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fegmaniax-digest      Tuesday, November 13 2007      Volume 16 : Number 395



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: just wonderin' ...            ["Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>]
  My name is "Eb", and I tend to feel that -- what? "Motherfuck" me?  Motherfuck *you*, motherfucker!  ["Stack]
  Re: Robyn covered...                             [grutness@slingshot.co.nz]
  Re: Robyn covered...                        [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: Robyn covered...                      [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  Re: Robyn covered...                        [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: Robyn covered...                      [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  RE: Robyn covered...  ["Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.c]
  Re: Robyn covered...                     [Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>]
  Re: Robyn covered...                     [Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>]
  Robyn @The AV Club                       [Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>]

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:17:51 -0500
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: just wonderin' ...

Bummer -- seems I can only make the Wednesday night Toronto show after
all. Sorry Caroline - would've loved to have hit the Casbah.

 Stewart

np: Ken Reaume - Four Horses :: perhaps the most beautiful album of the
year. Think Nick Drake, Elliott Smith and just enough Sufjan Stevens to
remain bearable.

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:57:40 -0800
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: My name is "Eb", and I tend to feel that -- what? "Motherfuck" me?  Motherfuck *you*, motherfucker!

<Have any of the "A&M covers" (e./g., "Linden Arden", "Every day is like
Sunday") ever made it to repeated live performance?>

i think "Wind Cries Mary" would be the only one.


<It does not seem to be marked as a promo record, but I believe it is. When
I bought it, the seller did indicate it that it is a promo. Does anyone
know more about the record>

hamilton *implies* that it's promo, but doesn't explicitly say so.
<URL:http://fucktheusa.info/robyn/hamilton/hamilton03.gif>.


<or if there is a German domestic release of it?>

hamilton doesn't even list a domestic u.s. or uk release (though she does
list a second, two-sided promo -- sans catalog no.).

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:08:44 +1300
From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz
Subject: Re: Robyn covered...

>Okay, we're talking about songs Robyn should cover - how about songs by
>Robyn other people should cover?
>
>Someone had mentioned this somewhere that I read recently - but it's
>absolutely perfect: Morrissey should cover "Queen Elvis."
>
>Other suggestions?

I'm sure this has been a thread before, so I've almost certainly said 
this before, but if "The Black Crow Knows" isn't specifically 
designed to be covered by Jethro Tull, I don't know what is. Other 
possibles:

Richard Thompson - Never stop bleeding
The Byrds - Sleeping knights of Jesus
Lou Reed - Captain Dry (mind you, of all people, Status Quo could 
probably do this justice)

that'll do - it's difficult to come up with these while listening to 
Nina Simone...

James
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:43:42 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robyn covered...

On 11/12/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz <grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>
> >Okay, we're talking about songs Robyn should cover - how about songs by
> >Robyn other people should cover?
>
> I'm sure this has been a thread before, so I've almost certainly said
> this before, but if "The Black Crow Knows" isn't specifically
> designed to be covered by Jethro Tull, I don't know what is. Other
> possibles:
>
> Richard Thompson - Never stop bleeding
> The Byrds - Sleeping knights of Jesus
> Lou Reed - Captain Dry (mind you, of all people, Status Quo could
> probably do this justice)

=

Good ones.

I think it would be amusing for the Rolling Stones to cover "Trash"...

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:22:07 -0800
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robyn covered...

On 11/12/07, 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/12/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz <grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > >Okay, we're talking about songs Robyn should cover - how about songs by
> > >Robyn other people should cover?


I don't have any really great ideas right now, but hey... whatever happened
to the "real" RH tribute that was supposed to come out?  I remember that
Tanya Donnelly was covering "Sweet Ghost of Light"... hell, I'd pony up just
for that.

I probably don't know enough "contemporary" artists to suggest too many
viable covers, but it does strike me that Arcade Fire could probably do
pretty good by "Underwater Moonlight".  Someone should damned well do "The
President"... I dunno, Band of Horses or someone like that?

- -Rex

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:48:00 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robyn covered...

On 11/12/07, Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > >Okay, we're talking about songs Robyn should cover - how about songs
> > by
> > > >Robyn other people should cover?
>
>
> I don't have any really great ideas right now, but hey... whatever
> happened to the "real" RH tribute that was supposed to come out?  I remember
> that Tanya Donnelly was covering "Sweet Ghost of Light"... hell, I'd pony up
> just for that.
>


No idea...

I probably don't know enough "contemporary" artists to suggest too many
> viable covers, but it does strike me that Arcade Fire could probably do
> pretty good by "Underwater Moonlight".
>


I could see that.

Not exactly contemporary, but...I have this arrangement in mind for "Sounds
Great When You're Dead" that'd be ideal for ZZ Top.

Stop vomiting.

You take that squiggly little chromatic lick, chunk it up by paralleling
fifths  (but dropping the first and fourth beats, so you get
<blank>durr-durr-durr <blank>durr-durr-durr). The "bip-bip...duh-duh dutt"
bit, which already kinda bluesy, becomes a slide guitar lick. Kind of a
slinky beat, open and close the hi-hat on the second and sixth eighth notes.
(This is straight eights, not swung.)  Uh-anyway, so that's the verse.
Vocals are that kinda pinched, transistor-radio-y sound on the verses. The
bit into the chorus (where it modulates) turns into your classic open fifth
eighth-note thing with the top note going to the sixth on, say, the third
beat of the first four and mebbe the second of the second four. Put a slide
lead over that, or maybe some piano.

I can hear this in my head. I'd let you all tune in, but I'm not sure what's
the frequency, Kenneth.

(Note: this is the same frequency that has an arrangement of "Roundabout" in
the style of "Pump It Up" playing, so...uh, proceed with caution)

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:25:20 -0800
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robyn covered...

On 11/12/07, 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not exactly contemporary, but...I have this arrangement in mind for "Sounds
> Great When You're Dead" that'd be ideal for ZZ Top.
>
> Stop vomiting.
>
> You take that squiggly little chromatic lick, chunk it up by paralleling
> fifths  (but dropping the first and fourth beats, so you get
> <blank>durr-durr-durr <blank>durr-durr-durr). (snip)

I can totally see this.  It's no crazier than the brilliant
Knack-ified version of "Clean Steve" on the tribute albums.

I've personally always wanted to do a massive shoegazer version of
"Birdshead"... think "Black Metallic"...

- -Rex

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:27:01 -0500
From: "Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>
Subject: RE: Robyn covered...

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To: grutness@slingshot.co.nz
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Subject: Re: Robyn covered...

On 11/12/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz <grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > >Okay, we're talking about songs Robyn should cover - how about
songs 
> > >by Robyn other people should cover?
>
> >I'm sure this has been a thread before, so I've almost certainly said

> >this before, but if "The Black Crow Knows" isn't specifically
designed 
> >to be covered by Jethro Tull, I don't know what is. Other
> >possibles:
>
> >Richard Thompson - Never stop bleeding The Byrds - Sleeping knights
of 
> >Jesus Lou Reed - Captain Dry (mind you, of all people, Status Quo 
> >could probably do this justice)

Jeff:

>Good ones.

>I think it would be amusing for the Rolling Stones to cover "Trash"...

Yes to all of the above. I think Kate Rusby would do a nice job covering
"Ghost Ships".

Michael B.

NP Blue Rodeo - Five Days in July

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:08:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Robyn covered...

Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've personally always wanted to do a massive shoegazer version of
> "Birdshead"... think "Black Metallic"...

I've not thought about it for a while, but I remember thinking when
that was played on Live 105 a lot that someone (and Robyn would be as
good a person to do it as anyone) should do a folky version of "Black
Metallic."


"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

"The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute
.


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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:08:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Robyn covered...

Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've personally always wanted to do a massive shoegazer version of
> "Birdshead"... think "Black Metallic"...

I've not thought about it for a while, but I remember thinking when
that was played on Live 105 a lot that someone (and Robyn would be as
good a person to do it as anyone) should do a folky version of "Black
Metallic."


"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

"The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute
.


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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:35:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: Robyn @The AV Club

http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/robyn_hitchcock


"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

"The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute
.


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