From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #338 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, November 27 2004 Volume 13 : Number 338 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: [bt-easytree-org] NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians 1991-11-20 Frankfurt aud (flac) [] Re: Vceobtschie vibori na Ukrainye [James Dignan ] Re: Quick endorsement [Eb ] pitchfork spooked review [bisontentacle ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:27:08 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: Fwd: [bt-easytree-org] NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians 1991-11-20 Frankfurt aud (flac) http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=15560&hit=1 >A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. > >Title: Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians 1991-11-20 Frankfurt aud (flac) >Size: 409.78 MB >Category: Alternate >Uploaded by: carville > >Description >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Here's a nice sounding aud recording from 13 years ago. It's probably > from the master or 1st gen, but the lineage was not stated. This came as > 2 cds and the tracking was a mess, so I retracked and discovered it would > fit on 1disc no problem, no edits. > I have 3 aud masters (90, 92, 94) I will be seeding soon. I look > forward to others stepping up with some vintage or recent masters. > C > >Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians >Wed., 20 Nov. 1991 >Mein Batschkapp >Frankfurt, Germany >aud(master?)>?>cdr>eac>cdwave(retracking)>flac > >tuning >Oceanside >Birds in Perspex >The Ruling Class >Acid Bird >Vegetation & Dimes >So You Think You're in Love >Lysander >Uncorrected Personality Traits >Child of the Universe >The Live-in Years >Freeze >Ultra Unbelievable Love >Balloon Man >I'm Only You >Superman >Ride >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login). > >http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=15560&hit=1 > >Take care! > >easytree.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:41:04 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Vceobtschie vibori na Ukrainye >And maybe because I am in a country that shares a rather long border >with Ukraine but is anyone watching this? I am curious to see what will >come of it all and know some folks who are on the streets for nearly a >week now in Kiev. It's amazing. There are elections here this Sunday >and this is also an election of the old guard, Moscow trained, old >party elite against the new democratic reformers. Should be interesting >in light of the current state of the neighbor to the north. it's the main overseas news item here - in fact I think it was the second TV news item overall earlier this week. Lewt's hope thaty if anything happens its as peaceful as what happened in Georgia (erm, that's Tblisi Georgia, not Atlanta Georgia). Trouble is Ukraine seems to be split damn near 50-50, rather than the government being hated by everyone like Sheverdnadze's was. James - (oh, and to correct my offlist answer to your earlier question, I see from the send-times that you're 11 hours out from me, so I'm 17 hours ahead of NY and 20 of LA). - -- 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: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:23:42 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Quick endorsement On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:58:35 -0800, Eb wrote: > I know I'm coming to this one belatedly, but I think the Thrills/So Much > for the City is the best debut I've heard since Rufus Wainwright's. Huh. Well, I guess the Era of Eb Convergence is over for me. Not only was I utterly bored by SO MUCH FOR THE CITY, but found them even more snoozeworthy as a live act, since I got stuck with them opening for the Pixies in both Nashville and Atlanta. We were jealous of the stops that got MoB as an opener, until we found out that we could see a MoB show in Atlanta the day after the Pixies show. Which we proceeded to do. For what it's worth, the two female friends who went with us to the Pixies/Thrills Ryman show loved the Thrills, though one later admitted it was mostly because the singer said "cheers, thank you" at the end of every song. If she'd gone to Atlanta with us, she not only could have heard him do that again, but heard him tell the same anecdotes and seen that he was wearing the same clothes. corey hayyyyyym, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:01:39 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Quick endorsement >> I know I'm coming to this one belatedly, but I think the Thrills/So >> Much >> for the City is the best debut I've heard since Rufus Wainwright's. > > Huh. Well, I guess the Era of Eb Convergence is over for me. Not > only was I utterly bored by SO MUCH FOR THE CITY, but found them even > more snoozeworthy as a live act I *have* heard that they're disappointing onstage. And I remember seeing them on Letterman awhile back, and thinking the same thing. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:10:14 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: pitchfork spooked review (yeah, i know, i'm a bit behind on press article posts...i know this one was linked to on fegmaniax but i'm posting the article for posterity. it was already posted to vegetablefriends by roberta.) Robyn Hitchcock Spooked [Yep Roc; 2004] Rating: 7.2 Robyn Hitchcock enlisted the help of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings for Spooked-- his first full-length collaboration (not counting, of course, The Soft Boys and The Egyptians)-- and, consequently, it's the most "American" album he's ever made. The record is a departure from Hitchcock's usual eccentric left-of-the-dial pop, a left turn almost as unique as the story behind the album's creation: One of Hithcock's friends sent him a photo of the coronation of a new Miss Ohio named Robyn Hitchcock; the coincidence reminded the English singer of a striking live performance of Gillian Welch's "Miss Ohio". How different is Spooked? It begins with Hitchcock scat-singing a melody line that typically may have been played by a guitar or a keyboard. The track, "Television", has an understated but pretty three-part harmony, and even though the song's titular subject is a bit worn, it still develops a very Cronenberg-ian relationship with its subject matter: "My kid will look like you, I swear." If only he could have gotten Debbie Harry for a duet. The 11 tracks that follow (one of which is a spoken-word aside) all feature spare instrumentation-- often just one or two strummed acoustic guitars-- but they aren't stripped-down versions of the types of pop songs with which Hitchcock has built a sizeable cult audience. Instead, Spooked sounds closer to folk-inspired songs Hitchcock performed very early in his career, his recent forays into Dylaniana, and Welch's prefab Americana. For Hitchcock, it's both a departure and a return to his roots. The album boasts an array of instruments, albeit all played for "MTV Unplugged" effect. NRBQ's Joey Spampinato takes bass on two songs; "Everybody Needs Love" features electric sitar (one that's more Beatles than Dylan); and harmonicas, organs, and percussion show up throughout. The album has a spontaneity that makes Hitchcock sound newly invigorated, but it's a little shapeless. Spooked doesn't seem especially well thought-out, and while that could be part of its charm, some songs-- like "Creeped Out" and "We're Gonna Live in the Trees"-- sound underdeveloped and often outright irritating. Furthermore, this austere folk sound isn't always the best setting for Hitchcock's voice and songwriting. While "Television" and "Flanagan's Song" sound perfectly suited to this sound, "If You Know Time" and the nearly a cappella "Demons and Fiends" cry out for a faster tempo, a sturdy backbeat, and an electric guitar. What holds Spooked together is the same thing that seems to have inspired its title: Hitchcock's fascination with America and American music, which suggests a darker reading of the album, one that depicts the United States as a terminally spooky place, akin to Greil Marcus' "old weird America." Hitchcock's is a new weird America: There's a palpable eeriness behind the fluorescent sheen of strip malls, suburban sprawl, and dubious politics. He namedrops Condoleeza Rice on the spoken-word "Welcome to Earth"; "Creeped Out" is about American girls who "tell the future every 28 days"; and his cover of Dylan's travelogue "Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door" sounds newly, nervily paranoid from a non-American point of view. This dread, mostly unnamable but certainly strong, suffuses the album with a gravity that extends from the first song through the last. Still, for all its anxiety, Spooked often sounds generous, even hopeful, especially on "Everybody Needs Love", on which Hitchcock sings, "Some people are maimed/ They're not as worth it as the label on them claims/ But everybody needs love." That's a mantra that new weird America could embrace. - -Stephen M. Deusner, October 25th, 2004 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #338 ********************************