From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #583 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 25 2008 Volume 16 : Number 583 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The unintentional musical widsom of children (was: Re: Is there a letter lower than A?) [2fs ] Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) [Jeff] Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) [Jeff] Re: More reissue news [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) [Rex ] [Flags] Lorain Lighthouse (Ohio, USA) [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: More reissue news [Tom Clark ] What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? [Rex ] Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) ["kev] RE: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) [Chri] Re: The unintentional musical widsom of children (was: Re: Is there a letter lower than A?) ["kevin studyvin" <] Re: Great Unused Album Titles ["kevin studyvin" ] barbara? [Caroline Smith ] Re: [Flags] Lorain Lighthouse (Ohio, USA) [Rex ] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) ["Stewart C. R] Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? [2fs ] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) [2fs] Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? [Rex Subject: Re: The unintentional musical widsom of children (was: Re: Is there a letter lower than A?) On 4/24/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:26 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> >> Guess what I'm going to listen to when I get hoe... > > > Lord, I shudder to think of what you might use as musical accompaniment > when you get your hands on *any* kind of gardening implement!* > All I can say is, it's a good thing I typo'd "hoe" and not "ho" - cuz what I'd get if I "got ho" would be divorce papers and with a velocity. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:46:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: oh yeah and I hate you, Stewart Russell and I don't even care that the Sox lost last night Rex wrote: > Jill Brand wrote: > > > "People expecting children should never write songs about it", > > That should be the eleventh commandment. God's looking at you, > Creed. Thankfully, not at Andy "Garden of Earthly Delights" Partridge. Every other song on the subject though, oy vey. When "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" is only merely less awful than most songs on a subject.... "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 . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:57:31 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: More reissue news . they're all there. *Hootenanny* has already been uploaded to usenet; the others will, presumably, follow in fairly short order. and if one wants to persue the liner notes & cetera, most big-city libraries should be adding them to their collections, i should think. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:58:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) Rex wrote: > Hey, I don't remember having this thread on feg before... first > album/single you paid for with your own damn money. I'm not > totally sure what my answer is, though. I think my parents > fronted for a Columbia House Cassette > Starter Kit that was split between my brother and myself. Sesame Street Fever. Excluding kids records: a cassette of The Police _Synchronicity." > I do know what my first CD was, and why, though. "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 . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:55:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) Michael Sweeney wrote: > 2fs jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com wrote: >> Speaking of Beck and Lowe, as you know, in response to Bowie >> putting out an album called _Low_, Lowe released an EP called >> _Bowi_. Similarly: American power-poppers Green called a release >> _R.E.M._ after R.E.M. released _Green_. > > ...I'd wager that -- on this list (hell, among the general public > at large) that perhaps only Mr. 2fs himself might also recall this > when prompted / shaken...but -- in a true story shadowing the > above examples -- when the pub rock stars / Graham Parker-backers > The Rumour were releasing their debut album in late 1977, they > sought to title it (wait for it.......) "Fleetwood Mac." > > After the lawyers got involved (I picture a coked up army of > shysters marching at Warner Bros. behest vs. one scruffy punk > barrister repping The Rumour), they settled on calling the > record "Max"...and sticking a photo of a Cadillac > Fleetwood (helpfully labeled, "Fleetwood") on the back cover... Weren't R.E.M. originally going to call either _Chronic Town_ or _Murmur_ _Speedwagon" (thus making it R.E.M. _Speedwagon_) until a similar threat came down? "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 . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:29:44 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: More reissue news Rex spottedeagleray@gmail.com wrote: >Another question: I notice that the artwork for "Stink" includes areproduction of... okay, I don't know the word for it, but what the hell,"LP jacket scuff", the circular imprint of the actual LP inside the jacketthat results from rubbing against other LP jackets on the shelf < ...Of course, the "classic" representation of that (with it actually being printed on the LP cover) was on EC's "Get Happy!!" (still my fave from him and one of my enduring top-shelf-all-time selections). I remember when it first came out, looking through the bins, thinking the copies in my local had been rubbed the wrong way during shipping...I believe they went with a "cleaned-up" version, too, w/out the faux-wear marks...I suppose others may have had my initial reaction and balked as well... Michael "Another thread that has curved around to 'Declan Talk;' at least I didn't have a related F. Mac reference to try and shoehorn in there..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ In a rush? Get real-time answers with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_ realtime_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:33:13 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Jeff Dwarf > > Weren't R.E.M. originally going to call either _Chronic Town_ or > _Murmur_ _Speedwagon" (thus making it R.E.M. _Speedwagon_) until a > similar threat came down? Continuing to be able to be bother to look things up today, I almost rewrote the story near the top of this digest from some five years ago... http://www.fegmania.org/archives/fegmaniax/2003/v12.n362 Interestingly, Mr. Hahn tracked me down on MySpace in late 2007. True story! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:45:46 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: [Flags] Lorain Lighthouse (Ohio, USA) >Replacing Mary Travers in a classic folk trio, wherein Mr. Yarrow decides to >give surprisingly high billing to his hairpiece: "Robyn, Peter's Toupee, >Paul"? > >Okay, I'll stop now. But someone else has to start. You mean like Mr Hitchcock covering songs made famous by a famous early 20th century tenor: "Robyn-sung Caruso" >Speaking of Beck and Lowe, as you know, in response to Bowie putting out an >album called _Low_, Lowe released an EP called _Bowi_. > >Similarly: American power-poppers Green called a release _R.E.M._ after >R.E.M. released _Green_. > >So I'm waiting for the band The Information to title their new one _Beck_. I still like the fact that after The Clean split up for the first time back in the mid-80s, the Kilgour brothers formed a new band called The Great Unwashed and put out an album called "Clean out of our minds". Oh, and for whoever was looking for a title for a Robyn boxed set, "Alright, yeah!" would do the trick, I think. 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: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:44:19 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: More reissue news On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > mean we > should take up a collection, have them shipped to Eddie, and just let > whatever happens... happen?> > > . they're all there. > *Hootenanny* has already been uploaded to usenet; the others will, > presumably, follow in fairly short order. and if one wants to > persue the > liner notes & cetera, most big-city libraries should be adding them to > their collections, i should think. I just ordered them all from Rhino. Feel free to stop by for a listen. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:50:09 -0700 From: Rex Subject: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? The Fall, of course. My, it seems like days, maybe even two of them, since I mentioned this band. New album dropz in teh UK next Tuesday, supposed to be good: http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Wax-Solvent-Fall/dp/B0015I2OX2 MES "autobio", done already dropt: http://www.amazon.com/Renegade-Lives-Tales-Mark-Smith/dp/0670916749/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209080329&sr=1-6 This still not out yet: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fallen-Searching-Missing-Members-Fall/dp/1847670490 And you know you want to see more of Brix talking about her Pug Wall of Fame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHcFukpAto That'll be all for now. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:54:21 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) > Hey, I don't remember having this thread on feg before... first > album/single you paid for with your own damn money. Own money? Some forgotten K-Tel collection that had Cheap Trick and Eddie Money on it. I am pretty sure there was bartering going on pre-liquidity stage however, as I have fuzzy memories of getting a copy of WISH YOU WERE HERE in some sort of deal involving baseball cards and possibly one of those cheap band-logo mirrors you won at carnivals. VENUS AND MARS, Sabbath's VOL 4 and the immortal GREAT GONZOS were also lying about. FLY BY NIGHT was early purchase, as was CORNERSTONE by Styx. Can't remember the first CD, but for sure the first pre-recorded music videotape I bought was EXIT STAGE LEFT at Rose Records. Think I bought a new chamber bowl at Sight and Sound on the same trip. Fuckin' right. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:17:13 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re:First records >...Funny you should ask (I was thinking about that after the above, too). > >For me, the 45s -- both (semi-fortuitously) eternally known forever after -- >were "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen and "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith. First LP >bought was maybe..."Venus and Mars" or "Band on the Run"? Maybe the Beatles >"Blue" compilation? (I do recall "Ram" as the first LP I owned outright, but >that was a gift; "Sgt. Peppers" was appropriated frm my mother's thin >collection about the same time (very early '70s)). I seem to be younger than some of those here (not often I get to say that these days), and also came to this music buying/collecting lark late. My first rock album was quite possibly XTC's "Black sea" a month or two after it came out, and my first single was almost certainly The Special AKA "Gangsters" b/w The Selecter "The Selecter". The b-side is still one of the most evocative instrumentals I know, reminding me for no apparent reason whatsoever of the buskers at London tube stations, who could be heard down the tiled pedestrian tunnel walkways long before they could be seen. Don't tink I've ever bought an album on its day of issue (!) 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: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:01:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: firsts First album bought: The Beatles White Album My brother had always bought all the music and I had always listened to it. Then he got snarky mean and said that I couldn't play his copy of the White Album (I don't really need caps, do I?). I cried a lot. Then I got the bright idea of buying my own copy. There are records that I wish I had but have never gotten around to buying (Procol Harum, Spencer Davis, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, etc.) simply because he had them and I always thought we'd live together, I guess. First 45: Ragdoll by the Four Seasons Steven (my brother) bought Dawn and I bought Ragdoll. We thought it was funny because it's the same song, really. One is a song about a guy who comes from the wrong side of the tracks and the other is a rich guy singing about a girl who is from the wrong side of the tracks. First CD: Louder than Bombs by the Smiths I vowed that I would get all of the Smiths everything on CD when we finally got a CD player (sometime in the later 80s). This was the first Smiths record that I saw on CD. I'm appreciating all the sweet little kid tales. Right now my daughter is in the kitchen with Joe from across the street making smoothies. They're both 16. He's from England and has a cool accent. I don't even want to know. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:38:30 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) OK, showing my age as well as pathetic-LA-teen-ness here, both equally tragic, but: LP - The Monkees 45 - Eve Of Destruction (Barry McGuire) Not too clear on my first CD, probably Talk Talk Talk by the PsyFurs. Either that or Roxy Music's Flesh+ Blood. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Rex wrote: > > Hey, I don't remember having this thread on feg before... first >> album/single >> you paid for with your own damn money. >> > > LP: Grand Funk Live > 45's: Crocodile Rock & Young Americans > CD: Lexicon of Love > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:47:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: RE: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, michael wells wrote: > > Hey, I don't remember having this thread on feg before... first > > album/single you paid for with your own damn money. > > > Own money? Some forgotten K-Tel collection that had Cheap Trick and Eddie > Money on it. Holy crap! Was it The Rock Album? Picture here: http://tinyurl.com/58ufwm 'Cause that might have been my first album purchase too. I don't remember for certain, but it's definitely a candidate. Other candidates are Pink Floyd's A Collection of Great Dance Songs (a cheap mini-best-of ca. 1981), Foreigner's 4, and AC/DC's Back in Black. Of course that was when I was 12 or 13, and "my own damn money" was Christmas/birthday cash, allowance, and occasional extra money for mowing the lawn or whatever. When I was 16 and got my first summer job, I was starting to get into punk, so my first wage-funded purchase was probably something by the Dead Kennedys or the Clash. Or possibly the "Let Them Eat Jellybeans" compilation, though I think that was shortly before the summer job era. My first single purchase was around then too: either a "Anarchy in the UK" 12" (an 80s reissue, of course) or DRI's "Violent Pacification" 7". First CDs were a batch of 6 or 8 mainstreamy titles that I ordered from good old Columbia House in anticipation of buying my first CD player. However, for the life of me I can't remember which ones they were. I know one was Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door (I had all their earlier albums on vinyl or cassette), but I'm drawing a blank on the others. Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever, maybe? I know I bought Rush's 2112 during that first summer of CDs, but not in the very first batch. I wonder what my *last* CD purchase will be? - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:51:42 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: The unintentional musical widsom of children (was: Re: Is there a letter lower than A?) > (Plus, I DID turn her onto the first P. Furs record -- via a cassette on > car rides -- as her primary musical influence; she still sings along loudly > and enthusiastically with "Wedding Song": "We're USE.....LESS!") > > >Gotta love those PFurs. I was always impressed that the word "stupid" is > in every song on that first album...of course now that Richard's > >become just another old lesbian his perspective may be different. > > > ...That (the running use of "stupid" on that album) was a running joke > between me and a contemporary friend who also luvved that first album...so I > once did a much latter-day fact-check and found...there was actually a song > or two that DIDN'T feature "stupid"...AND that the overall frequency of its > use on the album was actually less than I might have pre-guessed (IIRC, it > was more than 10...but less than 20 (and maybe even less than 15) > occurrences)... > > Having gone back to double-check all the lyrics I emerge a chastened individual. I'da bet my left, um, ventricle on all those "stupids" but once again (for the second time today, in fact) I've been proven wrong on something I remembered plain as day. The ravages of aging. But that's a killer batch of tunes anyways. Now if I can just remember where that "enter" key is... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:57:55 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles > > Ooh -- I do luvs that "Girl of My Dreams" (I remember it fondly from late > > '70s/early '80s progressive radio; finally got it on "new wave" comp disc > > about a decade back or so...has "Starry Eyes" by the Records (and some > > other > sweet ones) on it, too...in fact, I'm pretty sure the comp was > titled > > "Starry > Eyes"...) > Woh, thanx for name-checking "Starry Eyes;" hadn't thought of that in ages. Gotta go back to the vinyl reclamation area and dig that one out now... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:15:00 -0400 From: Caroline Smith Subject: barbara? sorry to spam the list barbara are you out there? the email addy i have for you isn't working anymore. we're going to be out in BC next week... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:22:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: [Flags] Lorain Lighthouse (Ohio, USA) On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:45 PM, wrote: > Replacing Mary Travers in a classic folk trio, wherein Mr. Yarrow decides >> to >> give surprisingly high billing to his hairpiece: "Robyn, Peter's Toupee, >> Paul"? >> >> Okay, I'll stop now. But someone else has to start. >> > > You mean like Mr Hitchcock covering songs made famous by a famous early > 20th century tenor: "Robyn-sung Caruso" Fine work, sir. Damned fine work indeed. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:27:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: firsts On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > > I'm appreciating all the sweet little kid tales. Right now my daughter is > in the kitchen with Joe from across the street making smoothies. Like a real one? The stepdaughter calls them "Schmulies". We saw a storefront in a mini-mall called "Schmulie's" and had no idea what the hell it was, other than perhaps something enjoyed by Hassidic folks. But she decide it was a better word for "smoothie" than "smoothie" was, so there it is. Sixteen. I said goddamn. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:37:30 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) My vinyl firsts are either tragically ludicrous, or ludicrously tragic: First 45 : "The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham & The Smurfs First album : "Yes" - Yes First CD : "Skylarking" - XTC. First MP3 : "Nowhere Nothing Fuckup" - Built To Spill (through an emusic free trial) Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:45:47 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? On 4/24/08, Rex wrote: > > The Fall, of course. My, it seems like days, maybe even two of them, since > I mentioned this band. > > New album dropz in teh UK next Tuesday, supposed to be good: > http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Wax-Solvent-Fall/dp/B0015I2OX2 Don't know if it's still up, but Fluxblog (http://fluxblog.org) posted a track about a week ago. I'm so lame* that I haven't listened to it yet. MES "autobio", done already dropt: > > http://www.amazon.com/Renegade-Lives-Tales-Mark-Smith/dp/0670916749/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209080329&sr=1-6 I saw a recent interview with him - conducted by Ian Svenonius of all people - - in which he reminded me of nothing so much as yr average drunk uncle, rambling on incoherently about god knows what, although he was occasionally amusing and every once in a while, cogent. It was actually rather touching: at one point, he misunderstood Svenonius as questioning Elena Poulou (sp?)'s musicianship rather than merely asking if it was awkward having one's spouse in the band, and MES was in high dudgeon defending her, and previous female musicians in the band, as better musicians than many of the guys that have been in the band. Speaking of which: This still not out yet: > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fallen-Searching-Missing-Members-Fall/dp/1847670490 Wouldn't it be simpler to write _Searching for People Who Haven't Been in The Fall_? I'm pretty sure that by the time MES dies, everyone in the world will have been a member of the Fall for fifteen minutes. And you know you want to see more of Brix talking about her Pug Wall of > Fame: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHcFukpAto That's FukpAto is all I've gotta say. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:47:37 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? On 4/24/08, 2fs wrote: > > On 4/24/08, Rex wrote: >> >> >> >> New album dropz in teh UK next Tuesday, supposed to be good: >> http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Wax-Solvent-Fall/dp/B0015I2OX2 > > > > Don't know if it's still up, but Fluxblog (http://fluxblog.org) posted a > track about a week ago. I'm so lame* that I haven't listened to it yet. > * Also so lame I forget to clarify my asterisky behavior: that was supposed to say "plus I bought like 15 CDs on Record Store Day, on top of which they threw in like 10 sampler discs, so I've had a musical overload recently." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:54:30 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [Flags] Lorain Lighthouse (Ohio, USA) On 4/24/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > >> > You mean like Mr Hitchcock covering songs made famous by a famous early > 20th century tenor: "Robyn-sung Caruso" As long as it's not songs written by David Caruso... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:57:58 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) On 4/24/08, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > First MP3 : "Nowhere Nothing Fuckup" - Built To Spill > (through an emusic free trial) I have no idea whatsoever what my first MP3 was - even though it's more recent (obviously) than all the other ones. Weird. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:02:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:45 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 4/24/08, Rex wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be simpler to write _Searching for People Who Haven't Been in > The Fall_? I'm pretty sure that by the time MES dies, > (hushed voice) That's just not going to happen. > > > That's FukpAto is all I've gotta say. And right after "sex" showing up in one of our TinyURLs, which can hardly be coincidence. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:22:46 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? On 4/24/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:45 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> On 4/24/08, Rex wrote: >> >> >> Wouldn't it be simpler to write _Searching for People Who Haven't Been in >> The Fall_? I'm pretty sure that by the time MES dies, >> > > (hushed voice) That's just not going to happen. > I'll tell ya: that last version of the Fall is going to be incredible: Mark E. Smith, Keith Richards, and three cockroaches. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:45:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 4/24/08, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > > > > First MP3 : "Nowhere Nothing Fuckup" - Built To Spill > > (through an emusic free trial) > > > I have no idea whatsoever what my first MP3 was - even though it's more > recent (obviously) than all the other ones. Weird. Mine musta been one of the Kristin Hersh/Throwing Muses "Works in Progress" subscription programs. Ages and ages ago. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:02:36 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: The unintentional musical widsom of children (was: Re: Is there a letter lower than A?) Kevin wrote: (Plus, I DID turn her onto the first P. Furs record -- via a cassette on car rides -- as her primary musical influence; she still sings along loudly and enthusiastically with "Wedding Song": "We're USE.....LESS!") >Gotta love those PFurs. I was always impressed that the word "stupid" is in every song on that first album...of course now that Richard's >become just another old lesbian his perspective may be different. ...That (the running use of "stupid" on that album) was a running joke between me and a contemporary friend who also luvved that first album...so I once did a much latter-day fact-check and found...there was actually a song or two that DIDN'T feature "stupid"...AND that the overall frequency of its use on the album was actually less than I might have pre-guessed (IIRC, it was more than 10...but less than 20 (and maybe even less than 15) occurrences)... >Having gone back to double-check all the lyrics I emerge a chastened individual. I'da bet my left, um, ventricle on all those "stupids" but once again (for the second time today, in fact) I've been proven wrong on something I remembered plain as day. The ravages of aging. But that's a killer batch of tunes anyways. Now if I can just remember where that "enter" key is... < ...Hey, I hear ya -- because that's why I went back and checked it those few years ago...because I ABSOLUTELY recalled it the way you did (or, at least on that more exaggerated side). Still -- a great record that certainly holds up for me, some 27 years on... Michael "Butler's vocals always reminded me more than a bit of Lydon's" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Spell a grand slam in this game where word skill meets World Series. Get in the game. http://club.live.com/word_slugger.aspx?icid=word_slugger_wlhm_admod_april08 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #583 ********************************