From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #285 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 9 2005 Volume 14 : Number 285 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fegtech Q ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Hope for California [Steve Schiavo ] [ot] Shelagh McDonald ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Hope for California [2fs ] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - 2005-03-26 - Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ (cmc2/Minidisc AUD master) [wojizzle fo] Re: best of [James Dignan ] Best of... [James Dignan ] Re: Best of... [2fs ] Re: Best of... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Sundry [Eb ] Re: Best of... ["randalljr" ] Re: Best of... [2fs ] Error-Message of the Moment ["Hurricane Jesus" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:15:14 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Fegtech Q Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > I can second for Audacity. It's interface is a little lumpen I can't believe I wrote that as "it's:. Dear oh dear. I put it down to having the car break down on me in London, and me having to stay in a dodgy motel nair the airport. cheers, Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:14:59 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Hope for California http://tinyurl.com/bj6sl - - Steve __________ Bush's [domestic] political successes all have three main elements in common....The first is massive partisan discipline.... Element No. 2 is massive giveaways to well-organized lobbies.... The third element is - how should I put it? - lying. - Jonathan Chait ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:24:44 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: [ot] Shelagh McDonald perhaps slightly old new, but it seems she's reappeared, after beig missing, presumed dead/spaced out, for the last 30 years: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:55:26 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Hope for California Did I miss the bit where Californians passed the referendum stating that only movie stars could be governor? On 12/7/05, Steve Schiavo wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/bj6sl - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:23:12 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - 2005-03-26 - Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ (cmc2/Minidisc AUD master) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=72397&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 72397 Title: Robyn Hitchcock - 2005-03-26 - Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ (cmc2/Minidisc AUD master) Size: 574.41 MB Category: Singer/Songwriter Uploaded by: woj Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock March 26, 2005 Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ Another all-request show -- with lots of covers -- some rather unusual -- and a nice, long electric set as well! Taped by that woj guy Source: SP-CMC-2 > MZ-R50 (mic in, SP stereo, autogain on for disc 2) Transfer: MDS-JE530 > Delta Dio 2496 (optical) > CD Wave > Cool Edit 2000 (normalize disc 1) > CD Wave (tracking) > flac 1.1.1 (level 8) As the requests were all passed up on slips of paper, there is very little between song banter as would normally be the case but there are fairly long pauses between songs as Robyn reads requests and decides what to play next. Since they aren't particularly "contentful", I left them as the tail-end of the previous songs. Somehow, I managed to record the second minidisc with the autogain on. So, the overall level of the second disc is somewhat louder than the first. I tweaked the levels of the first disc as much as I could to get them closer to each other and was pretty successful, but you may still notice if you listen carefully. Disc 1 01. intro 02. Gates Of Eden [Bob Dylan] 03. City Of Women 04. Television 05. Daisy Bomb 06. Dark Princess 07. Dominoes [Syd Barrett] 08. It Is Obvious [Syd Barrett] 09. Lysander 10. One Long Pair Of Eyes 11. Queen Elvis 12. Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands [Bob Dylan] 13. I Often Dream Of Trains 14. I Used To Say I Love You 15. banter 16. The Lizard 17. Adventure Rocket Ship 18. Swirling Disc 2 01. Madonna Of The Wasps 02. You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover [Willie Dixon] 03. Who Do You Love? [Bo Diddley] 04. Nietzche's Way 05. banter 06. Creeped Out 07. banter 08. Sally Was A Legend 09. Tired Of Waiting [The Kinks] 10. She Doesn't Exist 11. banter 12. Sometimes A Blonde 13. encore break 14. acoustic medley in the crowd: Rock Your Baby [George McCrae] / When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman [Dr. Hook] / Sound + Vision [David Bowie] Kung Fu Fighting [Carl Douglas] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:01:29 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: best of >On 12/6/05, James Dignan wrote: > > > > 10. Neil Young, "Prairie Wind" > > > > > > > A goodie all right. Anyone else here think that if CSNY ever got back > > together "No wonder" would be an obvious one for them to play? > >I haven't heard this - but along similar lines, I was listening to >_Their Satanic Majesties Request_ the other day, and while at the time >it was clearly a Dylan nod, I keep hearing "The Lantern" as a song >Robyn should sing - esp. the part "My face it turns a deathly pale / >You're talking to me through your veil." apropos of nothing, but I know there are fans of both here... I'd love to hear XTC's out-take "Wounded horse" sung by Adrian Belew. 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, 8 Dec 2005 21:22:11 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Best of... I'm still digesting a lot of 2005's music, and - as always - I wonder what the point of doing a best of a year is when I've still got almost a month of listening pleasure ahead, but here's a list (in no set order) of some of the more interesting sounds I've heard that have been released this year: up there: Pictures (Timo Maas) Cherry Pie (Leila Adu) You could have it so much better (Franz Ferdinand) Tank (Asian Dub Foundation) Get behind me Satan (White Stripes) The campfire headphase (Boards of Canada) Twin cinema (New Pornographers) Like stray voltage (Gramsci) Prairie wind (Neil Young) Takk (Sigur Ros) Witching hour (Ladytron) Digital ash in a digital urn/I'm wide awake it's morning (Bright Eyes) Out west (Gomez) close: Employment (Kaiser Chiefs) Another day on earth (Brian Eno) - a disappointment in a way, but still worthy still to hear: Push barman to open old wounds (Belle & Sebastian) Black acetate (John Cale) Oceans apart (Go-Betweens) Extravagenza (Split Enz - live 1993) Return the gift (Gang of Four remixes) surprise delights: Music from the Spongebob Squarepants movie. Bewildering, trippy weirdness disappointments? A couple. Perhaps I set my hopes too high on these: '64-'95 (Lemon Jelly) In your honor (Foo Fighters) 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, 8 Dec 2005 07:11:54 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Best of... On 12/8/05, James Dignan wrote: > I'm still digesting a lot of 2005's music, and - as always - I wonder > what the point of doing a best of a year is when I've still got > almost a month of listening pleasure ahead My usual mode is somewhere around this time to realize that there are apeloads of albums I haven't heard yet, and then go out and spree on a whole bunch of them. Then for the next month I end up trying to figure out which ones I actually like. Sometime around January I can cough up a list (done primarily to make my year-end mixes, because I'm not otherwise a listmaking person habitually). So auditionees are currently in rotation in my car - I can say that having just relistened to Eno's _Another Day on Earth_, I pretty much agree with you, James: it's not as good as I'd hoped but still a good listen. I don't think it'll make my list, or if it does, somewhere near the bottom of the top 20... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:10:31 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Best of... James Dignan wrote: > > disappointments? A couple. Perhaps I set my hopes too high on these: > '64-'95 (Lemon Jelly) It didn't do what it should have did for me either. When they start doing concept albums, you know there's something wrong. cheers, Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:19:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Sundry The coolest Grammy nominations: the Arcade Fire and Adrian Belew. Though neither can win. I finally heard Ed Harcourt/Strangers last night and, damn, this is a great album. Definitely the best of the 13 discs which I bought the other week. From Every Sphere disappointed me, but this one is almost as good as the debut. Especially liking "Open Book," at this point. Why is this guy not more of a "critics' darling"? Influences too obvious, I guess. My god..."Let Love Not Weigh Me Down" might as well *be* Nick Cave. Plus, based on hearing a few B-sides I've downloaded, Harcourt's sorting process for rejecting material seems to be "Oops, another song where I couldn't avoid sounding too much like Tom Waits".... In other news, has anyone heard Saves the Day's (two year old) In Reverie? I hate myself for liking this album, but I've finally decided that I cannot resist it. Against all odds, it's *seriously* inventive on a pop-melody level, with that intoxicating "on the verge of falling apart" quality you find in Big Star and Of Montreal. Weird diminished chords everywhere, and peculiar phrasing which extends across measures in a fresh way. You have to be able to tolerate the singer's mondo-wimpy voice (and his apparent need to insert a "sun" image into almost every song), but if you're already an Of Montreal fan, that shouldn't be a problem. Perfectly mixed/produced, too...a really great guitar sound. Twelve songs, just 33 minutes. Not a second wasted. The weird thing is that I've previewed earlier Saves the Day album, and they're all utterly ordinary teen-emo crap. Doesn't even sound like the same singer. They've totally retooled their sound. It's telling that the album's Amazon page is full of youthful customer reviews complaining that the group totally "blew it" and sucks now. News: http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/08/leisure.cbgb.reut/ index.html Eb, horrifically insomniac this week ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:00:26 -0800 From: "randalljr" Subject: Re: Best of... Ya know, I really don't care about Eb and Rex. how bow dem Seattle Seahawks!!!! Yee Haaaahhhww, ffff you gleenn effen you care I'm happy no one from Rush got arrested this year. And I didn't. (3 years in a row!) Vince ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:41:20 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Best of... On 12/8/05, randalljr wrote: > I'm happy no one from Rush got arrested this year. And I didn't. (3 years > in a row!) Dude: everyone knows those cops were working for _Rolling Stone_. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:05:50 -0800 From: "Hurricane Jesus" Subject: Error-Message of the Moment "An internal error has occurred: cryptic error message D627 (Note: You have not done anything wrong)" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #285 ********************************