From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #236 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, June 25 2003 Volume 12 : Number 236 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V12 #234 [Jim Davies ] RIAA-HOLES ["Maximilian Lang" ] jazz plunger [Jim Davies ] Armored American Groupies ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: 70s blather (long post, no RH) [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] another list [helmut poe ] Re: Liz spend some time together [Eb ] Re: another list [Tom Clark ] Re: Liz spend some time together [Tom Clark ] Opposites Attract ["Glen Uber" ] Re: Liz spend some time together ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Phair play [Eb ] Re: Phair play ["Glen Uber" ] RE: Liz spend some time together ["Maximilian Lang" ] Kravitz is Krap [crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com] Re: Bob Marley [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: ah to hell with it: 40 from the 70s [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dig] RE: Kravitz is Krap [Catherine Simpson ] RE: another list [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:03:53 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Davies Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V12 #234 Exactly one of these titles could be down to Scott Miller: Butt-Rape of the Gods The Bouncing Boobs of Fighting Girls The Many Adventures of Jane the Timeline Chick and the Tinfoil Thoths Will You Shut Up About West Virginia? Beers and Whiskeys We Wish We Were Drinking This Is My Last Comment On This Thread *** No, YOU Made Her Unsubscribe *** Remembering the Taste of Something Awful He Got G*me Th*ory Where'd All the Girls Go? Soutared! Tell me I'm wrong. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:54:09 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RIAA-HOLES http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-06-25-riaa-big-suits_x.htm _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:10:00 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Davies Subject: jazz plunger > I've been meaning to ask this for a while--Who played bass at the > final Soft Boys show in Paris? From what I've heard, it wasn't > Matthew. Any ideas? What? Really? Someone do tell! I'm glad I didn't go, because it would have been disappointing, simply because I ****love**** the sheer plunge of Matthew's bass. It wouldn't have been disappointing musically, as Paul - assuming it were he - is incredibly, incredibly talented. But: no Matthew, no Soft Boys. Quelle fromage. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:52:47 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Armored American Groupies Aaron: >>If you take two records I've never heard that are equally >>well-loved by people who I know and share taste with, except that one's >>from 1972 and one's from 1982, it seems like there's a good chance I just >>won't 'get' the earlier one. Hey, that's cool. Some people actually think all that old stuff is empirically bad. You've got a healthier attitude than that, anyhow. Try that Modern Lovers record, though. ___ Ethyl: >>Steve Stills, Hollywood Bowl, LA '72 (he was drunk and ranting about >>Nixon) What do you mean "was"? ______ Jim D: >>only to be booted >>back by an enthusiastically carapaced female who appeared to hail from >>the other side of the atlantic, and was clearly the butcher's squeeze Enthusiastically carapaced... she was armored? Or is that a "pissed"-related word for "drunk" with which I'm not familiar? I like it either way. As well as the phrase "clearly the butcher's squeeze". The Minneapolis/Paris/Replacements girl, she haunts me. She was tall and, like, marginally overweight in that totally perfect way, not "fat" at all, just rounded off a little bit; lovely in the lines of her face, wonderful eyes, short bob of hair. And she knew all the lyrics. Her girlfriends thought they were the hot ones and she was the sidekick, but they were dead wrong. Alas I must content myself with the knowledge that a large part of my hearing loss is precisely shared with her, wherever she may be. Shit, am I gonna have to see REM this time out after all? That's some expensive stuff. For that matter, what's the compilation all about, the best of the WB years? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:05:21 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: 70s blather (long post, no RH) Quoting Ethyl Ketone : > fusion stuff. I began the decade living in some shitty suburb of LA in > jr. high school, by '74 was living in Santa Barbara practicing the 3 > S's: surfing, sailing and smoking, and slowly dropping out of college. > Then I hit the road and didn't have a stereo, ending my album buying. > By '80 I was living in San Francisco (obvious migration to me) and > wearing black, going to the Fab Mab and Tool & Die to see the punk > bands. This sounds astonishingly close to my friend Bob's bio...are you sure you're not him? ;-) > I also remember Tuxedo Moon and the > beginning of listening to electronic music but I think that was '81 so > it doesn't count. Yeah, _Half-Mute_'s still one of my favorites, too. > Jimmy Buffett - Living & Dying in 3/4 Time, A1A, A White Sport Coat & A > Pink Crustacean, Havana Daydreamin', Changes in Latitudes, Changes in > Attitudes, etc. Okay, I confess to being utterly and completely baffled, buffalo'd, and bamboozled by the appeal of Jimmy Buffett. I mean, the music sounds bland to me, and then there's the whole bogus white-guy tropical tourist crap... Guys like Marley and Tosh shoulda tossed him in the ocean. > The Firesign Theater - all the 70s albums! Oh hell yes - I've recently gone on a Firesign tear - I just ordered the first six albums (through _Everything You Know Is Wrong_) on CD. I'd rate that one and _How Can You Be in Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?_ pretty near the essential list - except that until those discs arrive, I have them only on old cassettes, which werent' in my database. The only one that hasn't quite clicked for me is _Waiting for the Electrician_ - the "regrooving" bit is brilliant, but the rest just lacks a certain spark to me. ..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, 25 Jun 2003 15:06:19 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: reap Quoting "Stewart C. Russell" : > Lester Maddox, 87. They say only the good die young...I guess the reverse might be true. ..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: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:25:10 -0700 (PDT) From: helmut poe Subject: another list >What are some really terrific album covers that feature primarily photos of >the artist? The Beatles and Dylan have quite a few apiece, but there are >some truly dreadful ones (where's that Sam & Dave cover again?)... >Well, other than those, I like the following >several Laurie Anderson, Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel, Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Split Enz, PJ HArvey, Who, and David Bowie albums Don't forget John Cale. He always used a portrait and it was always terrifically awful. Guts, Vintage Violence, Caribbean Sunset, Honi Soi (his passport as an album cover?) -it's a four way tie for worst album cover ever. Nick Cave's actually used many portraits and they're often good (if vain). here's one last top 40 list before the thread goes stale (or am I already too late?): Being born in the 70's most of these albums I heard after the fact, but I've included a few honest acknowledgements of what defined the 70' in the 70's for me. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band Led Zeppelin - Physical graffiti Curtis mayfield - Superfly B52s - B52s Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust...(or Lodger, or Low) Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot... Iggy Pop - Lust for Life Lou Reed - Transformer Wire - Pink Flag-154 (I can't choose between them) Big Star - Sister Lovers Joni Mitchell - Blue Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Television - Marquee Moon Patti Smith - Horses X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescence Neil Young - Tonight's the Night Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Marlo Thomas & Friends - Free To Be You and Me Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks... Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks John Cale - Fear Can - Ege Bamyasi Carole King - Tapestry Devo - Q:Are We not Men... Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On (or that other one) Black Sabbath - Paranoid Heart - Dreamboat Annie Talking Heads - 77 Kraftwerk - Man Machine Ramones - Ramones Syd Barrett - the Madcap Laughs Gram Parsons - Gram Parsons Only Ones - Only Ones Roxy Music - Roxy Music Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Nick Drake - Bryter Layter The Carpenters - Singles* *I guess this is off-limits for not being an album proper, and for including songs from 1969, but I couldn't imagine music in the 70's without the Carpenters and unfortunately their albums just don't hold up individually. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:27:08 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Liz spend some time together >Potential thread? Pairs of artists who are almost universally mutually >liked by the same people, but you like one and dislike the other? > >I can't beat the guy I once knew who liked the Mighty Lemon Drops and not >Echo & the Bunnymen, and also Sugar but neither Husker Du nor Bob Mould >solo. Mmmm...as possibly stated within my recent Phillips/Wareham comments, I like Luna but not Galaxie 500. I worship Elvis Costello but don't like Nick Lowe (or John Wesley Harding). I can't say that I *dislike* Philip Glass, but the gap between my interests in Glass and Steve Reich may be unusually wide. Ditto for the gap between my interests in Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Or between Spiritualized and Spacemen 3. I like Jason Falkner/World Party/Owsley/Jellyfish, etc., but dislike Fountains of Wayne. I like Jefferson Airplane and dislike the Grateful Dead. Like the Moody Blues, dislike ELO. Like Cat Stevens, dislike James Taylor. Like the Bangles, don't like the Go-Go's. Like Cream and Derek & the Dominos, don't like Clapton. I like the early Who, Costello and you-name-it, and still can't warm up to the Jam. I like a variety of compatible bands, but don't like Steve Wynn/Dream Syndicate. I probably oughta like Jackson Browne based on other interests, but don't. And I like Diamanda Galas, but dislike rolling naked in broken glass. How about liking the Minus 5, the Replacements, the Jayhawks and Billy Bragg/Wilco, but not Wilco? Or liking Love & Rockets and Tones on Tail, but disliking Bauhaus? Maybe that's the biggie. Oh, and I like Robyn Hitchcock, but dislike Julian Cope. ;) >I'm sure there are many who assume that anyone who likes Nirvana likes >Smashing Pumpkins, or even Alice in Chains Ehhh...I don't feel like these are inevitable links. Plenty of rockin', grunge-receptive people hate Smashing Pumpkins based on Corgan's voice and/or ego. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:36:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: another list on 6/25/03 1:25 PM, helmut poe at helmut_poe@yahoo.com wrote: > Neil Young - Tonight's the Night Yup > Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Hmmm hmmm > Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Ok > Marlo Thomas & Friends - Free To Be You and Me WHAAAAAA? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:47:43 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Liz spend some time together on 6/25/03 1:27 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: >> Rex: >> Potential thread? Pairs of artists who are almost universally mutually >> liked by the same people, but you like one and dislike the other? >> > And I like Diamanda Galas, but dislike rolling > naked in broken glass. > I can understand that. But if you're a fan of hers you surely enjoy pounding yourself on the head with a sledgehammer. > > Oh, and I like Robyn Hitchcock, but dislike Julian Cope. ;) That's just wrong. I can say that I love Robyn Hitchcock but I dislike XTC (for the most part), and absolutely hate Martin Newell. Here's one: I probably won't like the new Liz Phair album, but I love the cover. Schwing! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:49:02 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Opposites Attract Eb earnestly scribbled: >I like Jason Falkner/World Party/Owsley/Jellyfish, etc., but dislike >Fountains of Wayne. Same here. >I like Jefferson Airplane and dislike the >Grateful Dead. I'm actually the reverse on these. >Like >Cream and Derek & the Dominos, don't like Clapton. Same here. >I like the early >Who, Costello and you-name-it, and still can't warm up to the Jam. I like the Style Council but never really liked the Jam. >I probably oughta like Jackson Browne based on other >interests, but don't. Oh, man. I can't stand that guy. In my teens I listened to a lot of L.A. country rock like the Eagles, Poco, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, etc. (still like most of it) and couldn't abide Jackson Browne. There's just something unappealing about him. Maybe it's that same C to Csus progression he uses in every frickin' song. Maybe it's the fact that he hits women. >And I like Diamanda Galas, but dislike rolling >naked in broken glass. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. ;) >How about liking the Minus 5, the Replacements, the Jayhawks and >Billy Bragg/Wilco, but not Wilco? I'm in this camp. >Or liking Love & Rockets and Tones >on Tail, but disliking Bauhaus? Maybe that's the biggie. Huh. I like Bauhaus and have really never had any interest in L&R. Wouldn't say I dislike them, though. >Ehhh...I don't feel like these are inevitable links. Plenty of >rockin', grunge-receptive people hate Smashing Pumpkins based on >Corgan's voice and/or ego. Cartman with laryngitis. ;) - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:02:21 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Liz spend some time together At 01:47 PM 6/25/2003 -0700, Tom Clark wrote: >Here's one: I probably won't like the new Liz Phair album, but I love the >cover. And thank you Marc Holden for stealing me a poster of said cover from the wall of 4th & B when we went to see her with the Flaming Lips. It's going up in my garage right next to Miss February. - --Jason Thornton "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:20:58 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Liz spend some time together Jason earnestly scribbled: >At 01:47 PM 6/25/2003 -0700, Tom Clark wrote: > >>Here's one: I probably won't like the new Liz Phair album, but I love the >>cover. > >And thank you Marc Holden for stealing me a poster of said cover from the >wall of 4th & B when we went to see her with the Flaming Lips. It's going >up in my garage right next to Miss February. What am I missing. Anyone have a high-quality .jpg of said cover? - -- Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:27:08 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Liz spend some time together Glen earnestly scribbled: >What am I missing. Anyone have a high-quality .jpg of said cover? Just found one on allmusic.com. Yeah, she's hot. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:29:31 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: Liz spend some time together Glen: > >What am I missing. Anyone have a high-quality .jpg of said cover? > > Just found one on allmusic.com. Yeah, she's hot. Oh, right...Liz. I thought you meant Miss February. *She* is hot. Off to see Wire tonight. Rock on. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:31:45 +0000 (GMT) From: brian@lazerlove5.com Subject: Re: another list > > Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Yep! And suprised or maybe not, but no one's mentioned Marvin Gaye's "I want you," a smooth masterpiece, or my favorite Gaye release: In Our Lifetime. But the obvious pick is his classic "What's going on?" The Buggles: The Age Of Plastic would definately be in my list. Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:37:28 -0400 From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com Subject: RE: Liz spend some time together Michael said: > Glen: > > >What am I missing. Anyone have a high-quality .jpg of > > >said cover? > > > > Just found one on allmusic.com. Yeah, she's hot. > > Oh, right...Liz. I thought you meant Miss February. *She* > is hot. What is with all you guys and Liz Phair? Is she inherrently hot? or does the Guyville persona make her hotter? What's the deal? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:45:48 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Phair play UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com earnestly scribbled: >What is with all you guys and Liz Phair? Is she inherrently hot? or >does the Guyville persona make her hotter? What's the deal? I actually know very little about her beyond her looks. I've only heard whitechocolatespaceegg, so I know nothing of her Guyville persona. At the risk of sounding crass, I think she's attractive in a "psycho chick who hangs out at the local billiard hall who has fucked everyone in your social circle whom you take home anyway and who proceeds to fuck your brains out and prevent you from walking right for 2 days" kind of way. Not typically my type, but I have been known to indulge in the past. ;) That said, I think there are far hotter women, both in general and in the music biz. I will refrain from listing them because that dead horse has been sufficiently beaten. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:08:58 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Phair play >Someone who recently saw a movie featuring Liz Phair wrote: > >What is with all you guys and Liz Phair? Is she inherently hot? or > >does the Guyville persona make her hotter? I think: 1) Acts from the indie-rock world aren't really known for featuring attractive women (and especially not attractive women in leading roles), so she gets extra-noticed. 2) She talks dirty and stuff. There's a Sarah Silverman analogy in here, somewhere. She's sexy, but not any major turn-on for me. Wish she was taller. There's sort of a 14-year-old girl aura about her which doesn't sit right with me. ;) Eb now on radio: Steely Dan/"Peg" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:17:19 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Phair play Eb earnestly scribbled: >There's a Sarah Silverman analogy in here, somewhere. Mmm....Sarah Silverman. Yummy! >now on radio: Steely Dan/"Peg" From one of my Top 40 of the 70s. Still compiling my list, kids. - -- Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:42:46 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: Liz spend some time together >From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com >Subject: RE: Liz spend some time together >Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:37:28 -0400 >What is with all you guys and Liz Phair? Is she inherrently hot? or does >the Guyville persona make her hotter? What's the deal? For me it is a little of both. Max _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:28:22 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: another list I can't believe anyone has yet to mention one of my favorites from the 1970's The Pretty Things - Parachute Allman Brothers - Live at The Filmore Derek and the Dominoes - Layla Jethro Tull - Benefit Eno - Another Green World John Cale - Paris 1919 Gang of Four - Entertainment! Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers MC5 - High Time Santana - Caravansari Talking Heads - Fear of Music Rachel Sweet - Fool Around The Soft Boys - Can of Bees Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond Yes - Close to the Edge Traffic - John Barlycorn Must Die Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See The Bright Lights Tonight The Clash - The Clash Wishbone Ash - Argus Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (Then Play On was released in October of 1969 and would have made it save for a few months!) Another 19 to follow at a later date. - -----Original Message----- From: brian@lazerlove5.com [mailto:brian@lazerlove5.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:32 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: another list > > Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Yep! And suprised or maybe not, but no one's mentioned Marvin Gaye's "I want you," a smooth masterpiece, or my favorite Gaye release: In Our Lifetime. But the obvious pick is his classic "What's going on?" The Buggles: The Age Of Plastic would definately be in my list. Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:45:28 +0100 (BST) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: Kravitz is Krap I don't comment particularly regularly, and even less since The Great (TM) Quail left, but this had me reaching for my 'metaphorical' revolver (getting close to the Godwin/Goerring law). I add the adjective as I remember some folks here berating Matt S. for an 'un-advisory stickered' use of the quote. >I've been told that it's insane that I like Robyn >Hitchcock but not Dylan, and, for that matter, Lenny Kravitz >even though I >can't stand Hendrix... Dylan, I think is over-rated; and, being a harmonica player, I can't listen to any track on which he 'plays' the instrument. But Kravitz better than Hendrix...Jesus, fucking Christ on a bike!!! Is there anyone else out there who think Lenny has done more than three, OK, TWO, all righty, my last offer is ONE good track?!?!? He is a uninspired, plagiarist, chancer, uber-busker, who happens to look fuckin' marketable and has built himself a 'keeewwwllll' pad... No, I don't prefer him to Hendrix... I've had a few drinks, but this feels like one I might stand by tomorrow morning... Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:50:31 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Bob Marley Once upon a time in the west, it was said: >>>Is this the first vote cast for Bob Marley? This probably says >>>something really awful (or, er, "dreadful") about how white-boy our >>>tastes are. ;) > >True dat. But you have to admit that the legions of stoners in your dorm >room who called Marley a "prophet" but only had "Legend" etc. etc. etc. have >kind of made Marley someone I don't think of as much as I should vis-a-vis >"music". I know it's kind of lame, but when I hear about Bob Marley >Festivals, I pretty much think, bunch of stoned white guys, and maybe they >trot out Aswad. you couldn't move for Bob Marley music in the late 70s. Absolutely huge here in NZ (his first number one in the world, other than in Jamaica, was in NZ). Still the major influence on a lot of Urban Pasifika music. James (who personally prefers Toots and the Maytals) PS - add another vote for "Tinfoil Thoth" 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, 26 Jun 2003 11:50:45 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: ah to hell with it: 40 from the 70s This. Is. Difficult. Bound to miss some out here, since this is just ones from my collection (I may be missing some true classics): Abba, the Album Eat to the Beat - Blondie Mirrors - Blue Oyster Cult Heroes - David Bowie Singles going steady - Buzzcocks Paris 1919 - John Cale My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello Machine Head - Deep Purple Layla and other love songs - Derek & The Dominoes Dire Straits - Dire Straits Right First Time - Th'Dudes Another Green World - Brian Eno Broken English - Marianne Faithhfull Peter Gabriel II - Peter Gabriel When an old cricketer leaves the crease - Roy Harper I'm the Man - Joe Jackson All mod cons - The Jam Oxygene - Jean-Michel Jarre Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull 52nd Street - Billy Joel Red - King Crimson Imagine - John Lennon Hejira - Joni Mitchell Moondance - Van Morrison Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Lust for Life - Iggy Pop Never mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel Horses - Patti Smith True Colours - Split Enz Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens Crisis, What Crisis? - Supertramp Fear of Music - Talking Heads Rubycon - Tangerine Dream I want to see the Bright Lights Tonight - Richard & Linda Thompson Loaded - Velvet Underground Who's Next - The Who Drums and Wires - XTC After the Gold Rush - Neil Young Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon also considered: B52s - B52s; Luxury Length - Blam Blam Blam; The Kick Inside - Kate Bush; Tusk - Fleetwood Mac; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John; Autobahn - Kraftwerk; Untitled - Led Zeppelin; Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - Moody Blues; Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield; I Robot - Alan Parsons Project; Basket of Light - Pentangle; Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty; Stealers Wheel - - Stealers Wheel; Commoner's Crown - Steeleye Span; Time Passages - Al Stewart; Band on the Run - Wings; Close to the Edge - Yes. Notes: 1) I wasn't sure exactly how to deal with this 'different artists" tag, so was conservative. For this reason I didn't put in Fripp and Eno's "Evening Star", , because of the Eno and King Crimson albums. The same applied to missing out Townshend & Lane's "Rough Mix" in favour of "Who's next", "There Goes Rhymin' Simon because of the Simon & Garfunkel album and "Transformer" because of "Loaded" (Paris 1919 still counts because Cale wasn't involved in "Loaded"). 2) I didn't include compilation albums. If I had, two would have made the grade: "That Summer!", and NZ punk compilation "AK-79". The same goes for single artist compilations ("BeeGees Gold" and "Nilsson" failed for that reason). James np - "True love" by the Scavengers, off AK-79 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, 25 Jun 2003 17:06:40 -0700 From: Catherine Simpson Subject: RE: Kravitz is Krap (After "...a few drinks") Crowbar Joe said: >>Is there anyone else out there who think Lenny (Kravitz)has done more than three, OK, TWO, all righty, my >>last offer is ONE good track? I would like to go on record as saying that although I *did* say "I've been told that it's insane that I like ... Lenny Kravitz even though I can't stand Hendrix", I would not classify myself as an actual Lenny Kravitz "fan". My preference is to not listen to either Kravitz OR Hendrix, but that if I were in a situation where I had to listen to one or the other, I would choose Kravitz. I find Hendrix grating, and Kravitz more palatable. For that matter, I have no great love for the vast majority of music from the 1960's. Oh, don't get me wrong - the Beatles did some cool stuff, Bowie was always great, old Stones beats the crap out of anything they've done in the last 20 years... but, for the most part, I hold very little nostalgia for the music of my very-early childhood (born in '64). Which brings a question to mind... It seems that most of the other-than-Robyn music that I see discussed on this list runs toward Indie artists and bands in the REM vein. Other than Robyn, whose music I have deemed damned-near necessary for the continuation of life as I know it, I listen to primarily Goth/Industrial/Ethereal bands (or at least *used-to-be-more-Goth* bands like the Cure). At all the Robyn shows I've been to, I've only met one other Goth-ish person, so I'm guessing that Robyn and music-to-slit-your-wrists-by don't exactly go hand in hand for most folks. Fair assessment? Or are there others like me lurking out there that I don't know about? - - Catherine (otherwise known as the "lightly-tattooed-purple-haired-goth-queen-soccer-mom") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:11:11 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: another list >Michael: >I can't believe anyone has yet to mention one >of my favorites from the 1970's > >The Pretty Things - Parachute I do own that...haven't played it in ages. I should pull it out again. I bought a used copy after being so enraptured by SF Sorrow, and recall being disappointed by comparison. Seems like I read that Rolling Stone named it Album of the Year, back then. Surprising, given that it's barely remembered today. >MC5 - High Time I've been curious about this disc for awhile. Haven't heard any MC5 beyond the first album (which was just too neanderthal for me). >Rachel Sweet - Fool Around There's a definite dark horse... - ------ >Helmut: >Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever An admirably brave choice. ;) >Only Ones - Only Ones A few have named this record...I should investigate it. Speaking of Hitchcockian things, there has been a bizarre "bee problem" around here today. Must have seen about 30 of them, buzzing around with no perceivable purpose. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #236 ********************************