From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #5 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, January 26 2011 Volume 19 : Number 005 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The King is Dead [Jill Brand ] Re: The King is Dead [Jason Brown ] Re: The King is Dead [Sebastian Hagedorn ] [none] [ART ROCK POSTER ] Jan News [ART ROCK POSTER ] Re: The King is Dead [Rex Broome ] Two reaps... [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Creatures in Media [Jeremy Osner ] WTF? [xx ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:09:31 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: The King is Dead I guess I ought to listen to it. I know that it is available on NPR until it is released next week. Since I'm seeing them on 1/28, I might want to know the music. Do I sound enthusiastic? Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:50:04 -0800 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: The King is Dead I think its really great. It's like a rootsier version of their early albums. No prog rock. No song cycles. Not a concept album. Longest song is 5:31 and half the songs are under 4 minutes. I was listening to Calamity Song and though wow they are really going for an early REM vibe here, only to later find out Peter Buck plays guitar on the song (and others). - -- Man of wisdom, and man of compromise, man of weak flesh in an armored disguise, all fall down. - - Robert Pollard ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:21:35 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: The King is Dead - -- Jason Brown is rumored to have mumbled on 15. Januar 2011 20:50:04 -0800 regarding Re: The King is Dead: > I think its really great. It's like a rootsier version of their early > albums. No prog rock. No song cycles. Not a concept album. Longest > song is 5:31 and half the songs are under 4 minutes. I've only listened to it once so far, so I can't say for sure, but maybe that's why I didn't like it as much as the ones before it. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:50:06 -0500 From: ART ROCK POSTER Subject: [none] http://www.robynhitchcock.com/tourdates/ BEEFHEART To celebrate Captain Beefheart and his life on Earth, Robyn Hitchcock and his Imaginary Band will perform the album 'Clear Spot' and a few other Beefheart compositions at the Garage, London, June 3th and Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham, June 4th. "In the early Soft Boys we tried to cross Abbey Road with Trout Mask Replica", says Robyn: "It didn't really work but it was some hybrid. The most exciting show I've ever seen was Beefheart and The Magic Band in 1973. This won't be as accurate as the John French/Magic Band gigs a few years back, but Clear Spot is quite a party album, and we're planning to have quite a party". The Imaginary Band will be Paul Noble and Terry Edwards on guitars and bass, Jenny Adejayan on cello, and Stephen Irvine on drums. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:21:27 -0500 From: ART ROCK POSTER Subject: Jan News - ----- Forwarded message from T Edwards ----- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:23:11 +0000 To: info@terryedwards.co.uk From: T Edwards Subject: Jan News [...] >>>> SARTORIAL RECORDS NEWS 2011 February 28 sees the release of a split 10" single featuring Terry's version of "You Won't See Me" c/w Robyn Hitchcock's epic reading of "I Want You (she's so heavy)". On Apple Green vinyl. Naturally. [...] Sartorial Records online store - http://sartorialrecords.greedbag.com/ It's easy to use and features direct downloads alongside CDs, vinyl - and cassette! >>>> The Official Website & MySpace domains - let's be friends http://www.myspace.com/mrterryedwards http://www.myspace.com/sartorialrecords http://www.myspace.com/bigsexynoise http://www.terryedwards.co.uk Thank you for listening . . . - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:59:11 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: The King is Dead On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > I think its really great. It's like a rootsier version of their early > albums. No prog rock. No song cycles. Not a concept album. Longest > song is 5:31 and half the songs are under 4 minutes. > > I was listening to Calamity Song and though wow they are really going > for an early REM vibe here, only to later find out Peter Buck plays > guitar on the song (and others). Wait, that's all good. I was sort of on the fence about them, leaning towards annoyed, when the prog explosion occurred and moved them into the not interested column... that and I'd gotten frustrated at Meloy's incredibly limited, if somewhat novel, writing idiom. But maybe this'll work for me. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:50:59 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Two reaps... Susannah York, 72, has almost certainly been reaped here already, but Nat Lofthouse, 85, probably hasn't... (for those of you more used to US sports than British soccer, his stature was probably about eqqual to, say, Raymond Berry or Elroy Hirsch). 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: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:19:29 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Creatures in Media A blog post linked below that I thought some of you might like if for nothing else, for the passing invocation of Birds in Perspex (which I find lately I have developed a reflex, an instinctual point of refuge whenever some song is introduced as "the greatest lovesong ever" and it ends up not being) J http://readin.com/blog/?id=2458 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:13:07 -0800 (PST) From: xx Subject: WTF? I'm way behind on this, and apologies if this has been discussed before.... As I was driving in this morning, I heard what I thought was a Robyn Hitchcock song on the radio. It sounded like 'Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)'. But it wasn't. Musically, it was identical, lyrically, it was different. I called the station (88.9FM KXLU). The DJ said it was 'Is It Cold In Silverlake' by Buddy. http://www.iamyourbuddy.com/index.html Apparently the song was on an episode of 'Ghost Whisperer'. Does Robyn know about this? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #5 ******************************