From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #68 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, April 4 2010 Volume 18 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Militant Grammarians of FegList [lep ] Re: Production [2fs ] Re: Militant Grammarians of FegList [2fs ] Re: Shitty Wok [woj ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:18:57 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Militant Grammarians of FegList Yes, I often am. And, anyway, I prefer the company to most Fegs to that of Wikipedia. xo On Apr 3, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Andy Shmushkin wrote: > Too lazy to Google, are we? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangeways,_Here_We_Come > > > > >> I think something this has been discussed onlist before, but I have a >> wretched memory and forget how it ended. If it happened. >> >> Does anyone know why "Strangeways, Here We Come" has quotation marks >> around the name? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:01:56 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Production > It looks to me like my posts have been showing up twice. Is that true for > everyone? (Assume someone else already responded if it's more than three > hours after I posted this - thanks.) > > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:47 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Rex wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, kevin studyvin >> > wrote: >> > >> > > ...and that's why recordings from the 1930s still sound so good. >> > >> > >> > I've been increasingly noticing that myself. It extends well into the >> > '50s. >> > Fifties country songs ALL sound good. I really haven't heard a bad one >> > yet. Almost all the songs are good, too. It's kind of scary. >> > >> >> On the "sound" point: I'm not going to agree re '30s - a bit limited in >> range and tinny - but it seems that once we hit the mid/late '40s and >> bebop, >> a lot of *that* stuff still sounds really good. >> >> As to the quality bit: that's probably true, both objectively and >> perceptually. Objectively, because there was much less music being >> released, >> fewer outlets for it, etc....and, as I said, the gatekeepers tended to >> look >> at "musical" criteria or even interpret commercial criteria in terms of >> (their notion of) "musical" criteria. Perceptually, because the better >> stuff >> tends to survive while the crap fades. >> >> The whole punk-rock revolution was definitely a double-sided thing: on the >> one hand, you didn't need a bajillion dollars, a Berklee degree, and >> twenty >> years of practicing 64th-note scales in the mixolydian mode in order to >> record; on the other, a lot of those bands who couldn't really play their >> instruments when they started couldn't play them later, either, and >> couldn't >> write songs ever. But for a while, at least, calling them on either point >> automatically entitled you to being strangled in a greying hippie beard by >> some dude with a mohawk. >> >> Except, I don't care. There is *still* way more good music out there than >> I >> could possibly have time to listen to - than anyone other than a >> millionaire >> who listened to music 24/7 to listen to - so who really cares if there's >> also a lot of crap? I have faith that there will always be some kids >> somewhere who figure out what good music is - on their own, or digging >> through old crates of...uh, used laptops on which users never deleted >> their >> mp3s. >> >> >> -- >> ...Jeff Norman >> >> The Architectural Dance Society >> http://spanghew.wordpress.com >> > > > > -- > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.wordpress.com > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:04:50 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Militant Grammarians of FegList The article does not mention why the title appears in quotes - it only implies it. I think the real answer is the one offered by someone else earlier (given that many Smiths album titles appear in quotes): Morrissey or someone just liked the way it looked. I wouldn't insist on it. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:18 PM, lep wrote: > Yes, I often am. > > And, anyway, I prefer the company to most Fegs to that of Wikipedia. > > xo > > > On Apr 3, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Andy Shmushkin > wrote: > > Too lazy to Google, are we? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangeways,_Here_We_Come >> >> >> >> >> I think something this has been discussed onlist before, but I have a >>> wretched memory and forget how it ended. If it happened. >>> >>> Does anyone know why "Strangeways, Here We Come" has quotation marks >>> around the name? >>> >> - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:13:12 -0400 From: woj Subject: Re: Shitty Wok one time at band camp, Tom Clark (tclark@mac.com) said: >On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:11 AM, 2fs wrote: >> I should probably give them a chance...but "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club" is >> the most desperately hip-seeking, look-at-me band name around, isn't it? >The only thing I know about them is they were somehow affiliated with >Brian Jonestown Massacre huh. based on the name, i always assumed they were a georgia satellite spin-off. woj ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #68 *******************************