From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #60 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 22 2007 Volume 16 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: allmusic.com mention ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: ...though it was rather slow [Rex ] Re: allmusic.com mention [Rex ] Re: Elvis Costello [Rex ] RE: allmusic.com mention ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Elvis Costello (addendum) [Rex ] Re: All John Cale, all the time (side dish of Nico). [Rex ] RE: Fellow Fegs ! ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: allmusic.com mention [2fs ] Re: Fellow Fegs ! [Rex ] Re: allmusic.com mention [ken ostrander ] Re: allmusic.com mention [Rex ] Re: Elvis Costello [The Great Quail ] Re: allmusic.com mention [Rex ] Re: allmusic.com mention [2fs ] Re: Elvis Costello [2fs ] RE: allmusic.com mention ["Bachman, Michael" ] songs that are songs [2fs ] Robyn in Annapolis [angelkra@comcast.net (Angel Krasnegor)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:50:34 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention Hi Fegs, I am certainly glad to see the outpouring of warmth from the Elvis Costello fans. I knew your existence was more than a delusional suspicion. I personally like the breadth of Costello's work but that may be in part due my ability to listen to albums quite repeatedly so I don't tend to tire of them. I adore the Burt Bacharach album and that heartwrenching "God Give Me Grace". Costello is so very well versed in the dark gaps that lie between men and women. He writes a lot of love songs but very few in the way that Robyn writes a lot of love songs. Robyn is in his glory at the altar of woman and Elvis is just as content there but can't see the adoration through rage. Robyn IMO is much better adjusted in this sense, but Costello offers more insight into the world of men. Generalizing of course which I hope you'll forgive me for; it is sometimes all I can do what with not being male. There are a few gaps in my collection but it's rather nice to know that more is out there if I'm so inclined. "Almost Blue" doesn't have the title song, does it? Right..."Imperial Bedroom" just to make that album even more devastating. Those kinds of albums where the titular song is some place else altogether confuse me in a way that never gets fixed. Although it served a great purpose once when I accidentally gave a friend's boyfriend a tape of "Eye" when he had asked for "Queen Elvis". He fell in love with "Eye" and became a co-conspirator and even converted Jen until the pair moved out West. There was a time with the three of us when "what should I put on" meant which Hitchcock album to play. But back to this paragraph...the song "Almost Blue" is on my top-5 of Costello songs (I keep very few lists, but that's one of them). He wrote it for Chet Baker it's said; I was never quite sure exactly what that meant (an ode to Chet or a song for him to sing or perhaps both?) but his singing it evokes Chet Baker's devastation to me even more than Chet's own version of the song. I think I rather the no caps for ken! font and am considering the switch. It reads well for the kind of stream-of-consciousness sound that is closer to how I sound in my own head. Or maybe it's just my lack of self-esteem. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:58:42 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: ...though it was rather slow On 2/22/07, Dr John Halewood wrote: > > grutness@slingshot.co.nz scribbled: > > > > > > James (calamari r'us) > > Pictures at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6385071.stm > Liked the comment "calamari rings made from it would be like tractor > tyres." > Sounds like a good "all you can eat" challenge... That article is the second time I've seen that same size-comparison chart this year, which is apparently a helluva year in Cephalopod History. Oddly, everyone's saying the Giants and Colossals are roughly the same size (length?), but the size chart has the Colossal looking about 1/3 again longer (the entire length of its swivel-hooked tentacles, to look at it). Keep the squid news comin'... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:05:06 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On 2/21/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > my response to those (from the list the i didn't make) would be: > no new order albums > pornography by the cure > station to station bowie > blood and chocolate elvis costello > the 3rd roxy music album by roxy music, if only for "mother of pearl" > 154 by wire Ah, my 6-year-old daughter is apparently a budding Wire fan based on this in-car dialogue from Tuesday: 4-Year-Old: Bubblegum bubblegum in a dish, how many pieces do you wish, of starfish? 6-Year-Old: One hundred and fifty-four! (Moments later, unrelated): 4-Year-Old: I am very mad and that's why I drinked all your blood! Me: "Drank" all your blood, sweetie, say "drank all your blood", not "drinked". Wait a second... > not only do i feel fairly alone in my love for "blood and chocolate", > but i rarely meet any costello fans. i thought maybe it was that > everyone is a costello and so it's just background noise kind of > like how one rather assumes certain people love the beatles but when > i started asking questions, that was clearly not the case with elvis > costello. The title phrase has lingered in the argaut to the point that someone has actually made a film by that title; that's gotta count for something. -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:20:51 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Elvis Costello On 2/22/07, The Great Quail wrote: > > > And...I agree with Jeff -- for an artist as diverse as Elvis Costello (and > I > am hard pressed to think of any quite *as* diverse) The recently-mentioned John Cale, perhaps? But point well taken there are bound to be a > few misfires. David Bowie, who is perhaps my favorite singer/songwriter, > certainly has a couple of clunkers, as does Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. > > In fact, stacked up to those above guys, I think Elvis comes out on top in > terms of sheer quality control. That's probably true; not all of his non-rock stuff actually interests me, but it never seems even slightly bad or emabarrassing... > To me, that only speaks of a lack of musical breadth > and imagination on account of the listener. That's not entirely fair, since any given listener could be as open-minded as possible and still end up just not liking those genre exercises. Could just be a matter of taste. I don't follow Costello up every odd alley the way I do with, say, Neil Young, but that's for two reasons-- one, I'm just a less rabid follower of Costello than I am of Young, but moreover, jazz and baroque explorations have proven over time to be of less interest to me than the types of musical sidetrips Neil, or Dylan for that matter, are more likely to explore. (Not that anyone here has done > this, but I've been to over a dozen Elvis shows, and you hear some amazing > things from the "Allison! ALLISON!!!" crowd.) You certainly get this with anyone whose career is both long-lived and creatively restless. I always feel quite priviledged to be in the audience when one of those guys decides to give the people what they *don't* want, whether or not the audience responds to the challenge (which, no, they usually don't). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:37:22 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: allmusic.com mention Rex: > (Moments later, unrelated): > 4-Year-Old: This is one of the best things about having kids; mine are now making up words willy-nilly to songs they already know (wonder where they get that from...), as well as mooning around on the various guitars I have scattered through the house. It's endearing, and occasionally breathtaking. Last night the boy said - in a direct take-off on Simon - that one Idol contestant's performance was 'a little cabaret for me.' He was right of course, but at all of eight years old I'm know sure how. Michael Central time, slightly flooded, pro-Rush division ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:38:02 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Elvis Costello (addendum) On 2/22/07, The Great Quail wrote: > > > I have yet to pick up > > Almost Blue. Is it worth buying? Forgot this bit: hell, yes. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:46:25 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: All John Cale, all the time (side dish of Nico). On 2/19/07, FSThomas wrote: > > > The re-release of Nico's /Frozen Borderline: 1968-1970/ is a comparative > steal at ~$19.90 U.S. dollars from the UK as opposed to $31.98 domestic. What is that? Narrow period for a compilation and I have all the original records... hmmm.... Having just listened to CARIBBEAN SUNSET... I really quite like it. I always figured it for better than its rep, but I find it not only underrated but, I think, quite good and something I might listen to a lot. I guess I'm surprised that it's as challenging as it is... its rep and that godawful title suggest a sort of laziness that's just not there. There are some teeth on this thing. I always hated that title... a bit too Buffett-evoking for my tastes. Anyways, I'm glad to have this, and an oddball little rarities collection called "Ready for War" that I found around the same time... good primers for the new live set, I hope. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:55:10 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Fellow Fegs ! i must say that i was fairly disappointed with *Sunken Treasure* -- save for the last few songs, when he brought in other musicians ("Airline To Heaven" was just about jaw-dropping-ly good). also didn't really care for the solo show i downloaded from dime a week or so ago. i'm *also* not overly fond of the new wilco songs they played on tour last autumn. but i am very excited for wilco to tour again. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:25:01 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Fellow Fegs ! Asking for an Uncle Tupelo reunion is out of the question then? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Stacked Crooked Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:55 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Fellow Fegs ! > >i must say that i was fairly disappointed with *Sunken Treasure* -- save for the last few >songs, when he brought in other musicians ("Airline To Heaven" was just about jaw-dropping-ly good). also didn't really care for the solo show i downloaded from dime a week or so ago. i'm *also* not overly fond of the new wilco songs they played on tour last autumn. >but i am very excited for wilco to tour again. There goes another chance for an Uncle Tupelo reunion out the door! Old topic, but based on their first couple of albums I though Son Volt was the better than Wilco. "Tear Stained Eye" still blows me away every time I hear it. Uncle "Zip Zip" Stan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:32:43 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention Hi Fegs, Rex says: > The title phrase has lingered in the argaut to the point that someone has > actually made a film by that title; that's gotta count for something. No lie, this was up on one of my brower's tabs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397044/ The even more synchronicitous(?) thing is that I got there not because of the EC albums but because I was looking up movies that Olivier Martinez had been in and noticed the title. I just watched "Unfaithful" again and was curious how many movies that guy's been in. Okay, say what you want about Adrian Lyne, I like his I guess it's so very English ideas of movie sex. As stereotypically "can't place it European" as the Martinez character is, I had to look at him twice. A few times. And Diane Lane is not bad herself. As usual, the only not sexy person around was Richard Gere. Now people talked like this was usual but even when Richard Gere is supposed to be being sexy, I beg to differ. BTW, I'm making up for enjoying watching an Adrian Lyne movie that much by going to see "Volver" to-night. That got some Oscar nominations so I can hold my head high. Uh-oh...come to think of it, I believe "Unfaithful" got some nominations too so I don't know where that leaves me. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:42:51 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On 2/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > I personally like the breadth of Costello's work but that may be in > part due my ability to listen to albums quite repeatedly so I don't > tend to tire of them. I adore the Burt Bacharach album and that > heartwrenching "God Give Me Grace". Costello is so very well versed > in the dark gaps that lie between men and women. He writes a lot of > love songs but very few in the way that Robyn writes a lot of love > songs. Robyn is in his glory at the altar of woman and Elvis is just > as content there but can't see the adoration through rage. Robyn IMO > is much better adjusted in this sense, but Costello offers more > insight into the world of men. Generalizing of course which I hope > you'll forgive me for; it is sometimes all I can do what with not > being male. With my not being female and its not being the early '60s, I can't truly judge how accurately Costello's snapshot of being young and unexpectedly pregnant in "Unwanted Number" is (from the same film soundtrack as "God Give Me Strength - and dammit, i can't remember the title, but it's sort of a disguised Carole King biopic), which he doesn't sing (a "girl group" as appropriate to the era sings it) - but (takes breath realizing this sentence has sprung utterly out of control - with all you folks going for the breathless lowercase thing, I'm influenced - but apparently my shift key's still functioning) it's a hell of a song anyway. If I were less lazy enough to look up the title of the film, I'd also look up the lyrics - because there are one or two lines that are just devastating in that one. > > > "Almost Blue" doesn't have the title song, does it? Nope. Didn't we have a thread about Albums Not Including Their Own Title Track recently? Right..."Imperial > Bedroom" Which song also was not on the album of that name originally... > > paragraph...the song "Almost Blue" is on my top-5 of Costello songs (I > keep very few lists, but that's one of them). He wrote it for Chet > Baker it's said; I was never quite sure exactly what that meant (an > ode to Chet or a song for him to sing or perhaps both?) Pretty much for Chet Baker to perform. I like the song too - but sometimes Elvis's "songs for" are a bit too obviously pastiches of the artist's style - - in fact, the song he wrote for Johnny Cash is a little bit too close to a song Cash himself wrote - and the song Cash wrote was better, because subtler. Somehow I don't think the Minutemen's "Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" was ever actually intended for Jackson to sing... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:15:53 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Fellow Fegs ! On 2/22/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Asking for an Uncle Tupelo reunion is out of the question then? You might think so, but I'm halfway through the new Dinosaur Jr, and thus far, it almost reminds me why I ever gave a shit. Hold on, the track with Barlow on lead vocals just came on, and now it *totally* reminds me why I ever gave a shit. Also, new Stooges record just around the corner, so... Old > topic, but based on their first couple of albums I though Son Volt was > the better than Wilco. I rate the first three SV records about as untouchable a trilogy of solid damn "rock-band records" as there has ever been. Wilco was a different beast from the get go... I mean, I had no idea just *how* different they were going to get, and they've been so often spectacular that I'm loathe to complain (and besides which Jay Farrarr hasn't really deeply interested me for a while), but in the early going, SV was, like, *the* no-nonsense great band of its day. All over now, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:11:29 -0800 (PST) From: ken ostrander Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention i'll give you suede if you give in on the new order. if you twist my arm, i'll put forth 'power corruption and lies', though i agree with jeff that 'substance' should be given exception as much as 'singles going steady'. i'd put 'disintegration' before 'pornography'. take that out of context if you must. ever try and the play the "trilogy" (add 'bloodflowers') together? it only works in my head. has anyone heard the remastered version of 'porn'? "mother of pearl" is the reason i ever play 'stranded'. probably my favorite song of theirs. "song for europe" doesn't hurt either. of course, 'siren' and 'avalon' are the other contenders for that list. oh god, mr declan patrick aloysis macmanus. 'blood and chocolate' was the first of his albums that i bought as a new release. it's worth it just for "blue chair" and "battered old bird". looking over his discography, there are only a few that i don't know: el mocambo, almost blue, goodbye cruel world, g.b.h., deep dead blue, jake's progress, terror and magnificence, the sweetest punch, il sogno, and my flame burns blue. ok, it looks like a lot; but who here has all of it? any of the first three albums could be on that list as well as 'imperial bedroom'. i like the last couple of studio albums and the collaboration with bacharach very much. everything he puts out is worth a listen; but there's plenty of mix tape fodder out there. same with david jones. i'll admit that it was 'let's dance' that introduced me to the thin white duke; but i certainly made up for lost time. there's still plenty of room to grow in my bowie collection; but for the list there are several possibilities: hunky dory, ziggy stardust, station to station, low, heroes, lodger, and scary monsters. his last few albums have been above par. >>>i only mention it because ken didn't post last night and that was sad. and i even made this post "no caps for ken!"<<< fabulous! thanx. aw shucks. if i admit that i was up late watching 'american idol', would it be more sad? >>>Last night the boy said - in a direct take-off on Simon - that one Idol contestant's performance was 'a little cabaret for me.' He was right of course, but at all of eight years old I'm know sure how.<<< not so sad, i guess. imagine elvis costello performing for simon. it's easy if you try. a little caberet. a little spit in the eye. >>>4-Year-Old: I am very mad and that's why I drinked all your blood! Me: "Drank" all your blood, sweetie, say "drank all your blood", not "drinked". Wait a second...<<< drink all your blood and chocolate. whenever my daughter requests chocolate for her milk, it sounds a little too much like "talk shit". she loves to compose on our piano whenever mommy and daddy are talking. >>>I think I rather the no caps for ken! font and am considering the switch. It reads well for the kind of stream-of-consciousness sound that is closer to how I sound in my own head. Or maybe it's just my lack of self-esteem.<<< maybe the capital letters are compensating? it's a lot of pressure starting off a sentence; but someone's got to be first. and "proper" names? it just screams inferiority complex. do not capitalize the non-specific use of the word "god." http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/592/01/ ken "not even the rain has such small hands" the kenster - --------------------------------- No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:20:30 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On 2/22/07, Michael Wells wrote: > Rex: > > (Moments later, unrelated): > > 4-Year-Old: > > > This is one of the best things about having kids; mine are now making up > words willy-nilly to songs they already know One of mine has a version of "Dancing Queen" all about trees. For real. > (wonder where they get that > from...), as well as mooning around on the various guitars I have > scattered through the house. It's endearing, and occasionally > breathtaking. I need to have a better impromptu recording situation for this very reason. I actually have girls aged nine, six, and four in my "blendered family" these days, and each one has peculiar musical gifts that bear constant watching (the 6yo is a potential Brian Wilson, I swear, and it's not just me who sees it... she plays a pretty fair uke, too). The oldest one composes songs about coral reefs on the piano. I'm her bassist. Figures, huh? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:46:42 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Elvis Costello Rex writes, > The recently-mentioned John Cale, perhaps? But point well taken I do not believe that John Cale is in the same League of Diversity as the likes of Costello, Bowie, or Zappa. I mean, Costello has done new-wave punk, rock and roll, country, blues, New Orleans blues, lounge and easy listening, jazz of all kinds, cabaret, musical theater, Irish, classical song cycles; not to mention having written orchestral music and collaborated with everyone from Brian Eno to the Brodsky Quartet. >> To me, that only speaks of a lack of musical breadth >> and imagination on account of the listener. > > > That's not entirely fair, since any given listener could be as open-minded > as possible and still end up just not liking those genre exercises. There's a difference between not liking something and simply dismissing it; I was speaking to the latter. - --Q ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:23:58 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On 2/22/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 2/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Somehow I don't think the Minutemen's "Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" > was > ever actually intended for Jackson to sing... No, but confusingly "Intense Song for Madonna to Sing" was intended for Jacko. Didn't Robyn write "Arms of Love" for Jim McGuinn to sing? In other news, if I have to be the list's last bastion of capitalization, I'll do it. It's harder for me to stop capitalizing than to keep on doing it... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:28:22 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On 2/22/07, Rex wrote: > > In other news, if I have to be the list's last bastion of > capitalization, I'll do it. It's harder for me to stop capitalizing than to > keep on doing it... > Hey! I was capitalizing! I just wasn't using anything resembling syntax. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:45:25 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Elvis Costello On 2/22/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 2/22/07, The Great Quail wrote: > > > > Rex writes, > > > > > The recently-mentioned John Cale, perhaps? But point well taken > > > > I do not believe that John Cale is in the same League of Diversity as > > the > > likes of Costello, Bowie, or Zappa. I mean, Costello has done new-wave > > punk, > > > check... > Okay, I really need to pay more attention: by "check" I mean "Cale's done this too"... Also, this is a post referring both to "EC" and "Cale" which is not about Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale's "Cocaine." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:16:59 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: allmusic.com mention - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of 2fs Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:43 PM To: Not Reg Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On 2/22/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > I personally like the breadth of Costello's work but that may be in > part due my ability to listen to albums quite repeatedly so I don't > tend to tire of them. I adore the Burt Bacharach album and that > heartwrenching "God Give Me Grace". Costello is so very well versed > in the dark gaps that lie between men and women. He writes a lot of > love songs but very few in the way that Robyn writes a lot of love > songs. Robyn is in his glory at the altar of woman and Elvis is just > as content there but can't see the adoration through rage. Robyn IMO > is much better adjusted in this sense, but Costello offers more > insight into the world of men. Generalizing of course which I hope > you'll forgive me for; it is sometimes all I can do what with not > being male. >With my not being female and its not being the early '60s, I can't truly judge how accurately Costello's snapshot of being young and unexpectedly pregnant in "Unwanted Number" is (from the same film soundtrack as "God Give Me Strength - and dammit, i can't remember the title, but it's sort of a disguised Carole King biopic), which he doesn't sing (a "girl group" as appropriate to the era sings it) - but (takes breath realizing this sentence has sprung utterly out of control - - with all you folks going for the breathless lowercase thing, I'm influenced - but apparently my shift key's still functioning) it's a hell of a song anyway. If I were less lazy enough to look up the title of the film, I'd also look up the lyrics - because there are one or two lines that are just devastating in that one. The movie is Grace Of My Heart. The first half takes place in The Brill Building in NYC, where a lot of the early 60's songwriters like wife and husband team Carol King and Gerry Goffin worked as well as Neil Sadaka and others. The actors who play the CK and GG like characters actually convey a lot of empathy and understanding in their dialog of being young and unexpectedly pregnant while composing EC's lyrics to "Unwanted Number". Thus it makes EC's lyrics seemingly genuine to the plight of the pregnant teenager as well. Uncle "Zip Zip, not Tupelo" Stan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:29:42 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:42 PM, 2fs wrote: > (from the same film soundtrack as "God Give > Me Strength - and dammit, i can't remember the title, but it's sort > of a > disguised Carole King biopic) Grace of My Heart, starring Illeana Douglas. rowr. I still recall seeing the commercials for that movie, hearing Elvis belt out God Give Me Strength, and getting massive goosebumps. Oh yeah, sticking my arm and hand high up: "Hi Laruen, formerly obsessive EC fan(atic) acknowledges everything you're sending to the list regarding Mr. Declan MacManus) Btw, his latest collaboration with Allen Toussaint is just great. Saw them twice last year in NYC. And, was fortunate to see the Burt Bacharach collaboration "Painted From Memory" at Radio City, replete with an all female backing orchestra. I believe the only other Costello-L lister on feglist is Jason Brown. - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:37:43 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: songs that are songs We were talking about songs that reminded people of other songs - and as a subset of that, cases where the influence is overt and acknowledged by the later songwriter. Another example of that is "96 Tears" and the dB's "Espionage" ("the dB's's"? "the dB's'"?). In one of the reissues, the notes talk about that specifically: it's most audible in the bridge, I'd say. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:43:21 +0000 From: angelkra@comcast.net (Angel Krasnegor) Subject: Robyn in Annapolis Hello, I was once a member of this fine list eons ago. I have resubbed to see if some Robyn tickets can be saved from oblivion. See, it's like this: my husband & I bought tickets to see Robyn & the Venus 3 in Annapolis on March 25th. But as luck would have it, our house that we'd had on the market got an offer & to make a long story short, we're unable to attend the show, as we'll be busy moving into our new home in Charlottesville. We'd hate for these tickets to go to waste, so if anyone here is interested, or might know of someone who is, please let me know. - -Angel ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #60 *******************************