From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #286 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, November 27 2006 Volume 15 : Number 286 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: A to Z ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Random musical notes, including Eb ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] yes [Jill Brand ] Re: Here's all it really is, I figure ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #285 [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] RE: A to Z [Dolph Chaney ] Re: A to Z ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Random musical notes, including Eb [Eb ] Re: Random musical notes, including Eb ["Sarah Jones" ] Re: Andy Partridge interview up at Amazon [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: A to Z ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: A to Z [kevin ] Portland Arms [kevin ] Re: A to Z ["Bri N" ] Re: A to Z / Springsteen [kevin ] RE: A to Z ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: conan [wojbearpig ] ABC [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Subject: Re: conan ["Mark P" ] My name is "Eb", and you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass ["Stac] Did we miss this one? ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Subject: A to Z ["Mark P" ] For Eb ["Stacked Crooked" ] 2006 favorites so far.... [The Great Quail ] Re: A to Z [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Here's all it really is, I figure ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: A to Z [Eb ] Re: A to Z ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:18:37 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: A to Z On 11/27/06, Capuchin wrote: > > > Au Pairs Quite high on my to-investigate list. Care to wax eloquent on 'em? > Higsons I think I just captured some actual Higsons while blog-trawling. Need to go back and check... - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:28:54 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Random musical notes, including Eb On 11/27/06, Bri N wrote: > > If anyone is curious, here's a download for that Nits TENT album. It > should expire soon, so download it now if you want. It's almost impossible > to find on cd. You'll all probably think I'm crazy for liking it so much!: > http://www.sendspace.com/file/p3ir9b Meant to thank you for this offlist. Thanks! Now, if anyone has those Holly & the Italians records, or the Young Marble Giants album, or anything by the Delta 5, let me know... - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:58:46 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Here's all it really is, I figure This from Capuchin, of all people: > Nobody has the right to attempt adjustments on other > people's egos without permission > And not only is it arrogant and stupid to think you have the understanding > and skill necessary to effectively and constructively apply such an > adjustment, the belief that you have the insight and objectivity necessary > to assess the need of such a thing is beyond sane. This from Sewell, about a week or two after I've posted anything at all: > Glad that you like the fegslist too... although of course it's not as great as > it was 10 years ago... oh no... back in those days I was worshipped like a god > on this list, posting several articles so hilariously surreal that they saw a > few fellow fegs actually die with laughter. Of course it's pearls before swine > these days, the try-hard so-called "humourists" of this list posting > Unamerican bile that is frankly pitiable... Spotted Eagle? It's not even a > REAL BIRD! > > Thankfully I am appreciated on better, more literary lists - I've moved on, > only come here to see what I've thankfully left behind... This from Rex, who recently, in a fit of pique, deliberately made public a private email that I sent him off-list: > But that last thing I sent to Eb was MEANT TO BE OFFLIST. If he's in a big > enough tizzy to have accidentally posted that to the list, then jeez, I > won't even respond to him in that context. Not good for anyone, is it? This from Jeff, who was quiet when Rex did the above: > Please don't post responses to private e-mails to you onlist. The rest of us > have better things to do, thank you. And this from Robert Burns: O would some Power the gift to give us To see ourselves as others see us! It would from many a blunder free us, And foolish notion: What airs in dress and gait would leave us, And even devotion! - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:47:11 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Here's all it really is, I figure On 11/27/06, The Great Quail wrote: > > > > This from Jeff, who was quiet when Rex did the above: > > > Please don't post responses to private e-mails to you onlist. The rest > of us > > have better things to do, thank you. Uh, that's because I didn't know that Rex had posted a private e-mail from you to the list. My apologies for not reading all fegmail religiously, including headers. Anyway: Rex: Please don't post your responses to private e-mails onlist. The rest of us have better things to do, thank you. (Q: I hope you're happy, if only because re-posting the message allowed me to improve the rather garbled syntax of the first one.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:37:46 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: yes Jeme wrote: "Can we stop now?" I write: "Amen" Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:44:22 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Here's all it really is, I figure On 11/27/06, 2fs wrote: > > > Rex: > > Please don't post your responses to private e-mails onlist. The rest of us > have better things to do, thank you. Okay, no problem. For the record, that all happened because Quail shared a private e-mail from me with Eb, who then egregiously misquoted it to the list. But that doesn't make it right for me to have quoted Quail back, and I have apologized to him offlist. He'd accepted it, but now apparently he un-accepts it. Whatever. Happies, all! - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:19:26 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: A to Z Subject: Re: A to Z On 11/27/06, Capuchin wrote: >> >> >> Au Pairs Rex wrote back: >Quite high on my to-investigate list. Care to wax eloquent on 'em? Very much in the style of early Gang of Four. The songs were from a female perspective though, and they also did a few political songs per album. The male lead guitar player also sang some, and Leslie Woods and him had a nice John Doe and Exene style of call and response singing on some songs. I like both of their studio albums equally. They also have a couple of live albums. They broke up due to money problems around 1984. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:15:04 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #285 Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > Random musical notes, including Eb [Eb ] > > Some lesser nuggets I've heard all/some of in recent weeks, but vote > "NO" on: > > 8 Eclection-Eclection...UK folk-rock obscurity, sorta halfway between > Fairport Convention and the California Mamas & Papas-type sound, but > unfortunately closer to the Mamas & Papas. Has those great > atmospheric production values which so many early Elektra releases > have, though. Interesting album to hear...once. Wow! I saw the Eclection once at Eel Pie Island and fell hopelessly in love with the inappositely named Kerrilee Male. Their near-hit was called 'Nevertheless'. Totally agree with the Mamas and Papas comparison. Didn't the songwriter, George Hultgreen, go on to greater things? Kerrilee went back down under and never did anything else as far as I am aware. > > 15 The Soft Machine-Vols. 1 & 2...almost good, but too dated and > hippie-silly. A few scattered tracks worth salvaging, especially "Why > Are We Sleeping" (later covered by Bongwater). But this is the type > of record where everything is an edited-together suite, and this > gives the band the ability to insert half-written snippets which > "contribute ambience" but could never stand up on their own. I > enjoyed hearing Robert Wyatt sing the alphabet. > Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:36:28 -0600 > From: Steve Schiavo > I'm almost 5 foot 7 tall, I like to smoke and drink and ball. > Hippie-silly would be Gong, Wyatt's lyrics are more winky-silly. But > it's all about the riffs and the groove, really, and Soft Machine II > points the way to the later albums. The "songs" aren't really meant > to stand on their own, although Lullabye Letter from Soft Machine I > could. Of their time and out of time at the same time. > * I agree with Steve. Weirdly, SM1 was not released in the UK until years later. I had to buy it on import from the States on the probe label (note trendy l.c.). Most of the lyrics are by Kevin Ayers, though not 'Why am I so short?'. As I mentioned before, the essential record is the Gomelsky demo version which still has Daevid Allen on glissando guitar. Kevin has been playing in the UK recently but I stupidly missed him. If you do like the songs on SM1, you must buy 'Joy of a Toy' and 'Shooting at the Moon'. > > 16 Ian Hunter-Overnight Angels. Bleh. * Oh dear. I'm just getting in to this some thirty years too late. > 17 The Temptations-Cloud Nine. Title song and "Runaway Child, Running > Wild" are interesting psychedelic-soul fusions, but the rest is > standard-issue Motown. * There is another great song as well which will come to me shortly. > 22 Roy Harper-Stormcock...was very curious to hear this, after > hearing how great he/it is so many times. But I didn't like it...four > long tracks, and very droning and repetitive. I might like hearing > him record someone else's material. * Yes, agreed. Why is Harper so ridiculously popular? Must be Page's endorsement. Matt, your views please! > > 24 Grapefruit-Around Grapefruit...Badfinger-type band signed to the > Beatles' music-publishing company. Sort of a lush Moody Blues feel to > the production. I thought I might like this, but the album is just > too spotty. The whole second half is a washout. I liked two isolated > tracks a lot, though: "Elevator" and the opening "Another Game." > Oddly, I was NOT especially crazy about the semi-hit single "Dear > Delilah." * Agreed. The massive launch for this no-talent bunch was another of the reasons that Apple Corps got into financial difficulties despite having the Beatles on the label... > > 27 Mighty Baby-Mighty Baby...beefy, widescreen psychedelia from a > band descended from the mod group The Action. Almost good, but the > songs are overlong and there's a lurking Grateful Dead-like boogie > element which turned me off. > * They were gigging in London quite recently. Definitely worth a listen. Lead singer Reg King had some sort of link to Blossom Toes at one time. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Who do you dream of tonight, Lady Rachel? - Kevin Ayers and the Whole World (and if you don't like Soft Machine noodling, you will _detest_ Whole World noodling...) PS The current issue of Record Collector has a list of 40 great psychedelic rarities. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:55:24 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: RE: A to Z I recall the Au Pairs being terrific in "Urgh! A Music War" as well. - -- Dolph At 12:19 PM 11/27/2006, Bachman, Michael wrote: >Subject: Re: A to Z > >On 11/27/06, Capuchin wrote: > >> > >> > >> Au Pairs > >Rex wrote back: > >Quite high on my to-investigate list. Care to wax eloquent on 'em? > >Very much in the style of early Gang of Four. The songs were from a >female >perspective though, and they also did a few political songs per album. >The male lead guitar player also sang some, and Leslie Woods and him >had a nice John Doe and Exene style of call and response singing on some >songs. >I like both of their studio albums equally. They also have a couple of >live albums. They broke up due to money problems around 1984. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:09:20 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: A to Z Some in current rotation as I piece together the year-end lists... Art Brut Belle & Sebastian Curreri, Paul Doughty, Mike Easton, Tim Fahey, John Gan Bua (local Irish outfit) Hannah Montana (by way of having an 8-year old daughter) Islands Jim's Big Ego King, Kaki Lazerlove5 Mastodon Nits, The (thx Nuppy) Odin (courtesy of Eb's psych blog link) Pas/Cal Quicksilver Messenger Service Ritter, Josh Stillway, Jamie The Secret Machines U2 Vaughan, Stevie Ray Waits, Tom (Eddie was right about d3 of the new one) X Youth, Damien Zort (ambilectro) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:28:24 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Random musical notes, including Eb Bri N wrote: > Recently, I've been getting into The Cowsills. Just from the name I > never cared to give this band a chance. I'm glad I did. The > Cowsills remind me of The Free Design in many ways... I kinda like the Cowsills...I bought two of their records years ago (We Can Fly and Captain Sad & His Ship of Fools), mostly just because they were a bargain at $2 apiece. It was at a Rhino Records parking- lot sale (the records were next to each other, despite the general lack of alphabetization), and I guess they MUST have been a deal, because at one point, the Rhino guy who made periodic microphone announcements said something like "Please be considerate of others and don't push...those Cowsills records aren't THAT good...." Something like that. Whatever he said gave me the impression that they put out some Cowsills records which they knew were underpriced, just to contribute to the day's good spirits. And it's true that I didn't see too many other rarities that day. I must confess that I originally wrote the above paragraph saying that I bought THREE Cowsills records at once, but I checked my database and was surprised to find that I bought the third record about a year later. OK, never mind. > Slowdive: SOUVLAKI Recently heard this for the first time...didn't grab me. hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > PS The current issue of Record Collector has a list of 40 great > psychedelic rarities. Can you rattle them off? This is kinda funny: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/10/internet_bargai.html Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:00:36 +0000 From: "Sarah Jones" Subject: Re: Random musical notes, including Eb >hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: >>PS The current issue of Record Collector has a list of 40 great >>psychedelic rarities. After that much psychadelia in one sitting I would imagine the greatest rarity would be two brain cells left to bang together! Sar x _________________________________________________________________ The new Windows Live Toolbar helps you guard against viruses http://toolbar.live.com/?mkt=en-gb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:06:05 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: A to Z shit! how could i have overlooked Springsteen??? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:36:28 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Andy Partridge interview up at Amazon On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, 2fs wrote: > On 11/12/06, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > > In case anyone is interested, I had the extreme pleasure of being able to > > interview Andy Partridge for the Amazon Wire podcast last month. The short > > version is available at http://www.amazon.com/wire, along with a full mp3 > > of "2 Rainbeau Melt" from the Fuzzy Warbles box set, and the extended > > version is available at that page as well as > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ICLTT6, the detail page for the > > box. > > > Do let us know if/when a transcript is available...not sure when I'd have > time to listen to 40 minutes of Andy talking, but I'd love to read it. It's up now http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/1000034151 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:11:18 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: Ray Lamontagne Any thoughts on Ray Lamontagne? I have never heard of him before, but he has a couple albums released. Anyone caught him in concert? I have a free ticket opportunity for this Saturday. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:00:03 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: A to Z i dunno. even if it gets to the point that one will not be able to put a disc into one's computer without blowing the damned thing to smithereens, you'll still, i should think, be able to play it through your component player, line it in, and record the .wav file. as far as DVDs are concerned, it seems to generally take about fifteen seconds for each new copy-protection scheme to be cracked. it's been such a great year for music, i wondered if i could put together a list considering only rekkids released in '06... A - Joseph Arthur (i've not actually heard *Nuclear Daydream* yet, but judging from the tour it'll be in my top-five) B - Boris C - Calexico D - The Decemberists E - Jeremy Enigk F - [open] G - Gnarls Barkley (lisa germano may top this, once i get my ears on it) H - Jolie Holland (polly jean harvey may top this) I - The Invisible Eyes J - [open. however, the late, great juno are playing a coupla shows here in a few weeks!! dunno if this means there are plans for a new recording.] K - Gregg Kowalsky L - Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins (the lights will surely top this) M - Mogwai N - Willie Nile O - [open] P - i've not heard it yet, but Grant-Lee Phillips will probably be serviceable. Q - Quasi R - Radio 4 S - Snow Patrol T - TOOL U - [open] V - The Village Green W - Tom Waits X - [open] Y - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Z - [open] ...pretty damned close. that's one helluva good year! "os" is a definite article: please choose a different "O". notes from the "screaming" economy (that really will, i think, turn out to be an apt metaphor, ferris): . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:37:16 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: A to Z Here's a provisional list, which of course changes hourly: The Bonzo Dog Band's entire corpus 1970s Anthony Braxton Buffalo Springfield, who I'll love till I die... Most of John Cale solo especially Fear, Sabotage, Music For a New Society Chrome, 3rd From the Sun Miles Davis, In a Silent Way up through Pangaea Tanya Donnelly generally 801 Live Richard & Mimi Farina generally Jane's Addiction, pre-reunion 1972-74 King Crimson Pere Ubu generally, also David Thomas' Monster Walks the Winter Lake, More Places Forever, Meadville Todd Rundgren, most anything up through the late Seventies but particularly Todd. Terje Rypdal, Odyssey, also Descendre Doug Sahm generally The Slits, Cut The United States Of America Vivan Stanshall, Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead and Teddy Boys Don't Knit X, Wild Gift, also See How We Are the later Mothers Of Invention ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:53:07 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Portland Arms A while back I acquired one of the mail-order SB's "Live At the Portland Arms" cassettes which was quite a score, I thought - in decent shape, sounds fine. Totally goofy performance. Played it obsessively until the wife started to genuinely hate it. What I'm wondering is, does anybody have any idea how many of these things exist? Like, I made a copy at once and don't play the tape itself at all, but is it one of those things that should be put into climate-controlled museum storage or what? It's a Raymond Chandler evening... / KS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:33:20 -0800 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: A to Z From: "Michael Wells" > Lazerlove5 > Nits, The (thx Nuppy) Michael Wells is the coolest! - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:56:46 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: A to Z / Springsteen Has Springsteen done anything worth a listen since 1980? I recoiled in horor from Born In the USA and haven't looked back... - -----Original Message----- >From: Stacked Crooked >Sent: Nov 27, 2006 1:06 PM >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: A to Z > > > >shit! how could i have overlooked Springsteen??? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:06:06 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: A to Z Cd's at work Mindi Abair Belle & Sebastian Captain Beefheart Duke Elington & John Coltrane Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones (I love the Smilin' Jones cut!) GB3 Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Nancy King Love Lee Morgan OMD Madeleine Peyroux The Rapture Mindy Smith Talk Talk Whore - Various Artists play Wire ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:09:53 -0500 From: wojbearpig Subject: Re: conan one time at band camp, The Great Quail (quail@libyrinth.com) said: >Just caught it on DVR. I have to say, I was disappointed. I think Robyn >started off-note and never found himself again. In fact, I thought the whole >band looked a bit disappointed. perhaps. i guess my take on these late night television performances is that most are average performances, at best. and this one, on one viewing, seemed pretty good to me, factoring in the circumstances of perfoming for teevee. >Though Amy Sedaris was charming as always. I would have loved to see some >interaction between Amy, Conan, and Robyn! i didn't realize she was a guest and only recorded the last 10 minutes of the program. doh! woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:11:21 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: ABC Abba Big Star Costello, Elvis Drake, Nick Eleventh Dream Day Feelies, The Go-Betweens, The Hitchcock, Robyn Ideal Jazz Butcher, The Kinks, The Lemonheads, The Mann, Aimee Nirvana Oasis Prefab Sprout Queen R.E.M. Smiths, The Television U2 Velvet Underground, The Wire XTC Yo La Tengo Zappa, Frank There used to be a radio show in Germany named "Von Abba bis Zappa" ... and there you have it. The list *feels* weird, but it's probably pretty representative of my taste. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://darkstar.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:13:45 -0500 From: "Mark P" Subject: Subject: Re: conan From: The Great Quail Woj writes, > just watched the venus 3 on conan from last night. pretty decent > performance, i thought. Just caught it on DVR. I have to say, I was disappointed. I think Robyn started off-note and never found himself again. In fact, I thought the whole band looked a bit disappointed. Though Amy Sedaris was charming as always. I would have loved to see some interaction between Amy, Conan, and Robyn! - - --Quail +++ I thought the relatively the same, it was a somewhat lackluster performance. But. It must be damned difficult to get jazzed and revved for one song. Some do, they didn't seem to. I woulda' loved seeing Robyn on the couch earlier still when Spader was on about "having a nice fish" for T-giving dinner, the comfort and free-up-ed-ness concerning the donnin' of womens toggery, togas, et/al. Methinks J. Spader was in a Hitchcockian mood! Mark+++ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:19:28 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Eb", and you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass just listening to the tokyo electric tokyo show from last month. and, it occurs to me that as the band is covering both "Ballad Of A Thin Man" and "How Do You Sleep?" on this tour, why not add another angrified second-person accusatory -- viz., "Hooker With A Penis"? wouldn't that be somethin'? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:38:55 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Did we miss this one? A semi-official REAP for New Order: http://www.neworderonline.com/News/News.aspx?NewsID=1284 Pretty wishy-washy, which is probably why I didn't even notice it until today. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:44:03 -0500 From: "Mark P" Subject: Re: Subject: A to Z > Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:28:31 -0700 > From: "Guntarski" > Subject: A to Z > > In an effort to find something, anything new and interesting to listen to - > I'm looking to see what the average guy or gal in cyberspace would choose as > their top artists A-Z. Here's my list: > > > > http://polyestericonz.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------ ABBA Bags, The(BOSTON Bags!) Creation, The dB's, The Ely, Joe Foghat Gigolo Aunts Hangman's Beautiful Daughters, The Insomniacs, The Jasmine Minks Kinks, The Let's Active Mod Fun Neighborhoods, The Orgone Box Primal Scream Queers, The Radio Birdman Stems, The Television Personalities, The Ups And Downs, The Velvet Crush, The Watemelon Men, The X (don't get NO better!) You Am I Zarkons, The m ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:48:24 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: For Eb . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:35:27 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: 2006 favorites so far.... 1. Beck, "The Information" 2. Hank III, "Straight to Hell" 3. Tool, "10,000 Days" 4. Decemberists, "The Crane Wife" 5. Robyn Hitchcock, "Ole Tarantula" 6. Bob Dylan, "Modern Times" 7. Joanna Newsom, "Ys" 8. Thom Yorke, "The Eraser" 9. Neko Case, " Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" 10. The Raconteurs, "Broken Boy Soldiers" Also really dug: The Mountain Goats, "Get Lonely" Sonic Youth, "Rather Ripped" T-Bone Burnett, "The True False Identity" Rob Zombie, "Educated Horses" Ice Cube, "Laugh Now, Cry Later" Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Stadium Arcadium" TV on the Radio, "Return to Cookie Mountain" Les Claypool, "Of Whales and Woe" ...and of course, the Tom Waits box, but that's not really *new*, so.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:19:01 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: A to Z OK - this looks like fun: Adrian Belew Beatles (tied with Brian Eno...damn "first name" lists!) Crowded House (very close again...) David Bowie Elvis Costello (sorry Mr McCulloch) Foo Fighters Go-Betweens Hunters & Collectors Iggy Pop John Cale The Kinks Leonard Cohen The Mutton Birds New Model Army (narroly ahead of Neil Young) Ocean Colour Scene Pink Floyd Q... um... can I buy a vowel? Robyn Hitchcock Shriekback (narrowly ofver Shihad and Simon & Garfunkel - what a combination!) Talking heads Ultra Vivid Scene Velvet Underground (just pipping Van the man) The Who XTC Yo La tengo Zeitgeist 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: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:48:34 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Here's all it really is, I figure The Great Quail wrote: > > And this from Robert Burns: I'm not quite sure your translation's entirely correct, but you got the idea close enough. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:51:09 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Andy Partridge interview up at Amazon On 11/27/06, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, 2fs wrote: > > > On 11/12/06, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ICLTT6, the detail page for > the > > > box. > > > > > > Do let us know if/when a transcript is available...not sure when I'd > have > > time to listen to 40 minutes of Andy talking, but I'd love to read it. > > It's up now > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/1000034151 Thanks much. By the way, at one point I pulled up the myspace page for his daughter's band, the She-Beats - and the songs actually are pretty good! They look (and sound) very young, so maybe some good music there in the future. Anyway: sorta sad to hear about XTC's apparent demise...although elsewhere he's said that Colin's simply not that into it any more. So it looks like we'll hear the, uh, "free-jazz" Andy CD before any of his newer songs... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:45:46 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: A to Z A: Tom Waits B: The dBs C: Paul McCartney D: Barry Adamson E: The Beatles F: Of Montreal G: dunno H: The Who I: Pink Floyd J: Bjork K: dunno L: The Clash M: Elliott Smith N: Brian Eno O: Elvis Costello P: Bruce Springsteen Q: Squeeze R: Creedence Clearwater Revival S: The Essex Green T: XTC U: Husker Du V: The Iveys W: Matthew Sweet X: The Explorers Y: Bob Dylan Z: dunno I thought it was kind of a stale question, so I did it by second letter instead. Eb (and don't you dare suggest Skinny Puppy) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:47:42 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: A to Z Picked up the iPod and kept hitting "next" through a randomized queue until I filled in all 26 letters. So, not necessarily all-time favorites, but my immediate musical future contains: Aimee Mann Beck Chemical Brothers Dolph Chaney Echo & the Bunnymen Flying Burrito Brothers George Harrison Hunters & Collectors Ils & Solo John Barberian & the Rock East Ensemble The Kingston Trio Liz Phair Mort Garson Nico Fidenco Of Montreal The Pogues The Quiet American (okay, this is a score, but it was that or wait for Queens of the Stone Age to come up) Richard Hell & the Voidoids Sweet Thirteenth Floor Elevators Ultra Vivid Scene Vic Chesnutt Wilco X-Ray Spex Yo La Tenga The Zombies Sorta what I'd expect, sorta not. There should be some kind of "random rules" style game we can spin out of this, but I'm not sure how it would work... - -SER - -SER ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #286 ********************************