From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #228 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 7 2007 Volume 16 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- official - PF Piper 40th re-issue [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: official - PF Piper 40th re-issue [2fs ] Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd [Tom Clark ] Your Last and Final Warning (which you may interpret as nagging) ["Stacke] Re: good band names ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Speaking of reunited bands... [Rex ] Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? [Rex ] Re: good band names [2fs ] Re: good band names [Benjamin Lukoff ] RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? [matt sewell ] Re: solstices [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: official - PF Piper 40th re-issue ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: Good and bad band names [Rex ] Re: solstices [Rex ] RE: official - PF Piper 40th re-issue ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Good and bad band names [kevin ] re: oh, anyone want to play [kevin ] RE: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" ["Bachman, Michael" <] Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s [kevin ] Re: Southern Cross [kevin ] Re: Speaking of reunited bands... [kevin ] Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s [kevin ] Re: good band names [kevin ] Re: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" ["Lauren Elizabeth" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:46:36 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: official - PF Piper 40th re-issue Tuesday 5th June: Floyd Lays Plans For Piper To mark the 40th anniversary of the original release of Pink Floyd's first album 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', a special edition is planned for release via EMI Records on Tues 28th August in North America, and Monday September 3rd in Europe. The packaging, designed by Storm Thorgerson, resembles a cloth-covered book, and holds 3 CD discs, along with a 12-page reproduction Syd Barrett notebook. Discs 1 and 2 will contain the full 'Piper' album, represented in both stereo and mono versions. Both have been newly remastered by James Guthrie. Disc 3 includes bonus tracks, including the following: all the Pink Floyd singles from 1967, ('Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play', and 'Apples And Oranges'), plus the B sides 'Candy And A Current Bun' and 'Paintbox'. Other tracks are a version of 'Interstellar Overdrive' - Take 2 of the original recording sessions, previously only available on an EP in France - and the 1967 stereo version of 'Apples And Oranges'. Other activities surrounding the 40th anniversary celebrations will be announced in due course. _http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/index.php_ (http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/index.php) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:24:08 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: official - PF Piper 40th re-issue On 6/6/07, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > Tuesday 5th June: Floyd Lays Plans For Piper > To mark the 40th anniversary of the original release of Pink Floyd's first > album 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', a special edition is planned for > release via EMI Records on Tues 28th August in North America, and Monday > September > 3rd in Europe. > The packaging, designed by Storm Thorgerson, resembles a cloth-covered > book, > and holds 3 CD discs, along with a 12-page reproduction Syd Barrett > notebook. > Discs 1 and 2 will contain the full 'Piper' album, represented in both > stereo and mono versions. Both have been newly remastered by James > Guthrie. Disc 3 > includes bonus tracks, including the following: all the Pink Floyd singles > from 1967, ('Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play', and 'Apples And Oranges'), > plus > the B sides 'Candy And A Current Bun' and 'Paintbox'. Somebody really hates "Point Me at the Sky" I see... Wasn't that the missing b-side? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:38:38 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd On Jun 6, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > There are other instances where I prefer the children much more than > the parents - the Band and the Beach Boys, for example. And I have > really, really tried with both, including systematically reexamining > both acts while in my 20s and my 30s. I haven't decided whether to > take a fourth shot at either in my just-entered 40s - more likely, > I'll claim the prerogatives of age and listen without guilt to ABC's > HOW TO BE A ZILLIONAIRE instead, since it's guaranteed I'll enjoy > that. Dude, "Lexicon of Love" was the first CD I ever purchased. I enjoy it to this ending-my-43rd-year day. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:44:44 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Your Last and Final Warning (which you may interpret as nagging) the veils begin their north american tour *tomorrow*, in the big apple. (where, "SECOND SHOW ADDED DUE TO HIGH TICKET SALES" -- that can't be bad, can it?) tapers to your marks!! . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:52:36 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: good band names Gene wrote: >The Fat Chick from Wilson Phillips ...How did I miss that one (among my other bizarre-band-names-with-celebs-in-them)? Great reminder... Michael Sweeney ...Altough "That Not-Quite-As-Fat Chick Who Used to Be in Wilson Phillips" would be kinda teh suck... _________________________________________________________________ Like puzzles? Play free games & earn great prizes. Play Clink now. http://club.live.com/clink.aspx?icid=clink_hotmailtextlink2 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:14:26 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Speaking of reunited bands... On 6/6/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > Wonder what D. Boon would be up > to these days? Preventing Stooges reunions? No, it's a good question. I assume he'd still be active on a scale somwhere between where Watt himself and, say, Sonic Youth are these days. Maybe the minutemen reunion would be on the same scale as Dinosaur's or MOB's: major news for the indoctrinated, basically of little note to the mainstream. But I really liked fIREHOSE, too, so... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:22:28 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? On 6/6/07, Miles Goosens wrote: > > > Coincidentally, MBV is *another* band that never took with me at all, > even after the Loud Family's boffo live cover of "When You Sleep" made > me do a late '90s second try. They're just a total snoozefest to me, > whereas I'm all about Kitchens of Distinction's big wash of shimmery > guitar. I don't think that one has come up before. Some of the other sacred cows on which you're "meh" I can totally understand... there was certainly an off-putting hipster vibe to lo-fi fandom-- but I'm surprised about this one, just a wee bit. While I can't rank MBV as a top-ten artist (due to the sparse output), "Loveless" itself is my favorite album ever. Like for real. The competition for the number two spot is a logjam, but that's the tops. - -Rex, admittedly unable to guess how I'd feel if I heard it for the first time today, after it's been recycled to death, but... later, > > Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:34:39 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: PF official website:no Robyn mentioned @ Syd trib <> >>The Dead Kenny G's<< that one made me laugh. been seeing posters around town for a band called "we wrote the book on connectors". cool, but not great. a friendly reminder: thanks to the miracle of mp3-tagging, the *listener* is now fully in control of his or her music collection. any band that thinks it knows better than its listeners how to spell its name (or its songs' or albums' names) can go fuck off. heh, well if *that's* the criteria, summer generally begins in seattle on the fifth of july. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:34:39 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: good band names On 6/5/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" Far easier is "band names that are awful, but you don't notice it after a while", top of which list is U2, always and forever. I find it a lot easier to rate great album titles than band names. Band names you kind of absorb once, reject or accept, and move on to the content, the name having lost any literal meaning other than "the guys that sound like this". In that sense, the names that go for teh funny almost always end up being more of an obstacle than an asset... I just heard The Windbreakers for the first time this year. Good band. Quite possibly a very good band. But... you know.... The Windbreakers? A little Dr. Demento, isn't it? Another terrible band name was my '90's band There Goes Bill, but what's really astonishing about it is that there is now a completely unrelated band also named There Goes Bill. This I know thanks to msypace. - -Rex - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:14:01 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: good band names On 6/6/07, Rex wrote: > > On 6/5/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" > > > Far easier is "band names that are awful, but you don't notice it after a > while", top of which list is U2, always and forever. Second from top. After a little act from Liverpool, called "The Beatles." C'mon: even if you're not Stewart, you have to acknowledge that that name is a pinnacle of suckitude, even by the standards of the early '60s. I mean, what's an equivalent contemporary name? I Am The Lolrus? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:19:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: good band names On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, 2fs wrote: > On 6/6/07, Rex wrote: > > > > On 6/5/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > > > oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" > > > > Far easier is "band names that are awful, but you don't notice it after a > > while", top of which list is U2, always and forever. > > Second from top. After a little act from Liverpool, called "The Beatles." > C'mon: even if you're not Stewart, you have to acknowledge that that name is > a pinnacle of suckitude, even by the standards of the early '60s. That name is so bad it's the best one ever. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:02:46 +0100 From: matt sewell Subject: RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? You'd have to catch him first - we know all about his running..! If I was in LA right now I would want to see the Watts Towers. Cheers Matt > From: tclark@mac.com> Subject: Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do?> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:11:51 -0700> To: fegmaniax@smoe.org> > On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Stewart Russell wrote:> > > Looks like I'm stuck in downtown Los Angeles for the next couple of> > evenings. What would fegs recommend doing?> > Play folk music with Rex? Then you two could go find Eb and beat the > shit out him.> > -tc _________________________________________________________________ Celeb spotting  Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes https://www.celebmashup.com/index2.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:06:47 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Yet more Piper thorts Thanks for the link, HwyCDRrev@aol.com. I went back to the BBC item (which did mention Robyn, unlike the item you forwarded), and found this link to Joe Boyd's memories: It confirms that Boyd had already written off Syd as 'totally altered' in June, well before Piper came out. Odd really, because the show at the Saville on 1st October was really pretty good - not in the 'Games for May' league, but Syd was still functioning in a way he wasn't at the last show I ever saw him at (Olympia 22nd December). You can still get hold of BBC recordings from this period which show the band working well. Of course the traumatic American and British tours had intervened and finished his performing career by December. Someone on the Fireparty claimed that the American edition of Piper was drastically different from the UK version, with 'See Emily Play' added and two or three other tracks deleted. Is that correct? It might explain why Piper gets much lower appreciation ratings in the US than the UK. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:25:18 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Good and bad band names Alien Sex Fiend This Mortal Coil Three the Hard Way Superjesus The Tall Dwarfs Screaming Trees Dark Tower Renegade Soundwave Public Image Ltd. Primal Scream Ned's Atomic Dustbin The Monochrome Set Lifesize Playdoh Monsters The Headless Chickens Foo Fighters (dare I say it?) Electric Light Orchestra Curve The Cruel Sea Cabaret Voltaire The Chameleons The Buzzcocks The Boomtown Rats Worst names? Possibly one of: Dr. Kevorkian and the Suicide Machine The Julie Dophin The The The Peter Stuyvesant Hit-list The Hope Blister Gardening Angels Dribbling Darts of Love Dog Trumpet Dating Godot Critters Buggin' The Boo Radleys Blodwyn Pig A friend of mine refused to listen to anything by the Meat Puppets, simply because of their name... James (should I have added The Exploding Budgies to both lists?) - -- 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: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 06:48:07 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd > Dude, "Lexicon of Love" was the first CD I ever purchased. I enjoy > it to this ending-my-43rd-year day. > > -tc Happy Birthday, Tom Clark! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:38:05 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: solstices >weeks from now), when those stars become visible just before dawn in the >eastern sky.> > >so your solstice marks the *middle* of the season? i always thought that >would make more sense than it marking the beginning of the season, as it >does here. Well, June 1st is the traditional of Winter - the solstice is traditionally referred to as midwinter, even though if you wanted to be precise it would be around St. Swithin's (July 15). But Samhain was on May 1st, and Imbolc is on August 1st, so yes, it is very close to the midpoint of the two. (If you want to be even more pedantic, you could read "Haratua" for "Samhain" and "Pakawera" for "Imbolc", but my ancestry is Celtic, not Maori). > > > > > > > > > >james, i think you may need to check yourself in to a netspeak support >group. well, four of those aren't netspeak - one is Michael's initials (saves me frfom accidentally mis-spelling a name, which is possible, since I know a family of Barkmans), and three of them are how the words are actually said - 2 x "Enzed" plus "Ozzz" - and have been for long long before there were any of these internets. In any case, a far more certain sign that someone is succumbing to overuse of the 'net is an inability to find the shift key :) - -- 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: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:47:49 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: official - PF Piper 40th re-issue Wasn't it also remastered and re-released for the 30th anniversary? As the singles tracks were also released around then, this isn't actually very much to be overwhelmed about. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:25:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: good band names On 6/6/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 6/6/07, Rex wrote: > > > > On 6/5/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > > > oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" > > > > > > Far easier is "band names that are awful, but you don't notice it after > > a > > while", top of which list is U2, always and forever. > > > > Second from top. After a little act from Liverpool, called "The Beatles." > > C'mon: even if you're not Stewart, you have to acknowledge that that name > is a pinnacle of suckitude, even by the standards of the early '60s. The Silver Beatles was worse, though. I mean, what's an equivalent contemporary name? I Am The Lolrus? Eeek-- is that a band? At least it doesn't have errant punctuation, I guess. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:27:32 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Good and bad band names On 6/7/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > A friend of mine refused to listen to anything by the Meat Puppets, > simply because of their name... I felt the same way, for unknown reasons, about Built to Spill. Dunno what my revulsion was based on... possibly near-cellular. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:30:23 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: solstices On 6/7/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote:\ > > > well, four of those aren't netspeak - one is Michael's initials > (saves me frfom accidentally mis-spelling a name, which is possible, > since I know a family of Barkmans), and three of them are how the > words are actually said - 2 x "Enzed" plus "Ozzz" - and have been for > long long before there were any of these internets. In any case, a > far more certain sign that someone is succumbing to overuse of the > 'net is an inability to find the shift key :) Oooooh. It's on. James vs. Eddie. Frankie say flame war. Hide yourself. - -Rex, sooo just kidding ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:33:33 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: official - PF Piper 40th re-issue - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Stewart Russell Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:48 AM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: official - PF Piper 40th re-issue Stewart wrote: >Wasn't it also remastered and re-released for the 30th anniversary? As the singles tracks were also released around then, >this isn't actually very much to be overwhelmed about. It was remastered along with others from PF's back catalog, not sure of the date though. Someone borrowed my remastered copy and never returned it, so I'll get the 40th re-issue. It would have been nice if "Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man" were included. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:30:40 -0400 From: "David Stovall" Subject: re: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" Not sure if this would have gone through te first time - I semi-mistakenly sent from my GMail account, and then thought, 'oh, fegmaniax probably won't let that address submit to the list,' so I just added the correct addy to my GMail account as another valid 'send as' entry. Anyway,... >oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" The Fugs Rheostatics (just love the allusion to a rheostat - a variable resistor - as highly appropriate to musician gear) Tool (wouldn't have been nearly as good if the name had been used earlier; finding such a short, simple name rife with connotation gets harder all the time) The Melvins Boiled in Lead Half Man Half Biscuit Brand X Crazy Backwards Alphabet Residents Stormtroopers of Death Volcano Suns Meat Puppets The Men They Couldn't Hang Bauhaus Bongwater (David Thomas and) The Pedestrians Talking Heads Can A lot of names that stand out in my mind run towards the humorous or hyperbolic,... Pianosaurus Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Hell Toupee Guided by Voices Howard Be Thy Name (Fred Frith's) Keep the Dog The Freaking Bigs (Chris Stamey and,... I think. It was a one-off band that appeared on one of the "lyrics by Ernie Brookings" Duplex Plant albums,...) Luther Wright & the Wrongs (helluva Canadian country band infamous for their very sharp re-working of Pink Floyd's The Wall) The Negro Problem (never heard a note by 'em, but you can't deny the name) Lothar and the Hand People Best band names that exist either only in my mind, or that I've actually used when playing out with friends. Turtles All the Way Down Screaming Scream (I think this came from some website band name generator) Ted Koppel and the Rat Bastards Yodas 'n Shit Somebody mentioned Gutterball - they were also a spin-off of House ofFreaks and, yeah, they did some cool stuff. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:42:51 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: PF official website:no Robyn mentioned @ Syd trib >heh, well if *that's* the criteria, summer generally begins in eattle on >the fifth of july. Doesn't that depend on whether or not it rains on the 4th? Seems to me if it doesn't then summer (all six weeks of it) won't start till August... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:44:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? >Subject: RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? > >You'd have to catch him first - we know all about his running..! >If I was in LA right now I would want to see the Watts Towers. Barbecue in Griffith Park? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:44:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: good band names I've only been skimming this thread and can no longer remember which names have already been mentioned. One band name that I always found more amusing than it probably deserved was Branch Manager. Other good ones: The Dead Kennedys, leading inevitably to ... The Dead Milkmen Neo Pseudo Sheep on Drugs Nashville Pussy Feckless Beast Uz Jsme Doma, of course On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...And, of course, imaginary: Dingoes Ate My Baby! The New Originals (from This Is Spinal Tap) The Marshall Fucker Band (possible name considered by Come) And I'd like to mention a flier seen in the background in one issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: CRAPPY playing with SHITTY at the Tiny Smoky Stinky Club Band name I thought of the other day: You're the Reason Our Bees Are Dying That should probably go on the bad names list, but I'll leave it to my readers to decide. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:55:26 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Good and bad band names >Subject: Re: Good and bad band names > >Alien Sex Fiend >This Mortal Coil >Three the Hard Way >Superjesus >The Tall Dwarfs (That would look great on a bill with Toiling Midgets) >Screaming Trees >Dark Tower >Renegade Soundwave >Public Image Ltd. >Primal Scream >Ned's Atomic Dustbin >The Monochrome Set >Lifesize Playdoh Monsters >The Headless Chickens >Foo Fighters >(dare I say it?) Electric Light Orchestra >Curve >The Cruel Sea >Cabaret Voltaire >The Chameleons >The Buzzcocks >The Boomtown Rats Not to mention The Modern Lovers - - or The Recess Monkeys from SCTV (all I remember is John Candy on drums but not who else they were - probably Rick Moranis and...?) >Worst names? Possibly one of: >Dr. Kevorkian and the Suicide Machine >The Julie Dophin >The The >The Peter Stuyvesant Hit-list >The Hope Blister >Gardening Angels >Dribbling Darts of Love >Dog Trumpet >Dating Godot >Critters Buggin' >The Boo Radleys >Blodwyn Pig Love (great band, stupid name) & probably Iron Butterfly shuld be on both lists too... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:58:27 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: re: oh, anyone want to play >The Negro Problem (never heard a note by 'em, but you can't deny the name) I always thought Space Negros was a great name too. I think they were from DC (?). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:13:19 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" Some more to consider: Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet Man or Astroman? And You Will Know us By the Trail Of Our Dead Au Pairs - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of David Stovall Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:31 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: re: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" Not sure if this would have gone through te first time - I semi-mistakenly sent from my GMail account, and then thought, 'oh, fegmaniax probably won't let that address submit to the list,' so I just added the correct addy to my GMail account as another valid 'send as' entry. Anyway,... >oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" The Fugs Rheostatics (just love the allusion to a rheostat - a variable resistor - - as highly appropriate to musician gear) Tool (wouldn't have been nearly as good if the name had been used earlier; finding such a short, simple name rife with connotation gets harder all the time) The Melvins Boiled in Lead Half Man Half Biscuit Brand X Crazy Backwards Alphabet Residents Stormtroopers of Death Volcano Suns Meat Puppets The Men They Couldn't Hang Bauhaus Bongwater (David Thomas and) The Pedestrians Talking Heads Can A lot of names that stand out in my mind run towards the humorous or hyperbolic,... Pianosaurus Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Hell Toupee Guided by Voices Howard Be Thy Name (Fred Frith's) Keep the Dog The Freaking Bigs (Chris Stamey and,... I think. It was a one-off band that appeared on one of the "lyrics by Ernie Brookings" Duplex Plant albums,...) Luther Wright & the Wrongs (helluva Canadian country band infamous for their very sharp re-working of Pink Floyd's The Wall) The Negro Problem (never heard a note by 'em, but you can't deny the name) Lothar and the Hand People Best band names that exist either only in my mind, or that I've actually used when playing out with friends. Turtles All the Way Down Screaming Scream (I think this came from some website band name generator) Ted Koppel and the Rat Bastards Yodas 'n Shit Somebody mentioned Gutterball - they were also a spin-off of House ofFreaks and, yeah, they did some cool stuff. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:20:16 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s >the big bear and the little bear >(or to use their proper names, Ursa Major - of which the Big Dipper >or Plough is a part - and Ursa Minor, which contains the north star, >Polaris). Or Ursula Major and Ursula Minor, as they appear in the densely pun-packed cover art to Zappa's One Size Fits All. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:26:28 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Southern Cross >semi-random squirrels-and-pigeons-a-go-go back home in Cheecawgo... Which my brain translated into "spleens a-go-go" & almost caused a soy latte spit-take of spontaneous laughter... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:39:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Speaking of reunited bands... >Note: really dumb "sexual" names include: Whorgasm How 'bout Raging Whore Moans? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:42:51 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s >don't be silly. You can't have flightless birds in a fruit salad. Sounds like a great album title though. Reminiscent of Larks' Tongues In Aspic. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:44:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: good band names > CRAPPY > playing with > SHITTY > at the Tiny Smoky Stinky Club I was at that show! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:20:28 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" David Stovall says: > Tool (wouldn't have been nearly as good if the name had been used > earlier; finding such a short, simple name rife with connotation gets > harder all the time) i like short and to the point names, and, really, the weird stories my coworkers told me about maynard should have no bearing... so aside from pulp, i'll put in: wire magazine (actually bought "secondhand daylight" only because i liked the band's name) tool and rex made a point about band names being sort of file and forget, but i disagree, since just the other day, i put on "this is hardcore" and for the n ^ nth time, thought, "pulp is such a good name for this band." but granted i'm not all that creative and am perfectly content to recycle prior thoughts. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #228 ********************************