From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #263 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, July 10 2003 Volume 12 : Number 263 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The 'Storefront Hitchcock' showing in London (100% RH) ["Charlotte Tupman] Re: Hamlet was a small-town boy... [Miles Goosens ] RE: The 'Storefront Hitchcock' showing in London (100% RH) ["Bachman, Mic] Beatles coverology ["Rex.Broome" ] The return of Soundstage on PBS (Tori Amos content) ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr] In fact I've never eaten any form of marsupial meat ["Rex.Broome" ] RE: Beatles coverology ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: The return of Soundstage on PBS (Tori Amos content) [Tom Clark ] Re: Scotland stuff [Groove Puppy ] And oh yeah... ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: The return of Soundstage on PBS (Tori Amos content) ["Glen Uber" ] RE: Beatles coverology ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Scotland stuff ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: In Memoriam: Paul Kariya [UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com] Re: Re: The return of Soundstage on PBS (Tori Amos content) [Miles Goosen] Re: face the placenta [Jeff Dwarf ] the psychology of music taste [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Re: face the placenta [Miles Goosens ] Re: Beatles' covers (Robyn content 0.17%) [Jeff Dwarf Subject: The 'Storefront Hitchcock' showing in London (100% RH) Does anyone have any questions for Robyn about Storefront? I'm going along on Saturday to the showing at the British Museum, and there'll be a chance to ask questions afterwards. So if anyone has anything they've been dying to ask, I'll happily report back next week! Charlotte _________________________________________________________________ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:07:27 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Hamlet was a small-town boy... At 12:16 AM 7/10/2003 +0100, crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com wrote: >>I grew up in an unincorporated town of 1,000 max (as per the >1980 census - >population was down to 500 > >Don't Americans ever use the word 'village'! Usually only to denote wanna-be ritzy lil' shopping areas, like "the Village at Vanderbilt" just behind Vandy U. Chalk it up to the mainstream American proclivity to take things that sound "British" to their ears and try to associate them with tony things -- there's a million zillion subdivisions whose names (both of the subdivision itself and the street names) try to go as woodsy British as possible, often with unintentionally hilarious results. Oddly, "Wanker Lane," "Plank Circle," and "Gobsmacked Drive" have yet to take off, though. Towns, and in some areas laid out on the grid system, townships (I remember being utterly puzzled on my first trip into Indiana about what "Twp" stood for - grew up in the metes 'n' bounds East), that's what most people say here, at least in my experience. "Village" would sound odd and somewhat pretentious, and I'd be expecting to see a manor and some peasants tearing down the enclosures or somethin'. livin' in a village la la la, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:03:17 -0400 From: John McIntyre Subject: Re: Beatles' covers (Robyn content 0.17%) Glen Uber wrote:, since then, I've thought of putting together a compilation of > What would be on your "Best Beatles' Covers" comp CD? "Things We Said Today" by String Driven Thing "Help" by Deep Purple John McIntyre Physics - Astronomy Domine Dept Michigan State University mcintyre@pa.msu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:27:44 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: face the placenta At 01:08 PM 7/10/2003 -0400, Aaron Mandel wrote: >On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > >> Didn't someone have a song called "All I want to do is Fuck >> Your Hair?" I want to say The JudyBats for some reason, >> though I never liked them so I wonder why i'd know >> something like that about them.... > >It is the Judybats, and it wasn't a very good song (in my opinion). Geez folks, it was a throwaway - and an enjoyable one (in my opinion). It was a b-side on a hard-to-find CD single, which also includes a really nifty (in my opinion) cover of Gary Numan's "Cars." later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:23:14 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: The 'Storefront Hitchcock' showing in London (100% RH) Ask Robyn: Will Matador be issuing a 25th anniversary remastered double CD & LP of Can Of Bees next year? Thanks, Michael - -----Original Message----- From: Charlotte Tupman [mailto:nextdoorland@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:36 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: The 'Storefront Hitchcock' showing in London (100% RH) Does anyone have any questions for Robyn about Storefront? I'm going along on Saturday to the showing at the British Museum, and there'll be a chance to ask questions afterwards. So if anyone has anything they've been dying to ask, I'll happily report back next week! Charlotte _________________________________________________________________ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:54:35 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Beatles coverology Glen: >>What would be on your "Best Beatles' Covers" comp CD? That's almost too wide of a field to contemplate. I mean, the godawful cheese category itself, overstuffed with the Sgt. Peppers movie soundtrack, Shatner and *everyone* on that George Martin record (especially Sean Connery's "In My Life", which sounds like the worst Connery *impression* ever) is simply vast. Some stuff that's actually fairly good is kind of overexposed (Aerosmith's "Come Together", Siouxsie's "Prudence", Cocker's "Help from My Friends", etc.) so I'd opt away from those. So you're stuck largely with period-piece curios... like a recent yard-sale pickup of mine, "The Brothers Four Sing the Songs of Lennon & McCartney". (Which I swear I will someday actually listen to.) Otherwise you'd be left to choose from your personal obsessions, particularly where they cross paths with your favorite Beatles records, songs, or eras. I started a list, but it sucked pretty bad. It consisted of mostly lacklustre performances by artists I like (the only two that I really loved on the list were the Feelies' "Everybody's Got --> Monkey" and Steve Earle's "I'm Looking Through You"... oh, and Conershop's "Norwegian Wood"). So I guess that, other than for curiosity or bizarreness value, I don't much like Beatles covers... it doesn't seem like those tunes have a lot more to say than was perfectly expressed the first time around. Plus, there's really no such thing as "an obscure Beatles song", and I find the value of most covers to be in either reinterpretation or reminding you of a great song that you'd forgotten all about. Nobody's forgetting any Beatles tunes. - -Rex (who's been involved in covering "Day Tripper", "A Hard Day's Night", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", "She Said She Said", "In My Life", and probably hells more in informal jam sessions, not to mention "Act Naturally" which everyone thinks is a Beatles tune but was done in the spirit of Mr. Owens, not Ringo) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:48:24 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: The return of Soundstage on PBS (Tori Amos content) Finally, a live music show that isn't on cable. After an 18-year break the series Soundstage has returned to PBS starting this Thursday July 11, 2003 with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Future performers include Tori Amos (though I'm sure you Amos-Lovers already knew that. Being that's you're a cult and all). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:10:05 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: In fact I've never eaten any form of marsupial meat Daniel: >>My grandfather (aged 92, who was born in the woods outside of >>Brownsboro, Tx) tells me that his father was fond of possum. Despite what y'all might assume, I never et a possum, nor a squirrel, nor even so much as a rabbit. I was, on rare occasion, obliged to sample, say, a venison sausage in order not to insult whomever it was bringing it to my folks as a gift or for dinner. But we didn't hunt, woodhicks though we were. My dad used his rifle almost exclusively to shoot snapping turtles and muskrats in the pond (they kill fish, muddy the water, and compromise the bank walls, and Dad hated them with a passion). Dad does say that in the lean years his own father would hunt squirrels for food and they weren't too bad. But I haven't seen him trying to order one in a restaurant, so I'm guessing they weren't that good, either. Hunting was prevalent enough that we got a week off school for deer season (since half the student body would be skipping school anyway; it was coyly called "professional days" and then later incorprated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I think). And part of my 5th grade curriculum was a rifle safety course taught by a state trooper. The thought was that many of the kids were already using guns anyway, and who know how well their parents had taught them, so let's fix it. I was really bad at that unit. Basically I resented hunters because (A) they were constantly killing dogs in the woods, either through mistaking them for deer or, um, not, and (B) they were also constantly leaving their kills, or parts of them, rotting in the woods for your dog to find and bring home to you, all proud to have a deer head in his mouth or a belly full of something that wasn't gonna stay down for long. But I like fishing, and I like a good fish fry. Never said I was consistent... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:59:24 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Beatles coverology Rex.Broome earnestly scribbled: >Some stuff that's actually fairly good is kind of overexposed (Aerosmith's >"Come Together", Siouxsie's "Prudence", Cocker's "Help from My Friends", >etc.) so I'd opt away from those. Aerosmith does a pretty decent version of "I'm Down," as I recall. I never thought of Siouxsie's version of DP as "overexposed". However, if you do indeed feel that way, you caould always include the Jerry Garcia Band's version instead. Cocker's version of "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" is pretty good. > >So you're stuck largely with period-piece curios... like a recent yard-sale >pickup of mine, "The Brothers Four Sing the Songs of Lennon & McCartney". >(Which I swear I will someday actually listen to.) My mom has an album with some godawful vocal group doing Lennon's "Love". I'm wondering if it might be the Brothers Four. Ever hear the Booker T. & the MG's album, _McLemore Avenue_? It's an instrumental reworking of _Abbey Road_. "Odd" is a good word for it. The performances themselves are pretty good, but the gimmick wears thin after a couple listens. >Steve Earle's "I'm Looking Through You" Ah, yes. That's a good one. >-Rex (who's been involved in covering "Day Tripper", "A Hard Day's Night", >"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", "She Said She Said", "In My Life", and >probably hells more in informal jam sessions, not to mention "Act Naturally" >which everyone thinks is a Beatles tune but was done in the spirit of Mr. >Owens, not Ringo) I'm currently doing "Rain," "Norwegian Wood" and "She Said, She Said". In the past, I've done "Here, There and Everywhere," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Sexy Sadie," "Let It Be," "I'm Only Sleeping," and "Tomorrow Never Knows" on a regular basis. All great songs. I never really mess 'em up too much. I kinda stick to the original arrangements. I did do a country arrangement of "Tell Me What You See" once that sounded pretty cool. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:07:16 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Beatles coverology Glen: >>What would be on your "Best Beatles' Covers" comp CD? I always liked the Breeders version of Happiness is a Warm Gun. Guadacanal Diary does a nice version of And Your Bird Can Sing on 2 X 4. I remember reading that Yesterday was the most covered song of all time some years back. It may still be. Michael NP Tom Rush The Circle Game ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:19:37 EDT From: KCasey@aol.com Subject: Re: Beatles coverology > What would be on your "Best Beatles' Covers" comp CD? > I recently bought a CD called "Glass Onion: Songs Of The Beatles". Its a compilation of various Atlantic artists doing Beatles covers. My favorites so far are Ella Fitzgeralds surprising versions of "Got To Get You Into My Life" and "Savoy Truffle". Another standout is Little Richards take on "I Saw Her Standing There". Aretha does a typically fine job with "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" and Bill Cosby weighs in with a strange "Sgt. Pepper". Get yours today. KC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:33:54 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: Beatles coverology Glen: >>I never thought of Siouxsie's version of DP as "overexposed". "Overexposed" may be too strong, but it's certainly one of the Banshee's best known songs in the US (prolly only "Peekaboo" and "Kiss Them for Me" got more airplay); I think I've had to tell more than one person that it's actually a Beatles tune, not a Siouxsie original. (I know I've had to do that with several people who though "Alone Again Or" was an original by the Damned. I always follow up by checking to see of they've ever heard "New Rose" at all and they never have.) BTW, Glenn, you're doing pretty much the Beatles tunes I would do if it were up to me to choose some. And it's just occurred to me that a few times in recent years I've done an odd acoustic version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" during the instrumental section of which I would step on various squeaking tentacles of my daughter's musical octopus. It worked pretty well, sounding both somewhat backwards and squeaky like those sped-up voices on the record. I think there's a good country tune in that song, too... I'd like to hear my bro-in-law throw a little psych-fiddle on it after the beat's been switched to a two-step. Little dobro and close harmonies, and bobsyeruncle. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:22:39 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The return of Soundstage on PBS (Tori Amos content) on 7/10/03 12:48 PM, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. at gene@hopstetter.com wrote: > Finally, a live music show that isn't on cable. > > After an 18-year break the series Soundstage has returned to PBS > starting this Thursday July 11, 2003 with Tom Petty and the > Heartbreakers. > > Future performers include Tori Amos (though I'm sure you Amos-Lovers > already knew that. Being that's you're a cult and all). > > I hope they rerun some of those old ones too. I was severely effected as a youth by watching the Martin Mull/Flo & Eddy episode. I've been searching for a tape of it ever since. Don't say "goodbye", just say "hors d'ouevre", - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:28:10 -0700 From: "The Mammal Brain" Subject: Necessary Measures one reason somebody might want to be CCed on posts is if they're subscribed to the digest, and wouldn't otherwise be seeing responses for a while. this allows them to, if they so choose, respond back to the list even before the new digest rolls in. andrew used to employ this tactic quite frequently, if i recall. and, new york state uses a city-town-village hierarchy. i assume its based on population. i'm sure i've got a photograph somewhere of a sign reading "welcome to the village of cooperstown". yeah, and there used to be butt-loads of doctors on the list. the only ones i can recall now are marcy tanter and david librik.... are blow-jobs really considered a "natural", as opposed to social, phenomenon? do polar bears, for example, engage in oral sex? or monkeys? anyhow, some fred meyer adventures: - --my step-brother and i once thought we saw lenny wilkens at the bellevue store. (this was only about one or two years after the championship, and before don james or steve largent had been eleveted to the mccarthur-like status they would later assume. so lenny was, in these days, about the only sports hero to be found in seattle. maybe warren moon -- but he'd already moved on by then.) we went up and asked him if he were indeed lenny wilkens. when he replied in the affirmative, we didn't even pause to say, you know, "kick their asses real far", or whatever; so urgent was our mission to find our parents and tell them that lenny wilkens was shopping in bellevue fred meyer. - --about the same time period, at the grand opening of the totem lake fred meyer, they had prize drawings about every 15 minutes. we (me, a different step-brother, and my sister) had entered the drawing, but were mainly hanging around the area for the free pop and hot dogs. for reasons i can't recall, the administrators asked if i'd like to conduct the prize drawings. i said, "oh, fuck yes!" (or words to that effect -- i was a pretty big ham beginning pretty early in my childhood.) i worked out a plan with my step-brother that if i should draw my own name, he would pose as me, and accept the prize "on my behalf". (pretty decent forethought for ten-year-olds, now that i think about it.) on the second or third drawing, i did, in fact draw my own name! trying to act very cool, i said something like, "oh, it's some guy called 'eddie tews'." at which, my step-brother came forward and was awarded some sort of non-stick skillet, which was later passed on to my step-mother. wonder if she still has it? - --some time shortly after securing my driving licence, my cousin (visiting from idaho) and i drove to bellevue fred meyer purchased, some large number of superballs out of the superball dispenser, and released them into the main aisle-way, causing general pandaemonium. - --during my heavy-duty shoplifting days, the bellevue fred meyer music mart was one of the few stores without an electronic sensor at its door. so many a CD and laserdisc were "obtained" from bellevue fred meyer. (the euphemism i invented during the massive disneyland shoplifting spree. a friend loudly asked something like, "oh, did you steal thus and so from such and such boutique?" "i prefer the word 'obtained'." and so it was.) - --also shoplifted a pair of bart simpson "bow-biters" as well as a six-pack of dr. pepper (in the old-timey glass bottles) from a fred meyer in redding, california. - --between roghly 1980 and 1990, possibly every haircut of mine occurred at bellevue fred meyer. may have missed one or two during that time -- but also may not have. nowadays, of course, i cut my own hair. - --in my pre-vegan days, i was a Cheeze-It FIEND. i mean, for fucking *real*. (i would guess that the only three brands to which i've ever shown any sort of considerable loyalty have been Cheeze-It, Dr. Pepper, and Sony). for whatever reason, bellevue fred meyer seemed to have Cheeze-Its on half-price (technically, two-for-one) sale about every-other-month. used to fucking *load up* on the half-priced Cheeze-Its. - --on one of my trips to portland (grant lee hitchcock tour, i think?), i went with michael wolfe to his fred meyer (don't know the name of the neighbourhood where michael and carole used to live -- only that all of the Simpsons characters' names derived from this particular neighbourhood's street names) and watched him purchase some minidiscs. this is only notable for the feg star-fucking, i guess. you know, typing while wearing wrist splints is a pain in the arse. but damned if they don't work. every time i try to take them off, i begin experiencing carpal-tunnel symptoms almost immediately. KEN "Perhaps you need another shot" THE KENSTER _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:31:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Groove Puppy Subject: Re: Scotland stuff ChrisG sed > At the Smithsonian's annual Folklife Festival this > year, one of the featured folks was the Scots, and > many of the written displays there were > trilingual, in English, Gaelic and Scots. > Apparently the Scots word for "people" is "fowk." > Which is a lot funnier than "folk." Apparently Scotch English is closer to early and middle English than modern English is. We were taught through our education system that Scotch English was not "proper" and it is still largely looked down upon. Unless you present a TV show about the life of Aly Bain or someone. Then it's trendy et kewl. Oh, we're also told to say "Scots" and not "Scotch" too, which is just bullshit. > And they had deep-fried Mars bars at the food tent, > but I went for fish and chips instead. I have never had a deep-fried Mars Bar, nor do I know anyone who has or know of any chippie that advertised them for sale. I tell you it's those damn 'wegies letting the side down again. (H) np - VAST "Turquoise pre release" ===== CHUCKHOLE All that great punk rock taste with only half the calories. http://clix.to/chuckhole http://www.mp3.com/chuckhole __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:43:39 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: And oh yeah... I forgot, I have done "I Saw Her Standing There"... in fact, I recently unearthed a tape of an unholy thrash version of that one from my high school days. Keyboard player kicks it off and nobody knows what key it's in, so I stomp on my distortion pedal and play sheer noise through the intro before accidentally finding the key in time for the verse. Last verse gets forgotten and replaced by a hail of profanity. It was one of the best things we ever did. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:32:33 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: The return of Soundstage on PBS (Tori Amos content) Gene earnestly scribbled: >After an 18-year break the series Soundstage has returned to PBS >starting this Thursday July 11, 2003 with Tom Petty and the >Heartbreakers. It was actually on last week. I saw that episode and enjoyed it muchly. A Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' show is like watching an episode of "Vintage Guitar Roadshow". I'm always amazed at how many killer guitars Campbell and Petty trot out. And they seem to use a different one on every song. For a guitar geek like me, it's better than porn especially because there's no spooge in anyone's hair afterward. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:34:59 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Necessary Measures On Thu, Jul 10, 2003, The Mammal Brain wrote: > one reason somebody might want to be CCed on posts is if they're > subscribed to the digest, and wouldn't otherwise be seeing responses > for a while. this allows them to, if they so choose, respond back > to the list even before the new digest rolls in. andrew used to > employ this tactic quite frequently, if i recall. But it's going the wrong way in that respect. If he does a group reply, CCing me, I will just do a list reply back since my email client differentiates replies to list or sender. Am I to assume that everyone who does this wants it back in return? I bet the majority would say no. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:37:08 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: Beatles coverology > Glen: > >>What would be on your "Best Beatles' Covers" comp CD? Eleanor Rigby - Stanley Jordan Helter Skelter - U2 Here Comes the Sun - Michael Beaumont (instr.) Across the Universe - RH w/ Grant Lee Phillips I'm Down - Heart (they often covered it live, and it smoked) Taxman - Stevie Ray Vaughan I know there's more...ISTR FZ doing a cover of I Am the Walrus (?). Michael "yes we have no covers, no covers in Scranton, PA" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:47:27 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Scotland stuff Hamish wrote: > > I have never had a deep-fried Mars Bar > ... I tell you it's those damn 'wegies > letting the side down again. It's a Northeast thing: . The following are Glaswegian, and proudly so: * the deep fried pizza * the deep fried Mac&Cheese Pie * the (deep fried) Scotch [mutton] Pie Roll. Stewart mmm ... scotch pies. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:04:22 -0400 From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com Subject: Re: In Memoriam: Paul Kariya Tom Clark: > on 7/10/03 10:05 AM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > > I'm more concerned about whether *hockey* should ever be > > called a sport. > > Now you've done it. Let's see: Guys beating the crap out of > each other to propel a frozen rock past another guy at > 100mph; taking 30 stitches to the face after being > gashed by another player, then getting right back out there > to hunt the guy down. Right on Tom Clark! Maybe i'm oversensitive becausxe im a femal hockey fan butI'll never understand why people shit on hockey so much. It is the perfect combination of skills, toughness, and speed. Eb, what exactly is your beef with hockey? > Compare that with baseball, where a famous player missed a > week's worth of games because he had hemorrhoids. Heh heh. I heard George Brett say recently that the pine tar incident had turned out to be a great for him in the long as most people now associate him with pine tar rather than hemorroids. Later, Nora ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:12:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Re: The return of Soundstage on PBS (Tori Amos content) Another lesson from Glen U.: >It was actually on last week. I saw that episode and enjoyed it muchly. A >Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' show is like watching an episode of >"Vintage Guitar Roadshow". I'm always amazed at how many killer guitars >Campbell and Petty trot out. And they seem to use a different one on >every song. For a guitar geek like me, it's better than porn especially >because there's no spooge in anyone's hair afterward. I guess neither Tom nor Mike have that special Prince guitar from the early-to-mid-'80s, then... later, Miles, who already has TP&tH tix for Nashville on 8/16 but is very very very tempted to burn a couple of vacation days and see them in the Orpheum in Memphis (small venue! consecutive nights, diff setlists!) on 8/18 and 8/19 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:20:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: face the placenta Aaron Mandel wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > Didn't someone have a song called "All I want to do is > Fuck > > Your Hair?" I want to say The JudyBats for some reason, > > though I never liked them so I wonder why i'd know > > something like that about them.... > > It is the Judybats, and it wasn't a very good song (in my > opinion). Isn't Judybats and not a very good song synonymous? Even so, it has one of _those_ titles where, as great as the title is, it's almost assuredly going to be a disappointing song. ===== "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:27:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: the psychology of music taste An Australian article about research on the correlation between personality and musical taste: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/10/1057783259813.html And the (dense, technical) paper it's based on: http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/Gosling/reprints/ jpsp03musicdimensions.pdf I find this kind of stuff fascinating. It's easy to start to pick nits with the study (and while I haven't read all the text yet, if you look at the chart on page 15 it appears that the correlations they came up with are by and large not significant) and yet on the other hand, they don't seem to have a particular axe to grind. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:29:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Re: face the placenta Jeff Dwarf: >Isn't Judybats and not a very good song synonymous? No. Though Eb might agree with you. later, Miles, whose favorite group was the Judybats for a while in 1994, and who ranked their albums in his yearly lists at #20 (NATIVE SONS, 1991), #1 (DOWN IN THE SHACKS WHERE THE SATELLITE DISHES GROW, 1992), #13 (PAIN MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL, 1993), and #2 (FULL-EMPTY, 1994) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:37:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Beatles' covers (Robyn content 0.17%) Glen Uber wrote: > We once did a show that consisted completely of covers of > Beatles' songs. The selections ran the gamut from typical > ("Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" by Elton John) to > unusual ("I'm Down" by Adrian Belew) to just > plain weird (Mae West doing "Day Tripper" and Bing Crosby > doing "Hey Jude"). > > Anyway, since then, I've thought of putting together a > compilation of great Beatles' covers, but have never > actually sat down to do it. In addition to the > aforementioned Elton John and Adrian Belew tracks, I'd > probably have to include Eddie Hazel's "I Want You (She's > So Heavy)", Siouxsie & the Banshees' "Dear Prudence," > Todd Rundgren's "Strawberry Fields Forever," Stevie > Wonder's "We Can Work It Out," Earth Wind & > Fire's "Got To Get You Into My Life" and Robyn's "A Day > In The Life". > > What would be on your "Best Beatles' Covers" comp CD? All You Need is Love/Echo & The Bunnymen The Ballad of John & Yoko/Teenage Fanclub A Day in the Life/Alfred Hitchcock and the Bulgarians Day Tripper/The Jimi Hendrix Experience Day Tripper/Otis Redding Dear Prudence/Siouxsie & The Banshees Eleanor Rigby/Aretha Franklin Everybodys Got Something to Hide.../Kristin Hersh For No One/Anne Sofie Von Otter Happiness is a Warm Gun/The Breeders Helter Skelter/Siouxsie & The Banshees It's All Too Much/The House of Love Norwegian Wood (This Bird Had Flown)/Cornershop Revolution/Billy Bragg She Loves You/Peter Sellers She Said, She Said/Matthew Sweet Tomorrow Never Knows/801 We Can Work it Out/Stevie Wonder Wild Honey Pie/Pixies Yesterday/Ray Charles You've Got to Hide Your Love Away/Elvis Costello Hidden Bonus Tracks: Cheese and Onions/Galaxie 500; About a Girl (unplugged)/Nirvana ===== "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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