From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #211 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 12 2006 Volume 15 : Number 211 Today's Subjects: ----------------- dates added to RH.com [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] re: new Robyn tour dates ["Michael Wells" ] RE: new Robyn tour dates ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Barfing up Amazon recommendations ["Marc Holden" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #210 [Aaron Mandel ] Re: new Robyn tour dates ["Stewart Russell" ] RE: new Robyn tour dates ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Good Morning Mister Leitch [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] RE: Good Morning Mister Leitch ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: No More War! [2fs ] Re: Tinfoil Thoths... free! [2fs ] Re: Barfing up Amazon recommendations [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Amazon Recommends... ["Shane Apple" ] Re: Barfing up Amazon recommendations [Steve Schiavo Subject: re: new Robyn tour dates > October 24 King's Arms - Auckland, NZ Is this a first? I would have thought to hear James' scream all the way up here. Looks like there's plenty of space in that schedule for another 3-night stand in Chicago. You know, if the mood strikes. Michael "just a helpful suggestion" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:49:09 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: new Robyn tour dates >> October 24 King's Arms - Auckland, NZ >Is this a first? I would have thought to hear James' scream all the way >up here. >Looks like there's plenty of space in that schedule for another 3-night >stand in Chicago. You know, if the mood strikes. I'm sure Nuppy, Rev. Chris, Carissa and I would vote for a tour stop in SE Michigan as well! It's been 4 1/2 years Since Robyn visted the Great Lakes state with the Soft Boys. If not, it's another road trip to Chicago! Michael B. NP Keren Ann - la biographie de Luka Philpsen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:43:24 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: No More War! I wrote a very bad protest song in July, to the point that I felt compelled to entitle it "Bad Protest Song." Lyrics are available from my livejournal. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:12:09 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Barfing up Amazon recommendations >On 9/11/06, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: >> --On 10. September 2006 14:47:28 -0700 Eb wrote: > > Art Brut-Bang Bang Rock & Roll >> I like that one a lot. > >Me, too. Seemingly gimmicky in a way, but really hard to resist. >- -SER Same here, but I first heard these songs live, and think that they hold up better that way. The CD loses a bit of something, but still, it stayed in my player longer than average. I've been working my way through boxes of CDs that I bought but hadn't had the time to enjoy. At this point, everything gets about 3 to 5 plays before getting shelved. I still have a backlog of at least 2 or 3 months at this point. Good thing I don't own a TV, because there is music playing here all the time. Marc np--just switched from Joy Division--Closer to Roxy Music--Stranded ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:33:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #210 > From: Eb > Subject: Barfing up Amazon recommendations > > Aloha-Some Echoes Every time I put this record on, I think "hey, this is better than I thought!" but it never sticks in my mind beyond that. Decent slightly-sprawly indie rock. > Cursive-Happy Hollow All the brass burned me out after two listens. Still, it's rare that I can stand to listen to someone shouting as much as I can listen to Tim Kasher, so I'll give it another chance at some point. > Figurines-Skeletons If you like Arcade Fire/Wolf Parade/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (which I do), has some great songs. > Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:06:07 -0400 > From: The Great Quail > Subject: New political songs > > I was thinking... I am surprised at how little good political music has > emerged since 911 and the Iraq invasion. You'd think there'd be plenty > of of material for some amazing works, but aside from "American Idiot," > it's been run-of-the-mill. And a few big names with recent albums have > been very mild on Bush and the war -- Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Bob > Dylan.... I feel like there was a fair amount of it in hip-hop for a while. Mr. Lif's "Emergency Rations" EP has several of my favorite songs by him. Saul Williams' "Not In Our Name" single was powerful. Who else...? El-P had a few political songs, I think, but I can't stand the guy. Maroons (Lateef the Truth Speaker + Chief X-Cel) did at least one political song on their album. My favorite piece of hip-hop commentary, though, is Aesop Rock's "Numb To The Guns", which may prove your point-- it came out in late 2003 and is more about being jaded by TV coverage of the war than about the war itself. Actually, Aesop's "Winners Take All" doesn't mention Iraq explicitly, but it's a fantastic anti-war song in the "misguided wars really fuck up the soldiers" tradition of various Vietname movies. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:22:53 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: new Robyn tour dates On 12/09/06, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > I'm sure Nuppy, Rev. Chris, Carissa and I would vote for a tour stop in > SE Michigan as well! Hey, don't forget that I'm only about 4 hours from the Really Quite Spiffy Lakes State too ... Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:40:56 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: new Robyn tour dates On 12/09/06, Bachman, Michael wrote: > >> I'm sure Nuppy, Rev. Chris, Carissa and I would vote for a tour stop in >> SE Michigan as well! Stewart wrote: >Hey, don't forget that I'm only about 4 hours from the Really Quite >Spiffy Lakes State too ... That would be great if you could join us! My best friend Jim Hendry, his dad was a Scot from Aberdeen. Jim's parents met during The Blitz (Jim's mom was English) and then migrated to Canada from London after that nasty smog disaster that enveloped London in December of 1952. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:03:13 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #210 On 9/12/06, Aaron Mandel wrote: > > Actually, Aesop's "Winners Take All" doesn't mention Iraq explicitly, but > it's a fantastic anti-war song in the "misguided wars really fuck up the > soldiers" tradition of various Vietname movies. ...and innumerable Steve Earle songs. Probably Springsteen, too. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:43:14 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Fwd: NEW CD: Ole! Tarantula by Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Return-Path: Received: from rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (rly-yb05.mail.aol.com [172.18.205.137]) by air-yb04.mail.aol.com (v112.5) with ESMTP id MAILINYB43-19e4506aeace3; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:57:48 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.56]) by rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (v112.5) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYB54-19e4506aeace3; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:57:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.15.100] (cpe-24-195-96-164.nycap.res.rr.com [24.195.96.164]) by ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8CCsG4w026977; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:55:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: duplanet@pop.nycap.rr.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:54:16 -0400 To: Recipient List Suppressed:; From: Museum of Robyn Hitchcock Subject: NEW CD: Ole! Tarantula by Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-AOL-IP: 24.24.2.56 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Ole! Tarantula by Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 will be released Oct 3 (Oct 13 in Japan) on the following labels: YepRoc - USA Proper - UK Oak Tree - Japan Maverick Arts - Australia NOTE: Ordering the Yep Roc release through their site and being among the earliest to do so also gets you additional songs (http://www.yeproc.com) - ------- "What makes this record for me is the musicians I was able to gather," says Robyn Hitchcock of Ole Tarantula, a surreal vision and Technicolor celebration of life - from its inception and the whole catastrophe of it - till its groovy decay and inevitable last breath. "To me, the whole record is sadness cloaked in fun. But under that fun, more sadness," says Hitchcock. Recorded in Seattle in September 2005 and March 2006, Hitchcock is joined throughout Ole Tarantula by the Venus 3 - Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin - old friends who he notes are also "3/4ths of the Minus 5 and half of R.E.M." "We sound like a smart garage band, to my ears, when we play live. The record is a little more tidy, but they still rock, and rock me along with them. This is the rockingest record I've made in years," he says. The Venus 3 is joined by a cast of recurrent and new characters in the Hitchcock story: Soft Boys/Egyptians bandmate Morris Windsor and Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger) on gleaming background harmonies; Chris Ballew (Presidents of The United States of America) on harmony vocals and keyboards. Soft Boys guitarist Kimberley Rew assists on three tracks and the Faces' Ian McLagan adds his famous keyboard hands to "N.Y. Doll." "'N.Y. Doll' is one of my favorites," says Hitchcock of the elegy inspired by the recent documentary on the New York Dolls' bassist. "I never met Arthur Kane but his story is another example of how precious a life becomes when it's over." "Underground Sun," written for a friend of Hitchcock's who died last spring, jingle-jangles across the astral plane. "She was a very upbeat person so I wrote her what I hope is an exciting elegy, not a mournful one." Fuelled by mysticism, the choogling "The Museum of Sex" is in Seaford, Sussex, "But only visible at low tide," he explains. "It's an elegy for my life as a human. Again not too mournful I hope." "These songs were all written at home in London, though often reference the States. I've been commuting for over 20 years but I live here no matter how often I orbit through Los Angeles," says Hitchcock. Indeed, the West is an auspicious presence throughout Ole Tarantula. "Belltown Ramble" is set in Seattle, its character and location drawn from "A 14th Century Uzbekistani warlord with an elegant name" and a bar in Belltown. San Francisco crops up in the Dirty Harry/Magnum Force-inspired, "Limitations, Briggs," as well as in the title song - "About where babies come from" - written after an extended stay in Tucson, Arizona. Hitchcock has long made insects and sea creatures his favorite subjects and they have their say throughout Ole Tarantula, his self-described "twenty-somethingth" album. "As a thinking person I'm completely in despair, but as a creature I'm quite happy," he told The Believer in 2005. That would explain quite a lot about the happy/sad world of Hitchcock's songs. Beginning as a strummer in Cambridge, England's folk clubs, by the coming of the first punk rock era, Hitchcock had developed into a bandleader, heading up folk-pop iconoclasts the Soft Boys, one of alternative rock's least sung but most influential bands. Yet by the time R.E.M., the Replacements and pre-alt-rockers like them revealed its influence on their own bands, Hitchcock had moved on to what would become his distinguished solo career. Recording and releasing records like his stark debut, Black Snake Diamond Role, the warm, all-acoustic I Often Dream of Trains and the psychedelicized Groovy Decay - sometimes with and sometimes without his band the Egyptians - Hitchcock would unwittingly help shape the pop strain of contemporary alternative rock. In 1998, director and fan Jonathan Demme placed him in a shop window for the concert film Storefront Hitchcock, introducing his engaging live show to wider audiences. As Hitchcock continues to record and tour as a solo and band act, his direction has veered from the folky Moss Elixir and the rocky Jewels for Sophia to the folk-rock tribute to Bob Dylan, Robyn Sings! Each time out, he is consistently and singularly, Robyn Hitchcock. In 2002, the Soft Boys briefly reunited for the long anticipated Nextdoorland and Hitchcock followed with his 2004 Yep Roc release Spooked, a collaboration with alternative country artists Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Hitchcock called the studio experience "An extraordinarily good dream." At the time of its release, The New York Times noted he was an "...acute observer of love, death and the entire evolutionary continuum..." "Years ago I wrote a song called 'My Mind Wants to Die But My Body Wants to Live' and that was the only lyric in it," he told The Believer. "And really, that pretty much sums me up." DATA: Engineered by Kurt Bloch Recorded in Seattle, 2005 & 2006 Robyn Hitchcock plays guitar, harmonica Peter Buck plays guitar Scott McCaughey plays bass Bill Rieflin plays drums Additional musicians: Morris Windsor (Soft Boys, Egyptians), Chris Ballew (Presidents of the United States of America), Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), Kimberley Rew (Soft Boys, Katrina and the Waves), Ian McLagan (Small Faces, Faces); Colin Izod (saxophone) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:54:30 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: bark at the moon http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14801867/ For my money, you can't have enough of these stories. Michael n.p. Mike Doughty "Haughty Melodic" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:38:02 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Good Morning Mister Leitch Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 12 2006 Volume 15 : Number 210 > Today's Subjects: > ----------------- > Barfing up Amazon recommendations [Eb ] > Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:47:28 -0700 > From: Eb > Subject: Barfing up Amazon recommendations > I've probably tossed out some of these titles before, but...any > thoughts on these albums? Some items I contemplate exploring more... > Donovan-Barabajagal > Donovan-Mellow Yellow > Donovan-The Hurdy Gurdy Man I only acquired these albums with considerable difficulty and expense in the 60s and 70s, due to the staggering incompetence of the Pye Record company and, I suspect, the intransigence of Donovans producer, Mickie Most (produced by Mickie Most: A Mickie Most production it says on most of them). Mellow Yellow was not issued in the UK. The album called Sunshine Superman which was released over here was in fact a mishmash of tracks from two albums. The real Mellow Yellow is a bloody lovely record, including six stunning songs and 4 reasonable ones: the absence of really yukky songs is notable. Hurdy Gurdy Man which AFAIK was never issued in the UK until it came out on CD, is almost as good, including the terrific title track; Peregrine which is the track which actually features a hurdy gurdy; a few good jazz-influenced songs; Jennifer Juniper, and an eclectic mixture of calypso ("West Indian Lady"), Arabic ("Tangier") and inane ditties, such as The sun is a very magic fellow. Barabajagal is regrettably weaker, though the two songs backed by the Jeff Beck Group are excellent, and Superlungs My Supergirl (which was covered by almost-Robert-Plant vocalist Terry Reid) is a good song too. Unfortunately Mr Leitchs quality control has gone haywire on this record, which includes the interminable Atlantis, the insufferable To Susan on the West Coast waiting and the deeply sickly I love my shirt (my shirt is so comfortably lovely  in fact I love my whole wardrobe!). Not too surprising that Donovan split with Mickie eventually. Open Road has excellent songs on it, but suffers from Donovans inability to get the magical sound which Msieu Most usually managed to achieve. Best songs: Sand and Foam; Barabajagal; Young girl blues; Peregrine 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' and Hampstead Incident. - - Mike Godwin n.p. "The intergalactic laxative will get you from here to Mars" off Cosmic Wheels... (no, I don't know why either). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:21:09 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Good Morning Mister Leitch Subject: Re: Good Morning Mister Leitch Quoting fegmaniax-digest : >> fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 12 2006 Volume 15 : Number 210 > > Today's Subjects: > > ----------------- > > Barfing up Amazon recommendations [Eb ] > >Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:47:28 -0700 > >From: Eb > >Subject: Barfing up Amazon recommendations > >I've probably tossed out some of these titles before, but...any > >thoughts on these albums? Some items I contemplate exploring more... > >Donovan-Barabajagal > >Donovan-Mellow Yellow > >Donovan-The Hurdy Gurdy Man MG worte: >I only acquired these albums with considerable difficulty and expense >in the 60s and 70s, due to the staggering incompetence of the Pye >Record company and, I suspect, the intransigence of Donovans producer, >Mickie Most (produced by Mickie Most: A Mickie Most production it >says on most of them). >Mellow Yellow was not issued in the UK. The album called Sunshine >Superman which was released over here was in fact a mishmash of tracks >from two albums. The real Mellow Yellow is a bloody lovely record, >including six stunning songs and 4 reasonable ones: the absence of >really yukky songs is notable. >Hurdy Gurdy Man which AFAIK was never issued in the UK until it came >out on CD, is almost as good, including the terrific title track; >Peregrine which is the track which actually features a hurdy gurdy; a >few good jazz-influenced songs; Jennifer Juniper, and an eclectic >mixture of calypso ("West Indian Lady"), Arabic ("Tangier") and inane >ditties, such as The sun is a very magic fellow. I recently bought both the remastered (with bonus cuts) Mellow Yellow and The Hurdy Gurdy Man and like them a lot. The Donovan e-mails the past few months ago peaked my interest, even though I had a previous Donovan experience playing the heck out of my vinyl Dononvan's Greatest Hits album back in high school. >Barabajagal is regrettably weaker, though the two songs backed by the >Jeff Beck Group are excellent, and Superlungs My Supergirl (which was >covered by almost-Robert-Plant vocalist Terry Reid) is a good song too. >Unfortunately Mr Leitchs quality control has gone haywire on this >record, which includes the interminable Atlantis, the insufferable >To Susan on the West Coast waiting and the deeply sickly I love my >shirt (my shirt is so comfortably lovely  in fact I love my whole >wardrobe!). I won't get that one. Thanks! I did order the remastered Sunshine Superman and might get A Gift From A Flower To A Garden. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:54:15 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Tinfoil Thoths... free! Well, it was free the first time, too, but now you can have it without all that bothersome physical existence horseshit. Someone offlist asked for this (seeking rare Lazerlove5 and Brian Nupp material), so I thought I'd let the list know that you can now find the album of original material by feglist contributors here. Share and enjoy! http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2J79CSNU And before anyone asks, I'm fresh out of whimsically oversized credit booklets... sorry! - -SER NP Dylan, "Love & Theft", which I like a good deal more than I used to now that I've lived with "Modern Times" for a bit. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:38:30 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: No More War! On 9/12/06, Dolph Chaney wrote: > > I wrote a very bad protest song in July, to the point that I felt > compelled > to entitle it "Bad Protest Song." Lyrics are available from my > livejournal. > And I wrote a song that (in my mind at least) was a mourning of the Bush-Cheney years...but was (somewhat intentionally) so obliquely presented that probably without knowing that fact you'd never guess it. (That intention was in part because the song was designed as an homage to/imitation of early R.E.M.) But, uh, probably twenty people are all that's heard it...so it's a good thing I didn't intend it to change the world. Also because the singing is pretty weak and there are cheesoid synth drums (which I've stopped using in favor of sampling actual drums, which sound way better, even though arranging them is much more work). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:56:20 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Tinfoil Thoths... free! On 9/12/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > Well, it was free the first time, too, but now you can have it without all > that bothersome physical existence horseshit. "Hiya, friends, Ralph Spoilsport here to tell you that everybody must die, but you don't have to be there when it happens. That's why we're having a great Going Out of Body Sale! Yes, you can live forever while your friends fall apart around you like rotten fruit. And here's how -- lease an organ or limb from our Headless Body Farm. It's made in America -- from Americans! Enter the new century with these exclusive clone-ons: nap-velour designer genes, deluxe follical hair-mat grafting with upgraded media-sensitive, stimulated wrapper-filler, rear-rolled non-glossy carbon-intensified glutal guards, power moons and tinted-tit grill-spoilers, in slash, dash, or faux flannel. So come on down to Ralph Spoilsport's City Of The Future. And do it today, because there may not be a tomorrow." - --The Firesign Theatre - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:14:24 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Barfing up Amazon recommendations >Brian Eno-January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now not one of his best. Pleasant, but unless you're a completist it's not a must-have >Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd-The Moon & the Melodies Lovely. The two styles work nicely together - Budd adds to the luminosity of the CT sound. >David Bowie-Bowie at the Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72 [differences >between these performances and the familiar versions?] These are all live versions. Some very good ones too >Donovan-Barabajagal >Donovan-Mellow Yellow >Donovan-The Hurdy Gurdy Man My Donovan collection has all the Donovan anyone could really need: five albums - these three plus Sunshine Superman and a "best of" from his other albums. ISTR a thread on this a few months back if you've got the energy to attack the archives. 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: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:25:37 +0000 From: "Shane Apple" Subject: Amazon Recommends... >DNA-DNA on DNA I like this about as much as I like Suicide and can listen to it for about as long as I can listen to Suicide...which is to say not very much. The songs all sound about the same, and it sounds a little dated to me. Interesting more historically, I imagine. It's essential if you're a no-wave completist. I actually like drummer Ikue Mori's weird solo stuff better. >Donovan-Barabajagal >Donovan-Mellow Yellow >Donovan-The Hurdy Gurdy Man I don't really know Donovan albums...I've got them on vinyl and they all sort of bleed together, but I really like Donovan. I used to consider him more of a guilty pleasure, but he's a good guitar player, writes good songs with good hooks, and has a good (about as pleasant as it can be) voice. He was also really handsome! >Gavin Bryars-Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet Somebody mentioned that there are multiple versions of this...I'm not sure about that, but it was originally released as a 26 minute (give or take a few minutes) piece with just a looped recording of a bum singing a religious song combined with gradually building instrumentation. It's an interesting little classical minimalist thing that I like a lot. It was later released on disc, expanded to something like 50 minutes, and featured Tom Waits singing along with the bum. For some reason. I love Tom Waits, but I think I prefer the poignancy of the first half of the song, the original version. It's a cool album, I think, but it's not something that anybody would play a heck of a lot. His 'Sinking of the Titanic' is very similar and also pretty good. And also something you won't play very much at all. Much recommended (not on the Amazon recommendation list): Bill Fay's 'Time of the Last Persecution'...I think it's from 1970. I heard it a couple days ago. It grabbed me and didn't let go. I also nearly peed while listening to Danielson's 'Ships' today. And this cd by Makigami Koichi and Anthon Bruhin called 'Electric Eel' which is mostly jew's harp and strange vocal stuff might be the best thing ever. It would definitely be a desert island disc choice if I could only pick jew's harp albums. It's a tzadik release. --Shane - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger Download today it's FREE! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:50:20 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Barfing up Amazon recommendations On Sep 10, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Eb wrote: > David Sylvian-Brilliant Trees Sylvian sounds a good bit like Brian Ferry. Brilliant Trees is a fine album, if it's not outside one's particular taste. Sylvian has done some ambient stuff, and collaborated with people like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp, Mark Isham, David Torn, Jon Hassell, and Holger Czukay, so that might give you some idea. His double album Gone to Earth features both Fripp and Bill Nelson on guitar, but about half of it is ambient. I especially like the Sylvian & Fripp live album called Damage. The band also included Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto, and Michael Brook. The original release, mixed by Fripp, is out-of-print, but I see there are some on eBay. The current release, which I have not heard, is mixed by Sylvian. > Japan-Quiet Life Japan probably hit their peak with Tin Drum, and I'd start there and work back. The current releases are said to sound quite good, but I like my original CD release just fine. For those who like fretless bass, Mick Karn is worth a listen. - - Steve __________ No matter where you go, there you are. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:36:18 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Syd Barrett Home Attracting Huge Interest _http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=100312 0793_ (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003120793) Syd Barrett Home Attracting Huge Interest September 12, 2006, 10:10 AM ET The former home of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, who died in July, has attracted huge interest from potential buyers undeterred by the reclusive singer's patchy home improvement efforts. Dozens of people have viewed the 1930s house in Cambridge, England, which in the delicate words of the estate agent "provides an excellent opportunity for sympathetic improvement and updating." The walls are painted a patchwork of pink, orange, brown, blue, turquoise and lavender, while cheap wooden shelves cling precariously to the walls of every room. Barrett's decorating has done little to deter people from taking a look, with 40 viewings last Saturday alone. "He was an icon, so inevitably there's going to be a lot more interest," said Lisa Freeman-Bassett, of Cheffins, the estate agent and auctioneer handling the $562,000 sale. "He was very content in that house getting on with his life." Some of those who visited the semi-detached, three-bedroom home were probably curious sightseers with no intention of buying, she added. Barrett lived a solitary life at the house after dropping out of Pink Floyd in 1968 following a spell of erratic behavior linked to his use of psychedelic drugs. He retreated from the public eye, showing no interest in his former stardom and politely refusing to speak to the fans and journalists who regularly paid visits. He passed his time painting, writing art history and gardening. With its tidy lawns, garden shed, and blue front door, the two-story home is a far cry from the archetypal rock star mansion. His sister, Rosemary Breen, said the singer "loved the peace and quiet" of the house. "He put his stamp on the house with frequent redecoration," she wrote in notes to accompany the sale. "He slept in all the bedrooms, deciding which one as the mood took him. The only intrusion to his peace was the occasional visits from fans. He could never understand why strangers wanted his time as the reason for his fame was always a mystery to him." The sale details say Barrett was "passionate about, although not always competent" at home improvements. Some of the contents will go under the hammer at an auction on Nov. 29-30. The lots include paintings, two handpainted red and blue bicycles and customized furniture. COPYRIGHT: (c) Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. 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