From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #268 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, September 23 2004 Volume 13 : Number 268 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: dB's dBut ["Brian" ] Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax [Vendren ] Feelies ["Brian" ] Re: let's-gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax ["Rex Broome" ] Re: reap [Tom Clark ] Re: Feelies: Crazy Rhythms, Crazier Prices ["Rex Broome" ] Re: More eBay help ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Bjork SACD? [The Great Quail ] miles-responds-to-everyone-iax [Miles Goosens ] Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax [MPys2626@aol.com] KEXP torrent on EasyTree ["FS Thomas" ] KoL [0% RH] ["Stewart C. Russell" ] there's a ghost in my house ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax ["Fortissimo" ] Wilco, Spooked [Miles Goosens ] Re: Wilco, Spooked [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re:Jansch ["Rich Gale" ] 1971 [James Dignan ] Re: there's a ghost in my house [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: miles-responds-to-everyone-iax ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Wilco, Spooked ["Brian" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:03:40 -0400 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: dB's dBut Rex said: > Yeah, that's true... lo-fi in one sense, but inventive in terms of > production nonetheless. Same thing holds true for the Feelies, although > it's really only their first one which possesses that unique-sounding WTF > spook... I think you could make an arguement that there's a whole > unheralded subgroup of debut LP's from that era which, while put together > by hard-touring bands, come out sort of weird and experimental, to their > credit... Murmur fits in there nicely (to point things back towards Mitch > Easter)... And Chronic Town too. Hmm. I've never heard the 1st Feelies album. I have one album. It's a natural/yellowish color with a black and white photo of the band in a field on the front cover. - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:06:33 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax > What's the Lets Active music like? I tend to think of Lets Active as the prototypical Jangle rock band of the eighties. It was Mitch Easter's band, and he, of course, was the producer of Murmur and Reckoning for REM. The sound of Lets Active's first disc, "Cypress" has some sonic similarity to the early REM stuff, especially the guitar sound, but there are some keyboards too, which makes it a bit poppier sounding. Easter handles the singing and all the songwriting. Despite the Southern Jangle, creating perfect pop songs seemed to be the goal. Sort of early REM meets the Go Betweens if that makes any sense. Live, they were a lot more garage-y when they toured that disc (I saw them play with Guadalcanal Diary in front of a crowd of about 20 people). Sara Romweber did indeed play for Lets Active, but only on "Cypress" and a rare, but very good EP called "Afoot" that's never been put to CD. "Big Plans For Everybody" and "Every Dog Has His Day" are basically solo albums for Easter. "Plans" is quite rootsy, and as good as "Cypress," but with no keyboards along. "Dog" is much more rocking, not nearly as good and sounds nothing like the earlier discs. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:34:48 -0400 From: "Brian" Subject: Feelies Christ almighty! Have you seen the prices on Amazon for OOP Feelies albums? These are just crying to be reprinted! - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:37:53 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: let's-gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax Palle: > Sara Romweber did indeed play for Lets Active, but only on "Cypress" and a > rare, but very good EP called "Afoot" that's never been put to CD. "Cypress" and "Afoot" now reside together on one CD, courtesy of Collectors Choice. - -rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:42:15 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Vendren wrote: >> What's the Lets Active music like? > > > Sara Romweber did indeed play for Lets Active, but only on "Cypress" > and a > rare, but very good EP called "Afoot" that's never been put to CD. "Big > Plans For Everybody" and "Every Dog Has His Day" are basically solo > albums > for Easter. "Plans" is quite rootsy, and as good as "Cypress," but > with no > keyboards along. "Dog" is much more rocking, not nearly as good and > sounds > nothing like the earlier discs. > Cypress and Afoot were released as a single CD a few years ago. The others are also out on CD. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:44:54 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: reap On Sep 22, 2004, at 7:30 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Russ Meyer > > meyer.html> > The man had vision. Unfortunately it was obscured by the big tits that were always in his face. Time to put my "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" laserdisc on eBay... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:53:50 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Feelies: Crazy Rhythms, Crazier Prices Nuppy: > Christ almighty! Have you seen the prices on Amazon for OOP Feelies > albums? These are just crying to be reprinted! No kidding. Only the first one is a stone cold classic IMHO, although the others are good... just not worth what's being asked. I was shocked when I saw those prices... I picked up all the later albums in used bins for next to nothing, and it doesn't seem like it was that long ago. Wow. They really went through the roof quickly. It's unfathomable that "Crazy Rhythms" is out of print to begin with. Even Rolling Stone ranked it in their Top 100 of the '80's, way back when. It's gotta be a touchstone for the current crop if indie bands... Franz Ferdinand, I'm looking at you. - -Rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:06:23 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: dB's dBut Rex said: >> Yeah, that's true... lo-fi in one sense, but inventive in terms of >>> production nonetheless. Same thing holds true for the Feelies, although >> it's really only their first one which possesses that unique-sounding WTF >> spook... I think you could make an arguement that there's a whole >> unheralded subgroup of debut LP's from that era which, while put together >> by hard-touring bands, come out sort of weird and experimental, to their >> credit... Murmur fits in there nicely (to point things back towards Mitch >> Easter)... Nuppy then came back with: >And Chronic Town too. Hmm. I've never heard the 1st Feelies album. I >have one album. It's a natural/yellowish color with a black and white >photo of the band in a field on the front cover. I have the first one, Crazy Rhythms, with the blue background. I think Weezer copied the style of the CR cover for their album with the Sweeter Song on it. The Feelies are in the J. Demme movie, Something Wild. The appear as the band in the high school 10 year reunion scene. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:11:02 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: More eBay help > From: Mike Swedene > > What would you do with this? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? > ViewItem&category=153&item=3840166200&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW Sell it on eBay, of course. Press the Place Bid button, Dave. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:55:32 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Bjork SACD? I think a few days ago someone mentioned they had "Medulla" on SACD? If this is the case, would you mind contacting me off list? - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:52:08 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: miles-responds-to-everyone-iax Eb: >I enjoy Let's Active, but I don't think they're even remotely in the >Replacements' league. I'd put them about even, and can't imagine the '80s without either of them. The first three Let's Active releases are just about perfect in my book, with BIG PLANS topping the list. EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY is a bit of a slide from 5-star territory into 3 1/2, but anything with "Bad Machinery" is worth owning. >And coincidentally, the dB's are just like the >Band -- beyond the first two albums, they turn awfully patchy. Stamey's >departure was a big loss. Me, I'm a Holsapple guy all the way, and I think LIKE THIS creams the first two, even though I like the first two a lot. It's sort of a Roxy Music/Eno thing -- James will wince at the first half of what I'm going to say, but both Ferry and Eno did their very best stuff immediately after the split, and I feel the same way about Holsapple and Stamey. However, I certainly understand why someone who got off on the claustrophobic sonic ping-pong of STANDS FOR dECIBELS and REPERCUSSION would miss it on the later dB's albums. Eb again: >I'd agree that the Band is a bit overrated. OK, I'm a wee bit happy 'bout that, but... >I do think the first two >albums are excellent, See, I can't get into *any* of their stuff. I find the songs boring, the vocalists not particularly memorable, and tone-wise, it seems to alternate between overblown ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," fer instance) and somnolent. The first two albums first got an extended shot with me at some point in, oh, '80-'83, when I was discovering scads of new-to-me stuff, and buying those records was a natural progression from getting into Dylan. Much to my surprise, I "ehhhh'd" 'em then. Many years later, fueled by a re-read of MYSTERY TRAIN, I steeled myself for another try, thinking "damn, Marcus makes 'em sound great, and, well, I'm an adult now (got the problems of an adult on my head and my shoulders, etc.), I've come to like some other stuff I didn't as a teen, and everyone else who likes the same stuff as I do loves 'em." And... same results. This time, I even purchased the two-disc best-of to put with the first couple, so as to skim the cream off the spottier years for a more full picture of the band. But it was always *work* to try to make it through even the early stuff, much less the later material. At this point, it seems like any further effort in that direction would be throwing away money and time that I could spend more rewardingly on, say, stuff I actually enjoy. To get back to the "overrated" definition, I'm much more likely to use the phrase when I fully expected to like whoever it is I'm talking about. Everyone could go ga-ga for, oh, a Jazz/Opera fusion band fronted by Alanis Morrissette, but that sounds so repulsive on so many levels that me even faintly liking it would be a pleasant surprise, so I'm more likely just to shrug and not comment at all. But on the other hand, the Band, GbV, Quentin Tarantino movies, that's all widely-praised stuff I expected to fall for in a big way. Still hasn't happened. >but the subsequent albums were awfully uneven. The >Band's batting average just wasn't high enough to warrant being ranked >alongside, oh, CCR, for instance. I'm not sure if that's straight-up compliment to CCR or a backhanded one, but I still laughed out loud. Whether I was supposed to or not. Rex: >one of the main reasons the Band is *underrated*, or at least not mentioned >in the same breath as the top tier of theoretical Hall of Famers*, is that >their lineup was so weird and non-analogous to most other bands then or >since, and people love to compare bands based on their personnel. That's probably true in general, but I don't think it's why I'm not "getting" the Band. I mean, as much as I loved the "Ratt vs. Motley Crue!" cover story in CREEM (any hair metal fan peering inside the issue probably would have been upset to discover that it was a position-by-position analysis of which band was the most incompetent), that's not how I think of bands, or about comparing them. In fact, the Band probably gets bonus points from me for the non-traditional lineup. Palle, then Rex: >Palle: >> Sara Romweber did indeed play for Lets Active, but only on "Cypress" and a >> rare, but very good EP called "Afoot" that's never been put to CD. > >"Cypress" and "Afoot" now reside together on one CD, courtesy of Collectors >Choice. I don't think there's been a truly full answer to this yet, even with both Tom and Rex taking a stab at it, so... _afoot_ has been on CD twice, both times paired naturally with CYPRESS: once on IRS c. 1990, when IRS brought out a bunch of great albums on CD, and left the CDs in print for what seems like one afternoon at an undisclosed Tower location. And now it's in print again just as Rex says, on Collector's Choice with the superb "Two Yous" as a bonus track. Everyone should have gone with me to Mitchfest in Winston-Salem last June. Great tribute album, super band lineup, and Mitch playing Let's Active tunes at his own trib, with the spirited Faye joining in for almost all of the set. Having never seen 'em in the day, this was pretty much "dream come true" territory for me. later, Miles, who's now thinking of cashing in his Feelies CDs, though he likes them a lot (and is now feeling very lonesome about liking IT'S ONLY LIFE the best) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:14:55 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: miles-responds-to-everyone-iax > _afoot_ has been on CD twice, both times paired naturally with CYPRESS: once on IRS c. 1990, when IRS brought out a bunch of great albums on CD, and left the CDs in print for what seems like one afternoon at an undisclosed Tower location. And now it's in print again just as Rex says, on Collector's Choice with the superb "Two Yous" as a bonus track. Weird. I have an IRS CD of "Cypress" from 1989, but there are no "Afoot" tracks on it. That was last time I saw "Cypress" in print anywhere. Mind you, it's a printed-in-Canada copy, so there may have been some rights issues or something. I haven't heard the "Afoot" tracks in over a decade. Off to the record store I go. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:14:30 EDT From: MPys2626@aol.com Subject: Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax Consensus o'er the Mitch/Ledz Yahoo group is that Paul had a thing w/Ms Lynn Blakey. Once a revolving member of Let's Active. Also a member of Oh-Ok after Matt Sweet split. ... also once a Tres Chicas. http://yeproc.com/artist_info.php?artistId=869 Now a member of North Carolina's wondrous Glory Fountain ...well your worthwhile checking out might I add. Mark > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:56:43 -0700 > From: Tom Clark > Subject: Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax > > On Sep 21, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > > >What's the Lets Active music like? I'd had some weird thing for the > >band Snatches of Pink for about 15 years now, and Sara Romweber, the > >drummer, was in Lets Active. > > > > And to bring it all around again, Paul Westerberg had a relationship > with Let's Active bassist Faye Hunter. Listen to "Left Of The Dial" > (on "Tim") for insight into that. > > - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:33:27 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: KEXP torrent on EasyTree FYI, Listees: I've posted a torrent of the recent KEXP appearance over on EasyTree.org. The details: - ------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock KEXP Seattle 4 September, 2004 Uncompressed stream captured via SB Audigy 2 in CoolEdit Pro at 16/44. CoolEditPro -> Normalized -> PCM WAV -> mkw -> SHN Recorded/Seeded by Ferris - ferris@ochremedia.com Tracklist: 01 - Radio Interview 0:34 02 - If You Know Time 3:08 03 - Radio Interview 6:37 04 - Full Moon In Your Soul 2:51 05 - Radio Interview 5:45 06 - Ole Tarantula 3:55 07 - Radio Interview 3:09 08 - Happiness Is A Warm Gun 2:38 09 - Radio Interview 0:35 - ------------------------------- The Link: http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=6874 - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:33:08 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: KoL [0% RH] Does anyone else play ? If so, would they be interested in a Feg clan? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:17:42 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: there's a ghost in my house Spooked arrived today. Did you guys get the same thing? What I've just listened to is a work of genius. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:40:36 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:06:33 -0700, "Vendren" said: > > What's the Lets Active music like? > > I tend to think of Lets Active as the prototypical Jangle rock band of > the > eighties. It was Mitch Easter's band, and he, of course, was the producer > of > Murmur and Reckoning for REM. > > The sound of Lets Active's first disc, "Cypress" has some sonic > similarity > to the early REM stuff, especially the guitar sound, but there are some > keyboards too, which makes it a bit poppier sounding. Easter handles the > singing and all the songwriting. Despite the Southern Jangle, creating > perfect pop songs seemed to be the goal. Sort of early REM meets the Go > Betweens if that makes any sense. Live, they were a lot more garage-y > when > they toured that disc (I saw them play with Guadalcanal Diary in front of > a > crowd of about 20 people). I've never quite felt "jangle" to be an adequate description of a style - - a certain sound and approach to guitar, maybe. Anyway: there are, as Palle says, similarities to early R.E.M., but Easter's a more accomplished guitarist than Buck was, and so there were more and more fluid lead lines. I'm not sure about the keyboards making things "poppier" - they tended to be textural and fairly low in the mix - but again, they move the sound away from R.E.M. land. Easter has one of those light, slightly nasal voices similar to a lot of bands from that time and place (kinda Holsapple-y), but what really sets Let's Active apart from other acts for me is Easter's distinctive sense of melody and chord structure. He's far likelier than almost any other comparable band to strike off on an unexpected but *right* chordal detour. Re dB's: I'd agree on preferring the first two albums, although I do like the Holsapple-dominated stuff on the remaining albums. And the Stamey-Holsapple reunion record, _Mavericks_, is pretty fine. But Stamey's new one, _Travels in the South_, is probably the best thing from either of them since the dB's days. Stamey, like Easter, has a knack for writing "verbose" chord sequences (he probably uses twice as many chords per song as most stylistically similar writers, for example) that still work and highlight instantly catchy melodies. Stamey says that with the new one, he wanted to make a record like studio guys in the mid-sixties did - and you can kind of hear it, in that he doesn't stick to one style but instead tries on, subtly, a number of different genre exercises and instrumentation beyond the basic rock lineup. However (just in case Miles is wondering) it sounds nothing like _Pet Sounds_-imitators, to me. It is (or was - I forgot my eMusic password cuz they changed the cookie structure) on eMusic, too, for those of us who want to check it out for cheap. - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: crumple zones:: :: harmful or fatal if swallowed :: :: small-craft warning :: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:19:23 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Wilco, Spooked Bullet-point thoughts about tonight's Wilco show: * I could hear it this time. Two years ago when they played this same outdoor event, the crowd was so talky that portions of the evening's programme were quite literally inaudible. * Way too mellow of a setlist to suit me. * That Nels Cline sure can play. * That Nels Cline sure is playing *a lot.* Too much, IMO. And it's not just him: the arrangements seem too busy and ornamental in general. The new-model Wilco also gave off a more professional vibe -- simultaneously noisier, mellower, more precise, and less inspired. Weird. * WTF is up with Tweedy? Grand gesticulations, trying to get the crowd to sing along, making two stabs at a lame "play by play for the people in the Port-O-Potties" joke? His speaking voice sounded different too. I do not regard these as changes for the better. Has he been like this at every show? I've deliberately remained spoiler-free for this tour, so I don't know, and it's possible he just "went big" because of the outdoors festival setting. But where's the sly, laconic Jeff I know and love? Put him back on the painkillers! * OK, I wouldn't have thought to play "Kingpin" like "Kashmir." On paper, I should have enjoyed that more. I think one of those singalong attempts spoiled it for me. A few paragraphs about SPOOKED: I've played it a lot the last couple of days, and while I'm not sure I can improve upon my "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" review, I think I've identified my basic problem with this album: there's nothing here that Robyn hasn't done earlier and better. I'm burnt out on acoustic Robyn. In his aboveground oeuvre, there's already IODOT, EYE, most of YOU & OBLIVION, STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK, and LUXOR. Almost all of his shows since the breakup of the Egyptians have been acoustic (with notable exceptions like the Soft Boys reunion tours, but they're just that, exceptions). If you collected live performances of his from the '90s or have UNHATCHED CRABLINGS or what have you, you've heard even more of this stuff. For me, the current stuff has lost the novelty and sense of discovery that the 1990 acoustic shows had. Most of the SPOOKED tunes are perfectly OK, and several would have sounded good as secondary tracks on earlier records. But I already have those records. Do I really need "English Girl" when I already have "Beautiful Girl"? "Demons and Fiends" when I have "Fiend Before a Shrine"? If all the Robyn I had was post-A&M Robyn, this might be a great mellow change of pace... oh, wait, remember that LUXOR album? So it can't even merit a "curveball" exemption. SPOOKED is a pretty album with decent songs and tasteful, restrained backing from GilNDave. To me, that's *not* enough, and it strikes me more as "strummy acoustic Robyn songs #173-184 (173-185 on vinyl, 173-186 if you got the preorder bonus CD-R)" than as particularly inspired, new, or interesting. It seems superfluous in Robyn's catalog, and in my collection. However, I give Stewart Russell joy of savoring SPOOKED's genius. And if you too can't get enough of strummy acoustic Robyn records, well, this is definitely one of them. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:17:33 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Wilco, Spooked - --On Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 0:19 Uhr -0500 Miles Goosens wrote: > SPOOKED is a pretty album with decent songs and tasteful, restrained > backing from GilNDave. To me, that's *not* enough Thanks for the advice. I won't even bother with it then. I *never* listen to Luxor and hardly at all to RH lately, but if I do I'd always rather pick an Egyptians CD. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:23:52 -0700 From: "Rich Gale" Subject: Re:Jansch Robin Williamson and Jansch were actually roomies in boarding school -- per an interview with Williamson i recall on the ISB the song has no ending website. - -- nur NP: Dhafer Youssef "Digital Prophecy" (another Nusrat?) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:04:57 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: 1971 > You could put Morrison with Duane Allman, both died in 1971. That would leave >us with looking for another 1971 death though. Anyone? hmmm. That's too early for Billy Murcia, isn't it? 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: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:21:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: there's a ghost in my house "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Spooked arrived today. Did you guys get the same thing? > What I've just listened to is a work of genius. I liked it, though I could do without "English Girl" or that little bit of stray noise before it. I would probably rank it below ME or NDL for post-Egyptians material, though ahead of JFS, SFB, or Luxor. ===== "'Bushworld' is sort of an alternate universe where things are the opposite of what they seem. President Bush said the other day, 'It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offensive, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offensive because people do want to hurt us.' I mean that is a perfect 'Bushworld' quote. It's not true and it's nonsensical. It's the opposite of what is true. His new campaign motto is 'America is safer. Be afraid, be very afraid.' Everything is an oxymoron." -- Maureen Dowd __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:59:26 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: miles-responds-to-everyone-iax Palle, then Rex: >Palle: >>> Sara Romweber did indeed play for Lets Active, but only on "Cypress" and a >>> rare, but very good EP called "Afoot" that's never been put to CD. > >>"Cypress" and "Afoot" now reside together on one CD, courtesy of Collectors >>Choice. Miles: >I don't think there's been a truly full answer to this yet, even with both Tom and Rex taking a stab at >it, so... >_afoot_ has been on CD twice, both times paired naturally with CYPRESS: once on IRS c. 1990, when IRS >brought out a bunch of great albums on CD, and left the CDs in print for what seems like one afternoon at> an undisclosed Tower location. And now it's in print again just as Rex says, on Collector's Choice >with the superb "Two Yous" as a bonus track. I got the IRS version back in 1989/90 not at an undisclosed Tower location, but at the now defunct Sam's Jams in Ferndale, MI. Sam's Jams was right around the corner from the Woodward Avenue Brewery where I first met Nuppy, Eddie and Carissa at a pre-show feg gathering prior to Robyn appearing at The Magic Bag, November 1999. I bought a lot of import and hard to find CD's at Sam's circa 1985-1991. The IRS version also has a bonus track, "Blue Room" I believe, that wasn't on my vinyl versions of "Cypress" and "Afoot". Michael B. NP The Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:31:59 -0500 From: Subject: Re: gnat-responds-to-rex-maniax [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:15 , Nora B. sent: >I dont think so. I may have called The Smiths the most underrated band >ever though. underrated or underhated? your note looked really funny within eb's reply but it was actually the reply that was funny. 1 point for eb. gSs - ---- Msg sent via WebMail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:02:30 -0400 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: Wilco, Spooked Miles: > A few paragraphs about SPOOKED: > > I've played it a lot the last couple of days, and while I'm not sure I > can improve upon my "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" review, I think I've identified > my basic problem with this album: there's nothing here that Robyn hasn't > done earlier and better. I'm burnt out on acoustic Robyn. In his > aboveground oeuvre, there's already IODOT, EYE, most of YOU & OBLIVION, > STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK, and LUXOR. Almost all of his shows since the > breakup of the Egyptians have been acoustic (with notable exceptions like > the Soft Boys reunion tours, but they're just that, exceptions). If you > collected live performances of his from the '90s or have UNHATCHED > CRABLINGS or what have you, you've heard even more of this stuff. For > me, the current stuff has lost the novelty and sense of discovery that > the 1990 acoustic shows had. Most of the SPOOKED tunes are perfectly OK, > and several would have sounded good as secondary tracks on earlier > records. But I already have those records. Do I really need "Engli! > sh Girl" when I already have "Beautiful Girl"? "Demons and Fiends" when > I have "Fiend Before a Shrine"? If all the Robyn I had was post-A&M > Robyn, this might be a great mellow change of pace... oh, wait, remember > that LUXOR album? So it can't even merit a "curveball" exemption. I've listened to Spooked one and a half times. I'm usually very positive about music and reviews. Sometimes I'm too easy. Spooked has left me uninspired to go back and listen to it. I'd rather listen to any Belle and Sebastian album, or Bebel Gilberto, Momus, The Would Be Goods or anything new I've recently got. Dammit. I was really hoping for a more rocking album. Full Moon in My Soul is incredible. It's beautiful. It ranks with No, I Don't Remember Guildford. If You Know Time: I prefer the Soft Boys. I want another Soft Boys album or at least the stuff he was doing with Terry Edwards, Morris and Kim. This is Luxor, but w/ a bit more. I'm sure I'll come to enjoy this album. I always do. 10 years from now, when I'm 43 it'll make complete sense. I never liked ME, but now it's my 2nd favorite RH solo album. - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #268 ********************************