From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #327 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, September 3 2003 Volume 12 : Number 327 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Flash in the pan [Catherine Simpson ] RE: Flash in the pan [Eb ] Fwd: Re: Flash in the pan ["Brian" ] RE: Flash in the pan [Catherine Simpson ] bored? ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Nuppy's Top 40 albums of the 80's ["Brian" ] What? ["Brian" ] Re: Robyn on tour ["Maximilian Lang" ] Laibach's "Let It Be" (Re: What?) [Tom Clark ] Re: Up Against the Wall, Spo-Dee O-Dee [Sebastian Hagedorn ] robyn - great american music hall, november 17th [ein kleines kinnemuzik ] Re: Beatle tits [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: please Cope with this pun [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Seen your vide-o (bonus Beatle profanity) [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:52:41 -0700 From: Catherine Simpson Subject: RE: Flash in the pan It's almost impossible for me to think of "Come On Eileen" as being one of someone's favorites. I'd have to count it as my absolute LEAST favorite song of the 80s, to the point where if it comes on the radio, I change the station. If it's on a CD, I skip that track, and if I hear it played in a club, I go outside until it's over...Come to think of it, I guess it's just about my least favorite song, period. Interesting, isn't it, that we can have tastes so diverse yet be united in RH? ;) Catherine - -- Eb is rumored to have mumbled on Mittwoch, 3. September 2003 10:39 Uhr -0700 regarding Re: Nuppy's Top 40 albums of the 80's: > He included "Come on Eileen" in the top five, and I was thinking "Yeah, > that's gotta be one of my own favorites too." Especially when you're > talking post-'70s. Thread potential here...run with it, if you like. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:00:49 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: Flash in the pan >It's almost impossible for me to think of "Come On Eileen" as being one of >someone's favorites. I'd have to count it as my absolute LEAST favorite song >of the 80s, to the point where if it comes on the radio, I change the >station. If it's on a CD, I skip that track, and if I hear it played in a >club, I go outside until it's over...Come to think of it, I guess it's just >about my least favorite song, period. How do you feel about the Pogues? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:02:53 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Fwd: Re: Flash in the pan >Thread potential here...run with it, if you like. > > I agree. Others that come to mind: > > Visage - Fade To Grey > Grauzone - Eisbaer > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn Cory Hart- Sunglasses at Night: Did you know Eric Clapton played on this entire album? Also, when I was in Germany back in June the clubs loved to play a remake of this tune. What's up with all the 80's remakes in Germany? I know I heard more. Sound Bluntz doing Billie Jean, etc. Sebastian? - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:05:06 -0700 From: Catherine Simpson Subject: RE: Flash in the pan Love them! In fact, when my son was an infant, I used to bastardize "Dirty Old Town" into "Dirty Old Gown" when changing his nightclothes - I had a couple of verses re-tooled to be baby-friendly, and it made a great lullaby :) Catherine - -----Original Message----- From: Eb [mailto:ElBroome@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:01 AM To: fgz Subject: RE: Flash in the pan >It's almost impossible for me to think of "Come On Eileen" as being one of >someone's favorites. I'd have to count it as my absolute LEAST favorite song >of the 80s, to the point where if it comes on the radio, I change the >station. If it's on a CD, I skip that track, and if I hear it played in a >club, I go outside until it's over...Come to think of it, I guess it's just >about my least favorite song, period. How do you feel about the Pogues? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:54:32 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: bored? Check out the candidate statements in the voter guide for the upcoming California recall election: http://www.voterguide.ss.ca.gov/ Larry Flynt's uses the word "pinheads." Here's my favorite so far: "Dear Voters, Please vote for me, thus breaking the Seventh Seal and incurring Armageddon. I will legalize drugs, gambling, and prostitution so they may be taxed and regulated, the funds derived would subsidize the deficit, education, and the environment. I believe in peaceful resolutions backed by a strong military; I don't care who you marry or have sex with. Trek Thunder Kelly 1320 Pacific Avenue 310-452-3264 Independent Venice, CA 90291 trek@trekkelly.com www.trekkelly.com" - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:18:04 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: Nuppy's Top 40 albums of the 80's > > Yes- Drama > > Buggles- Age of Plastic > > Second vote for Trevor! You bet! He really didn't do much with his own music after 1981. > > Dexy's Midnight Runners- Too Rye Aye > > I saw a bit of a MTV show last night called "David Spade's One-Hit > Wonderland," where Spade counted down his favorite one-hit wonders. > He included "Come on Eileen" in the top five, and I was thinking > "Yeah, that's gotta be one of my own favorites too." Especially when > you're talking post-'70s. The entire album IS very good. High energy and soulful. Eileen is certainly the poppyist tune on there. Nice Van Morrison cover is featured. > > Would Be Goods- The Camera Loves Me > > I don't know a thing about this band. mmm... Check it out. Very early 60's guitar pop. Female vocals. Worth hearing for certain. Was on Cherry Red or El. It may be outta print, but I could burn you a copy if you like... - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:45:52 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: teach your children etc. ross earnestly scribbled: >Kinda surprising there wasn't anything for Respect, or any since. I remember seeing a video for "Driving Aloud" on 120 Minutes. Robyn hosted and sang a couple songs with just acoustic guitar and harmonica. One of the tunes was "Serpent At The Gates of Wisdom" but I can't remember the other. - -- Cheers! - -g- "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - --Frank Zappa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:08:42 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: One hit wonders usually have one hit too many Jon L: >>My friend Dave in Seattle is trying to gradually assemble the IRS "lost >>album" from Flash Light-era B-sides, Miller's Tale bonus tracks, and >>elsewhere. I pretty much have it, actually. What pieces are you/is he missing? I wouldn't say it's wildly superior to Flash Light. In fact it's quite similar in production sound. As far as I know the actual track sequence has never surfaced, but I believe I have all the tracks in digital form. >>(who wishes Robyn had left those saxes on Man Who Invented Himself, and >>was happy to find an 80's CD of Black Snake last month so he could have >>them back) I was just thinkin' about that. I think that overall I like the sax-less version better, but the album just doesnt sound-- or at least start off-- the same way it did the first ten million times I heard it without 'em. _____ Eb: > He included "Come on Eileen" in the top five, and I was thinking "Yeah, > that's gotta be one of my own favorites too." Especially when you're > talking post-'70s. Thread potential here...run with it, if you like. I don't like many one-hit wonders, really... possibly a function of not liking many hit songs? You can toss the '60's out of the running for sure... some ground is just too fertile, and you can buy brilliant '60's One-Hits by the box set these days. There are probably some good '70's ones that I just won't think of because I was too young and I now know the '70's only by LP's. I dislike most '80's New-Wave Novelty One-Hits on principle since they basically prevented good music by worthy artists from getting airtime and yet are now thought of as the definition of '80's music (Husker Du is what you want, Hayzee Fantayzee is what you get). I give, I dunno, maybe Icicle Works and Lightnings Seeds a pass for having some other good songs, and Freur for eventually having the good grace to turn into Underworld, but the rest of the other '80's One-Hitters can go right on to Burger King commercials, do not pass Go, do not collect $200 royalty checks for all I care. As for artists where I love one song but have no need of a whole album, I'd guess my lion's share would be by early '80's techno outfits... Acen, Sonz of a Loop da Loop Era, VIM, Opus III, Eon, shit like that. Not hits, properly speaking, but more or less singles. Otherwise, from the dark days of '90's rock, I liked a few tunes like that recently mentioned Harvey Dangers song, that one Lo-Fidelity All-Stars song (because it sounded like Mark E. Smith, kind of), Geggy Tah's "Thank You" (hey, it was different), "Friends of P" by the Rentals (which I preferred to any Weezer hit) and that was about it. There are a few albums I ended up fishing out of the $2 bin for the one song I liked on it, but again they weren't "hits" per se (in the US), just tunes that were briefly played on KROQ (and I had to look into some deep dark crevices of my database to assemble the following list): "Tattva" by Kula Shaker, "Daydreamer" by Menswear, "Apiary" by Yum Yum, the Candyskins' cover of "For What It's Worth", "Bloodsport for All" by Carter USM, "Pure Morning" by Placebo, "Underwhelmed" by Sloan, that one song by Screaming Trees (apologies to their ardent fans here), "Sucked Out" by Superdrag (the album is actually pretty good, but the single towers over the rest), "You & Me Song" by the Wannadies (ditto), "Valerie Loves Me" by (again) Material Issue, "Formica Blues" by Mono. However, by the standards above ("played on commercial alternative radio"), such artists as Pavement, Sebadoh, the Cardigans, the La's, Death in Vegas, Magnapop, Mazzy Star, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Portishead, Catherine Wheel, the Posies, Soul Coughing, Sparklehorse, Ultra Vivid Scene, Sugar, Throwing Muses, Cowboy Junkies, Jah Wobble, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, and many more who in my estimation have at least one worthy full-length in their catalogs, prolly count as one-hit wonders. At least I can't recall any of them ever having any more than one single even briefly on the air*. And that's to say nothing of many equally fine artists who've never gotten a commercial toehold of any kind. Mileage may vary regionally, of course. - -Rex "oh no I've said too much" Broome *the station in question played, albeit halfheartedly, "Madonna of the Wasps", "So You Think You're in Love", and most likely "Balloon Man" although that was before my time. np. Sly Fox, "Let's Go All the Way". Ummmmm... I mean... Escape Club, "Wild Wild West". No no no... Thunderclap Newman, "Something in the Air". Yeah, that's the ticket. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:57:07 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Up Against the Wall, Spo-Dee O-Dee Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > JeFFrey: > >>"Chick appeal"? Elliott Smith? I mean, yeah, I'm a heterosexual guy, so > > >>I'm hardly an expert, but uh, he's sorta got Manuel Noriega's > complexion > >>and a face that looks to me like something the butcher had already had > a > go at. > > Nat says "horse", but let's not go there again. I dunno, I knew many > chicks > who dug him and very few guys who did. And again, he was the first guy > I > saw with that godawful hairstyle Seems like almost every picture I've seen of him has him wearing one of those stupid wool hats (what is the deal with indie guys in the '90s - did they not feel heat or something? I mean it's 90 freakin degrees out and here's some doofus with a wool hat on). I can't tell that he actually has a hairstyle - if he does, I'm guessing the "I just rolled out of bed and can't be bothered to deal with my hair because I'm both too miserable and too cool" look. "Cool look" is nearly a palindrome, out loud. So's "fuck off." Thing is, the main E. Smith fans in my vicinity were all the guys at _Milk_ magazine, which I wrote for from '96 till its demise. Since I wasn't going out to clubs much, I never really noticed the femme factor. What I *really* don't get is what's the deal with *Mark* E. Smith and those reasonable-looking (and better) women hanging out with him. If I were single, I wouldn't think cultivating the look of a middle-aged former math geek along with atrocious cig-and-booze breath and random social dysfunction would help me much in that department. Perhaps John Peel pays them all. ..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: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:03:07 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: By Way Of a Hail... (with bonus 80's list) On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 "Jon Lewis" said: >I cry or at least tear up 75% of the time I listen to Happy the > Golden > Prince at the point when he shouts "SO THAT'S WHO I AM!" You too, huh? I know exactly what you mean. Welcome Jon! - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:30:54 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: One hit wonders usually have one hit too many on 9/3/03 1:08 PM, Rex.Broome at Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com wrote: > Otherwise, from the dark days of '90's rock, I liked a few tunes like that > recently mentioned Harvey Dangers song, that one Lo-Fidelity All-Stars song > (because it sounded like Mark E. Smith, kind of), Geggy Tah's "Thank You" > (hey, it was different), "Friends of P" by the Rentals (which I preferred to > any Weezer hit) and that was about it. I've purchased a few albums from the iTunes store, but only one single: "Ready To Go" by Republica. That's a hell of a riff on that one. I sampled the rest of the album and I swear they use the same drum program for every track. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:03:04 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: re: Beatle swearing Eb said: > Seems like all of these "lyrics" are highly disputable, and a matter of individual perception and interpretation. I agree that Baby You're a Rich Man ("baby you're a rich fag jew") is as debatable as the "I bury Paul" bit on Strawberry Fields. One thing I meant to add was that the Sgt. Pepper Inner Groove only appeared on the British pressings and was later on the US only version of the album Rarities. I checked the Sgt. Pepper Inner Groove at my language lab in college--they had a recorder that played both sides of a tape at the same time, so students could listen to a part of a dialog on one channel and record/playback their response on the other channel. It was very easy to make out "We'll fuck you like supermen". The Beatles had already used backwards recordings on the end of the song Rain (it was just some of the regular song vocals reversed). Additionally, the backwards/"secret" message on Pink Floyd's--The Wall was also very clear, but the "turn me on dead man" part of Revolution # 9 was indecipherable. Anyway, I have a small WAV file of the track. I used to know a way to flip a wave file and play it backwards, but it's been years, and I'm using a different computer now. Does anyone know an easy way to play a sound file backwards? I'm running Windows XP/Windows Media Player. Revolution # 9 The spoken part at the beginning goes: "...I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?" "Yes." "She's a bitch." (piano) "Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9..." Check them yourself and let me know what you think. Marc Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me? Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:03:54 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: What? - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 18:15:11 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Robyn on tour >From: "Marc Holden" >Subject: Robyn on tour >Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:29:45 -0700 >It looks like Robyn will be on tour in the US soon (November) any word on >dates yet? Marc I would not count on a tour any time soon. I wrote an email to David Greenburger asking the same question. I askewd if he was going to tour the US any time soon, the Northeast in particular, here is his response: "In 2004 - a few scattered dates in the fall on the west coast and maybe one show in Boston, but no tour here this year." Max _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:23:28 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Laibach's "Let It Be" (Re: What?) on 9/3/03 3:03 PM, Brian at nightshadecat@mailbolt.com wrote: > You don't have this? Man, it's a must-hear! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:43:37 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Up Against the Wall, Spo-Dee O-Dee - -- Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey is rumored to have mumbled on Mittwoch, 3. September 2003 14:57 Uhr -0500 regarding Re: Up Against the Wall, Spo-Dee O-Dee: > What I *really* don't get is what's the deal with *Mark* E. Smith and > those reasonable-looking (and better) women hanging out with him. If I > were single, I wouldn't think cultivating the look of a middle-aged > former math geek along with atrocious cig-and-booze breath and random > social dysfunction would help me much in that department. Perhaps John > Peel pays them all. That's pretty funny. During my adolescence Brix Smith was one of my, how shall I put this, imagined sex goddesses . I'm quite embarrassed to relate this, but my best friend and I called her the "plastic slut", which somehow was both a good and a bad thing. Oh well ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:04:37 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah >I don't like many one-hit wonders, really... possibly a function of not >liking many hit songs? You can toss the '60's out of the running for >sure... some ground is just too fertile, and you can buy brilliant '60's >One-Hits by the box set these days. There are probably some good '70's ones >that I just won't think of because I was too young and I now know the '70's >only by LP's. It's hard for me to think of favorite one-hit-wonders, because I usually don't even own a copy of the song. I just like it, can hum it, have plunked it out on keyboard, etc. By the way, I don't think it counts when the artist has a substantial career and just happens to have only one real "radio hit." So, no, I don't think Robyn, Randy Newman, etc. are "one hit wonders." Coincidentally, I've been playing around with Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" in recent days. Wimpy as hell and the ultimate in "white-boy," but jeez, the chord changes are really quite ingenious. As for the '80s, I thought of "Turning Japanese." Always liked that song a lot. And yeah, I liked "Doot Doot." "In a Big Country" was also on David Spade's list, and I really liked that too (maybe a little less now than then). Then I checked some old KROQ Top 106.7's I have saved and came up with...well...not nearly as many songs as I would have expected. I guess that I don't like one-hit-wonder bands from this era much, either. But how about... "She Blinded Me With Science" (or do "Europa" and "Hyperactive" count as hits?) "Mexican Radio" (if that counts) "People Who Died" "Friends of Mr. Cairo" "Institutionalized" (not quite in the first four's class) A feeble list, but those songs definitely got under my skin. Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air" is definitely very high on my all-time list. And "They're Comin' to Take Me Away Ha-Haa" is godhead. Flipping through my Nuggets-type albums, I also find "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night," "Time Has Come Today" and "Green Tambourine." Some other good tracks don't quite warrant the "hit" description. Though "1-2-3 Red Light" has always connected with me in an inexplicably strong way. I don't know about the '50s and '70s. This is really too difficult a question to yield a off-the-top-of-one's-head answer, I guess. Eb PS Nope, not voting for "Walking on Sunshine." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:13:26 -0400 From: ein kleines kinnemuzik Subject: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th although not yet listed on their website , the latest e-mail newsletter from the great american music hall in san francisco has robyn playing there on monday, november 17th. no other details are available yet. thanks to michael for the head's up on this one! woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:33:14 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Beatle tits >recommended: Beatles Anthology DVD. i'd never seen the teevee programme >(too lazy to have taped it, i guess), so was happy when the library >purchased the DVD (and that it was a three week loan!). you need to see it >in this format, if only 'cause ringo's repeated cursing isn't bleeped out. >made me wonder if there are any beatles songs with curse-words on them. >can't think of any... also, the special features are pretty cool. remember they had to be careful what to record, otherwise it wouldn't have got released, according to the mores of the time. The nearest you'll hear unless you know what to look for is the 'blasphemy' (feh) of "The ballad of John and Yoko", which was bleeped in the US version (well - a silent gap, at least). However, if you know where to look, you can also spot the playful chorus of tits* in "Girl", the slang expression for female genitalia in "Penny Lane" (a clue: fish), and, if you listen closely, buried deep in the mix of "Hey Jude" you can hear John say "fuckin' 'ell!" (it's behind the "Then you begin at about the three minute mark, just before the long "better better better better" climb). >the only thing i was expecting to see included, but that wasn't, was the, >"no, i'm a mocker," comment. but it's weird. i was born in 1969. how in >the fuck did all these images and clips get implanted into my brain? well the Mocker one wasn't from a real interview - it was from the movie Hard Day's Night. >>Does "'Come' Together" count? >> >>The only other one that comes to mind is Lennon's "Working Class >Hero". > >Depends on your threshhold. "Piggies" has that "what they need's >a damn good whacking" line, dunnit? if your threshold's that low, you might want to include the bit about letting your knickers down in "I am the walrus". >Also out on DVD for a couple of weeks now is Backbeat. For those not familiar >with it, it's a 1994 flick about the Beatles in 1960-62 when Stu Sutcliffe and >Pete Best were in the band. Great love story between Stu and Astrid Kirchherr, >the German photographer who takes many early photos of the band and gets them >into moptop haircuts. Astrid dumps Klaus Voormann for Stu, and Stu dumps the >Beatles to become a full time painter and live with Astrid in Hamburg. The >bonus features were a bit on the skimpy side, but still a keeper DVD in my >book. >Sheryl Lee of Twin Peaks fame plays Astrid. Ian Hart does a nice job portraying >John Lennon as does Stephen Dorff as Stu. Hart also plays Lennon in the low-key movie "The hours and the times" - --- >Matt, looking forward to the new Copey album, which will include a track >called Zennor Quoit (I Spy Ancient Sites book - tick). ohmygawd what a blast from the past. I'd forgotten those damn books! >Worth 25 points, I think. Thanks for the info: I suspect my old mono >Panasonic is strictly PAL. even more than that in scrabble. James * accidentally typed at first as Horus of tits, which produced the nice mental image of an eagle and a load of small birds. PS - welcome Jon! 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, 3 Sep 2003 18:08:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: please Cope with this pun Matt Sewell wrote: >Dolph Chaney punned: >>Of Julian Cope, Brian said: >>>"JC isn't the auto-purchase he used to be." >>Don't you mean... he isn't the... AUTO-GETTIN' he used to >>be????? > Groan and double groan.... ;0) Someone needs to be hung up and hanging out to dry.... ===== "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." -- Bill Maher "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!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:35:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Seen your vide-o (bonus Beatle profanity) "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Re: Robyn videos, "So You Think You're In Love" got a lot > of play on 120 Minutes and Postmodern MTV, which Robyn > would spend a whole week guest-hosting from time to > time. "Man with the Lightbulb Head" showed up > from time to time as well... that's on the "Hen" > longform, right? There was also a low-rent "Beautiful > Girl" video which featured, I think, something > other than a hat blowing around in a similar mode to the > "Raymond Chandler" hat. If that was a hat, which I'm not > sure of either. Been a while in all cases. Haven't seen > MTV since before "Respect" came out, really. "Driving Aloud" got a modest amount of play on 120 Minutes. Robyn guest-hosted the week after it debuted (this was the interim between Dave Kendall and Lewis Largent) and introduced the world premiere of Depeche Mode's "I Feel You" as being by his daughter favorite band of a year ago. Then Martin Gore and David Gahan of Depeche Mode hosted the next week incredibly hung over wearing very dark sunglasses (with the first MTV appearance of Matt Pinfield since MLG and DG were in no real shape to host on their own). > The guest hosts on Postmodern MTV were often really > entertaining. The Pixies hosted telepathically... at > least, they sat there not opening their mouths while you > heard their prerecorded voices doing intros and chatting > about stuff. I think Tim Somers (yo, second Hugo Largo > shout-out in as many days) was the regular host. Kevin Seal at first, replaced by various musicians guest hosting on a weekly basis. I remember a particularly ironic twist when Andy Partridge hosted the week they were debutting DM's live "Everything Counts" clip and he made some snide remarks about them using tapes live, which I thought was kinda rich coming from someone no longer performed (or performs) live in any form at all. Somers did guest host 120 Minutes a few times before Dave Kendall replaced Seal > > -Rex ===== "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." -- Bill Maher "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!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:42:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: teach your children etc. Glen Uber wrote: > ross earnestly scribbled: > > >Kinda surprising there wasn't anything for Respect, or > >any since. > > I remember seeing a video for "Driving Aloud" on 120 > Minutes. Robyn hosted and sang a couple songs with just > acoustic guitar and harmonica. One of the tunes > was "Serpent At The Gates of Wisdom" but I can't > remember the other. "The Yip Song" ===== "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." -- Bill Maher "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!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #327 ********************************