From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #96 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 29 2004 Volume 13 : Number 096 Today's Subjects: ----------------- reap [grutness@surf4nix.com] Thothlehead ["Brian Hoare" ] the feg album [Luther Wills-Dudich ] Re: (Belated) Top Ten Albums of 2003 [Vendren ] Re: whoa... [Tom Clark ] Chernobyl - 18 years later [Tom Clark ] Re: Usenet lore [Tom Clark ] The Non-Thoth Related Post ["Rex.Broome" ] Album closers (Robyn content!) ["Rex.Broome" ] The Thothy Times ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: The Non-Thoth Related Post [Jon Lewis ] Re: (Belated) Top Ten Albums of 2003 [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:06:40 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: reap Someone's bound to have beaten me to this one, but: Sir Peter Ustinov, 82. 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: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:45:28 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Thothlehead >From: Dolph Chaney >Honestly, I think the only way to listen to Nextdoorland is with Side 3 >coming after. I even burned them to one CD to make it easier. Lions & >Tigers is a side-closer but not an album-closer; it's as if you ended the >White Album with "Long Long Long." I ended up using all but lions & tigers from NDL followed by the first four tracks of Side 3, which works very well for me. Om makes a fine closer. Wafflehead is a fine track, just not for everyday consumption. For me Respect falls into Jeme's category of albums that aren't as good as the songs on them. There isn't a poor song on it, in fact there are some very goods on it but I don't often get the urge to play it. As for Tinfoil Toths, much has been written that renders much of what I would write redundant. I'll simply say that its been 3 times round in cd player and looks like staying on hand for a good while. And of course thanks and praise again to Rex for putting it all together so well. Brian _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:18:59 -0800 (PST) From: Luther Wills-Dudich Subject: the feg album Ok, I've listened to my copy. My fellow fegs, we are an AMAZING group of song-writers. From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Tinfoil Thoths! Dolph Chaney - "Status Unknown" Not his best work, but damn if that Cool Edit Pro bell stuff doesn't work like gangbusters. - ---It's a nice tune...but I keep hearing in my mind (where-ever that is) a lush arrangement of this...Dolph, would you mind a Ki Society remix of this track? Lazerlove5 - "Jennifer" The word "cortex" should be in more choruses. Fun fun! - ---"Smash my cortex"...I love it! 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. 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. Among its less obvious high points is the great bass line -- simple sounding but full of unexpected note choices that give the arrangement a lot of subtle surprise. - ---REX...this is BRILLIANT! I wish I could've written or recording something HALF this good. I keep playing this over and over. It keeps making me cry and I don't know why. "It's coming back to me" indeed! The New Moon - "Dark Matter" Why isn't 'space rock' this smart usually? Tremendous lyrics and (again) great bass playing. - -I love the "you can't see the darkness" chorus.----Normally, this kind of subject matter would be VERY pretentious, but it works. Michael Wells - "Lullaby for Two" Yes, I like this very much -- Chicago, represent! 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. Nice nice nice. - ---I agree. Someone learned Robyn's "Chinese Water Python", and did it one better. Monkey Typing Pool - "Lawns & Industry" My favorite moment of this is the start of the 1st chorus, which suddenly gets all tremolo. Overall, the piece makes me think of what would happen if Jack Bruce had all his fingers broken but still had to fulfill a date guesting with GBV or early Sebadoh. - ---This is a REALLY bizarre song. 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. - ---No argument there. While the very beginning reminded me a LOT of Elvis Costello's "No Action", I really like the direction is veered into. 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. - ---This track made me think, for some reason, of Gary Numan's "Telekon" album. Mike Runion - "Rope of Days" Our revered cone-host has a winner. What is it that Mike's voice is calling to remembrance? I think it's Chris Knox more than anyone else wryness rules. (Both Mike and Mr. Knox remind me of Lindsey Buckingham around TUSK, but I know not everyone would consider that a compliment the way I intend it.) - ----Damn, I wish I had half the way with words you do. Ki Society - "Om Mani Padme Hung" This was TREMENDOUS help during work today. I just hope that the chant used as the bed for this hasn't just programmed me to go on a killing spree. Whatever the intent, it is now imprinted. - ---This mantra will not make you go on a killing spree. However, you may get seized with the unstoppable urge to help little old ladies across the street and smile at strangers a lot for no particular reason. Btw, there should be a new mix of this track (with the haunting outro that unfortunately got cut from the CD) on-line in the next couple of weeks, along with more Ki SOciety music. Blatzman & Friends - "Five Was The Time" I'm a Blatzman / There Goes Bill fan from way back, and this is top-notch Blatzage. 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. Dude, you oughta be SO FAMOUS. - ---THat "you gave up on life" outro is stuck in mind..... Greg Shell - "Roger The Robot" I'm working on choreography for this. - -----"I'm the operator with my pocket calculator". :) Kraftwerk on Line one. (that's a complement). Michael Godwin - "Carrier Pigeon" I know so many Chicago indie-rock bands who'd give their eye-teeth to have come up with this. My ass is shakin', uh huh, uh huh. There are some REALLY bizarre chord changes in there. 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. - ---MC 900 Foot Jesus on line 2. (This is also a complement). It's so nice to know that Pablo Picasso, besides never being called an asshole, also "played poker with Vincent Van Gogh". 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. Very well done. - ---I agree....I'm glad this was on there. Rectifier - "The Perfume Makers" I will make sure the fabled Ed Doxtator hears this; 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. - ---The outro for this is great........ RAWK!!! RAWK! Rex Broome & His Living Room Demons - "Bagfoot Run" CHRIST, Rex, first "Fort Ashby" and now this? No fair. I had to clean my toenails twice. - --VERY nice- makes me wish I had submitted the train song my old band did (which several people on here heard Number Nine Line perform), Virginia Creeper. A tiny rail-geek question- which railroad? Baltimore and Ohio or Western Maryland? :) 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. - ---"We're not worthy! We're not worthy!" 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! Very Athens GA in feel (I'm thinking of Pylon in particular). Again, it's the bass playing that's doing it to me the most. - ------I agree. The Shit Together Band - "What I Like About Puke" Awwwwwwww, this is adorable. - ---Unfortunately, I listened to this for the first time at my parents house...my wife and I were laughing, my parents were scratching their heads. Dad- "Sounds like Weird Al".:) The Romantics (or whoever the hell owns the rights to their songs now) get the "Respect" they deserve. (not) Ki Society - "Gong" I'd like to see Gong do a song called "Ki Society" and have David Allen come up with lyrics any better. - ----HE HE HE. Everyone, we are a REALLY talented bunch...Maybe I missed a thread on this when I was getting settled after my job got cut, but has anyone got ideas on how to get this stuff to a wider audience? A lot of this music just BEGS to be heard by more than fegs. - -LWWD Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:38:59 -0800 From: Vendren Subject: Re: (Belated) Top Ten Albums of 2003 Subject: (Belated) Top Ten Albums of 2003 > Best Albums I bought in 2003: > 1. Neutral Milk Hotel - The Aeroplane Over The Sea (1997). How did I live without this before? I think I listened to this everyday for like 6 months. That's a pretty cool disc. I didn't hear it until last year myself. > Best 2003 Albums: I have a list too! I think I joined this group after all the best of 2003 talk was bandied about. So even more belatedly, my top 15 (I can never get it down to 10): 1. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress Wow! I love every track on this album. Every note, every lyric, every arrangement. This album is just bursting with creative energy, and bubbling over with their love of pop. With every listen I'm amazed at the number of hooks packed into this album. Not only my fave disc of 2003, this is becoming one of my all-time favourite albums. 2. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power Until "Catastrophe" came out I was sure this was a lock as my favourite disc for the year. Rather than getting rid of their trademark strangeness, they' ve subverted it into seamless pop wholes. Gorgeous melodies, lush instrumentation, complex arrangements. Moves from Gram Parson's-type country and beach boy's singalongs to soul, metal and electronica so seamlessly, you barely notice when an electronic song is suddenly all acoustic, or the other way around. Beautifully sung throughout. 3. Holopaw - Holopaw Whereas Wilco made electronics into country a sonic experiment, Holopaw make the electronics sound like they were always there - the blips and bursts sound like echoes of the past. Songs of fragile beauty, married to somber, even creepy lyrics. Everything from Sub Pop is interesting these days. 4. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves I remain baffled by my love of this band. Barn-storming drums, honky tonk pianos, guitar power chords. It's no wonder some people call this Southern Rock. But it isn't. Somehow. Anyway, the minute these guys play it sounds beautiful, and once Jim James opens his mouth and his glorious tenor pours out it's even more beautiful. I get the impression these guys don't even know how gorgeous they sound - they probably think they're rockin'. And they are. I sound like an idiot whenever I talk about this band. 5. The Fruitbats - Mouthfuls Sixty's pop and alt.country from another Sub Pop band. Catchy as hell, with a quaint, rural vibe. Odd, occasionally disturbing lyrics, chamber and country instruments and dashes of electronics, but seamless all the same. Looking forward to their second disc. 6. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State Oddly earnest and sincere disc. Sounds like Michael Moore wrote lyrics for Stereolab meets Sean O'Hagen playing Vince Giraldi on the banjo. Or something. Dense, even avant-guard pop/country music. Oddly beautiful stuff. Worth buying for the cover alone. 7. Essex Green - The Long Goodbye Like B&S, the Essex Green dress their well-written songs within familiar pop palettes. This is miles better than their fist disc - clever, memorable pop hooks, played with energy but tempered with gentle sweetness. There are some great harmonies and chamber pop arrangements throughout. 8. Ladybug Transistor - Ladybug Transistor More sixty's pop meets alt.country. I must have a weakness for this stuff. Not as ornate as their last disc (which I really loved) nor as packed with melodies. Pretty, catchy tunes with a summer-in-the-country vibe. Gary Olson is one of my favourite singers and lyricists around today. 9. Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready To Crumble Electronic bedroom pop, recorded with the cheapest of old casios. And then over-dubbed to hell and back. It sounds like Phil Spector mixing old Human League covers of Beach Boys tunes. I can't wait until this outfit (actually just one guy) get a budget to work with a whole orchestra. 10 songs, totaling under half an hour, of catchy pop gems. 10. The Minus Five - Down With Wilco A very loose sounding disc, wonderfully sloppy at times. Weird lyrics. I've never known a band to try so hard to sound like the solo Beatles of the seventies. This took a while to grow on me, then it became stuck in my changer for months. Actually, it's still in there. 11. The Handsome Family - Singing Bones While not as strong as their previous three proper albums, I still love this disc. I have a real weakness for this band, and their brand of gothic country. The death toll is much lower here than is typical for the Handsomes, but it's still plenty dark, and often quite funny. I so love this band. 12. Josh Rouse - 1972 Rouse tackles about every form of music from AM radio from the year of his birth. And, damn if he isn't convincing at it. His most musically adventurous album to date, and while his lyrics might have fallen off, a strong disc of passionate retro-pop. 13. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway Mark Kozolek's "Neil Young" album. Gentle, sad folk tunes interspersed with a couple tracks of thundering guitars. All of it beautiful and sad and wondrous. 14. High Llamas - Beet, Maize & Corn The Llamas are one of my favourite bands. This album was a bit disappointing for me, and this is the lowest they've ever placed on my annual list. Still, there are moments of beauty here. The strings on "Leaf and Lime" alone keep me listening to this disc. 15. Jim Guthrie - Now More Than Ever A folkie, bedroom recording of reflective songs. Lots of cello and banjo - that sort of thing. Actually, in terms of arrangements, this is one of the more inventive albums I've heard this year. If it didn't end on a couple of weaker songs this might have rated higher. I should also throw in the latest discs from The Strokes and the Dandy Warhols as guilty pleasures. They're probably good enough that I don't need to consider them guilty pleasures, but I do feel guilty when I listen to them all the same. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:34:25 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: whoa... on 3/26/04 6:13 PM, Brian Huddell at bhuddell@bellsouth.net wrote: > 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. Is that you? Whew! And here I thought that noise in the closet was the transient trying to escape! Carry on, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:06:55 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Chernobyl - 18 years later Photo essay through the abandoned area. Eerie. http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:31:40 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Usenet lore on 3/27/04 9:21 AM, Eb at elbroome@earthlink.net wrote: >> 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. >> While I agree that nothing advertised with WoS is anything I would want, I do smile when I see the ads, knowing Kim is swimming in royalties. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:40:52 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: The Non-Thoth Related Post >>"Where we can ostensibly teach our tornado. Fetishist defined by >>cloud formation is curmudgeonly. Now and then,impresario of ignore >>insurance agent from photon." I'm disappointed... I figured the first line of this alone would elicit a Sc*tt M*ller crack from Eb... Nat: >>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...? So I was doing the experimental guitar noise quartet thing at the plumbng shop last night (for those counting that's either the third or fourth current band for me, reformed too late to make it on the Thoths comp), and I heard a rumor that... Nels Cline is now an official Wilco member? This from a guy who sorta knows Nels. Between him and O'Rourke, I guess it turns out the road from Alt-Country to Alt-Experimental is shorter than one would think. I'd quite like to hear a review. Marc H: >>I just got back from the Hitchcock/Howe Gelb/Zsa Zsa's show at the Club >>Congress in Tucson. Thanks as always for the review, Marc. ISTR suggesting the Robyn/Howe collaboration way before this actually happened-- seems like a natural given how both guys' solo shows have evolved recently, so I'm elated that it's somewhat happening. Gelb seems to be everywhere my favorite artists go these days... on the last Kristin Hersh solo disc as well, and when I fell for Neko Case's Blacklisted I was hardly surprised to see that the backing band was largely Howe/Calexico/Giant Sand. I sense a fit of completism coming on where that axis of artists is concerned. Pray for me. Jon L: >>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?? It, um, sorta shows up on the new reissues, but for the most part... bootlegs, my friend. A fair amount of them, in fact. It was in the set the last time I saw Television a few years back as well. >>Rex, did you say there's a label for the forthcoming record? Not that I know of... Llloyd's website actually has the most frequent "news" about ongoing band projects, although one gets the feeling he sometimes talks before he should. But... if it happens... I think the guys should just book a week of shows and record the new stuff live, and release the best performances as the record. Umm, with vocals re-overdubbed later. That would kick so much ass. Seriously. >>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. I think I'd like it much more without the orchestral hoo-ha. It feels like someone's idea of how Robyn and XTC were both selling okay-ish, but if you could get Robyn to make a Skylarking-type record you'd really have something. Except that's not the type of record that was trying to come out of the man at the time. I'm hating on it as a whole less than usual currently, but I still (wait for it) find Perspex a more listenable record. Over-slick, maybe, but more a proper Egyptians record. I think hearing the band live on that fantastic tour colors my opinion, though. West Viginians like it, anyhow. I like the strings better on Respect; they feel less forced to me. Jeez... let's get this one out the door... leaving the Thoth responses for later... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:54:36 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Album closers (Robyn content!) Miles: >>I'm glad "Wafflehead" exists and I'm glad that it was released to the public. >>But it's in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time. B-side, rarities >>collection, theoretical "whole album of this stuff," that's cool. At the end of REPSECT, >>ummm, no. Am I alone in feeling that Robyn shares with the Byrds a real tendency to make very poor album-closing choices? Especially during them there A&M years (I can get specific if need be)... but even Nextdoorland ends with my least favorite track, or at least one that should've been placed elsewhere on the record. Oh well. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:14:38 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Album closers (Robyn content!) >>> I'm glad "Wafflehead" exists and I'm glad that it was released to >>> the public. >>> But it's in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time. B-side, >>> rarities >>> collection, theoretical "whole album of this stuff," that's cool. >>> At the end of REPSECT, >>> ummm, no. > > Am I alone in feeling that Robyn shares with the Byrds a real tendency > to make very poor album-closing choices? Especially during them there > A&M years (I can get specific if need be)... "Superman" was a poor choice to include on an album, *anywhere*. I kinda like how "Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)" wraps up Globe of Frogs with a happy-pop bow, however. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:20:59 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: The Thothy Times Hamish: >>Rainland - "Fort Ashby" >>I'm struggling to think what this reminds me of but it >>sucks HEY! No need to be mean about it... >>me back to somewhere in the 80's, but in a good >>way. What a frikkin' gorgeous pop song. Oh, sorry, shoulda let you finish. Thanks! >>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! Just noticed Tom's sig when he delurked: Thomas Rodebaugh Postdoctoral Fellow Adult Anxiety Clinic Temple University ...which sort of suggests where he might've gotten some inspiration for the lyrics on this tune! >>What is that strange cry at the start? I've been meaning to ask the same thing, but I kinda like the mystery of it... >>Rex Broome & His Living Room Demons - "Bagfoot Run" >>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. Yet another generation of Broomes comes of age believing that the "bottle of beer" is actually as much a component of the guitar as the headstock and moreso than the tuning pegs. Incidentally, my daughter has recently proven to be able to recognize the sound of a banjo by name within a song instantly, so I must be doing something... right? -Ish? Me & James: >>>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? I did think about it, actually, but I thought the separation would be too weird, and then I started thinking about how it would need some skittery drums, too, and the mind just reeled. At that point I would've been doing a cover version, which... is not a bad idea until it hits the singing part, which you seem to have done about as well as possible... >>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. Wow. Cool. Anyone got a power-pop radio show? There's certainly some grist for that mill on the record! Stewart: >>There's a carefully edited entry for the CD on freedb.org, if anyone cares. Wow again. Maybe I put together a real actual album! Michael Wells: >>This is one of the most unique and satisfying CD's I've heard in quite a time Head swelling... take cover, tomatoes hummus chickpeas and some strips of skin soon shall be flying... >>I'm going to want more music from *everyone* who has contributed to this >>thing. Tell me there's a couple of Rainland cd's already in the can, please? A mere four songs, alas, with more slowly on the way. The whole (recorded) oeuvre is at the website. Yes, but who's got all the tunes? Me... and Glen Uber, I think... >>And I'll be first in line for Nuppy's new one. Me second... Oh, and Jeffrey asked (and I'm sure others want to know) if the amazing Brian Huddell had other material available, and I can comfirm that he certainly as other material and you probably do want to hear it. He generally records not as the Icicle Thieves (not Popsicle Thieves as heard on Thoths), if that helps... Thanks for all the kind words, everyone. All the hard work is feeling entirely worthwhile at this point. I'm especialy glad to hear about listeners eager to seek out more material from the contributors... like I said, I'm the lucky one in that I actually got to hear more of almost everybody's stuff. I can assure everyone else that following up on these artists is very much worth your while... damned talented bunch around here, and it was a privilege to put together a document proving it. Anyone wanna get a copy to Robyn? Thanks so much, guys! Keep the reviews coming... or wait, has everyone spoken at this point? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:28:34 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: The Non-Thoth Related Post > Rex: > Jon L: >>> 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?? > > It, um, sorta shows up on the new reissues, but for the most part... > bootlegs, my friend. A fair amount of them, in fact. It was in the > set the last time I saw Television a few years back as well. > > Never mind. After tracking down "Ah Mi Amore" on the '78 Portland bootleg, I discovered that the tune in question was not that. Couldn't be more different from it, in fact. My thinking that it was "Amore" got sparked by the fact that it was sung in some non-English tongue (loud fucking guitars rendered a more specific identification of the language impossible, but at the time I thought it was Spanish, French or Italian). It's gotta be another of the new ones, then. Looking at some of the setlists posted on the Web, I see that one of the new songs is titled "Persia"; maybe this was that? It was a stunner, with a dark, hypnotic modal color and pained, halting vocals with each sung word from Tom synched to a faded-in chord from his guitar. (He was really doing a lot of them there volume-knob fade-ins all evening.) I agree with your sentiment about a new record being cut live. Ideally, it would also include the blazing renditions of the old songs, and not just the new stuff. A live album with four or five new songs would seem like a relatively saleable idea. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:39:17 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: (Belated) Top Ten Albums of 2003 > 5. The Fruitbats - Mouthfuls > > Sixty's pop and alt.country from another Sub Pop band. Catchy as hell, > with > a quaint, rural vibe. Odd, occasionally disturbing lyrics, chamber and > country instruments and dashes of electronics, but seamless all the > same. > Looking forward to their second disc. > Mouthfuls was their second disc. Interesting list, in any case. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #96 *******************************