From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #102 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 25 2010 Volume 18 : Number 102 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps [Rex 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. No, that's brilliant. I can now pick up a guitar and strum a few bars of "Ziggy Stardust" and I'm as good as Mick Ronson, to say nothing of being a full-blown member of Bauhaus. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:03:10 -0700 (PDT) From: xx Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps Wasn't there a video circulating of Robyn playing some Dylan tunes with Mickey Jones on drums? Mickey toured with Dylan. There ya go - 1 step. Mickey was also in 'Sling Blade', among a thousand other things. - -g ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:57:29 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps On 10-05-24 11:03 , xx wrote: > Wasn't there a video circulating of Robyn playing some Dylan tunes > with Mickey Jones on drums? Mickey toured with Dylan. There ya go - > 1 step. If it isn't in MusicBrainz, the application can't make the link. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:20:05 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Rex 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. > > > No, that's brilliant. I can now pick up a guitar and strum a few bars of > "Ziggy Stardust" and I'm as good as Mick Ronson, to say nothing of being a > full-blown member of Bauhaus. > And every idiot who's every clubclawed it through the first few bars of "Stairway to Heaven" in a guitar store is now effectively a member of Led Zeppelin. Other bands who effectively now have millions of members: Lynyrd Skynyrd ("Freebird"), Deep Purple ("Smoke on the Water"), and The Fall (because they have). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:31:40 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:20 AM, 2fs wrote: > > And every idiot who's every clubclawed it through the first few bars of > "Stairway to Heaven" in a guitar store is now effectively a member of Led > Zeppelin. Other bands who effectively now have millions of members: Lynyrd > Skynyrd ("Freebird"), Deep Purple ("Smoke on the Water"), and The Fall > (because they have). Yeah, but imagine a world in which, upon entering Guitar Center, one is greeted with six or seven asynchronous amateur attempts at "Specter Vs. Rector" instead of "Stairway". An improvement? I really cannot say. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:34:48 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Path from Robyn Hitchcock to Neutral Milk Hotel in 19 steps On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:03 AM, xx wrote: > Wasn't there a video circulating of Robyn playing some Dylan tunes with > Mickey Jones on drums? Mickey toured with Dylan. There ya go - 1 step. > Wait, is that Mickey Jones of The First Edition? That's really weird. I hadn't previously really registered Jones as an individual musician, but I literally just now felt I needed to know more about the lineup of The First Edition and was on my way to Google them up; took a brief look at fegposts and saw this one, and then went on to find Mr. Jones right there on the Wiki page for TFE. Really pretty goddamned eerie. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 14:51:27 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: The list heretic... ...that's me, by the look of it. Though I quite like the new New Pornographers album, it clearly didn't do as much for me as it did for other members of the list. In fact, I'd say that it's not as good as another new album I've just been listening to - by a most unlikely band to gain that honour. I somewhat guiltily must admit that I'm cvurrently enamoured by Unkle's new album, "Where did the night fall?" And that's why I must currently have the title of the list heretic... James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 22:07:18 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: The list heretic... - -- grutness@slingshot.co.nz is rumored to have mumbled on 25. Mai 2010 14:51:27 +1200 regarding The list heretic...: > ...that's me, by the look of it. Though I quite like the new New > Pornographers album, it clearly didn't do as much for me as it did for > other members of the list. > > And that's why I must currently have the title of the list heretic... Don't worry. I agree with you. I really like "Crash Years", "Your Hands (Together)", "Up In The Dark" and the bonus track "Electric Child of Witchcraft Rising [From "Togetherness: The New Pornographers Play Outrageous Cherry"]", but where are songs that are as strong as "The Bones Of An Idol", "Jackie, Dressed In Cobras", "Sing Me Spanish Techno", "Stacked Crooked", "All The Old Showstoppers", "Unguided", "Go Places" and so many others? I've listened to "Together" five times so far, and to me it's clearly not as good as either "Twin Cinema" or "Challengers". That doesn't mean it's bad, but I'm a little disappointed. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #102 ********************************