From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #164 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, July 15 2006 Volume 15 : Number 164 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More actual music ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Vegetable Man Part Deux [Jeff Dwarf ] lobsterman! ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #162 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #163 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: More actual music [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: best. new tunes. EVAR!! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Black Cat / Blelvis [bayard ] Holy Fucking! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Holy Fucking! [Eb ] robYn on sYd [bayard ] Re: robYn on sYd [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:32:42 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: More actual music ...I think I'm actually rather pleased with the new Church record. Doesn't have quite the same exuberance as the last one, but as compensation, most of the lyrics don't completely suck, as in they're more in that older Kilbey phonetic sense than that bad-puns-substituting-for-depth thing; a few lines actually seem intentionally funny ("Metaphysical chicken!") and many of them are surprisingly fresh-sounding, or at least less predictable than you'd expect. A few nods towards more traditional blues, ballad and soul templates actually result in some of the weirder, more innovative arrangements on the record. That and it has a few of the shimmery-sweet pop tuns that were the only things missing from FORGET YOURSELF, and you have a pretty solid record. I'm as surprised as anyone about this, but I really don't the latter day Chuch records compare unfavorably with any current (younger) indie band's output. Anyone else have an opinion on this one? - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:36:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Vegetable Man Part Deux Thanks to everyone who sent/tried to send/offered to send/pointed out plausible places to find it to me. Kinda sounds like The Soft Boys version for some reason.... "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. -- Stephen W. Hawking . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:10:26 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: lobsterman! Maine lobsterman pulls up rare lobster ====================================== http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060714/ap_on_sc/rare_lobster ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:42:58 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #162 Michael Wells wrote: >> No - he meant Foucault - Jeffrey Foucault. He got decapitated by a > pendulum. > > What a terrible joke. The pendulum had foucault to do with it. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:39:05 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #163 >I guess that's why they call it a moose >Antlers on its head and it don't wear no shoes >Pulling out rhinos, hanging with Rocky, >Stood on the tundra, many miles from Milwaukee >And I guess that's why they call it a moose... see, mentioning that crappy song WAS worthwhile, after all! :) > > Yes, a nice grrrrowl for Stella from me also. For more Stella grrrrowls, > > check out "The Ballad of Cable Hogue". > >Plus John Cale borrowed the title for a song. So there. damn fine song, too. > > Maybe the Beatles didn't > > sing with much accent, > >* "Take KURR beWURR". You can almost always hear a L'pool vowel in a >Beatles song, specially when they play live. try singling "I've just seen a face" without one. Rhyming "aware" and "her" is damn near impossible unless you're singing in scouse. >That's not it at all: Bowie was threatened by factions of the Human Gnome >Project, whose goal is to map all the garden gnomes of the world. it's a vintage day on Fegmaniax today... James PS - Philip Glass covering Dylan? The mind boggles... - -- 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, 15 Jul 2006 13:25:42 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: More actual music - -- Spotted Eagle Ray is rumored to have mumbled on 14. Juli 2006 15:32:42 -0700 regarding More actual music: > ...I think I'm actually rather pleased with the new Church record. ... > I'm as surprised as anyone about this, but I > really don't the latter day Chuch records compare unfavorably with any > current (younger) indie band's output. There's a "think" missing, I guess? > Anyone else have an opinion on this one? I only recently allowed myself to be interested in The Church again. They were one of the first "new" bands I got into after my conversion to indie/alternative around 1985. I saw time for the first time when they were touring after the Heyday album. That was the loudest show I've ever been to, probably not on purpose ... anyway, here in Germany they only played clubs around that time, and I remember reading Kilbey say in an interview that they would never come back here, because so few people wanted to see them. I was upset about that, because most if not all bands I loved only played for smallish crowds (still, we're talking around hundreds of people here). I thought it was arrogant of them to expect to or even *want* to fill arenas. Nonetheless, I followed them until "Gold Afternoon Fix". I think the main reason I turned away from them was because the Feelies *hated* them. Marty Willson-Piper was opening for them for a few shows on the one tour in the US that I traveled with them and I think they didn't exchange *one* word with one another! Sure, *he* didn't show any interest, either, but still my main recollection is that the Feelies thought that The Church were pretentious crap. That hurt my poor adolescent self-esteem, because I was guilty by association. With time I came to recognise what exactly it was they didn't like. At least the early Church definitely carried an air of hubris and arrogance. I still like(d) some of their music, but it was more of a guilty pleasure. What turned me around was reading Kilbey's blog entries after Grant McLennan's death. I already had the first Jack Frost CD, so I knew about their collaboration, but I hadn't imagined that it had actually been such an emotional experience for either of them. The Go-Betweens and Grant McLennan were in my mind the exact antithesis to the attitude exhibited by Kilbey and The Church. Anyway, I got curious about their more recent efforts. So I ordered "El Momento Descuidado" on a whim. I'm on the fence about it. I like some of the reworkings of the songs I'm familiar with, but I haven't really gotten into any of the newer material. My favorites are probably "Tristesse" and, unexpectedly, "A New Season". So, Rex, based on this: where would you suggest I start my rediscovery? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:31:32 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: best. new tunes. EVAR!! Michael Wells wrote: > > Stewart was dead-on about The Late B.P. Helium's tunes; I'm currently > enjoying his fresh Toronto show and it is *kick ass*. In case you missed that URL again; it's . I've uploaded the flac archive, as only one person picked up my torrent on etree. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:46:37 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: Black Cat / Blelvis Any DC area fegs going to the Black Cat tonight to see Mission of Burma? (And no doubt, Blelvis to serenade you as you find your car afterwards) =b "Roustabout" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:04:20 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Holy Fucking! this yeah yeah yeahs record is frigging *sublime*. what is in the waters to make all of these '06 discs come out so golden? eb, you might get a kick out of this: . ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:52:04 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Holy Fucking! Ambiguously Gay Eddie wrote: > this yeah yeah yeahs record is frigging *sublime*. Bleh. > eb, you might get a kick out of this: . Looks like the freak did something almost as heinous to his lips. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:05:10 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: robYn on sYd from a friend of mine. http://laxman.hipcast.com/deluge/6987ff02-87dd-152c-cd36-f6825d67b3ce.mp3 Robyn Hitchcock talks about Syd Barrett. Thanks enormously to Brain Damage for pointing out the Podcast in this article - http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/news/0607151.html There's no need to mess about with iTunes or subscriptions to anything. Just grab the file directly & have a lovely day! PS: Please feel free to post this information wherever you like. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:59:26 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: robYn on sYd > http://laxman.hipcast.com/deluge/6987ff02-87dd-152c-cd36- > f6825d67b3ce.mp3 > > Robyn Hitchcock talks about Syd Barrett. Thanks enormously to > Brain Damage for pointing out the Podcast in this article Interesting...though I was a little disappointed in Robyn's insights. Nothing at all about Syd's distinctive melodic phrasing...the somewhat facile insinuation that Dylan, Lennon and Syd put themselves into their music to a unique degree.... Hrm. Kinda charming that Robyn can chant out Syd lyrics so easily off the top of his head, though. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #164 ********************************