From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #692 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, August 26 2008 Volume 16 : Number 692 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Want to hear a weird cover of "Chinese Bones"? ["Sumiko Keay" ] Re: interview? [2fs ] RE: interview? ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: interview? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: is this thing on? [djini@voicenet.com] D&D Football (Slight Return) [Jeff Dwarf ] Mini-Review ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Mini-Review [michael wells ] Re: interview? [craigie* ] Re: is this thing on? [craigie* ] Fegmania ["Jeremy Osner" ] RE: Fegmania ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Fegmania [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] If you want to know what the future holds... ["kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Want to hear a weird cover of "Chinese Bones"? Weird but fun - thanks for the link. Sumi On 8/24/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > At archive.org, you can listen to Suzanne Vega singing about the line > between us; the band playing behind her is the Grateful Dead. It's > September 88 in Madison Square Garden. Not necessarily a great listen > (and I *like* The Dead) but I'm glad to have heard it -- I had the bit > of information floating round my branes that The Dead had once covered > this song but no clue what it would have sounded like. The URL is > http://www.archive.org/details/gd88-09-24.sbd.rich.425.sbeok.shnf > track #10. > > Cheers > J > > -- > READIN 2.0 > http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:35:58 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: interview? - -- Jeremy Osner is rumored to have mumbled on 21. August 2008 11:07:13 -0400 regarding Re: interview?: >> You can find a transcript of the interview here: >> >> >> > > Interesting that they were planning to have Morris singing in > Storefront Hitchcock -- too bad he didn't end up in the movie! Did the > book of short stories ever come together? I'm not sure, but ISTR that there was something or other at some point. I just re-read the interview (and corrected a few minor mistakes). I can't believe that was almost 12 years ago! The interview is much longer and more in-depth than I remembered it. I know I was terribly nervous and probably overdid it in trying to prove how knowledgable I was about him. So he was actually *quite* patient with us. :-) That was the last time he played in Germany :-( I guess he never did develop the kind of relationship with a continental label that he hoped for. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:07:00 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: interview? On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > You can find a transcript of the interview here: >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> That was the last time he played in Germany :-( I guess he never did >> develop the kind of relationship with a continental label that he hoped for. >> > Hadn't really thought of it, but...is Yep Roc distributed in England or elsewhere, or are his releases otherwise distributed there? Or do you all have to buy US imports from Yep Roc? He's had iffy or nonexistent relationships with labels since the end of the Warners deal, it seems... Fortunately, that's not as much of a problem as it used to be, especially for an artist with an existing fanbase* like Robyn's. * Having started watching _Flight of the Conchords_ I can't type that word without adapting the lyrics to "Freeze" to something like "there's a fanbase in this world...and her name is Mel." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:26:21 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: interview? The Go-Betweens last album Oceans Apart was distributed on Yep Roc in the US and LoMax in the UK back in 2005. I'm not sure if Robyn has the same label deal arrangement in the UK and Europe as the GB's had. Michael B. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of 2fs Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:07 AM To: Sebastian Hagedorn Cc: Jeremy Osner; Pigworkers Local 47 Subject: Re: interview? On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > You can find a transcript of the interview here: >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> That was the last time he played in Germany :-( I guess he never did >> develop the kind of relationship with a continental label that he hoped for. >> > Hadn't really thought of it, but...is Yep Roc distributed in England or elsewhere, or are his releases otherwise distributed there? Or do you all have to buy US imports from Yep Roc? He's had iffy or nonexistent relationships with labels since the end of the Warners deal, it seems... Fortunately, that's not as much of a problem as it used to be, especially for an artist with an existing fanbase* like Robyn's. * Having started watching _Flight of the Conchords_ I can't type that word without adapting the lyrics to "Freeze" to something like "there's a fanbase in this world...and her name is Mel." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:47:56 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: interview? - -- 2fs is rumored to have mumbled on 25. August 2008 10:07:00 -0500 regarding Re: interview?: > Hadn't really thought of it, but...is Yep Roc distributed in England or > elsewhere, or are his releases otherwise distributed there? In England it's Yep Roc, in Germany it's an outfit called Cargo Records: AFAICT they just distribute the Yep Roc release in Germany, i.e. it's not an actual German release like it used to be. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:46:35 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: is this thing on? kevin wrote: > > Kotzwinkle rocks. I recommend The Hot Jazz Trio too. > You've gotta love anyone who'll put his name to a book called "Walter the Farting Dog" ("Walter Canis Inflatus", in the Latin, Amazon helpfully tells us. Why we need a Latin edition remains a mystery). "Where the Deep Ones Are" finally came in to the bookstore! Sold out the first day. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:59:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: D&D Football (Slight Return) Just another mention, if anyone else is interested in joining the unofficial feg Fantasy Football thingy. We have 4 teams at the moment, which is a little low, and could use 2-4 more. Actually knowledge of football, up to and including not knowing the difference between a QB and a K, etc, is not necessarily a hinderance to playing Fantasy Football, especially if you have good math skillz. I'll probably lock the league in and set off the autodraft next Sunday night/Monday morning. http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/register/tos?league_id=147377&password=BlackSnake Or, go to http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1, click the "Sign Up Now" or "Get Another Team" button and follow the links to "Join a Custom League". When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below. League ID#: 147377 Password: BlackSnake Vigillance! "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 . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:00:30 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Mini-Review Elliott Brood, *Mountain Meadows* ~ i think we might just have our album of the year right here. you heard this yet, wells? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:17:07 -0500 From: michael wells Subject: Re: Mini-Review You're the second person to commend this very album to my attention this very week. That means I'm downloading it now. Without further hesitation. I will reserve judgement on 'album of the year' however, especially with REAL BLASTY from Kyle Andrews out there. See also releases from Trinacria (Norwegian industrial art school dropout background noise metal) and The Notwist (stellar Krautronica) for other contenders. I'm not entirely with you on the Elbow disc, but it's growing on me. Michael n.p. "Bad Motor Scooter" - Montrose > Elliott Brood, *Mountain Meadows* > ~ i think we might just have our album of the year right here. you > heard > this yet, wells? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:23:06 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: interview? See? you should have gone for Marty... Peter can be taciturn at best... c* On 24/08/2008, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > i hate when that happens >> it's rare that meeting any artist >> increases my appreciation >> even if it goes really well . . . >> >> but when you have a bad experience - it's tough to get over >> i met the clash in the UK in 1981 >> took a long time to get over >> > > My slow decline in interest in The Church may have started after a terrible > interview I did with Peter Koppes back in the late 1980s... > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:25:42 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: is this thing on? I saw that this weekend in the Gamestore my daughter plays Pokemon TCG in ... Any news of "Where the Old Ones Are"? c* On 18/08/2008, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > > kevin wrote: > > > > Kotzwinkle rocks. I recommend The Hot Jazz Trio too. > > > > You've gotta love anyone who'll put his name to a book called "Walter the > Farting Dog" > ("Walter Canis Inflatus", in the Latin, Amazon helpfully tells us. Why we > need a Latin > edition remains a mystery). > > "Where the Deep Ones Are" finally came in to the bookstore! Sold out the > first day. > > Jeanne > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:09:08 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Fegmania (Our eponymous album!) I haven't listened much to this record before the present time -- it always seemed pretty weak to me. But now -- well, I have been listening to it quite a bit over the last week or so, and it's really growing on me, bonus trax and all. Hey didja know, "The Bells of Rhymney" is an old Pete Seeger tune, and before that a poem by a Welsh Marxist, about workers dying in mine accidents. Here are The Byrds covering it, in a more innocent time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eY5ANgGQcU J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:44:03 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Fegmania J wrote: >(Our eponymous album!) I haven't listened much to this record before the present time -- it always seemed pretty weak >to me. But now -- well, I have been listening to it quite a bit over the last week or so, and it's really growing >on me, bonus trax and all. Hey didja know, "The Bells of Rhymney" is an old Pete Seeger tune, and before that a >poem by a Welsh Marxist, about workers dying in mine accidents. Here are The Byrds covering it, in a more innocent >time: >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eY5ANgGQcU Fegmania! holds a special place for me as it got me hooked on Robyn when I bought a vinyl copy in 1985 after reading a couple of reviews (RS, Musician). After that I scooped up GLTHO, BSDR and Invisible Hitchcock on cd, placed a special order for Underwater Moonlight on vinyl after reading a glowing review in Trouser Press, and it was off to the races. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:16:10 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Fegmania i loved this album when it came out and listened to it to death . . . but then it seemed to date quickly i do love it again now (even though it's only the Rhino version) my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 8/26/2008 8:14:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, anacreon@gmail.com writes: (Our eponymous album!) I haven't listened much to this record before the present time -- it always seemed pretty weak to me. But now -- well, I have been listening to it quite a bit over the last week or so, and it's really growing on me, bonus trax and all. Hey didja know, "The Bells of Rhymney" is an old Pete Seeger tune, and before that a poem by a Welsh Marxist, about workers dying in mine accidents. Here are The Byrds covering it, in a more innocent time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eY5ANgGQcU **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:11:08 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: If you want to know what the future holds... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html And in other news: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/movies/24alle.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin np thurston moore, trees outside the academy ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #692 ********************************