From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #188 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, June 28 2004 Volume 13 : Number 188 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #187 [James Dignan ] Re: reap - and top 100 [James Dignan ] Shatner! [FSThomas ] oh yeah - he went to England and came back ["Brian Hoare" ] RE: fnordmaniax-digest V13 #186 ["Rex.Broome" ] Michael Hutchence biopic in the works! ["Rex.Broome" ] RE: My mind cracked like custard ["Bachman, Michael" ] The Name of This Expanded Reissue Is... ["Rex.Broome" ] RE: My mind cracked like custard ["Rex Broome" ] RE: The Name of This Expanded Reissue Is... ["Rex Broome" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #187 > Several species of small furry annimals gathered in a cave and >grooving in Canada and Iceland [James Dignan <] followed by > Re: reap - and top 100 [James Dignan ] for some reason, a significant proportion of my mail is being delayed by about 48 hours. I blame the post office. 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: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:24:32 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: reap - and top 100 > > PS - no Queen? No Dire Straits! > >obviously - this was supposedly a list of GOOD music! > >;-) > >craigie* well, someone else commented that there had been no Queen on the list. I wasn't at all surprised at that, but - even in a list of good albums, the self-titled first Dire straits album would've been a possibility. And in any 'critics list of what they think is important' one of the later albums like Bothering Arms would have been a very likely choice. BTW, I was wrong - that message of mine to which Craigie replied was delayed nearly five days, not 48 hours. 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, 28 Jun 2004 09:50:13 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Shatner! From CNN: http://tinyurl.com/ysooa - -or- http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/24/music.folds.reut/index.html An all-star CD starring William Shatner? Ben Folds puts own album on hold for actor's work CLEVELAND, Ohio (Billboard) -- Ben Folds is pushing back the release date of his next solo album to early 2005 in order to give "Star Trek" veteran William Shatner's upcoming collection, "Has Been," his full attention. The set is being targeted for a September release by Shout! Factory. "It is a great record and it is really worth going out and doing some shows in major cities," Folds told Billboard.com. "(Shatner) is not a musician at all -- he's not rapping or singing -- but he is still part of the music. I've never heard a record quite like it." Shatner previously guested on Folds'1998 solo album "Fear of Pop, Vol.1" Shatner's album was produced and written mostly by Folds and includes cameos by Henry Rollins, Aimee Mann and Joe Jackson, who duets with Shatner on Pulp's "Common People." Author Nick Hornby ("High Fidelity") also co-wrote a song with Folds for the project. Currently on the road with Rufus Wainwright and Guster through mid-July, Folds plans on returning home to Nashville after the tour to finish his next studio release. Due out in January via Epic and currently untitled, the album includes new tracks such as "Trusted" and "Late," as well as a few remixed or alternate versions of tracks from Folds' recent EPs. "Right now, it doesn't feel like an album that has a title," Folds said. "I think because the songs are basic enough to me, it almost has a debut solo artist feel to it. It seems less like a tangent to me in the songs and the production than 'Rockin' the Suburbs' (Folds' last studio disc), which seems like an over-the-top pop kind of album. This doesn't seem like a direction to me, it just seems like songs I wrote and they are approached much more from the piano and with a little more of a live, rougher edges, feel." While Folds enjoys the unfettered creativity and spontaneity associated with releasing EPs ("I love putting out EPs -- that keeps me sane," he says), he foresees a day when all of his non-album projects will be released as "a cheap box set of EPs." Fans are finally about to get Folds' third EP, which is due out in a few weeks and will be available via online and at his shows. Originally scheduled for release last November, "Super D" includes new tracks "Rent a Cop," "Adelaide" and "Kalamazoo," along with a cover of the Darkness' "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" and, more than likely, a live version of the late Ray Charles' "Them That Got." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:49:52 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: oh yeah - he went to England and came back >From: Dolph Chaney > >while. He has an all-musical family -- perhaps the next Cowsills or >Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players??? It depends on what you mean by musical, certainly both my parents, my three siblings,myself my wife and my two daughters can all get a tune out of at least one instrument. There are, however, few of us suitably talented and motivated to perform in public, mostly we are just enthusiastic amateurs (and happy to be so). Brian _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar  get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:55:08 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: My mind cracked like custard On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, fegmaniax-digest wrote: > Mr. Godwin opines: > > 'Machine Head', eh? Now there is a great album, almost in the class of the > > Sweet's Greatest Hits, though 'Ballroom Blitz' just has the edge on > > 'Highway Star'. > From: "Michael Wells" > Really? I mean, seriously? Seriously? Oh, gosh. Well, seriously, the Magic Band were absolutely STUNNING in Bristol last night, Don or no Don. Corking version of Electricity; nifty instrumental versions of My Human Gets Me Blues, Steal Softly Thru Sunshine Steal Softly Thru Snow and Hair Pie; fine solo guitar version of Evening Bell by Gary 'Mantis' Lucas; and lively readings of stuff all the way from Diddy Wah Diddy through to Floppy Boot Stomp, even including Mirror Man! . I've always associated Highway Star with Ballroom Blitz as they were the 2 records I used to freak out to at the AMVJ in Rotterdam in 1973. I don't really do that any more, although there was a worried-looking wide berth round me at the Magic Band when I started idiot dancing during Veteran's Day Poppy... Eb: > Rather than list what I have, what's missing ( Horses ), > etc., I'll just list the top 10 albums on the list which I have never > heard in full, and would like to check out. > 6: Kraftwerk/Trans-Europe Express > 13: Nick Drake/Pink Moon > 17: Funkadelic/Maggot Brain > 21: Serge Gainsbourg/Histoire de Melody Nelson > 30: Miles Davis/On the Corner > 48: Miles Davis/Live-Evil > 55: Nick Drake/Bryter Layter > 63: Cluster/Zuckerzeit > 69: Faust/IV > 93: Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys > Anyone wanna comment on these? There was an interesting article in the Guardian the other day where they sent a 17-year-old to review a pack of ageing rockers, including McCartney, Brian Wilson, Diana Ross, the Who and Kraftwerk, and basically the only act that really impressed him was Kraftwerk. Personally I love the track 'Trans-Europe Express' but I don't know the rest of the album at all. I had the strong impression that the classic Funkadelic album was the Mothership Connection (I think that's the title) with Tear the Roof off the Sucker on it. But I may be muddled here because I haven't heard it for a long time. I think 'Band of Gypsys' is a horrible record, and not just the spelling. 'Machine Gun' is the only tolerable track. Billy Cox and Buddy Miles are simply no substitute for Noel and Mitch: the only thing you can say in their favour is that they are better than that ghastly sprawling New Rays of the Rising Sun band, or whatever they were called, with the awful Larry someone on guitar (a guitarist? In a Hendrix band?). Really infuriating, because the late Hendrix studio recordings are brilliantly inventive, but after the JHE fell apart he would persist in going out live with all these third-raters. - - MRG n.p. CB&hMB: Sun Zoom Spark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:10:58 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: fnordmaniax-digest V13 #186 James: >>'shogs do shag very loud - especially at three o'clock in the morning >>outside my bedroom window... grrrrr. Whoa, there. How is "'shog" a truncation of "hedgehog"? Is that a NZ thing? 'Cuz if the ' were relocated I'd think you were being awfully cavalier about shagging shoggoths so near your residence! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:20:33 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: ghost/nurse >Well, it's a bit different from the regular Wilco -- Tweedy meets Olivia >Tremor Control. What do the rest of y'all think? Huh?? That's the weirdest review I've heard yet. I think the album is great, but not as good as the new Sonic Youth. Were I a Pitchfork dweeb, I would give A Ghost is Born a 7.5 or an 8, and Sonic Nurse an 8.5. Although I like all the individual songs, AGIB is too scattershot stylistically to hold together as an album, what with the 10-minute Krautrock epic, several bouncy pop songs, a balls-out guitar-rock number, a couple of woozy ballads, and 12 minutes of white noise. Fegs might be interested to know that one of the tracks, "Company in My Back," is "from the point of view of a tiny bee," according to Jeff Tweedy. I guess that *is* kinda Elephant 6-ish. I'm looking forward to seeing them with Nels Cline, anyway. As for Sonic Nurse, it's far more consistent, and it also ROCKS. Hard to believe they're (almost) all over 40. I'm not sure whether they're having the opposite of a midlife crisis, or whether having a younger person in the band is kicking them in the ass, but I am truly surprised and delighted at how solid and fiery they sound now. The high points aren't as high as on their previous album, but there's also no annoying Kim songs gumming up the works (her songs are actually really good this time!). I'm gonna be seeing them next month for the first time in 12 years - I'm excited! that is all, n. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch the online reality show Mixed Messages with a friend and enter to win a trip to NY ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:36:44 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Michael Hutchence biopic in the works! Eb's missing these, and Stewart tsks him: > 13: Nick Drake/Pink Moon > 55: Nick Drake/Bryter Layter >dear oh dear, Eb, you disappoint me ... ;-) It does seem, since Eb has ehhh'ed Drake more than once recently, that he's actively contemplating another go at that stuff. Come on, Eb... everyone's forgotten the VW ad and the inevitably dreadful biopic isn't out yet... what better time than now? The emotional associations I can understand... FWIW the artist most associated with a friend's suicide attempt for me is, erm, Robyn Hitchcock, so these things can be overcome with time. Good luck. (Also FWIW I find the strings on Drake's records sort of timeless. The flutes, though, that's another story.) Speaking of dead musician biopics... and of you Gram fans out there seen or care to comment on "Grand Theft Parsons" (if I have that title right)? - -Rex, who coulda played a good Gram Parsons corpse based on physical resemblance* and the whole not-having-to-act-other-than-needing-to-appear-dead thing... *nb. phyical resemblance to Parsons, not a corpse in general ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:50:35 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: ghost/nurse Natalie Jane wrote: > > "from the point of view > of a tiny bee," according to Jeff Tweedy. I guess that *is* kinda > Elephant 6-ish. I forgot to add in that I'm getting lots of Mike Scott coming through in the guitar work. Not his Oirish Guinness-hazed folkie stage, though, but you knew that. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:12:04 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: My mind cracked like custard On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, fegmaniax-digest wrote: > Mr. Godwin opines: > > 'Machine Head', eh? Now there is a great album, almost in the class of the > > Sweet's Greatest Hits, though 'Ballroom Blitz' just has the edge on > > 'Highway Star'. > From: "Michael Wells" > Really? I mean, seriously? I was more of a Mark 1 Deep Purple fan myself, the first 3 albums. The Book of Taliesin was one of the first albums I owned. I always preferred Rod Evans voice. After he left Deep Purple, he resurfaced in Captain Beyond, whose eponymous 1972 debut album is often overlooked and would make my 100 Best of the 1970's list rather easily. Captain Beyond also included a couple of ex-Iron Butterfly guys. Eb: > Rather than list what I have, what's missing ( Horses ), > etc., I'll just list the top 10 albums on the list which I have never > heard in full, and would like to check out. > 6: Kraftwerk/Trans-Europe Express > 13: Nick Drake/Pink Moon > 17: Funkadelic/Maggot Brain > 21: Serge Gainsbourg/Histoire de Melody Nelson > 30: Miles Davis/On the Corner > 48: Miles Davis/Live-Evil > 55: Nick Drake/Bryter Layter > 63: Cluster/Zuckerzeit > 69: Faust/IV > 93: Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys > Anyone wanna comment on these? The Top 100 of the 1970's Pitchfork list reminds me that I am going to have to check out Can and Neu!, as well as a few others. Can and Neu! were influences on Stereolab, right? I have tick more than half dozen Miles Davis CD's, but they are all from 50's and 60's. I was surprised to see so many MD albums in the 70's list. I didn't think they were that well thought of. Maybe I am falling into the "jazz during the 1970's was crap" syndrome. Michael B ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:12:04 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: My mind cracked like custard On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, fegmaniax-digest wrote: > Mr. Godwin opines: > > 'Machine Head', eh? Now there is a great album, almost in the class of the > > Sweet's Greatest Hits, though 'Ballroom Blitz' just has the edge on > > 'Highway Star'. > From: "Michael Wells" > Really? I mean, seriously? I was more of a Mark 1 Deep Purple fan myself, the first 3 albums. The Book of Taliesin was one of the first albums I owned. I always preferred Rod Evans voice. After he left Deep Purple, he resurfaced in Captain Beyond, whose eponymous 1972 debut album is often overlooked and would make my 100 Best of the 1970's list rather easily. Captain Beyond also included a couple of ex-Iron Butterfly guys. Eb: > Rather than list what I have, what's missing ( Horses ), > etc., I'll just list the top 10 albums on the list which I have never > heard in full, and would like to check out. > 6: Kraftwerk/Trans-Europe Express > 13: Nick Drake/Pink Moon > 17: Funkadelic/Maggot Brain > 21: Serge Gainsbourg/Histoire de Melody Nelson > 30: Miles Davis/On the Corner > 48: Miles Davis/Live-Evil > 55: Nick Drake/Bryter Layter > 63: Cluster/Zuckerzeit > 69: Faust/IV > 93: Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys > Anyone wanna comment on these? The Top 100 of the 1970's Pitchfork list reminds me that I am going to have to check out Can and Neu!, as well as a few others. Can and Neu! were influences on Stereolab, right? I have tick more than half dozen Miles Davis CD's, but they are all from 50's and 60's. I was surprised to see so many MD albums in the 70's list. I didn't think they were that well thought of. Maybe I am falling into the "jazz during the 1970's was crap" syndrome. Michael B ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:10:20 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: My mind cracked like custard From: "Bachman, Michael" > The Top 100 of the 1970's Pitchfork list reminds me that I am going to have > to check out Can and Neu!, as well as a few others. Can and Neu! were influences > on Stereolab, right? A big influence on Stereolab. Also Joy Division, Wire, The Buzzcocks, Gang Of Four, Pere Ubu, PIL, I could go on. I find the classic Krautrock albums a bit more uneven than the average critic seems to, but there's some amazing stuff to be discovered in there. "Hallogallo" from the first Neu! album is still the best driving-on-the-freeway-at-night song ever. With Neu! it always amazes me to think that they were founded by guys who quit Kraftwerk in the 60s because Kraftwerk were too mainstream! Palle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:34:19 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: The Name of This Expanded Reissue Is... With apologies to Mr. Sewell to whom I recently sent a digitized copy of same... this is really quite excellent news: RHINO OFFERS HEADS ON PLATTERS THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS And BEST OF TALKING HEADS Available August 17 LOS ANGELES - Rhino Records is pleased to offer two kinds of overviews of the career of one of the best-loved bands of the 1980s with the release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS and THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS on August 17. Both packages, assembled with the members' full involvement, are firsts for the band--THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS has never been available on CD before and THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS is the first single-disc collection of the band's most popular songs. THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS offers an unusual take on the concert album--rather than a "souvenir of a single night's show," it captures the band's live evolution from 1977 to 1981. Originally released in 1982 as a double album, fans have waited nearly two decades for the CD release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS. This two-disc version doubles the original's contents by offering 13 previously unreleased tracks and a trio of rarities from a 1979 promotional only disc ("The Girls Want To Be With The Girls," an early version of "Drugs" called "Electricity," and "Found A Job"). In its expanded version, THE NAME OF THIS BAND provides a comprehensive portrait of Talking Heads as a live band, since it now includes a substantial number of songs from each of the band's first four studio albums. THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS collects 18 of the group's most popular songs on a single disc for the first time ever. Compiled by the band, THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS includes all the favorites ("Psycho Killer," "Once In A Lifetime," "Burning Down The House," "And She Was), as well as some unexpected selections like "Heaven" and "Memories Can't Wait." This collection provides new listeners with a perfect introduction to this ground-breaking band's work. David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth formed Talking Heads (note: no "The") after meeting at Rhode Island School Of Design in the early 1970s. Jerry Harrison, formerly of The Modern Lovers, joined in 1976 and Talking Heads quickly became one of the most important bands to emerge from the New York punk scene. Over the course of their 11-year recording career they released ten albums (including five gold records, one platinum, and two double-platinum), earned critical raves, and racked up more than a few hits. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:53:56 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: The Name of This Expanded Reissue Is... Rhino and Rhino Handmade really do seem to be the label to release the CD's that folks have been waiting for. Judy Sill, Rank and File, Television and now Talking Heads. Michael B. - -----Original Message----- From: Rex.Broome [mailto:Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 4:34 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: The Name of This Expanded Reissue Is... With apologies to Mr. Sewell to whom I recently sent a digitized copy of same... this is really quite excellent news: RHINO OFFERS HEADS ON PLATTERS THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS And BEST OF TALKING HEADS Available August 17 LOS ANGELES - Rhino Records is pleased to offer two kinds of overviews of the career of one of the best-loved bands of the 1980s with the release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS and THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS on August 17. Both packages, assembled with the members' full involvement, are firsts for the band--THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS has never been available on CD before and THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS is the first single-disc collection of the band's most popular songs. THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS offers an unusual take on the concert album--rather than a "souvenir of a single night's show," it captures the band's live evolution from 1977 to 1981. Originally released in 1982 as a double album, fans have waited nearly two decades for the CD release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS. This two-disc version doubles the original's contents by offering 13 previously unreleased tracks and a trio of rarities from a 1979 promotional only disc ("The Girls Want To Be With The Girls," an early version of "Drugs" called "Electricity," and "Found A Job"). In its expanded version, THE NAME OF THIS BAND provides a comprehensive portrait of Talking Heads as a live band, since it now includes a substantial number of songs from each of the band's first four studio albums. THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS collects 18 of the group's most popular songs on a single disc for the first time ever. Compiled by the band, THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS includes all the favorites ("Psycho Killer," "Once In A Lifetime," "Burning Down The House," "And She Was), as well as some unexpected selections like "Heaven" and "Memories Can't Wait." This collection provides new listeners with a perfect introduction to this ground-breaking band's work. David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth formed Talking Heads (note: no "The") after meeting at Rhode Island School Of Design in the early 1970s. Jerry Harrison, formerly of The Modern Lovers, joined in 1976 and Talking Heads quickly became one of the most important bands to emerge from the New York punk scene. Over the course of their 11-year recording career they released ten albums (including five gold records, one platinum, and two double-platinum), earned critical raves, and racked up more than a few hits. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:39:01 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: The Name of This Expanded Reissue Is... > the CD release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS. > This two-disc version doubles the original's contents by offering 13 > previously unreleased tracks and a trio of rarities from a 1979 > promotional only disc Wow! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:01:46 -0700 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: RE: My mind cracked like custard Michael B: > The Top 100 of the 1970's Pitchfork list reminds me that I am going to have >to check out Can and Neu!, as well as a few others. Can and Neu! were influences >on Stereolab, right? Neu! especially. Hearing Neu! kinda put a dent in my respect for Stereolab, whom I thought had a really orignal sound (albeit cobbled together from some obvious influences) when I first heard them. But it turns out that their early work sounds almost *exactly* like Neu! in the instrumental department. Anyone wanna argue the point? - -Rex Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:09:32 -0700 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: RE: The Name of This Expanded Reissue Is... Micahel B: > Rhino and Rhino Handmade really do seem to be the label to >release the CD's that folks have been waiting for. Judy Sill, >Rank and File, Television and now Talking Heads. No shit. I'm starting to feel like all those dicey homemade spines for digitized-vinyl discs on my shelves will've been replaced by Rhino labels before the decade's half over... Jeez, I have an in-law who works for Rhino... maybe I should slip him my wishlist... - -Rex Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:31:36 -0700 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: ghost/nurse *THEY'RE NOT KRAUT-KOUNTRY ANY MORE!!!* Natalie: >Were I a Pitchfork dweeb, I would give A >Ghost is Born a 7.5 or an 8, and Sonic Nurse an 8.5. Although I like all >the individual songs, AGIB is too scattershot stylistically to hold >together as an album, what with the 10-minute Krautrock epic, several >bouncy pop songs, a balls-out guitar-rock number, a couple of woozy >ballads, and 12 minutes of white noise. I'm listening to it right now (on a CD player which seems Built to Skip, which does enhance the Krautrock effect where appropriate but does a real number on it where Delicate and Plaintive is called for). Anyhow, my impression does keep changing, so perhaps "scattershot" is indeed the word. At the start Tweedy seems to be insisting on uncorking a lot of scorched-earth lead guitar which strikes me as slightly too raunchy to sound like Verlaine, but a little too arty to be Neil Young... an in-between place that I liked visiting quite a lot, although I don't know how it will grow on me. >I'm looking forward to seeing them with Nels Cline, >anyway. Me, too. I'm curious as to whether Nels will mostly cover Tweedy's lead parts or if we can look forward to some twin-stun-guitar nuttiness. >As for Sonic Nurse, it's far more consistent, and it also ROCKS. >Hard to believe they're (almost) all over 40. I'm not sure whether >they're having the opposite of a midlife crisis, or whether having a >younger person in the band is kicking them in the ass, but I am truly >surprised and delighted at how solid and fiery they sound now. The high >points aren't as high as on their previous album, but there's also no >annoying Kim songs gumming up the works (her songs are actually really >good this time!). I'm gonna be seeing them next month for the first time >in 12 years - I'm excited! Yeah, they're really on a roll. Although I do have to say that if you really haven't seen them live in all that time, you've missed out on the fact that some of their mehh-seeming records were works of outstanding beauty onstage. Downside: I'm even less inclined to listen to those records since I remember them sounding soooo much better than they are. Still, what's the truly bad SY record? Re: Best of the '70's and other recent topics... I can feel a bit of a Krautrock period in the offing for myself. For years and years I've contented myself with the two Cannibalism compilations since the proper albums are hellaciously expensive and look to be rather indifferently manufactured (right?) which presumably means I have to buy them in order to cause the reissues to happen, and you all can thank me later. And I don't have or know anything by Faust. Little help? - -Rex Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:17:21 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: RE: My neu stereolab cracked like custard Given that the last track on THE GROOP PLAYED "SPACE-AGE BACHELOR PAD MUSIC" is called "We're Not Adult Orientated [Neu Wave Live]", I don't think there's any counter-argument coming from the band themselves. - -- dolph - ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:01:46 -0700 >From: "Rex Broome" >Subject: RE: My mind cracked like custard >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > >Michael B: >> The Top 100 of the 1970's Pitchfork list reminds me that I am going to have >>to check out Can and Neu!, as well as a few others. Can and Neu! were influences >>on Stereolab, right? > >Neu! especially. Hearing Neu! kinda put a dent in my respect for Stereolab, whom I thought had a really orignal sound (albeit cobbled together from some obvious influences) when I first heard them. But it turns out that their early work sounds almost *exactly* like Neu! in the instrumental department. Anyone wanna argue the point? > >-Rex > > >Need a new email address that people can remember >Check out the new EudoraMail at >http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:14:27 -0700 From: Elizabeth Brion Subject: Re: My mind cracked like custard On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 07:55 AM, Michael R Godwin wrote: > I had the strong impression that the classic Funkadelic album was the > Mothership Connection (I think that's the title) with Tear the Roof off > the Sucker on it. But I may be muddled here because I haven't heard it > for > a long time. That would be the classic Parliament album, which is a somewhat different animal. (For the record, as far as Parliament goes, I've always been partial to Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome myself, but it's hard to go wrong with anything from that era of Clinton-related releases.) Maggot Brain sounds like the right pick for Funkadelic... Elizabeth ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #188 ********************************