From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #699 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 2 2008 Volume 16 : Number 699 Today's Subjects: ----------------- It Was Twenty Years Ago To-Day... ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: It Was Twenty Years Ago To-Day... [FSThomas ] Re: It Was Twenty Years Ago To-Day... ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Byrds covers ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Byrds covers ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Byrds covers [2fs ] RH tickets on sale now for 11/22 [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Byrds covers [Jeff Dwarf ] helpful music-related information [Christopher Gross ] RE: Byrds covers ["Bachman, Michael" ] Reaps [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Byrds covers [Tom Clark ] Another Hitchcock-free post ["kevin studyvin" ] Lost songs ["Jeremy Osner" ] [none] [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Byrds covers [2fs ] Re: Voice Interview ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Another Hitchcock-free post ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Shitbrain's Third Season Begins... ["Stacked Crooked" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:48:35 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: It Was Twenty Years Ago To-Day... ...when i first witnessed the egyptians performing "live". "in the flesh", so to speak! labor day, 1988, that is -- don't know whether it was september 1st (although it *may have* been!). meanwhile, *to-day* to-day, this happened. i was standing at an intersection, waiting to cross, just while a long-haired, middle-aged, native-american dude was walking down the street muttering obscenities to everybody and nobody. suddenly he pointed at me, and without breaking stride, shrieked, "moby! are you gay? i'm not homohpobic, but...moby!!!" i was laughing my ass off, although a guy, waiting at the stoplight in his car, told him to fuck off. it's the second time in recent months that somebody has pointed at me at yelled, "moby!" so while i personally don't see much of a resemblance, i guess that it's not too surprising on that count -- but this was about the last person on earth whom i'd have expected to know who moby is. huhn, maybe he's more well-known that i've been assuming? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:10:01 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: It Was Twenty Years Ago To-Day... Stacked Crooked wrote: > ...when i first witnessed the egyptians performing "live". "in the > flesh", so to speak! labor day, 1988, that is -- don't know whether it was > september 1st (although it *may have* been!). Alas and alack it was September 5th. http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/labor-day > meanwhile, *to-day* to-day, this happened. > > i was standing at an intersection, waiting to cross, just while a > long-haired, middle-aged, native-american dude was walking down the street > muttering obscenities to everybody and nobody. suddenly he pointed at me, > and without breaking stride, shrieked, "moby! are you gay? i'm not > homohpobic, but...moby!!!" > > i was laughing my ass off, although a guy, waiting at the stoplight in his > car, told him to fuck off. it's the second time in recent months that > somebody has pointed at me at yelled, "moby!" so while i personally don't > see much of a resemblance, i guess that it's not too surprising on that > count -- but this was about the last person on earth whom i'd have expected > to know who moby is. huhn, maybe he's more well-known that i've been > assuming? Most amusing, but post a pic, dude. Let the (m)asses decide. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:06:45 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: It Was Twenty Years Ago To-Day... . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 06:36:15 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Byrds covers On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:40 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Uh...the Doors covered "Alabama Song," which was written by Kurt Weill & > Bertolt Brecht. So it's not a "Jim Morrison song" except in the sense that, > quite possibly, the Doors' version popularized it among rock audiences, Exactly -- that's the subject of this thread of messages, I thought, was to see whether any covers had been taken back by the originator of the song? "Alabama Song" is a Doors piece in the same sense that "Watchtower" is a Hendrix piece. (Or similar sense, perhaps not exactly the same.) J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 07:15:23 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Byrds covers On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > "Alabama Song" is a Doors piece in the same sense that > "Watchtower" is a Hendrix piece. (Or similar sense, perhaps not > exactly the same.) Hm, I was just thinking of some important distinctions. Still I think "Lenya covering Morrison's 'Alabama Song'" would be similar in key ways to "Dylan covering Hendrix' 'Watchtower'". J ("I like the Doors but I recognize that a lot of smart people don't, and can see how they have valid reasons for not doing.") - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 07:03:10 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Byrds covers On 9/2/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:40 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > > Uh...the Doors covered "Alabama Song," which was written by Kurt Weill & > > Bertolt Brecht. So it's not a "Jim Morrison song" except in the sense > that, > > quite possibly, the Doors' version popularized it among rock audiences, > > > Exactly -- that's the subject of this thread of messages, I thought, > was to see whether any covers had been taken back by the originator of > the song? "Alabama Song" is a Doors piece in the same sense that > "Watchtower" is a Hendrix piece. Ah. Gotcha. Sorry I misread you (esp. dumb on my part since I then went on to make nearly the point you were already making!)... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:12:04 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: RH tickets on sale now for 11/22 robyn somerville my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************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, 2 Sep 2008 12:09:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Byrds covers 2fs wrote: > Bowie's done a couple of > nice versions (of "Alabama Song"), and the > Psychedelic Furs do a nice take on it as well). I'm pretty sure the Furs did "Mack the Knife," not "Alabama Song." "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: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:26:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: helpful music-related information The soundtrack to "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" is now available for purchase on iTunes. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:20:48 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Byrds covers - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Dwarf Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:10 PM To: Kentucky Fried Jesus Christ Subject: Re: Byrds covers 2fs wrote: >> Bowie's done a couple of > nice versions (of "Alabama Song"), and the >> Psychedelic Furs do a nice take on it as well). >I'm pretty sure the Furs did "Mack the Knife," not "Alabama Song." I've got a rather Germanic take of the "Alabama Song" by Ute Lemperer from her live Blood and Feathers cd. She sings in French, German and English on the cd. She also performs other 'Three Penny Opera' Brecht-Weil songs on it besides the "Alabama Song" plus nice between song banter. Michael B. NP RH&TE - Bad Case of History - Live ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:25:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reaps Don LaFontaine http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_en_ce/obit_lafontaine;_ylt=AgqCkjO60igCHEXSQhlKfAhY24cA Jerry Reed http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_en_ot/obit_jerry_reed;_ylt=Au82AmtjPYgZu2pSiKT8JMVY24cA "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: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:25:00 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Byrds covers On Sep 2, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > I've got a rather Germanic take of the "Alabama Song" by Ute Lemperer > from her live Blood and Feathers cd. She sings in French, German and > English on the cd. She also performs other 'Three Penny Opera' > Brecht-Weil songs on it besides the "Alabama Song" plus nice between > song banter. She's put out two volumes of Kurt Weill songs, the first of which is among my favorite albums ever. Great stuff! < http://www.amazon.com/Ute-Lemper-Sings-Kurt-Weill/dp/B0000041VG > - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:15:09 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Another Hitchcock-free post I read a lot of comix. One I enjoy, Planet Karen, was gone for a while but it's back now and piquant as ever (possibly NSFW due to language): http://planetkaren.girl-wonder.org/index.php?strip_id=583 and on an unrelated thread: http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20080901.html NP: pretty much anything I can think of from 1968, since I'm compiling an election-year souvenir for a couple of friends. Have a favorite tune from The Year All Hell Broke Loose? Wanna share? Rotation seems to be focusing on "Set the Controls For the Heart Of the Sun," "Street Fighting Man," Buffalo Springfield's "On the Way Home," and "Flower Punk" from We're Only In It For the Money...and, of course, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:17:15 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Lost songs Here are some tracks from the studio disk of "Bad Case of History" which are utterly new to me (and they seem mostly to be unknown to The Asking Tree as well), along with initial judgements of them: the title track: eh, could take it or leave it Poisonous Angel: did not really move me Live Man Die: not memorable -- need to listen again Hanging out with dad: hugely fun Ivy Alone: fantastic. a great, great song Testosterone Blues: I started out thinking, Robyn is trying to do funk but sounding very white; but as the song moved along I started liking it better Zipper in my Spine: Fun but without that focussed Hitchcock quality Lost Tribes: portions of this are really great "Ivy Alone" is the only one that I immediately wanted to promote to the front of my psychic playlist. "Hanging out with dad" and "Zipper in my spine" seem a lot like some other early Hitchcock tracks, where I enjoy listening to them and rocking out but don't feel like they are as meaninful as the stuff he is writing later in his career. (This judgement does not however apply to every early Hitchcock track.) BTW has anybody here spent much time thinking about the role of pronouns in Hitchcock's songs? Some of my favorites have titles like "I'm only you" or "I am not me" -- I mean to say I'm pretty sure it's not just those two songs -- where the lyric is keying off confusion of who a pronoun should refer to. Cheers J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:52:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: [none] http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2008/08/interview_robyn.php ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:06:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Byrds covers On 9/2/08, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > > > Bowie's done a couple of > nice versions (of "Alabama Song"), and the > > > Psychedelic Furs do a nice take on it as well). > > > I'm pretty sure the Furs did "Mack the Knife," not "Alabama Song." You are technically correct. The version I was thinking of is the one of the first Hal Wilner Weill tribute album _Lost in the Stars_, which features Richard Butler's vocals. Naturally, my memory retained Butler's voice and filed it under "Psychedelic Furs"... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:18:09 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Voice Interview Is it just me or is the interviewer pretty weak? The questions don't seem to have any substance to them. Nice to read Robyn's bons mots of course; but... J 2008/9/2 Jeff Dwarf : > http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2008/08/interview_robyn.php > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:40:38 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Another Hitchcock-free post kevin studyvin wrote: > > NP: pretty much anything I can think of from 1968, since I'm compiling an > election-year souvenir for a couple of friends. Have a favorite tune from > The Year All Hell Broke Loose? Wanna share? I'd go for - * Piece Of My Heart - Big Brother & The Holding Company * Hickory Wind - The Byrds * Jennifer Juniper - Donovan * Bird Song - The Holy Modal Rounders * The Minotaur's Song - The Incredible String Band * Big Sky - The Kinks * Happiness Stan - The Small Faces * I Heard Her Call My Name - The Velvet Underground I have a friend who took STP and played The Minotaur's Song on repeat for 48 hours straight. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:05:39 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Shitbrain's Third Season Begins... ...NOW!!! . ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #699 ********************************