From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #331 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 5 2003 Volume 12 : Number 331 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: One hit wonders who died [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: One hit wonders who died [Eb ] What makes a feg? ["Rex.Broome" ] Fegographics/Key changes/Buzzwords/Divination [grutness@surf4nix.com (Jam] Re: What makes a feg? [Eb ] Re: What makes a feg? ["Glen Uber" ] Re: One hit wonders who died ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: What makes a feg? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: All hail the new ECM fegs [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: This may excite some of you.... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: What makes a feg? [Jeff Dwarf ] re: This may excite some of you.... [HSatterfld@aol.com] Re: What makes a feg? [mary ] RE: One hit wonders who died ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:25:32 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died >> > > "Mexican Radio" (if that counts) >> Which demonstrates you're not an American ;) Pretty much unavoidable here, >> both in '82 (?) and on "new wave" compilations. >Sorry if it's already been pointed out, but Mexican Radio I believe is >from Aztek Camera. Wall of Voodoo, IIRC. Surely that was at least a minor hit everywhere? Certainly wasn't Aztec Camera. What would have been their hit? Walk out to winter was their biggest here, I think? Oblivious? They were big on student radio here for a while, but just about nowhere else, although (as I'm sure I've said before) their song "Good morning Britain" is one of the best positive protest songs I know (positive in that it has a constructive ideal rather than simply protesting). >Ones you won't remember: heh. I could name pretty near any one-hit wonder band from NZ and it would qualify (which is why I've been avoiding that). Instead I'll say that in NZ at least the Housemartins are usually thought of as OHWs, although I prefer things like "Build" and "Happy Hour" to their biggie (Caravan of love). >>"People Who Died" >>"Friends of Mr. Cairo" > >Don't know either of those at all. the latter is Jon Anderson and Vangelis, who here, at least, are far better known for "I'll find my way home". >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. the Seekers weren't one hits in the UK (and certainly not the closer you get to Australia). The Carnival is Over, I'll never find another you, Georgy Girl and Island of Dreams were all huge hits, to start with (I see they had six top ten songs in the UK, plus three chart topping EPs). 60s one-hits in the sappy-poppy vein... Unit 4+2 must be near the top of the pile. The Honeycombs? Get a bit louder with Tommy James and the Shondells? or The Crazy World of Arthur Brown? 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 17:28:54 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died >==60s one-hits in the sappy-poppy vein... Unit 4+2 must be near the top of >the pile. The Honeycombs? Get a bit louder with Tommy James and the >Shondells? or The Crazy World of Arthur Brown? Tommy James, a one-hit wonder? Hardly! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:17:13 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: What makes a feg? Jeff D: >>Instead they [the Bunnymen] released some Tim Hardin song that escapes me and >>"It's All Over Now Baby blue," but as a cover of Them's version. So that's not the live version on the box set? That one sounds like a hybrid of Them's and the Byrds' versions (the early, unreleased one that surfaced on "Never Before", not the latter-day country-ish version). Eb: >>Incidentally, speaking of keyboard-fiddling, am I playing that song >>wrong somehow or does it change keys *every* time the verse comes >>around? If so, that's pretty unusual. I think so. There are certainly parts where you think it's gone to a bridge, but it's another verse. I think Petty played it all in one key... it's on the single-disc "Greatest Hits" and was one of two bonus tracks (the other being "Mary Jane's Last Dance" or whatever, which lamely enough was included on the more recent "Best" of as well, while "Something in the Air" wasn't!)... >>And yeah, that US-vs-UK Cliff Richard situation seems *uniquely* extreme. To Cliff and Status Quo, we could add the recently-namedropped-by-Robyn Slade, right? And I suppose Robbie Williams would be the modern equivalent. _____ Gene: >>I'm sure there are several people on this list who have bought records >>simply because they were released by SST, Relativity, Elephant 6. Eb: >>But then there's Stiff, Mute, 4AD, Shimmy-Disc, TeenBeat, Ralph, >>Apple, Nonesuch, Creation, Cuneiform, Flying Nun, IRS, Impulse!, Blue >>Note.... I can safely say that I've never bought a record by an artist I'd never heard of because I of what label it was on. (Would anyone here actually cop to having done so?) Now, if in the course of reading about an artist I find out they're on a label that's put out interesting stuff before, sure, that might increase my interest. I wasn't able to figure out a good formula to use for this purpose, but at a casual glance the label for whom I have records by the greatest percentage of its roster appears to be... Texas Hotel. Of course smaller rosters make this much easier, so it's not a truly meaningful statistic anyway. It was a little tricky to figure out the who-owned-who-when of it all, but it looks like I have far and away more records on Warner Brothers (Reprise, Sire, etc.) than any other label. Shock and awe, huh? ________ New Feg Index answers: >>We know that fegs overwhelmingly drink beer, work in libraries and >>wear glasses. It would be interesting to know what other traits are common >>in fegs. Beer: yes. Library: kind of. Glasses: no. Sterilized: soon. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Pisces. Married to (Zodiac-wise): Leo. What else can we check? Here's some stuff about me. Female fegs may need to adjust some questions. Or they may not. Ethnic background: White. In fact quite white indeed. Religion: Not so much. Ill-Advised Facial Hair: You bet! Best anagram for full name: Jab me, or more sex! Number of times dressed in drag: two. Least favorite food/food product: mayonnaise. CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Cruz Bustaforty. Last three Halloween costumes: Captain Nemo (James Mason); Senator Tom Daschle; Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness version). Is it safe? Yes, so safe you wouldn't believe it. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? "Distorted Penguins". Feg Doppelganger? My man Stewart. How long? A little over nine inches. Last thing you can remember drawing? Giant terrestrial octopus reaching tentacle towards fleeing Buckaroo Banzai jet car. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Two-week-old LA Weekly. You gonna eat that? I'm gonna save half for lunch tomorrow. Favorite arthropod: The rock and roll millipede. Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? Hell yes... jealous? Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Two that I can think of. Knock y'self out! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:17:27 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Fegographics/Key changes/Buzzwords/Divination >Yeah, let's see how common all these things are amongst fegs. > >We know that fegs overwhelmingly drink beer, work in libraries and wear >glasses. It would be interesting to know what other traits are common in >fegs. Better yet, I'd like to know if there's a feg gene that determines >all of these various traits, tastes and occupational choices. Sorry, I'm Gemini(FWIW), a serial Leo dater (four of my last 6 GFs, including the delightful Alice), and I still produce scrotal tadpoles. I used to work in a library, I wear glasses, but I prefer cider to beer. Or harder-edged beverages (rarely). Um... I watch soccer, cricket and rugby, was briefly my school's high jump champion, my politics are left-of-centre, wear either lots of bright colours or los of black, I paint, write songs, and my favourite holiday destinations are the Catlins, Tolaga Bay and Pelorus Sound. I think the last item separates me from a few other fegs, but the rest is possibly quite list-consistent. - --- >Incidentally, speaking of keyboard-fiddling, am I playing that song >wrong somehow or does it change keys *every* time the verse comes >around? If so, that's pretty unusual. Just that song, and the >"Gilligan's Island" theme? :) not that unusual. I cite Split Enz's "Iris" as my favourite example, but there are others. Including, of course, the Goodies "Charles Aznovoice" :) - --- >Hey - instant nostalgia: when's the last time anyone used the word >"cyberspace"? it's just one of those buzzwords that trundled off down the, um, "information superhighway". Is there a name for dead buzzwords? - --- >think there's something to be said for Tarot cards, the I Ching, and anything >else that starts trying to break the world down into *several* dozen >different tendencies or classes and whose mystical usage consists of >putting several of those categories side by side for someone to look at. well, the same's true with horoscopes (and no, I think they're a pile of donkeys doo's). 12 sun signs x 12 ascendents x 12 possible locations per celestial body = 12^11 = 743,008,370,688 combinations. Of course, some of these combinations aren't possible (the Sun and Venus can't be on opposite sides of the Earth for very good astronomical reasons, f'rinstance), but reducing it to 12 reduces it from spurious science to mere spurious stupidity. >So this also means that given these two imaginary New Age people: > >1. "Well, I'm highly intuitive, so when I do a reading with the cards I >try to be open to whatever energy they have and let that energy come into >my life. I find that this often changes my sense of a problem's nature." > >2. "Last week I got a Tarot reading that said I should change jobs. I >don't really want to, but the cards said so!" better still is 3. "When I do a reading, I use the meanings of the cards to look at the question I asked in a new way, as a tool to my own meditations on the question. I find that this often changes my sense of a problem's nature, and this enables me to reach my own decision more clearly." It's similar to 1, but stresses that any 'energy' is within the reader, not within the cards. And is a very useful way of doing things. It's basically the same way Eno uses his Oblique Strategy cards. It's like sleeping on a problem, but takes far less time. 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 18:28:18 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: What makes a feg? >And I suppose Robbie Williams would be the modern equivalent. Yes...there's certainly a major, major gap in popularity there. >I can safely say that I've never bought a record by an artist I'd never >heard of because I of what label it was on. (Would anyone here actually cop >to having done so?) Not really. But I do routinely "investigate" bands based on their labels. This doesn't work as well as it used to, though. It's frustrating for me, when scouting for new talent. As far as the indie scene goes, it doesn't seem like many overall-dependable labels have popped up lately. It's much more of a band-by-band thing. Other than Jetset and possssssibly Kindercore, I can't think of any recently founded labels which give me that "Oh, this is probably worth hearing" faith. There's Thirsty Ear, though maybe that label's a bit older. Sanctuary is a notable up-and-comer (didja know they have Spiritualized and Ween now, too?), but I believe they have BMG distribution, so.... I don't think Elephant 6 counts with me. Most of the E6 stuff I like isn't on the E6 label itself. The only pure E6 release I have is the first Beulah disc. Some might suggest Saddle Creek here, but *I* sure wouldn't. >It was a little tricky to figure out the who-owned-who-when of it all, but >it looks like I have far and away more records on Warner Brothers (Reprise, >Sire, etc.) than any other label. Shock and awe, huh? Hm. Columbia and Capitol rule my collection, pretty decisively. Third and fourth might be Virgin and A&M. I forget. But I don't lump together together associated labels (i.e., Reprise/Sire/Warner Brothers) when making such estimations. Time to pack! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:35:31 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Rex.Broome earnestly scribbled: >Ethnic background: Scots-Irish with a French great-grandmother, and some random dude from from Danzig, Prussia (now Gdansk, Poland) who married into the family in the early 1800s who cursed me with a German adjective as a surname. >Religion: Lost it about 15 years ago. >Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Always. >Best anagram for full name: Lunged Beerward. >Number of times dressed in drag: I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show nearly every weekend for 2 years and dressed in drag everytime. An additional 4 or 5 times if RHPS doesn't count. >Least favorite food/food product: Avocado/guacamole. >CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: The Butt Monkey Beer Guy for shits and giggles, Georgy Russell when the moment of truth comes. >Last three Halloween costumes: Pimp Glenny Glen, a greaser, and a court jester. >Is it safe? If Tom Ridge says it's safe, it's safe! >What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? BBEdit 6.5: It *STILL* doesn't suck! >Feg Doppelganger? None that I know of. >How long? About a week and a half. >Last thing you can remember drawing? A pint. >In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Napkins, a Cure CD and a map. >You gonna eat that? Nah, you can have it. >Favorite arthropod: Crabs. >Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? I was once knighted Sir Inebrius of Imbibia by the Benovolent Dictator of Tigermonkeylandia, King Gloster. >Number of records owned with medusae on cover: None come to mind right now. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Work is the curse of the drinking class." - --Oscar Wilde ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 22:45:30 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Catherine Simpson wrote: > > What would make you think that these songs wouldn't be remembered? 'cos they're all absurdly of their time. > ("Einstein a Go Go" doesn't ring a bell, but > wasn't it Landscape who did "My Name is Norman Bates"?) same band, but EAGG is one of the world's most unbelievable earworms. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:03:06 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: What makes a feg? - --On Donnerstag, 4. September 2003 18:35 Uhr -0700 Glen Uber wrote: > some random dude from > from Danzig, Prussia (now Gdansk, Poland) who married into the family in > the early 1800s who cursed me with a German adjective as a surname. Actually that's a preposition (over). When did you lose the umlaut? Cheers, Sebastian - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 03:24:00 0200 (UTC) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: All hail the new ECM fegs From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." True, and I'm almost one of them. ECM are consistently well-recorded, and often top-notch performances. They are cherished by audiophiles, and the label has brought many styles and composers (Arvo Part, the Hilliard Ensemble's recordings of early music on period instruments) to people who otherwise wouldn't have heard the stuff (me, f'rinstance). There are even Windham Hill people, but they're just weird. In the early 80s I bought ECM Lps and began to explore the label. I would buy for 2 reasons - if the name of the artist was playing on any other ECM artists record and because it was ECM. When I stopped buying vinyl and began my rather nomadic lifestyle, I stopped searching out ECM stuff. Now I find I go back to ECM on a regular basis. It seemed the place to go for non commercial, non pop-rock, inventive modern or, as gene said, early music back then and it still is IMHO. Windham Hill people scare me. Appropo of nothing: Just returned from a lovely vacation in the mountains of Transylvania. Remote and beautiful. Minor fact of interest - there are more wolves in Romania than in all of Russia! Be Seeing You, - - ethyl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 03:38:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: This may excite some of you.... Glen Uber wrote: > Jason earnestly scribbled: > >Tarot card reading > > "I played poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and > four people died." God I love Steven Wright. When I wrote an allegedly funny column in high school, I called it Microwave Fireplace after his line about having a MF so he could sit in front of the fire for an evening in 15 minutes. ===== "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: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 04:26:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: What makes a feg? "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Jeff D: > >>Instead they [the Bunnymen] released some Tim Hardin > song that escapes me > and > >>"It's All Over Now Baby blue," but as a cover of Them's > version. > > So that's not the live version on the box set? That one > sounds like a hybrid of Them's and the Byrds' versions > (the early, unreleased one that surfaced on "Never > Before", not the latter-day country-ish version). No; _Avalanche_ was all (then) new studio recordings, with the Electrafixion "Baseball Bill" single added to the now for sale reissue from the website. Finally got my copy last week a mere 4.5 months after ordering it. They didn't do a terribly efficient job of running this sale from the website. The studio version is fairly similar though. I've never heard the Never Before version AFAIK so I can't say how much it sounds like either. ==== > Gene: > >>I'm sure there are several people on this list who have > >>bought records simply because they were released by > >>SST, Relativity, Elephant 6. > Eb: > >>But then there's Stiff, Mute, 4AD, Shimmy-Disc, > >>TeenBeat, Ralph, Apple, Nonesuch, Creation, Cuneiform, > >>Flying Nun, IRS, Impulse!, Blue Note.... > > I can safely say that I've never bought a record by an > artist I'd never heard of because I of what label it was > on. (Would anyone here actually cop to having done so?) Not buy, but a couple times when I had more trade credit than stuff I knew I wanted I took a couple fliers (Scheer was one of them, since I was seeing them with Lush and Mojave 3 the next week -- it was quickly returned; Slowdive was another; they were not). > ________ > > New Feg Index answers: > >>We know that fegs overwhelmingly drink beer, work in > >>libraries and wear glasses. It would be interesting to > >>know what other traits are common > >>in fegs. > > Beer: yes. no. usually harder stuff. and even then, I've been known to nurse a whiskey and orange juice for weeks at a time. > Library: kind of. no. more like a zoo. > Glasses: no. yes. > Sterilized: soon. no. will have to decide whether or not to have children first. will have to meet person with i'd want to make the decision first for that matter. > Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Pisces. Aries. > Married to (Zodiac-wise): Leo. red right hand. > What else can we check? Here's some stuff about me. > Female fegs may need to adjust some questions. Or they > may not. > > Ethnic background: White. In fact quite white indeed. German (15/32s or so, with the last 32nd Cherokee), Dutch (full-fledged quarter), Welsh-Scottish-bunchashit (final quarter) > Religion: Not so much. militant agnostic. > Ill-Advised Facial Hair: You bet! does going too long between shaving count? > Best anagram for full name: Jab me, or more sex! dunno > Number of times dressed in drag: two. 0 > Least favorite food/food product: mayonnaise. mustard, strawberries, watermelon, salmon, bananas > CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Cruz > Bustaforty. if it's close yeah; if not, I may go Coleman to mock how fucking stupid the whole thing is. the guy is a doppelganger for Mr. Spacely incidentally. > Last three Halloween costumes: Captain Nemo (James > Mason); Senator Tom Daschle; Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec > Guinness version). Robert Smith wannabe in 1991, others were too far back to remember. > Is it safe? Yes, so safe you wouldn't believe it. only if you don't mess with it too much. > What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top > right now? "Distorted Penguins". n/a > Feg Doppelganger? My man Stewart. n/a. and heaven help them if there is one. > How long? A little over nine inches. but it's the circumference that's really impressive > Last thing you can remember drawing? Giant terrestrial > octopus reaching tentacle towards fleeing Buckaroo Banzai > jet car. a serious of improbably geometic shapes. and snakes. > In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right > now? Two-week-old LA Weekly. empty nantucket nectar lemonade bottle, shrink wrap from Neil Young _on the beach,_ Oakland A's hat, refrigerator magnet for a local pizza place (naturally, it's owned by Afghani immigrants), and an umbrella. > You gonna eat that? I'm gonna save half for lunch > tomorrow. no, you can have it > Favorite arthropod: The rock and roll millipede. boney maroney. > Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? > Hell yes... jealous? god no. > Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Two that > I can think of. just the chills album ===== "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: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:58:09 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: re: This may excite some of you.... <> What the heck is he going on about here? I was not aware that it was possible for pre-orders to sell out. Or did they put two promotional copies up in zShops, and amazingly they sold all two of them? Stupid English language, be more funny. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:06:54 -0400 From: mary Subject: Re: What makes a feg? At 06:17 PM 9/4/2003 -0700, Rex.Broome asked, What makes a feg: >Beer: yes. Yes although I prefer gin. >Library: kind of. No - but one that a bunch of fegs have? - web/new media programmer >Glasses: no. contacts - but I may be going the route of Ken and Tim >Sterilized: soon. ah, no >Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Pisces. Capricorn >Married to (Zodiac-wise): Leo. Ex-husband - Scorpio (hello Jeff P!) >What else can we check? Here's some stuff about me. Female fegs may need >to adjust some questions. Or they may not. > >Ethnic background: White. In fact quite white indeed. Irish American but raised by Italian Americans. Any other feg adoptees out there? I've just started a search for my birth parents - should be interesting. >Religion: Not so much. None at all. >Ill-Advised Facial Hair: You bet! Well, I do pluck my eyebrows every now and then. >Best anagram for full name: Jab me, or more sex! No time to think of this, have to catch a train in an hour, will have to get back to you all with this. >Number of times dressed in drag: two. Many times - but mostly for Halloween. And then there was the Gary Numan look-alike contest before one of his shows. >Least favorite food/food product: mayonnaise. All condiments - mayo, catsup, mustard, relish, tartar sauce, salad dressing, etc. >CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Cruz Bustaforty. Don't care - but I didn't vote for Bloomberg. >Last three Halloween costumes: Captain Nemo (James Mason); Senator Tom >Daschle; Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness version). Domo-kun (thanks to Woj and Chris for helping out), the Bride of Frankenstein attends a cocktail party, and a highwayman. I'll have to think of something fun for the Robyn show this year. >Is it safe? Yes, so safe you wouldn't believe it. In appearance only. >What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? "Distorted >Penguins". A glow in the dark baby skeleton. >Feg Doppelganger? My man Stewart. none that I know of >How long? A little over nine inches. just below the ears >Last thing you can remember drawing? Giant terrestrial octopus reaching >tentacle towards fleeing Buckaroo Banzai jet car. A water pistol. >In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Two-week-old >LA Weekly. I don't have a car and there's no place on my bike to pile up junk. >You gonna eat that? I'm gonna save half for lunch tomorrow. I'm not going to eat it but I'm saving it for my dog. >Favorite arthropod: The rock and roll millipede. Maryland blue crab >Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? Hell yes... jealous? Absolutely not. >Number of records owned with medusae on cover: Two that I can think of. None. s.Mary ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:31:54 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: One hit wonders who died >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. The Cyrkle had another hit, "Turn Down Day", after "Red Rubber Ball". Another round of Elvis Costello reissues are due 9-9-03. Including Get Happy! and Trust. Does anyone know if these are going to be double disc Rhino's like This Years Model, Imperial Bedroom, My Aim Is True etc? Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:32:36 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: One hit wonders who died Quoting James Dignan : > >>"Friends of Mr. Cairo" > > > >Don't know either of those at all. > > the latter is Jon Anderson and Vangelis, who here, at least, are far > better > known for "I'll find my way home". Also serves to point out the usefulness of my proposed definition of one- hit wonders: "people whom you've never heard of otherwise." It's pretty damned ridiculous to cite Jon Anderson - who sings in Yes: perhaps you've heard of them? - as producing a "one-hit wonder." Defeats the whole purpose of calling something a one-hit wonder - as in: what ever happened to those folks? where'd they come from? where'd they go? Critical reputations or large bodies of work disqualify folks from OHW status. Also: Vangelis wrote the ultracheesy "Chariots of Fire" theme as well (and the Blade Runner soundtrack, which I've always wished had been done by Gary Numan instead). ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism np: dB's - Ride the Wild Tom-Tom ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #331 ********************************