From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #69 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 5 2010 Volume 18 : Number 069 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Two vinyl questions [ART ROCK POSTER ] Re: Shitty Wok [Miles Goosens ] RH three-album streak? [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #66 ["Bri N" ] Re: RH three-album streak? [Miles Goosens ] Re: RH three-album streak? [Tom Clark ] Re: RH three-album streak? [Jeff Margrave ] Re: RH three-album streak? [Rex ] Re: RH three-album streak? [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:46:19 -0400 From: ART ROCK POSTER Subject: Re: Two vinyl questions one time at band camp, gene@hopstetter.com (gene@hopstetter.com) said: >2. Was "Respect" issued on vinyl? if it was, i don't have a copy. which makes me think it might not have been but i don't believe that 1993 would have seen the end of vinyl releases just yet... woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:53:03 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Shitty Wok On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:13 PM, woj wrote: > 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. Why? And you say that like it might be a bad thing. later, Miles, who sees Dan Baird either performin', geetar-techin', or in the audience at about half of the shows he goes to - -- over a year of feeling guilty about not blogging enough! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:16:00 -0700 From: Rex Subject: RH three-album streak? So I'm rating Propellor Time as the 3rd top-tier RH record in a row. And I started to try to figure out if that's ever happened before (excluding live records and comps and such). In my book, the only other time this has happened was Can of Bees/Underwater Moonlight/BSDR. The Egyptians records are broken up in one direction or another by one relatively "just okay" record in the middle of the classics; the truly great solo records tend to be relative peaks in relative valleys. What's your favorite RH 3-consecutive-LPs run? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:28:27 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #66 > 2. Was "Respect" issued on vinyl? No and I don't know. Nuppy might have a vinyl copy of "Respect" id ther was one issued. - --------------- I don't have it on vinyl but think it was released on a such. I could be wrong. I do have an 'album flat' of the cover framed in my office (along with the framed albums of Trains, Hen Out, Frogs, Bees and the Monochrome Set's Strange Boutique.) Got Prop. Time, but only listened to it once on a bike ride. Sounds good on the headphones. I think it will be a grower, not a show-er. Still don't think I'll dig it as much as Oslo. - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:36:54 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: RH three-album streak? On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Rex wrote: > So I'm rating Propellor Time as the 3rd top-tier RH record in a row. And I > started to try to figure out if that's ever happened before (excluding live > records and comps and such). > > In my book, the only other time this has happened was Can of Bees/Underwater > Moonlight/BSDR. The Egyptians records are broken up in one direction or > another by one relatively "just okay" record in the middle of the classics; > the truly great solo records tend to be relative peaks in relative valleys. > > What's your favorite RH 3-consecutive-LPs run? I don't have PROPELLOR TIME, so I can't make the same call as in your first paragraph yet. (I love the two previous V3 albums, so if I like the new one, d'accord.) But to me, there was once a seven-album Robyn hot streak: UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT -> BSDR -> DECaY -> IODOT -> FEGMANIA! -> EoL -> GoF I know many, including Robyn himself, would object to DECaY being included, but I love it without any reservations, and it's my damn list, so there. later, Miles - -- over a year of feeling guilty about not blogging enough! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:48:48 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: RH three-album streak? On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Rex wrote: > What's your favorite RH 3-consecutive-LPs run? Still waiting for PT to show up, but the first that comes to mind is fegMania!/EoL/GoF. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:50:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Re: RH three-album streak? Rex wrote: > So I'm rating Propellor Time as the > 3rd top-tier RH record in a row. And I > started to try to figure out if that's ever happened before > (excluding live records and comps and such). > > In my book, the only other time this has happened was Can > of Bees/Underwater Moonlight/BSDR. The Egyptians records > are broken up in one direction or another by one relatively > "just okay" record in the middle of the classics; > the truly great solo records tend to be relative peaks in > relative valleys. > > What's your favorite RH 3-consecutive-LPs run? I Often Dream of Trains/Fegmania!/Element of Light "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:19:03 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: RH three-album streak? I don't quite rate FEGMANIA (the LP, not the mania) as a true top-tier record; it's okay, has some filler, is hard to listen to production-wise (more, for me, than any other RH album) and truly pales next to EOL and GOF. I also left out a few records that I really like but must acknowledge to be substantially flawed-- chiefly the last two Egyptians records-- and SPOOKED, which is pretty damned good but short of the mark of the V3 records. If it was just a little better, you'd have a very solid run from Nextdoorland-Spooked-Ole-Oslo-Propellor. I guess the corollary is the question of what's top-flight for each fan. For me, it's all three SBs records, BSDR, IODOT, EOL, GOF, EYE, ME, and the V3 trio. More than half of the man's output... not bad at all. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:03:22 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: RH three-album streak? On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Rex wrote: > > > What's your favorite RH 3-consecutive-LPs run? > > > But to me, there was once a seven-album Robyn hot streak: > > UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT -> BSDR -> DECaY -> IODOT -> FEGMANIA! -> EoL -> GoF > > Yeah, I really can't back GD here either.. And no love for Can of Bees? I'd rank that higher than BSDR and GD. But I'd go for a 4-record streak from IODOT through GoF. Where are we placing Eye chronologically? I didn't enjoy Perspex Island as much (don't care that much for the production, but a couple of weak songs) but I liked Respect pretty well. Moss Elixir's fine in my book, Jewels a bit of a dropoff. (I'm not counting each of those records' limited-edition companion titles in the official discog.) But yes: Robyn Sings and Luxor were rather a lull in our man's career. Spooked showed real potential, and I like it a lot - and I'm pretty hot on the V3 stuff. PT hasn't fully come into its own for me - right now it's below the other two - but then, I'm the sort of idiot who at first thought "Adventure Rocket Ship" was kinda too close to "If I Was a Priest." What a dummy - now it's one of my fave RH songs period. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #69 *******************************