From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V6 #8 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, January 10 2003 Volume 06 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] the ego has landed ["Keith Astbury" Subject: [idealcopy] the ego has landed Check out this weeks nme for Jack White interviewing a manic sounding Arthur Lee. No-one else matters, his next album is gonna be the greatest LP of all time and he's fed up of his old stuff - despite the fact that he's taking Forever Changes on the road. It's ego gone mad! And they've just realised that Joe Strummer has died. Front cover, full tribute, etc. Apparently his death on 22/12 was too late to make the 4th of Jan edition !?! Keith ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:31:04 -0000 From: "Bill Hick" Subject: [idealcopy] Heavy Metal Rocket Coming Fast There is a movie going on under the rug. On the rug, 24 hours a day, pull back the rug sure enough there's that damn movie! The title is So Solid Crew do New Dope, and that's what its about, a brand new kind of dope no one's ever heard of. One of the most annoying characteristics of the shit is that the minute you take it you are rendered incapable of ever telling anyone what it's like, or worse, where to get any. >>>But its not their fault that people get shot. Its the fault of stupid boys (always boys) who like playing with guns because they cannot get an erection. As opposed to stupid girls who cannot get an erection? Stupid girls who can't get erections stay at home shooting up New Dope like heroins and its Marilyn Manson's fault of course... It is the Dope that finds them. Part of a reverse world in which guns are like vacuum cleaners operating in the direction of life - pull the trigger and bullets are sucked out of the recently dead into the barrel, and the Great Irreversible is actually reversed as the corpse comes back to life to the accompaniment of a backwards gunshot. Is the wheel an extension of the foot? Is the gun an extension of the penis? Can it really be a floppy sex pistol? And what about poor Slothrop, abandoned in the Zone and fragmenting, fading fast...? Only Rocketman's kazoo can be heard droning Above distant Berlin Nice Streets now. Lack of erection was not a problem, Tyrone would get a hard on every time the rockets burst overhead. It was coming fast with 00000 on it. ...only a fiction to help him deny what he felt so terribly, so immediately, for those rockets exploding in the sky... to help him deny what he could not possibly admit, that he might be in love, in sexual love, with his and his race's, death. BUT The basic problem has always been getting other people to die for you. What's worth enough for a man to give up his life? That's where religion had the edge, for centuries. Religion was always about death. It was not used as an opiate so much as a technique - it got people to die for one particular set of beliefs about death. To avoid or further confusion, read Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (an influence on Lewis' lyrics, for which we can shift the blame from the worm in the bottle) What's the point? It's your Cracked Machine Highly Irregular Cyberzine http://www.webinfo.co.uk/crackedmachine NP El Guapo - Super / System (www.dischord.com) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:48:41 -0000 From: "Bill Hick" Subject: [idealcopy] Reviewed; It was later based on Fun? A package of review CDs arrived today from Flux magazine, inside which lurked a CD-R of the Fischerspooner WIRE cover with 4 different mixes. The press release says these are going to be spread across 2 CD singles and a DVD, so total suckers can get shafted down HMV buying multiple copies so that the band can pretend they have three times as many fans as they actually do. The original version sounds totally eighties synthpop retro, like OMD in drag. Lyrically, fact is switched to fun. Then there are two dated and dull house mixes, neither of which I'm ever likely to play a second time. Life's too short and getting shorter every day. The best mix by far is the last one from Tommie Sunshine which piles on some wannabe heavy but ultimately fairly light guitar. It just makes me want to listen to 154 instead, but its quite a toetapping version. *It was not there ~ WIRE didn't play many songs from 154 during the 'Brochure' phase as they felt they couldn't recapture the atmosphere. 154 is such a perfect album there's just no point in trying to cover songs from it. However The Fifteenth is never likely to get played by WIRE themselves as most of the band don't like the song, and Fischerspooner's version would probably be quite nice to hear if you're unlucky enough to get an earful of mainstream daytime radio pap. However, anyone who bothers to dig a bit deeper to find new music will probably find it quite bland and pointless. I believe the money-for-Colin aspect has been discussed here. The other CDs in the package were all more interesting. The Tarwater Tesla single is odd in that it contains only Tesla in the same version as it appears on the album, plus a Quicktime video. Its an innovative and highly original, catchy song, but some new tracks would've been nice! The video seems to have an aesthetic which could easily have been WIRE influenced, even with little bars like a more complex version of the pattern that appears on the recent WIRE tour T-shirt. www.kitty-yo.de Kling Klang's Superposition EP for Rock Action is an excellent mash up of experimental early seventies German rock influence and analogue synth meltdown. You'd be right in thinking their name betrays a heavy Kraftwerk influence. It really is about time they got an album out, although it looks like they're going to follow this up with a compilation of all their earlier singles. www.klingklang.mersinet.co.uk www.rockactionrecords.co.uk Loose Fur is Jim O'Rourke in cahoots with a couple of guys from Wilco, merging slightly off centre songs with repetitive codas and occasional bouts of strange clanking percussion. On one listen I enjoyed this more than the quite nice but drastically over-rated Insignificance. www.dominorecordco.com Best of all is the new Calla album Televise. It's a bit more upbeat than Scavengers, but retains the dark atmospheres of yearning and meshings of subtle programmed percussion, whispered vocals and understated guitar twang that made their last couple of albums so good. Its one of those records that just keeps getting better with every listen. According to the PR, they "understand the way in which the dirtiness of rock intersects the world of high art." WIRE fans might find that phrase rings familar bells, and I'd unreservedly recommend this band to anyone who likes WIRE. It might be worth touting the fact that drummer & rhythm programmer Wayne Magruder used to play in Bowery Electric whose Beat album was a Colin Newman favourite, and who Immersion remixed on the Vertigo double CD. www.arenarockrecordingco.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:14:55 EST From: Eardrumbuz@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Reviewed; It was later based on Fun? later based on fun?? i hadn't noticed that before. is that the only lyric changed? i agree about not trying to cover a song that is already perfect, but for some reason this one was a pleasant surprise. i don't agree that wire, themselves, should avoid material from their own catalog because they don't think they could recapture teh original atmosphere. that doesn't sound very wirey of them. In a message dated 1/9/03 1:57:06 PM, umur_ot@hotmail.com writes: >Best of all is the new Calla album Televise. It's a bit more upbeat than >Scavengers, but retains the dark atmospheres of yearning and meshings of >subtle programmed percussion, whispered vocals and understated guitar twang >that made their last couple of albums so good. Its one of those records >that >just keeps getting better with every listen. According to the PR, they >"understand the way in which the dirtiness of rock intersects the world >of >high art." WIRE fans might find that phrase rings familar bells, and I'd >unreservedly recommend this band to anyone who likes WIRE. It might be >worth >touting the fact that drummer & rhythm programmer Wayne Magruder used to >play >in Bowery Electric whose Beat album was a Colin Newman favourite, and who >Immersion remixed on the Vertigo double CD. calla are possibly the most intriguing band i've heard in a while. their songs send shivers up my spine. - -paul c.d. n.p. plenum - a gust ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V6 #8 *****************************