From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #94 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, March 27 2004 Volume 13 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The weekly Wonderfalls battle ;) [Eb ] Brief review ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Thoths Compiler Breaks Silence (sic) [grutness@surf4nix.com] Speaking of indie reissues... ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] MBV [Eb ] Usenet lore [Eb ] yes, one more [Eb ] Re: yes, one more [Jon Lewis ] Re: Arc of a dive [Jon Lewis ] Re: Cliff! [Jon Lewis ] Re: deadman [Eb ] Re: Freak scene... [Jon Lewis ] Re: Arc of a dive ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Arc of a dive [Capuchin ] My night of TV-watching [Jon Lewis ] Too good not to (Politics, NR) [steve ] Re: Arc of a dive [Jon Lewis ] Re: Arc of a dive [Jon Lewis ] Re: Arc of a dive [Jon Lewis ] Re: Too good not to (Politics, NR) [Jon Lewis ] Re: Cliff! [Vendren ] Re: Arc of a dive [Capuchin ] Re: Too good not to (Politics, NR) ["Stewart C. Russell" ] radio radio [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: Tinfoil Thoths! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Arc of a dive [Miles Goosens ] Re: Arc of a dive ["Fortissimo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:50:00 -0800 From: Eb Subject: The weekly Wonderfalls battle ;) OK, the ending was good, but it was awfully dull through a large stretch of the middle. The bartender remains flavorless and dull. Just another nice white guy. Who cares? Lorelei's Luke could kick his ass, any day. ;) I still think the lesbian sister needs a bigger part. Grade: B, with a B+ for the last 10 minutes or so It's interesting how *obviously* the theme is an Andy Partridge tune. It's always hard to pinpoint what makes his style so distinctive -- something in the vocal cadence, or the irregular interval jumps in the bass notes -- but, boy, that sure is Andy through and through. Peripheral viewing note: I finally saw "Donnie Darko" last night, and really enjoyed that one a lot. Almost *painfully* compelling. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 03:32:36 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Brief review I just got back from the Hitchcock/Howe Gelb/Zsa Zsa's show at the Club Congress in Tucson. Michele's art exhibition was fairly small but enjoyable. Robyn seemed to be in a good mood and visited with many of the people who showed up early. He talked to my friend Greg and me for a bit. We also hung out with Brian from the RobynHitchcockClub most of the evening. While we were waiting, the club played most of the first Big Star album. The show started with Robyn and Howe Gelb playing songs written for the exhibition with the theme "The Javelina's Sugar Tongs". Robyn alternated between his acoustic and electric guitars. Howe played a dobro, an electric, and keyboards. For the most part, this was a blues set with lots of slide guitar. The new song titles are approximate. (extended blues intro with feedback) The Javilina Lost His Sugar Tongs Solpadeine Mel the Cactus (Mel the Christ) The Ocean (Velvet Underground)--Robyn on electric The Hummingbird and the Saguaro (The Sugar Tongs Minuet) - ----------------------------------- break - ---------------------------------- Zsa Zsa's set (basic guitar, bass, drummer, singer 4 piece band) medley--Amsterdam (Bowie)/2525 (Zager & Evans)/Nights in White Satin(Moody Blues)/Dust in the Wind (Kansas)/Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot)/Amsterdam reprise (re-enter Robyn) Madonna of the Wasps Oceanside Rain (Beatles) I Got a Feeling (Beatles) Raymond Chandler Evening Viva Sea-Tac I Wanna Destroy You She Said, She Said (Beatles) (add Nick ? on keyboards) medley 1--Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees)/Listening to the Higsons/Golden Years (Bowie) medley 2--Sound & Vision (Bowie)/Rock Me Baby (?)/In Love with a Beautiful Woman (?) - ---------------------------------------------- long break/show over? - --------------------------------------------- Robyn came back solo and played his electric again "I just want to play a couple of songs for Michele." New Age--the Velvet Underground I Feel Beautiful Overall, a great night, with a bit of a Largo feel to it. The blues set at the beginning was very unusual and kind of loose feeling. The Zsa Zsa's were a lot of fun in both their medley and when backing Robyn. For people who have been saying that Robyn needs to record with a band again, this one would work well, at least it was great live. Time for sleep, Marc To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing." This is truth, to me. Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:18:14 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Thoths Compiler Breaks Silence (sic) Rex wrote: > >>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. I want to hear that part!!! Any way of dubbing it over the top and sending it back to me? > >>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? sh! There are names that should not be spoken! >Astonishing Panda Inferno Records man, that'll look good on the CV... That groovy puppy added: >James Dignan - "I Know The Felt Of Judas" >Sounds like you synthesized your voice down an octave >for this one. nope, just near the lower end of my range. I'm naturally baritone, but I tend to sing 'up' for most songs. James now listening to Robyn singing "Ring my bell". I am shocked. - -- 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: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:33:54 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Speaking of indie reissues... Matador is reissuing Mission of Burma's next album on SACD. Maybe this means they're testing the waters for SACD reissues of their back catalog. < http://tinyurl.com/2lset> Oh, and My Bloody Valentine (remember them?) are reissuing a 2xCD compilation of rare EPs and Kevin Shield's bong-addled noodling. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:45:15 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: RE: whoa... On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:13:30 -0600, "Brian Huddell" said: > > Who are these Popsicle Thieves, anyway? > > They are me. First, once more: congratulations - I really love your song. Do you have any more material available? > 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. That's one of the cool things about the song - the way a lot of its phrasing seems to come from rhythms of the name "Natalie Jane." - ------------------------------- ...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: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:15:24 -0800 From: Eb Subject: MBV Hm, glad you posted that My Bloody Valentine news, if only because I didn't know about that spiffy new MBV website until now. They were always horribly underrepresented on the Web before...fansites which hadn't been updated in years.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:21:54 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Usenet lore > From: "Sally G. Waters" > Subject: Ben's comeback Jersey Girl goes splat on Rottentomatoes.com > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:03:21 GMT > Newsgroups: > alt.gossip.celebrities,alt.showbiz.gossip,rec.arts.movies.current-films > > I've come up with a really simple standard: if a commercial for anything > uses either "Walking on Sunshine" or "What I Like About You" as the music, > I'm passing on it. Those songs are now used for everything in sight, and I'm > sick to death of them. The minute "Jersey Girl" ads started bombarding > me with Katrina and the Waves, I knew I wouldn't go. > > Sally ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:30:06 -0800 From: Eb Subject: yes, one more Did anyone reap Jan "Jan & Dean" Berry yet? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:27:12 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: yes, one more On Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Eb wrote: > Did anyone reap Jan "Jan & Dean" Berry yet? > > Eb > > Wow. The part in the late 70's Jan & Dean TV biopic when they are revealed as lipsynching onstage was one of the most intense dramaturgical moments of my early life. Right up there with the Little House episode where Albert gets all strung out on morphine. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:37:07 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Arc of a dive > Arc-less artists... that guy who used to be in the Soft Boys is kind > of unpredictable... you know, what's his name... > I was going to point out the same thing when this thread started. RH is a fairly quantum artist, with unpredictable, asymmetrical leaps in quality from one release to the next. One of the reasons I always pony up for his latest, I guess. I guess he does have kind of a consistent slump with the Queen Elvis-Perspex Island-Respect period... but no, Eye is squeezed in there for chrissake, and hearing Respect recently for the first time in several years made me think I was just too much in my early twenties at the time of its release to appreciate its considerable qualities. I'll be throwing it on regularly in the near future, I think. Pere Ubu seem to have gone through several crests and troughs, starting out insanely elevated with the first singles and Modern Dance, then dipping down into wearisome quirk-for-quirk's sake, but reappearing on high again with the kick-ass Tenement Year. Then they swooped down into excessive pop blandness for a few, but have now climbed back up to intensity and focus with St. Arkansas. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:41:41 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Cliff! On Friday, March 26, 2004, at 11:27 AM, Miles Goosens wrote: > 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. > > "We Don't Talk Anymore" was so all over top 40 radio when I was 9 or 10... when I hear it now it evokes weird unidentifiable ur-feelings. Almost all the super-sparkly-smooth-bland MOR from that era does so, actually. Throw on "What A Fool Believes" and I might as well be smelling madeleines. But what a strange organ sound on that Cliff song... Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:42:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: deadman > Wow. The part in the late 70's Jan & Dean TV biopic when they are > revealed as lipsynching onstage was one of the most intense > dramaturgical moments of my early life. Uh, how so? Coincidentally, I saw about half of that movie within the past month. I always forget which one of them had the car accident, and have to recheck.... > Right up there with the Little House episode where Albert gets all > strung out on morphine. > That is truly godhead. I have a tape of the horrific "barfing sloppy white stuff" scene somewhere. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:47:11 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Freak scene... On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 08:50 PM, Rex.Broome wrote: > > > The Dinosaur chapter in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" is among the > most entertaining, concerning as it does the Barlow years. The story > of the "Cookie Monster Incident" alone was worth the cover price to > me. > > My favorites were the Minutemen chapter and the Black Flag one, the latter so disturbingly redolent of So Cal speed-paranoia, skinhead nihilism and murderous boredom. And let's cut Greg a little slack for having brainbirthed My War, surely one of the most essential guitar records of the decade. I sure wish we still had him as an angular psych-trash guitarist instead of reclusive businessman. Man, I loved that whole book. It's surely The Banquet Years of my partickler generation. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:05:05 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Arc of a dive On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:37:07 -0500, "Jon Lewis" said: > > Arc-less artists... that guy who used to be in the Soft Boys is kind > > of unpredictable... you know, what's his name... > > > I was going to point out the same thing when this thread started. RH > is a fairly quantum artist, with unpredictable, asymmetrical leaps in > quality from one release to the next. One of the reasons I always pony > up for his latest, I guess. I guess he does have kind of a consistent > slump with the Queen Elvis-Perspex Island-Respect period You did know you were going to get this kind of response, no: Waddaya mean _Respect_ is a part of a "slump"? I love that record (except for "Wafflehead"), with its weird semi-acoustic approach to rock'n'roll, and the 'gyptians in fine harmonic form, particularly on "Driving Aloud." Plus "The Wreck of the Arthur Lee"! *sigh*. Re Cliff R.'s US hits...must have come around the time I stopped listening to commercial radio - because I just can't call them to mind. If I were curious enough, I suppose I could try to dig up an mp3 online somewhere, just to see if they sound at all like anything I've heard before... - ------------------------------- ...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 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:13:21 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Arc of a dive On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Jon Lewis wrote: > I was going to point out the same thing when this thread started. RH > is a fairly quantum artist, with unpredictable, asymmetrical leaps in > quality from one release to the next. But, with the exception of his most recent couple of sappy schlock records, they've always been at a fairly high mark (as was also pointed out in this thread). The variance is more statistical anamoly along a smooth line than spike and dip. > One of the reasons I always pony up for his latest, I guess. I haven't picked up Robyn Sings or anything after... I have high hopes for the new one, though. > I guess he does have kind of a consistent slump with the Queen > Elvis-Perspex Island-Respect period... And yet, Queen Elvis and Respect are several folks' favorite records around here. > hearing Respect recently for the first time in several years made me > think I was just too much in my early twenties at the time of its > release to appreciate its considerable qualities. Damn straight. Now dig Freeze and One Long Pair of Eyes and The Devil's Coachman and Autumn Sea and and and... J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:27:03 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: My night of TV-watching Welp, last night, after 18 years of intense fandom, I finally got to see Television. It was the second of their two nights at Irving Plaza. JESUS FUCKING SHIT. It's never wise to try to assess such things immediately afterward, but I do believe this was the finest show of my life. They threw off sparks and holy globs of melting silver all night long, with the intensity only ramping further and further up till the main set closer of Marquee Moon, in which Tom's "climbing" solo toward the end was just annihilatingly powerful. Verlaine's playing started out incisive and eloquent, but by the middle of the show he had really warmed up and was just hurling white lightning bolts from the air. You'll take me with a grain of salt since Verlaine is my favorite guitarist in all rockdom and one of my biggest heroes all-round, but I was just feasting on the fact that every single song had substantial soloing from him and none of it dutiful or desultory. He was also very visibly "into it" while holding down the rhythm during Richard Lloyd's solos, though, bearing down obsessively and stomping his foot when Lloyd would really go off. Richard Lloyd's pugilistic playing hits me harder in the "composed" parts during verses and choruses than in his extemporizing. His solos are freakishly intense and frenzied, but can get a bit samey, and end up highlighting how much more Verlaine gets with so many fewer notes. But his playing outside of his solos, in the "written bits", is absolutely incredible, better than Verlaine's in those bits, actually. In verses and choruses it's Lloyd and the astounding Billy Ficca who sell the songs, but Verlaine's the one who reminds you why guitar solos even should exist. Ficca, jeez, I just can't figure out how he slips so much jazziness and wrong-beat fun into an absolutely rock-solid pulse. They did almost all of side 1 of Marquee Moon, three songs from the '92 album, a smattering off Adventure (Dream's Dream was the set opener, Mercy midway through), and three new songs by my count, one of which had a frighteningly ominous and relentless Spaghetti Western feel. There was also an incredible song which I'm pretty sure must've been the previously-unencountered-by-me "Ah Mi Amore". What the hell is that song on, again?? Oh yes, and Little Johnny Jewel, god bless it's brilliant little head. The encore was a medley of a very shaggy rendition of The Rocket and a very slow, herky-jerky, Devo-ized Psychotic Reaction which both Tom and Richard topped of with their famous loosened-E-string-as-sonic-bowstring trick. Damn, I sure hope I get to see them again sooner than a year. What with all the pat-downs and metal-detector wands at the door of Irving Plaza, I can't imagine anyone tapes last night's show. But has anyone come into any recordings of any of the last few years' worth of shows? Help, I'm fiending. I have some stuff to trade. Rex, did you say there's a label for the forthcoming record? Jon Lewis PS-- I finally got the Live At The Academy CD Fred Smith has put out from the merch table last night (for only $10, very nice). It's from a '92 show, I'm playing it right now, and, mmm, errr, must say it's not in a league with what I heard last night. This band as of now is in incredible live form. Melting silver, guys. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:27:32 -0600 From: steve Subject: Too good not to (Politics, NR) And a bit of a companion piece - - - Steve __________ The official U.S. government message on how citizens should decide about going to war is, "Don't worry your pretty little heads about it." - - Michael Kinsley ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:32:38 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Arc of a dive On Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 04:05 PM, Fortissimo wrote: > > You did know you were going to get this kind of response, no: Waddaya > mean _Respect_ is a part of a "slump"? I love that record (except for > "Wafflehead"), with its weird semi-acoustic approach to rock'n'roll, > and > the 'gyptians in fine harmonic form, particularly on "Driving Aloud." > Plus "The Wreck of the Arthur Lee"! > > Dude, I recanted in the very next sentence. Have mercy! Plus, even at my most benighted I was ALWAYS giving major props to "Yip", "Arms", "Wreck", and "Serpent". It's the others that I'm starting to "get". However, "Wafflehead" still sucks. I think I'll drop in "Eerie Green Storm Lantern" in its place. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:34:13 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Arc of a dive On Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 04:05 PM, Fortissimo wrote: > > You did know you were going to get this kind of response, no: Waddaya > mean _Respect_ is a part of a "slump"? I love that record (except for > "Wafflehead"), with its weird semi-acoustic approach to rock'n'roll, > and > the 'gyptians in fine harmonic form, particularly on "Driving Aloud." > Plus "The Wreck of the Arthur Lee"! > > Dude, I recanted in the very next sentence. Have mercy! Plus, even at my most benighted I was ALWAYS giving major props to "Yip", "Arms", "Wreck", and "Serpent". It's the others that I'm starting to "get". However, "Wafflehead" still sucks. I think I'll drop in "Eerie Green Storm Lantern" in its place. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:44:28 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Arc of a dive On Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 04:13 PM, Capuchin wrote: > > I haven't picked up Robyn Sings or anything after... I have high hopes > for the new one, though. I still insist you'll all be begging me in ten years to forgive you for your tragic misapprehensions of Luxor's brilliance! It's RH's John Wesley Harding. It only SEEMS to be doing nothing. Uh, that's John Wesley Harding the album, mind you, not the bloke. However, there is not a problem with your equipment: "Ant Corridor" does suck. > >> I guess he does have kind of a consistent slump with the Queen >> Elvis-Perspex Island-Respect period... > > And yet, Queen Elvis and Respect are several folks' favorite records > around here. Well, Queen Elvis is one I've veered peculiarly hard on over the years. There have been times I've adored it and times I've been convinced it's a bad imitation of Robyn by Robyn. Love those strings, though, and wish he's use 'em more often. Once I get over the feeling, induced by last night's concert, that there is no music besides Television/Verlaine, I'll play Queen Elvis. It's been a lil' while. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:56:22 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Too good not to (Politics, NR) On Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 04:27 PM, steve wrote: > > > And a bit of a companion piece - > > I'd like the Atlantic to put that piece in the print edition. Normally I value that magazine for the fact that it prints articles from both left and right, but the left views have been a little absent the last few times I've read it. I actually end up buying Atlantic more often than Harper's, simply because it seems like more of a dialogue and less of a sermon to the choir (mind you, in the case of Harper's, I myself am one of the choir.) Atlantic usually has more non-fictional stuff in each issue, too, which is what I'm mainly after, and its articles tend to be more thorough, although drier. Harper's I'll buy if Thomas Frank's in it. Meanwhile, I've come to really value the journalism in the New Yorker in the last few years, more than either of the other mags. I heart William Finnegan! Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:08:10 -0800 From: Vendren Subject: Re: Cliff! I don't know about the US, but in Canada he's only had one real hit that I can recall, a fluffy pop song called "Dreamin'" that was inescapable in the very early 80s. The video still gets airplay on retro shows. If it didn't get to #1 here, it must have got awful close. Palle > 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: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:16:31 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Arc of a dive On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Jon Lewis wrote: > However, "Wafflehead" still sucks. I think I'll drop in "Eerie Green > Storm Lantern" in its place. Phew... I think our tastes are orthogonal. Maybe I won't bother listening to Television after all. Eerie Green Storm Lantern is what I'd call dull "Robyn on Robyn", whereas Wafflehead is just fucking around in the kitchen and somehow very sexy in its ickiness. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:24:06 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Too good not to (Politics, NR) steve wrote: > what caught my eye was not the article, but the ad next to it, for a resort: "How can a place so easy to reach be so difficult to leave? -- The Broadmoor". Broadmoor, to anyone from the UK, is the famous high-security special hospital for psychiatric patients "of dangerous, violent or criminal propensities". Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:38:40 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Arc of a dive On Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 05:16 PM, Capuchin wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Jon Lewis wrote: >> However, "Wafflehead" still sucks. I think I'll drop in "Eerie Green >> Storm Lantern" in its place. > > Phew... I think our tastes are orthogonal. Maybe I won't bother > listening > to Television after all. > > Eerie Green Storm Lantern is what I'd call dull "Robyn on Robyn", > whereas > Wafflehead is just fucking around in the kitchen and somehow very sexy > in > its ickiness. > Lantern's no masterpiece by any means. It's junk, but fun junk, a better instance of whimsical fuck-around Robyn IMO than Wafflehead, which was I why I made that comment. I'll shut up on the matter as I don't want to hamper anyone's impulse to listen to Television right now... Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:59:29 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: radio radio Congratulations to.... Michael Wells - as 9to the best of my knowledge) the first person to have a track off Tinfoil Thoths played on the radio! Second, by about ten minutes, was Greg Shell. I played both "Lullaby for two" and "Roger the robot" on my ambient music show this morning. 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: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:05:04 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Tinfoil Thoths! Groove Puppy wrote: > (Stewart Russell on his saw might have added something but > we'll never know.) I suspect it would have added the "make people eject the CD" something. There's a carefully edited entry for the CD on freedb.org, if anyone cares. Stewart - -- np: The New Moon - Dark Matter ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:08:12 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Arc of a dive Jon Lewis: >>On Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 05:16 PM, Capuchin wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Jon Lewis wrote: >>> However, "Wafflehead" still sucks. I think I'll drop in "Eerie Green >>> Storm Lantern" in its place. >> >> Phew... I think our tastes are orthogonal. Maybe I won't bother >> listening >> to Television after all. >> >> Eerie Green Storm Lantern is what I'd call dull "Robyn on Robyn", >> whereas >> Wafflehead is just fucking around in the kitchen and somehow very sexy >> in >> its ickiness. >> > Lantern's no masterpiece by any means. It's junk, but fun junk, a > better instance of whimsical fuck-around Robyn IMO than Wafflehead, > which was I why I made that comment. No no no no - just switch the places of "Bright Fresh Flower" (CD single b-side) and "Wafflehead" (RESPECT album-ender), and RESPECT picks up a whole half-star just from that move alone. And, to reinstitute my minority opinion, whaddya mean, PERSPEX ISLAND as part of a slump? Now there's your great "Robyn coming to terms with getting older" record, not this LUXOR strumming-about-feelings stuff. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:09:48 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Arc of a dive On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:13:21 -0800 (PST), "Capuchin" said: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Jon Lewis wrote: > > I was going to point out the same thing when this thread started. RH > > is a fairly quantum artist, with unpredictable, asymmetrical leaps in > > quality from one release to the next. > > But, with the exception of his most recent couple of sappy schlock > records, they've always been at a fairly high mark (as was also pointed > out in this thread). The variance is more statistical anamoly along a > smooth line than spike and dip. Uh-and..."smooth line" "arc." QED arclessness. - ------------------------------- ...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. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #94 *******************************