From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #436 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 23 2007 Volume 16 : Number 436 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Back in '85 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: FUCK SHIT BLOODY BOLLOCKS CHENEY FUCK [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: Back in '85 ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Back in '85 ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Tops o'yore [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] 50 Greatest Moments in Rock [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:13:53 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Back in '85 > >>My Top 20 for 1985 > >1. The Velvet Underground - VU >[...] > >--- > >1) Jason and the Scorchers, Lost and Found >[...] Two good lists - and there are many more missing that are ponderable as "top 20" material. Neither of you mentioned any of these: Bangles - A Different Light Bird Nest Roys - Whack it all Down Brook & Eno - Hybrid Builders - CoNCH3 Chameleons - What does anything mean? Basically? Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox Leonard Cohen - Various Positions Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Echo & the Bunnymen - Songs to Learn and Sing Fetus Productions - Luminous Trails Grace Jones - Island Life Ed Kuepper - Electrical Storm Madness - Mad not mad Microdisney - Till the Clock comes Down the Stairs Rain Parade - Crashing Dream Smiths - Meat is Murder Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles Style Council - Our Favourite Shop Pete Townshend - White City Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega Verlaines - Hallelujah all the Way Home Yello - Stella Zeitgeist - Translate Slowly FWIW, my pressing of Psychocandy definitely says '85, too. My own top 10 would probably be: 1) Shriekback - Oil and gold 2) Kate Bush - Hounds of love 3) REM - Fables of the reconstruction 4) Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes 5) The Church - Heyday 6) Builders - CoNCH3 7) Echo &b the Bunnymen - SDongs to learn and sing (yeah, I know it's a best of, but still) 8) Leonard Cohen - Various positions 9) Robyn Hitchcock - Fegmania! 10) Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega 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, 22 Dec 2007 22:17:01 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: FUCK SHIT BLOODY BOLLOCKS CHENEY FUCK - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Rex > On Dec 20, 2007 10:38 AM, wrote: > > > In a message dated 12/20/2007 1:28:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > > Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com writes: > > > > The Dave Clark 5 never made an album as good as The Zombies "Odyssey and > > Oracle", and singles hits are a close to a draw, so how come the DC5 are > > in the HOF before the Zombies? > > Rex came back with: > Excellent point. How about Love, for that matter? One great record, half > of another one, and plenty of worthy moments on either side. Love should already be! The many covers of Alone Again Or and Andmoreagain by those in the know testify to Love's greatness. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:22:27 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Back in '85 James: > Bangles - A Different Light '86. > Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms > Smiths - Meat is Murder > Pete Townshend - White City All on my longer list, but beneath the top 40. > Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes '84. > Echo & the Bunnymen - Songs to Learn and Sing Compilation, ineligible. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:25:33 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Back in '85 James, me: > > Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes > > '84. Lloyd did have an '85 album, but it's the sophomore one, EASY PIECES. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:17:33 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Tops o'yore - -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Miles Goosens" > On Dec 21, 2007 11:57 AM, Leftenant Reg? wrote: > > 2. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy > > I don't think it was an official US release until '86, and that's when > I bought it. But it was so widely available as an import that I > wouldn't quibble. It's better off in '86 for me, anyway - '85 was my > all-time fave year in music, and '86 has a somewhat weaker field. > > > 19. Cocteau Twins - Pink Opaque > > Compilations ineligible for my lists. The Cocteau Twins did have > three very good EPs in '85, though, and I'm willing to count them. > > Here's my top 40 of '85. The first 17 are unquestionable classics in > my book, and we're still talking four-out-of-five stars as low as #30. > The full list at > http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles/mkgbest.html goes on > quite a ways beyond that: > > 1) Jason and the Scorchers, Lost and Found > 2) Kate Bush, Hounds of Love > 3) Shriekback, Oil and Gold > 4) Midnight Oil, Red Sails in the Sunset > 5) X, Ain't Love Grand > 6) The Jazz Butcher, Sex & Travel > 7) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Southern Accents > 8) Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, Fegmania! > 9) Prefab Sprout, Two Wheels Good > 10) The Pogues, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash > 11) Richard Thompson, Across a Crowded Room > 12) Tom Waits, Rain Dogs > 13) The Cure, The Head on the Door > 14) Killing Joke, Night Time > 15) The Fall, This Nation's Saving Grace > 16) R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction > 17) Bryan Ferry, Boys and Girls > 18) John Mellencamp, Scarecrow > 19) The Hoodoo Gurus, Mars Needs Guitars > 20) The Minutemen, Three-Way Tie (For Last) > 21) Husker Du, Flip Your Wig > 22) Husker Du, New Day Rising > 23) Mekons, Fear and Whiskey > 24) New Order, Low-Life > 25) ABC, How To Be a Zillionaire > 26) The Golden Palominos, Visions of Excess > 27) The Church, Heyday > 28) Prince, Around the World in a Day > 29) Game Theory, Real Nighttime > 30) Cabaret Voltaire, The Arm of the Lord > 31) The Cocteau Twins, Aikea-Guinea EP > 32) The Three O'Clock, Arrive Without Travelling > 33) Squeeze, Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti > 34) Bob Dylan, Empire Burlesque > 35) Love and Rockets, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven > 36) Robert Plant, Shaken 'n' Stirred > 37) The Cocteau Twins, Echoes in a Shallow Bay EP > 38) Run-DMC, King of Rock > 39) The Replacements, Tim > 40) Big Audio Dynamite, This Is Big Audio Dynamite Adding 5 to make My Top 25: The Three O'Clock - Arrive Without Traveling, X- Ain't Love Grand, Richard Thompson - Across A Crowded Room, Rain Parade - Crashing Dream, Shriekback - Oil and Gold. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:06:54 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: 50 Greatest Moments in Rock I got 40 out of 50. www.livenation.com/seasonsgreetings2007/ - -tc, "Rock n' Roll Royalty" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #436 ********************************