From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #144 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 28 2010 Volume 18 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Oscar ["craigie*" ] Re: Oscar [Jason Brown ] Re: Oscar ["John B. Jones" ] Re: record club/Nuggets [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: The Monks [Capuchin ] Re: The Monks ["craigie*" ] Obligatory squid content (contd.) [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: The Monks [ross ] Robyn in a Boston record store [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Robyn in a Boston record store [m swedene ] Re: Oscar ["Bri N" ] Re: The Monks [Caroline Smith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:34:13 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: Oscar Aren't these the A&M demos (solo) that led ineluctably and elusively to Perspex Island? c* ...but I've been wrong before... On 26 July 2010 19:20, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I continue to find stuff in the Great Big Torrent that I did not know > about. Today I happen on a record called Oscar from 1993 that I've > never heard of. Google is not turning up much besides that Positive > Vibrations #4 featured a review of the record... Tracks: > > Interview > Wind Cries Mary > Polly on the Shore > Every Day is Like Sunday > Take a Chance With Me > Senor > Yer Blues > Dominoes > Calvary Cross > Dominoes (again) > Chinese-White > Wind Cries Mary (again) > > WTF? 1993 is (I believe) Egyptians recording on A&M; but this does not > sound like the Egyptians and if it was on A&M I don't see how it could > vanish from the Internet like that. Anybody know where this comes > from? Is there cover art for it? > > J > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:08:44 -0700 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: Oscar On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:34 AM, craigie* wrote: > Aren't these the A&M demos (solo) that led ineluctably and elusively to > Perspex Island? Yep, that's the track list for the A&M demos. This is a bootleg not a legit release. - -- Man of wisdom, and man of compromise, man of weak flesh in an armored disguise, all fall down. - - Robert Pollard ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:26:30 -0700 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: Re: Oscar My understanding is that Oscar comes from a solo acoustic session that Robyn recorded for A&M. The songs were recorded for possible use as b-sides for Respect singles. I think it is definitely one of the coolest things to leak, and I listened to it quite a bit when I first got ahold of it (mid-90's). - -JBJ On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I continue to find stuff in the Great Big Torrent that I did not know > about. Today I happen on a record called Oscar from 1993 that I've > never heard of. Google is not turning up much besides that Positive > Vibrations #4 featured a review of the record... Tracks: > > Interview > Wind Cries Mary > Polly on the Shore > Every Day is Like Sunday > Take a Chance With Me > Senor > Yer Blues > Dominoes > Calvary Cross > Dominoes (again) > Chinese-White > Wind Cries Mary (again) > > WTF? 1993 is (I believe) Egyptians recording on A&M; but this does not > sound like the Egyptians and if it was on A&M I don't see how it could > vanish from the Internet like that. Anybody know where this comes > from? Is there cover art for it? > > J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:20:07 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: record club/Nuggets >This was really strange. I had been holding off on the whole record >club bit, despite liking the idea, because I have been really >swamped lately, and I have a huge backload of CDs to listen to >before adding them to the collection (well over 600 at last >estimate). I'm not a fan of the Smiths, so that saved time, but Los >Shakers were a band I was interested in hearing already, so I >ordered a couple of their albums--I had heard a track already on the >second Nuggets box set. I'm in a similar situation - not so much with being swamped with music 9though I'm not exactly "un-swamped" either), but because the lack of broadband makes this a major problem for me. I do like the idea, though. > I was starting to read a recent Feg digest, thinking that it >was about time as the list seems to have been dead lately, when I >started reading responses to the third selection for the record club >and saw several responses to a Nuggets thread. I figured maybe I had >skipped a digest or two, but finally found several digests caught up >in my spam folder along with a couple of other personal e-mails that >had been wrongly filtered. What a pain in the ass. As far as my own listening is concerned, Alice bought me a copy of "1001 albums you must listen to before you die" for Christmas a couple of years back, and I've been slowly picking my way through it. I'm up to the late 1960s, so several of the bands from the Nuggets series and those of related types have cropped up for me, too - from the thrud-rock of The Sonics to the loopy psychedelia of Roky Erickson. Recent great discoveries from that book have been Os Mutantes, The Pretty Things, The Beau Brummels, and Paul Revere and the raiders. One or two of those I'd steered clear of in the past, thinking they were too "60s pop", if you know what I mean, but I'm impressed by what I've heard. Didn't quite take to the Electric Prunes - or The Monks, for that matter - both of which also had albums in the book. 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, 27 Jul 2010 02:13:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: The Monks On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Kind of too bad about the timing -- I was wondering if their name > could be a Monkees ref, but it looks like The Monkees was not on the > air until 66 by which time The Monks had already chosen their name. As someone who gets picky about articles (and is utterly, peevishly annoyed when bands are not), I would like to point out that the band with the 1966 album Black Monk Time is simply Monks whereas the band with the 1979 record Bad Habits is The Monks. I am very lucky that the bands themselves made this distinction so that my filesystem-based record organization isn't totally effed. (I like both records. I may write something about the former just to play along with the old gang.) - -- J. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:22:55 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: The Monks Weren't The Monks an offshoot of Hudson Ford who were in themselves an offshoot of The Strawbs (not to be confused with the 1965 Leamington Spa proto psychedelic band Strawbs... no I'm just yanking your chain.... there was no other band of that name) and wasn't The Monks an attempt to 'cash in' on New Wave? I remember their single 'Nice Legs (Shame About The Face) but didn't know they had an album too. Live and learn, I guess. getting back to Monks - this is exactly the sort of garage music I was introduced to *just* before punk arrived and is still something I can listen to today without any embarassment. Indeed, my current favourite band du jour is the Love Me Nots (from Arizona), They paly this kind of music but poppier and louder. c* On 27 July 2010 08:13, Capuchin wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> Kind of too bad about the timing -- I was wondering if their name >> could be a Monkees ref, but it looks like The Monkees was not on the >> air until 66 by which time The Monks had already chosen their name. >> > > As someone who gets picky about articles (and is utterly, peevishly annoyed > when bands are not), I would like to point out that the band with the 1966 > album Black Monk Time is simply Monks whereas the band with the 1979 record > Bad Habits is The Monks. > > I am very lucky that the bands themselves made this distinction so that my > filesystem-based record organization isn't totally effed. > > (I like both records. I may write something about the former just to play > along with the old gang.) > -- J. > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:00:19 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Obligatory squid content (contd.) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/insidenova/2010/07/smart-suckers.html Thinking Like An Octopus By Kate Becker on July 19, 2010 1:26 PM | Comment (1) If you follow soccer or marine biology, you've probably heard about Paul, the octopus who correctly predicted the winners of the 2010 World Cup games by selecting tasty mussels from boxes labeled with the flags of the victorious teams. Blame statistics, experimental biases, or simple luck of the draw; you won't find me arguing that any sea creature can see into the future. But if I had to take advice from a mollusk, an octopus would be my top choice: They are surprisingly intelligent, as the NOVA scienceNOW team found out while researching a story on these underwater eggheads for the show's upcoming season. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:39:48 -0400 From: ross Subject: Re: The Monks On 10-07-27 04:22 AM, craigie* wrote: > Weren't The Monks an offshoot of Hudson Ford who were in themselves > an offshoot of The Strawbs (not to be confused with the 1965 Leamington Spa > proto psychedelic band Strawbs... no I'm just yanking your chain.... there > was no other band of that name) > > and wasn't The Monks an attempt to 'cash in' on New Wave? I remember their > single 'Nice Legs (Shame About The Face) but didn't know they had an album > too. > Two, actually -- both in my hoard. The 2nd was big here in Canada. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:37:55 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Robyn in a Boston record store I have this memory of hearing RH tell a story about him being banned for life from a record store in Boston after signing Bryan Ferry's name on some posters. Does anyone else here know this story or where it comes from? Possibly David Rawlings also features in the story. J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:32:55 -0400 From: m swedene Subject: Re: Robyn in a Boston record store Does he mention this on the RESPECT interview disc? I seem to recall it as well.... Mike On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I have this memory of hearing RH tell a story about him being banned > for life from a record store in Boston after signing Bryan Ferry's > name on some posters. Does anyone else here know this story or where > it comes from? Possibly David Rawlings also features in the story. > > J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:50:38 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: Oscar Jeremy- this was not an album. I think these were demos that got around on a cassette around the end of the Egyptians. Only RH solo I think... - -Nuppy - ------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:20:52 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Oscar I continue to find stuff in the Great Big Torrent that I did not know about. Today I happen on a record called Oscar from 1993 that I've never heard of. Google is not turning up much besides that Positive Vibrations #4 featured a review of the record... Tracks: Interview Wind Cries Mary Polly on the Shore Every Day is Like Sunday Take a Chance With Me Senor Yer Blues Dominoes Calvary Cross Dominoes (again) Chinese-White Wind Cries Mary (again) WTF? 1993 is (I believe) Egyptians recording on A&M; but this does not sound like the Egyptians and if it was on A&M I don't see how it could vanish from the Internet like that. Anybody know where this comes from? Is there cover art for it? J - ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #143 ******************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:56:51 -0400 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: The Monks On 2010-07-27, at 8:39 AM, ross wrote: > On 10-07-27 04:22 AM, craigie* wrote: >> >> and wasn't The Monks an attempt to 'cash in' on New Wave? I remember their >> single 'Nice Legs (Shame About The Face) but didn't know they had an album >> too. >> > > Two, actually -- both in my hoard. The 2nd was big here in Canada. Yep, I remember bringing 'Nice Legs' home when I was 16 or 17. My mum, who had been taught by nuns, was greatly amused. Found the cover art here: http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/cov200/dre700/e751/e7516314zay.jpg (Sorry if this has already been posted, I haven't been following the thread) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #144 ********************************