From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #589 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 1 2008 Volume 16 : Number 589 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: So ["(0% rh)" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #588 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: So [2fs ] Re: Great Unused Album Titles [The Great Quail ] Current Listening [Rex ] Flnal Trip [Steve Schiavo ] Re: NEW on DiME: The A&M Promos 1989-1993 -quick before it's banned ! [JB] Further Dispatches from Like You Give a Shit County [Rex Subject: Re: So says: > not your fault, obviously > but maybe you can report them to someone ? usually i would think this would be kind of futile, but i'm wondering if anyone knows about the "TRUSTe" used on the reunion.com site? http://www.truste.org/ there's even a complaint form: http://www.truste.org/pvr.php?page=complaint from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRUSTe#Email_Privacy_Seal as ever, lauren, "so not a web engineer" - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:04:35 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #588 > > > Well...Collins didn't produce his own albums, for one (it was Hugh > > > Padgham, or Steve Lillywhite, or one of those guys)...and for two, you > > know > > > who originated that sound? Bowie and Eno: check out the gated snare hits > > on > > > "Breaking Glass," from _Low_. > > >I did say they were neat at first. My mistake was in thinking that Phil had >anything to do with their creation (although he does drum on some Eno stuff, >I think). indeed he did, including a couple of of the trajks on my favourite Eno album, Before and After Science. (Lordy! I've just looked at the album notes and am amazed to see Dave Mattacks' name down there too - I'd not spotted that before!) As to Collins's solo work, the first album actually wasn't too bad. Everything since then, however, has been rather unfortunate, shall we say. 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: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:02:59 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: So On 4/30/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > says: > > not your fault, obviously > > but maybe you can report them to someone ? > > > usually i would think this would be kind of futile, but i'm wondering > if anyone knows about the "TRUSTe" used on the reunion.com site? > > http://www.truste.org/ > > there's even a complaint form: > http://www.truste.org/pvr.php?page=complaint > I did this. The gist of my complaint was that the site should clearly and unambiguously inform users that clicking on the box will send an e-mail to *every* address in your addressbook, an e-mail that does not come from your address but which purports that you are looking for that individual (which is bullshit). By the way: I'll be sending an e-mail to everyone on this list letting them know that unless they act immediately, a little girl with leukemia will be charged for every can of soup her third-grade class collects and sends to Nigeria to enlarge the penises of that nation and give them access to better meds. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:21:56 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles Huh -- "Something's On the Move" is one of my favorite Tull tracks of that entire period... - --Quail >> SOMETHING'S ON THE >> MOVE - JETHRO TULL -- no idea on this one..."one of these things is not like >> the others..." I know the Tull somewhat (for example, I still LOVE "Songs >> From >> the Wood" beyond all reasonable expectations of doing so), and I don't think >> I've ever heard this tune... > > Off the underrated "Stormwatch" album - but IMO not one of the > standout tracks from it (unlike "Orion" and "Dun Ringhill", which I > regard as Tull classics) > > James ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:19:23 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Current Listening The new Robert Forster, "The Evangelist". Yep Roc sent it with an autograph as a preorder bonus. Can't help but enjoy this. It includes three songs started with Grant, and a few more that show a stronger-than-usual Grant influence. As usual with Forster solo records, it's very stripped down, but there's a warmth to it as well. I did with this what I've done with most of my other recent acquisitions and listened to it over and over again in a kind of obsessive teenage way. I'm enjoying that in general. The Fall, "Wax Imperial Solvent". Pretty good, but maybe still not up to the level of the halcyon days of, what, three years ago with "Country on the Click" and "Heads Roll". I've been luxuriating in my first listens to a bunch of mid '90's Fall records and liking them perhaps more than I'm supposed to, and this new one is maybe as good as those. Quite warming to Eleni Poulou's one-lead-vocal-per-album status, which I hadn't expected. A giant ton of Waylon Jennings. I had to drive all over hell and back yesterday and chose as my companion the "Nashville Rebel" box set, which I've had for a few years but never listened to in its entirety. I got through two and a half discs. Damn, is that good music. I've also been stuck recently on a bunch of "Classic Country" collections, chart hits from various years, and loving that... songs I didn't know I knew, a lot of them, and almost all pretty damned good. To stand back and look at it, just about every strain of C&W remained consistent throughout those wacky years when rock music got all fucked up in any number of directions, for better or worse. I feel an immersion in this stuff coming on. It's just really solid, full of personality, good storytelling, and it always sounds terrific. Except for that over-mixed sandblock on "Just to Satisfy You"-- dunno how I never noticed that before. Still, aces. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:55:59 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Flnal Trip Albert Hofmann, 102. - - StevE _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influenced by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:39:28 -0700 From: JBJ Subject: Re: NEW on DiME: The A&M Promos 1989-1993 -quick before it's banned ! Thanks for this heads-up. It will be so nice to have that Ride demo in flac format, same with the Deidre O Donaghue interview. On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:08 PM, wrote: > Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians > "For Promotional Use Only Not For Sale" > The A&M Promos > 1989-1993 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:07:16 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Further Dispatches from Like You Give a Shit County 1) Hold the phone on that Waylon box set. Disc 3 takes a major dip with an ill-advised version of "MacArthur Park". I don't have anything against Jimmy Webb or even this song in particular, but absolutely nothing about it is correct for Waylon. And at 6 minutes, it's keeping three or almost four whole '60's sides off of the box. No fair. 2) Never until just now had I ever seen the actual cover of the Nightcrawlers' original LP "The Little Black Egg", but it turns out to look pretty much like the cover of the collection by the same name, only filled with ten million percent more awesome. Instead of a shot of the band, it gots the titular egg*: http://rateyourmusic.com/misc/link_image?album_id=75434&q=The+Nightcrawlers+The+Little+Black+Egg (and here for the comp:) http://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/the_nightcrawlers/the_little_black_egg/ 3) Also never until just now did I ever have any idea what the lyrics to "Ceremony" were, other than a few key phrase. But I just read along with Galaxie 500's cover version of it, and it turns out I had most of those wrong anyway (I had "walking" for "watching", and where the hell I got the idea that it ended with the words "then you go down" I have no idea). But also, besides both the original and this version of it being really good, the *lyrics* are actually killer. I just remember someone around here asking if Ian Curtis's lyrics were actually any good, and, well, yeah, but I'd kind of forgotten. 4) Something some auto-search for CD artwork turned up at some point without my noticing it: I just got randomly served the version of "West Virginia Gals" from the hypothetical Volume 4 of the Harry Smith Anthology, but the cover image was for the wrong record, depicting an admittedly attractive woman, but one of decidedly other than Appalachian birth. It was this record: http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/searchresults.asp?prodstock=19238 (although strangely my image is of much better resolution than this one). - -Rex *and I'll expect a token of thanks when The Titular Egg takes SXSW by storm next year. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:01:51 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Further Dispatches from Like You Give a Shit County >3) Also never until just now did I ever have any idea what the lyrics to "Ceremony" were, other than a few key phrase. >But I just read along with Galaxie 500's cover version of it, and it turns out I had most of those wrong anyway (I had >"walking" for "watching", and where the hell I got the idea that it ended with the words "then you go down" I have no >idea). But also, besides both the original and this version of it being really good, the *lyrics* are actually >killer. I just remember someone around here asking if Ian Curtis's lyrics were actually any good, and, well, >yeah, but I'd kind of forgotten. I looked up the lyrics the other day for The Byrds "Bugler" from the Farther Along album for the very same reason, as I always thought it was a catchy tune from a very underappreciated album. Michael B ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #589 ********************************