From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #209 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, September 10 2006 Volume 15 : Number 209 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: i wish i was doing this [Tom Clark ] Random note [Eb ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #208 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Random note [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: No More War! [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 23:30:24 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: i wish i was doing this Don't forget 'strings' Mother is coming, she wants to be friends so the poison can get in you She's got a map of you, she knows the pressure points On Sep 8, 2006, at 9:42 PM, ken ostrander wrote: > speaking of directly political, i loved 'new roman times' with the > original camper lineup. haven't bought into cracker since the second > album. You're a smart guy. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 13:47:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Random note I've only heard bits of it, but I have a feeling the upcoming Yo La Tengo album may be the best thing they ever did. Seems like much more of a full production, operating-on-all-cylinders discs than some others. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 23:29:11 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #208 >You'll have seen the news item at the Museum about I Wanna Destroy >You being featured on the new 30Years of Rough Trade Shops comp, but >what I hadn't realised was that all the tracks have been chosen by >"celebrity" customers and the Soft Boys track was picked by former >England cricketer Derek Pringle! Very strange... A useful right-arm medium bowler IIRC. Essex, but never mind. >other politi-contenders include: > >'the underneath' (of which the gracious sound sample reminded me - "if >you can't sell me something then how can you respect me?"), 'the >president' (about a reagan speech? - "when i hear the word democracy i >reach for my headphones" is one of my favorite robyn lines), 'legalized >murder' ("a young black man is strapped into a chair"), 'filthy bird' >("bomb the children"), 'devil's radio' ("the flowers of intolerance and >hatred are blooming kind of early this year"), 'dancing on god's thumb' >("we got a bunch of crippled looners in power"), 'my earthly paradise' >("the bastards that destroy our lives"), 'ruling class' >("that's no reason not to be paranoid"), 'if you know time' ("the war >that's coming setting good guys against good"), 'somewhere apart' >("with flowers and a geiger counter stumblin'"), 'brenda's iron sledge' >("the ones on top are comfortable"), 'guildford' >("near enough to be scorched, not blasted"),'strings' ("i wish that i was >just paranoid"), and 'i wanna destroy you' ("a pox upon the media"). i >might be stretching it with some of these; but i probably missed other >possibilities. A filthy bird (seemingly about Bosnia) is possibly close to the top. Ones you missed include: Cynthia mask ("tell that to the Polish..."); 1974 ("you could vote for Labour then..."); Legalised murder, and his cover of Bells of Rhymney (about a miners' strike) 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: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:46:59 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Random note - -- Eb is rumored to have mumbled on 9. September 2006 13:47:50 -0700 regarding Random note: > I've only heard bits of it, but I have a feeling the upcoming Yo La > Tengo album may be the best thing they ever did. Seems like much more of > a full production, operating-on-all-cylinders discs than some others. It's already out here. I've had it for one day. The first track is just great, although perhaps a bit too typical. It's a ten minute variation of one theme. There are some surprises on other tracks (unusual vocal by James, I guess), but I need more time to assess how much I'm going to like the album. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:42:35 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: No More War! Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > > Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:37:34 -0500 > From: Dolph Chaney > Subject: Re: I Wish I Was Doing This > At 05:11 PM 9/7/2006, JBJ wrote: >> http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060831/ENT/608310312/1017 >> could this be Robyn's most directly political song?? > > Heh. This, "The President," and "W Sucks." * I gather that Patti Smith is unveiling 2 new anti-war songs next week. I wonder if they will be as memorable as "Baby Ice Dog". :-) - - Mike Godwin n.p. Tyranny and Mutation (for a change) PS I thought that 'Point it at Gran' was quite political... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #209 ********************************