From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #283 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 6 2005 Volume 14 : Number 283 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Further morning listening... [Spotted Eagle Ray ] RE: Best of 2005 ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Attn. B&S freaks [Steve Talkowski ] Multiples of Elvis [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Multiples of Elvis [2fs ] Re: Best of 2005 [Spotted Eagle Ray ] Re: Best of 2005 [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Best of 2005 [Spotted Eagle Ray ] Re: Best of 2005 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Rendezvous [Sebastian Hagedorn ] That warped LP: A solution [FSThomas ] Top Ten [The Great Quail ] Re: Top Ten [Spotted Eagle Ray ] RE: Top Ten ["Bachman, Michael" ] Fave CDs of 2005 [John Barrington Jones ] The fuck are you waiting for? ["Hurricane Jesus" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:04:12 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: Further morning listening... Anyone familiar with Mount Egypt? The song I've head a few times thus far possesses an interesting dicohotomy: the vocal quality, melody, and lyrics sometimes eerily reminiscent of Robert Forser, and at other times irritatingly like Morrissey. (Are there more similarities between the two than I had previously realized?) Instrumental track more like generic Belle & Sebastian. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:36:44 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: check out the monkey Stewart C. Russell wrote: >> Hey, I know there's an Eels fanatic or two here: Seems like the >> backing track of MC Honky's "What a Bringdown" sounds just like >> some Eels song. Which one? > > I thinks it's generic E-style noodling. All his songs tend to sound > like > that, unless he has external influence like Butch or John Parrish. I suppose...E does have a frustrating trait of happily coasting on the same circular little I-IV-V chord sequences in song after song. Probably my #1 complaint about the Eels. Eb PS Happy birthday, Ugly Nora! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:52:48 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Best of 2005 Rex, I missed out on Mass Romantic by TNP, just ordered it today a lunch time. Did it come out in 2001? Also popped for "Strangers" by Ed Harcourt and "Begonias" by Caitlin Carry (She sings duets with some dude and it's suppose to sound somewhat like Gram and Emmylou, which is enough to peak my interest!) Michael B. NP Kate Bush - Aerial y, November 29, 2005 3:30 PM To: Bachman, Michael Cc: Vanished Like The Trilobite (E-mail) Subject: Best of 2005 On 11/28/05, Bachman, Michael < Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> wrote: michael wells wrote: Sufjan and Kate Rusby will definitely be on my list, along with The New Pornographers, The Go-Betweens I didn't hear much this year, so it'll be hard for me to fill out a top 10. The Go-Betweens record is damned fine, and The New Pornographers record is only mildly disappointing in comparison to their first two. They have the hands-down song of the year, though, in "Sing Me Spanish Techno", which makes me feel like I'm on the best drugs ever and/or being shot out of a canon or something. Was the Arcade Fire record a 2004 release? It was, huh? That was a dominant album this year. It's rare that the album your 4-year-old wants to hear over and over again is so good that you don't mind in the least. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:21:00 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Attn. B&S freaks On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:33 PM, Hurricane Jesus wrote: > the forthcoming rekkid has been posted to > alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.folk. > didn't notice if it was cross-posted to somewhere else as well... I've been listening to it constantly since Friday morning and am totally digging it. Has a definite retro feel, yet also a totally new departure from the previous album which is a good thing. - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:39:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Multiples of Elvis "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Catherine plays both musical Elvii almost equally. Costello and Hitler? And wouldn't the faux Latin plural of Elvis be Elves (pronounced Elv-ees)? Like crisis becomes crises, testis testes, oasis sucks, etc. "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg . __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:32:02 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Multiples of Elvis On 12/5/05, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." > -- Mitch Hedberg Had to laugh at this, having just watched the first DVD of the first season of _Six Feet Under_... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:14:42 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: Re: Best of 2005 wrote: > > > I missed out on Mass Romantic by TNP, just ordered it today a > lunch time. Did it come out in 2001? > Looks like 2000. I pulled down both of the older NP's records after this new one came out, and for, like, the third time, I found myself remembering "Electric Version" as by far the better of the two, playing it first, and then listening to "Mass Romantic" and changing my mind (or at least rating them neck and neck). Anyone else got early best-of-the-year recommendations? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:20:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Best of 2005 Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > Anyone else got early best-of-the-year recommendations? My top 3 will almost assuredly be Bloc Party, 50 Foot Wave (Kristin is absolute the anti-KaTe and thank god for that), and The New Pornographers, though I actually think A.C. Newman's solo album is better than any of the three New Pornos. This is also the first year that I've gotten around to getting any New Pornos related-produkt the year it was actually released for some reason. Beyond that there are probably 10-12 albums that I like really close to the same, all "B/B+" that are gonna be hard to differentiate. The eels album would probably sneak in within the top 3 if it wasn't so goddamn long or would sprawl out meander over a wider berth of musical territory. Double Albums should be messy and sprawling all over the place, the eels albums is too consistant and steady to justify the length. "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg . __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL  Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 22:04:30 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: Re: Best of 2005 > Jeff D: > My top 3 will almost assuredly be Bloc Party, 50 Foot Wave > (Kristin is absolute the anti-KaTe and thank god for that), > and The New Pornographers, though I actually think A.C. > Newman's solo album is better than any of the three New > Pornos. Man, I forgot that 50 Foot Wave was this year... I knew all of those songs from the EP, the live release, and mostly seeing them live tons of times in '04. And I did love that Bloc Party album-- it was by far the best of its type of thing but at this point I'm a little burnt out on that whole retro-post-punk thing. The AC Newman might be a more solid set of song than the New Pornos records, but there's such an exuberance and looseness to their approach that I fall on that side of the fence. I should go back to the solo thing again, though, since it fits a little more with "Twin Cinema" than the earlier New Pornos records. It's all good, though. Still digesting the Neil Young record, too, and I have yet to pick up the John Cale record which is probably a shoe-in for my top five or so, from what I've heard, and I'm really charmed by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah as well. - -R ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:55:09 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Best of 2005 - -- Spotted Eagle Ray is rumored to have mumbled on 5. Dezember 2005 16:14:42 -0800 regarding Re: Best of 2005: > Anyone else got early best-of-the-year recommendations? I got these CDs in 2005 and I have tried to rank them somewhat: Aimee Mann, The Forgotten Arm The Decemberists, Picaresque Bloc Party, Silent Alarm Juliana Hatfield, Made In China Martha Wainwright, Martha Wainwright (came out in 2004 in the Us, but was only released here recently) The Go-Betweens, Oceans Apart Tocotronic, Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen ("Aber hier leben, nein danke" is my "single" of the year) Kate Bush, Aerial Belle & Sebastian, Push Barman To Open Old Wounds Adam Green, Gemstones Kimberley Rew, Essex Hideaway - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:21:28 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Rendezvous - -- Maximilian Lang is rumored to have mumbled on 4. Dezember 2005 15:21:36 -0500 regarding Rendezvous: > A friend sent me a link to this, it's an insane little movie. > > > > You can see the movie here - > http://www.bsdunix.ch.nyud.net:8090/public/rendezvous20_04.mov > > and here's the story on it - > http://www.jerrykindall.com/2005/11/07_cetait_un_rendezvous.asp Thanks for that! I'd never heard of it, even though Claude Lelouch is pretty well known here ... I am no fan of car racing, to put it mildly. I don't have a car. I always use my bicycle around the city. So rationally I shouldn't enjoy the movie, but perversely I did :-) It's fun to recognize the sights, too. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:58:22 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: That warped LP: A solution If you can't get the bend out of your LP, may I suggest re-purposing it? http://www.modernartisans.com/detail.aspx?ID=436 - -or- http://www.modernartisans.com/detail.aspx?ID=123 - -or- http://www.modernartisans.com/detail.aspx?ID=437 Just a thought. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:51:10 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Top Ten > At the risk of starting a music thread, I've started compiling by faves of > 2005. 1. White Stripes, "Get Behind Me Satan" 2. Beck, "Guero" 3. Stephen Malkmus, "Face the Truth" 4. The Decemberists, "Picaresque" 5. Mountain Goats, "The Sunset Tree" 6. NIN "With Teeth" 7. Black Mountain, "Black Mountain" 8. Fiona Apple, "Extraordinary Machine" 9. My Morning Jacket, "Z" 10. Neil Young, "Prairie Wind" If I can extend the list a bit.... 11. The Mars Volta, "Francis the Mute" 12. Tori Amos, "The Beekeeper" 13. Van der Graaf Generator, "The Present" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:20:29 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: Re: Top Ten > Quail: > > 2. Beck, "Guero" Oh yeah. I've totally forgotten a lot of stuff that came out this year. That was pretty good! > > 4. The Decemberists, "Picaresque" Now, I'm still working on this. I don't think I'll ever fully embrace this band, but that's a really consistent record. Basically the whole presentation will always remain a little too fey and mannered for my tastes. However, there's a certain consistency to that fey-ness that makes this stuff easier for me to listen to than a lot of "quiet is the new loud" material. Maybe it's less arch, or somehow charmingly, doggedly commited to its feyness? Some Decemberist songs work better than others for me, but it's hard to say why, since they're pretty homogeneous. 6. NIN "With Teeth" Developing category "Bands I didn't like when they were "important" and are now past their commercial peak so I never hear anything of their new material on which to base any reevaluations". (Or maybe this got played on the radio and I missed it.) > > 9. My Morning Jacket, "Z" Definitely curious about this-- I've paid about as much attention to these guys as the Decemberists but like them a lot more, and yet still haven't gone hog-wild for 'em. This record was a bit of a departure, no? Someone cited the new Pernice Brothers... anyone care to throw out more detailed opinions? > 10. Neil Young, "Prairie Wind" Pretty good, often great... maybe less than the some of its parts? The last couple of tracks have their virtues but kind of kill the momentum, seemingly too slight and too self-consciously messagey to be next to each other, and both lack the sophistication of some of the preceding stuff. Still, very nice. > If I can extend the list a bit.... > 11. The Mars Volta, "Francis the Mute" Most irritating band I've ever seen open for the Pixies, and that includes Soul Asylum. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:12:42 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Top Ten >> 9. My Morning Jacket, "Z" The Spotted one wrote: >Definitely curious about this-- I've paid about as much attention to these >guys as the Decemberists but like them a lot more, and yet still haven't >gone hog-wild for 'em. This record was a bit of a departure, no? >Someone cited the new Pernice Brothers... anyone care to throw out more >detailed opinions? The lead singer for MMJ was one of the featured performers in the Gram Parsons tribute concerts last year and on the Return To Sin City DVD. One of the better performers from a spotty recorded and performed concert/DVD. Not having any MMJ's what is a good starting point? The latest, "Z"? I cited the new Pernice Brothers. It's not as good as the last two and the band is somewhat thinner in personnel. They were average at best in concert when I saw them 5 months ago, but it was only $10.00 to get in. By the time I get Marshmallow, Ed Harcourt and some others, it probably won't make my Top 10. Michael B. NP Charlatans - Between 10th and 11th ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:28:48 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Fave CDs of 2005 1. Spoon - Gimme Fiction 2. Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteors 3. Idaho - The Lone Gunman 4. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree 5. The Decemberists - Picaresque 6. M.I.A. - Arular 7. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema 8. Ani DiFranco - Knuckle Down 9. Malcolm Middleton - Into The Woods 10. Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart 11. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise 12. Frank Black - Honeycomb 13. Danger Doom - The Mouse & The Mask 14. Erin McKeown - We Will Become Like Birds 15. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:05:03 -0800 From: "Hurricane Jesus" Subject: The fuck are you waiting for? why no reviews of the talking heads boxed set? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #283 ********************************