From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #203 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, August 22 2005 Volume 14 : Number 203 Today's Subjects: ----------------- more half-year favorites ["michael wells" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #201 [Michael R Godwin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #202 [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Feels like 1974-7 [Eb ] Re: reap [Eb ] Re: 1974-7 [James Dignan ] Re: 1974-7 [Capuchin ] reap? [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Feels like 1974-7 ["Bachman, Michael" Subject: more half-year favorites Been really digging Sufjan's latest "Illinois," and not just because I live here. There was a cut on my latest LF swap disc and after sampling a bit more, went and bought the whole thing. Very tasty. Plus the new Son Volt isn't bad. If you like garage bands with a touch of Beatles, check out local band "The Redwalls" second album "De Nova." I see they got plumped in a recent Paste, but it's certainly worth looking up even without that recommendation. And speaking of Paste, there's a cut from a NZ couple "The Brunettes" of whom I had not previously been aware. James, what's the scoop on this? (And just so everyone's aware, I'm a) asking for an opinion here, will b) dismissively pre-judge the response while admitting I've never heard them, and c) say something silly like "piffle" at the end. Just so you're not surprised when it happens). Off to pick up John Wesley Harding. He's playing in my living room this afternoon. No, really. Michael "poofle" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:41:12 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #201 Oh and I must add a Little Feat album in there. How about 12 Electrif Lycanthrope - Little Feat? Or does it have to be an official release, in which case Dixie Chicken is probably the one. - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:35:50 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #202 I can manage this, I think: 1 Element of Light - Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians 2 If only for a moment - Blossom Toes 3 Sunshine Superman - Donovan 4 Traffic - Traffic (the second album, that is) 5 Music in a Doll's House - Family 6 Tyranny and Mutation - Blue Oyster Cult 7 Safe as Milk - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band 8 Piper at the Gates of Dawn - The Pink Floyd 9 Albatross - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (or any other collection of early F. Mac recordings) 10 East Side Story - Squeeze 11 Squeezing out Sparks - Graham Parker and the Rumour A bit heavy on 1967-9, I'm afraid. I'm on a big Family kick at the moment since that BBC live album came out Incidentally, I was shaken up recently to hear that Kevin Westlake of Blossom Toes died suddenly. My reliable source was George Chkiantz, the famous recording engineer, who I met at a party. - - Mike Godwin PS Did you see this "New Dylan song from 1962 unearthed"? PPS James, I would vote for 'Zero she flies' or even 'Bedsitter images' before 'Year of the cat'. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:05:03 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Feels like 1974-7 >> *Paul Simon Still crazy after all these years. > > I have and enjoy everything released as Simon & Garfunkel. But I > wonder if that's not plenty. From Simon's "electric piano" phase. I don't like that sound. And "50 Ways" hasn't aged well. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:12:19 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: reap > Incidentally, I was shaken up recently to hear that Kevin Westlake of > Blossom Toes died suddenly. Lots of people talking about the death of eccentric punk-rocker Randy "Biscuit" Turner, but I don't think I've heard of him before and thus didn't bother to "reap" him. http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/statesman/ 2005/08/19biscuit.html Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:01:09 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: 1974-7 Eb flowed: >If you tallied up just how often you write a music-related post here, >those stats wouldn't seem as persuasive. ...knowing full well that that would be impossible to google. But I decided to do a quick check anyway, using the fegmaniax archives. There have been 202 digests this year so far, and in the last 20, I've had seven music-related posts (and that's counting the Peter Gabriel thread as one item). If that's an average period of time, then there have been seventy music-related posts from me this year, none of them mentioning those bands. If you're saying that in the last eleven months I haven't written much about music other than these bands, you need to read Fegmaniax a bit more closely. Fairly persuasive stats. > > Jethro Tull Aqualung > >Misses the time window by three years, dude. hmm... you're right. Seems I just blithely copied down the copyright date on the back of my copy without thinking - it was released in 1971, but for some odd reason my copy clearly says "copyright 1974". - --- Cap a dit: > > Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune > >I think I've only ever heard "Don't Fear The Reaper". And I think I liked >the cover (The Bats? Frighteners soundtrack album) better. Muttonbirds - yeah, good cover. > > The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus > >I have Dreamtime from the 1980s. I really liked it in the 1980s. Tell me >that this is a typical '70s-'80s transition and this album is harder-edged >and full of defiance and I'll seek it out immediately. yeah - the Stranglers started off trying to be punk before transitioning into softer stuff in the 80s (nice but hardly "hard-edged and full of defiance"). They were always a bit odd as punks though - felt like a group of hardened criminals who'd decided to reinvent punk by replacing the Stooges influence with the Doors. > > Supertramp Crime of the century >> *Supertramp Crisis, what crisis? > >Supertramp is both praised and panned in equal measure and with equal >vehemence. What is it all about? One of those bands that became too big due to one enormous album (Breakfast in America) - prog-influenced pop, and, yeah, one of those bands that either you love or you hate. Much derided but influential. > > *Paul Simon Still crazy after all these years > >I have and enjoy everything released as Simon & Garfunkel. But I wonder >if that's not plenty. yes and no... there's a more bitter edge to a lot of Paul's solo stuff which adds something to the feel, especially on this album. > > Abba Abba, the Album >> Fleetwood Mac Rumours >> *Roy Harper HQ (When an old cricketer leaves the crease) >> Heart Dreamboat Annie >> Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene >> *Jethro Tull Aqualung >> *Joni Mitchell Hejira >> Joni Mitchell The hissing of summer lawns >> Alan Parsons I Robot >> Maddy Prior/June Tabor Silly Sisters >> Al Stewart Year of the Cat >> Tangerine Dream Rubycon >> Pete Townshend/Ronnie Laine Rough Mix >> Frank Zappa Apostrophe >> *Warren Zevon Warren Zevon > >I don't got nothin' to write 'bout these. (That means, by the way, that >I'll keep 'em in mind and when they come up, give them a listen, but I >don't know if I'll seek them out unless things get particularly dry.) for a Hitchcock fan the Roy Harper and Warren Zevon would be the top of the list if you do, I suspect, and Hejira is well worth it. >Just thought of this: the '77 Split Enz album, *Dizrhythmia*, might have >something for you. hmmm. yes, I should have added that one, too. 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: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:15:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: 1974-7 On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, James Dignan wrote: > hmm... you're right. Seems I just blithely copied down the copyright > date on the back of my copy without thinking - it was released in 1971, > but for some odd reason my copy clearly says "copyright 1974". In the United States, audio recordings weren't covered by copyright until the Copyright Act of 1973. Nearly every audio recording made before that carries a copyright date of 1974 because there was a clause that allowed copyrights to be issued for those works in the subsequent publications. The US was not signatory to the Berne Convention until that time. > Cap a dit: >> > Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune >> >> I think I've only ever heard "Don't Fear The Reaper". And I think I >> liked the cover (The Bats? Frighteners soundtrack album) better. > > Muttonbirds - yeah, good cover. But what of the Cult, dood? >> > The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus >> >> I have Dreamtime from the 1980s. I really liked it in the 1980s. >> Tell me that this is a typical '70s-'80s transition and this album is >> harder-edged and full of defiance and I'll seek it out immediately. > > yeah - the Stranglers started off trying to be punk before transitioning > into softer stuff in the 80s (nice but hardly "hard-edged and full of > defiance"). They were always a bit odd as punks though - felt like a > group of hardened criminals who'd decided to reinvent punk by replacing > the Stooges influence with the Doors. I think I'll definitely look for some early Stranglers, then. >> > Supertramp Crime of the century >>> *Supertramp Crisis, what crisis? >> >> Supertramp is both praised and panned in equal measure and with equal >> vehemence. What is it all about? > > One of those bands that became too big due to one enormous album > (Breakfast in America) - prog-influenced pop, and, yeah, one of those > bands that either you love or you hate. Much derided but influential. Again, what about the music? "Prog-influenced pop" doesn't tell me much, I'm afraid. >> > *Paul Simon Still crazy after all these years >> I have and enjoy everything released as Simon & Garfunkel. But I >> wonder if that's not plenty. > > yes and no... there's a more bitter edge to a lot of Paul's solo stuff > which adds something to the feel, especially on this album. Good to know. >> I don't got nothin' to write 'bout these. (That means, by the way, >> that I'll keep 'em in mind and when they come up, give them a listen, >> but I don't know if I'll seek them out unless things get particularly >> dry.) > > for a Hitchcock fan the Roy Harper and Warren Zevon would be the top of > the list if you do, I suspect, and Hejira is well worth it. Just so long as Roy doesn't sound like Ben. >> Just thought of this: the '77 Split Enz album, *Dizrhythmia*, might >> have something for you. > > hmmm. yes, I should have added that one, too. Okee. Good day, kids. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:52:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: reap? Robert Moog, apparently "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg . ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:42:28 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Feels like 1974-7 Neu! Neu II Neu!(Neu! 75) (half the songs dreamy soundscapes and the other half proto-punk) Pretty Things - Silk Torpedo (not as good as Parachute or S.F. Sorrow though) Michael ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #203 ********************************