From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #93 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 26 2004 Volume 13 : Number 093 Today's Subjects: ----------------- US/UK (U/SUK?) ["Marc Holden" ] RE: 'Eavy metal rawker ["Matt Sewell" ] Simmons, Dibley, Thoths, Spam, and Australia [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Ginn Again ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: Ginn Again ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: 'Eavy metal rawker ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] RE: 'Eavy metal rawker ["Bachman, Michael" ] Arc of a dive ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Cliff! ["Fortissimo" ] re: tinfoil thoths! [Tom Rodebaugh ] Thoths Compiler Breaks Silence (sic) ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Cliff! [Capuchin ] whoa... ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: Tinfoil Thoths! [Groove Puppy ] Lord of the Rings slightly condensed (0% RH) [HSatterfld@aol.com] RE: whoa... ["Brian Huddell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:41:31 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: US/UK (U/SUK?) >>And the Status Quo? >>If we could name "Pictures of Matchstick Men," that'd be about it. "Rocking All Over The World". Not a great song in my book, but they played it both times I saw them. I saw Cliff Richard & the Shadows once, too, but can't recall any particular songs. I do remember that they were much better than I was expecting. Marc I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our "friend." Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:12:25 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: 'Eavy metal rawker Depends a little on the year - Dianno-era, for my money, would count for more kudos, but even if it's Dickinson... *takes hat off* Cheers Matt >From: The Great Quail >I skipped my senior prom to go to an Iron Maiden concert. Does that count >for anything? > >--Quail - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Half price modem, FREE connection and one month FREE - click here to sign up to BT Broadband. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:11:57 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Simmons, Dibley, Thoths, Spam, and Australia >Diminutive workout guru Richard Simmons is accused of Slappin' to the >Oldies after allegedly smacking a strapping 255-pound man who made fun >of Simmons' exercise videos. > >Simmons, widely recognized for his frizzy 'fro, skimpy gym shorts and >manic energy level, was arrested and cited for misdemeanor assault >without being detained. remind me... has anyone ever seen him and Leo Sayer in the same room at the same time? - --- Jill wrote: >James wrote: > >no-no-no-no-no-no-yes. Seems at first like a fairly standard British >sitcom, but it's actually a cut above most of them. > >He is one of my favorite characters, but Hugo and Alice usually have me in >tears (the wedding dress was wonderful). My favorite episode is the one >in which they try to raise money to replace the stained glass window, >especially the part when they are trying to remember what biblical scene >was depicted on the window that got smashed. muy favourite episode is possibly the village radio station, with Frank's unburdening of his lifelong secret, and Owen's talk-show (on the subject "Is it always wrong to have sex with poodles?"). - --- Dolph wrote: >James Dignan - "She Doesn't Need To Say What's On Her Mind" > I was already a Dignan fan based on "Partial Rapture Theory." I find >myself doubly jealous of this song -- both to write something this pure and >to feel such love as is behind this. > >James Dignan - "I Know The Felt Of Judas" > This is what sets a great songwriter like James apart. He often uses >ingenious writing-project devices to get him going, and yet the end product >sounds spontaneous and natural. Knowing the situation that inspired this >caused me to crack up mightily, but on its own it's just a terrific, >bewildering song. that strange glow on the southern horizon is me blushing. Jeff added: >Hey, double-babelfishing is good - but next time, let's write lyrics >wholly from spam alt-text. hate to say this, but I've been collecting some for just such a project recently. I got the idea after I got some spam which was surrealistically like real language, only... not: "Where we can ostensibly teach our tornado. Fetishist defined by cloud formation is curmudgeonly. Now and then,impresario of ignore insurance agent from photon." Then again, if alt-text spam wasn't such a new invention, I'd suspect this may have been how Robyn wrote "Unsettled". - --- Peripatetic Marc wrote: > Made it home without serious problems--we were on the news when we were >evacuated from Port Douglas, Australia. Cyclone Grace had dumped massive >amounts of rain on the Queensland coast. The highway, which we had taken up >from Cairns a few hours earlier, was blocked by a rock which the news stated >was the size of a house. The estimate was that it would take about 5 days to >break the stone up with dynamite (or maybe it was Vegemite) that would work >, clear the >debris, and fix the road to a usable condition. We left town a day early by >the boat that was previously supposed to have taken us out to see the Great >Barrier Reef. I hoped you would have missed the rain (which I saw on the TV news here). Glad you made it home safely, anyway. > I had already planned to make it back to New Zealand someday to see more >of the country, and now plan to go back to Australia to see what we had been >scheduled to see. I won't miss the Vegemite too much (I might have an extra >package or two tucked away in my luggage, if you dare to try it). Marmite's tasty - Vegemite is a good substitute for sump oil. I'm going to have to get some track listing details, etc (locations?) of some of those DVDs... some came with details, others are tantalisingly vague. Oh, and did you manage to get that Team Holden shirt you were after? 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: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:53:44 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: Ginn Again Nooooo... nonononono... Document belongs in a trough? God, no! I was listening to it just the other day and was quite shocked at its relevance. Cappy, I beg you to relisten! My favourite REM album is far and away Murmur, with either Fables or Pageant a close second. REM suck point? I think the germs landed during Green with the rot setting in on Out of Time... Cheers Matt >From: Capuchin . oh, with that little dip down into the >trough where Document belongs (though that dip is still above the >consecutive low marks of Out of Time, Automatic for the People and Monster >-- after which I stopped bothering). > >J. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch better and keep protected online with MSNs NEW all-in-one Premium Services. Find out more here. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:59:17 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Ginn Again I saw REM open for the Police on the Synchronicity tour(with Joan Jett and Madness). They went on early when there were a few hundred people there. I had never heard of them prior to that and I immediately bought Murmur. I like the first three albums and that's it, after that I find them annoying. Kathy likes them, we went to see them on this last tour, it was okay but I sure as heck didn't get the same feeling I did all those years ago. Max _________________________________________________________________ All the action. All the drama. Get NCAA hoops coverage at MSN Sports by ESPN. http://msn.espn.go.com/index.html?partnersite=espn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:05:24 -0600 From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: 'Eavy metal rawker Here's my list: Arena Rawk: Girlschool, Fastway (singer performed entire show with his fly open), Judas Priest (twice), Van Halen (4 times, with Diamond Dave), AC/DC, two festivals in New Orlean's Superdome in the early 80s which included Ted Nugent, Foghat, Heart, Cheap Trick; Megadeth (had backstage passes but walked out early, frighteningly dull band), Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Rush, I'm sure a few embarassing others. Alterna-metal: KK Null, Napalm Death, Godflesh, Eyehategod, GWAR, Exhorder (sat next to their drummer in Music Appreciation class at LSU; one day said to me, "Check out this song I just wrote, it's called 'Slaughter in the Vatican'"), COC, DRI, Black Flag, No Trend, Johnboy, Unsane, Foetus, blah blah blah. Man, my ears are ringing now. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:57:33 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: 'Eavy metal rawker Ghosts from my 'Eavy metal past: Black Sabbath (twice in 1971), Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes. These bands would also rate as the loudest bands I ever heard. Not exactly 'Eavy Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band (3 times, including the Friday night Live Bullet concert from Cobo Hall, September 1975). Johnny Winter And, Edgar Winter and White Trash (both at the same concert in May of 1971, Rick Derringer played guitar with both bands). Before he joined Squeeze Rawk: I saw Ace once in 1975, with Paul Carrack. They were touring during the time that the hit "How Long" was on the charts. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:27:24 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Cliff! Cliff Richard actually did have a period of minor U.S. popularity, around the turn of the '70s: "We Don't Talk Anymore," "A Little in Love," "Suddenly" (a duet with Olivia Newton-John)... I think all of these were hits for him on these shores. I think "Devil Woman" was a hit in '76, too. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:50:16 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Arc of a dive Eb's artist-without-an-arc: >>Throwing Muses? Their catalog is awfully up-and-down-and-up-and-down.... Wlllll... just how down are those downs? I mean, I see what you mean, buy I wouldn't call any of the off records abysmal. Arc-less artists... that guy who used to be in the Soft Boys is kind of unpredictable... you know, what's his name... James: >>The covers feature (1) purple ripples (or isobars) against a >>sea of red crayon, and (2) a line of blue crescents, like the moon >>trapped in a room of mirrors - bold diagonals in purple and lateral >>shafts of green break the eerie three-dimensionality of the scene. I >>can see the influence of Willem de Kooning, Lucio Fontana, and Sesame >>Street. Sweet. The latter is a fave of mine. Funny that you should randomly receive that one just as your painting exhibition opens, as I'm about to embark on a painting of my own based on those crescents... and that's a nice description of them indeed! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:57:11 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Cliff! On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:27:24 -0600, "Miles Goosens" said: > Cliff Richard actually did have a period of minor U.S. popularity, around > the turn of the '70s: "We Don't Talk Anymore," "A Little in Love," > "Suddenly" (a duet with Olivia Newton-John)... I think all of these were > hits for him on these shores. > > I think "Devil Woman" was a hit in '76, too. Is that the same song Ringo sang? Still, I can't call to mind any of the tracks you mention...pretty minor at best. Certainly, nothing like the *top-selling artist* he was in England! - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:58:03 -0500 From: Tom Rodebaugh Subject: re: tinfoil thoths! dolph wrote: >tlr3 - "Second Chance" > See, this is why I like REALLY independent music. You get > combinations of >textures way beyond what people driven by bottom-line economics would come >up with. This is a WICKED chord sequence, matched by a vocal performance >that makes me think of Peter Lorre in "M". The word 'lurker' takes on new >meaning. well, er, uh, thanks! i'm listening to this disc right this minute. if y'all don't have it, y'all should get yourself some. i love the booklet. i like all the songs so far, esp. the rainland song, which is, like, ridiculously catchy. as is natalie jane. er, the song. and let's hear it for fegsynth! here i was afraid that my instruments would stick out like a sore thumb. . . of perhaps historical interest is the fact that, between the time that rex got my info and the time this disc came out, mp3.com imploded--and i failed to mention this to rex. so, if anyone should have the peculiar desire to hear more tlr3, it would be better to email me. i'd sure trade original music with anybody i've heard on this disc so far. . . cheers, tom Thomas Rodebaugh Postdoctoral Fellow Adult Anxiety Clinic Temple University (215) 204 1575 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:04:21 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Thoths Compiler Breaks Silence (sic) Dolph On Thoths (say it out loud, it's fun!): >>Dolph Chaney - "Status Unknown" >>Not his best work, but damn if that Cool Edit Pro bell stuff doesn't work like gangbusters. My wife's favorite thing on the comp. Which is saying something given (A) how many times she was subjected to various drafts of this record, and (B) the fact that it was the lead-off track on every single version. "I deny it... categorically / I avoid it... matadorically" may take couplet-of-the-comp prize. >>Lazerlove5 - "Jennifer" >>The word "cortex" should be in more choruses. Fun fun! I believe the vocal technique which opens each verse is what the dB's used to call "dive bombing"; most folks would just call it an enviable hook. >>James Dignan - "She Doesn't Need To Say What's On Her Mind" >>I find myself doubly jealous of this song -- both to write something this pure >>and to feel such love as is behind this. It was all I could do upon hearing this to restrain myself from adding "the McGuinn part". I got the 12-string, I got the compression pedal... but man, it's just lovely as it is, isn't it? I'll save it for the live collaboration at the album release party. >>Rainland - "Fort Ashby" >>Oh, I get it now. Rex wanted to put together a mix CD in order to show us >>all up. Goddamn, this is good. Thanks... but I feel no need to show anyone up; I'm a Knight of the Golden Horseshoe, blessed with all the humility the title implies. >>The New Moon - "Dark Matter" >>Why isn't 'space rock' this smart usually? Tremendous lyrics and (again) great bass playing. Yo, Matt... more, please. The New Moon's whole EP is ace... everybody pester Mr. Sewell for a copy. If you luck out you'll get to hear this track without my wiggy little edit on the second line of the vocal. >>Michael Wells - "Lullaby for Two" >>I get the feel as if one's great-friend-who-plays-guitar has a dozen friends around and >>has FINALLY been convinced to bust out some guitarage after the seventh or >>eighth beer. After which everyone else at the party vows to hang up the ax forever. That there is some sweet pickin'. >>Monkey Typing Pool - "Lawns & Industry" >>My favorite moment of this is the start of the 1st chorus, which suddenly >>gets all tremolo. The miracle of Retro-DFW! I believe Jeffrey is the only feg to send me his entire recorded oeuvre... which doesn't make picking a track any too easy. Nor did the fact that each tune came replete with liner notes so rich in wit and history that it's a damned shame nobody but li'l' old me has ever read them! >>The Popsicle Thieves - "Touch You Natalie Jane" >>Oh my God, this is my new favorite song. [...] Chord changes >>pull the rug out at many turns, every instrument's playing a melody, just >an outstanding pop achievement in every conceivable way. Astonishingly, with all those chords in there, Brian also managed a "remix" entitled "FYNJ" which seems to have *just one chord*. Still doesn't have the f-word in it. This song is just killer. >>tlr3 - "Second Chance" >>This is a WICKED chord sequence, matched by a vocal performance >>that makes me think of Peter Lorre in "M". I did a guessing game with Tom as to his influences and he had never heard anyone I suggested... including Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, of whom his instrumental pieces strongly reminded me. I'd call this performance downright harrowing, in a good way! >>Mike Runion - "Rope of Days" >>Our revered cone-host has a winner. What is it that Mike's voice is >>calling to remembrance? I pegged it as somewhat Murray Attaway-like and Mike confirmed the influence, so I don't miss every time! I love the way this one builds momentum and power (despite the difficulty that caused in the remastering process). >>Ki Society - "Om Mani Padme Hung" >>I just hope that the chant used as the bed for this hasn't just programmed me to go on a >>killing spree. Luther plays the boogie-woogie. Anyone interested in the full-length version of this track should contact the man himself... my edit unfortunately elides a very different evolution of the track which really should be heard. >>Blatzman & Friends - "Five Was The Time" >>I'm a Blatzman / There Goes Bill fan from way back, Gahhh! So *you're* the guy! Obi-Wan Kenobi... now there's a name I haven't heard for a long time... a long time. >>Dave's voice takes me to very happy places, and the lyric is >>wistful wit a fistful. It's no "Ergie Bergie," but it might be my favorite >>Blatz tune. ... "Ergie Bergie"... last heard being sung by yours truly at a *wedding* of all things. Confession: I snuck this Blatztune on the comp without Mr. Santos even knowing it until it was all said and done. Luckily he didn't mind. >>Greg Shell - "Roger The Robot" >>I'm working on choreography for this. Needs to be both robotic and pornographic, per the artist's instructions! >>Michael Godwin - "Carrier Pigeon" >>I know so many Chicago indie-rock bands who'd give their eye-teeth to have >>come up with this. Godders vied with Jeffrey for the most-vintage-est contribution; I forget who won. This puts me in the mind of Dreamtime-era Tom Verlaine doing T-Rex. Probably just me, but a good thing in my book. >>Brian Nupp - "Gliding" >>Nuppy-boo: between "Jennifer" and this one, you are one SERIOUSLY >>messed-up dude. Keep it up. I want a whole CD of shifts this big. Seriously! The dichotomy between these two tracks pretty much necessitated the inclusion of both. This one can bend men's minds to its sordid will, let me tell you. >>Blind Mathew Brady - "Badger Skull Tableau" >>Mr. McCleary is the 3rd Feg here whose non-Robyn-cover music I'd had the >>pleasure of enjoying before now, but this has a grander scope than anything >>else I've heard by him. Scott described it as "not a midtempo ditty in D", and I can't argue. I love this piece, and I also love the fact that his submission arrived as an EP, "Two Feg Songs", complete with its own catalog number. Seriously... I have a *lot* of nice one-of-a-kind CD's as a result of this endeavor. >>Rectifier - "The Perfume Makers" >>it fills the "one thousand foot tall guitars" criterion which he values particularly. I >>kept looking for a Zippo to hold aloft, but alas... Great stuff. Yeah, gives the record some balls, huh? I'd love to hear more from these guys, but this is all I got. Twice, actually... the kids buried my first copy, and it still hasn't surfaced. >>Rex Broome & His Living Room Demons - "Bagfoot Run" >>A tremendous amount of insight into the history of illicit >>pharmaceuticals here as well -- tell me about your drugs, indeed. Well... there really *was* not that much to do. >>James Dignan - "I Know The Felt Of Judas" >>Knowing the situation that inspired this caused me to crack up mightily, but on its own >>it's just a terrific, bewildering song. And kind of scary, frankly... rather chipper-sounding for something that could be lifted from an apocalyptic religious pamphlet. Be honest, James... Cthulhu helped on this one, right? Johnny Cash may have missed it, but Alan Jackson might still pick this one up, if he's lucky, and now that you know who he is! >>food For friends - "Learned My Lesson Well" >>Sebastian, if this is you singing in an uncomfortably low register, I have >>got to hear you singing something in your range! I'm so glad this made it on the disc... it sort of went missing for a while due to a major brain dysfunction on the compiler's part, and owes its placement this deep into the disc to the fact that I had already printed up half the pages to the booklet and couldn't bear redoing them all. However... it sounds pretty damned good right where it is. >>The Shit Together Band - "What I Like About Puke" >>Awwwwwwww, this is adorable. Masked and anonymous... >>Ki Society - "Gong" >>I'd like to see Gong do a song called "Ki Society" and have Daevid Allen >>come up with lyrics any better. Interestingly Luther had somehow blanked out the very existence of this track! It's still ringing in my ears, though. And now you know... the rest... of... the story. - -Rex Broome, CEO, Astonishing Panda Inferno Records (retired) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:46:55 -0800 (PST) From: Subject: Story Moment the following exchange between myself and the chef took place about one and one-half hours ago. (we were arguing the optimum diameter at which to cook naan.) HIM: you've got to use your brain. ME: i'm using my heart! HIM: you make decision with the *brain*. you can't make decision with heart. you can make decision with your ass...but it's going to stink. you know that? if you make decision with your ass, it'll stink. ME: speak for yourself. [it's the best i could do -- too busy laughing.] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:03:37 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Cliff! On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Fortissimo wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:27:24 -0600, "Miles Goosens" > said: > > Cliff Richard actually did have a period of minor U.S. popularity, > > around the turn of the '70s: "We Don't Talk Anymore," "A Little in > > Love," "Suddenly" (a duet with Olivia Newton-John)... I think all of > > these were hits for him on these shores. > > Still, I can't call to mind any of the tracks you mention...pretty minor > at best. Certainly, nothing like the *top-selling artist* he was in > England! Hell, even _I_ remember "Suddenly" (but none of the others by title)... and I heard a cover the other day of a song I'd never heard before apparently called "Comfortably Numb". So that should say SOMETHING. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:17:10 -0800 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: whoa... >The Popsicle Thieves - Touch You Natalie Jane > Oh my God, this is my new favorite song. As someone who has actually >HUGGED Natalie Jane on multiple occasions (though not multiple enough for >my taste), this makes me smile in ways I haven't in years. Chord changes >pull the rug out at many turns, every instrument's playing a melody, just >an outstanding pop achievement in every conceivable way. Someone really wrote a song about me (or at least, with me in the title)??? My god... I can hear my fifteen minutes ticking as we speak! Who are these Popsicle Thieves, anyway? Uh, it's Rex I contact about getting a copy of this, yes? n. np: The new Wilco record (due to be released June 8)!!! Two BIG thumbs-up, so far... I can post a lengthy review if anyone's interested... Miles...? _________________________________________________________________ Get tax tips, tools and access to IRS forms  all in one place at MSN Money! http://moneycentral.msn.com/tax/home.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:06:19 -0800 (PST) From: Groove Puppy Subject: Re: Tinfoil Thoths! First let me say what a great job Rex did in pulling this together. A very disparate, eclectic mix of stuff yet somehow cohesive at the same time. (Stewart Russell on his saw might have added something but we'll never know.) This CD is even better than the Glass Flesh CDs (and they are damned fine) and is much better than I had expected. If you don't own a copy get one somehow. There isn't a single track on hear I don't want to make babies with. Dolph Chaney - "Status Unknown" I don't much like "solo artists" but I make a big exception in Dolph's case. (Oh and that RH dude too.) Plenty weird, even if it weren't for the software tools joining in. Lazerlove5 - "Jennifer" Very RH. Nice distorted bass line. Aren't songs called "Jennifer" supposed to be all nice and cutesy?Hope yer cortex gets better soon. James Dignan - "She Doesn't Need To Say What's On Her Mind" Really like the low harmony on this one. Also like that lo-fi sound. I don't think an expensive production would improve this one. Rainland - "Fort Ashby" I'm struggling to think what this reminds me of but it sucks me back to somewhere in the 80's, but in a good way. What a frikkin' gorgeous pop song. The New Moon - "Dark Matter" Very moody piece IMO. Another strong song with some folky RH overtones. Michael Wells - "Lullaby for Two" This is one of the many pieces on the CD that I think helps bind it all together. Sounds autumnal to me! Monkey Typing Pool - "Lawns & Industry" Like Dolph I love the tremolo-ey chorus. Very Invisible Hitch. I'd like to get the lyrics of this one tho. The Popsicle Thieves - "Touch You Natalie Jane" There was a time when I considered "pop" to be a four letter word but thankfully I got over that. Please tell me you guys have a CD of this kind of stuff. tlr3 - "Second Chance" More IH. One of my fave songs on this CD. Feckin' great. You definitely don't believe he really would "do much better" given a second chance. In fact you'd probably find yourself minus entrails and stuff. Disturbing is good! What is that strange cry at the start? Mike Runion - "Rope of Days" V. cool. Like the extra "Rainman" voice talking in the background. Sounds like the speaker is being recorded while sitting in a corner in the foetus position and rocking to and fro maniacally. Ki Society - "Om Mani Padme Hung" I'm probably too old but I really like good electronic music. This one is sweet. Blatzman & Friends - "Five Was The Time" Feckin' great bass line, feckin' marvelous pop song. What an amazing CD this is turning out. Greg Shell - "Roger The Robot" I haven't figured out how to drive ReBirth properly yet. Greg obviously has! Robot porn soundtrack indeed. I'm getting all turned on. Michael Godwin - "Carrier Pigeon" Oh, but this is truly a marvellous song, 'specially with that lo-fi sound. Please tell me you have more of this. Makes me think of Gong or Traffic but good though! Brian Nupp - "Gliding" So you're Tom Waits' brother then? :) Especially likeable since it is (according to the liner notes) completely ad-lib'd. Blind Mathew Brady - "Badger Skull Tableau" Top marks. Always like TMCs "Filigree & Shadow" (one of my top 3 albums) which had some nice ambient pieces. Hearing EAR support the Soft Boys in sunny Glasgow made me appreciate even more that you don't need rhythm to produce cool music. Very different from that other badger song. (Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, ....) Rectifier - "The Perfume Makers" Wish I'd mi'c the guitars instead of DI'ing. Oh well. Kind of Dapeachy Mode meets VAST but in an optimistic way. Again, apologies to my bruv and our singer for what I did to a lovely old song. Oh and thanks to Rex for the song sequence. It almost sounds cool coming in after BST. Rex Broome & His Living Room Demons - "Bagfoot Run" Uhm! Yes! What I really liked was the liner notes that indicated you did this to entertain your young daughter but did so by getting rat-arsed and singing "lonesome homo blues" and listing options for substance abuse. A parenting lesson for us all there. :) James Dignan - "I Know The Felt Of Judas" Sounds like you synthesized your voice down an octave for this one. "I taste the weight of Zebedee"? But then, don't we all? food For friends - "Learned My Lesson Well" Nice bouncy little song. Manic programmed drums are always schweet. Also liked yer version of "Good Time Together" on the web site. The Shit Together Band - "What I Like About Puke" Obviously this is way better than the original. How you did this without collapsing in fits of laughter is beyond me. Or maybe you did on the previous 35 takes! Ki Society - "Gong" "Time for tea", said Zebedee. (H) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:36:30 EST From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Lord of the Rings slightly condensed (0% RH) http://fun.from.hell.pl/2004-03-19/LOTR.gif ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:13:30 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: whoa... > Someone really wrote a song about me (or at least, with me in > the title)??? My god... I can hear my fifteen minutes ticking as we speak! > Who are these Popsicle Thieves, anyway? They are me. So, the song isn't really *about* Natalie so much as it's about how fun it is to sing "Fuck You Natalie Jane", and later how weird it is to sing that, and finally how much less weird it is to sing "touch" in place of "fuck". Anyway, Natalie need not be worried that I'm stalking her, singable though her name may be. I am, however, stalking Tom Clark. > Uh, it's Rex I contact about getting a copy of this, yes? It is, and you should, because it really is a wonderful collection. Rex has done a great job, beautiful booklet, and a consistently entertaining and surprising selection of songs. I'll save my track by track review until I've spent more time with it, but I agree with a lot of what Dolph and Jeff have already said. Thanks for all the hard work, Rex! +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #93 *******************************