From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #379 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, October 26 2007 Volume 16 : Number 379 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Semen as art/Draped in Rickenbacker ["Leftenant Reg?" ] come to life! [2fs ] Re: Things that I for some reason have never thought about before [kevin ] Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? [Tom Clark ] Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? [Benjamin Lukoff ] stentorian \sten-TOR-ee-uhn\, adjective [lep ] Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? [kevin Subject: Semen as art/Draped in Rickenbacker Rex sed - >>Are there really very many women-- any humans-- who actually really *like* semen, in any context other than as the inevitable outcome of certain sex acts? Would you really keep it around and do, like, anything with it, fertility clinic stuff excluded?<< There is that guy Andres Serrano, did the Metallica "Load" cover. ACK! >>But back to the subject line, and my inevitable Paisleyization of it: Naked Liz and her Jaguar on the cover to that record have absolutely *nothing* on Suzanna (clothed) and her Rickenbacker on the cover to "All Over the Place". Actually, examining the cover a little more closely, I can't quite work out which Petersen is which... one of them is a brunette here, and I think it's Vicki, but I'm not sure. Perhaps Matt Piucci can explain? No, no, wait, that's wrong. I meant, one of the Petersen sisters is a brunette on the album cover... Christopher Gross, please explain!<< OH Susanna! Only woman better draped in Rickenbacker than Ms "Girl With The Guitar ...sez oh yeah" Hoffs ...um, maybe... Brix Smith!?! ...carry on. m ...a font of worthless info this AM. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:16:06 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? The Soft Boys: "I Wanna Destroy You" Never have the bright cheery harmonies been scarier. _http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php_ (http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:38:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Semen as art/Draped in Rickenbacker On 10/25/07, Leftenant Reg? wrote: > > > OH Susanna! Only woman better draped in Rickenbacker than Ms "Girl > With The Guitar ...sez oh yeah" Hoffs ...um, maybe... Brix Smith!?! Oh god... that's a real toss-up there. Brix's Rickenbacker was really cool, too... white with black pickguard and hardware (that's actually why I was dead set on black hardware when I bought my 330, but I wanted (and got) teh Maple-Glo instead of white). But I've never seem her... erm... draped in it. What's she up to these days? Speaking of The Fall, as of the arrival last week of a copy of "Light User Syndrome", I think I now have-- and yes, it's damned hard to tell for numberless reasons-- the Entire Catalog of Proper "Studio" Albums by The Fall (along with, of course, a fair amount of legit comps, dodgy comps, legit live sets, dodgy live sets, legit-yet-dodgy live sets, and other unclassifiable effluvia). Now, the question is not "Am I going to listen to it all in a row?", which I am, but more like "In what order"? Chronological? Alphabetical? All of the tracks randomized into a giant Shuffle Soufle? The mind reels... but not as much as it's *going to*... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:37:48 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: come to life! Of Montreal fans: I was amused to discover some spam in my spam folder this morning supposedly from "MRS ROSE ROBERT"... - ---------------- Now playing: Diane Cluck - Easy To Be Around - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:14:32 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Things that I for some reason have never thought about before >1) What the hell is that shit on the cover of "Fables of the >Reconstruction"? Magnified quantum goop? Cat toys in Schrodinger's box? What Stipe saw after too many tequila & mushroom smoothies? That's all I got. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:11:20 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? On Oct 25, 2007, at 5:16 AM, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > The Soft Boys: "I Wanna Destroy You" > Never have the bright cheery harmonies been scarier. > > (http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php) > "She Said, She Said" by Overwhelming Colorfast and by the by, anybody else listening to Patti Smith's "Bob Dylan Podcast"? It's like she's retelling the "No Direction Home" documentary in five minute chunks. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:20:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > The Soft Boys: "I Wanna Destroy You" > Never have the bright cheery harmonies been scarier. > _http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php_ > (http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php) Hmm...as I think I might have mentioned here (or was it Audities?) I thought "Across the Universe" was pretty freaking awful as a movie, though the music wasn't terrible. I just saw the Bee Gees/Frampton "Sgt. Pepper" movie the other night and that IS bad (with the exception of the last 15 minutes or so--Billy Preston rules, and so does Carol Channing, Bonnie Raitt, Donovan, Ann & Nancy Wilson, et al. doing a disco version of the title song. In fact, it's so bad it's painful. Definitely NOT so bad it's good. Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out" might surpass the original, as might Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from My Friends." I think this steel-guitar cover of "Flying" on one of the rec.music.beatles tribute albums I participated on surpasses the original, too. (I didn't play on "Flying," of course..) Not sure if I can think of any others. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:11:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > The Soft Boys: "I Wanna Destroy You" > Never have the bright cheery harmonies been scarier. > http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php I agree with him saying that possibly the best Beatles cover ever was Siouxsie & The Banshees -- but I'd say it their version "Helter Skelter," though "Dear Prudence" is cool too. > Siouxsie and the Banshees: Dear Prudence > Perhaps the best Beatles cover ever, as Siouxsie goths up the > gloriously bright original with sounds every bit as weird as those > found in Tomorrow Never Knows, without for a second losing the > songs optimism or beauty. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:30:05 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? On 10/25/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > > http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php > > I I made a two-disc mix of Beatles covers a year and an arf ago. Here are linkages: They used to have my cover art up - I took the Beatles' portraits in the inner cover, and found images of beetles which I altered so as to have roughly the same posture, shape, and lighting as the individual Beatles... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:51:36 -0400 From: lep Subject: Where Are They Now: Schroedinger's LOLcat kevin says: > >1) What the hell is that shit on the cover of "Fables of the > >Reconstruction"? > > Magnified quantum goop? > > Cat toys in Schrodinger's box? any excuse to post a lol...i didn't notice this one before: http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/59679.html#cutid1 as ever, lauren p.s. if you aren't amused, look again. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:04:09 -0400 From: lep Subject: stentorian \sten-TOR-ee-uhn\, adjective i thought only fiona apple used that word, but it can be found here as well: http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2007/10/25.html as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:30:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? >> Siouxsie and the Banshees: Dear Prudence >> Perhaps the best Beatles cover ever, as Siouxsie goths up the >> gloriously bright original with sounds every bit as weird as those >> found in Tomorrow Never Knows, without for a second losing the >> songs optimism or beauty. They didn't half do a nice take on Bolan's "20th Century Boy" either. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:35:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? >Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from My Friends." Totally rools. Totally. At a roughly 90 degree angle I've always been fond of Neil Innes' "Cheese And Onions." C-H-E-E-S-E-A-N-D-O-N-I-O-N-S O no! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:38:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? kevin wrote: > >> Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Dear Prudence" > >> Perhaps the best Beatles cover ever, as Siouxsie goths up the > >> gloriously bright original with sounds every bit as weird as > >> those found in "Tomorrow Never Knows," without for a second > >> losing the song's optimism or beauty. > > They didn't half do a nice take on Bolan's "20th Century Boy" > either. For that matter, _Through the Looking Glass_ is one of the best all-cover albums of the past 30-40 years, even though they proved white women from Bromley probably shouldn't try singing "Strange Fruit." Their "Hall of Mirrors" was astonishing, and "This Wheel's on Fire" was damn good too. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:28:16 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? - --On 25. Oktober 2007 20:30:05 -0500 2fs wrote: > I made a two-disc mix of Beatles covers a year and an arf ago. Here are > linkages: > > > > > They used to have my cover art up - I took the Beatles' portraits in the > inner cover, and found images of beetles which I altered so as to have > roughly the same posture, shape, and lighting as the individual Beatles... Holy crap, you've made a lot of mixes! And with funny titles as well ... I like "Was, wenn es klappt?" best ;-) Too bad you can't download them. There are many tracks I ddn't know they even existed. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:07:30 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #378 >But back to the subject line, and my inevitable Paisleyization of it: Naked >Liz and her Jaguar on the cover to that record have absolutely *nothing* on >Suzanna (clothed) and her Rickenbacker on the cover to "All Over the >Place". What was that phrase? Something like "I'll be in my bunk"? 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, 26 Oct 2007 10:17:39 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? On 10/26/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > --On 25. Oktober 2007 20:30:05 -0500 2fs wrote: > > > I made a two-disc mix of Beatles covers a year and an arf ago. Here are > > linkages: > > > > > > > > Holy crap, you've made a lot of mixes! And with funny titles as well ... I > like "Was, wenn es klappt?" best ;-) I seem to recall it was your assistance that got that phrase translated in the first place... I made a lot of mixes because I used to be part of a CD mix exchange thingy (in fact I used to coordinate it). It sort of faded away - I think between people just being busy, and the general availability of a lot of stuff, it sort of lost its novelty. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #379 ********************************