From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #255 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, October 27 2006 Volume 15 : Number 255 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Someone gets it right... ["Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" ] Funk me baby, and the trolley bust ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Someone gets it right... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust ["Bachman, Michael" ] Nits ["Bri N" ] Re: Nits ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Aw: Re: Someone gets it right... [walkunafraid@nexgo.de] Re: Nits [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Be here to love me [Sebastian Hagedorn ] adventure rocket ship video! [wojbearpig ] Re: Nits [2fs ] Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust [2fs ] Re: adventure rocket ship video! [Tom Clark ] creative loafing review [wojbearpig ] robyn on indie 103 [wojbearpig ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:40:14 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" Subject: Someone gets it right... From my friend Ty who says: > Robyn must be popular this week. Check out the second to last > item on the list. > http://villagevoice.com/music/0643,harvilla,74834,22.html xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:11:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Someone gets it right... On 10/25/06, Lauren Elizabeth (gmail) wrote: > > From my friend Ty who says: > > > Robyn must be popular this week. Check out the second to last > > item on the list. > > > http://villagevoice.com/music/0643,harvilla,74834,22.html > Almost right, anyway. It annoys me when writers increase their snark content with fabrications: Hitchcock doesn't repeat the line "over and over," as if it's some sort of erotic transportation mantra. (There's yr new band's name: Erotic Transportation Mantra.) And what (other than chronology) have the Gin Blossoms to do with the Spin Doctors? Not a spindly rotting sausage, that's what. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:24:51 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust On 10/25/06, 2fs wrote: > > Mantra.) > > And what (other than chronology) have the Gin Blossoms to do with the Spin > Doctors? Not a spindly rotting sausage, that's what. Both are bands with guitars, bass, drums, and vocals, have the same syllabic breakdown in their names with all the vowels in common, and indeed the first syllable in each bands' name rhymes with the other. Also , I don't especially care for either, although admittedly the Spin Doctors are far worse. What was the band from like two years ago where someone did a mashup proving that their two hits were identical? It's too bad that the Spin Doctors predated mashups, 'cause I certainly remember being able to sing all four of their hits at the same time. Overall conclusion: Robyn could've gotten a lot more recognition a lot sooner if he'd either done more swearing, or sung about trolley buses more often. - -SE "I got a pocketful of trollybus" R ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:38:14 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust one time at band camp, Spotted Eagle Ray (spottedeagleray@gmail.com) said: >What was the band from like two years ago where someone did a mashup proving >that their two hits were identical? nickelback? >Overall conclusion: Robyn could've gotten a lot more recognition a lot >sooner if he'd either done more swearing, or sung about trolley buses more >often. seafood just doesn't fly like it used to. +w ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:10:43 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Someone gets it right... 2fs wrote: > > Almost right, anyway. It annoys me when writers increase their snark content > with fabrications: Hitchcock doesn't repeat the line "over and over," Yes, he'd need to sing it at least four times to make it repeated over and over. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:33:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > 2fs wrote: > > > > Mantra.) > > > > And what (other than chronology) have the Gin > > Blossoms to do with the Spin Doctors? Not a > > spindly rotting sausage, that's what. Well, both are worse than a spindly rotting sausage. > What was the band from like two years ago where > someone did a mashup proving that their two hits > were identical? Nickelback. Sadly, the biggest selling "rock" act this year. > It's too bad that the Spin Doctors predated > mashups, 'cause I certainly remember being > able to sing all four of their hits at the same > time. 4? I guess I managed to expunge all but the one about the two Prince records from my memory. If you've provoked me to remember the other three, I may have to come to your house, say Biggie Smalls into your mirror three times, and then duck when he puts a cap in your ass. And then you can't go to Satan's Sweet 16 Halloween party and get Acura cake. Yeah, I did just watch last night's South Park? Why do you ask? Bundy, Gacy, and Dahmer as the Three Stooges? Brilliant!! Best episode since Mr. Slave outwhored Paris Hilton. "When I talk to wounded veterans, I usually don't ask them what they think the mission was. I don't presume, because their lives are wrenching enough without the suggestion that their sacrifices may have been without meaning. Moreover, if that is so, it will become apparent to them soon enough...The young men and women who we've repeatedly put in harm's way are paying the price for this misbegotten mission, and as long as it continues, I, like so many of our countrymen, must walk this strange line between hating the war but honoring the warrior. I don't know how long we can keep it up." -- Garry Trudeau . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:14:10 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust Jeff wrote: >Yeah, I did just watch last night's South Park? Why do you ask? Bundy, Gacy, and Dahmer as the >?Three Stooges? >Brilliant!! Best episode since Mr. Slave outwhored Paris Hilton. Speaking of which, I just bought a used copy of "Whore" the Wire covers album, on amazon. I bought it for the My Bloody Valentine cover of Map Ref. Anyone own it? Michael B. PS Two weeks to go to see Robyn on November the 9th! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:50:09 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust Jeff D: > > What was the band from like two years ago where > > someone did a mashup proving that their two hits > > were identical? > > Nickelback. Sadly, the biggest selling "rock" act this > year. > > > > > > Weird. But aren't they going to be edged out by My Chemical Romance, who I hopefully will never hear but already know in my bones are surely the worst thing ever? Remember when most of the "My (blank) (blank)" bands were at least a little big good? Speaking of which... Michael B: > Speaking of which, I just bought a used copy of "Whore" the Wire covers > album, on amazon. > I bought it for the My Bloody Valentine cover of Map Ref. Anyone own it? The MBV track is the higlight for sure (great song choice). Some of it is rather dreadful but there are a couple of other keepers-- Laika's version of "German Shepherds", and whoever did "Series of Snakes". On the whole, it probably holds its own with the compilation of like 12 covers of "Outdoor Miner". If that was real-- I was never quite sure. Who can recite the actual Map Ref without cheating? Off the top of my head I'll guess 91N 43W. What is actually at that location on a map anyway? (The real location, not the one I just made up.) - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:14:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > Jeff D: >>> What was the band from like two years ago where >>> someone did a mashup proving that their two hits >>> were identical? >> Nickelback. Sadly, the biggest selling "rock" act >> this year. > Weird. But aren't they going to be edged out by My > Chemical Romance, who I hopefully will never hear > but already know in my bones are surely the worst > thing ever? Or The Killers. For the former. I'm not a fan, but I wouldn't say The Killers qualify for that latter. I've only heard pieces of a few MCR songs, and they lack both originality, talent, or even the odd hook. "Mr. Brightside" was a relatively decent popsong, but everything I've ever heard by MCR makes it look like "Strawberry Fields Forever" crossed with "Heroes" by way of "The Killing Moon." "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:19:26 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Nits Anyone here into the band The Nits? What's a good starting point in the world of The Nits? They seem very diverse. -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:01:31 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Nits On 10/26/06, Bri N wrote: > > Anyone here into the band The Nits? What's a good starting point in the > world of The Nits? They seem very diverse. -Nuppy I have a 3-disc thing called NITS HITS (the spine of which amusingly says NITSHITS, intentionally or not). It's 2 discs compiled from the LP's , and one live. Pretty good, very diverse (long career), but not having heard any of their proper albums, I'd say it's fairly comprehensive. Liner notes in Dutch, so my history is still a little vague. From what I know of your tastes, Brian, I bet you'd like them. Definitely some memorably songs. I sought this out on the basis of a song called "Giant Normal Dwarf" which I heard on French radio in 1991, but couldn't identify the artist until years later when you could use the internet to finally find out who did any given song (but before you could use it to instantaneously procure said song). I suppose their biggest "hit" was the early song "In the Dutch Mountains". Where'd you run across them? - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:28:53 +0200 (CEST) From: walkunafraid@nexgo.de Subject: Aw: Re: Someone gets it right... > Yes, he'd need to sing it at least four times to make it repeated over > and over. > > Stewart > wait until you hear the recording from the Tokyo boat trip ;) Sabine Viel oder wenig? Schnell oder langsam? Unbegrenzt surfen + telefonieren ohne Zeit- und Volumenbegrenzung? DAS TOP ANGEBOT JETZT bei Arcor: g|nstig und schnell mit DSL - das All-Inclusive-Paket f|r clevere Doppel-Sparer, nur 44,85 inkl. DSL- und ISDN-Grundgeb|hr! http://www.arcor.de/rd/emf-dsl-2 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:06:22 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Nits - -- Spotted Eagle Ray is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Oktober 2006 14:01:31 -0700 regarding Re: Nits: > I suppose their biggest "hit" was the > early song "In the Dutch Mountains". Yup. > Where'd you run across them? I saw them at a free open-air show ages ago, but didn't feel moved to investigate them further. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://darkstar.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:11:05 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust On 10/26/06, Spotted Eagle Ray > > Who can recite the actual Map Ref without cheating? Off the top of my > head I'll guess 91N 43W. What is actually at that location on a map > anyway? (The real location, not the one I just made up.) > Right, having looked up the real coordinates in the song (41N 93W' ), it looks like... just south of Des Moines? An unruleable expanse of geography... - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:11:14 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Aw: Re: Someone gets it right... - -- walkunafraid@nexgo.de is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Oktober 2006 18:28:53 +0200 regarding Aw: Re: Someone gets it right...: > > Yes, he'd need to sing it at least four times to make it repeated over >> and over. >> >> Stewart >> > > wait until you hear the recording from the Tokyo boat trip ;) > > Sabine Somebody else from Germany?? Now that's new! As far as I know the only other person on Fegmaniax ever based in Germany was American ex-patriate Susan Even when she stayed in Heidelberg, if memory serves ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://darkstar.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:21:01 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust On 10/26/06, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Or The Killers. For the former. I'm not a fan, but I > wouldn't say The Killers qualify for that latter. I've > only heard pieces of a few MCR songs, and they lack > both originality, talent, or even the odd hook. "Mr. > Brightside" was a relatively decent popsong, Owed a lot to "Born Slippy" by Underworld, but all in all not bad. Still wrapping my mind around the idea that the band is "important", but then I've had that problem with "important" bands for a long time (the ones that both sell and generate lots of "what does it all mean" journalism, I mean). It's kind of an embarassment of riches in terms of embarassment for rock and roll right now. Which band-whose-record-you'll-never-hear's hype machine is more cringeworthy, MCR's or Evanescence's? Or those other dorks'? Not a bad year overall, though. One more record and I can start my Best of the Year list, I think. - -SER but > everything I've ever heard by MCR makes it look like > "Strawberry Fields Forever" crossed with "Heroes" by > way of "The Killing Moon." > > > "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have > any." -- Keith Olbermann > . > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:28:50 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust On 10/26/06, Spotted Eagle Ray >> >> Who can recite the actual Map Ref without cheating? Off the top of >> my head I'll guess 91N 43W. What is actually at that location on a >> map anyway? (The real location, not the one I just made up.) SER: >Right, having looked up the real coordinates in the song (41N 93W' ), it looks like... just >south of Des Moines? An unruleable expanse of geography... Lots of corn and soybean fields. I was in Knoxville and Des Moines for a few days six years ago. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:46:45 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Be here to love me http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423853 Last night, I finished watching this. Enjoyed it more than I expected. Informative too -- until now, I wasn't even sure TVZ had actually recorded albums. I just thought of him as a songwriter-for- hire type. None of the album covers flashed onscreen looked remotely familiar to me...highly collectable in their original form, no doubt. Weirdest revelation: Most of TVZ's teeth were false, because he was a rabid glue-sniffer as a teen, and once fell asleep (intentionally) with a couple of tubes clenched in his mouth. Hoping for good dreams, I guess? The result: He woke up with his jaw glued shut. And apparently, the doctor solved the problem by simply taking a hammer and...WHAM! Yikes! Next up is this, taped the other night: http://www.imdb.com/title/ tt0059619/ Very odd film -- despite the lo-fi B&W quality and outdated hairstyles, it seems much newer than it is. Like some talky, modern arthouse film about a dysfunctional family. And it's one of the few films I've ever seen with a Morricone score where I couldn't instantly identify him. Very uncharacteristic style for him. I haven't watched more than 15 minutes so far, however. Learned word for the week: "eszett." Unexpected good musical discovery of the week: Mott the Hoople's "Brain Capers." Eb now playing: Gram Parsons/Another Side of This Life (surprisingly lousy) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:55:51 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Be here to love me - -- Eb is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Oktober 2006 15:46:45 -0700 regarding Be here to love me: > Learned word for the week: "eszett." Not really a word, is it? I'm assuming here that you are talking about ß (_) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://darkstar.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:01:30 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: adventure rocket ship video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nuv7-IuJNo thanks to sabine for finding this! +w ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:10:23 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Nits On 10/26/06, Bri N wrote: > > Anyone here into the band The Nits? What's a good starting point in the > world of The Nits? So, uh, you want us to pick your Nits? (Christ, people - what's wrong with you, not picking up on a set-up line like that?) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:14:24 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Funk me baby, and the trolley bust On 10/26/06, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > On 10/26/06, Spotted Eagle Ray > >> > >> Who can recite the actual Map Ref without cheating? Off the top of > >> my head I'll guess 91N 43W. What is actually at that location on a > >> map anyway? (The real location, not the one I just made up.) > > SER: > >Right, having looked up the real coordinates in the song (41N 93W' ), > it looks like... just >south of Des Moines? An unruleable expanse of > geography... > > Lots of corn and soybean fields. I seem to recall reading that someone had made a pilgrimage, GPS in hand, to those exact coordinates. Might have been part of that fad activity of a few years back...what was it called, sort of an evolved high-tech scavenger hunt type thing, only using geographical coordinates instead of particular objects? So, you know, someone buried 154 inches of wire in a field or something... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:01:17 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: adventure rocket ship video! On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:01 PM, wojbearpig wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nuv7-IuJNo > And check out one of the suggested videos: Kevin Ayers doing "Didn't Feel Lonely...", with Andy Summers on guitar. Cool! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:23:22 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: creative loafing review http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=131854 Oli! Tarantula ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3 Yep Roc The umpteenth album released by England's Hitchcock since the demise of his late-'70s/early-'80s band The Soft Boys, Oli! Tarantula serves up a steady diet of sober indie folk-rock. Hitchcock is joined on the release by R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin, and Scott McCaughey of The Minus 5, a trio here dubbed the Venus 3. The sound is tidy and confident, never out of control, and it's Hitchcock's singing that puts the record ahead of the pack. The man has a beautiful, scratchy voice, with strains of John Lennon in there somewhere.3.5 stars--Cooper Levey-Baker ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:12:51 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: robyn on indie 103 http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=45566310&blogID=185229601 Thursday, October 26, 2006 Indie 103.1 morning show tomorrow! Check Robyn out tomorrow on Indie 103's "Last of the International Morning Shows" when he stops in for an interview and acoustic performance. He will be in around 9 am Pacific time. For those in the LA area tune your radio dial to 103.1. Everyone else can listen live online at http://www.indie1031.fm ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #255 ********************************