From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #232 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, November 26 1999 Volume 02 : Number 232 Today's Subjects: ----------------- autographs (was: hey hey ebay) [Martin theBernd Schmeil ] Re[4]: social comment [paul.rabjohn@ssab.com] Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC ["Uri Baran" ] Re: Re[4]: social comment ["tube disaster" ] Re[2]: Magazine et al. and now XTC [paul.rabjohn@ssab.com] Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC [Brian ] Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC [Brian ] Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC [Brian ] Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC ["Stephen Jackson" ] MTV interview now online! ["precision lies" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:00:25 +0100 From: Martin theBernd Schmeil Subject: autographs (was: hey hey ebay) i have the itaba lp with the autographed inserts. anyone knows how much of these aprox. exists? - - tB! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 15:08:04 +0100 From: paul.rabjohn@ssab.com Subject: Re[2]: social comment you mean to ask if they wanted to support wire at the f/hall? not a bad idea. mind you john mcgeogh's looking a bit rough these days... anyone got a copy of that "dominoe" split wire/magazine album ; is the magazine stuff any good on that? p ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: social comment Author: MIME:jarobert@dmu.ac.uk at INTERNET Date: 24/11/1999 21:08 > One of may fave Magazine songs went from > I know that Carter will look after me to > I know that Reagan will look after me > > > Social comment dates so fast and > > more importantly, has nothing to do with music. > Ah. Model Worker. Correct Use of Soap and Play. How is it that Magazine always come up on this list? And when do we get a Magazine reunion? Perhaps Colin, Graham et al ought to get on the phone. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 15:23:31 +0100 From: paul.rabjohn@ssab.com Subject: Re[2]: Magazine et al. and now XTC thankfully..... did wire actually support xtc ? i thought it was a sort of co-headline/alternate nights thing. i never warmed to xtc too much but i did like some of barry andrew's early shriekback stuff. also "paranoiac"..p ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC Author: MIME:bbarnett@grin.net at INTERNET Date: 25/11/1999 07:09 But wait, no Punishment of Luxury ? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 16:34:09 +0000 (GMT) From: John Roberts Subject: Re: Re[2]: social comment > you mean to ask if they wanted to support wire at the f/hall? not a bad idea. mind you john mcgeogh's looking a bit rough these days... anyone got a copy of that "dominoe" split wire/magazine album ; is the magazine stuff any good on that? p Yes I saw him on that Siouxsie and the Banshees Family Tree thing on the Beeb. Didn't he have a nervous breakdown? The bloke who plays on Play does a passible imitation of him in my humble opinion. Robin someone. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:02:50 +0100 From: paul.rabjohn@ssab.com Subject: Re[4]: social comment i think it was the old "nervous exhaustion" routine. that robin guy (i forget his name too) was in the john foxx ultravox , i havn't heard "play" in years.p ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Re[2]: social comment Author: MIME:jarobert@dmu.ac.uk at INTERNET Date: 25/11/1999 17:36 > you mean to ask if they wanted to support wire at the f/hall? not a bad idea. mind you john mcgeogh's looking a bit rough these days... anyone got a copy of that "dominoe" split wire/magazine album ; is the magazine stuff any good on that? p Yes I saw him on that Siouxsie and the Banshees Family Tree thing on the Beeb. Didn't he have a nervous breakdown? The bloke who plays on Play does a passible imitation of him in my humble opinion. Robin someone. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:17:15 -0800 From: "Uri Baran" Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC Punilux, now you're talking. Did you know that 'Laughing Academy' is on CD? Great live band, no one anywhere near. Uri - -----Original Message----- From: Brian To: tube disaster Cc: idealcopy@smoe.org Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10:08 PM Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC >But wait, no Punishment of Luxury ? > > > >tube disaster wrote: > >> >Hey, >> > >> >I was just listening to Go 2 by XTC the other day and it kicks BUTT. XTC >> were >> >so brilliant in their day (roughly 1977-1982) they did some killer wacky >> >angular punk that reminds me a lot arty punk from DC (Dischord) and the >> >northwest scene (K, Kill Rock Stars). From the frenetic "Meccanic Dancing" >> to >> >the insanely new wave/no wave "I am the Audience" Go 2 is just a >> >rollercoaster new wave/punk pop ride. >> > >> >Sorry to emphasize a non-psychedelic XTC album but I love their wacky punk >> >period. >> >> Go 2 is easily my favorite XTC album ... heck, not too long after that I >> stopped keeping track of them, & a couple of singles & B-sides collections >> are all I own of theirs after Black Sea. (I had to look twice to see which >> list I was responding to here, because the sentiments expressed above almost >> completely track a post a couple of days ago on the Big Takeover.) >> >> >As for Wire I would love to see a proper tribute album for them >> >because XTC already have one (which SUCKS) and I feel Wire deserve one. >> >> Whore's pretty "proper," isn't it? It's not something I ever get down & >> listen to, but that's just because I've never been big on tribute albums per >> se -- it's a better-than-average example of the subgenre, as far as I can >> tell. >> >> Dan, who'd like to see a Mekons tribute album *anyway*, & who wonders if a >> Fall one exists other than the one done by various fans a couple of years >> ago ... > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:15:40 -0800 From: "tube disaster" Subject: Re: Re[4]: social comment Robin Simon. Probably should've changed it to "Someone" ... would've sounded more punk & gone right along with Dave Formula ... Dan >i think it was the old "nervous exhaustion" routine. that robin guy (i forget his name too) was in the john foxx ultravox , i havn't heard "play" in years.p > > >______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ >Subject: Re: Re[2]: social comment >Author: MIME:jarobert@dmu.ac.uk at INTERNET >Date: 25/11/1999 17:36 > > >> you mean to ask if they wanted to support wire at the f/hall? not a bad idea. mind you john mcgeogh's looking a bit rough these days... anyone got a copy of that "dominoe" split wire/magazine album ; is the magazine stuff any good on that? p > >Yes I saw him on that Siouxsie and the Banshees Family Tree thing on the Beeb. Didn't he have a nervous breakdown? The bloke who plays on Play does a passible imitation of him in my humble opinion. Robin someone. > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 18:28:17 +0100 From: paul.rabjohn@ssab.com Subject: Re[2]: Magazine et al. and now XTC i've got a book by ray stevenson (who did the sex pistols file) and there's a couple of good photos of punilux cruelly captioned as "the worst band i ever saw , what a waste of a great name". bit cruel but i never "got" them to be honest. although "british baboon" is an excellent song title deserving a better song.p ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC Author: MIME:uri.b@virgin.net at INTERNET Date: 25/11/1999 18:20 Punilux, now you're talking. Did you know that 'Laughing Academy' is on CD? Great live band, no one anywhere near. Uri - -----Original Message----- From: Brian To: tube disaster Cc: idealcopy@smoe.org Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10:08 PM Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC >But wait, no Punishment of Luxury ? > > > >tube disaster wrote: > >> >Hey, >> > >> >I was just listening to Go 2 by XTC the other day and it kicks BUTT. XTC >> were >> >so brilliant in their day (roughly 1977-1982) they did some killer wacky >> >angular punk that reminds me a lot arty punk from DC (Dischord) and the >> >northwest scene (K, Kill Rock Stars). From the frenetic "Meccanic Dancing" >> to >> >the insanely new wave/no wave "I am the Audience" Go 2 is just a >> >rollercoaster new wave/punk pop ride. >> > >> >Sorry to emphasize a non-psychedelic XTC album but I love their wacky punk >> >period. >> >> Go 2 is easily my favorite XTC album ... heck, not too long after that I >> stopped keeping track of them, & a couple of singles & B-sides collections >> are all I own of theirs after Black Sea. (I had to look twice to see which >> list I was responding to here, because the sentiments expressed above almost >> completely track a post a couple of days ago on the Big Takeover.) >> >> >As for Wire I would love to see a proper tribute album for them >> >because XTC already have one (which SUCKS) and I feel Wire deserve one. >> >> Whore's pretty "proper," isn't it? It's not something I ever get down & >> listen to, but that's just because I've never been big on tribute albums per >> se -- it's a better-than-average example of the subgenre, as far as I can >> tell. >> >> Dan, who'd like to see a Mekons tribute album *anyway*, & who wonders if a >> Fall one exists other than the one done by various fans a couple of years >> ago ... > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:35:38 -0800 From: Brian Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC I got mine last week but finding it was rough, finally got it from action uk. The other two CD's are on overground but can not verify that anyone would want them, the second one's flow is as if it was recorded in patches. Uri Baran wrote: > Punilux, now you're talking. Did you know that 'Laughing Academy' is on CD? > Great live band, no one anywhere near. > > Uri > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian > To: tube disaster > Cc: idealcopy@smoe.org > Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10:08 PM > Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC > > >But wait, no Punishment of Luxury ? > > > > > > > >tube disaster wrote: > > > >> >Hey, > >> > > >> >I was just listening to Go 2 by XTC the other day and it kicks BUTT. XTC > >> were > >> >so brilliant in their day (roughly 1977-1982) they did some killer wacky > >> >angular punk that reminds me a lot arty punk from DC (Dischord) and the > >> >northwest scene (K, Kill Rock Stars). From the frenetic "Meccanic > Dancing" > >> to > >> >the insanely new wave/no wave "I am the Audience" Go 2 is just a > >> >rollercoaster new wave/punk pop ride. > >> > > >> >Sorry to emphasize a non-psychedelic XTC album but I love their wacky > punk > >> >period. > >> > >> Go 2 is easily my favorite XTC album ... heck, not too long after that I > >> stopped keeping track of them, & a couple of singles & B-sides > collections > >> are all I own of theirs after Black Sea. (I had to look twice to see > which > >> list I was responding to here, because the sentiments expressed above > almost > >> completely track a post a couple of days ago on the Big Takeover.) > >> > >> >As for Wire I would love to see a proper tribute album for them > >> >because XTC already have one (which SUCKS) and I feel Wire deserve one. > >> > >> Whore's pretty "proper," isn't it? It's not something I ever get down & > >> listen to, but that's just because I've never been big on tribute albums > per > >> se -- it's a better-than-average example of the subgenre, as far as I can > >> tell. > >> > >> Dan, who'd like to see a Mekons tribute album *anyway*, & who wonders if > a > >> Fall one exists other than the one done by various fans a couple of years > >> ago ... > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:39:07 -0800 From: Brian Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC Does anyone know i can find a Uk version of Correct use of Soap ? Last one I need to finish that segment. paul.rabjohn@ssab.com wrote: > i've got a book by ray stevenson (who did the sex pistols file) and there's a couple of good photos of punilux cruelly captioned as "the worst band i ever saw , what a waste of a great name". bit cruel but i never "got" them to be honest. although "british baboon" is an excellent song title deserving a better song.p > > ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ > Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC > Author: MIME:uri.b@virgin.net at INTERNET > Date: 25/11/1999 18:20 > > Punilux, now you're talking. Did you know that 'Laughing Academy' is on CD? Great live band, no one anywhere near. > > Uri > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian > To: tube disaster Cc: idealcopy@smoe.org Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10:08 PM Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC > > >But wait, no Punishment of Luxury ? > > > > > > >tube disaster wrote: > > > >> >Hey, > >> > > >> >I was just listening to Go 2 by XTC the other day and it kicks BUTT. XTC >> were > >> >so brilliant in their day (roughly 1977-1982) they did some killer wacky >> >angular punk that reminds me a lot arty punk from DC (Dischord) and the >> >northwest scene (K, Kill Rock Stars). From the frenetic "Meccanic Dancing" > >> to > >> >the insanely new wave/no wave "I am the Audience" Go 2 is just a >> >rollercoaster new wave/punk pop ride. > >> > > >> >Sorry to emphasize a non-psychedelic XTC album but I love their wacky punk > >> >period. > >> > >> Go 2 is easily my favorite XTC album ... heck, not too long after that I >> stopped keeping track of them, & a couple of singles & B-sides collections > >> are all I own of theirs after Black Sea. (I had to look twice to see which > >> list I was responding to here, because the sentiments expressed above almost > >> completely track a post a couple of days ago on the Big Takeover.) >> > >> >As for Wire I would love to see a proper tribute album for them > >> >because XTC already have one (which SUCKS) and I feel Wire deserve one. >> > >> Whore's pretty "proper," isn't it? It's not something I ever get down & >> listen to, but that's just because I've never been big on tribute albums per > >> se -- it's a better-than-average example of the subgenre, as far as I can >> tell. > >> > >> Dan, who'd like to see a Mekons tribute album *anyway*, & who wonders if a > >> Fall one exists other than the one done by various fans a couple of years >> ago ... > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:52:20 -0800 From: Brian Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC The idea of Magazine and Wire on tour in the states probably would be one of the most anticipated shows of the year or should I say decade ? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:41:05 -0000 From: "Stephen Jackson" Subject: Re: Magazine et al. and now XTC > The idea of Magazine and Wire on tour in the states probably would be one of the most anticipated shows of the year or should I say decade ? and would have the likes of Damon Albarn, Justine Frischman and Paul Draper going out of their minds...they'd have so many new experiences to plunder... Correct Use of Soap? I'd be prepared to CDR a copy for you....I've got just about everything Magazine ever did, plus the Luxuria albums too... Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two steps forward, six steps back. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 01:53:16 -0500 From: "precision lies" Subject: MTV interview now online! I have finally located the videotape of Wir's 120 Minutes MTV interview. Unfortunately, the videotape that I recorded it on had been reused several times so the picture quality is a bit grainy and the sound quality is very poor. In addition to the two interview segments, I have also uploaded the Eardrum Buzz video at: http://homepages.msn.com/terminus/vidclips/ Enjoy, - -Mike F ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #232 *******************************