From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #147 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, August 1 2010 Volume 18 : Number 147 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Eagles, possums, et al [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Siouxie [kevin studyvin ] Re: Eagles, possums, et al [Stewart Russell ] Re: off topic: realtime computer LP noise filtering? [kevin studyvin ] Re: OK, who's safe [michael wells ] Re: Holy List of Feg Record Club - after Stewart's pick (Monks) [2fs ] Re: OK, who's safe [kevin studyvin ] Re: off topic: realtime computer LP noise filtering? ["craigie*" ] Re: OK, who's safe [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Nice way to start a Sunday [FSThomas ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:15:16 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Eagles, possums, et al > Does anyone like the Eagles? They seem to always be the poster children > for "the band that everyone hates for sure." The Eagles survive by dint of having written the music which became the theme to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Someone everyone hates... anyone here like Better Than Ezra? And on the subject of hated music - I was in a shop the other day, and the canned music started playing Paper Lace. ARGH! > PROPER OPOSSUM MASSAGE Now THAT's a band name! 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: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:37:07 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Siouxie On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > This is a band a lot of my friends listened to when I was growing up, > so sounds pretty familiar; but not one I spent much time listening to > for myself, so I don't know the songs. I like their sound -- it > reminds me of good times -- but don't really dig it or identify with > it, yet. (Though that may come with a couple more listens.) I like the > numerous opportunities for mis-hearing lyrics -- e.g. the refrain of > track 6 might be "sin o' my heart", "cinema whore", or even "say no > mo-ore" -- the last is what I at first thought, the first is what I > expect it really is. And there is something in track 7 about "I'll > make your lips vibrate" which I expect is not what she's really > saying... > Can't say what yr listening to fr sure, but those fragmented quotes sound like the Banshees' Juju, which I will love till I die. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:39:23 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Eagles, possums, et al If Better Than Ezra are terrible, then I'm glad I've never heard any Ezra ... On 7/30/10, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: >> Does anyone like the Eagles? They seem to always be the poster children >> for "the band that everyone hates for sure." > > The Eagles survive by dint of having written the music which became > the theme to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. > > Someone everyone hates... anyone here like Better Than Ezra? > > And on the subject of hated music - I was in a shop the other day, > and the canned music started playing Paper Lace. ARGH! > >> PROPER OPOSSUM MASSAGE > > Now THAT's a band name! > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= > - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:42:17 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: off topic: realtime computer LP noise filtering? That's a really good question and I wouldn't mind knowing if there was such a utility out there either. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:07 PM, ross wrote: > I've googled to no avail. Anybody out there know whether there's an app > I can filter surface noise from LPs while I'm actually playing and listening > to them? You know -- run the turntable through the soundcard, process the > audio stream with the filter, route the output to an amp and speakers. > Latency is no problem, but having to do it in discrete steps - digitise, > filter, play back -- is what I'm trying to avoid. > > No fruity solutions, please. I don't have that kind of scratch! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:46:29 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: OK, who's safe > I also enjoy a huge chunk of the Steely Dan catalog and really can't > see why they should receive scorn of any sort hereabouts. Plus we > share the same opinions of the Wes Anderson ouvre. However, let it be > noted that my enjoyment of the Dan is in inverse proportion to the > amount of Michael McDonald on any given album. > Ditto. Also, my wife actually liked McDonald at one time but heard me bitching about what a total tool he is often enough that she did a complete 180, and will change stations on a radio if his voice appears... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:34:56 -0500 From: michael wells Subject: Re: OK, who's safe Remember way back when Eddie used to be a part of the list, and he would posit that no group could create five masterpieces in a row like (band name here)? In six years Steely Dan released: Can't Buy a Thrill Countdown to Ecstasy Pretzel Logic Katy Lied The Royal Scam Aja For me music in the mid-70's wandered pretty aimlessly, bright spots here and there but a lot of insipid shit too...but The Dan of Steel was, with Little Feat, one of those few groups fusing sounds and breaking new ground. They didn't always resonate at the time, but I've come to appreciate them later in life. It still holds up. Plus Larry Carlton said more in "Kid Charlamagne's" 0:50 solo than most pickers say in a lifetime...a guitar break that can still woodshed your ass. Michael "those test tubes and the scale, just get it all out of here" the Michaelster ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:03:46 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Holy List of Feg Record Club - after Stewart's pick (Monks) On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, 2fs wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Jeremy Osner > wrote: > > > >> And I thought I heard, I thought I heard, a Viking coughing > >> > > > > Well, there ya go: the list should be known as "The Coughing Viking." > > Isn't that the interstitial bit on PHYSICAL GRAFFITI where there's a > cough then Robert Plant sings "cough"? > Actually, it's not interstitial - it's the way the song ends! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:53:47 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Siouxie That's the very one! Where ya been? All the cool fegs are listening to Juju these days. J On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: >> > > Can't say what yr listening to fr sure, but those fragmented quotes sound > like the Banshees' Juju, which I will love till I die. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:24:07 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: OK, who's safe On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:34 PM, michael wells wrote: > Remember way back when Eddie used to be a part of the list, and he would > posit that no group could create five masterpieces in a row like (band name > here)? In six years Steely Dan released: > > Can't Buy a Thrill > Countdown to Ecstasy > Pretzel Logic > Katy Lied > The Royal Scam > Aja > > For me music in the mid-70's wandered pretty aimlessly, bright spots here > and there but a lot of insipid shit too...but The Dan of Steel was, with > Little Feat, one of those few groups fusing sounds and breaking new ground. > They didn't always resonate at the time, but I've come to appreciate them > later in life. It still holds up. > > Plus Larry Carlton said more in "Kid Charlamagne's" 0:50 solo than most > pickers say in a lifetime...a guitar break that can still woodshed your ass. > > Michael "those test tubes and the scale, just get it all out of here" the > Michaelster > Pretzel Logic has its bright spots but I tend to think of it as an example of reverse synergy, i.e. the whole is less than the sum of the parts. Still, I have to agree that the arc of that body of work is a trajectory of unparalleled cool. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:27:16 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: off topic: realtime computer LP noise filtering? I don't think there is. And I'd also be pleased to be proven wrong, as it would cut out a couple of time-consuming steps in my remastering! c* On 31 July 2010 00:42, kevin studyvin wrote: > That's a really good question and I wouldn't mind knowing if there was such > a utility out there either. > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:07 PM, ross wrote: > > > I've googled to no avail. Anybody out there know whether there's an > app > > I can filter surface noise from LPs while I'm actually playing and > listening > > to them? You know -- run the turntable through the soundcard, process > the > > audio stream with the filter, route the output to an amp and speakers. > > Latency is no problem, but having to do it in discrete steps - digitise, > > filter, play back -- is what I'm trying to avoid. > > > > No fruity solutions, please. I don't have that kind of scratch! > - -- 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: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:03:54 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Fwd: OK, who's safe - ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "michael wells" To: "Feg" Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 10:34:56 PM Subject: Re: OK, who's safe Remember way back when Eddie used to be a part of the list, and he B would posit that no group could create five masterpieces in a row like B (band name here)? In six years Steely Dan released: Can't Buy a Thrill Countdown to Ecstasy Pretzel Logic Katy Lied The Royal Scam Aja For me music in the mid-70's wandered pretty aimlessly, bright spots B here and there but a lot of insipid shit too...but The Dan of Steel B was, with Little Feat, one of those few groups fusing sounds and B breaking new ground. They didn't always resonate at the time, but I've B come to appreciate them later in life. It still holds up. Plus Larry Carlton said more in "Kid Charlamagne's" 0:50 solo than B most pickers say in a lifetime...a guitar break that can still B woodshed your ass. Michael "those test tubes and the scale, just get it all out of here" B the Michaelster I would call Katy Lied a masterpiece for sure, and Pretzel Logic and Aja close and the others not too far behind. I've got the box set and that's a nice way to listen to the Dan. Santana had a very nice run for six years or seven years: Santana Abraxas Santana III Caravanserai Welcome Love Devotion Surrender Lotus Borbolleta Amigos Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:17:49 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Fwd: OK, who's safe - ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Miles Goosens" To: "fegmaniax" Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:49:49 PM Subject: Re: OK, who's safe On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > I appreciate the effort on your part, Jeremy, but no, they just make my > toenails curl up. Henley's first couple of solo albums really work for me, and the video for "The Boys of Summer" is one of a handful of videos that's not superfluous or diminishing of the song it accompanies. B In fact, it compliments and even enhances it. I also enjoy a huge chunk of the Steely Dan catalog and really can't see why they should receive scorn of any sort hereabouts. B Plus we share the same opinions of the Wes Anderson ouvre. However, let it be noted that my enjoyment of the Dan is in inverse proportion to the amount of Michael McDonald on any given album. later, Miles - -- over a year of feeling guilty about not blogging enough! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ I was never a big Doobie Brothers fan, but as soon as MM joined them they became totally unlistenable. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:26:59 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: OK, who's safe On Jul 31, 2010, at 6:17 AM, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > I was never a big Doobie Brothers fan, but as soon as MM joined them they > became totally unlistenable. Totally. His bits with the 'Dan are cringeworthy as well. I'd love to hear a mix of 'Peg' with his part cut out. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:25:25 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: OK, who's safe - -- Tom Clark is rumored to have mumbled on 31. Juli 2010 08:26:59 -0700 regarding Re: OK, who's safe: > On Jul 31, 2010, at 6:17 AM, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > >> I was never a big Doobie Brothers fan, but as soon as MM joined them they >> became totally unlistenable. > > Totally. His bits with the 'Dan are cringeworthy as well. I'd love to > hear a mix of 'Peg' with his part cut out. I don't think I ever noticed him one way or the other ... I've got "Katy Lied", "Aja" and "Gaucho" from those he's apparently on. Anybody want to name a worst-offender track? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:05:53 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Nice way to start a Sunday Tram Watch #1. http://www.robynhitchcock.com/videos/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #147 ********************************