From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V6 #221 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, July 27 2003 Volume 06 : Number 221 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] [OT] Cruyff (in the Bedroom) [Bart van Damme ] [idealcopy] the preston front ["Keith Astbury" Subject: [idealcopy] [OT] Cruyff (in the Bedroom) Anybody heard of Japanese shoegazers (and big muff crazy) Cruyff In The Bedroom? Nice iconoclastic name and they actually sound quite good. MP3's: http://onlyfeedback.com/citb/disco.html More: http://www.ukproject.com/que/livereport/02report/report29.html Photo's: http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~hanautau/menu/photomain/photo/photo04.html On a similar subject... (& justice at last) The real Johan Cruyff finally got to no. 3 (Yay!) at ipunkrock.com with a spanish remake of his 1968 classic (sung after drinking 2 bacardi-colas) "Oei oei oei, dat was me weer een loei!" (sleeve: http://members.lycos.nl/poph/archief/cruyff.htm ) or in spanish: > "OEI OEI OEI OTRO BUEN CHUT" (onda freakbeat holandesa con > tronpetas y aromas mediterraneos) http://www.ipunkrock.com/enc/list_thread.php3?thread=4438&que=canciones%20de l%20futbol Funny how neither spanish nor english can pronounce his name right. I wonder how the japanese manage... "Kloof"? Bart =================================================================== Cruyff in the Bedroom Top of the World MCD Only Feedback $11.50 This mini album from 2001 showcases the epitome of CITB's obsession with soccer (aka "football" for the rest of the world) with its unique packaging on layered die-cut printed soccer balls. The 6 tracks here display their amazing shoegaze songstructuring with layers upon layers of deliciously noisy guitars and pop vocal melodies crashing into one another for a heady concoction of fuzz, bliss, and pop. Japanese import. HATA YUSUKE...........Vocal,Guitar,Music,Lylics,FW SANNOHE SHIGEKAZU.....Guitar,Vocal,GK HIRONAKA HIDEYUKI.....Bass,SUB MIYAGAWA TSUYOSHI.....Drums,COACH =================================================================== Surprised. I was surprised to know that the C.I.T.B was Japanese instead of English men. GASSO / Kiyono Seiji This is a sensual music, made of noise and groove. At first,we met just as a band, but now I'm a fan of you. The HEYS / Koizumi C.I.T.B sings and plays the songs that we love, in a very cool way. Since the first day I met them at Shimokitazawa QUE, I'm a BIG fan of them. GOING UNDERGROUND / Matsumoto Sou This CD includes songs that made me get goose bumps!! 00TELESA / Murata These days, there are too many self-styled boring guitar band. But out of those, here comes the real one using the BIG MUFF. You'll need ear plugs to go to their lives. Out of this CD, "how does it feel" is much better than any drugs. I'll have to keep checking this band from now on too. The Pillows / Yamanaka Sawao ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:20:55 +0200 From: Bart van Damme Subject: Re: [idealcopy] You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life >> Bart (in desperate need of a shady lane) > i think lois was kinda shady Lois digs goatee? That's super Paul! ;-)# > -paul (the sycamore in front of my house didn't sprout any leaves until july > 3rd, 2 days after i spoke in front of it about having it cut down) c.d. Torture and threats... best tools in the world mate!. ;-) (strange fruit) Bart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:27:52 EDT From: RLynn9@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] Goldfrapp on Last Call With Carson Daly (ugh) ....for we fans of Goldfrapp...she will be playing "Train" live on the Last Call With Carson Daly show...late night Wednesday July 30 sometime after 12:35 central standard time (usa)....so if you are gonna set you VCR make sure you set it for Thurday July 31st since it's actually on after midnight Wed....... which means i have to sit through the ever banal Carson Daly...fuck i hate TV...especially in America.... RL ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:16:50 -0700 (PDT) From: eric719@webtv.net (Eric Strang) Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Goldfrapp on Last Call With Carson Daly (ugh) ...fuck i hate TV...especially in America.... >> That makes two of us. I'm about ready to barf at all this reality tv crap. Eric np Yello- Stella ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:26:30 -0400 From: Ed Special Subject: [idealcopy] Sleepytime http://www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com/ for free mp3 downloads: click on the text on their home page, click on first (left) tree globe, click on weird "couple", click on "Sleep is Wrong" and "1997" more info about the members: http://www.thestranger.com/2002-05-02/music3.html http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=sgm-goac http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=50 http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=27 (she has a full head of hair now) http://www.inkboat.com/inkbio/bionils.html http://www.inkboat.com/inkbio/biodan.html http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=50 http://home.earthlink.net/~dawnthefaun/links.html edspecial@digitalrealm.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 01:03:29 +0100 From: "Keith Astbury" Subject: [idealcopy] the preston front Fans of The Sound may be interested in the following review... I recently got the final LP by Adrian Borland - Harmony & Destruction. Can't say I agree with the "it's up there with his best work" philosophy (on initial plays at least), but it's interesting all the same. Also (finally!) got those couple of Joy Division live LP's that came out the other yr (it seems that Preston is now officially twinned with Paris!). The version of Shadowplay on the Baines Douche one is colossal. It's a pretty punky run thru with Morris *really* excelling. I'm not particularly one to rave about drum rolls, but this is soooo exciting. Best thing I've heard all week! Keith > I found a nice review of the Sound's Jeopardy album on the PopMatters website (www.popmatters.com) and decided to sent it to the mailinglist. I have added it to the Brittle Heaven articlepages website as well. > > Enjoy! > RiBo > > ================================================= > THE SOUND - JEOPARDY > > Jeopardy is the album missing from your music collection. > > Making such a bold claim banks on two assumptions, which I'll come clean about right now. First, that you don't already own Jeopardy . I assume this because, in the transition from a historical moment to a musical canon, the sad reality is that some bands, good as they may be, get left by the wayside. This unfortunate fate has most certainly befallen The Sound. Though they signed in 1980 to Korova Records -- the very same major label which also housed Echo and the Bunnymen, with whom they also share a sonic likeness -- they would hardly enjoy the same fame. Their cult status in England never translated into any notoriety on American shores; they remain unknown even by rabid new wave and post-punk fans on both sides of the Atlantic. Such a tragic tale only goes to show that, in the world of music, there most certainly no justice. > > My second assumption is arguably one based on taste, but for anyone interested in how punk got to be post punk got to be new wave got to be '80s synth pop, Jeopardy is a critical piece of the puzzle. Nestled in that moment before what has become the signature '80s Euro sound was full-on explode, The Sound find musical cousins in the Cure, the Fall, the Gang of Four, Joy Division, and the Psychedelic Furs. Pretty good company, right? Now ask me again why you don't already know about this band. > Jeopardy is the band's debut release; it bursts with fresh energy while also maintaining a startling maturity and skill. These are songs that haunt, blaze, rip, and govern, sometimes within the same moment. Oh, their elements: the guitars twitch like an itchy trigger finger, the vocals teem with fury and fire, the bass like a controlled nuclear reaction, keyboards always at the perfect color, whether dark or luminescent. In addition to the original material from the 1980 release, this particular reissue also contains tracks from rare live Instinct EP recorded in London in 1981. > > " I Can't Escape Myself," the album's opener, is an intensely dramatic, mesmerizing number. The characteristic quickfire bass and upbeat drum kicks start almost inaudibly and rise like smoke filling a closed room. Guitar agitates in unison with the drums. Then singer/guitarist Adrian Borland begins: "So many feelings/ Pent up in here/ Left alone, I'm with/ The one I most fear." His paranoia intensifies across the verse, until the theatrical interjection of the chorus. Borland drips "I can't escape myself," as it's echoed, in screams and guitar jabs, in the background. But this is a brief, Kafkaesque release. Even the closing of the song offers no real exit, Borland singing his final "escape myself" over the relentless bass, both of which cut out abruptly. " Heartland", the agile punk race which follows, is far more optimistic -- blusteringly lively, indeed a "chemistry of commotion and style," as the lyrics astutely note. Midway through is a genius guitar solo that recalls R! > ichard Hell or Tom Verlaine, and the whole thing is overlain with a keyboard zing that nimbly dances across unexpected note progressions. > > The exchange between "I Can't Escape Myself" and "Heartland" is characteristic of the album writ large -- brooding suspicion followed up by amphetamine-y mania. (Is it really a surprise that the band was beset by drug addictions and internally and externally imposed turmoil?) "Words Fail Me", The Sound's version of a "love song," is as curious and angular as you'd expect from someone as anxiety-ridden and troubled as Brody comes off as being. It pops with horns and jumps with desperation, guitar rapid-firing a single note throughout the vocal acrobatics of the chorus. The melodramatic and shadowy "Missiles" follows, and it could be more of a departure. "Who the hell makes those missiles/ When we know what they can do?" Brody implores. Whether located in the government or in the depths of their own collective consciousness, the world is filled with forces beyond The Sound's control. > > All this, and I haven't even touched the album's best tracks: the roller-coasting "Heyday" and asymmetrical, supernatural "Desire", not to mention the jaw-dropping live rendition of "Brutal Force". Feel free to debate me on these selections, as so much of the album overflows with brilliance that it's endlessly hard to pick a favorite. In fact, I'm stupefied in trying to figure out another superlative I could give to this tremendous record. Let's just say, Jeopardy far surpasses my humble writing ability. I hope, for your own sake, that it's not missing from your record collection for much longer. > > ) 2003 - Devon Powers - PopMatters Music ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 22:54:43 EDT From: RLynn9@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Goldfrapp on Last Call With Carson Daly (ugh) In a message dated 7/26/03 4:17:29 PM Central Daylight Time, eric719@webtv.net writes: > np Yello- Stella > criminally underrated band and album RL ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 06:04:09 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Monochromatic=20Man?= Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Goldfrapp on Last Call With Carson Daly (ugh) > which means i have to sit through the ever banal > Carson Daly...fuck i hate > TV...especially in America.... > How the fuck did that gobshite ever get on tv??? He can't interview for shit. Does not possess the capability of free speech. If it's not on a question card he's speechless. I'm really glad I have to work. I don't stay up too late and I miss all of that shit during the day. (I do like to watch Springer once in a while. Sorry) ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:22:39 +0100 From: "Keith Astbury" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Goldfrapp on Last Call With Carson Daly (ugh) > How the fuck did that gobshite ever get on tv??? Hey. Nice to see the word 'gobshite' being used on the other side of the atlantic, too! > I'm really glad I have to work. I don't stay up too > late and I miss all of that shit during the day. (I do > like to watch Springer once in a while. Sorry) Is that still being made? The one's we get over here seem pretty old nowadays. I enjoy the sheer carnival of it once in a while too. Mind you, I've even taking to watching Tricia over here (who unlike Jerry takes herself very seriously and considers herself more of a social worker than an entertainer!!) at times, and that show has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. Nurse!!! Keith PS I can't believe Glenn hasn't mailed me to gloat about Smiths double hundred and complain about the good old UK weather. (I've lost my address book, Glenn and I can't put my hands on my back-up). Come on, man. Get it off yer chest! ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V6 #221 *******************************