From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #313 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 29 2006 Volume 15 : Number 313 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: whatever Dean Wareham does next ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: whatever Dean Wareham does next [Eb ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: whatever Dean Wareham does next ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] top albums of the year ["filomena.bassi1@tin.it" ] My name is "Eb", and I am the new Sex Machine ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: My name is "Eb", and I am Bicpentameter [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: My name is "Eb", and I am Bicpentameter [Jeff Dwarf ] best of '06 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:56:42 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: whatever Dean Wareham does next On 12/27/06, 2fs wrote: > > > > That URL doesn't seem to work. > > Could you check that you typed it correctly and re-send the correct link? Here, I'll do it: http://www.humoristotallyquantifiableandonlyoneguyknowswhatisreallyfunnyguesswho.com Warning: NSFW! - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:06:00 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: whatever Dean Wareham does next On 12/27/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > > > On 12/27/06, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > > > That URL doesn't seem to work. > > > > Could you check that you typed it correctly and re-send the correct > > link? > > > Here, I'll do it: > > > http://www.humoristotallyquantifiableandonlyoneguyknowswhatisreallyfunnyguesswho.com > > Warning: NSFW! > You know, I miss the old school "404" error pages.... And gopher. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:11:54 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: whatever Dean Wareham does next Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: >> That URL doesn't seem to work. >> >> Could you check that you typed it correctly and re-send the >> correct link? > > > Here, I'll do it: > > http:// > www.humoristotallyquantifiableandonlyoneguyknowswhatisreallyfunnyguess > who.com > > Warning: NSFW! Neurotic Spazzy Frenetic Wanker? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:27:59 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Chris Brown, former Major League infielder and high school teammate of Darryl Strawberry. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-browndies&prov=ap&type=lgns The second starting infielder from the mid-80s San Francisco Giants to die in the last month (with SS Jose Uribe, who died in a plane crash in the Domincan Republic). "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: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:08:25 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: whatever Dean Wareham does next On 12/27/06, Eb wrote: > > Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > >> That URL doesn't seem to work. > >> > >> Could you check that you typed it correctly and re-send the > >> correct link? > > > > > > Here, I'll do it: > > > > http:// > > www.humoristotallyquantifiableandonlyoneguyknowswhatisreallyfunnyguess > > who.com > > > > Warning: NSFW! > > Neurotic Spazzy Frenetic Wanker? You win! That should impress the ladies. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:59:59 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: 'tis the season James: > Otter-widening ceremony Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Naughty, naughty! Started the holidays by spending a good hour with Stewart over hot wings and conversation last Friday as he was passing through. It bears repeating: fegs are the nicest people! And devilishly good-looking as well. (side note: the most unusual card this year was from a gentleman couple we know; in the picture, they are shirtless, look highly intoxicated, and are perched on Santa's lap - who has an arm around each and is twisting their nipples. There are some things you just can't un-see.) Other 2006 releases that I've been enjoying: BACK TO THE WEB - Elf Power (thx to Stewart's reccy) AMMUNITION - Tim Easton LIVE AT MARTYRS' - Gan Bua (Irish) O BE JOYFUL - Music of the Baroque (classical and seasonal, extremely well-done) FIN - The Monochrome Set (Nuppy would be proud) SECRET SET - The Lake Society Off to flatten a beaver, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:31:39 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "filomena.bassi1@tin.it" Subject: top albums of the year Stuart a. Staples - Leaving songs "my favourite!" Graham Coxon - Love travels at illegal speed Lloyd Cole - Antidepressant Pernice Brothers - Live a little Robyn Hitchcock- OlC( tarantula The Flaming lips - At war with the mystics Ray Davies - Other people's lives The Church - Uninvited like the clouds Sophia - Technology won't save us Well, it doesn't has been an intense year it seems, not much music that has touched my soul....it making me willing to go back to my archive....and listen to my favourites of the 80'.... ....and what's worst, the commercial pop music has touched the grave.... ...nice classic radio pop songs don't esist anymore...and this makes me worry so much... ....the future shouldn't be so grand, even if the underground and some old fellows still make the music go along.....but death is quite near....no universal rock bands don't shout and twist anymore and it's quite a misery...such a sad sad misery. Ago. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:45:23 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Eb", and I am the new Sex Machine <(except for what I overhear on coworker's radios, which is some odd form of not-quite-chart-hits of the non-edgy stripe, or the Radio Disney I would probably hear second-hand if I had kids).> you have one co-worker, and he or she listens to many radios at once? you oughta call up the station and request *Zaireeka*. mine: singapore sling. holly shizzit, what a great band! how come you assholes never told me about their existence???? <> blue curtain, with speacial thanks to mint and matador. i got it from their website -- don't know if it's available elsewhere. the *music* stinks like shite; but the artwork is quite good. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:49:58 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am the new Sex Machine On 12/25/06, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > you have one co-worker, and he or she listens to many radios at once? Kinda feels that way... many unattended radios can be encountered around here spewing utterly incompatible music into the air. I mean, really, I just misplaced the apostrophe, but it ended up as a fairly accurate description of the listening envioronment anyway. - -SER ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:20:19 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am Bicpentameter Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > the *music* stinks like shite; but the artwork is quite good. Damn, dood...if your 14th favorite album of the year stinks like shite, you ain't hearin' enough tunes. Musical discoveries of the past two days: The Annuals/Be He Me (more of that sprawling-orchestrated-landscape pop a la Grizzly Bear) and Maximo Park/A Certain Trigger (think "tricky" punk-pop a la Futureheads). But this year's Essex Green album is disappointing compared with the last one. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:56:13 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am Bicpentameter - --On 28. Dezember 2006 12:20:19 -0800 Eb wrote: > Musical discoveries of the past two days: ... > and Maximo > Park/A Certain Trigger (think "tricky" punk-pop a la Futureheads). Kinda late to the party, are we? ;-) It came out in 2005. I like some songs a lot (especially "Apply Some Pressure"), but I never seem to listen to the entire CD. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:26:29 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: 'tis the season Michael Wells wrote: > (side note: the most unusual card this year was from > a gentleman couple we know; in the picture, they > are shirtless, look highly intoxicated, and are > perched on Santa's lap - who has an arm around each > and is twisting their nipples. There are some > things you just can't un-see.) Mine was a re-purposed record sleeve for Bauhaus's 1979-1983, with the Merry Christmas stuff in speech balloons a la a comic strip attributed to Peter Murphy and Daniel Ash, and with David J wearing a new Santa's hat. "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, 28 Dec 2006 13:29:37 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am Bicpentameter Eb wrote: > Damn, dood...if your 14th favorite album of the year > stinks like > shite, you ain't hearin' enough tunes. That wasn't eddie's list of his favorite albums, it was his list of his favorite album SLEEVE-ART. None of which was shit on David J wearing a Santa's hat. "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, 28 Dec 2006 13:34:02 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am Bicpentameter Jeff Dwarf wrote: >> Damn, dood...if your 14th favorite album of the year >> stinks like >> shite, you ain't hearin' enough tunes. > > That wasn't eddie's list of his favorite albums, it > was his list of his favorite album SLEEVE-ART. Oh, you're right. Never mind. Bauhaus-related starf*cking content: Lawndart and I were hangin' with Kevin Haskins last Thursday night. Eb np: Delays/You See Colours (not as good as debut...less "airy") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:07:31 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: best of '06 Okay, I know you've all been waiting for this (well, okay, you haven't, but never mind, you're go8ing to get it anyway). Top of '06 1. To All New Arrivals - Faithless Strong, subtle hip-hop with a social conscience, London's Faithless first made an impression on me with their single "Mass destruction" a couple of years back, and this album ups the ante. One of the group's members has clearly just become a parent, and these wise words to this and other new arrivals are by turn chilling and positive, and always catchy. 2. Warm hand - Don McGlashan Back with more of the unnerving edgy Kiwiana which made the Mutton Birds such a delight, this album shows yet again that while Neil Finn may get the internaional plaudits and Dave Dobbyn may be more widely recognised at home, McGlashan deserves his place alongside these two in the pantheon of kiwi music. 3. Surprise - Paul Simon Lived up to its name. The combination of Simon and Brian Eno sounded strange from the outset, but Eno's gentle guiding hand managed to coax out the best set of new songs from the old folk-poet-rocker since "Graceland". 4. The corner of Miles & Gil - Shack Dredging their influences from British folk-rock psychedelia of the late 60s, this is another slow-grower. Emphasis on acoustic instruments, and with unexpected brass band accompaniment in places. Pleasant. 5. Last Days of Wonder - Handsome Family Seriously warped country and western - lyrically, closer to the Flaming Lips than Dwight Yoakam (I'm very glad to say), and both catchy and bewildering. Anyone who can write a C7W song about Nikolai Tesla or about vandalising a golf course when drunk is OK by me ("Like jewels on your green dress, my lady of the golf course, running in your underwear to greet the cops who'd just driven up"). 6. Gang of Losers - The Dears Seemingly straight-ahead pop-rock from Canada with a grungy edge and some decidedly odd arrangements. A slow burner, this has grown on me over the last couple of months. 7. Isolation Loops - Bachelorette Though not as strangely attractive as the mini-album that she put out in 2005, NZ's Bachelorette delivered a fine set of twisted electronic ditties with "Isolation Loops" 8. Flat-pack Philosophy - Buzzcocks Sometimes, old bands refuse to die, much to their detriment and that of their fans. sometimes, though, once in a hundred albums, a band will reform and rock like they never went away. So it is with ageing punk rockers the Buzzcocks - always one of the most musically and lyrically intelligent bands of the punk rock era, here with an album which seems to defy the passage of the decades. 9. In time for spring, on came the snow - Subaudible Hum Owing much of their inspiration to Radiohead, but also very varied in their sound, Subaudible Hum have produced an intriguing and highly listenable-to album of instrumentals and multi-layered hook-laden songs. 10. I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass - Yo La Tengo It's almost impossble to describe Yo La Tengo's music, other than to say that their albums tend to contain a couple of dozen songs, song fragments and half formed ideas, almost all of which are usually immensely appealing. Though American, this band could easily fit in with the Dunedin Sound of music, and there is indeed some cross influence (David Kilgour has frequently performed with YLT over the years). Wildly eclectic and loads of fun as always, this album is definitely one of their best. Bubbling under... *Comfort of Strangers - Beth Orton; *Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not - Arctic Monkeys; *Joyride:Remixes - Mirah; *Up from the catacombs (Best of) - Jane's Addiction; *Chris Knox and the Nothing - Chris Knox and the Nothing; *Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped; *Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia. WTF...? Beatles Classics by Wing - Wing No doubt an acquired taste, or at the very least frightening to those not in the know, Wing is a Hong Kong-born New Zealander who has become famous for her destruction of classic songs in much the same way as Clive James's long-time TV guest Margarita Pracatan. Here, Wing manages to machete her way through some Beatles favourites and (incomprehensibly) also Maori folk song "Hine e hine", with great gusto but with no hint of any reliance on melody, tempo or taste, and only passing indication of any knowledge of the English language. Her version of "I want to hold your hand" has to be heard to be disbelieved. Me First & the Gimme Gimmes Love their Country - Me First & the Gimme Gimmes Great band name, wondrously tacky concept: MF&TGGs perform skater-punk versions of country and western and country-rock standards. You haven't lived until you've heard them ripping into "Desperado" or "Annie's song" at 150 mph. Not yet heard, but the signs are good Ole Tarantula - Robyn Hitchcock I've heard several tracks off this, and I'm itching to get my hands on a copy. This is seriously good - much harder rocking than most of RH's recent works and ably backed by a powerful band. New Who album (title unknown) Yes, there may be only a couple of them left now, but by all accounts this is, against all odds, a major return to form. Modern Times - Bob Dylan The old master, according to reports received, has produced his finest set for over a decade. Sounds distinctly worth a listen. Still listening to/growing on me from 2005 Another day on Earth - Brian Eno; Get behind me Satan - The White Stripes; Oceans Apart - Go-Betweens (RIP G.W. McLennan, one 2006's biggest musical losses); I'm Wide Awake, it's morning/Digital Ash in a digital urn - Bright Eyes; Cherry Pie - Leila Adu; Prairie Wind - Neil Young; The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada; In Your Honor - Foo Fighters; Twin Cinema - New Pornographers; Witching Hour - Ladytron. 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #313 ********************************