From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #101 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, May 24 2010 Volume 18 : Number 101 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got those Old Eternity Blues [2fs ] Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps ["Stewart C. ] Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps [Jeff Mar] REAP [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps [Tom Clar] REAP [Jeff Margrave ] Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps [kevin st] Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps [iMac Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got those Old Eternity Blues On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > all that said, i think they really blew it titling the record *Together* > rather than *Crash Years*. > Yes, _Together_ is a disturbingly generic title. It's actually a bit worrisome...one of my crankier theories, which I occasionally actually believe, is that if an artist has clever creative song titles and album titles, one sign of decline is increasingly generic titles. I mean, granted: our lad had a song called "Love" on his first solo album...but that almost counts as satire, being the most possible generic song title ever (except possibly "Song"). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 14:45:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got those Old Eternity Blues 2fs wrote: > Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > all that said, i think they really blew it titling the > > record *Together* rather than *Crash Years*. > > > > Yes, _Together_ is a disturbingly generic title. > > It's actually a bit worrisome...one of my crankier theories, which I > occasionally actually believe, is that if an artist has clever creative > song titles and album titles, one sign of decline is increasingly > generic titles. Of course, there's also the counter theory that a lot of times, there are artists who spend so much time coming up with great titles that the songs are rarely even close to worthy of them. Not that I'm thinking of any Morrissey in particularly as a prime example of someone doing that at an increasing rate of the course of his career. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:49:50 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got those Old Eternity Blues On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Jeff Margrave wrote: > 2fs wrote: >> Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: >> > all that said, i think they really blew it titling the >> > record *Together* rather than *Crash Years*. >> > >> >> Yes, _Together_ is a disturbingly generic title. >> >> It's actually a bit worrisome...one of my crankier theories, which I >> occasionally actually believe, is that if an artist has clever creative >> song titles and album titles, one sign of decline is increasingly >> generic titles. > > Of course, there's also the counter theory that a lot of times, there are artists who spend so much time coming up with great titles that the songs are rarely even close to worthy of them. Not that I'm thinking of any Morrissey in particularly as a prime example of someone doing that at an increasing rate of the course of his career. Well, you shouldn't be thinking of Morrissey, since the last three albums have been a great late-career resurgence. But that could just be me thinking that. later, Miles - -- over a year of feeling guilty about not blogging enough! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 01:45:19 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Waay off topic Stewart wrote: >>On 10-05-21 20:53 , Jeremy Osner wrote: >> prefers "ble" FWIW > >The French call it wheat! ...a la "Love and Death": "I'm dead...and they're talking about wheat..." MLS PS - thanks for the b-day shout-outs earlier this week - out here (yay, Jill!) and on the Book of Face... _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL :en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 10:29:35 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps (it seems that young William Rieflin is quite the connector - you'll be amused by the technically-correct route from RH to Dylan ...) Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 08:04:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > (it seems that young William Rieflin is quite the connector Being in Pigface helps. It seems like by counting groups in the middle though, it artificially doubles the real number though > - you'll be > amused by the technically-correct route from RH to Dylan ...) I was given Robyn > Rieflin > Youth via Pigface > Paul McCartney via The Fireman > George Harrison via The Quarrymen -- no really > Bob Dylan via The Traveling Wilburys. Were Rieflin and Youth never in Pigface together then? "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 18:26:08 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: REAP Martin Gardner, 95, writer for Scientific American and author of The Annotated Alice - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 09:49:31 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps On May 23, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > (it seems that young William Rieflin is quite the connector - you'll be > amused by the technically-correct route from RH to Dylan ...) I was playing around with this a few days ago and became less impressed when I noticed they were listing stuff like "performed a song by" as a link. That's too much of a stretch. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 11:04:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: REAP Jose Lima http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/05/23/sports/s103125D62.DTL&tsp=1 "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 11:21:22 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > On May 23, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > > > > > (it seems that young William Rieflin is quite the connector - you'll be > > amused by the technically-correct route from RH to Dylan ...) > > I was playing around with this a few days ago and became less impressed > when I noticed they were listing stuff like "performed a song by" as a link. > That's too much of a stretch. > Umm...I used to hang out with/wrote some stuff for a band that shared bills with The Blackouts, which Rieflin was in then. Can I get in there too? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 11:29:15 -0700 From: iMac Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps On May 23, 2010, at 11:21 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> On May 23, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> (it seems that young William Rieflin is quite the connector - you'll be >>> amused by the technically-correct route from RH to Dylan ...) >> >> I was playing around with this a few days ago and became less impressed >> when I noticed they were listing stuff like "performed a song by" as a link. >> That's too much of a stretch. >> > Umm...I used to hang out with/wrote some stuff for a band that shared bills > with The Blackouts, which Rieflin was in then. Can I get in there too? Absolutely! And I sang along to "Jesus Built My Hotrod" once, so how come I'm not in there? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:19:52 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got those Old Eternity Blues I have now listened to "Together" approximately sixteen hundred and a half times and not once given any thought to the title of the record for some reason. The really weird part is the ultimate evolution of that nascent concern about how to refer to the band when the kids ask what I'm listening to, especially since the last Newman and Neko records were heavy family favorites. Well, the New Pornos are like now totally Eden's favorite new band (up there even with Bowie and Tegan & Sara) and for so many good reasons-- she's writing a lot of songs these days and putting a lot of thought into how songs work, what makes them good and why-- that you can really only roll with it. She's still 12, though. Keep meaning to check if she can get into the Music Box when TNP plays here. Of course, there's also the counter theory that a lot of times, there are > artists who spend so much time coming up with great titles that the songs > are rarely even close to worthy of them. Not that I'm thinking of any > Morrissey in particularly as a prime example of someone doing that at an > increasing rate of the course of his career. > [eb]Scott Miller, Scott Miller, compulsive desire to get sexual jollies out of mentioning Scott Miller every time this topic arises, believing for some reason that it deeply hurts fans of Scott Miller music when I do so, furious wanking noises[/eb] ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #101 ********************************