From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #328 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, September 4 2003 Volume 12 : Number 328 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th ["Laura Simmons" ] re: Beatle swearing [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah ["Glen Uber" ] An utterly confused 40 of the 80s [Nur Gale ] Re: one hit wonders/whitebread chord wonders [grutness@surf4nix.com (Jame] Re: Beatle tits (oppressive udder content 100%) ["Glen Uber" ] Re: Flash in the pan [Aaron Mandel ] Universal revolution, that's all [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: please Cope with this pun ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: One hit wonders who died [Michael R Godwin ] Re: By Way Of a Hail... (with bonus 80's list) ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah [Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th Wow, I am now listening to Moss Elixir, feeling in a funk... Reading the first update, I pouted to myself, I wish he'd play San Francisco soon, I need infilitration of the ecstatic tomatoe variety. and now this 8-). I hope it's true, my birthday is Nov. 9th so I'll take is as a present! hope to meet some Fegs and such at the show! Sinister but Happy, L. Simmons - ----Original Message Follows---- From: ein kleines kinnemuzik Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org To: the big Ebowski , fegmaniax-announce@smoe.org, robynhitchcockclub@yahoogroups.com, robynhitchcock@yahoogroups.com, vegetablefriends@yahoogroups.com Subject: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:13:26 -0400 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 _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 and help protect your children with advanced parental controls. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/parental ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:10:16 -0400 From: "Roberta Cowan" Subject: Re: Seen your vide-o > 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. I have tapes of some of these shows but haven't watched them in a long while. If anyone has any ideas about digitizing or otherwise archiving them, let me know. And speaking of Hugo Largo (hey, another shout out)--I recommend checking out Mimi Goese's solo album if you run across it. She does a very cool version of "Black Hole Sun", chanteuse style. One of the most amazing voices I have ever heard. Roberta ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:38:35 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: re: Beatle swearing Quoting Marc Holden : > 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 think it's on the CD issue of Sgt. Pepper too. but the "turn me on dead > man" > part of Revolution # 9 was indecipherable. The story is that Lennon, Harrison, or Ono (can't recall which - Lennon probably) found a tape of an EMI studio guy saying "number nine" (which is what you hear). The reversal that sounds rather like "turn me on dead man" is an accident (or, more accurately, the brain perceiving words that aren't there). If you *approximate* "TMODM" backwards phonetically, you get something like "namd%d n[oy]mnrt" (% = schwa, []encases diphthongs). The engineer glides the vowel in "nine" making it nearly two syllables, facilitating its reversal as two+ syllables of "turn me on." The "d" and "b" are close enough phonetically that, since "dead" is a word whereas "r%b" (schwa again) isn't. > 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. Well, if you're doing any work with soundfiles, I'd recommend downloading Goldwave (www.goldwave.com). Free trial, $40US for full features. But the sound recorder that's standard w/Windows (I believe) - called, in a burst of inspiration, "Sound Recorder" - allows you to reverse short sounds once you record them. THe program's under "System Tools/Entertainment" in the Start menu in Win98 - not sure how things are set up in XP. I suspect there's something like that there. In the program, "reverse" is under the Effects pulldown menu. Not responsible for any worship of Satan that results. > Revolution # 9 > The spoken part at the beginning goes: > "...I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?" > "Yes." > "She's a bitch." There's something in there about claret: it was a conversation between George Martin and someone else (whose name I should recall), and I think the phrase is more like "Sorry I was a bitch." I think Lewinsohn covers that in the Abbey Road Bible. Or maybe I read that somewhere else. It's fairly easy to hear once you listen for it. ..Jeff, one of those freaks who actually *likes* "Revolution 9" J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and :: winds up as a processing unit. :: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:44:21 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah Quoting Eb : 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." Definitely. The definition of a "one-hit wonder" is not an act with only one hit, it's an act that was only ever heard of with that one hit. People with careers are pretty much automatically exempt. > 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. Well, wimpy I suppose - but the lyrics are either (a) just devastating - I mean, in the first verse he's going to kill himself, and things go downhill from there; or (b) completely ridiculous in their over-the-topness. I dunno - - I can catch it either way, but I think couching such sentiments in such an apparently cheery song is something like genius anyway. But I'm a saccharine sap, so don't listen to me. Related to one-hit wonders are songs that were hits but seem to have been forgotten by the oldies industry. Compare the songs played on a '60s/'70s format oldies station with the actual charts of the eras, and some songs have just fallen away. Being 41 now and having been addicted to the AM radio as a child, I can remember a lot of them from the first go-round: you never seem to hear Jonathan King's "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" anymore. Or another one (which my friend Tim just reminded me of), quite possibly the only top-forty hit about cannibalism, "Timothy" by the Buoys. I'll stop now before annoying everyone. ..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, 3 Sep 2003 21:46:11 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th Laura earnestly scribbled: > Wow, I am now listening to Moss Elixir, feeling in a funk... Reading the >first update, I pouted to myself, I wish he'd play San Francisco soon, I >need infilitration of the ecstatic tomatoe variety. > and now this 8-). > I hope it's true, > my birthday is Nov. 9th so I'll take is as a present! Wow! Another Scorpio feg! And you share a birthday with the lovely Mrs. Rubbershark, Donne Teague. Welcome to the list. See you at the show. - -- 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 23:48:56 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: re: Beatle swearing Quoting Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey : The "d" and > "b" > are close enough phonetically that, since "dead" is a word whereas "r%b" > (schwa again) isn't. D'oh! Continue the sentence: "...we perceive those sounds as forming the word 'dead'." - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: PLEASE! You are sending cheese information to me. I don't want it. :: I have no goats or cows or any other milk producing animal! :: --"raus" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:52:26 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah Jeffrey earnestly scribbled: >Related to one-hit wonders are songs that were hits but seem to have been >forgotten by the oldies industry. Compare the songs played on a '60s/'70s >format oldies station with the actual charts of the eras, and some songs >have just fallen away. Being 41 now and having been addicted to the AM radio >as a child, I can remember a lot of them from the first go-round: you never >seem to hear Jonathan King's "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" anymore. Or >another one (which my friend Tim just reminded me of), quite possibly the >only top-forty hit about cannibalism, "Timothy" by the Buoys. I always bug the oldies/late 60s/early 70s DJs with requests for "Neanderthal Man" by Hotlegs. - -- 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 22:28:33 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Beatle tits >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). I have a Spanish version of the Hey Jude LP which skips "The Ballad of John and Yoko" entirely even though it is listed on the cover. (yes, I was a Beatles collector weenie for many years, and still am to a certain extent) Marc I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our "friend." Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:54:12 -0700 From: Nur Gale Subject: An utterly confused 40 of the 80s I had a hell of a time trying to select 40 CDs from the 80s .... Now I can look back and feel that while I polluted my ears with Bollywood film scores in filthy chai shops and a neurotic servant for a lot of the 80s, I could have easily done the same just staying in amerika. Well, here's my rather eclectic selections: Laurie Anderson - Big Science The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It Nick Cave - Your Funeral My Trial Don Cherry - Multikulti Ornette Coleman/Pat Metheny - Song X Miles Davis - the Man with the Horn Miles Davis - Aura Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal Peter Gabriel - Passion Soundtrack Peter Gabriel - So Jan Garbarek - Legend of the Seven Dreams Philip Glass - Glassworks Golden Palominos - Golden Palominos Charlie Haden/Carla Bley - Ballad of the Fallen King Crimson - Discipline Lounge Lizards - Lounge Lizards Mission of Burma -Vs Joni Mitchell - Mingus (or was this 1979?) Nico - Janitor of Lunacy Sinead O'Connor - Lion and the Cobra Oregon - 45th Parallel Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa Jim Pepper - Comin and Goin Police - Ghost in the Machine Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (70s release?) John Renbourn - The Enchanted Garden Peter Rowan - Dustbowl Children Roxy Music - Avalon Terje Rypdal - Chaser Pharaoh Sanders - Journey to the One Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight The Smiths - Meat is Murder David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive Talking Heads - Remain in Light Richard Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights Keith Tippett - Mujician David Torn - Cloud About Mercury U2 - Joshua Tree Waterboys - Fisherman Blues Waterboys - Pagan Place XTC - Black Sea (thanks for the reminder on this!) John Zorn - Naked City (or was this released in '90) nur np: Acid Mothers Temple doing Terry Riley's "In C" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:58:17 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: one hit wonders/whitebread chord wonders >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. favourite 80s one-hit wonders? Hmmm... I wonder if Jona Lewie counts (especially since the song I like of his was his second hit, "Stop the Cavalry"). How about "Pop Music" by M? I also bought Fiction Factory's album on the strength of the wonderful song "Feels like Heaven:" and found the rest was unadulterated crap. Other than JL, M and FF, I'd also add Dream Academy's "Life in a northern town" and Jon & Vangelis's "I'll find my way home". > 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. The one I don't understand is Bobby Fripp. he's been partnered by some pretty amazing women over the years. >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. very much so. Sadly, a lot of horrible shit music has pretty wonderful structures under it all. Billy Joel's stuff is equally complex (try "Honesty", f'rinstance), and I can recall speding ages trying to work out a couple of pieces by Supertramp which were also startlingly chorded. James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:58:57 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Beatle tits (oppressive udder content 100%) Beatle tits (off the top of my head): Astrud Kirscher Cynthia Powell Patti Boyd Maureen Starkey Jane Asher Yoko Ono Linda Eastman May Ling (?) Barbara Bach Olivia Harrison Heather Mills /I got nuthin' - -- 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 23:04:37 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Beatle tits (oppressive udder content 100%) >Beatle tits (off the top of my head): > >Barbara Bach Winner. ;) Something tells me that Lovely Rita had quite a pair, though.... BTW, it's May Pang, not Ling. Eb PS Gosh, I didn't know we had an ECM zealot on the list. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:11:51 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Beatle tits (oppressive udder content 100%) Eb earnestly scribbled: >PS Gosh, I didn't know we had an ECM zealot on the list. Either it's late or I'm stupid (at least one of these is true). What is ECM? - -- Cheers! - -g- "In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are Consequences." - --R.G. Ingersoll ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:21:08 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Beatle tits (oppressive udder content 100%) >Eb earnestly scribbled: > >>PS Gosh, I didn't know we had an ECM zealot on the list. > >Either it's late or I'm stupid (at least one of these is true). What is ECM? Ask "Nur." Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:44:07 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Flash in the pan - --On Mittwoch, 3. September 2003 10:00 Uhr -0800 Brian wrote: > Also, when I was in Germany back in June the clubs loved to > play a remake of this tune. I haven't been in a club in a long time ... > What's up with all the 80's remakes in > Germany? I know I heard more. Sound Bluntz doing Billie Jean, etc. > Sebastian? Sorry, I wasn't even aware of that trend. That kind of music is not my cup of tea ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:53:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Flash in the pan On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > What's up with all the 80's remakes in > > Germany? I know I heard more. Sound Bluntz doing Billie Jean, etc. > > Sebastian? > > Sorry, I wasn't even aware of that trend. That kind of music is not my > cup of tea ... The other day I heard a cover of "Don't You Want Me?" that took all the soul out of it -- for the most part I like how much the ostensible 80s revival has been concentrating on the harshest aspects of 80s new wave (where were Adult. in the syrupy days on 1986 when we REALLY needed them?) but removing the vulnerability from both vocalists and sandblasting the whole thing with a contemporary dance beat is *not* what "Don't You Want Me?" needed. So I don't know what's going on, but it's going on. On the other hand, anything is better than Tiga's "Sunglasses At Night". On the third hand, Tiga's new attack on "Hot In Herre" made my day when I heard it. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:26:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Universal revolution, that's all http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-09/04.shtml#story2 Universal Music Group To Unilaterally Reduce CD Prices All RIAA subpoenas in October lightly scented with J-Lo fragrance [Posted Tuesday, September 4th, 2003 02:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time] Will Bryant reports: Once upon a great while, the Pitchfork newswire gets a press release so completely over-the-top unbelievable, it simply has to be checked out. So you can imagine my Mr. Furley-esque double-take upon reading the headline "UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, World's Largest Music Company, DRAMATICALLY REDUCES CD PRICES." That's right-- one of the five major label groups announced a plan yesterday to lower the list price of most top-line CD's to a jaw-dropping $12.98, effective as early as October 1st. Wholesale prices will be decreased as much as 30 percent, effectively reducing the end price of many discs to between $10 and $12 at many retail outlets. Universal's stable of labels includes Interscope, Geffen, A&M, Island, Def Jam, MCA, Lost Highway, Motown, Mercury, and Verve. The group's collective roster includes such powerhouse sellers as Eminem, 50 Cent, Limp Bizkit, Guns 'n' Roses, Peter Gabriel, and U2, as well as Pitchfork faves ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Beck, Elvis Costello, PJ Harvey, Queens of the Stone Age, Sonic Youth, and Weezer. The new pricing policy will cover both new and current releases as well as catalog titles from the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, The Police, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Hank Williams, and of course the Motown back catalog. By its own estimation, Universal Music Group artists account for almost 30 percent of domestic record sales. The unprecedented move is widely expected to generate a fourth-quarter price war among the major labels, who may be forced to follow Universal's lead and go for volume sales and consumer loyalty (as opposed to charging $19 for a freakin' Andrew W.K. CD and suing the bejeezus out of you if you share it online). This could be excellent news for music retailers as the Christmas season approaches. Clinging to the stubborn formula of minimal selection and exorbitant prices, many chain stores have been forced to close underperforming locations while indie retailers, speciality shops, used-disc sellers, and online operations have actually seen an increase in sales in the last two years. While it's too early to start applauding just yet, let's give Universal some props (I never thought I would say that) for listening to consumers rather than marketers for a change. Any move away from gouging, alienating, and litigating their own music-loving customers has got to be a step in the right direction. .: Universal Music: http://www.umusic.com ===== "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: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:23:20 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: please Cope with this pun Put yer head back in the clouds and shut yer mouth, Jeff... ;0) I'm being Fried with these awful puns! Cheers Matt >From: Jeff Dwarf > >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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Buy and sell almost anything online with Ebay Auctions on MSN. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:25:13 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died I have to object to Dexy's being classed as one-hit wonders. Surely "Geno" was their biggest hit by miles, number one for weeks on end? And who can forget when they played "Jackie Wilson Said" on TOTP and the backdrop showed a pic of _Jocky_ Wilson, the fat slob darts champ? claims yet more hits ("Show me", "Celtic Soul Brothers" and "Because of you") but I think these can only have tickled the foot of the charts. On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Eb wrote: > 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. Yes, he's dislikeable but crafsmanlike. And, as with Dexy's, he had several UK hits, the best of which was "Claire". > As for the '80s, I thought of "Turning Japanese." Always liked that > song a lot. Agreed, genuine one-hit wonder. > And yeah, I liked "Doot Doot." Do I know this one, or am I thinking of "Da Da Da"? > "In a Big Country" was also on David Spade's list, and I really liked > that too (maybe a little less now than then). Yes. Incidentally, Stuart Adamson died quite recently. > Then I checked some old KROQ Top 106.7's > "She Blinded Me With Science" (or do "Europa" and "Hyperactive" count as hits?) I am pretty sure 'Hyperactive' was a UK hit. > "Mexican Radio" (if that counts) Don't know that. > "People Who Died" Jim Carroll? Nick Kent used to rave about "My flamingo" but that's all I know about him. > "Friends of Mr. Cairo" > "Institutionalized" (not quite in the first four's class) No bells run here, sorry. > 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. Speedy Keane also died fairly recently. > And "They're Comin' to Take Me Away Ha-Haa" is godhead. I remember when he unmasked on Ready Steady Go. Of course everyone was expecting it to be a famous singer or actor, and it was just this uninteresting looking bloke. > Flipping through my Nuggets-type albums, I also find "I Had > Too Much to Dream Last Night," Weren't "Get me to the world on time" and "Long day's flight" hits as well? Admittedly I was probably the only person who bought 'The great banana hoax'. > "Time Has Come Today" Chambers Brothers? Still gets played on oldies stations round here, but not as much as that incessant Candi Staton record. > and "Green Tambourine." Well, I'm a Lemon Pipers _fanatic_, so I may be biased. But weren't "Rice is nice" and (to a lesser degree) "Jelly Jungle of Orange Marmalade" hits as well? > 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. What a great record! My recollection (which I must check with my collection) is that it was the B-side of "Simon Says" in the UK, but shows it as a separate release in the US (and also has a great photo of the Fruitgums current lineup). - - Mike Godwin n.p. New World - Tom Tom Turnaround ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:30:00 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: By Way Of a Hail... (with bonus 80's list) ISTR that venerable Feg Ferris shares your underwater Georgian kingdom, Jon... and your description of submarine rednecks reminds me of my friend Denys' terrified description of his neighbours in River View FL... though we have plenty of 'em over here in the UK: one only has to wander through Wantage (Oxon) to see this... As for your as-yet theoretical Robyn boot collection, I'm sure I can help you out... mail me off list... Cheers Matt >From: "Jon Lewis" Atlantean, eh? Does that mean >you > > > live underwater? > > > > Thanks, and I forgot to include Black Sea on there which makes me feel an > oaf. > Re: A-Town... yes, and you'd be amazed how many of the lampreys, squid, > seasquirts and rays down here are sporting wallet chains, big sideburns, > flaming eyeball or "Coop" devil tattoos, driving vintage muscle cars and > listening to Rev Horton Heat. Groan. WHat exactly am I doing in the >frickin' > Southeast again...? Oh yes, it was love, wasn't it? Feel...old... hipster > redneck thing... not... computing... > Yours, > Patrick Duffy--er, um, Jon Lewis - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thinking of changing jobs? Click here to search through thousands of vacancies. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:42:43 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Mike Said:>I have to object to Dexy's being classed as one-hit wonders. Surely "Geno" >was their biggest hit by miles, number one for weeks on end? Yep, definitely agree that Geno was the bigger hit (and IMNSHO the better song). Kevin Rowland disappeared without trace into a coke-addled grief-hole in London after the band split, re-emerging with a bizarre appearance at the Reading festival in full-on drag (incl. underwear), where he was bottled off during his rendition of Whitney Houston's The Greatest Love of All... not that I was there but those I spoke to who were said it was mightily surreal. Mike went on to say: >I am pretty sure [Tom Dolby's] 'Hyperactive' was a UK hit. I remember it - the first drummer in my first band was a huge TD fan and made us play Airhead (which I thought was rubbish, really, especially our version of it...) Then he said: > "Time Has Come Today" by the Chambers Brothers I absolutely *love* that song - the best example of psychedelic soul I can think of, of course I'm talking about the 10+ minute version... fantastic. Cheers Matt - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have more fun with your mobile - add polyphonic ringtones, java games, celebrity voicemails and loads more! Click here for phone fun. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:44:01 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Glen Uber wrote: > I always bug the oldies/late 60s/early 70s DJs with requests for > "Neanderthal Man" by Hotlegs. Interestingly (?) Hotlegs turn out to be 10cc: - - MRG PS Erratum: in my last post, I confused Jim Carroll with Nick Kent's band, the Subterraneans. But I have since found that Carroll wrote "Perfect Water" for the Blue Oyster Cult! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #328 ********************************