From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #129 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 4 2003 Volume 12 : Number 129 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: sqiiuuiiid [The Great Quail ] Re: Hedningarna ["Brian Hoare" ] German Chancellor Backs Removal of Saddam [gshell@metronet.com] SSSQQQQUUUUIIIID ["K L N W" ] Re: SSSQQQQUUUUIIIID ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Mixed-up attributions [Barbara Soutar ] Cephalopods au-go-go ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Mixed-up attributions [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Mixed-up attributions ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Speaking of CD ripoffs ["Rex.Broome" ] The Return of the Official Change of Address ["FS Thomas" ] Lyrics help [Glen Uber ] Addendum [Glen Uber ] Andy Metcalfe/Squeeze ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Andy Metcalfe/Squeeze [brian@lazerlove5.com] Re: robyn in spain [Tom Clark ] Re: The Return of the Official Change of Address [Tom Clark ] Re: voices ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: German Chancellor Backs Removal of Saddam [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: The Return of the Official Change of Address ["FS Thomas" ] "Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that's out there." ["The Mamm] Constant albums ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:31:03 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: sqiiuuiiid > Look at the expression of the scientist's face in the pic where he is > fondeling the squid's beak. Fondling? Oh, like the squid doesn't *like* it. "Gentle caress," I think you mean.... - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:05:33 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Re: Hedningarna >From: noam tchotchke >either _kaksi!_ and _tra_ would be the place to start, i'd say. the >eponymous first record is instrumental and also less heavy while _hippjokk_ >gets kinda trancy at time since it infuses sami (lapp) yoiking into the >mix. but really, none of them are bad options. Ta. kaksi and/or tra it will be. I'm not sure I'd like them so much instrumental. I've heard a bit yoik meets trance/electronica from Wimme and I don't think it's my cup of tea - strange and other worldly but not something I could handle a whole album of. Also I revoke the use of punk against Garmarna, leaving just goth-folk. Too contrived/pretentious for my tastes. Brian _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 10:07:28 -0600 (CST) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: German Chancellor Backs Removal of Saddam someone make sure he doesn't catch his balls on the barbs as he jumps back over. GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for the first time called for the removal of Saddam Hussein in a speech to parliament on Thursday, dropping his objection to regime change as a goal of war. The turnaround marked a significant attempt to patch up differences within Europe as attention turns to rebuilding a post-Saddam Iraq. "We all hope that the earliest possible end to the war will keep the number of victims as low as possible," Schroeder said. "And we hope that through the defeat of the dictatorship, the Iraqi people can realize its hopes of a life in peace, freedom and self-determination as soon as possible." Germany firmly opposed the war, joining France and Russia in diplomatic efforts against any U.N. resolution that would have authorized force, arguing peaceful means to disarm Iraq had not been exhausted. Schroeder has condemned regime change as a war aim - but Germany avoided the French predicament of having to declare that it hoped the U.S.-led coalition would win the war after remarks interpreted as rallying for an American loss. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 16:28:37 +0000 From: "K L N W" Subject: SSSQQQQUUUUIIIID Me, >>Look at the expression of the scientist's face in the pic where he is >>fondeling the squid's beak. Quail, >Fondling? Oh, like the squid doesn't *like* it. "Gentle caress," I >think >you mean.... Errrr, I may be wrong here but isn't the squid, well, out of water? And wouldn't that mean that the squid is, like ... dead? (Unless its some new bi-elemental creature.) More Poe than Lovecraft this one, I think. Unless that table is really a fiendish scientific intrument of torture, keeping the poor creature just barely alive, then we're talking Kalfka. But I wouldn't really know about any of those authors. I may have read them long ago, along with Dick and Conrad and Montana Wildhack and a whole host of others, but I recently had voluntary brain surgery so that my memory and intrest in all such things would be excised. I also find I can't quite remember who Robyn Hitchcock is. Wait then, what am I doing on this list? Who are you people? Kay, getting in today's scream early _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:46:21 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: SSSQQQQUUUUIIIID At 04:28 PM 4/3/2003 +0000, K L N W wrote: >Unless its some new bi-elemental creature. Like a frog? Maybe it's just a squid-shaped frog with interspecies sexual tendencies. That's my theory, anyway. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:13:39 -0800 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: Mixed-up attributions "Someone out there in file-sharing land loves to label Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds as the same band. Kay" Yes, my latest complaint is the mixing up of John Cale and J.J. Cale. Both very good but *not actually the same person*. A surprise to me was finding that the song China Girl by David Bowie was actually originally an Iggy Pop song. I found it listed as such when I went to check dates of first release, so now I label it that way. Credit where credit is due. I can't believe I missed Iggy Pop when he was first out - I was too much of a flower child to enjoy his music back then. Donovan was more my style. In fact I name my cat Donovan when I was 13. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:33:05 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Cephalopods au-go-go James: Sweet. Although the squids laid out on a table like that never look as huge as I want them to. I've seen documentaries with boats hauling pissed off squid behind them that look way bigger than the record-breaking dead ones ever do. I guess they really deflate. I like the links: >>Giant octopus puzzles scientists and >>'Mystery' squid delights scientists I cry pro-squid, anti-octopus bias in the scientific communty. The guy in the octopus story actually says: "And I looked at this and I just thought, 'Heavens, it's a pretty beat up sort of squid'. " Again... sweet. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:51:46 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Mixed-up attributions Quoting Barbara Soutar : > Both very good but *not actually the same person*. A surprise to me was > finding that the song China Girl by David Bowie was actually originally > an Iggy Pop song. I found it listed as such when I went to check dates > of first release, so now I label it that way. Credit where credit is > due. Now wait a minute: Iggy wrote the song and performed it, and then Bowie covered it. If the version in question is Iggy's performance, it should be labeled by Iggy. If it's Bowie's performance, it should be labeled as such. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: I feel that all movies should have things that happen in them :: --TV's Frank np: Absolutely Kosher early 2003 sampler ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 09:57:23 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Mixed-up attributions At 11:51 AM 4/3/2003 -0600, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >Iggy wrote the song and performed it, and then Bowie >covered it. Bowie co-wrote the song with Iggy, and produced and played on Iggy's version. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 10:24:07 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Speaking of CD ripoffs Marc H: >> Well, I received my order, and found that "homemade" would >>have been a better description. The CDs I received were total crap--grainy >>scans of album artwork on the discs--no other inserts or art--and it was a >>relatively poor recording So I actually followed through with my threat to pick up a Glenn Campbell compilation. Not an easy task, let me tell you. I ended up with a strange disc indeed, issued by a concern in the Netherlands calling themselves Woodford Music. To judge by the spine, it's just called "His Greatest Hits", but the front cover calls it, and this is pretty cool, "Simply the Best: Southern Nights: His Greatest Hits". But you shoulda seen the stuff I left behind. At least three similarly budget-priced, hideously-designed compilations, all of which was missing at least one of the tracks I wanted. And almost every one of them started with the same sequence of tracks (Rhinestone Cowboy, Wichita Lineman, and Galveston) before going astray. Then there was the "nice" $18 compilation with little to recommend itself over the cheap ones other then being moderately less ass-looking. Plus, the presence on some of the track listings of "medleys" made one wonder if you were getting the "original" recordings. (Mine listed running times which matched those on the expensive one, so I felt, umm, safe...) And then, on the way out, I passed the "bargain bin" full of $8 knockoff compilations. Yup, more Campbell in there, although nothing (by him or anyone else) with more than 10 "super hits". And, like, thousands of different short crappy compilations by half of the artists we were discussing last week (sometimes two at a time-- Juice Newton, check; Jim Croce, you bet) all of which had overlapping tracks so you couldn't even grab, like, two of them for all the songs you wanted. And don't even get me started on the multi-artist comps. Or the "Back to Back Hits" discs (my favorite: five songs apiece from Talk Talk and Johnny Hates Jazz(!!!))) Yes, yes, it was a nightmare journey into a strange and disorienting demimonde. And all I can say is that if I was deeply into any of these artists or styles of music, I would be appalled at how their catalogs are being handled. And even if I was a trucker picking up one of these thingees at an AM/PM on the interstate, the same ten tracks over and over again would be irritating at any price. - -Rex np. Robyn Hitchcock & his Egyptians, "Absolute Classics: 10 Golden Hits: Chinese Bones: His Most Greatest of All Time" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:49:33 -0500 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: The Return of the Official Change of Address Hello all, and pardon the interruption. I tried sending this earlier today to the list and it never appeared. Rather than wait to see if it gets shaken out of the aether, I thought to just send it again. - ---------- As of today I tendered my resignation at work, with my last official day being April 17th. I have accepted a position with a small media development company in Atlanta, Georgia, and will be relocating down there on or about Easter weekend. My new mailing address will be: Ferris Scott Thomas 909 Greenwood Ave., NE #5 Atlanta, GA 30306 My Connecticut-based address (below) will remain active for probably another nine months or so, until the lease on the box expires. There will be a long delay in my receiving anything from the address, however. PO Box 165 Southbury, CT 06488 Thank, everyone, for bearing with this, and all the best! - -f. - --- FS Thomas ferris -at- ochremedia.com "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. The information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is addressed. Any disclosure, distribution, copying or use of the information by others is strictly prohibited. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance.". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:14:59 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: TtWS >I always like the name Toad the Wet Sprocket (it almost sounds like a >Robyn title), but I never could stand their music. I'm sure this is already covered by now, but the name came from a Monty Python sketch Rock Notes on the Monty Python's Contractural Obligation Album. Here's the quote: "Rex Stardust, lead electric triangle with Toad the Wet Sprocket has had to have an elbow removed following their recent successful worldwide tour of Finland. Flamboyant ambidextrous Rex apparently fell off the back of a motorcycle. "Fell off the back of a motorcyclist, most likely," quipped ace drummer Jumbo McCluney upon hearing of the accident. Plans are already afoot for a major tour of Iceland." So there you go, Marc I would like to apologize to purchasers of the executive version of this mailing list for the peremptory nature of that announcement. The brusque tone was intended for buyers of the cheaper version. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 12:12:04 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Lyrics help A friend of mine is trying to find a song for someone, but he doesn't know what it's called. All he knows is that it's from the early to mid 80s, male vocalist and there's a line that goes: "I love you from A to Z". Any idea what song he's talking about? Thanks. - -- Cheers! - -g- "A pox upon the media and everything you read: They'll tell you your opinion and they're very good indeed." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 12:13:06 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Addendum I should also mention that the song apparently is "southern rock" in nature. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:18:40 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Andy Metcalfe/Squeeze Just trying to figure something out here. Was Andy Metcalfe still touring with Squeeze in 1987 (specially July 30th)? I saw Squeeze open for Bowie on the Glass Spider tour. There was only one Egyptians show between mid February 1987 and the 1st of February 1988, so there was not a schedule conflict between those two bands. This was about a year before I had heard any of Robyn's music, so if Andy was touring with Squeeze, it wouldn't have been too significant to me at the time. Previously, I had seen Matthew Seligman playing in Bowie's band, so I think there was a good chance I saw both of Robyn's main bass players, before becoming a nearly rabid fan of Hitchcock. Thanks for any info you can give, Marc I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, "You know what will save the world? You're holding it in your hand." And the other scientist looks, and in his hand are peanuts. Then when he looks up, the first scientist is being taken away to the insane asylum.--- Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 16:24:46 +0000 (GMT) From: brian@lazerlove5.com Subject: Re: Andy Metcalfe/Squeeze I saw Squeeze in 1987 or 1988 in Cleveland and Andy was playing with them. It was the Babylon an On tour, but I can't remember what month or year it was. I do remember that they kicked ass. I'll try to look for a ticket stub. Nuppy Quoting Marc Holden : > Just trying to figure something out here. Was Andy Metcalfe > still > touring with Squeeze in 1987 (specially July 30th)? I saw Squeeze open > for > Bowie on the Glass Spider tour. There was only one Egyptians show > between > mid February 1987 and the 1st of February 1988, so there was not a > schedule > conflict between those two bands. > This was about a year before I had heard any of Robyn's music, so > if > Andy was touring with Squeeze, it wouldn't have been too significant to > me > at the time. Previously, I had seen Matthew Seligman playing in > Bowie's > band, so I think there was a good chance I saw both of Robyn's main > bass > players, before becoming a nearly rabid fan of Hitchcock. > Thanks for any info you can give, Marc > > > I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells > another > scientist, "You know what will save the world? You're holding it in > your > hand." And the other scientist looks, and in his hand are peanuts. > Then > when he looks up, the first scientist is being taken away to the > insane > asylum.--- Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:56:12 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: robyn in spain on 4/1/03 7:59 PM, noam tchotchke at woj@smoe.org wrote: > in addition to the 3 kings benefit gig mentioned on the museum, the april > 2nd gig was also filled in: in case anyone missed it, it's at garaje de tia > maria in murcia. > > there's an article, in spanish, about the show at murcia rock: > > > > babelfish's "translation" is at > > > I finally got around to reading the article in English. Painful translation at best. One piece of information I think I gleaned from it was that Luxor would be available in a few days. Anybody heard anything 'bout that? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:43:01 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The Return of the Official Change of Address on 4/3/03 10:49 AM, FS Thomas at ferris@ochremedia.com wrote: > > My new mailing address will be: > > Ferris Scott Thomas > 909 Greenwood Ave., NE #5 > Atlanta, GA 30306 > Good luck with your move. Funny, you and the kenster both move and yet remain around 100 miles from each other! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:54:52 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: voices >Vocally I can do Dylan, Young, Verlaine, Reed, Parsons-- the easy classics-- >and yes, a mean Robyn Hitchcock. Seriously. Sometimes I have a hard time >*not* singing like Robyn. I've jsut remembered one time when I played Julian Cope's "Laughing Boy" on my radio show and a couple of people I know rang in to accuse me of playing one of my own songs on air. Seems that - at that time, at least - my voice was remarkably similar to Copey's. I later "cashed in" (huh? what cash?) on that on those times when my band sang Great Dominions and Head Hang Low. >Usually they're just associated with a certain phrase... "Don'tcha see, Kyle", >"I tell yoo whut", "Exxxcellent", etc. to get back to our hero Mr. H, I've unnerved people by singing the line "Sometimes when I'm lonely, baby then I'm only youuuuu..." very Robynesquely. James (who thinks that the word "Robynesquely" looks great. Just the right balance of um, risers and droppers? What are those terms???) 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, 03 Apr 2003 18:12:01 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: voices On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, James Dignan wrote: > James (who thinks that the word "Robynesquely" looks great. Just the right > balance of um, risers and droppers? What are those terms???) I believe the term for "droppers" is descenders. Not sure about the "risers." I was out of town and just briefly skimmed the industrial folk thread; did no one mention Current 93? - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:21:55 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: voices Christopher Gross wrote: > > I believe the term for "droppers" is descenders. > Not sure about the "risers." ascenders, though that's the computing term. I think the correct typographical one is 'stem'. If only I could find the Adobe reference that defines this so well... Stewart - -- np: Goldfinger -- Fuck Ted Nugent ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:32:02 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: German Chancellor Backs Removal of Saddam - -- gshell@metronet.com is rumored to have mumbled on Donnerstag, 3. April 2003 10:07 Uhr -0600 regarding German Chancellor Backs Removal of Saddam: > someone make sure he doesn't catch his balls on the barbs as he jumps back > over. This is spin-doctoring. I've checked all kinds of media sources here in Germany and none of them view this as a change in position. Schroeder has *never* supported Saddam in any way, so the quote doesn't chnage anything. He's still opposed to the war. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:47:26 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Speaking of CD ripoffs - -- "Rex.Broome" is rumored to have mumbled on Donnerstag, 3. April 2003 10:24 Uhr -0800 regarding Speaking of CD ripoffs: > So I actually followed through with my threat to pick up a Glenn Campbell > compilation. Not an easy task, let me tell you. I ended up with a > strange disc indeed, issued by a concern in the Netherlands calling > themselves Woodford Music. To judge by the spine, it's just called "His > Greatest Hits", but the front cover calls it, and this is pretty cool, > "Simply the Best: Southern Nights: His Greatest Hits". > > But you shoulda seen the stuff I left behind. At least three similarly > budget-priced, hideously-designed compilations, all of which was missing > at least one of the tracks I wanted. And almost every one of them > started with the same sequence of tracks (Rhinestone Cowboy, Wichita > Lineman, and Galveston) before going astray. Then there was the "nice" > $18 compilation with little to recommend itself over the cheap ones other > then being moderately less ass-looking. I feel your pain. When I wanted to get "Wichita Lineman" I didn't know what to pick, either. I ended up with "The Essential Glen Campbell, Volume Three: The Capitol Years 1962-1978". It has only WL and By The Time I Get To Phoenix from the "hits" you've all mentioned. I like a few of the other songs, but I guess a *good* one-CD compilation would've been just fine. If only there had been one ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:19:39 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Glenmaniax! - -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Hagedorn [mailto:Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:47 PM To: Rex.Broome Cc: 'fegmaniax@smoe.org' Subject: Re: Speaking of CD ripoffs Sebastian: >>I ended up with "The Essential Glen Campbell, Volume >>Three: The Capitol Years 1962-1978". It has only WL and By The Time I Get >>To Phoenix from the "hits" you've all mentioned. I like a few of the other >>songs, but I guess a *good* one-CD compilation would've been just fine. If >>only there had been one ... Man, that is a weird one. The one I have, which does pretty much have everything I've ever heard by Campbell, spans '63 - '77. How yours could be "Volume 3" boggles the mind. I could easily live without the late '70's hits, but if you're gonna have a Campbell comp it's pointless not to have those songs as part of it. Like having a Johnny Cash box set which omits "A Boy Named Sue". You don't need to hear the tune ever again, but it fits on there without displacing anything else you're gonna die without, right? - -Rex, who knows the lyrics to "Gentle on My Mind" by heart except for two lines from each chorus, and yeah, it's a long story ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 19:21:47 -0500 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: The Return of the Official Change of Address > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Tom Clark > > Good luck with your move. Thankyouthankyou! > Funny, you and the kenster both move and yet > remain around 100 miles from each other! It's all part of the Master Plan... - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:28:05 -0500 From: Scott Hunter McCleary Subject: Hedningarna, Garmarna Karelia Visa is far less goth-punk-folk than "Tra", the only other Hedningarna I have heard (though there may be some older stuff on one of the Northside samplers that just doesn't come to mind). Sanna Kurki Suonio, one of the Hedningarna singers, released "Musta" in '98 and it's pretty good in its own right. Garmarna definately has more of the goth-punk-folk thing going (if you don't count the recent Hildegard von Bingen disc -- which is worth hearing just because Emma Hardelin's voice is soooooooo great). I got to see them live last fall and they were incredible. Hurdy-gurdy anyone? - -- ========= SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications PO Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 23:58:00 -0800 From: "The Mammal Brain" Subject: "Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that's out there." assume (but can't verify) that this news has already been released to fegdom. however, the synopses for this google news search are rather chortle-worthy. . _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:23:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Constant albums My favorite albums are the ones that work themselves into the fabric of my life, whose lyrics become part of my vocabulary, whose rhythms come to my mind as I go about my daily chores. I submit to you some of these records: * Slapp Happy's "Casablanca Moon" -- so easy, yet unusual, it's tart and sweet like an exotic asian fruit. * Fibonacci's "Civilization and Its Discotheques" -- ironic, new wavey, clever, with a geek's sense of humor. Anyone who writes a song from the viewpoint of Leroy from "The Bad Seed" is alright with me. * The Residents / Renaldo and The Loaf's "Title in Limbo" -- so honest and weird it's hard to forget. * Slovenly's "Ripost" -- literary geek lyrics, sardonic, and swirling Fender guitar interplay to top it off. Lyrics like "I am a cool glass of water" are mantra-worthy. * Spot 1019's "This World Owes Me A Buzz" -- fun, smart-ass San Francisco rock band. Ya gotta love lyrics like "After all your prayers, can the effects be reversed?" and "Don't let Western civilization make a dipshit out of you." * Midnight Oil's "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1" -- it's surprisingly pertinent nowadays. Every time I hear a news broadcast a song from this album pops into my head. "US forces give the nod, it's a setback for your country." "Divided world, the CIA. Who controls the issues?" We should have been listening to Peter Garrett. . Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #129 ********************************