From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #669 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, July 28 2008 Volume 16 : Number 669 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Love Songs ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Love Songs ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Love Songs [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: REAP [2fs ] Re: REAP [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Love Songs [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: REAP [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Love Songs ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Love Songs [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Love Songs [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: REAP [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: REAP [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] My name is "Eb", and quite a few people in the world have seen my penis [] Re: Love Songs [2fs ] Re: Love Songs ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: My name is "Eb", and quite a few people in the world have seen my penis [Tom Clark ] Re: Love songs/Cassettes [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: REAP [Rex ] Re: REAP [Eleanore Adams ] my worlds collide [Jill Brand ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:32:10 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Love Songs Yep, Syd is nice -- "No Good Trying" and "Here I Go" come to mind -- but what really gets me about Robyn's lyrics is the way he combines emotion with analysis -- for example "Birds in Perspex", you have the first verse laying very explicitly on the line his perception of his relationship with Cynthia, "I take off my clothes with you/ But I'm not naked underneath/ I was born with trousers on/ Just about like everyone" -- really palpable longing for union with the Other -- and just basking in the ecstasy of loving in the last verse, "Perspex Island she's my girl/ Way above the chimney tops/ And when the sun goes down on her/ So beautful my heart just stops". Barrett I guess seems way less articulate to me. J On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM, wrote: > i would say Syd Barrett's solo albums > have similar themes - > Terrapin and Late Night come to mind first, > as well as most of "Madcap Laughs" > > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > > In a message dated 7/28/2008 10:55:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > anacreon@gmail.com writes: > Does anybody else sing about love with the degree of insight and > meaning to be found in (off the top of my head) "I Feel Beautiful", > "Arms of Love", "Heaven", every track on "Perspex Island", > "Heliotrope" etc? I would be interested in listening to their stuff. I > was going through my record collection looking for love songs and > having trouble finding much that really moves me like Robyn > Hitchcock's work. > > J > > > > > **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:34:57 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Love Songs PS: Is my perception and hunch accurate that (a) Robyn rarely if ever performs "Birds in Perspex" any longer and (b) this is (at least in part) because he is not with Cynthia any longer? J On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Yep, Syd is nice -- "No Good Trying" and "Here I Go" come to mind -- > but what really gets me about Robyn's lyrics is the way he combines > emotion with analysis -- for example "Birds in Perspex", you have the > first verse laying very explicitly on the line his perception of his > relationship with Cynthia, "I take off my clothes with you/ But I'm > not naked underneath/ I was born with trousers on/ Just about like > everyone" -- really palpable longing for union with the Other -- and > just basking in the ecstasy of loving in the last verse, "Perspex > Island she's my girl/ Way above the chimney tops/ And when the sun > goes down on her/ So beautful my heart just stops". Barrett I guess > seems way less articulate to me. > > J > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM, wrote: >> i would say Syd Barrett's solo albums >> have similar themes - >> Terrapin and Late Night come to mind first, >> as well as most of "Madcap Laughs" >> >> >> my blog is "Yer Blog" >> http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ >> http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> In a message dated 7/28/2008 10:55:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >> anacreon@gmail.com writes: >> Does anybody else sing about love with the degree of insight and >> meaning to be found in (off the top of my head) "I Feel Beautiful", >> "Arms of Love", "Heaven", every track on "Perspex Island", >> "Heliotrope" etc? I would be interested in listening to their stuff. I >> was going through my record collection looking for love songs and >> having trouble finding much that really moves me like Robyn >> Hitchcock's work. >> >> J >> >> >> >> >> **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for >> FanHouse Fantasy Football today. >> (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) >> > > > > -- > READIN 2.0 > http://www.readin.com/blog/ > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:37:20 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Love Songs Robyn's stuff is "clever" - and therefore consciously written - with humor . .still affecting, and effective . .but . . Syd, i think is more pure - he seems unfiltered, personal, private, confessional and therefore more "real" my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 7/28/2008 12:32:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, anacreon@gmail.com writes: Yep, Syd is nice -- "No Good Trying" and "Here I Go" come to mind -- but what really gets me about Robyn's lyrics is the way he combines emotion with analysis -- for example "Birds in Perspex", you have the first verse laying very explicitly on the line his perception of his relationship with Cynthia, "I take off my clothes with you/ But I'm not naked underneath/ I was born with trousers on/ Just about like everyone" -- really palpable longing for union with the Other -- and just basking in the ecstasy of loving in the last verse, "Perspex Island she's my girl/ Way above the chimney tops/ And when the sun goes down on her/ So beautful my heart just stops". Barrett I guess seems way less articulate to me. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:40:46 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: REAP On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, 2fs wrote: > > Did cassette ever actually "give vinyl a run for its money"? >> >> > Not being an audiophile -- indeed having no idea what one was -- I bought a > lot of cassettes in high school (1983-87), and didn't entirely stop until > years later. I did buy some vinyl too. But cassettes I could listen to on > my own boom box and later Walkman while moping in my room; whereas I could > only play LPs on my parents' turntable in the living room, where anyone > could see me and hear my music -- clearly an unpleasant situation for > everyone involved. > > Albums I first bought, new, on cassette include Einstuzende Neubauten's > Halber Mensch, Ah...I can see from your music selections at the time why you wrote the last sentence of the first paragraph... Roughly contemporary with that, I think, was the one that had 15 minutes of a bandsaw (or so it sounded) and Blixa muttering "this was meant to end all parties." Indeed, I'm sure it would have. I only ever tried out using The Residents' version of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in that office. Worked quite well, in fact! (Note: I should state that even though I was indeed in college during the era of cassette dominance, I never bought prerecorded cassettes* - I was enough of an audio snob to recognize their inferiority, although hardly an audiophile as such.) * Handful of exceptions for 25-cent finds at used stores... > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:59:25 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: REAP On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, 2fs wrote: > >>> Did cassette ever actually "give vinyl a run for its money"? My >>> memory >>> suggests that neither I nor anybody I knew ever bought an album on >>> cassette when vinyl was available -- if you really wanted the >>> cassette >> >> You have to be the right age: for a few years in the early '80s, >> cassettes >> were the dominant medium. Never among audiophiles, to be sure - >> but the >> popularity of the cassette Walkman, and cassettes' greater >> portability, >> meant that a lot of college & high-school students bought music >> exclusively >> on cassette. > > Not being an audiophile -- indeed having no idea what one was -- I > bought a lot of cassettes in high school (1983-87), and didn't > entirely stop until years later. I did buy some vinyl too. But > cassettes I could listen to on my own boom box and later Walkman > while moping in my room; whereas I could only play LPs on my > parents' turntable in the living room, where anyone could see me > and hear my music -- clearly an unpleasant situation for everyone > involved. (The parental turntable lacked a cassette deck, but I > did tape a few LPs by putting a boom box in front of the speakers, > which actually worked better than you'd expect.) After I got my > own turntable in 1987 I bought a lot more vinyl, but then cassettes > made a mini-comeback during the time period between deciding to get > a CD player and actually getting one. This coincides with my art school years pretty much exactly. II couldn't afford to be too picky about music since I only had my boom box and walkman and no money to speak of. I have, to this day, a huge collection of compilation tapes. Eventually, I got a dual deck and then went to town making my own. Recently I've been going through old boxes getting my life out of storage and I seem to have Skinny Puppy, Joy Division and 80s Nick Cave only on cassette - never replaced them with CD. My art school buddies and I got into taping movies directly - one of my friends set it up - so we'd have the dialogue only version of our favorite films. Then when we went on our long drives to wherever for whatever crazy event we were going to stage, we'd be able to listen to our favorite movies while en route. It's odd but film has such a different take when all you have is the audio. I bought cassettes in my travels up into the mid-90s because it was the only way to find music in Eastern Europe at that time. I have Romanian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Kosavar/Albanian music on cassette from a long ramble I took through the Balkans in '96. My first intro to Robyn was a compilation tape given to me in '84 I believe. - - c ps: Anyone else love the scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack's character talks about the "making of a great compilation tape?" "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:06:40 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Love Songs On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:37 AM, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > Robyn's stuff is "clever" - and therefore consciously written - > with humor . .still affecting, and effective . .but . . > Syd, i think is more pure - > he seems unfiltered, personal, private, confessional > and therefore more "real" I have to weigh in with Nick Cave's "The Boatman's Call" being one big love song and many of the tunes are quite beautifully written ("Into My Arms" and "(Are You) The One I've Been Waiting For" come to mind) as well as just about any song from Leonard Cohen, right up to his beautiful "Alexandra Leaving" on his more recent "Ten New Songs." Your choice of descriptors for Syd I would use for Mr. Cohen's work as well. - - c - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness." Martin Luther King Jr. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:13:40 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: REAP i love that scene - and the entire movie http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/in-the-mix-the- rebirth-of-the-mixtape-866759.html In the mix: The rebirth of the mixtape my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 7/28/2008 1:05:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, meketone@ix.netcom.com writes: ps: Anyone else love the scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack's character talks about the "making of a great compilation tape?" **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:46:08 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Love Songs On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:37 PM, wrote: > Robyn's stuff is "clever" - and therefore consciously written - > with humor . .still affecting, and effective . .but . . > Syd, i think is more pure - > he seems unfiltered, personal, private, confessional > and therefore more "real" See, I was thinking about just this the other day, in the context of listening to "Eye" -- a lot of Robyn's lyrics are clever and ironic -- but he also does have sincere, confessional songs. I think "Birds in Perspex" and "I Feel Beautiful" fall very strongly toward the "sincere" end of the vector. They are certainly consciously written, and some humor is in them -- but when I listen to them, they feel much more like the artist baring his soul to me in a very intimate way, than like the acerbic prankster of "Brenda's Iron Sledge" or "Queen Elvis" poking brittle fun at the universe. Agreed that Syd is sincere and is baring his soul, but he just sounds very confused and hurt. J ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:49:32 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Love Songs - -- Poem Lover is rumored to have mumbled on 28. Juli 2008 08:37:08 -0700 regarding Re: Love Songs: > Lately I can't stop listening to Snow Patrol, esp their album Eyes Open (I > think that's the right title). lots of gorgeous love songs. I consider them a guilty pleasure. I saw them live and it was one of the most boring shows I've ever seen. I guess Jacknife Lee makes all the difference there ... but "Chasing Cars" is definitely one of those songs I turn to in the middle of the night when I'm coming home slightly drunk from a party. Coldplay's "The Scientist" is another one of those. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:51:48 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Love Songs i agree that robyn's songs are very effective- as is his voice, and performance the opening of I Feel Beautiful is completely unfiltered and real . . . then comes a humorous line about "Tomatoes" yet this also is moving for the line about "Watering me" which always kills me . . so that's what make robyn a great artist syd does sound confused - and hurt - and that's what makes it even more effective because it's just real emotion, real pain, real feelings totally naked without bringing attention to it my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 7/28/2008 1:46:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, anacreon@gmail.com writes: See, I was thinking about just this the other day, in the context of listening to "Eye" -- a lot of Robyn's lyrics are clever and ironic -- but he also does have sincere, confessional songs. I think "Birds in Perspex" and "I Feel Beautiful" fall very strongly toward the "sincere" end of the vector. They are certainly consciously written, and some humor is in them -- but when I listen to them, they feel much more like the artist baring his soul to me in a very intimate way, than like the acerbic prankster of "Brenda's Iron Sledge" or "Queen Elvis" poking brittle fun at the universe. Agreed that Syd is sincere and is baring his soul, but he just sounds very confused and hurt. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:07:32 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: REAP On Jul 28, 2008, at 10:13 AM, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > i love that scene - and the entire movie > http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/in- > the-mix-the- > rebirth-of-the-mixtape-866759.html > In the mix: The rebirth of the mixtape > I have always loved the compilation tape and, after reading this, am happy to know it is not a lost part of our culture. The comments about the covers is spot on as well - always so carefully considered, usually collage in my circle. I was thinking of my first cassettes and seem to recall starting to make the switch at the end of high school. I had a turntable and plenty of vinyl but every weekend I took a long drive to visit my parents who were living about 150 miles away. I had a VW squareback that leaked horribly when it rained and one day I found a cassette of Jackson Browne's "Saturate Before Using" floating in the puddle behind the drivers seat. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:12:37 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: REAP how appropriate ! :-D my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 7/28/2008 2:10:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, meketone@ix.netcom.com writes: I had a VW squareback that leaked horribly when it rained and one day I found a cassette of Jackson Browne's "Saturate Before Using" floating in the puddle behind the drivers seat. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:07:54 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Eb", and quite a few people in the world have seen my penis oh man, "in the drink" is one of my favourite phrases! you know, at the time, i thought that the *Nevermind* cover was kinda too clever for its own good. but now that i look back on it, i'd rank it right up there with *Music From Big Pink* and *Opiate*. i sense a threadmerge coming on: how about mojo nixon, "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin"? i think the only ones i bought (excluding bargain-bin jobs) were lubricated goat's *Plays The Devil's Music* and *Paddock Of Love* -- not sure if these have ever seen the light of day on CD? i also received on cassette, when i was seven or eight years old, *KISS ALIVE I*...as an easter gift. cross my heart, it's true! yeah, it did -- except when you had meddlesome siblings bound and determined to get their fucking voices onto your recordings! indeed, it must've been '88 or '89 before CDs started coming out on the same date as cassettes and vinyls, rather than weeks later. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:41:43 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Love Songs On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:37 PM, wrote: > > Robyn's stuff is "clever" - and therefore consciously written - > > with humor . .still affecting, and effective . .but . . > > Syd, i think is more pure - > > he seems unfiltered, personal, private, confessional > > and therefore more "real" > > See, I was thinking about just this the other day, in the context of > listening to "Eye" -- a lot of Robyn's lyrics are clever and ironic -- > but he also does have sincere, confessional songs. I don't see the opposition of "clever" and "sincere" you folks are seeing. Writing a song - even for an experienced, accomplished writer like Robyn - isn't a natural, spontaneous act like, I dunno, laughing at a funny joke. It's a question of (for lyrics) finding words to express whatever it is you want to express. And I see no reason to think that Robyn's very *first* ways of thinking how to express something might not be clever, humorous, witty, etc. I actually think it's harder to effectively express things with "plain" everyday language (why early solo Lennon is so powerful - not just in its bluntness and simplicity but because it is so hard to do that and not just sound cliched or boring). Finally, I think "sincerity" is always a performance. No matter how genuine in origin any emotions expressed in a song might be, by the time those emotions pass through writing, through composing, through performing, and through recording (and performign again), they are a performance. I don't doubt that a good performer is able to get back in touch with those emotions, and perhaps an even better one is able to persuade audiences s/he's doing so even if in fact s/he feels like crap and is thinking more about the damned bus having broken down again. (In other words, being "real" or authentic is utterly overrated. I might enjoy a song that sounds as if the performer's about to completely lose it and go after the nearest bystander with an axe...but I really hope that's a performance.) > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:47:15 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Love Songs > Finally, I think "sincerity" is always a performance. No matter how genuine > in origin any emotions expressed in a song might be, by the time those > emotions pass through writing, through composing, through performing, and > through recording (and performign again), they are a performance. I don't > doubt that a good performer is able to get back in touch with those > emotions, and perhaps an even better one is able to persuade audiences > s/he's doing so even if in fact s/he feels like crap and is thinking more > about the damned bus having broken down again. > (In other words, being "real" or authentic is utterly overrated. Word, I might enjoy a song that sounds as if the performer's about to > completely lose it and go after the nearest bystander with an axe...but I > really hope that's a performance.) Depends on the bystander. First time I saw Iggy he decided he didn't like this guy's haircut and spent half the show harassing him - stuff like changing lines from "Sister Midnight" to something along the lines of "I dreamed I found that prick with the bad hair in my bed." It was funny as hell. (Not to mention he opened the show with a wicked harangue about Peter Noone, who had the misfortune to open for him...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:34:30 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and quite a few people in the world have seen my penis On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > oh man, "in the drink" is one of my favourite phrases! Surely then this is one of your favourite songs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIByfkxAGbA - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:07:58 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Love Songs Jeremy wrote: > Does anybody else sing about love with the degree of insight and > meaning to be found in (off the top of my head) "I Feel Beautiful", > "Arms of Love", "Heaven", every track on "Perspex Island", > "Heliotrope" etc? I would be interested in listening to their stuff. I > was going through my record collection looking for love songs and > having trouble finding much that really moves me like Robyn > Hitchcock's work. Nothing has ever quite caught either giddy highs or the horrible troughs of being in love quite like "69 Love Songs" by The Magnetic Fields. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:37:43 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Love songs/Cassettes >Does anybody else sing about love with the degree of insight and >meaning to be found in (off the top of my head) "I Feel Beautiful", >"Arms of Love", "Heaven", every track on "Perspex Island", >"Heliotrope" etc? I would be interested in listening to their stuff. I >was going through my record collection looking for love songs and >having trouble finding much that really moves me like Robyn >Hitchcock's work. Try John lennon's "Oh my love". Heartachingly beautiful. I also get teary-eyed at the mutton birds' "While you sleep", but perhaps that's just me. Re:Cassettes, the other thing you've got to remember is that, pre-CD, pre-YouTube, they were the prime medium for self-released albums.Of the 20 remaining pre-recorded cassettes I own, nine are self-released albums of this type, and three others are from small labels and never appeared on vinyl or CD. And someday i must learn how to digitise them! At a peak I may have had as many as 60-70 pre-recorded cassettes, I think - waaay below the number of vinyl albums I owned. 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: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:25:47 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: REAP On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Did cassette ever actually "give vinyl a run for its money"? My memory > suggests that neither I nor anybody I knew ever bought an album on > cassette when vinyl was available -- if you really wanted the cassette > for walkmaning or something, you would buy the record and tape it. But > I remember them being in stores so I guess somebody must have bought If you were born when I was (1971), and probably no more than a year or two before or afterwards, you started your record collection on cassettes. I switched to CD's in the early '90's. There were a few items that took so long to come out on CD that I actually digitized them from cassette. So that was us... Gen Y or whatever, a pretty forgettable/forgotten demographic. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:41:47 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: REAP I was born in 1971, and my first purchases were vinyl, and then I did just that, would dub the album onto tape. ea On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Rex wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Jeremy Osner > wrote: > >> Did cassette ever actually "give vinyl a run for its money"? My >> memory >> suggests that neither I nor anybody I knew ever bought an album on >> cassette when vinyl was available -- if you really wanted the >> cassette >> for walkmaning or something, you would buy the record and tape it. >> But >> I remember them being in stores so I guess somebody must have bought > > > If you were born when I was (1971), and probably no more than a > year or two > before or afterwards, you started your record collection on > cassettes. I > switched to CD's in the early '90's. There were a few items that > took so > long to come out on CD that I actually digitized them from cassette. > > So that was us... Gen Y or whatever, a pretty forgettable/forgotten > demographic. > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:39:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: my worlds collide Some of you like Jon Brion and some of you don't, I believe. But the only reason I know about him is from this list and his performances with Robyn. So when I got an e-mail from a friend on the Kinks list about one of his recent performances, I had to laugh. It said, "... he and the fast fingered mandolinist from Nickel Creek went into a serious geek out over of Montreal. They did one of the songs you sent to me, I forget which one, and talked about following OM around and doing their songs outside the stage door until they got arrested. It was a weird moment that you would have appreciated." And then there was this, from What's in Your Bag at Amoeba Records. http://youtube.com/watch?v=qnhbHFgagIM It made this slave to of Montreal smile on an otherwise crappy day. Jill ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #669 ********************************