From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #22 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, January 25 2006 Volume 15 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: Audities 2005 Top 20 Poll Final Results [Steve Schiavo ] reap [Eb ] Re: reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: My name is "Eb", and thus my name is *not* "God Shamgod" [Jeff Dwarf ] [Fwd: [bot-dimeadozen-org] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock on Mark Radcliffe Jan 24th 2006] [wojizzle forizz] Re: My name is "Eb" [Steve Schiavo ] Re: reap [Eb ] Re: reap [FSThomas ] Re: reap [Eb ] Random thought [Eb ] Brainteaser [Eb ] Wretched, but now with 10% more Eb [FSThomas ] Re: Wretched, but now with 10% more Eb [Tulloch ] Colin likes the crossword puzzles. [The Great Quail ] Re: reap [John Barrington Jones ] Detroit [Jill Brand ] Re: Colin likes the crossword puzzles. [Eb ] Re: Audities 2005 Top 20 Poll Final Results [Capuchin ] Re: Where oh where has my Fiona gone? [wojizzle forizzle ] Re: Audities 2005 Top 20 Poll Final Results ["Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" <] Re: reap ["Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:38:01 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Fwd: Audities 2005 Top 20 Poll Final Results Here's the list, if you want some ear candy. I own 6 out of the top 10 and 10 out of the top 20. I'll leave it up to fegs to decide how close these come to the power pop bulls-eye. - - Steve > AUDITIES TOP 20 OF 2005 POLL RESULTS > > 1. The New Pornographers -- Twin Cinema (537 points) > 2. Teenage Fanclub -- Man-Made (407) > 3. Brendan Benson -- The Alternative To Love (401) > 4. Josh Rouse -- Nashville (395) > 5. Pernice Brothers -- Discover A Lovelier You (376) > 6. Paul McCartney -- Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (346) > 7. The Decemberists -- Picaresque (250) > 8. The Supahip -- Seize The World (245) > 9. The 88 -- Over And Over (228) > 10. Kaiser Chiefs -- Employment (223) > 11. Spoon -- Gimme Fiction (221) > 12. The Churchills -- Odds Of Winning (220) > 13. Chris von Sneidern -- California Redemption Value (219) > 14. Nada Surf -- The Weight Is A Gift (191) > 15. Franz Ferdinand -- You Could Have It So Much Better (183) > 16. Sufjan Stevens -- Illinois (162) > 17. IKE -- In Real Life (154) > 18. Bright Eyes -- Im Wide Awake, Its Morning (152) > 19. Click Five -- Greetings From Imrie House (137) > 20. Paul Weller -- As Is Now (130) > > 21. Eels (129) > 22. Checkpoint Charlie (126) > 23. Aimee Mann (122) > 24. The High Dials (120) > 25. Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (119) > 26. Oasis (115) > 27. Neon (112) > 28. My Morning Jacket (109) > 29. Big Star (108) > 30. Jensen Bell (107) > Hot Hot Heat (107) > 32. Beck (105) > 33. Jim Boggia (103) > Michael Penn (103) > 35. Ryan Adams [Cold Roses] (102) > 36. The Go-Betweens (101) > Parallax Project (101) > 38. The Well Wishers (100) > 39. Pugwash (99) > Super Furry Animals (99) > 41. The Mockers (98) > The Posies (98) > 43. Sylvie Lewis (95) > 44. Weezer (92) > 45. Foo Fighters (89) > Spongetones (89) > 47. The Magic Numbers (88) > The White Stripes (88) > 49. The Darkness (87) > Rogue Wave (87) > Sonata Form (87) > Valley Lodge (87) > __________ 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: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:25:52 -0800 From: "Hurricane Jesus" Subject: My name is "Eb", and thus my name is *not* "God Shamgod" 1. The New Pornographers ~ *Twin Cinema*. you may recall that i was somewhat disappointed with the album upon its release -- even after listening to it repeatedly for a goddam month trying to force myself to love it as much as i love *Electric Version*. well, i didn't listen to it for many months after that, then came back to it in mid-late november, and have been addicted to it ever since. at one point last month, while blasting it at a particularly high volume level, i was even convinced that it was my favourite album of all times -- though i've, for now, backed off on making such a pronouncement in public. two areas of major improvement: i think the harmonies/backing vocals have gotten better since *Electric Version*; and i can't think of any album with more imaginative/entertaining drumming (i'll still take janet weiss or danny carey in the live setting, though). the new pornographers are a fucking miracle straight from fucking heaven. if this shit doesn't win the *Village Voice* poll, i am going to *personally* slide an object of my choosing into eb's cornhole. 2. Wilco ~ *Kicking Television*. here's what these motherfuckers need to do: write up a batch of new songs, tour them, and record all the shows. then release the best version of each song as their next album. no more studio albums for wilco. their studio output is suck-ass boring. 3. Bloc Party ~ *Silent Alarm*. 4. Green Day ~ *Bullet In A Bible*. two live albums in the top-five? what can i say? 5. Sleater-Kinney ~ *The Woods*. a disappointment, but still it rips your ass open. 6. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ~ *Howl*. "howl" with derision if you must, but i like it a lot. 7. Mogwai ~ *Government Commissions*. three live albums in the top-ten? what can i say? 8. Aqualung ~ *Strange And Beautiful*. was reviewing my '05 keepers, and liked this a lot more that i had remembered doing. 9. Robert Plant ~ *Mighty Rearranger*. 10. Ben Lee ~ *Awake Is The New Sleep*. shit, but if the second half were as good as the first, this might even be in at number 2. 11. Mercury Rev ~ *The Secret Migration*. 12. Devendra Banhart ~ *Cripple Crow*. 13. Eels ~ *Blinking Lights And Other Revelations*. 14. Leela James ~ *A Change Is Gonna Come*. 15. William Elliott Whitmore ~ *Ashes To Dust*. 16. The Fall ~ *Fall Heads Roll*. 17. Bright Eyes ~ *I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning*. 18. Joe Perry ~ *Joe Perry*. i'm gonna tell it to you straight: this shit fucking *rocks* -- except for the vocals, which fucking stank. 19. Maktub ~ *Say What You Mean*. 20. The Go-Betweens ~ *Oceans Apart*. Not-yet-heard-but-expecting-to-like-a-lot: Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Nada Surf. Honorable Mention: The Bravery, Ani DiFranco, Daft Punk, Jon Kanis*, Lazerlove 5*, Aimee Mann, Ms. Led (* = fegBAND, yo!). Dishonorable Mention (*That's*-the-shit-everybody-is-buzzing-about? division): The Go! Team, My Morning Jacket, Spoon. Dishonorable Mention (Not-*terrible*-but-they're-way-more-talented-than-that division): Audioslave, Beck, Bright Eyes (*Digital Ash*), Trail Of Dead. Worst Album: Dandy Warhols, *Odditorium*. this is *so* bad (and i love this band) that i can't help wondering if it's some kind of *Metal Machine Music* get-out-of-the-rekkid-deal kind of trick. Great song on a lousy album: Judas Priest, "Loch Ness": "Loch Ness / Confess / Your terror of the deep". put the loch ness monster on trial? *that's* a fucking concept! well, guess again, bitch. somebody alerted this board about this when it was released a few years back. i bought it from michael keefe, but don't like it. can't remember if i ever told about this particular Conversation with the Chef. don't think so, and, there's no time like the present. the dishwasher at the restaurant was and is a gigantic seahawks fan. (so is the chef, really. but he's been pissed off at them ever since they sacked dennis erickson. believe it.) one time last season, after hasselbeck really laid a pretty large egg, brett (the dishwasher) came in, and the chef lit into him (brett) like none other. all he (brett) could do was say, "i know. i can't deny it. he had a horrible game." thereafter, and for the rest of the night, the chef kept exclaiming, "hasselbeck? more like *asshole*beck." he must've said it thirty times -- and i must've busted a gut after every single uttering... so, which was the more brilliant game plan: pittsburgh's against peyton manning, or seattle's against steve smith? KEN "Stacked crooked all along" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:37:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Audities 2005 Top 20 Poll Final Results > Here's the list, if you want some ear candy. I own 6 out of the > top 10 and 10 out of the top 20. I'll leave it up to fegs to decide > how close these come to the power pop bulls-eye. Huh. Seemed like the last couple of Audities polls were moving toward less biased, more credible results, but this one plunges straight back into the retro-pop ghetto. Heck, they didn't even rank Fiona Apple...you'd think she would have turned up in a good spot, given her style and general acclaim. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:44:22 -0800 From: Eb Subject: reap Chris Penn, actor/brother of Sean. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:22:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: reap Eb wrote: > Chris Penn, actor/brother of Sean. Shouldn't we prefer to think of him as brother of Michael and brother-in-law of Aimee Mann? "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:18:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and thus my name is *not* "God Shamgod" Hurricane Jesus wrote: > 5. Sleater-Kinney ~ *The Woods*. a disappointment, > but still it rips your ass open. But who wants their ass ripped open? > Worst Album: Dandy Warhols, *Odditorium*. this is > *so* bad (and i love this band) that i can't help > wondering if it's some kind of *Metal Machine > Music* get-out-of-the-rekkid-deal kind of trick. That and/or they were trying way too hard to out-weird genius Anton in the wake of _Dig!_ > so, which was the more brilliant game plan: > pittsburgh's against peyton > manning, or seattle's against steve smith? Easily Pittsburgh's against Peyton. I think Seattle would have won anyways, but Carolina being without DeShaun Foster made it much easier for the Seahawks to keep their focus on Smith, and when the Panthers found themselves down to 49ers reject Jamal Robertson at RB, it made it even easier for Seattle to focus all their attention on Smith. Pittsburgh had to deal with the Indy offense at (theoretical) full strength, and still held them in check. "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:19:20 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: [Fwd: [bot-dimeadozen-org] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock on Mark Radcliffe Jan 24th 2006] http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=79543&hit=1 - -------- Original Message -------- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 79543 Title: Robyn Hitchcock on Mark Radcliffe Jan 24th 2006 Size: 163.75 MB Category: Alternate Uploaded by: graham232 Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock and The Minus 3 Mark Radcliffe, Radio 2, January 24th 2006 Robyn Hitchcock (Vocals, Guitar) Peter Buck (Guitar) Scott McCaughey (bass, vocals) Bill Rieflin (drums) 1. Interview 2. Adventure Rocket Ship 3. Interview 4. Cigarettes, Coffee and Booze (Scott - vocals, guitar / Peter - Bass) 5. Interview 6. Interview 7. Underground Sun 8. Interview Lineage: DAB Radio, Behringer Mixing Desk via balanced outputs to Delta 66 Soundcard, Sonar, Audition (for cutting up), dB power amp. Have not done one of these for a while so bear with me! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:41:30 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: My name is "Eb" On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Hurricane Jesus wrote: > 11. Mercury Rev ~ *The Secret Migration*. This would be in my top 10 if I made a list, maybe top 5. Is there a Progities list? Seems to me that proggies should like this way more than any of the neo-prog bands, except Porcupine Tree. - - Steve __________ What the Republicans need is 50 Jack Abramoffs. Then this becomes a different town. - Grover Norquist (National Journal, July 29,1995). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:12:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: reap Jeff Dwarf wrote: >> Chris Penn, actor/brother of Sean. > > Shouldn't we prefer to think of him as brother of > Michael and brother-in-law of Aimee Mann? Well, I'm a lot bigger fan of Sean than Michael or Aimee so...no. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:19:26 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: reap Eb wrote: > Jeff Dwarf wrote: >>> Chris Penn, actor/brother of Sean. >> >> Shouldn't we prefer to think of him as brother of >> Michael and brother-in-law of Aimee Mann? > > Well, I'm a lot bigger fan of Sean than Michael or Aimee so...no. What about "Nice Guy Eddie"? "The man you killed was just released from prison. He got caught at a company warehouse full of hot items. He could've walked away. All he had to do was say my dad's name. But instead he shut his mouth and did his time. He did four years for us, and he did 'em like a man. And we were very grateful. So, Mr. Orange, you're tellin me this very good friend of mine, who did four years for my father, who in four years never made a deal, no matter what they dangled in front of him, you're telling me that now, that now this man is free, and we're making good on our commitment to him, he's just gonna decide, right out of the fuckin blue, to rip us off?" - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:33:49 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: reap FSThomas wrote: > What about "Nice Guy Eddie"? > > "The man you killed was just released from prison. He got caught at a > company warehouse full of hot items. He could've walked away. All > he had > to do was say my dad's name. But instead he shut his mouth and did his > time. He did four years for us, and he did 'em like a man. And we were > very grateful. So, Mr. Orange, you're tellin me this very good > friend of > mine, who did four years for my father, who in four years never made a > deal, no matter what they dangled in front of him, you're telling me > that now, that now this man is free, and we're making good on our > commitment to him, he's just gonna decide, right out of the fuckin > blue, > to rip us off?" Quentin Tarantino is not any sort of hero to me. Weird to see Ben Folds pointlessly pop up on "Love Monkey" a minute ago. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:48:12 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Random thought It's odd how TeenBeat Records seems to have completely fallen off the "buzz" map, though it's still putting out music. Anyone (Jeff, Aaron?) heard anything from this label in recent years? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:37:30 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Brainteaser Hurricane Jesus wrote: > if this shit doesn't win the *Village Voice* poll, i am going to > *personally* slide an object of my choosing into eb's cornhole. > > their studio output is suck-ass boring. > > a disappointment, but still it rips your > ass open. Hey Eddie...Tobias Funke called, and wonders if you're free for lunch. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:47:45 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Wretched, but now with 10% more Eb [Apologies in advance. -f.] One evening, a C, an Eb, and a G go into a bar. The bartender says: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So E flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished and G is out flat. F comes in, tries to augment the situation but isn't sharp enough. D comes in and heads straight for the bathroom saying, "Excuse me, I'll just be a second." Then A comes into the bar but the bartender isn't convinced that this relative of C isn't a minor. He notices a B flat hiding at the end of the bar and exclaims, "Get out, you're the 7th minor I've found here tonight." The Eb, not easily deflated, comes back the next night in a 3-piece suit with nicely shined shoes. The bartender (who used to have a nice corporate job until his company downsized) says, "You're looking sharp tonight, come on in. This could be a major development." Which proves to be the case, as the Eb takes off the suit and everything else, and stands there au natural. Eventually, the C sobers up, and realizes in horror that he's under a rest. The C is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and sentenced to 10 years of da capo without coda at an upscale correctional facility. On appeal, however, C is found innocent of any wrongdoing, even accidental, and that all accusations to the contrary are bassless. The bartender decides, however, that since he's had only tenor so patrons, with the soprano out in the bathroom, and everything has become alto much treble, he needs a rest, and closes the bar. - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas@ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:52:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Tulloch Subject: Re: Wretched, but now with 10% more Eb FSThomas wrote: "Which proves to be the case, as the Eb takes off the suit and everything else, and stands there au natural." Maybe he was just getting some air on his G string... (No apologies needed in this quarter - I love this sort of thing and shall be bombarding my aquaintances with it!) Tulloch. - --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:18:19 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Colin likes the crossword puzzles. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/arts/music/25coli.html?_r=1 January 25, 2006 Chimney Sweep's World, With No Mary Poppins By BEN SISARIO Colin Meloy paused in front of the diorama of a pair of spiral-horned giant elands, the largest of the antelopes, and chuckled a little. Mr. Meloy, the lead singer and songwriter of the indie-rock band the Decemberists, who will play a solo show tomorrow at Town Hall, was at the American Museum of Natural History recently on a brief trip to New York. And the scene of the stuffed elands, with a painted background of the savannah, and foreground props for brush and trees, tickled a funny bone particularly sensitive to antiquated versions of the past. "It's the 1920's approach to what a museum should be," he said, looking at the serpentinite stone frame around the display and the heroic bas-relief above it. "But it's so artful, the way they do it." Mr. Meloy knows something about artful anachronism. In the last few years he has quickly established himself as one of the premier new songwriters in rock, charming critics and ever-growing crowds with songs set in a fantastical world of Victorian chimney sweeps and dockside prostitutes, infant ghosts and exotic royal parades. His lyrics giddily engage a Scrabble master's vocabulary; one song on the Decemberists' latest album, "Picaresque," rhymes folderol, chaparral and coronal. Fitting snugly into a gray tweed sports jacket, and with his reddish-brown bangs falling just over the frames of his narrow glasses, Mr. Meloy, 30, has the look of a confident, unhurried graduate student. Ultra-literary types do not often rise to the top of the indie-rock heap, but last month the Decemberists, who are based in Portland, Ore., and have released three albums on the independent Kill Rock Stars label, signed with Capitol Records after being pursued by other high-profile companies like Nonesuch and Verve. Discussing the songs in a voice a bit deeper than the pointed nasal tenor he sings with, Mr. Meloy said that although his characters inhabit an imaginary or literary past, as a songwriter he aims for the timelessness of archetype. "Think of the character - which may be anachronistic - of the prostitute," he said, "whether the member of the harem or the Dickensian 19th-century prostitute. There's a certain universality to it that you can't get from other characters." In "A Cautionary Song," a woman trudges from ship to ship "till at last she's satisfied the lot of the marina's teeming minions (in their opinion)," to feed the children who wait for her at home. A pair of male streetwalkers turn up in "On the Bus Mall," this time as bitter "kings among runaways" whose caustic world-weariness would not be out of place in a Gus Van Sant movie. Mr. Meloy was born in Helena, Mont., to a family long devoted to the arts. His grandfather was one of the founders of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, and one of his sisters is the novelist Maile Meloy. He had planned to become a writer himself and studied creative writing at the University of Montana at Missoula, which teaches a stern Western realism that comes down from Wallace Stegner and Ivan Doig. That style worked its way into Mr. Meloy's college band, Tarkio. Its music, reissued this week in "Omnibus" (Kill Rock Stars), was poker-faced alt-country influenced by Uncle Tupelo, with stark lyrics, for the most part, firmly rooted in reality. Drawn after graduation to the Pacific Coast, he settled in Portland with plans to return to Montana soon to get an M.F.A. degree. But so near the sea, he began to follow his music on strange new adventures. "As soon as I moved from Montana to Oregon," he said, "I immediately started writing more songs that involved the ocean. I had always loved maritime literature as a kid, adventure stories and things like that. There's something about the ocean in its depth and hugeness that of course would inspire this amazing genre." His songs became playful narrative fantasies populated by improbable characters like the "chimbley sweep," whose song of despair ("I am a poor and a wretched boy/ A chimbley, chimbley sweep") Mr. Meloy cannot sing without a grin. "You can't write a song about a chimney sweep without a hint of irony," he said. "It you did it straight, it would come across as 'Mary Poppins.' " To give the song a self-consciously literary twist, he borrowed the Welsh slang for a chimney sweep, as used in Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood." "You can trace my movement into this outlandish exotic narrative form in the songs right from when I graduated from college," he said. "It was really a reaction against that to a certain degree. Here I was trying to write stoic nonfiction memoirs about living in Montana, and once I was out of school, I started writing songs in this really bizarre way." Mr. Meloy and his girlfriend, Carson Ellis, whose Edward Goreyesque artwork illustrates each Decemberists release, are expecting their first child soon and recently bought a house in Portland - a 1914 Craftsman, Mr. Meloy notes. Wandering through the museum, Mr. Meloy is most excited to talk about his literary idols, among them Thomas and Tom Stoppard, and his interests in history. So dedicated a Russophile that on a trip to Russia he made sure to visit Irkutsk and Lake Baikal, Mr. Meloy named his band partly after the 1825 Decembrist revolt - adding the extra E for clarity - and partly in hopes of "imagining a people that would be represented by that month, and how dramatic and melancholy it is." "Sixteen Military Wives," one of the most striking songs on "Picaresque," is mostly a cutting satire of contemporary politics. It counts the casualties of a war waged " 'Cause America can, and America can't say no," and ridicules the see-no-evil news media that watches it all with a "La de da de da." But as if proof that politics alone cannot hold Mr. Meloy's attention for long, a deus ex machina comes with the arrival of "Fourteen cannibal kings/ Wondering blindly what the dinner bell will bring." "In so many ways that sums up my whole approach to songwriting," he said. "You can throw in all the soldiers and the widows and the politicians and the media people, but really the most interesting thing is the cannibal kings and what they would do to eat everybody. It's just kind of me pulling myself back into a world I'm more comfortable with, which is just the world of my imagination." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:17:52 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: reap On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Eb wrote: > Chris Penn, actor/brother of Sean. I'm told Chris Penn went to my high school for a few years. =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:20:54 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Detroit Yeah, they decided that they didn't want to go to Detroit in the winter, and their families were begging them to cut the season short. But they'll be baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccckk. Jill, off to see Colin Meloy tonight ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:45:50 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Colin likes the crossword puzzles. > That style worked its way into Mr. Meloy's college band, Tarkio. > Its music, > reissued this week in "Omnibus" (Kill Rock Stars) Huh...hadn't heard about this yet. Interestin'. http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/tarkio/audio/TristanAndIseult.mp3 Sounds worthwhile. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:04:26 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Audities 2005 Top 20 Poll Final Results On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Eb wrote: > Heck, they didn't even rank Fiona Apple...you'd think she would have > turned up in a good spot, given her style and general acclaim. I gotta say, the prerelease version of her record is way better than the one Sony released. There's an overblown, overproduced, and dampened quality to the "final" versions of all the songs. In fact, they all start pretty much the same with some low, solitary instrument and building up to the full orchestration. The prerelease had maybe one or two that started that way, but was just as likely to start with a hard chord of strings and drums (as in "Red Red Red"). Did anyone else think they kind of dumbed down the release? J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:22:26 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Where oh where has my Fiona gone? > I gotta say, the prerelease version of her record is way better than the > one Sony released. Man -- where can I download it? I have looked everywhere! Is there a single Web site or something, perhaps run by a crazy Fiona Apple pirate, who exists solely to offer the Brionized version of the CD to curious onseekers? - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:58:04 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: Where oh where has my Fiona gone? one time at band camp, The Great Quail (quail@libyrinth.com) said: >Man -- where can I download it? I have looked everywhere! Is there a single >Web site or something, perhaps run by a crazy Fiona Apple pirate, who exists >solely to offer the Brionized version of the CD to curious onseekers? i think the sites which were offering it for download voluntarily shut themselves down when the album's release was announced or maybe when it actually hit stores. i'm sure, though, that it could be found on some of the torrent sites though. i could probably dredge it up as well -- let me know. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:15:32 -0800 From: "Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" Subject: Re: Audities 2005 Top 20 Poll Final Results Capuchin says: > Did anyone else think they kind of dumbed down the release? Personally, I can't really justify listening to the official release over the Jon Brion version. The thing I most notice on the Sony release is that Ms. Apple sounds bored of singing her own songs. It's a darn shame. I read a few articles and interviews about the official release and why the songs were redone, but none of them made any sense to me. I'm cynical - the only thing that makes sense to me is that sales would be higher if the songs were different. I don't think the thing would have even been released if the weekly city papers weren't calling it "the best album you've never heard" and what-not. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:57:40 -0800 From: "Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" Subject: Re: reap Eb says: > Chris Penn, actor/brother of Sean. Wow, that's a sad one. His small role in "Short Cuts" is the one I most associate with him. The scene in the end was really, really creepy. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #22 *******************************