From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #84 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 5 2003 Volume 12 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Luxor [Dr John Halewood ] Re: More Oar bonus? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Luxor / new songs ["Mike Wells" ] Luxor ["Velvet And In Onions" ] Re: More Oar bonus? plus Fall giveaway [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Robyn in national newspaper shock! ["Charlotte Tupman" ] stuck inside your cranium with the same old tunes again [grutness@surf4ni] double reap [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: double reap [Tom Clark ] RE: double reap ["Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" ] Re: double reap [Tom Clark ] NZ anti-war songs ["bibi gellert" ] Gabriel summer tour ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: double reap [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: double reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: double reap [Eb ] Re: correction to a correction of a correction [Sabina Carlson ] Re: correction to a correction of a correction [steve Subject: RE: Luxor >I seem to recall it was going to be available on >robynhitchock.com, but there is no notice of it there >yet. Perhaps it is too soon. 101cd.com has it listed already, albeit with a release date of April 7 (unless they're being all American at me, in which case it's July 4...) cheers john ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 03:50:46 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: More Oar bonus? Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > If anyone here has _More Oar_ (the Skip Spence tribute that > came out a couple of years back), who and what is the bonus > track at the end of the Minus 5 track...? (I could probably > figure out the which song deal, but i'm lazy) "Land of the Sun" performed by Alexander himself. Supposedly recorded for something X-Files related, but not used. ===== "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: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:34:55 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: Luxor / new songs Mr. Godwin: > Miles and miles better than that idiotic record with the > singing ants and what have you. I know what you mean, that's when Lindsey Buckingham lost me too. What with the eyeshadow, recording insects having sex and releasing it as music and all. > It _doesn't_ sound like a demo for big production recordings. I think it's > a collection of more personal songs which have been selected specifically > to work as an acoustic album. Excellent! > PPS: Now that I think about it, isn't it slightly odd that he didn't play > any of these new songs at the show?? I mean, if you were giving away your > new album at a performance, wouldn't you want to sing at least one of the > numbers on it? Interesting point...at least "You Remind Me Of You," "Idonia" and "Solpadeine" have been played publicly sometime in the last year, no? Hey, one of the songs doesn't happen to contain the lyric "creeped out American girl / behind your eyes" and is named something completely different? Damn, and I was hoping for a percussive acoustic "If You Know Time" as well, if only then we all rant about the lyrics and finally get Ross off our backs about how good it is :) Michael "'creeped out young middle-age parent of twins living in Midwest' doesn't have quite the same ring" Wells Ps. Ross' earlier, very interesting take on "If You Know Time": > Most of the verses are arguably about Death, but I think it builds up to the > anti-war statement of the last verse or so. Death is inside all of us, and his absoluteness is > linked to our most unbending harsh impulses. (Time=death for humans) > The last few verses give two ways of dealing with time: love ("I can see your face again") and > war ("you'll never make them love you") with the suggestion that the latter is a historical addiction. Actually I agree that it's one of their best songs in awhile...but while I think you're dead right about the internal 'harsh impulses' aspect I think he's saying these lead (not only to absolute things like Death, but also) to things that fail you on a daily basis, like doubt ("an eraser in my head/you know I love you/you know that's what I said"). Building on that, I get from the last verse that the 'war' is less literal and vastly more personal. It's certainly nice to have fresh stuff to ruminate over, though! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:36:27 -0500 From: "Velvet And In Onions" Subject: Luxor Mr. Godwin: >PPS: Now that I think about it, isn't it slightly odd that he didn't play >any of these new songs at the show?? I mean, if you were giving away your >new album at a performance, wouldn't you want to sing at least one of the >numbers on it? I'd say that is strange. Hmm. Maybe he felt as is he had to play the ones people would recognize. Mr. Wells: >Damn, and I was hoping for a percussive acoustic "If You Know Time" as > >well, >if only then we all rant about the lyrics and finally get Ross off our > >backs >about how good it is :) Me: I'm surprised there's no "A Man's Got To Know His Limitations, Briggs." And I'm still waiting for a studio "Where do you go when you Die?" Do we really have to wait another month for an official release? Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:42:28 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: More Oar bonus? plus Fall giveaway Thanks to all who answered my question about the _More Oar_ bonus track. In rather unrelated news, I downloaded the Fall's _Live in Reykjavik_ from eMusic, and ended up accidentally leaving the "crossfade" function active in my CD burner when I made a CD frmo the tracks. A couple of beginnings are slightly truncated, but otherwise the disc is fine. Free to the first caller. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and :: winds up as a processing unit. :: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:55:13 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: RE: More Oar bonus? plus Fall giveaway Fall disc gone. Me hungry. Eat lunch now. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:52:58 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Flashback lunch acid reflux Eb: >>Because it's a flashback to what kind of music the station played in >>the past? Seems rather obvious. KROQ didn't play Husker Du back >>then...why would it start playing them now? Because their entire listenership would seem to have turned over, and nobody listening for Alice in Chains at 11:58 was going to want to hear OMD at 12:01. Husker Du was a "wishful thinking" example; the true antecedent would be, I guess, Black Sabbath or something like that. But then, they started playing Metallica mid-career without ever acknowledging that they existed before that, so what should I expect? KROQ has mystified me ever since I moved here; they seem to have little regard for the roots of the music they play, although they'll happily play covers of that stuff by their current artists, such that Nirvana's "Man Who Sold The World" or the Offspring's "Smash It Up" can get massive airplay but you'll never hear the originals. Meanwhile you can tune in daily for "classics" by Missing Persons et. al. As you point out, this basically reflects odd programming decisions of the past, but it still sets up some cognitive dissonance, to say the least, especially for those of us who moved to LA from elsewhere (which is a hell of a lot of people). Also, KROQ has briefly played, and then dropped, songs by artists who are a lot more significant, and, at least to music critics or in my circles, better remembered than some of the stuff that has stuck. I remember briefly hearing Pavement, Sebadoh, Throwing Muses, Superdrag, Sugar and, ahem, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, just off the top of my head. I guess I just don't get branding, formatting, or corporate identity or whatever. I reserve the right to be mystified by shit that don't make no sense. _________ Mike Godwin: >>PS to Rex: All the way through the gaps in the performance at the QEH, >>"Notorious Byrd Brothers" was playing through the PA. And when they got to >>the end of it ... they started again at the beginning. I didn't hear any >>of the bonus tracks, it just seemed to be the original album. Did it sound like ass, as did the original CD version? Such care was lavished on that edition that the spine was actually printed upside-down relative to the other crappy-sounding original Byrds CD's. Nice to have those purged from my collection (although I have retained my German disc of Byrdmaniax despite the reissues.) >>PPS: Now that I think about it, isn't it slightly odd that he didn't play >>any of these new songs at the show?? I mean, if you were giving away your >>new album at a performance, wouldn't you want to sing at least one of the >>numbers on it? Not necessarily, given the nature of both the event and the CD (that is, more or less noncommercial in both cases). Speaking of which, I couldn't possibly be more pleased to see that Luxor is album-length *and* all-new. Can't wait to get my hands on it. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 19:22:07 +0000 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: Robyn in national newspaper shock! This review appeared in todays Guardian newspaper: Robyn Hitchcock, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Four stars out of a possible five) There is nothing more tedious than watching other people do drugs. Watching the fruits of other peoples drug-taking, however, is generally much more entertaining. To be fair, I have absolutely no idea whether Robyn Hitchcock, wonky idealogue of the Soft Boys, friend to the stars and the very definition of a cult, indulges  but negotiating the lysergic logic of his lyrics, you feel that the doors of perception have been not so much cleansed as painted in garish colours and left permanently ajar. A birthday concert to celebrate, as Hitchcock explains after bounding on stage in the first of three overwhelmingly colourful shirts, 50 glorious years of me, brings out a similarly colourful gaggle of friends. As well as Soft Boys Morris Windsor and Kimberley Rew (a deft but largely unshowy guitarist), there is Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, expat ambassador of oddball Americana Peter Blegvad, Alan Rickman reading a poem (of course) and, hello, Peter Blake exiting the gents. Hitchcocks is a particularly English brand of psychedelia, defiantly an acquired taste. (My companion, a Hitchcock virgin, displays amusingly visible discomfort through much of the show.) In between songs he empties the contents of his mind like a madwomans handbag, offering thoughts on asking Mozart for the soap in the shower; how, in the genetically modified future, we will all be either Elvis or Marilyn; and his hopes that Bush, Blair et al will open their third eyes. My companion rolls his. The songs themselves  the proud children of Dylan, Syd Barrett and the Beatles  work better when Hitchcock performs solo, or with a trio, than when there are as many as eight people on stage. The influence on REM of the Soft Boys marvellous 1980 debut Underwater Moonlight is obvious; sometimes, though, you wonder if it really takes this many people to sound like the Levellers. But Queen Elvis is beautiful and brave, the ancient English folk melody of The Speed Of Things deeply affecting, the ambivalent kiss-off of She Doesnt Exist strange and haunting. Like all surrealists, Hitchcock makes you look at familiar things askance and anew. If his songs sometimes become tangled in self-consciously wide-eyed imagery, a childlike playfulness carries him through. Then again, the poem read by Rickman, a kind of bleakly psychedelic Larkin, finds him at his most serious. Im a mirror cracked from side to side, he sings at one point, which pretty much sums it up. David Peschek _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 14:27:01 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Robyn in national newspaper shock! At 07:22 PM 3/4/2003 +0000, Charlotte Tupman wrote: >This review appeared in todays Guardian newspaper: > > >Robyn Hitchcock, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London > >(Four stars out of a possible five) > >There is nothing more tedious than watching other people do drugs. Actually, there's nothing more tedious than reading the writings of the cutesy-sneery "everything in a box!" hype-riddled name-dropping U.K. music press. Hitchcock the mad blighter gets taken out of Stock Character Box A and paraded around for half the review in lieu of actual insight. Nevertheless, the last paragraph, which does prove that the writer is at least capable of actual listening and did more than note which celebrities took the state, along with the fact that it's a positive review after all, almost "carries it through." Almost. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 14:46:25 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Elvis Having Fun On/Eat The/All the World's A/of Confusion I said: >celebrities took the state That state, of course, was South Dakota. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:27:41 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Scott McCaughey Loves You So I'm listening to/reevaluating all the McCaughey records I have (essentially 3 records apiece from YFF and -5), and lookee here what it says within the profusion of jumbled text and clippings in the liner notes to 1987's "The Men Who Loved Music", over in what I guess is the lower right corner: Tonight's the Night, The Beach Boys Love You, The Second Album So apparently he's been working on that "Love You" tribute for quite a while. Elsewhere you can find the words "Kinks", "NRBQ", "Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks" and god knows what else. Listening to "Let the War on Music Begin" helped me zero in on the most vexing part of that '90's Pet Sounds fetishism Miles was talking about: so many of those records seek to duplicate not just the methodology or even the inventiveness of Pet Sounds, but the actual *sounds* thereon. The most obvious examples are those bass harmonicas, bicycle horns, vibes and those characterestic snare fills most recently spotted on "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" (but cf. also "At My Most Beautiful" and any number of High Llamas records). You could make a Brian Wilson-y record without any of that suff-- Flaming Lips are doing pretty well, anyways, and there's always "Loveless"... That said, I liked "Because We Hate You" quite a great deal more than I had remembered. - -Rex, with a few albums left to plow through... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:21:48 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: stuck inside your cranium with the same old tunes again >What kills me is when I get a fragment of something in my head and *CAN'T >REMEMBER WHAT IT'S FROM*. For months on end I traveled Europe with this >Revolver-y, sitar-like guitar riff in my mind and couldn't think of the song >to save my life (answer: the repeating fill from "Charlotte Anne" by Julian >Cope). Also spent months trying to figure out what song contained the words >"bags of mostly water". (Answer: a Dream Warriors rap, although I could >swear there's another one in a more rock-like idiom). I have one right now, >but, to add insult to injury, I can't remember what I can't remember. Stand >by. oooh yeah. I'm with you on that one. Or where you can remember all the lyrics except one line, and you can't get to check out what they should be. Worst example I can think of is that Alice gets a snippet of a classical piece occasionally recurring in her head, and hasn't a clue what it is (and neither have I). We've actually considered going up to the university's music department and asking "what piece in 3/4 time - probably late 19th century - goes 'DUMdaDUM- daDUMdaDUM- daDUMdaDUM- daDUMdaDUM-da- nananana- nananana- nananana- nananana'? " >Also, my mental "stuck on repeat" script seems to run on overdrive when I'm >sick, like I have been for the past few days. The song this time has been >"The Naked Dutch Painter" by Stew, with occasional interference by a One >Line Drawing tune on a comp that a friend recently sent me. which brings to mind another oddness with mental rotate - getting one song automatically mentally segueing into another for no reason, so that you have both of them stuck in the brain. Like getting the guitar/bass break from "Insanely jealous" half way through Eno's "Baby's on fire", f'rinstance. 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, 5 Mar 2003 12:39:59 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: double reap Hank Ballard, 66 Horst Buchholz, 69 If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. 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: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:51:59 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: double reap on 3/4/03 3:39 PM, James Dignan at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > Hank Ballard, 66 > Horst Buchholz, 69 > > If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. Look out Harry Belafonte!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:53:49 -0800 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: RE: double reap Tom Clark wrote: > on 3/4/03 3:39 PM, James Dignan at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > > > Hank Ballard, 66 > > Horst Buchholz, 69 > > > > If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. > > Look out Harry Belafonte!! An former feg Hal Brandt! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:57:57 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: double reap >From: Tom Clark >on 3/4/03 3:39 PM, James Dignan at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > > > Hank Ballard, 66 > > Horst Buchholz, 69 > > > > If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. > >Look out Harry Belafonte!! I'm afraid it's too late for Hugh Beaumont, oh the humanity. Max _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:00:39 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: double reap on 3/4/03 3:57 PM, Maximilian Lang at maximlang@hotmail.com wrote: >> From: Tom Clark > >> on 3/4/03 3:39 PM, James Dignan at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: >> >>> Hank Ballard, 66 >>> Horst Buchholz, 69 >>> >>> If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. >> >> Look out Harry Belafonte!! > > > I'm afraid it's too late for Hugh Beaumont, oh the humanity. > I think he was always a little too hard on "the beaver". ;) - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:8:16 -0500 From: "bibi gellert" Subject: NZ anti-war songs I am as usual behind reading the digests, but I couldn't help answering James' inability to find an NZ anti-war song-what about The Mutton Bird's "Jackie's Song" ? A fine mess we're in JackieA clearing in the bushThe trees are all tangled up,and they're the wrong shade of green And the sap never stops runningThe leaves they never fallAnd the birds laugh like drunken garrison girls Jackie I said I'd take you dancingDancing bright and strongJackie I said I'd take you dancing to your songSilver medals shiningAnd the dust from a foreign road in your hairJackie I said I'd take you dancing everywhere We were told there was a dozen of themrunaways and injured menThey weren't supposed to put up such a fight Now who'd have thought blood would have so many coloursSoaking the grass beneath you like all the othersA spreading stain on the swampy groundTil the next rain comes down Those old men singing back homeI'd like to bring them hereShow them aroundShow them just what they have done Where the sap never stops running The leaves they never fallAnd the birds laugh like drunken garrison girls bibi --- bibigellert@earthlink.net--- EarthLink: It's your Internet. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 19:10:01 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Gabriel summer tour It appears as if Peter Gabriel will be touring the US again this summer. Amphitheaters this go around, logical given the crowds or lack thereof at the arenas. Max _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:52:09 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: double reap Quoting James Dignan : > Hank Ballard, 66 > Horst Buchholz, 69 > > If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. Why oh why can't Bush's first name begin with H? ..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: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 17:43:42 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: double reap Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Quoting James Dignan : > > > Hank Ballard, 66 > > Horst Buchholz, 69 > > > > If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. Hans Blix better watch his arse. > Why oh why can't Bush's first name begin with H? Well, George translates into Spanish as Jorge, which would be spelled in English as Hor Hey. and G is right before H. Sadly though, this is trying too hard to find a possible dead W lining. ===== "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: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:09:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: double reap >Quoting James Dignan : > >> Hank Ballard, 66 >> Horst Buchholz, 69 >> >> If your initials are HB, I'd stay at home today. > >Why oh why can't Bush's first name begin with H? I can't believe that Eno-freak James didn't immediately transfer his worries to Harold Budd. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 23:05:50 -0500 From: Sabina Carlson Subject: Re: correction to a correction of a correction tom: > btw, we're all wondering what kind of grade your friends got with their > reading of "I Wish I Liked You"... she and her partner got a 95%, and would have gotten 100% but her partner messed up a word (apparently it was a very easy word, too, oh well). but besides that, they did robyn justice :-) robyn got an A! also, i have an inquiry for all you XTC-loving fegs... (time to search your databases!) my dad was curious if any XTC covers exist, since we have none in our collection-thingy. my question is do any really good XTC covers exist? i am trying to think of a band that would do a kickass XTC cover...hmmmmm.... please help o great people with more extensive record collections than i! and it's only a poisonous plant in a state of ecstacy, sabina sheena ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:44:33 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: correction to a correction of a correction Quoting Sabina Carlson : > my question is do any really good XTC covers > exist? i am trying to think of a band that would do a kickass XTC > cover...hmmmmm.... Try this site: http://covers.wiw.org/artist.php/167 Weirdly, I haven't heard any of them - except the, uh, "Terry and the Lovemen" track (which isn't really a cover, then, is it). However, knowing that Joe Jackson covers "Statue of Liberty," well, I can practically hear his version in my head - his voice, at least, fits perfectly. Even more weirdly, w/the exception of "Nigel," almost all the listed tracks seem to come from that _Testimonial Dinner_ project from a few years back. Methinks XTC songs are too tricky for most acts to cover, however simple they sometimes sound. (Go ahead, you with the guitar, and figure out some of those strange chords. Are we *sure* Andy Partridge doesn't have six fingers on each hand?) Also, this site says (albeit with a ?) that XTC's covered "Strawberry Fields Forever": izzatso? Steve Schiavo probably has the what on this one more than that site does, though. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and :: winds up as a processing unit. :: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ np: The Aislers Set _How I Learned to Write Backwards_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:46:53 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: XTC covers On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 11:05 PM, Sabina Carlson wrote: > my dad was curious if any XTC covers exist, since we have none > in our collection-thingy. my question is do any really good XTC covers > exist? ABSOLUTELY. There's an entire album devoted to the songs of XTC, titled "A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC". Released in '95. It's got some nice gems, especially Ruben Blades, TMBG and Joe Jackson's contributions. Track Listings 1. Earn Enough For Us - Freedy Johnston 2. Senses Working Overtime - Spacehog 3. All YouPretty Girls - Crash Test Dummies 4. Wake Up - The Verve Pipe 5. Making Plans For Nigel - The Remembrandts 6. Dear God - Sarah McLachlan 7. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul - Ruben Blades 8. Another Satellite - L. Hux 9. 25 O'Clock - They Might Be Giants 10. The Good Things - Terry & The Lovemen 11. Statue Of Liberty - Joe Jackson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:57:12 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: correction to a correction of a correction On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 10:05 PM, Sabina Carlson wrote: > my question is do any really good XTC covers exist? Really good is open to debate, but there's a tribute album called Testimonial Dinner. One of those file sharing thingies might find you copies of Neil Finn, Pitchshifter, and Primus all covering Making Plans For Nigel, plus Trash Can Sinatras covering Senses Working Overtime. There's a rap version of Dear God by somebody called Shootyz Groove. I'm not sure if it's from one of the several covers tapes by fans. - - Steve __________ The generally dismal quality of America's mass-marketed pop music is an esthetic national emergency. - Lorraine Ali & David Gates, Newsweek ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:16:27 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: correction to a correction of a correction On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 10:44 PM, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Also, this site says (albeit with a ?) that XTC's covered "Strawberry > Fields > Forever": izzatso? It's one of the "remolds" that Dave did. He didn't want to sing, so he talked Andy into doing the vocal. I think they also did a Hendrix cover on an album called "If 6 Was 9". There's probably more information at - http://chalkhills.org/ - - Steve __________ Does pop music really change anything other than the width of a teenager's trousers? Is there really no Santa Claus on the evening stage? Does the shed hold only a push bike, or is there a lawn mower in there too? Well, I've done the research, talked to the culprit's parents and come to my own conclusions. The answer is this: God's atoms have been scattered and re-assembled in the form of a fluffy bunny. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:49:04 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: correction to a correction of a correction Quoting steve : > There's probably more information at - > > http://chalkhills.org/ Oh yeah - there are also at least three cassettes' worth of fan interps of XTC tracks (chalkhills/org/product/children96.html - sub in 97 and 98 for the other two). Some of them are quite good: I'm rather partial to The Paranoids' version of "Reel by Real"..but that band name seems to be wrong. Anyway: A forthcoming project: http://chalkhills.org/product/kingforaday.html ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #84 *******************************