From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #124 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 22 2009 Volume 17 : Number 124 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: FZ, but the subject's changed... [Rex ] Re: FZ, but the subject's changed... [Rex ] RE: FZ, but the subject's changed... ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: FZ, but the subject's changed... [Barbara Soutar ] Re: FZ, but the subject's changed... [kevin studyvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:13:19 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: FZ, but the subject's changed... On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:52 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > The saddest tune I know is Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds," mostly as >>> performed by Neil Young. >> >> >> I'm awfully partial to the original version, as much as I love Neil's. >> For some reason Ian & Sylvia just sit well with me, however many reasons >> might be cited for them not to. >> > > What's not to like? I love that stuff. "When I Was a Cowboy" is a > classic. > Some people are really against anything with even a whiff of whitebread folk music. I'm not one of them, but I sort of understand the instinct. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:15:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: FZ, but the subject's changed... On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:12 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Oh, I forgot I'm a sucker for Patti Smith's "Pissin' In a River." And >> "Blues In D" from the first McGarrigle Sisters LP. "One More Cup Of Coffee" >> seriously used to put the screws to my little broken heart too. >> > > If you want a sad, sad McGarrigles song, try "I eat dinner". > Oh damn yes. I don't know that I even have a copy of that, but I remain pretty scarred from just having heard it performed live on the radio once. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:03:48 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: FZ, but the subject's changed... > If you want a sad, sad McGarrigles song, try "I eat dinner". > > James One of my top tearjerkers. It's sad enough without any external context, but that album and song happened to come out around the time my dad died, and I always think of my mom when I hear it. Beautiful though -- worth the tears. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:15:20 -0700 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: FZ, but the subject's changed... Oh, these are two of my all time favorite sad songs: Dream Letter by Tim Buckley and Fred Neil's The Water is Wide. Both I listen to when I want to be ASAP (As Sad As Possible). Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:14:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: piles of tissues James wrote: "The saddest piece ever recorded is in a major key! If you can sit through "Puff the magic dragon" without getting even vaguely teary-eyed, you have no soul." I still completely burst into tears at "without his lifelong friend..." I am a wimp. I just came back from my second of two nights seeing of Montreal. I will truly never get them out of my system. Sigh. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:15:46 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: FZ, but the subject's changed... On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:52 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > >> The saddest tune I know is Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds," mostly as >>>> performed by Neil Young. >>> >>> >>> I'm awfully partial to the original version, as much as I love Neil's. >>> For some reason Ian & Sylvia just sit well with me, however many reasons >>> might be cited for them not to. >>> >> >> What's not to like? I love that stuff. "When I Was a Cowboy" is a >> classic. >> > > Some people are really against anything with even a whiff of whitebread > folk music. I'm not one of them, but I sort of understand the instinct. > I'm mostly inclined to feel that way myself (e.g., I still occasionally give thanks for not having to endure "Greenback Dollar" on the radio anymore), but Ian & Sylvia are different. Not only are they Canadians, which I think automatically earns them a coolness point or two, but Ian Tyson is *an actual cowboy,* and how do you top that? Maybe by being Barack Obama, or John Cale, but there aren't a lot of openings for those positions. NP: Hour after hour of the 1973-74 King Crimson, as accompaniment to rereading JG Ballard's Vermilion Sands. R.I.P. The Drowned World is up next. ("Asbury Park" from Crimson's U.S.A. is some of the finest jazz-metal improv ever, i.e.: Bruford.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:49:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Who the Nazis makes? Longhorn! Longhorn breed! http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3291819.html?menu= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:15:39 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Tee-Hee originally read this headline... >> Earth Day Food for Thought: Shrinking Your Cookprint << ...as shrinking your *cockprint*. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #124 ********************************