From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #38 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, February 6 2004 Volume 13 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: The Real New Outkast LP (Formerly Country Roads) ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: squeezesongs [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: The Real New Outkast LP (Formerly Country Roads) [Miles Goosens ] Chris Cunningham freaks me out ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Keep Music Physical! ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Keep Music Physical! [jlewis@gator.net] Re: Keep Music Physical! [Ken Weingold ] Re: Keep Music Physical! [fingerpuppets ] maxwell's 9 jan 04 late show [fingerpuppets ] Re: Chris Cunningham freaks me out [Caroline Smith ] PS [Eb ] Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight [tanter@tarleton.edu] Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight [Eb ] Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight [Aaron Mandel ] RE: Everybody Wang Chung tonight ["Iosso, Ken" ] Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight [FSThomas ] Re: PS [Miles Goosens ] Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight [Eb ] Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight ["Jason R. Thornton" Subject: RE: The Real New Outkast LP (Formerly Country Roads) That new Fall album is the best for many many years - it's utterly brilliant... highly recommended. Cheers Matt >From: "Rex.Broome" >Reply-To: "Rex.Broome" >Just checking the Amazon listing for The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help protect your PC with anti-virus protection when you sign up for MSN 8 . ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 05:53:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Janet J. causing twisted knickers Jill Brand wrote: > My knickers got twisted because > > a) the music S*U*C*K*E*D all the way around It wasn't any worse than last year with Shania Twain > b) I don't really want to see MTV during *my* team's > goddamned football game; if I wanted MTV, I'd watch it > c) it took attention away from the purity of a bunch of > guys brutalizing each other, breaking each other's limbs, > and smelling rather badly a) nobody has broken a bone in the Super Bowl since Tim Krumrie in the bestest Super Bowl ever, XXIII (Montana to Taylor). > d) it means that Tom Brady has to share the spotlight > with someone other than the rest of his team and his > coaches. e) Janet's nipple piercing probably has a lot to do with it too. I think I agree with the KNBR caller Monday morning who said that the biggest outrage of the whole thing was that we didn't get to see the left breast. ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 05:54:49 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: squeezesongs Jill Brand wrote: > Jill sed > > Jeff, "If It's Love" (or is it "If That is Love"?) > > is one of my all-time favorite Squeeze songs. > > > >If you mean "Is That Love" from "East Side Story" then > >I agree but less so if you mean "If It's Love" from > >"Frank" then less so. Very confusing! > > Ah, then I was confused. I meant "Is That Love" from > ESS. I don't even know the other song. And I meant the one from Frank, though the one off ESS is a good song too. ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:06:47 -0600 (GMT-06:00) From: Miles Goosens Subject: RE: The Real New Outkast LP (Formerly Country Roads) Rex, it wasn't me, unless Amazon has found a way to track my non-Amazon purchases: I got the Fall at Grimey's and Outkast at Media Play, so there's some other equally wacky person out there. Perhaps we should reverse-engineer Amazon's technology, find them, and invite them to form a list with us. Jeff can join us at the Communist Fall Outkast Gun Club as soon as he gets the Outkast record (assuming he has a Gun Club record, or at least had the hots for Patricia Morrison). Matt Sewell: >That new Fall album is the best for many many years - it's utterly >brilliant... highly recommended. I've been seeing a *lot* of "best in many years" / "best in ten years" sort of accolades for THE REAL NEW FALL LP, FORMERLY 'COUNTRY ON THE CLICK' lately, including a "best in ten years" in yesterday's e-mail update from Grimey's. I find this simultaneously encouraging and discouraging: * ENcouraging 'cause the new Fall album's really good, and I'm psyched that other people see it the same way. * DIScouraging 'cause TRNFLFCotCthingy makes three of the last four that have been supremely excellent, so I can't help but read these "best in a decade" accolades as a diss of THE UNUTTERABLE (my pick for the best Fall album since the '80s) and THE MARSHALL SUITE. So... yay! and hrmph! later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:46:30 -0600 From: "Jay Lyall" Subject: Did David Hasselhoff really help end the Cold War? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3465301.stm - ---------------------------------------- Jay Lyall - Houston, Texas "Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy." - Mike Donohue http://www.clark04.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:11:44 -0500 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: Sad (and possible REAP) > >On Thu, Feb 5, 2004, FSThomas wrote: > > > http://au.news.yahoo.com/040205/11/nla8.html > > > > Tower Records to Seek Chapter 11 > > >Sad? BFD, the way I see it. I hate Tower. They pay their employees > >shit, treat them like shit, and overcharge for CDs. And they don't pay their venders for products sold to them! I have little sympathy for for Tower or any of the other big music dogs. - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:40:36 -0600 From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Chris Cunningham freaks me out I've been watching "The Work of Chris Cunningham" DVD, his videos, TV commercials, art exhibits, and so on, and I can say that not much I've watched has ever freaked me out so much. It's horrendous and beautiful at the same time. I've long considered the video he did for Bjork's "All Is Full Of Love" to be the Second Greatest Music Video Ever Made. But some of his other videos, for Autechre and Squarepusher, for example, are also stunning. His videos make me believe I'm feeling like the people who were the first to see moving pictures felt. Completely freaked out at how real it looks, yet also at how unreal it seems. I know, that's a poor description, but when I see the yelling guy-thing in the Aphex Twin "Come To Daddy" video I'm sure I feel the same way I did when people ran out of a cinema when they first saw moving pictures of a train. And the Monkey Drummer, I don't know. Sigh. The Monkey Drummer. And don't even ask me what's up with that Rubber Johnny thing. That's just beyond weird. Cunningham deserves hundreds of millions of dollars to make films for the big screen. I came to this DVD after watching the Michael Gondry DVD, which is also excellent. The one reason I intend to see "Eternal Sunshing of the Spotless Mind " is because Gondry directed it. http://www.directorslabel.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:49:13 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Globe of Blogs And they don't even have the decency to give the obvious accreditation for the name: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:09:40 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Keep Music Physical! Max: >>>> Tower Records to Seek Chapter 11 >>I have mixed feelings. Me, too. Mostly nostalgia. Tower was soooo cool when I first moved to LA from the sticks... back when I was still buying cassettes, they were probably the primary source of records I'd read about for years but could never find on the shelves because, like, nobody in Cumberland MD really wanted the reissue of the first Modern Lovers album, and Camelot Music at the mall saw no need to have every Dylan record on the racks. The used stores in LA were a different kind of revelation, but it was Tower that actually filled in most of the gaps in my "must hear" list... so they played a big part in shaping me into the dork I am today. I liked the London one, too. Nowadays... well, the only one I've been to recently is the one in Pasadena, which is basically just the closest large, semi-well-stocked new record store to my house. Not too exciting. Just drove down Sunset with some friends on the way to that X show... none of us had been there for a while (or at least driven that much of the length if it) and we were trying to figure out what was new and what was gone. We drove by Tower and I said "Well, I'm pretty sure that's not new..." so it was a little weird to hear the bankruptcy news the next day. Basically I guess it's another blow against physical music formats. I thought my kids would be nonplussed by my vinyl collection, but it looks more like the mystery for them is going to be why my music is on objects at all. Oh well. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:22:33 -0500 (EST) From: jlewis@gator.net Subject: Re: Keep Music Physical! > Max: >>>>> Tower Records to Seek Chapter 11 > >>>I have mixed feelings. > Yeah... for us classical music fanatics, it's very bad news. Tower's one of the only entities who ever even tried to maintain any depth of stock. It takes a lot of floorspace and very deep pockets to even try to have a credible classical section, and once Tower goes there won't really be anyone left except Amazon et. al. But here in nyc, the Tower up by Lincoln Center has such an astoundingly good classical section that I find it hard to believe someone won't buy it and keep it going. Jon Lewis, Admirer of Dead White Males (and Robyn) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:54:39 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Keep Music Physical! On Fri, Feb 6, 2004, jlewis@gator.net wrote: > Yeah... for us classical music fanatics, it's very bad news. Tower's one > of the only entities who ever even tried to maintain any depth of stock. > It takes a lot of floorspace and very deep pockets to even try to have a > credible classical section, and once Tower goes there won't really be > anyone left except Amazon et. al. But here in nyc, the Tower up by > Lincoln Center has such an astoundingly good classical section that I find > it hard to believe someone won't buy it and keep it going. Well first of all, the article said that they were only filing for protection, and that lay-offs and closings would mostly likely be very minimal. I would bet that the Manhattan stores will not close if this is true. For one things, the Village store (4th and B'way) makes more money than any other Tower in the world. And I think the one at 66th and B'way is in a good location for them. So I think you're safe. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:40:51 -0500 From: fingerpuppets Subject: Re: Keep Music Physical! one time at band camp, Ken Weingold (bofh@unix.vi) said: >For one things, the Village store (4th and B'way) makes more >money than any other Tower in the world. except in 1994 when i visited the tower in osaka. +w ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:41:28 -0500 From: fingerpuppets Subject: maxwell's 9 jan 04 late show just a head's up: max sent me wav files of his late maxwell's recording so i'll be shnning them up and creating a bit torrent soon as i can. i should get to it either this weekend or early next week -- got a few other uploading things to take care first. i just finished listening to it and it sounds quite nice. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:53:46 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: Chris Cunningham freaks me out I stumbled upon the Spike Jonze collection a few months ago and I've been a Director's Label fan ever since. The content of the DVD is chosen by each director. The DVD comes with a little book too. Director's Label rocks! On Feb 6, 2004, at 12:40 PM, Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > > I came to this DVD after watching the Michael Gondry DVD, which is also > excellent. The one reason I intend to see "Eternal Sunshing of the > Spotless Mind " is because Gondry directed it. > > http://www.directorslabel.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:23:23 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Everybody Wang Chung tonight People have been mentioning VH1's "Bands Reunited" program.... I was brainstorming about bands who might be realistic candidates for the show. As I figure it, the loose rules are: 1. The band has been split up long enough for the reunion to carry weight 2. ...but the band members shouldn't be so over the hill that the reunion would be pathetic 3. The reunion probably should be more "fun" than artistically/historically significant 4. The band can't be big enough such that the reunion would be a major, potentially lucrative event (i.e., the Police or Talking Heads) 6. ...but the band has to have marquee value and widespread name recognition (nope, I don't think Husker Du is quite popular enough) 7. It's nice if the band had a strong visual image which contrasts with the members' more conservative appearance today 8. There's some degree of "heat" about reforming, which requires a bit of cajoling from the host 9. It's a real "band" who can perform their songs onstage as a self-contained unit...sorry, Bananarama. 10. No dead members 11. Compatible with VH1's demographic So, here are some names I came up with. Dispute them, or add more. If any of these bands are already doing nostalgic shows and I don't know it, feel free to disqualify them. a-ha ABC Adam & the Ants Belly Haircut 100 Huey Lewis & the News J. Geils Band Jesus Jones Katrina & the Waves Madness Men at Work Men Without Hats Oingo Boingo Shriekback Soundgarden The English Beat The Fixx The Human League The Kinks The Motels The Pogues The Replacements The Soup Dragons The Stone Roses Thompson Twins Ultravox Wall of Voodoo Wang Chung Divinyls Dramarama Faith No More Lone Justice Modern English Soft Cell Spandau Ballet The Boomtown Rats The Plimsouls The Specials The Sugarcubes Oh, and there are probably a bunch of '80s metal bands (Winger, Warrant, whatever...) who qualify, but I simply don't care enough to sort through them. You're welcome to try, though. ;) Eb http://www.petitiononline.com/Elliott1/petition.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:44:17 -0800 From: Eb Subject: PS >The Replacements I know Bob is dead, but it seems like a reunion of the "Slim" version also would be notable. Though the Mats are possibly too unpopular as well.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:50:34 -0600 (CST) From: tanter@tarleton.edu Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight Good list, Eb, but some of them ARE still together...Human League was in Dallas a month or so ago and Huey Lewis was touring in the summer.... Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:51:43 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight >Good list, Eb, but some of them ARE still together...Human League was in >Dallas a month or so ago and Huey Lewis was touring in the summer.... > >Marcy As I said, I wasn't sure whether some of those bands are still around. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:53:26 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Eb wrote: > a-ha Never broke up, I think; in any case, Allmusic lists some recent releases. > ABC There was a suspiciously current-looking photo on the cover of their most recent greatest-hits disc, but I don't know if they're together. > Madness Reunited a few years ago, but maybe broke up again. In any case, Suggs still looks and sounds much the same, potentially making for snoozy TV. > Men Without Hats I like it -- didn't the lead singer have some self-important Philsosophy Of Everything that his music was supposed to reveal? Could be pleasantly cringe-inducing. > Shriekback Sort of maybe reformed or something, but I don't think they ever scored nearly big enough for VH1 to be interested. > The Stone Roses Another one I'd like to see. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:59:35 -0600 From: "Iosso, Ken" Subject: RE: Everybody Wang Chung tonight I'm not sure who these bands are popular with, but Wang Chung? A-Ha? Belly? Men Without Hats? At least in the US - I don't know if anyone cared about them or knew who any of the members were when they were enjoying their one hit each, but I can assure you no one would care now. Husker Du, the Replacements, the Specials, the (English) Beat, Sugarcubes, Richard and Linda Thompson are more what I'd care about - and while I'm an old fart on some level, the transient audiences that the bubblegum bands that dominate your lists are onto something else by now. Ken Iosso - -----Original Message----- From: Eb [mailto:ElBroome@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:23 PM To: fgz Subject: Everybody Wang Chung tonight People have been mentioning VH1's "Bands Reunited" program.... I was brainstorming about bands who might be realistic candidates for the show. As I figure it, the loose rules are: 1. The band has been split up long enough for the reunion to carry weight 2. ...but the band members shouldn't be so over the hill that the reunion would be pathetic 3. The reunion probably should be more "fun" than artistically/historically significant 4. The band can't be big enough such that the reunion would be a major, potentially lucrative event (i.e., the Police or Talking Heads) 6. ...but the band has to have marquee value and widespread name recognition (nope, I don't think Husker Du is quite popular enough) 7. It's nice if the band had a strong visual image which contrasts with the members' more conservative appearance today 8. There's some degree of "heat" about reforming, which requires a bit of cajoling from the host 9. It's a real "band" who can perform their songs onstage as a self-contained unit...sorry, Bananarama. 10. No dead members 11. Compatible with VH1's demographic So, here are some names I came up with. Dispute them, or add more. If any of these bands are already doing nostalgic shows and I don't know it, feel free to disqualify them. a-ha ABC Adam & the Ants Belly Haircut 100 Huey Lewis & the News J. Geils Band Jesus Jones Katrina & the Waves Madness Men at Work Men Without Hats Oingo Boingo Shriekback Soundgarden The English Beat The Fixx The Human League The Kinks The Motels The Pogues The Replacements The Soup Dragons The Stone Roses Thompson Twins Ultravox Wall of Voodoo Wang Chung Divinyls Dramarama Faith No More Lone Justice Modern English Soft Cell Spandau Ballet The Boomtown Rats The Plimsouls The Specials The Sugarcubes Oh, and there are probably a bunch of '80s metal bands (Winger, Warrant, whatever...) who qualify, but I simply don't care enough to sort through them. You're welcome to try, though. ;) Eb http://www.petitiononline.com/Elliott1/petition.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:12:24 -0800 From: Eb Subject: RE: Everybody Wang Chung tonight >I'm not sure who these bands are popular with, but Wang Chung? A-Ha? Belly? >Men Without Hats? At least in the US - I don't know if anyone cared about >them or knew who any of the members were when they were enjoying their one >hit each, but I can assure you no one would care now. Mm-hmm. I get the feeling that you haven't seen the show. Particularly, the Kajagoogoo episode. >the transient audiences that the bubblegum bands >that dominate your lists are onto something else by now. And in many cases, this is exactly what makes them more desirable for the show. The last episode I saw was the Alarm one...one member is now a successful photographer, another works in criminal investigation...most interesting to see. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:13:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight Eb wrote: > People have been mentioning VH1's "Bands Reunited" > program.... > > I was brainstorming about bands who might be realistic > candidates for > the show. As I figure it, the loose rules are: > > 1. The band has been split up long enough for the reunion > to carry weight > 2. ...but the band members shouldn't be so over the hill > that the reunion would be pathetic > 3. The reunion probably should be more "fun" than > artistically/historically significant > 4. The band can't be big enough such that the reunion > would be a major, potentially lucrative event (i.e., the > Police or Talking Heads) > 6. ...but the band has to have marquee value and > widespread name recognition (nope, I don't think Husker > Du is quite popular enough) > 7. It's nice if the band had a strong visual image which > contrasts with the members' more conservative appearance > today > 8. There's some degree of "heat" about reforming, which > requires a bit of cajoling from the host > 9. It's a real "band" who can perform their songs onstage > as a self-contained unit...sorry, Bananarama. > 10. No dead members > 11. Compatible with VH1's demographic > > So, here are some names I came up with. Dispute them, or > add more. If any of these bands are already doing > nostalgic shows and I don't know it, feel free to > disqualify them. > > Shriekback probably too obscure > The Fixx I actually think they've already reformed a few times already. > Thompson Twins I'm not sure they'd qualify as fully contained since only Tom Bailey can play anything really. Plus, since Tom and Alannah are married, they'd only have to round up Joe, and supposedly it was a very friendly breakup, so there isn't much chance for them to bitch about each other. There's no way they'd go for one of the pre-hit, larger line-ups, so they would probably be out. > Wang Chung Only two guys, so not really self-contained. > Dramarama Already done as one of the first 10 episodes. > Soft Cell Already reformed toured, new album, the works. > Oingo Boingo > The English Beat > The Specials > The Sugarcubes My personal favorites of your suggestions, though Bjork may be too famous at this point for a Sugarcubes edition of the show to really work. Split Enz have done it several times (though never straying far from home), but Crowded House could work. ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:41:22 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight Iosso, Ken wrote: > Husker Du, the Replacements, the Specials, the (English) Beat, Sugarcubes, > Richard and Linda Thompson are more what I'd care about... Amen. (Though Richard is *much* better on his own, IMHO.) Some possible suggestions: Men At Work, Dead or Alive, Erasure, Stone roses, The Fall, Killing Joke, The Smiths (no-brainer), Adam and the Ants, B*A*D, Joy Division/New Order, PIL, the Wedding Present (though, fairly, they get quite a bit of play when Cinerama tours...) I would say the Pixies, but that's already in the works. - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:11:12 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: PS At 01:44 PM 2/6/2004 -0800, Eb wrote: >>The Replacements > >I know Bob is dead, but it seems like a reunion of the "Slim" version >also would be notable. Though the Mats are possibly too unpopular as >well.... I think they've got enough ex post facto clout to qualify. I mean, they're a pretty well-known "seminal influence" now. Plus VH-1 felt no shame at going on and on about the alleged "big hits" of Dramarama and the Alarm -- which seems like a very KROQ'd take on what constituted a "hit" in these United States. Ah, the '80s that never existed outside of KROQ and college radio... I was about to suggest the Motels ("Only the Lonely" was a bona fide chart hit), but I see they're on the EbList already... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:15:20 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight >Men At Work > Adam & the Ants > Stone roses Jeez, do people even read my posts beyond the first few lines? ;p >Dead or Alive, Erasure, The Fall, Killing Joke, The Smiths >(no-brainer), B*A*D, Joy Division/New Order, PIL, the Wedding Present Aren't Dead or Alive, Erasure, the Fall, Killing Joke and New Order still around to varying degrees? Obviously, you can't reunite Joy Division. A Smiths reunion is too major to waste on "Bands Reunited." PIL's various lineups were too unstable for a "reunion" to make sense. Wedding Present: nowhere near popular enough. I saw "Images," last night. Easiy Robert Altman's most obscure movie, dating from 1972. Damn, that was a fascinating film. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:34:33 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight At 05:41 PM 2/6/2004 -0500, FSThomas wrote: >The Smiths (no-brainer) There's way too much bad blood for a reunion of all 4 Smiths members, but a Morrissey/Marr reunion is always possible. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:18:03 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight At 04:53 PM 2/6/2004 -0500, Aaron Mandel wrote: >On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Eb wrote: >> ABC > >There was a suspiciously current-looking photo on the cover of their >most recent greatest-hits disc, but I don't know if they're together. They had a darn good new album in '97, and I think have been touring pretty regularly as ABC. I say reunite the ZILLIONAIRE lineup, so we can see if David Yaritou and Eden exist outside of videos! I don't think they really play on the album outside of introducing themselves on "A to Z." >> Shriekback > >Sort of maybe reformed or something, but I don't think they ever scored >nearly big enough for VH1 to be interested. Yeah, as much as I love them, I don't see where they qualify, having never even kissed the lower reaches of the top 40. Aaron, dmw, and I would watch. That'd be about it. And they're still a kinda sorta working band. >> The Stone Roses > >Another one I'd like to see. I guess I'd watch in the hopes that one of the allotted two aired songs would be "I Wanna Be Adored," but I was super-bored by the rest of their stuff. Maybe Ian Brown's voice will interest me more now that it has some more mileage on it. Not sure if they were ever big enough in the U.S., though they'd draw a good audience in the U.K. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:35:37 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: RE: Everybody Wang Chung tonight At 02:12 PM 2/6/2004 -0800, Eb wrote: [Ken Iosso:] >>I'm not sure who these bands are popular with, but Wang Chung? A-Ha? Belly? >>Men Without Hats? At least in the US - I don't know if anyone cared about >>them or knew who any of the members were when they were enjoying their one >>hit each, but I can assure you no one would care now. Eb, despite your best efforts at laying the ground rules for this thread and fully explaining your intentions on the front end, I foresee this thread quickly devolving into personal wishlists rather than programs VH-1 might actually consider making. Sigh. >Mm-hmm. I get the feeling that you haven't seen the show. >Particularly, the Kajagoogoo episode. > >>the transient audiences that the bubblegum bands >>that dominate your lists are onto something else by now. > >And in many cases, this is exactly what makes them more desirable for the show. And as Ebby sez, the series not only had good viewing numbers, but bands like a Flock of Seagulls and Kajagoogoo had no trouble filling the house with *devoted* fans who knew every word of every song, not just the first 200 people they could lure inside for a TV taping. The whole series was surprisingly entertaining, and consistently exceeded my expectations. Kajagoogoo, in fact, sounded far better than I ever imagined they could -- less gloss and Limahl's more careworn voice made "Too Shy" into a genuinely great song instead of a teenybopper artifact. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:20:20 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Everybody Wang Chung tonight At 02:13 PM 2/6/2004 -0800, Jeff Dwarf wrote: >> The Fixx > >I actually think they've already reformed a few times >already. They're likely ongoing, as well -- I think they were in town here (Nashville) recording a new record as recently as 2002. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:46:01 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Everybody, please try not to Wang Chung tonight On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:13:47 -0800 (PST), "Jeff Dwarf" said: > Eb wrote: > > The Sugarcubes > > My personal favorites of your suggestions, though Bjork may > be too famous at this point for a Sugarcubes edition of the > show to really work. Plus, I thought Einar Whatshisname was only the most annoying male "vocalist" ever... - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #38 *******************************