From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #173 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 26 2006 Volume 15 : Number 173 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: album covers spoofing album covers [Eb ] RE: album covers spoofing album covers ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: album covers spoofing album covers [Tom Clark ] Re: Planningtorock (DLR content 0%) ["Eugene Hopstetter Jr." ] Re: album covers spoofing album covers ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: David Lee Roth [2fs ] Rudebox [FSThomas ] Re: Rudebox [FSThomas ] Re: Rudebox [FSThomas ] reap ["Michael Wells" ] Re: reap [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:20:44 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers > Oddly the two top-elevation butterfly covers are unaccompanied by > either the > House of Love or Helium covers that look exactly the same. > > My favorite example that I don't think many people would peg on > their own > (although it did show up on a similar list) is The Kinks' > "Kontroversy" and > Sleater Kinney's "Dig Me Out". I was in a record store a couple of nights ago, and saw the recent K.D. Lang album in a showcase rack...another Elvis Presley ripoff, a la London Calling. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:25:04 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: album covers spoofing album covers err, make that matches the music of the album! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Bachman, Michael Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:13 PM To: fgz Subject: RE: album covers spoofing album covers >> http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view? >> list_id=5925&show=150&start=450 Eb came back with: >I think some of those are mere coincidence, but they're interesting >all the same. Never thought about the similarity between the Ride >album and "Self Portrait" before. Or between All Things Must Pass and >Veedon Fleece. >Also, I've been trying to recall for ages the "other" album which >sed the same photo as the Fountains of Wayne album, so it was nice >to be given that answer. >Has it ever been confirmed that the Weezer cover was a Feelies >tribute? That's another which I'm dubious about. Damn, I couldn't open the article up. Did the article mention Miles Davis yellow and red motif on "Sketches of Spain"? I have seen a couple of knock off similarities of that one, can't remember who it was though. SoS is one of my favorite jazz album covers, and it perfectly marches the music of the album. Michael B. Np The Ocean Blue - Cerulean ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:32:53 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers On 7/25/06, Eb wrote: > > >> http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view? > >> list_id=5925&show=150&start=450 > > I think some of those are mere coincidence, but they're interesting > all the same. Never thought about the similarity between the Ride > album and "Self Portrait" before. Same here, both being covers that I'd know on sight if you covered up the band names, even. > Has it ever been confirmed that the Weezer cover was a Feelies > tribute? That's another which I'm dubious about. > Me, too. Oddly, one of the Rhino distillations of the early Kinks records actually looks more like "Crazy Rhythms" to me than the Weezer cover: http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:1hrsa9lgb238 ... and that's pretty clearly a tossed-together compilation cover; just happens to feature the same color background and four guys framed approximately the same way. I ran into that Turbonegro record with the Pet Sounds cover a few months back... the inanely juvenile song titles juxtoposed with the design "tribute" struck me as mighty off-putting, for some reason. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:39:20 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > I ran into that Turbonegro record with the Pet Sounds cover a few > months back... the inanely juvenile song titles juxtoposed with the > design "tribute" struck me as mighty off-putting, for some reason. I always liked how this album subtly used the Pet Sounds font: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000048D9 Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:57:05 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Eb wrote: > > I always liked how this album subtly used the Pet Sounds font: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000048D9 Has anybody copied Ween's "Chocolate & Cheese" cover? The world needs more like that... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:53:18 -0500 From: "Eugene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Planningtorock (DLR content 0%) > From: Eb > Subject: Re: David Lee Roth > > PS Has anyone else heard a "one-woman band" called Planningtorock? Wow. Wow. Whatthefuck. Rostron is kinda what Laurie Anderson always wished she was, it seems. And she dresses like Crank Sturgeon. Nice. This is some really interesting stuff. and have the goods. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:08:11 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers On 7/25/06, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > _http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5925&show=150&start=450_ > (http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5925&show=150&start=450) > > Here's one taking off on Bringing It All Back Home: < http://www.johnsharples.com/index.html> - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:39:07 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers On 7/25/06, 2fs wrote: > > > Here's one taking off on Bringing It All Back Home: < > http://www.johnsharples.com/index.html> Isn't the cover of Richard Hell & the Voidoids' "Destiny Street" supposed to be a BIABH tribute as well? I mean , if it is, it's a shitty one, really only having "sitting musician with chick in background" in common with the original, but that's what they tell me. It's a good record, though! I'm kinda over this idea now, but for a long time I wanted to release a record called "Frampton Comes Alive", preferably with the same artwork as the original, adding only the band's name in tiny, tiny print somewhere. But now I've changed my mind and the new name of the album will be, of course, "The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall". - -SER - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:35:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: David Lee Roth Jeff Dwarf wrote: > You'd think you would. The thing is, say what you will > about those two covers, they were recorded by a guy at > the height of his powers having a goof by a guy > (seemingly) unaware that he's about to be an ex-Van > Halen. The bluegrass VH covers are being done by a > has-been desparate for attention. It's the difference > between watching someone telling a bad joke and being > a bad joke. I think Roth was starting to become a bad joke even before he left Van Halen. I just learned some interesting trivia from the online world. I did not know that what's probably my all-time most hated song -- "My Ding- a-Ling" -- was previously recorded by Chuckie four years earlier, as "My Tambourine" instead. Huh. I'm finishing up an overdue viewing of "Mayor of the Sunset Strip," the documentary about legendary local DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. Not so great as filmmaking -- very erratic as storytelling, with bad chronology and shaggy detours into peripheral character portraits -- but I learned a few things from this film too. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:46:44 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: David Lee Roth On 7/25/06, Eb wrote: > I just learned some interesting trivia from the online world. I did > not know that what's probably my all-time most hated song -- "My Ding- > a-Ling" -- was previously recorded by Chuckie four years earlier, as > "My Tambourine" instead. Huh. We can all be thankful he didn't revisit "In the Wee Wee Hours" to celebrate his kinks. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:04:20 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Rudebox Sometimes reality is a rib-tickler better than fiction. My sister is a Robbie Williams addict. I don't know how or when it happened, but it did. (This is the same girl, however, who caught Robin w/me in Seattle and NYC, so she has a white-magic side.) Anyways, she sent me a link to a Spanish site that has a version of his new track on it, and the Babelfish translation of it made me chuckle enough to send it along. Mad props to Mr. Williams, though, for the nod to The Beasties, not to mention Goober (I think it is: "you don't sweat much for a fat lass [girl].") http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/143328/0/Robbie/Williams/Rudebox Listening already new of Robbie the Williams, in 20minutos.es The bad boy of the pop one, in ' 20 minutos'. The British singer Robbie Williams has chosen the Web of 20 minutes to release in new Spain his simple one. The keys: * New the simple one of the British singer, ' Rudebox', has been released in exclusive right in our Web. * It enjoys all the force of Robbie here, only for our readers. You already can listen to it! This one is, its new single... You only must leave unloads to enjoy ' Rudebox' That it benefits With each new disc, Robbie Williams reinventa. [Re-invents himself?!?] And this occasion is not an exception. The Briton is completing the details of his new disc, that not yet has date of publication - it is anticipated that it on sale leaves between September and October -. In order to warm up motors, it yesterday released at world-wide level the song Rudebox, first single of its new album of study after Intensive Care. The interpreter of Angels, Supreme, Tripping, nonRegrets, Let Me Entertein You and Kids, between many others, has chosen 20minutos.es to present/display his new song in Spain. You already can listen to Rudebox in our Web. Single will put the 4 of September on sale (EMI Record). It can that says that it is music dances or that he is electro, but it is simply what to me I like "It can that says that it is music dances or that is electro, but it is simply what to me I like", affirms Williams on its last subject. A ' boy malCB3 successfully [bad boy?] Robbie Williams is one of enfants terrible of the pop Briton. [Bad boys of Britpop?!?] Been born in 1974, he was one of the boys of boyband Take That and after several conflicts with the members of the formation, it left it in 1995. It surpassed his addiction to drugs and the alcohol, and undertook in 1996 his race in solitaire. Since then it has recorded nine discs, one of them, recopilatorio. In his next album it has counted with artists like Pet Shop Boys and William OrbitB7 - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:09:54 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Rudebox Did I type "Robin" and not "Robyn"? I think I did. Self-castration process starting in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:13:01 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Rudebox FSThomas wrote: > Did I type "Robin" and not "Robyn"? > > I think I did. > > Self-castration process starting in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... Castration still incomplete. Debating cause. I *have* been listening to Odessa and Mr. Natural today, so I may be channeling Robin Gibb, but that doesn't really further my cause, does it? - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:09:53 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: reap Metallica's absence from iTunes is now history. I know you're all thrilled. Michael "I'd recommend starting with 'Ride the Lightning'" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:48:17 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: reap On Jul 26, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Michael Wells wrote: > Metallica's absence from iTunes is now history. I know you're all > thrilled. > From their site: "At 12:01 AM, on Tuesday, July 25th, we will begin offering our music on the iTunes Music Store, a Cupertino, CA based upstart outfit, who we feel may very well have a bright future," - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #173 ********************************