From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V3 #211 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, July 9 2000 Volume 03 : Number 211 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Eighties Stations ["Syarzhuk Kazachenka" ] Re: Eighties Stations [MarkBursa@aol.com] Radio Radio ["MackDaddyD" ] RE: Across the pond/Fat of the Prodigy ["giluz" ] RE: to set the record straight (was London's Burning and alot of other stuff) ["giluz" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 05:11:53 EDT From: "Syarzhuk Kazachenka" Subject: RE: Eighties Stations >(I only requested things i thought they would play though) Which reminds me of a (I think) funny story. Back in Minsk, Belarus (when there were, and, I'm afraid, still are exactly 2 FM stations for the whole 1.7 million city) my wife asks what band would I like hearing on the radio. So I say Sisterhood (Eldritch/Sisters of Mercy were my favorite composer/band at that time and I was dying to know what Sisterhood sounded like); second choice? well, let's say Hawkwind... A week later it's my b-day so she calls the radio and tries to request a song for me. - - Sisterhood? Whazzat? - - They were a Sisters of Mercy offshoot project. Apparently they knew the *name* of Sisters of Mercy but had no CD, so they ask for the second choice. - - Hawkwind? Whazzat? She ended up requesting REM because that seemed as far as they could go... Happy ending - Four years later she gave me that Sisterhood CD as a birthday present! Syarzhuk Be healthy, stay wealthy... Visit Belarusan Music Source - http://belmusic.hypermart.net ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 07:07:10 EDT From: MarkBursa@aol.com Subject: Re: Eighties Stations Rik, I go to detroit a lot for business - tend to listen to 89X or Planet 104 in the car. All other suggestions gratefully received. 89X used to be good a few years back but seemed to be playing lots of fucking Korn and Limp Biscuit the last time I was there. Mark << Funny,a couple years ago here in Detroit there was a new station starting up and they played pretty good stuff and actually took requests(I only requested things i thought they would play though),but they wanted the listeners opinion about how what they should play,so they had a listener meeting from the people who made requests. There were about 15 people and everyone had good ideas and i said they should have a 80's underground music show,maybe an hour or two on Sundays like we had in late 70's/early 80's in Detroit. After a couple weeks,they started playing a bunch of crap and changed format in less than a year,i knew they should have listened to me. We do have two stations that play alternitive,one current and the other 80's and current,i think. I never listen to them. I listen to the Windsor college station CJAM,they were the best in the eighties now. They are on the internet now. >> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 06:31:40 -0500 From: "MackDaddyD" Subject: Radio Radio Ahhhh CJAM any of you Detroiters know what Mike Halloran is up to? for everyone else, he was a bright blip on the radio radar in detroit 80s radio i think he went to KROC in sunny CA but haven't heard anythin since Detroit is blessed/cursed with canadian broadcasting . On the upside we got a better picture of british pop in the 80s (canadian charts tend to be a mesh of us/brit influences with 30% 'canadian content') On the downside Don Cherry has become a multiple personality :) be wealthy - be stealthy dmc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:18:59 +0200 From: "giluz" Subject: RE: Across the pond/Fat of the Prodigy > Oh, and my 2p on the Prodigy: > > Experience: naive, but great fun. > Jilted: a little overplayed now, but at the time this > was an excellent release - No good (start the dance) > still gives me the shivers. > Fat: overproduced rubbish, bar maybe three or four > tracks. A massive step back that ended up sounding > like a crap punk album with a few electronic bits over > the top. A big disappointment... > > > Craig. > Righto - Couldn't express it better myself. giluz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:26:23 +0200 From: "giluz" Subject: RE: to set the record straight (was London's Burning and alot of other stuff) > fred frith 'pacifica' - new music composition performed by an > italian ensemble - and fred doesn't even play - IMO FF > is a major talent - do not miss an opportunity to see him play live > Can you be a bit more specific about that? I've got a few of Frith's albums, but I know that it's a bit of a risk to buy anything he does, cause some of them are quite unlistenable. How would you classify the new one? Is it one of his improvised avant-garde pieces, or somethig more old fashionably musical? He is a genius - a great composer and player (guitar, bass, keyboards, violin and lots of others - he plays them all brilliantly), been to some great bands like Henry Cow, Art Bears and one of the John Zorn ensembles, collaborated with countless musicians (from Robert Wyatt to the Residents). giluz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:57:39 +0200 From: "giluz" Subject: RE: Eighties Stations I have to admit that I'm not into the 80's at all. I mean, some great stuff's been done, but the 60's & the 70's were much better (from psychedelics to glam-rock to garage to prog and to punk - wow). As far as retro goes, I can't hear that word anymore. It was only 10-20 years ago and people are already moist-eyed with nostalgia - hey - we're not that old. I expect to be like that when I'm in my 50's or 60's, not before (early 30's, me). It was nice when they started it, when you heard Duran Duran of AFOS or Thompson Twins for the 1st time in 10-15 years, but now it's been overplayed. They never put on the really good stuff, and, practically, I don't need to hear the really good stuff on the radio, cause I can hear most of it at home, so what's the point? giluz > > Much to the delight of many on this list just waiting to whip me > into shape, > I would love to have one of those 'eighties format' radio > stations here. I > was a teenager in the 80's and love a lot of that music, including AFOS, > etc. I would be surprised if they play Wire at all, I never ever > heard Wire > on the radio, only on Mtv back in the Kidney Bingos days. I will see if I > can get that station on the radio internet thingie on my pc at work... > > Eighties rule!!! hahhaa > > Katherine > > > From: george.m.hook@ac.com > > Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:45:30 -0500 > > To: idealcopy@smoe.org > > Cc: idealcopy@smoe.org > > Subject: Eighties Stations > > > > Just curious, fellow Wire enthusiasts. Is anyone out there > familiar with > > the new Eighties radio station format? Do you have one in your city (UK > > and other points beyond included)? I just discovered the one in Chicago > > (103.1) and I will have to admit, I enjoy the mindless fun. > Maybe because > > silly summer season is upon us. Thompson Twins, Devo, Cindy > Lauper, FOSL, > > Duran Duran ... all those wacky acts we debate on this line are being > > played on this station. Haven't heard any Wire yet (or Heaven 17's We > > Don't Need that Fascist Groove Thing). I had forgotten that > the Dazz Band > > had their own "Whip It" song ..... > > > > > > ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V3 #211 *******************************