From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #182 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 26 2007 Volume 16 : Number 182 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Just remembered ... [Rex ] Re: First concerts/Commack Arena [Tom Clark ] Re: First concerts/Commack Arena [Tom Clark ] RE: First concerts ["Michael Sweeney" ] Best/worst opening acts ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: some RH news ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] 1% RH content (perhaps 0% rational factuality content, as well) ["Michael] Re: First concerts ["Marc Holden" ] Re: gone shopping [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Best/worst opening acts ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: Best/worst opening acts ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: gone shopping ["Bachman, Michael" ] Best/worst opening acts ["linnig@cox.net" ] Re: Best/worst opening acts [kevin ] Re: 1% RH content (perhaps 0% rational factuality content, as well) [kevi] Re: Best/worst opening acts [2fs ] Re: Best/worst opening acts ["m swedene" ] Re: Best/worst opening acts [kevin ] Re: this is depressing [kevin ] RE: Best/worst opening acts ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Once again: misheard lyrics [2fs ] Re: Best/worst opening acts ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Reap ["Michael Sweeney" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:38:52 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Just remembered ... On 4/25/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > ... that I was at the show where R.E.M. played the Time After Time/Red > Rain/So. Central Rain medley. It was originally on the Finest Worksong > 12", > but is now also a Bonus Track on the new edition of Document. And on that oddball "In The Attic" comp. Stipe starts the a capella "Time After Time" in completely the wrong key, and finagles his way back in there after the guitar comes in, but it's still pretty sweet. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:39:43 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: First concerts/Commack Arena On Apr 25, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Rex wrote: > Michael Azzerad reports as fact in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" > that Bob > Stinson, playing nude, caught a shoe hurled at him during a gig in > midsong, > pissed in it, and threw it back into the crowd. San Diego, I > think. I'm not > sure that's possible, but there you go. Yes - I remember that from the book. My wife saw the 'mats opening for Shoes ("Totally Nude"!) at Grinnell in '82. Apparently Bob's ass was hanging out all over the place. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:54:33 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: First concerts/Commack Arena On Apr 25, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Apr 25, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Rex wrote: > >> Michael Azzerad reports as fact in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" >> that Bob >> Stinson, playing nude, caught a shoe hurled at him during a gig in >> midsong, >> pissed in it, and threw it back into the crowd. San Diego, I >> think. I'm not >> sure that's possible, but there you go. > > Yes - I remember that from the book. My wife saw the 'mats > opening for Shoes ("Totally Nude"!) at Grinnell in '82. Apparently > Bob's ass was hanging out all over the place. Der der - it was The Wallets, not Shoes. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:54:43 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: RE: First concerts Michael "There's old H.G." Wells ("Lying in bed with his new housekeeper") said: >That being said I've got 4th row tickets for John Williams and John >Etheridge at Orchestra Hall tonight, I used to go to Orchestra Hall quite often, since my aunt performed there regularly with the Apollo Chorus. And, once, in our (only slightly) less mature youth (mid-20s), my brother and I were in one of the front few rows, dressed up for a performance....when, looking at the program, I noted they were performing the classical piece "The Last Seven Words of Christ" (Haydn, IIRC)...and, just before the immediate-before-show-silence descended, I pointed out to my younger brother that those seven words must've been (counting out on my fingers) that classic bad punchline, "I can see my house from here!" He started cracking up, just as the conductor was tapping for attention. Glowers all around - from his girlfriend, other audience members, and...oops, from the stage, from our aunt. Michael Sweeney ...and further tying it together, that same brother was with me (and Wells, as it turns out) at that Roger Waters show (think he -- my brother; not Wells or Waters -- gave me bronchitis that night...) _________________________________________________________________ MSN is giving away a trip to Vegas to see Elton John. Enter to win today. http://msnconcertcontest.com?icid-nceltontagline ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:00:11 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Best/worst opening acts Well, that whole "first concert" thread sure had/has legs...So, in a similar vein (since it's late, I'm tippling, and not very likely to sleep for awhile - -- had an early meeting and returned home mid-afternoon a bit tired, so I took a "nap"...that ended up lasting 5 fricking hours), here's another live-performance memory-jogger for all the Fegs, great and small, aged and more sprightly: (Query isolated for ease of future clipping / re-posting; I'm nothing if not sem-self-referentially convenience-minded...) What are the best and / or worst opening acts you've encountered in your years of concert-going? For me, the worst were a shrill faux punk-ska (with horns!) outfit called the Bureau who opened for the Pretenders in '80 or '81. "We are NOT the supporting act," the "singer" sneered in his best attempted Rotten/Lydon. "We ARE the Bureau!" And we -- the audience -- were the not-very-entertained; we hoped that at least the horns would stick around for Chrissie's "Louie Louie" (which would make this '81, now that I think of it) and the other songs with horns on "Pretenders II," but...not even that slight consolation was available... Another bad one was Christopher Cross opening for Fleetwood Mac on the "Tusk" tour. We were making fun of his extra-wan 2nd single, "Sailing" after hearing it for the first time that night...until, of course, it became the radio hit of 1980 (that magical summer of freedom before me and my cohort went off to college)...leaving us desparately WISHING we'd only had to hear it that one time live... (There was also a jaw-droppingly bad "comic" -- floating racist and sexist jokes a'plenty -- who opened for Elvis C. once (maybe even on the night of the "Spinning Songbook" show I've mentioned before; maybe on another night of that 3-show stand (I saw 2); perhaps on a different tour ("Blood and Chocolate"?) altogether)...but, since that was pretty clearly a put-on set-up, I don't count it...) Best: The Alarm (might've been for the Pretenders on a different tour...or the Police -- sometime in the early '80s before I'd even heard them...really liked those first few records after that); Joe Ely (around the time of "Musta Notta Gotta Lotta," making the following Linda Ronstadt show (even with members of Little Feat in her band) seem like naptime in comparison (hey -- what can I say? she was covering EC back then); and, of course, Iggy with Lou ('bout '85 or '86, I think...oh, wait, or was that Iggy opening for the Pretenders around that same time? too many brain cells over the transom since then to be sure anymore)... ...Ah. more copy burned on the worst than the best, perhaps proving that the drive to mock is stronger than the drive to praise... Michael Sweeney Not even mentioning coming late to another Police show JUST to miss the Go-go's... np: Ovation Channel's "in Search of the Amber Room" (no, not a band / record you've not heard of...a fascinating documentary about the lost Russian art treasure; to paraphrase (or even to quote, if my Swiss-cheese memory is co-operating) Indiana Jones, "Nazis...I hate those guys!") _________________________________________________________________ The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=660600&bcd=EMAILFOOTERAVERAGE ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:17:20 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: some RH news MJ says: > Not sure what shows Frank Zappa was tapping, but I saw him in October of > 1980. That was a memorable show, as someone gave him a pink flamingo hat > that he later wore throughout the tour. speaking of weird hats: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL2510721720070425 or http://tinyurl.com/2gbq4h xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:24:39 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: 1% RH content (perhaps 0% rational factuality content, as well) ...OK -- so now it's 4 am and I'm still up (blame the too-long, post-meeting nap I mentioned earlier) and VH1 Classic is in their "Alternative" mode (showing "Hot Hot Hot" by the Cure now; I've seen Robyn stuff out here on this before) (oops - I wrote 0% in my subject...better change it to like 1%)... And, after viewing that Amber Room doc (as per last post), I found a doc on Rasputin, so...full Russian factoids mode on TV for me this late night... And I went scurrying for Rasputin info online after the show...and a few stray Wiki clickings led me to this -- the Wiki sentence of the night (and perhaps one for all time): "Depending on what you read, there were eight, twelve, fourteen, or even 18 different holy foreskins in various European towns during the Middle Ages." ...Well, after that, how could I NOT read on? Michael "'Relics' is not just a Pink Floyd album" Sweeney np - "Seether" video on vh1 classic...ooh! nice kitties! ps - here's another clue if you please, the seether's louise... pps - Into the Jam's "Absolute Beginners" vid...very cool! I think I actually have the pic sleeve 45 (with smokestack and rowhouse rooves (honorary Leppo spelling!)) from this somewhere, purchased at Wax Trax (famed Chicago record store; then label) when I was in college...also still remember their 45 divider caption there for "A Town Called Malice": "Mod boys go Motown!" _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates near historic lows. Refinance $200,000 loan for as low as $771/month* https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h27f8&disc=y&vers=689&s=4056&p=5117 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:15:50 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: First concerts Mark P. reminisced: >That was a Saturday evening jaunt over to lovely >downtown Passaic, NJ after one of those Rock-Ages >Record Conventions in Manhattan. Friends of mine were record dealers in the Baltimore area, and we set up at the Rock-Ages show in April of 1981. I was really excited about heading to NYC, spending an entire weekend record selling and shopping, smoking lots of hash, and that sort of thing, but it was too soon after Lennon was killed for me to really completely enjoy being New York. While there, I saw a poster of what was supposed to be test art for what eventually became the White Album and regretted for years not splurging to get it--I finally found one last year, from a UK poster seller who also had the only Soft Boys promo poster for the Anglepoise Lamp single that I've ever seen (Robyn mentioned that he didn't even have one when he signed it). One good thing about setting up at Rock-Ages was being able to check other dealers' stock and look around a bit before the show opened to the public. I hung out with Ray Manzarek from the Doors for a while and wound up spending more on records and posters than I earned that weekend. Pretty much a life-changing experience overall. Steve S. added: >My wife's first concert was The Beatles in Dallas, 1964. As much as I'd have liked to have been there, I couldn't make that one (9/18/1964)--I was 5 days old. Marc You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Frank Zappa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:08:42 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: gone shopping - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 25. April 2007 02:28:17 -0400 regarding Re: gone shopping: > Sebastian says: >> At first I didn't know what you mean, but I guess you mean the last >> episode before the mid-season hiatus? I don't know if that's why they're >> doing it, but that way they end up having two season "finales" per >> season ;-) > > that's probably it. netflix has the seasons numbered 1, 2.0, and 2.5. > i don't think 3 is out yet. season 2.0 had about 4+4+2 = 10 episodes > so that's about 0.5 of a regular season. It's not that simple with BSG, because the seasons have had variable lengths. Season 1 had 13 episodes, season 2 had 20, season 3 had 19. Anyway, I was right: Pegasus *was* the mid-season finale: > so i guess i am on the > mid-season hiatus now (which will last about an hour or two around > here since season 2.5 disc 1 is right by the dvd player.) Watching series "in real time", as they are shown on TV, and in such a compact way are two very different experiences. I find that each has their own advantages and disadvantages: you are more "in" the series when you watch all episodes in quick succession, but if you spread them out a little more they tend to stay with you longer - however, nothing sucks more than series with gaps of several weeks between episodes! [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:32:53 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts Michael Sweeney wrote: > > What are the best and / or worst opening acts you've encountered in your > years of concert-going? For best, I think it would have to be either of: * Casper & The Cookies, opening for the Apples in Stereo earlier this year. They are utter rockstars. * Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People, an avant-cabaret band of extreme skill and strange humour who opened for Of Montreal a couple of years back. For worst, I refer m'learned friends to my response given in Fegmaniax Digest, volume 10 number 388 of Monday, October 8 2001: >> now avoiding: Nicolai Dunger, support for Mercury Rev. He really sucked; >> imagine Tiny Tim crossed with Van Morrison singing Dylan. He ruined >> Syd's "Late Night" for me. He was so terrible, we didn't know where to >> look. Possibly even worse than Acacia, who supported Bjork (sorry about >> the accent, the digest would eat it) some time ago. Argh. At least >> Acacia were amusingly bad. Looking back on it, I think the lead "singer" for Acacia must've dropped acid or somesuch before coming on stage, because he basically mooned about the stage singing what and when he felt like. Their keyboard player refused to come on stage. Bjork's pianist gamely stepped in, and kept the thing as together as possible. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:52:53 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Best/worst opening acts Sometimes it's the mid act of a three act concert that's the one that sucks the worse. When I saw the Go-Betweens two years ago at The Abbey Pub in Chicago, the second act was The Double from NYC. They were terrible hackneyed imitators of Interpol. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:22:33 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: gone shopping > Watching series "in real time", as they are shown on TV, and in such a compact way are two very different experiences. Ain't that the truth. I watched Deadwood's season 1 finale and season 2 opening episode back-to-back courtesy of Netflix. Jarring, to say the least, but still enjoyable. Michael Sweeney > ...and further tying it together, that same brother was with me (and Wells, as it turns out) at that Roger Waters show (think he -- my brother; not Wells or Waters -- gave me bronchitis that night...) Probably was the atmosphere; I recall that the accumulated smoke was 8 or 10 feet thick on the ceiling that night *before* the show started. We were in the side balcony and you could see the cloud building downwards throughout the show. Wasn't that a terribly late start, or overlong intermission as well? ISTR the solo stuff was in the first set and the Floyd second, but it was worth the wait; when he did "Nobody Home" sitting in the ratty red chair, with the TV and lamp the only other things on stage...wow. Still one of my fave concert memories. Marc you saw this show too, right? Does this jive? Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:02:27 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: gone shopping Mr Wells wrote: >Ain't that the truth. I watched Deadwood's season 1 finale and season 2 opening episode back-to-back courtesy of Netflix. >Jarring, to say the least, but still enjoyable. Rented season 1 from my local Family Video, but never started season 2. Maybe one of these days. On a semi-related note, our company buys vision equipment from Southern Imaging outside of Dallas, and our contact there is Stephen Swearingen. I always kidded him and called him Al, as did some of his co-workers. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:25:12 -0400 From: "linnig@cox.net" Subject: Best/worst opening acts The worst for me was The Outfield, opening for Starship at the IL State Fair. I hated that band before the show but was dragged along by my "friends" since it was my idea to see the Del Fuegos open for INXS they day before. Anyway, this was Starships' "We built this city" tour with a very elaborate stage looking like a scene from Booging 2, Electric Boogaloo. It was a horrible experience compounded by our car breaking down near Leroy, IL. Stay far away from the IL State Fair. The best opening acts I saw were Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins opening for the Chili Peppers at Northern IL University. Close seconds include Ben Folds opening for Tori Amos and the Greenhornes opening for the White Stripes. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft. Windows. and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:14:33 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts >What are the best and / or worst opening acts you've encountered in your >years of concert-going? > Without question the worst was some Canuck outfit called The Forgotten Rebels who opened for Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson circa 1990. Christ, they sucked. (And yet they weren't bottled off the stage...) I don't have a problem with arrogant, pretentious rock bands if they actually have the goods to justify their attitude but these guys had a wealth of the former and none of the latter. I keep hoping I'll develop Alzheimer's just so I'll be able to forget what an awful performance that was. Hunter & Ronson, on the other hand, killed. And this wasn't one of Hunter's overloaded show bands with two keyboards and three dipshits doubling on guitar & horns, either - just a stripped-down quartet playing like their lives depended on it. I miss Mick Ronson. In a world full of overrated twiddlers like Joe Satriani, why did Ronson have to be the one to get cancer, that's what I'd like to know. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:16:28 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: 1% RH content (perhaps 0% rational factuality content, as well) >"Depending on what you read, there were eight, twelve, fourteen, or even 18 >different holy foreskins in various European towns during the Middle Ages." > Again, struggling to come up with obligatory Batman-style "Holy foreskins!" joke... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:16:29 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts On 4/26/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > > What are the best and / or worst opening acts you've encountered in your > years of concert-going? Worst, I've got two strong contenders. 1) some act from Detroit called The Radiators - I think this was in '84 or so at Madison. The singer thought he was Jim Morrison, the lead guitar player looked like Paul Simon after a very very bad drunk, and his guitar cord seemed to be leftover cord of the curly type that connects telephones to their bases...it was constantly coming undone, and we were all hoping he'd just give up and they'd go home. I can't remember the particular species of awful their music was - but it was more a matter of presentation. They had a manager or announcer or somebody who came on stage before them and smarmed on about were we ready to be rocked and referred to the band's followers (probably only girlfriends and moms and dads) as - I kid you not - "fanbelts." Absymal. 2) Not sure where they were from - probably local - but in Ann Arbor I saw a band called The Sewers of Paris. Let's see, how did that one go...oh yeah: we were sitting right in front of the bass player's parents, and said bass player chose that night (or maybe every) to get ridiculously drunk and strip down to his tighty-whities and basically thoroughly embarrass everyone. I felt too bad about it even to turn around and see what his parents were thinking... And their rhythm guitarist could not play - but despite that, was louder than everyone else on stage. Our theory was that she was, of course, the sound guy's girlfriend. Everything else about the act was pretty generic - I suspect that back then (this was a couple years before the above) I remembered more, but I've repressed all memory since then. It's harder to remember best opening act, mostly because I often don't remember who was an opening act, particularly for local shows, which when I was an active concert-goer were mostly what I went to. I have this vague memory of being roped into seeing Jane's Addiction before I'd really heard any of their music (would have stayed home if I had) and that whoever opened for them was vastly preferable...but I can't recall who that was. In some ways 'best opening act" is somewhat relative - and in that regard there's one show that stands out. I went to see Bright Eyes on the strength of their first EP (I hadn't heard any full lengths - nowadays, an EP's worth is about all I can stand). Oberst was clearly uninterested in being there; it was essentially like watching a very unproductive rehearsal: half-assed half-performances, five minutes' chat between every song trying to figure out what to do next - it was as if someone had phoned him up an hour before the show, saying, hey Conor, you remember there's a show tonight right? and he'd had to just grab random musicians or something. (That was not, in fact, the case). The opening act, though, was a band from Austin (I think) called the White Octave. I picked up their CD on the strength of this show (the CD was somewhat disappointing) but the show itself was pretty scorching. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:17:39 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts Best Openers: Cranes for the Cure (93?) Toronto Robyn Hitchcock for Bare Naked Ladies (his 40th Birthday) Buffalo,NY Frank Black for They Might Be Giants Buffalo, NY sugarcubes for PIL I need to think of the worst ones. Mike "Not Sweeney" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:20:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts >>> now avoiding: Nicolai Dunger The name kind of says it all. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:29:17 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: this is depressing >Which reminds me, anyone see the PBS American Experience program >about the Summer Of Love? >http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/ > >I was really looking forward to it, especially since I had a wall in >my house set aside for archival photos of Bay Area bands of the >time. But the documentary was actually kinda depressing - it seemed >to ultimately focus on the negative downside of the "hippie movement" >rather than its rather subtle long lasting effect on society. >Anyway, the wall is still blank - but the project proceeds. > Oh lordy it just now dawned on me this will be the 40th anniversary. Bet there's gonna be a lot of awful parties this summer. Thank the deity I was only 13 at the time and not in a position to embarrass myself too much...Reminds me of a newspaper cartoon in the summer of '89 showing two fat balding suburban daddies talking over the backyard fence saying "Wow, you were at Woodstock! I was at Woodstock too!" I thought it was funny, at the time. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:42:47 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Best/worst opening acts - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of m swedene Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:18 PM To: linnig@cox.net Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts Mike "Not Sweeney" wrote: >Best Openers: >Cranes for the Cure (93?) Toronto Weirdness, I had been listening to the Cranes "loved" album as I read your e-mail! MJ Bachman NP Cranes - loved ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:37:59 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Once again: misheard lyrics hi fegs, how about mishead lyrics you miss once you've corrected them in your head? magazine - "a song from under the floorboards" - until i read the printed lyrics, i thought it was: "i know beauty, and i know to think when i see it." but it turned out to be: "i know beauty, and i know a good thing when i see it." i think the misheard version better fits the spirit of the song. xo p.s. i think it was jeff 2fs who had once gave to feglist the best misheard lyric ever - "you're a water sign, i'm an asshole" (suede - not sure what song at the moment - "sleeping pills"?) - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:41:09 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Once again: misheard lyrics sorry, typo on the misheard version. misheard: "i know beauty, and i know what to think when i see it." actual: > "i know beauty, and i know a good thing when i see it." p.s. clearly, i always fall for that optical illusion / bad editor / brain teaser: PARIS IN THE THE SPRING - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:34:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Once again: misheard lyrics > PARIS > IN THE >THE SPRING > Nifty live set by PiiL... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:53:27 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Once again: misheard lyrics On 4/26/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > hi fegs, > > how about mishead lyrics you miss once you've corrected them in your head? > > > > p.s. i think it was jeff 2fs who had once gave to feglist the best > misheard lyric ever - "you're a water sign, i'm an asshole" (suede - > not sure what song at the moment - "sleeping pills"?) Indeed 'twas I. I think it is indeed "Sleeping Pills," too. My brain's dead right now - but I know I have some more of those. Maybe someone will kick up my memory here... Then there's everyone's preferred version of early R.E.M. lyrics...which I'm not sure count, because I'll argue there's no such thing as the definitive lyric, since Stipe's all but said that he'll regularly change them anyway. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:52:11 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts kevin wrote: >>>> now avoiding: Nicolai Dunger > The name kind of says it all. Nicolai sang backup on a couple of CDs I have (can't remember which ones), and he's much better in the studio. In fact, I've been strongly recommended his albums, but I can't get over the horrible, horrible live experience. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:13:34 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Reap Film lobbyist Jack Valenti dies at 85 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_en_mo/obit_valenti ...always thought he was a bit of a crank as the MPAA guy (with the Omerta-like stance on movie ratings and the raters)...but those whose opinions I respect are giving him props as an LBJ-era political guy... Michael "Rated 'IM' for 'Sadly Immature for His Age'" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Need a break? Find your escape route with Live Search Maps. http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?ss=Restaurants~Hotels~Amusement%20Park&cp=33.832922~-117.915659&style=r&lvl=13&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=1118863&encType=1&FORM=MGAC01 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #182 ********************************