From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #237 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 14 2007 Volume 16 : Number 237 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: same thing but chicago [Rex ] Re: Agh ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: same thing but chicago ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Agh [Benjamin Lukoff ] You must be at least this tall to ride "Eb" ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Chicago Record Stores ["Michael Sweeney" ] Catching Up [Tom Clark ] Re: Catching Up [Sebastian Hagedorn ] re: Robyn in Utrecht [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 [Jonathan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mor=E9n?= ] Re: You must be at least this tall to ride "Eb" [Steve Schiavo ] RE: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 ["Michael Wells" ] Re: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 [Rex ] RE: reap ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Agh [2fs ] RE: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Chicago Record Stores [kevin ] Re: Agh [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Chicago Record Stores [djini@voicenet.com] it's 1985 again and we are piggy in the middle ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Agh ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Chicago Record Stores [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Agh [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:57:53 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: same thing but chicago On 6/13/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > NEARLY EVERYONE (incl. me, of course) said: > > >Chicago pizza stuff...back-and-forth...blah, blah, blah...yadda-cubed... > > Can't imagine -- among the Lou Malnati, Home Run Inn, etc. stuff -- why I > did not chime in with this before (and it'll mean nothing to > non-Chicagoans > (AND still yet additionally nothing to most of my now-(25-plus yrs, and > counting)-fellow-Northsiders)) Stand back everybody... I'm not sure how many of those parentheses he has left, but we shouldn't take any chances. - -(Rx) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:16:09 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Agh On 6/12/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: >what do you do when your favourite band releases a shitty album? Let's see...: Macca -- "Red Rose Speedway"..."Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)" ? WTFFFFFFFFF??? (wait...I forgot "Wild Life" -- hey, I was just a kid...) Elton John -- whatever disco-ey crap came after the sublimely ignored "Blue Moves" John Lennon -- "Double Fantasy" (aw, took years to admit...SO hard to overcome the just-plain-happiness that he released ANYTHING (although "Beautiful Boy" and (to a lesser degree) "(Just Like) Starting Over" still work for me)) The Clash -- "Cut the Crap" The Pretenders -- again, whatever it was that came out long after Jimmy and Pete were long dead and Martin got fired and Chrissie decided that rocky, yet hooky hit singles just did not matter anymore (must've been about 1988...maybe '89?...probably "Packed" from 1990...) Prince -- "Come" (oh wait..."Graffiti Bridge"? "Diamonds and Pearls"? Much like Danny Glover, "I'm gettin' too old" to exactly recall what sucked worse, first, after the stream of brilliance that preceded it...) Robyn -- "Luxor" (STILL trying...cuz I LUV those other "green" solo-ey recs ("IODOT;" "Eye") ...So, yeah -- it occurs to me that I may have FAR TOO FRICKIN'/FRACKIN' MUCH experience at dealing with this question... Michael Sweeney ...and, BTW, STILL have not heard "Sky Blue Sky" (damned A) mail; B) Semi-sister-in-law; and C) Vacation timing)...but that'd only be a close call even if I ended up hating it at this point... _________________________________________________________________ Get a preview of Live Earth, the hottest event this summer - only on MSN http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthhm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:23:09 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: same thing but chicago Rex wrote: >On 6/13/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: >> >>NEARLY EVERYONE (incl. me, of course) said: >> >> >Chicago pizza stuff...back-and-forth...blah, blah, blah...yadda-cubed... >> >>Can't imagine -- among the Lou Malnati, Home Run Inn, etc. stuff -- why I >>did not chime in with this before (and it'll mean nothing to >>non-Chicagoans >>(AND still yet additionally nothing to most of my now-(25-plus yrs, and >>counting)-fellow-Northsiders)) > >Stand back everybody... I'm not sure how many of those parentheses he has >left, but we shouldn't take any chances. ...Oh, I've got 'em...and I know how to use 'em!!! (most of the time, anyway...) ;--> M(ichael) S(weeney) _________________________________________________________________ Play games, earn tickets, get cool prizes. Play nowit's FREE! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink1 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:43:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Agh On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Michael Sweeney wrote: > On 6/12/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > >what do you do when your favourite band releases a shitty album? > > Let's see...: > > Macca -- "Red Rose Speedway"..."Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)" ? > WTFFFFFFFFF??? (wait...I forgot "Wild Life" -- hey, I was just a kid...) I do love "Some People Never Know," though... > The Clash -- "Cut the Crap" Does this even count as a real Clash album? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:09:07 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: You must be at least this tall to ride "Eb" still haven't figured out "FTW"; and, i've looked up "WOOT" *at least* three times -- now i've given up even trying to remember what it stands for. i think you'd really like the veils, natalie jane! also, the new joseph arthur (*Let's Just Be*) is very good. i think it'd have been fine if it'd disappointed me in the same *manner* as did *Twin Cinema*. that is to say, recognizably a new pornographers record (if not exactly what i was expecting): the soaring vocals, the searing guitars, the witty wordplay, the wildly entertaining drumming, the gorgeous harmonies -- in short, the very apotheosis of the genre "balls-out rock". all the elements were in place; so it was just a matter of growing into the recording. but this new one is...it's...if somebody'd played it for me, and then said, "that was the new peter, paul, and mary record," i'd have sooner believed my ears than if they'd said, "that was the new new pornographers record." i dunno. maybe it's not even "shitty"...for a peter, paul, and mary record (though it's by no means a great peter, paul, and mary record). but there's no new pornography in there. none to speak of, at any rate. well, at least neko'll be touring with them in the autumn. i listened again late wednesday. it's still shit. not to say i won't keep trying; but i won't be holding my breath. i think i already have. but, contrary to your instructions, it's the decemberists. well, certainly robyn h. was my favourite artist throughout the entirety fin de siecle decade and into the new millennium. so, yeah, i was speaking particularly of a band, not a solo artist. but your mileage may vary. actually, they were more less co-faves in the late-'80s and very-early-'90s; with the egyptians grabbing the belt outright upon the release of *Respect*. hmm...now that i think about it, i guess i had a similar reaction to queensryche as to the new pornos: fist album = very good, but not quite great; second album = so good i didn't think it could be topped; third album = my favourite record of its decade. and now i'm kind of wishing that the new pornos had pulled a sugar and released as their fourth album a collection of outtakes, live tracks, and cetera; and called it a day. retiring undefeated, as it were, as the undisputed champeens of the genre "balls-out rock". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:17:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Agh Michael Sweeney wrote: > John Lennon -- "Double Fantasy" (aw, took years to admit...SO hard > to overcome the just-plain-happiness that he released ANYTHING > (although "Beautiful Boy" and (to a lesser degree) "(Just Like) > Starting Over" still work for me)) "Beautiful Boy"? I may hate that song more than any other song written by someone talented. Pure saccharine. > The Pretenders -- again, whatever it was that came out long after > Jimmy and Pete were long dead and Martin got fired and Chrissie > decided that rocky, yet hooky hit singles just did not matter > anymore (must've been about 1988...maybe '89?...probably "Packed" > from 1990...) Get Close, 1986. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:19:36 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Chicago Record Stores Dolph recorded: >2nd Hand Tunes ... Reckless Records ... Vintage Vinyl (Evanston) ... etc. ...All fine enuf choices, but far too many of my old faves -- Wax Trax, Round Records (upstairs, just north of the Loyola El stop!), Rose, the old (pre-dance-heavy) Grammophone, one back in the So. suburbs (in Homewood; might've been Strawberry's; more likely something with Vintage/Vinyl/Records/Disks/Stash/Closet in the name) -- have died and gone to the still-fondly-recalled halcyon field of my cerebral cortex...so long ago, so many changes. Sigh...real, but...doesn't mean I gotta like it... Michael Sweeney ...Aw, no doubt you all have yer own remembered faves wherever you are/were...it's just that my city got mentioned first... _________________________________________________________________ Dont miss your chance to WIN $10,000 and other great prizes from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0540003042mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:00:43 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Catching Up I'm in San Francisco all week waiting for Sebastian and Steve Talkowski to join me at WWDC... On Jun 13, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > i am a little slow sometimes...i thought it was a sort of zippy-ish > non sequitur that i construed as meaning that cowboys used to be > tougher and more skilled at keeping their sheep in a herd. > I have always loved Zippy. If you haven't already, sign up for the Zippy emails: http://www.zippythepinhead.com/ On Jun 12, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > (Shakes head slowly in abject pity of the abused, trod-upon figure > of a man that is Tom Clark...) Yeah, I just want to go on record as saying I really like Peter Buck. I realize it's all been a big 24 year misunderstanding and I'm sorry. He's a great guy and I've just been making too much out of my own insecurities. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:25:18 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Catching Up - --On 14. Juni 2007 01:00:43 -0700 Tom Clark wrote: > I'm in San Francisco all week waiting for Sebastian and Steve Talkowski > to join me at WWDC... I'd love to, but we (Cologne University) have too few Macs to justify that. A friend of mine has been there twice, though. He's a developer for a streaming media company here in Cologne. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:33:47 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: re: Robyn in Utrecht - --On 13. Juni 2007 14:52:08 -0500 Michael Wells wrote: > Sebastian: >> Well, maybe next time :-) This way I still have to meet my first > proper Feg in person. > > What's a "proper" Feg, anyway? Good point. > I think it's kind of like your cuisine > question: > > "What's , anyway? I think it's the same with all so-called > : you don't really get a representative selection. > from the northern regions of couldn't be more different > from e.g. > Bavarian ." Probably true. I used that word after some consideration, because I *did* meet a Feg of sorts in Utrecht. Her name is Sabine. I'm not sure if she is currently subscribed and if my count is correct she has posted to the list a great total of one times. So in that (and only in that) respect I don't think of her as "proper". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:31:51 +0200 From: Jonathan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mor=E9n?= Subject: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 Hello, friends and not-yet-friends! Four or so years since I left the list, I'm just sneaking in quickly to hand you a setlist from yesterday's show at Debaser Slussen, Stockholm. Nice gig, though partly marred by inferior sound quality. Lots of feedback and RH:s voice often drowned in the mix. Apparently his vocals were barely audible in the monitor, which made the whole group a bit frustrated. Setlist: RH solo: 1. I often dream of trains Enter band: 2. Vibrating ("a song about the origin of pleasure") 3. "The intro to the song we're not going to play" (instrumental, a couple of bars while Scott got out to fetch something) 4. The Underneath ("written the day after Lady Di got shot") 5. If you were a priest 6. N.Y. Doll 7. Saturday groovers (Is this a new tune? Very stompy thing about people refusing to realise they're growing old.) 8. The Afterlight 9. A song I didn't recognize, beginning with something like "There's a thin line between being well and being ill". The phrase "Take it away, Take it away" constituted some kind of chorus. 10. Balloon man (introduced with a long monologue about snakes eating goats, and goats eating snakes) 11. Another one I didn't recognize, with a chorus that went: "It doesn't matter what you was, It's what you is and what you is is what you are". Apparently they hadn't planned to play it at first. Robyn said: "This is an extra song, instead of having a cigarette". 12. Somewhere apart 13. Brenda's iron sledge 14. The Authority Box 15. Jewels for Sophia ("Some people say Candle in the wind is the most beautiful song ever written. This one runs a truck across Candle in the wind and snaps its fucking neck") 16. 40,000 headmen (After some conversation, with audience and with Scott, about God being everywhere, and everywhere thus being God, and that this thing-that-is-everywhere might just as well be called "traffic", though not Steve Winwood's Traffic, Robyn suddenly starts playing this old Traffic song. At first it seems he's planning to play just the first verse, but then he continues and the rest of the band follows, playing the entire song. Wonderful!) 17. A man's gotta know his limitations, Briggs Encore: RH solo: 18. Raining twilight coast Enter band: 19. City of shame (audience request) 20. Adventure rocket ship 21.Kingdom of love ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:58:19 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: RE: same thing but chicago At 11:34 PM 6/13/2007, Michael Sweeney wrote: >...Damn -- NOW I want Aurelio's Oh, I knows me some Aurelio's. My fiancee's family is far enough south to be in the delivery area. I am having a thin-crust "Super Six" tomorrow night. I omitted mentioning it because it'll be too tough for JBJ to get during his trip, as it is a south-suburbs-only thing. The heartbreak would be too much to bear. - -- Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:35:55 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: You must be at least this tall to ride "Eb" On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:09 AM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > i dunno. maybe it's not even "shitty"...for a peter, paul, and > mary record > (though it's by no means a great peter, paul, and mary record). but > there's no new pornography in there. none to speak of, at any rate. This sounds like my reaction the first time I heard Skylarking. - - Steve _______________ Interconnectedness among living beings can be accounted for by nonlocal quantum entanglement. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:45:16 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Ralph's Freshly Wrapped Candies > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:56:46 -0500 > From: 2fs Sounds like a store from a Harry Potter book, "Ralph's Freshly Wrapped Candies." > > Curiously, I have this recording - on CD, though. Haven't listened > to it for > ages. And of course you can't listen to a CD at different speeds - > but you > can, now, rip it and listen to it at different speeds if you have > sound-editing software. I had the CD, too. I thought it was rather tame for Ralph. I ended up selling it on eBay to Paul Lemos, of all people (he of Controlled Bleeding fame). > It was from a time when I was buying everything Ralph Records was > releasing > - - rather toward the end of that time, I believe. I have a pile of Ralph LPs that I haven't played in nearly 20 years. I wonder what Snakefinger LPs are worth nowadays? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:07:27 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: reap Kurt "I vaz not a nazi" Waldheim, 88 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614/ap_on_re_eu/obit_waldheim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:30:57 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 Jonathan: > Four or so years since I left the list Nice writeup! > 1. I often dream of trains Lucky this wasn't "Trams" or Godwin would be *pissed*. > 13. Brenda's iron sledge > 16. 40,000 headmen > 18. Raining twilight coast Is it my imagination, or are the setlists getting more interesting towards what is (presumably) the end of this little run? "Raining Twilight Coast?" Are you fucking kidding me? How's the pizza in Utrecht, anyway? Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:37:51 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Catching Up On 6/14/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > > Yeah, I just want to go on record as saying I really like Peter > Buck. I realize it's all been a big 24 year misunderstanding and I'm > sorry. He's a great guy and I've just been making too much out of my > own insecurities. But it has provided us with years of the funnies, so you needn't be so (much) hard(er) on yourself. More succinctly, FYTC. - -Rex "Don't Worry Sweeney, Mommy's Looking for Her Parentheses in the Snow" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:43:28 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 On 6/14/07, Michael Wells wrote: > > > > 13. Brenda's iron sledge > > 16. 40,000 headmen > > 18. Raining twilight coast > > Is it my imagination, or are the setlists getting more interesting > towards what is (presumably) the end of this little run? "Raining > Twilight Coast?" Are you fucking kidding me? Srsly! I don't think I've ever heard that one live. Classic. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:47:23 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: reap I wonder if Lou will change his lyrics now on "Common Ground"? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Wells Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:07 AM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: reap Kurt "I vaz not a nazi" Waldheim, 88 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614/ap_on_re_eu/obit_waldheim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:20:02 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Agh On 6/14/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > > > The Clash -- "Cut the Crap" > > Does this even count as a real Clash album? No. Anymore than that Yule Brothers CD should count as a VU album. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:21:25 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:43 AM To: Michael Wells Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: RH & TV3, Stockholm, June 13 On 6/14/07, Michael Wells wrote: > > > >> 13. Brenda's iron sledge > >> 16. 40,000 headmen > >> 18. Raining twilight coast > >> Is it my imagination, or are the setlists getting more interesting >> towards what is (presumably) the end of this little run? "Raining >> Twilight Coast?" Are you fucking kidding me? Rex: >Srsly! I don't think I've ever heard that one live. Classic. I love RTC! What's next? "Do Policemen Sing" or the one or two other ones from BSDR that he has yet to play live? MJ Bachman NP Wayne Shorter - Juju ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:23:45 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: You must be at least this tall to ride "Eb" On 6/14/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > Raymond FTW,> > > still haven't figured out "FTW"; and, i've looked up "WOOT" *at least* > three times -- now i've given up even trying to remember what it stands > for. I don't think it "stands for" anything - it's an exclamation. If it stand for anything, it's in the mode of a "backronym": after-the-fact figurings-out of what it should stand for. Like "Extremely Bitchy," say. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:50:18 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: You must be at least this tall to ride "Eb" On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:23 AM, 2fs wrote: > On 6/14/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: >> >> > >> Raymond FTW,> >> >> still haven't figured out "FTW"; and, i've looked up "WOOT" *at >> least* >> three times -- now i've given up even trying to remember what it >> stands >> for. > I don't think it "stands for" anything - it's an exclamation. If it > stand > for anything, it's in the mode of a "backronym": after-the-fact > figurings-out of what it should stand for. > > Like "Extremely Bitchy," say. Jeff for the win! - -tc, you're welcome ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:52:34 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Chicago Record Stores >Michael Sweeney >...Aw, no doubt you all have yer own remembered faves wherever you >are/were... Campus Music on U Way, who celebrated the arrival of the "God Save the Queen" 7-inch by parking a pair of speakers out on the sidewalk and playing it loud enough to be audible two blocks away until they blew up a speaker, then did the same thing when Bowie's "Heroes" 7-inch showed up - they didn't lose any speakers that time so they kept playing it till the cops showed up and made them turn it off. R.I.P. np Game Theory: Distortion Of Glory ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:02:53 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Chicago Record Stores >You guys do all know the one that ends with "that's the sherriff's girl", >right? I'm still trying to remember the one that ends "an Arab with a large left nostril," which I recall as monstrously vile only there's nothing left of it in long-term storage but a baffling punchline. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:13:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Agh On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, 2fs wrote: > On 6/14/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > > > > > > > The Clash -- "Cut the Crap" > > > > Does this even count as a real Clash album? > > No. > > Anymore than that Yule Brothers CD should count as a VU album. What really pushes it over the edge is the inclusion of a song called "We Are the Clash." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:35:51 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Chicago Record Stores Lauren wrote: >> > oh, i also remember the store because i saw this album that was >> > titled, i believe, "when men were men and sheep were scared" and to >> > this day that phrase pops into my head probably once or twice a month. >> >> That's an old hillbilly / redneck / >> whoever-you-want-to-accuse-of-bestiality joke. > > i am a little slow sometimes...i thought it was a sort of zippy-ish > non sequitur that i construed as meaning that cowboys used to be > tougher and more skilled at keeping their sheep in a herd. See, I remember it as "When the men were men, the women were men, and the sheep ran scared" and I think I first heard it in - M*A*S*H? Monty Python? Airplane? Google is surprisingly unhelpful. Since, in my head, there's a worried little "baa" at the end I'm leaning toward Python. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:40:37 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: it's 1985 again and we are piggy in the middle So I was attempting to make some new copies of my dauntingly massive Best of 1985 compilation, but upon playback of said discs, I discovered that either the disc stock or my burner (flawless since I bought the computer in 2003) had some problems. I may have corrected the problem now (fingers crossed), but I now have several discs that sound just fine for 75-77 minutes, but start messing up on the final 3-5 minutes. It seems like a shame to throw them into the trash, so I am offering one disc each to interested Fegs while supplies last. Postage is on me, no cover art, I'll provide a track listing. Not that it means anything sans context, but I have at least one "bad" disc 2, two disc 3s, and one disc 4, so there are at least four to give away. Replies and postal addresses offlist, please. Unless you're Barbara, that is. ;) later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:48:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Agh >What really pushes it over the edge is the inclusion of a song called "We >Are the Clash." alternatively: "We are the dead" (Bowie) "We are the village green preservation society" (Kinks) "We are normal and we want our freedom" (Bonzo Dog Band and/or Arthur Lee) etc., etc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:21:29 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Agh kevin says: > alternatively: > > "We are the dead" (Bowie) > "We are the village green preservation society" (Kinks) > "We are normal and we want our freedom" (Bonzo Dog Band and/or Arthur Lee) > > etc., etc. "we are the 801" - brian eno and a few others in that song as well. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:29:32 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Chicago Record Stores - -- kevin is rumored to have mumbled on 14. Juni 2007 10:02:53 -0700 regarding Re: Chicago Record Stores: >> You guys do all know the one that ends with "that's the sherriff's >> girl", >right? No. > I'm still trying to remember the one that ends "an Arab with a large left > nostril," which I recall as monstrously vile only there's nothing left of > it in long-term storage but a baffling punchline. Of course I don't know that one, either. But watching "Prime Suspect 3" (hi Lauren) I learned the one with the sheep-shagger, which seems quite apropos to the beginning of this threadlet. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:08:02 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Chicago Record Stores On 6/14/07, Sebastian Hagedorn > Of course I don't know that one, either. But watching "Prime Suspect 3" > (hi > Lauren) I learned the one with the sheep-shagger, which seems quite > apropos > to the beginning of this threadlet. "The one"? There are tons of them. Well, dozens. And the "sherriff's girl" is one of them. Well, it was done rather innocuously as the Kingston Trio song to which I vaguely referred in my signoff (in a song called, I think, "Strange Day"), but as a joke, it's usually a sheep, and involves a stranger arriving in a town without women, and... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:18:26 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Agh On 6/14/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 6/14/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > > > > > > > The Clash -- "Cut the Crap" > > > > Does this even count as a real Clash album? > > > > No. > > Anymore than that Yule Brothers CD should count as a VU album. But hey, those are the band names under which those respective records were released, so, even though they've been pretty much disowned by the artists and excluded from catalog reissues and retropectives, I don't know what else you'd call them. Unless you're David Bowie and can buy back your catalog, reissuing the Tin Machine Records as "David Bowie" albums that just happen to be called "Tin Machine" and "Tin Machine II". It's weird... some bands are allowed to almost entirely change their lineups, including frontmen and songwriters, and still be considered the same band, and others aren't. Who decides? Who know? Who, for that matter, makes the Nazis? It's kind of a question in the air right now, as "Television" is about to play its first ever show under that name without Richard Lloyd, which has a lot of people rather pissed... but then, Fred Smith wasn't the band's first bassist, if I and quite a few Voidoid fans will recall... I've never heard "Cut the Crap", but I have heard "Squeeze", and I probably don't want to bring up the Bunnymen's "Reverberation" again. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #237 ********************************