From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #161 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, July 2 2005 Volume 14 : Number 161 Today's Subjects: ----------------- One more cup of coffee [James Dignan ] Re: Half-year rock-n-pop favorites...? [James Dignan ] Less than thrilling [Eb ] MTV & Live 8 ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: MTV & Live 8 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 12:19:08 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: One more cup of coffee >If you are going to do something like this, better >Starbucks than anywhere else since it's not like there is a >town or city left on in the US or Canada without 2-3 >Starbucks, whereas if he'd done it through BestBuy or even >the ever popular "group of select independent record >stores," you are bound to leave holes in the country where >someone couldn't get it. USA, Canada, and... I wonder if the local Starbucks will have it. Most NZ cities have at least one of these XXX (insert appropriate term of choice from Al Swearingem's vocabulary on "Deadwood"). James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 12:23:10 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Half-year rock-n-pop favorites...? > > 4. The White Stripes, "Get Behind Me Satan" > >I plan on checking this out. More of the same, or surprisingly fresh? Surprisingly fresh. Layered sound, lots of instruments - everything from piano to marimba. Still good in your face songwriting, but the songs have been taken to the next level. 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: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:39:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Half-year rock-n-pop favorites...? On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, James Dignan wrote: > Surprisingly fresh. Layered sound, lots of instruments - everything from > piano to marimba. Still good in your face songwriting, but the songs > have been taken to the next level. I've been really enjoying The White Stripes lately. They stopped sounding like Led Zeppelin and started sounding good. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:29:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Less than thrilling Live8 performances which I'd care to see: Pink Floyd Paul McCartney REM Snow Patrol U2 Placebo Audioslave Brian Wilson Roxy Music Sarah McLachlan Stevie Wonder Bjork A pretty underwhelming tally. I guess Bjork, Roxy Music and Pink Floyd would be at the top of my list. I guess. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:15:18 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: MTV & Live 8 Am I the only one who thinks that MTV's coverage of Live 8 could not have been worse? Could they possibly show an entire song without interrupting it with inane patter or maybe even start one from it's opening? Cutting away from Pink Floyd in the midst of Comfortably Numb takes the cake. Really it generally was the biggest, shittiest waste of my time and I think it would have been easy to at least a half decent job with it. Perhaps they were worried about it being pirated? Max ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:43:29 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: MTV & Live 8 Maximilian Lang wrote: > > Cutting away from Pink Floyd in the midst of Comfortably Numb > takes the cake. Nah, I think they want the DVD market. What's the bets that the DVD set will come out just before Christmas? Stewart PS: New! Sufjan! Stevens! Album!! "Come On Feel The Illinoise!" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #161 ********************************