an area where you could get a KROQ or WRXT. In 80% of the geography of the United States, liking such now-well-known artists like the Cure (pre-DISINTEGRATION), R.E.M. (pre-"The One I Love"), and Midnight Oil (pre-"Beds Are Burning") meant that you were looked at as the kid who listened to "weird shit," and their stuff sure as hell wasn't on the radio. My rule is that if the majorettes didn't want to do a fire baton routine to it, it wasn't really a hit. That being said, even for someone like *me,* who scoured the pages of TROUSER PRESS and CREEM (seriously underrated in the '80s -- people act like it was crap after the Marsh 'n' Bangs days, but it was really an underground music mag disguised as a metal mag) for anything that sounded interesting, and went to the nearest larger town to clear out the import/indie bins on a regular basis, these are major obscurities. I think they must have been "hits" only in the rarified context of KROQ, not even on the level of "hit" like "I Melt With You" -- in the latter's case, some actual non-KROQ airplay in its day, featured in a middlin' hit movie soundtrack, and thanks to the "'80s Lunches" of the world, now looks bigger than Hall 'n' Oatmeal or Bon Jovi. I only recognize the Baltimora song for sure, and possibly the Pat Wilson. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:24:53 -0600 (CST) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Re: Forward into the past Jeff Dwarf sez: >> Ceta Javu ("Situations") > >I remember the name. I think it's one of those male and female >voices cooing over a 5th rate Vince Clarke concoction. I could Google it, I guess, but that'd ruin half the fun of Eb's list. I still want to see if people have *actual* memories of these songs! That being said, sure you're not confusing this with Yaz' "Situation," which is a first-rate Vince Clarke concoction? Not that this song couldn't have been a 5th-rate variant of it, I guess... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:02:31 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: Re: Forward into the past > I still want to see if people have *actual* memories of these songs! Not to be a broken record but I think Red Rider's "Lunatic Fringe" barely belongs on the list, not because it's good or anything, but because I think a lot of people would say "oh, *that* song" if they heard it. Anyway, my *actual* memory of it is vivid, thanks to MTV. It's the one that goes "Lunatic fringe, (something something something) .... " ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:27:33 -0500 From: rosso@videotron.ca Subject: Re: Forward into the past On 1 Mar 2003 at 10:02, Brian Huddell wrote: > Not to be a broken record but I think Red Rider's "Lunatic Fringe" barely > belongs on the list, not because it's good or anything, but because I think > a lot of people would say "oh, *that* song" if they heard it. Anyway, my > *actual* memory of it is vivid, thanks to MTV. > > It's the one that goes "Lunatic fringe, (something something something) .... > " ".... I know you're out there....". It's been used on a commercial recently, also for vehicles, IIRC. "White Hot" was another one that got a lot of airplay, at least in Canada. Tom Cochrane/Red Ryder is well-known on this side of the border -- a rock workhorse who, in a better world, would get the spot that's been allocated to Bryan Adams. "Lunatic fringe" is about the rise of anti-semitism in the '70s. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:22:24 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Forward into the past If anyone wants to see the Top 106.7 list for any of those '80s years, send me an email. I still have the lists saved, but it would be dumb to post all of them. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:37:37 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Forward into the past On second thought, here...just check the links yourself. Easy. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22KROQ%27s+top+106.7+songs%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en The most interesting thing to me may be how radically different the 1980 playlist is. I wouldn't have remembered that KROQ ever focused on album-rock stalwarts like Pat Travers, Heart, Tom Petty, Queen, Joe Walsh, etc. There's a major format change between 1980 and 1981. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:00:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Re: Forward into the past Miles Goosens wrote: > Jeff Dwarf sez: > >> Ceta Javu ("Situations") > > > >I remember the name. I think it's one of those male and female > >voices cooing over a 5th rate Vince Clarke concoction. > > I could Google it, I guess, but that'd ruin half the fun of > Eb's list. I still want to see if people have *actual* > memories of these songs! That being said, sure you're not > confusing this with Yaz' "Situation," which is a first-rate > Vince Clarke concoction? Oh, I'm absolutely certain it's not the Yaz song. I actually looked it up in AllMusic.com after I sent the post, and I was close but not quite there. They were Clarke descendants, but they were the German band that sang in Spanish. Maybe I got it mixed up with Chris and Cosey or something else. But I definitely remembered a specific song to attached, erroneously, to Cetu Javu. And it couldn't hold a candle to Yaz, Erasure, or even Camouflage or Cause & Effect. > Not that this song couldn't have been a 5th-rate variant of it, > I guess... ===== "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: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 13:51:54 -0800 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Big Lebowski Guys- There is a midnight showing of the Big Lebowski in Berkeley, CA tonight. We are going in bathrobes, sunglasses and sandals, holding beverages. I'll report back... eleanore ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:18:37 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Arrrgh Ever since the Grammys, I can't get that damn Norah Jones song out of my head. The entire thing only has about three lines of melody, but it's STUCK inside me! Usually I can "cure" myself once I figure out a song on keyboard, but this one keeps on nagging at me anyway.... Bleh. Does anyone here actually own the album, and have something interesting to say about it? Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #80 *******************************