From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #329 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 329 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Hotlegs and Cope [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Flash in the pan ["Brian" ] Re: One hit wonders who died [Michael R Godwin ] Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: One hit wonders who died [Ken Weingold ] re: Beatle swearing ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: One hit wonders who died ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: One hit wonders who died [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Acid Mothers Temple doing Terry Riley's in C? ["Brian Hoare" ] Re: Robyn USA DATES [mary ] Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th ["Sumiko Keay" ] RE: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th ["Iosso, Ken" ] Re: One hit wonders who died ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Everybody Talkin' Bout...Weird Music ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah ["Glen Uber" ] Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 00:12:29 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Hotlegs and Cope >I always bug the oldies/late 60s/early 70s DJs with requests for >"Neanderthal Man" by Hotlegs. s...omeone else...has hear...of Hotlegs...? Pre-10cc 10cc. Did such forgotten brain-stincking things as "Um wah um woh"? - --- Put yer head back in the clouds and shut yer mouth, Jeff... ;0) > >I'm being Fried with these awful puns! These things sure have me laughing, boy oh boy, yes. Try try try as I might, there ain't no gettin'g round it. There ain't but the one way I'm gonna get out of this conversation - I gotta walk. 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: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:45:31 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah Quoting Glen Uber : > I always bug the oldies/late 60s/early 70s DJs with requests for > "Neanderthal Man" by Hotlegs. I don't remember that one - any relation to that "Bertha Butt" song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch? ..Jeff 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: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:54:21 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Quoting Michael R Godwin : > I have to object to Dexy's being classed as one-hit wonders. Surely > "Geno" > was their biggest hit by miles This brings up an interesting point: maybe so, in the UK - but unless my mind is completely gone (possible...), I don't think anyone in the US has heard of this one. Plenty of songs were hits in one place that no one elsewhere heard of, particularly in the '60s. > > "Mexican Radio" (if that counts) > > Don't know that. Which demonstrates you're not an American ;) Pretty much unavoidable here, both in '82 (?) and on "new wave" compilations. > > > "People Who Died" > > Jim Carroll? Was that really a hit? It seems like more of a "cult fave" type deal. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: it's not your meat :: --Mr. Toad ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 05:13:35 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: Flash in the pan On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:53:01 -0400 (EDT), "Aaron Mandel" < > On the other hand, anything is better than Tiga's "Sunglasses At Night". Yes, that's the one that I heard. I think they really bastardized it and cut out part of the verse or something... but anything sounds great when a beautiful 21 year old girl from Singapore is shaking her booty right in front of you and then later.... - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:04:17 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > This brings up an interesting point: maybe so, in the UK - but unless my > mind is completely gone (possible...), I don't think anyone in the US has > heard of this one ['Geno' by Dexy's].. To tell the truth I was quite surprised to hear that Dexy's had sold any records at all in the US. That "gipsy chic" look never did a thing for poor old Ronnie Lane, but Kevin took it up very successfully. > Plenty of songs were hits in one place that no one elsewhere heard of, > particularly in the '60s. I think that's still true. But the most notable UK example must still be Cliff Richard, who has had more than 40 years of continuous UK hits while barely disturbing the US chart. And for many years the British record-buying public held out against those puke-inducing romantic duets of the 'Love lift us up where we belong' type which the Americans seem to lap up. However, I believe the Brits have now succumbed to this menace. > > > "Mexican Radio" (if that counts) > Which demonstrates you're not an American ;) Pretty much unavoidable here, > both in '82 (?) and on "new wave" compilations. Doesn't ring any bells at all. We did get "Spanish Stroll" over here, and the Cars, but otherwise the successful new wave was strictly UK bands: Costello, Weller, Geldof, Joe Jackson, the Pretenders (yes, I know Chrissie is American), and all those Vapors / Adverts / Any Trouble / Jags / Vibrators / Lene Lovich type one hit wonders. Who have I missed out? > > > "People Who Died" > > Jim Carroll? > Was that really a hit? It seems like more of a "cult fave" type deal. Agreed. - - Mike Godwin n.p. John Foxx: No one driving ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:11:02 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th Hooray for Scorpio fegs! Like me, Laura, you're early November I see - conceived on Valentine's day would be my guess...! And lucky nocal fegs - no UK gigs forthcoming it seems... Cheers Mattg >From: "Glen Uber" >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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your hands on designer bargains for less - click here. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:12:31 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died - --On Donnerstag, 4. September 2003 15:04 Uhr +0100 Michael R Godwin wrote: >> > > "Mexican Radio" (if that counts) >> Which demonstrates you're not an American ;) That's not really true. Wall Of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" was played in Germany as well, although it wasn't a huge hit. Stan Ridgeway's solo one-hit "Camouflage" was huge, however. I think that one topped the charts in Germany for a few weeks. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:22:59 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died On Thu, Sep 4, 2003, Michael R Godwin wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > > > > "Mexican Radio" (if that counts) > > Which demonstrates you're not an American ;) Pretty much unavoidable here, > > both in '82 (?) and on "new wave" compilations. > > Doesn't ring any bells at all. We did get "Spanish Stroll" over here, and > the Cars, but otherwise the successful new wave was strictly UK bands: > Costello, Weller, Geldof, Joe Jackson, the Pretenders (yes, I know > Chrissie is American), and all those Vapors / Adverts / Any Trouble / Jags > / Vibrators / Lene Lovich type one hit wonders. Who have I missed out? Sorry if it's already been pointed out, but Mexican Radio I believe is from Aztek Camera. But speaking of the Adverts, I went last year to see the band of this cute girl who works in a coffee shop near work. Opening was T.V. Smith, the singer from The Adverts, playing solo acoustic. Weird. I hadn't heard those songs for well over 10 years. Even weirder was that the average age of the audience for this girl's band I swear was about 16, no I can't imagine anyone knowing who the Adverts are. T.V. was just some guy opening. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:24:46 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died On Thu, Sep 4, 2003, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > --On Donnerstag, 4. September 2003 15:04 Uhr +0100 Michael R Godwin > wrote: > > >>> > "Mexican Radio" (if that counts) > >>Which demonstrates you're not an American ;) > > That's not really true. Wall Of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" was played in > Germany as well, although it wasn't a huge hit. Stan Ridgeway's solo > one-hit "Camouflage" was huge, however. I think that one topped the charts > in Germany for a few weeks. Wall of Voodoo! Crap. Sorry for the Aztek Camera reference. :) - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:41:14 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: re: Beatle swearing Jeffrey, you aren't the only Feg who loves Revolution 9! I had always assumed that it was Ivor Cutler saying "number nine" but then I could be wrong, as for the "do you forgive me?" I thought that was an extract of an exchange between the two Georges (H&M)... Cheers Matt >From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey >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" > > > > 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_ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 10:45:32 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Ken Weingold wrote: > > Wall of Voodoo! Crap. Sorry for the Aztek > Camera reference. :) Hey, don't be: Aztec Camera were Scottish. Oh, and Stan Ridgeway's "Camouflage" was a monster summer hit. Ones you won't remember: * Kissing The Pink -- "Last Film I Ever Saw" * Landscape -- "Einstein A Go Go" * Blancmage -- "Living on the Ceiling" and how dare anyone call Thomas Dolby a one-hit wonder. grr. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:49:31 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died - --On Donnerstag, 4. September 2003 10:45 Uhr -0400 "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Ones you won't remember: > > * Blancmage -- "Living on the Ceiling" I don't remember that one, but another Blancmange song, which I would've called a one-hit as well: "Waves" - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:58:22 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Acid Mothers Temple doing Terry Riley's in C? Now that I would *love* to hear! Cheers Matt who saw Terry Riley live in St Barnabas Church, Jericho, Oxford a couple of years ago... great gig... >From: Nur Gale >np: Acid Mothers Temple doing Terry Riley's "In C" - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect your PC from e-mail viruses. Get MSN 8 today. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:08:24 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: Beatle tits (oppressive udder content 100%) 22 tits, only 21 legs... Cheers Matt >From: "Glen Uber" >Reply-To: "Glen Uber" >To: "Oppressive Udders" >Subject: Re: Beatle tits (oppressive udder content 100%) >Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:58:57 -0700 > >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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your hands on designer bargains for less - click here. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:12:44 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Hey, don't be: Aztec Camera were Scottish. Yes, they still play "Oblivious" quite a lot over here. Does that make them one-hit wonders? > Ones you won't remember: > * Kissing The Pink -- "Last Film I Ever Saw" > * Landscape -- "Einstein A Go Go" > * Blancmage -- "Living on the Ceiling" That last one is a blast from the past. I saw Blancmange down at Moles in Bath before they were "famous". Sort of post-Soft Cell, pre-Pet Shop Boys ping ping band: not at all bad, actually. - - MRG PS Thinks: I hope no-one finds out I once saw Howard Jones... PPS Just had a message that the Coal Porters Bluegrass band are doing a Scottish tour. Come back, Stewart, all is forgiven! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:32:14 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Re: Acid Mothers Temple doing Terry Riley's in C? Matt: >Now that I would *love* to hear! Haven't listened to it for a while but it is quite enjoyable. It is mostly/all keyboards/glockenspiel. There is little evidence, if any, of Kawabata on this. On the same cd are AMT originals "In E" and "In D", both instrumentals with, I suspect, the same structural idea of progressing through a series of phrases with drones. In E is the superior of the two with Kawabata giving it his all. If you're going to listen to In C you ought to stick around for this. In D is a rather dull percussionless keyboard drone. On a side note, is there any evidence that Kawabata can actually learn and play a structured guitar part. He always seems to either endlessly repeat a riff ( Pink Lady Lemonade for example), starts off on some riff and goes out on some monster improv from which he never returns or just skips the opening and goes straight for the solo. I like has playing but when I heard In C I wondered if his absence was due to his inability to perform it? Brian _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 07:38:20 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Robyn USA DATES From the museum: Robyn solo show in Paris at the Hotel Du Nord in Paris on September 8th  Robyn solo USA autumn dates Fri Oct 31: The Bottom Line, NYC Wed Nov 12: Aladdin Theatre, Portland, OR Sat Nov 15: Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, WA Mon Nov 17: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:44:11 -0400 From: mary Subject: Re: Robyn USA DATES At 07:38 AM 9/4/2003 -0800, Brian wrote: >Robyn solo USA autumn dates > >Fri Oct 31: The Bottom Line, NYC Excellent - Halloween with Robyn. For those interested in going to this show, you can make email reservations: http://www.bottomlinecabaret.com/ s.Mary np - Guided By Voices "Earthquake Glue" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:57:35 -0500 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th Hey, he's playing Seattle on my birthday! Too bad I'm not in Seattle. Sumi >>> "Matt Sewell" 09/04/03 09:11AM >>> Hooray for Scorpio fegs! Like me, Laura, you're early November I see - conceived on Valentine's day would be my guess...! And lucky nocal fegs - no UK gigs forthcoming it seems... Cheers Mattg >From: "Glen Uber" >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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your hands on designer bargains for less - click here. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:02:50 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th Matt earnestly scribbled: >Hooray for Scorpio fegs! Like me, Laura, you're early November I see - >conceived on Valentine's day would be my guess...! A quick accounting shows not only me, but Matt, Laura, Donne Teague, Sydney C., Nick Winkworth and at least a couple others as having early November birthdays. Very cool. Any of you married to Capricorns? If he treat you horribly he's probably a Scorpio. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:19:42 -0700 From: Catherine Simpson Subject: RE: One hit wonders who died I haven't heard anyone else mention Kissing the Pink in years! Great band! What would make you think that these songs wouldn't be remembered? I admit to only knowing 2 out of the 3 ("Einstein a Go Go" doesn't ring a bell, but wasn't it Landscape who did "My Name is Norman Bates"?), but I loved the other 2, and the Living on the Ceiling video was all over the local music video show in Denver for a couple of years. Catherine Stewart Russell wrote: >>Ones you won't remember: >>* Kissing The Pink -- "Last Film I Ever Saw" >>* Landscape -- "Einstein A Go Go" >>* Blancmage -- "Living on the Ceiling" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:22:49 -0500 From: "Iosso, Ken" Subject: RE: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th My birthday is October 25th making me also a Scorpio. Definitely one of the top twelve zodiac signs, if you ask me. Ken Iosso - -----Original Message----- From: Glen Uber [mailto:apostrophe@cruxofthebiscuit.com] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:03 PM To: Matt Sewell; Oppressive Udders Subject: Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th Matt earnestly scribbled: >Hooray for Scorpio fegs! Like me, Laura, you're early November I see - >conceived on Valentine's day would be my guess...! A quick accounting shows not only me, but Matt, Laura, Donne Teague, Sydney C., Nick Winkworth and at least a couple others as having early November birthdays. Very cool. Any of you married to Capricorns? If he treat you horribly he's probably a Scorpio. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Soylens Viridis Homines Est" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:23:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Ken Weingold wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2003, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > Wall Of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" was played in > > Germany as well, > Wall of Voodoo! Crap. Sorry for the Aztek Camera > reference. :) You were just being Oblivious.... ===== "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, 4 Sep 2003 13:33:51 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Michael wrote: > > PS Thinks: I hope no-one finds out I once saw > Howard Jones... you said that some time back. Could've been worse; Nick Kershaw? > PPS Just had a message that the Coal Porters > Bluegrass band are doing a Scottish tour. But I see they are without Joff Lowson. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:51:21 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Everybody Talkin' Bout...Weird Music Sebastian: >>During my adolescence Brix Smith was one of my, how shall I put this, >>imagined sex goddesses. I don't think that's too uncommon. I am curious as to what the hell happened to her... I seem to recall seeing some reference to her being a "TV presenter" of some kind in recent years... _____ Eb: >>"She Blinded Me With Science" (or do "Europa" and "Hyperactive" count as hits?) For KROQ people, "Europa" counts. And I think "Airhead" does, too, at least as a video. >>"Mexican Radio" (if that counts) Probably, although Ridgeway's solo career yielded some airplay ("Southbound", I think.) "People Who Died" "Friends of Mr. Cairo" Don't know either of those at all. "Institutionalized" (not quite in the first four's class) Enshrined alongside "Holiday in Cambodia" as the token "look we play hardcore" tunes of the '80's. By the by, what was the connection between "Come On Eileen" and the Pogues? I have a feeling there was a level of snarkiness that I just missed there. I'm with Catherine in having no use for Dexys but loving the Pogues. _____ Roberta: >>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. It's pretty interesting and its cover art features even cooler pictures of medusae than the Chills' "Submarine Bells". _____ JeFFrey: >>Or another one (which my friend Tim just reminded me of), quite possibly >>the only top-forty hit about cannibalism, "Timothy" by the Buoys. That's just a bizarre song. I just heard it for the first time last year... my friend Mike discovered it and became obsessed with it for a time. His wife eventually forbade him from playing it any more. ______ Mike G: >>Speedy Keane also died fairly recently. Really? That's kind of sad. The whole Thunderclap Newman album is certainly an interesting listen. Really odd lineup in that band. I had the single version of "Accidents", which is perversely catchy, on a mix tape that I played a lot a few years back. Keane also wrote "Armenia City in the Sky" for the Who, right? What the hell's up with that song? Sugar's cover certainly kicked all kinds of ass. >>> "Time Has Come Today" >>Chambers Brothers? Still gets played on oldies stations round here, but >>not as much as that incessant Candi Staton record. Wasn't this subject to a remix or something recently? Steve Earle did it on his recent b-sides comp and tore it up even despite the presence of Sheryl Crow, but that's not the version I'm thinking of. Maybe something on car commercial or summat? I had a hard time finding the 10-minute version, but I haven't tried for a while. I wanted to put it on a Christmas compilation at one point because damned if it doesn't evolve into "The Little Drummer Boy" somewhere in there. Awesome. The great sixties one-hits are legion as we've said; I think the interesting ones to mention would be stuff outside the purview of the Nuggets/Pebbles-type zone, which is probably better remembered amongst folks like us than, say, less aggressive stuff that actually charted higher at the time. I guess I'm thinking of stuff like "Red Rubber Ball" by the Cyrkle (although I'm partial to the Seekers' version with the 12-string replacing the organ), "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" by Peppermint Rainbow, "Let's Get Lost on a Country Road" by the Kit Kats, the Seekers' own "Georgie Girl"... those were records my mom had, and that was some weird shit, man. Peppermint Rainbow also had a go at "Green Tambourine"... it weren't pretty. There's a lotta really weird music out there, huh? - -Rex "the Kit Kats rule OK" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:12:19 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: All hail the new fegs Eb then Glen: >>>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? I just kinda became aware of this musical subculture m'self, so I can't really explain what it is with much clarity, but here you go... http://www.ecmrecords.com/ecm/history.html Seems that adherents to the label will buy pretty much everything they put out on the basis of them putting it out, whereas rubes like us will trundle along blissfully unaware of the whole scene's existence until we chance across an afficianado, which happened to me last year. Hope that helps... And hey, is it just me or are we suddenly picking up so many new or delurking Fegs that we've almost made up for the sizeable exodus of earlier this year? Cheers, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:00:17 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah Michael earnestly scribbled: >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: Yep, minus pre-Graham Gouldman, although he was a sessions guy for them. - -- Cheers! - -g- "There are only 3 types of people in the world: Morons, assholes, and people you can hang out with. I don't give a fuck if you're black, white, Asian, Arab, male, female, gay or straight. It's all just morons, assholes, and people you can hang out with." --Joe Rogan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:06:09 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: One hit wonders blahblahblah Glen earnestly scribbled: >Yep, minus pre-Graham Gouldman, although he was a sessions guy for them. Uh, yeah. I meant they were "minus" him because it was "pre-" him. /nevermind - -- Cheers! - -g- "In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are Consequences." - --R.G. Ingersoll ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:12:57 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died on 9/4/03 7:45 AM, Stewart C. Russell at scruss@sympatico.ca wrote: > * Blancmage -- "Living on the Ceiling" > I remember that one - used to like it quite a a bit. > and how dare anyone call Thomas Dolby a one-hit wonder. grr. Agreed. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 11:15:34 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: robyn - great american music hall, november 17th on 9/4/03 10:02 AM, Glen Uber at apostrophe@cruxofthebiscuit.com wrote: > Any of you married to Capricorns? And recently sterilized? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:17:26 +0100 From: "" Subject: Re: Everybody Talkin' Bout...Weird Music Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Mike G: > >>Speedy Keane also died fairly recently. > > Really? That's kind of sad. The whole Thunderclap Newman album is > certainly an interesting listen. Really odd lineup in that band. I had the > single version of "Accidents", which is perversely catchy, on a mix tape > that I played a lot a few years back. Keane also wrote "Armenia City in the > Sky" for the Who, right? Right. The story I heard about Thunderclap Newman was that Townshend discovered Andy Newman and more or less imposed him on Keene (sic, my earlier mistake) when he decided to produce them. And I suspect that the piano solo is what most people remember about 'Something in the air'. - - MRG PS Stewart, sorry to repeat myself re Howard Jones. It's obviously something I need to unburden myself about. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #329 ********************************