From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #239 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, June 16 2007 Volume 16 : Number 239 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Agh [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Agh [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: baa [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: FTW [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: We are! [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: We are! some more [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: We are! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] New on DIME - Dylan covers - featuring RH: Lo & Behold (3/18/07) [HwyCDRr] Re: Chicago Record Stores ["Michael Sweeney" ] And an almost-belated happy birtday to... [Rex ] Re: Catching Up [Steve Talkowski ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:35:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Agh On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, craigie* wrote: > If you get the chance (and have two and a half hours to spare....) you all > owe it to yourselves to see The Future Is Unwritten (the new Julien Temple > film about Joe Strummer. > It really is fantastic. I second the recommendation, although I might have to knock it one notch down from "fantastic" because I think it went on a bit too long. > And Bernie Rhodes doesn't contribute directly yet again. *He* was the reason > Mick got fired and CTC is a POC. Bernie thought he *was* the Clash. Of > course, when he fired Joe... well, time tells the wiser. But of course he couldn't have fired Mick over Joe and Paul's objections.. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:31:15 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Agh >On 6/14/07, >grutness@slingshot.co.nz ><grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > >On 6/12/07, Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net > wrote: >> >> >what do you do when your favourite band releases a shitty album? > >It's a similar experience to hearing a songwriter fade from brilliant >to meh - like those Colin Moulding songs on the otherwise >better-than-expected Apple Venus. > > >The ones on _Wasp Star_ are even worse. > >I'm surprised, though, that you describe AV as >"better-than-expected" - maybe because demos were floating around >beforehand such that I knew, months before it was coming out, that >it would be an excellent record (one of my favorite XTC in fact). WS >disappointed a bit - there were one or two songs demo'd (which >eventually showed up somewhere amidst the mammoth Fuzzy Warbles set) >that didn't make that album, and I would have dumped Colin's >contributions (and maybe one of Andy's weaker ones) and put on one >of those instead. Can't remember right now which songs I'm thinking >of... I'd heard some of the demos, but not all of them, and was disappointed that some of the songs didn't make it to the final album ("We're all light", for instance), but a lot of the songs came to life more with the final arrangement/mix. And there were great tracks like the Wilsonesque "Knights in shining karma" and the hypnotic "Green man" which I hadn't heard before. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:33:19 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: baa >On 6/14/07, >grutness@slingshot.co.nz ><grutness@slingshot.co.nz > 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. > >No surprise that aussies say that about kiwis and kiwis say that >about aussies. > > >Just so, and ever thus. > >In another bizarre instance of that-thing-other-than-synchronicity, >it's the anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. Guess I'll >put on some John Cale and try to figure out what was up with that. The Falklands have only national flag in the world to feature a sheep, BTW :) James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:59:20 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: FTW >FTW: Shorthand for *For >The Win*, *FTW* is often using in gaming and gaming related definitions to >indicate a user's win. The complete opposite to FTW would be *FTL*, which is >short for *For The Loss.* !!! I've always read it as "Fuck the world!" - i.e., "I won, the rest of you can eat my (insert item name here)!" James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:10:47 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: We are! >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. > >Our Lauren came back with: > >"we are the 801" - brian eno > >"We are the Rank, We are the Rank, We are the Rank and File and there's >no denial". (Rank and File) since we're clearly into lyrics not titles, I'll add: "Are we not men? We are Devo!" James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:21:17 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: We are! some more "We are glass" and "We are so fragine" (Gary Numan) "We are each other" (Beautiful South - not to be confused with "I'm only you" :) "We are the people" (Roy Harper) and, of course, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space" (Spiritualized) and what about "I am"s? Several come to mind, notably ones by The Beatles, Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield, Simon & Garfunkel, Robyn Hitchcock, XTC, Bob Dylan, The Birds, Stone Roses, Roy Harper, Derek and the Dominoes, Pete Townshend (two of them, plus one with the Who), Siniad O'Connor, aHouse, REM... and Neil Diamond. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:23:00 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: We are! "We are The Boggs We Are" is the first (and perhaps last) album from the folk-punkers The Boggs. It's very good in parts, and quite mediocre in others. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:58:14 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: New on DIME - Dylan covers - featuring RH: Lo & Behold (3/18/07) _http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=150837_ (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=150837) Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 24: Oh Mama, Can This Really Be the End? - - Various Artists Welcome back friends. This may or may not be the last in the series--there's plenty more in the archives, but frankly I am having trouble keeping track of what I've already used. (If anyone has a breakdown by song and/or artist, please let me know!) With the end perhaps upon me, I've included a lot of things I've been saving, including six songs that are new to the series. As always, thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the nice folks who've sent me recordings, the fine artists who've created cover artwork, and especially the performers and composer. (If you've sent me something that hasn't been included yet, sorry--if I do more of these later, I'll try to get your songs in!) Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). If you've got something good, I'd still love to get it, so PM me. If/when I get enough great stuff, I'll be back. Finally, for those of you who like Leonard Cohen or the Beatles, I'm going to put together some cover compilations of their songs. If you've got anything that might fit, I'd love to hear from you via PM. Enjoy! 01 One More Night - Elana James (May 30, 2007, Club Passim, Cambridge, MA) 02 To Be Alone with You - Steve Gibbons Band (SWF3 Festival, November 2, 1981) 03 Is Your Love in Vain - Steve Kilbey (Oct 29, 2006, Phoenix Community Reserve, East Malvern, Melbourne, Aus) 04 Lo and Behold - Robyn Hitchcock and the Nashville Crawdads (Mar 18, 2007, Belcourt Thetre, Nashville, TN) 05 Blind Willie McTell - Steve Wynn and John Wesley Harding (Feb 8 1998, Den Bosch, Netherlands) 06 Clean Cut Kid - The Textones (Nov 20, 1987, Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA) 07 Gates of Eden - Bryan Ferry (Apr 2, 2007, Tempodrom, Berlin, Ger) 08 Blowin' in the Wind - Joe Ely (Dec 31, 1990, Austin Coliseum, Austin, TX) 09 License to Kill - Roseanne Cash (Apr 6, 2003, Mountain Stage, Cultural Center Auditorium, Charleston, WV) 10 Slow Train Coming - North Mississippi All Stars (May 11, 2007, WorkPlay Sound Stage, Birmingham, AL) 11 When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky - Jeff Healy Band (Apr 30, 1989, PC 69, Bielefeld, Ger) 12 All Along the Watchtower - Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Oct 5, 2004, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN) 13 Masters of War - Ben Harper and Tom Morello (Jun 9, 2007, Harrah's Casino, Council Bluffs, IA) 14 Dark Eyes - Warren Zevon (Mar 4, 2000, Park West, Chicago, IL) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:04:38 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Chicago Record Stores da9ve sez >>From: "Michael Sweeney" >>Subject: Re: Chicago Record Stores >... >>...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) > >Record Swap? There was one of those in Champaign-Urbana, one in >Homewood, and one in some other suburb - the Homewood one was one of >the largest record stores I've been to, That was it! >>-- 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... > >Damn - sad to hear it's (presumably) closed. ..."Probably" on that one -- haven't been down that way in ages.... Michael Sweeney ...in TN now, working my way back to Chi... _________________________________________________________________ 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: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:51:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: And an almost-belated happy birtday to... ...Noddy Holder, whom I'd never have known by name were it not for Robyn, and who did not, as recently noted, die within any notable proximity to the passing of fellow Hitchcock namecheckees Syd and Arthur, if at all. Meanwhile, Eazy E: stilll quite dead. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:47:34 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: And an almost-belated happy birtday to... On Jun 15, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Rex wrote: > ...Noddy Holder, whom I'd never have known by name were it not for > Robyn, > and who did not, as recently noted, die within any notable > proximity to the > passing of fellow Hitchcock namecheckees Syd and Arthur, if at all. > > Meanwhile, Eazy E: stilll quite dead. Ahem, I think you forgot Morris Windsor, Helen Hunt, and ME. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:04:30 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Catching Up On Jun 14, 2007, at 4:00 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > I'm in San Francisco all week waiting for Sebastian and Steve > Talkowski to join me at WWDC... Hey Tom, I was home on vacay listening to the live feed and vigorously updating engadget and macrumorslive. Thirteen daze left and then I can get back to my normal life, provided, of course, I don't have to wait in line all night on the 29th. - -Steve (funny, i almost missed this post as I've been deleting tons of mindless threads lately on feg...) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #239 ********************************