From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #22 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Monday, January 23 2006 Volume 09 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] scott walker ["Keith A" ] Re: [idealcopy] scott walker [Jan Noorda ] RE: [idealcopy] Memory banks ["Keith Knight" ] Re: [idealcopy] Memory banks ["Keith A" ] [idealcopy] OT - New Orleans article ["Keith Knight" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] scott walker > > Thanks for this. I watched Scott's performance 90's performance on Later > > only last night. Rivetting stuff. > > > I don't remember that one, what did he sing? Rosary. It wasn't necessarily the most, er, competent, version - his finger picking was a little heavy-handed at times - but to paraphrase Mr Lydon, he meant it maaaaan. He obviously does. I mean, with a set of tonsils like that, he could be earning a bloody fortune singing The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine in Vegas, not wailing demented tunes like that. I'll definitely be buying the new one. Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:55:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Noorda Subject: Re: [idealcopy] scott walker I downloaded last weekend the most of him. I was intrigued already. Brendan Perry is by example very much influenced by him. I believe Brendan's father loved his music. Of course there are the beautiful strings. Then his way of singing. You can hear every word he sings. Strong voice. But a little kitsch ey. Does remind to Tom Jones, Sinatra but also Brel. And his lyrics. Mostly about distant love, lost love. Loneliness. Not that happy. But that was in the 60s Tilt (1995) is his latest.I thought I am listening to a Beckett play set on music. No not that strange silence. But strange world it is. The lyrics are fragmentary and presented as images on a moving pathway. You barely focus and the next lot of images close in: fragments of voices, Pasolinis and his killers; neighbourhood cries and noise. Pasolini is seen from a distancegeographically and biographicallybut the overall effect is a portrait that words alone cant sufficiently express. Walkers disquieting and restless tenor sobs and surges, bringing colour and movement to the scene but without offering any explanation. A high point is where Walker cries: And I used to be a citizen I never felt the pressure I knew nothing of the horses nothing of the thresher. Rest of this review http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/scot-j04.shtml It's raining today..... j Thanks for this. I watched Scott's performance 90's performance on Later only last night. Rivetting stuff. I don't remember that one, what did he sing? Rosary. It wasn't necessarily the most, er, competent, version - his finger picking was a little heavy-handed at times - but to paraphrase Mr Lydon, he meant it maaaaan. He obviously does. I mean, with a set of tonsils like that, he could be earning a bloody fortune singing The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine in Vegas, not wailing demented tunes like that. I'll definitely be buying the new one. Keith - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and used cars. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:43:26 -0000 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Memory banks I knew I still had one of these tapes around somewhere and I've tracked it down. Mark's right in thinking it was an EMI tape but wrong in some of his description. No wheels - a couple of feet with toes and two undefined hand-type appendages. A curly tail and VERY large ears, which are outlined with little soundwaves to suggest movement. The trumpet nose is accurate and it has a somewhat sheepish grin. The case opens differently to most, as it doesn't unfold fully - you have to ease the tape out of a small slot. Haven't played it yet to see how the quality stands up but I've kept it because this is a key 77 tape, incorporating not only punk but other stuff that was floating around my life early that summer. I shall for the sheer hell of it list in full here, as looking at this list makes me wonder whether I ever made a better tape subsequently (despite the ropy start): Side 1 Baby Baby - Vibrators Thinking of the USA - Eater My Kind of Town - Sinatra Sheena is a Punk Rocker / I Don't Care - Ramones Mr Mike - Fabulous Poodles The Yes No Interlude - Hatfield and the North Anarchy - Pistols Fascist Dictator - Cortinas Virginia Plain - Roxy Lola - Kinks Dedicated to the One I Love - Mamas and Papas Whisky in the Jar - Lizzy Strangers in the Night - Sinatra White Riot - Clash Side 2 Slash - Tuff Darts Final solution - Pere Ubu Boys will be Boys - The Fast Personality Crisis - New York Dolls I'm Stranded - Saints The Shadows of Night (not sure what this is) California son / I don't Wanna Walk around with You - Ramones Love Goes to Building on Fire / New Feelings - Talking Heads Live at the Marquee ep - Eddie and the Hot Rods God Save the Queen - Pistols New Rose - The Damned Another the Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of MarkBursa@aol.com Sent: 18 January 2006 13:11 To: lockupyourhats@yahoo.com; idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Memory banks >>One tape not in that archive was the BASF soundhog... with its very particular opaque blue box... anyone remember those ?<< Oh yes... quite heavily marketed at the time, via a little "soundhog" character IIRC. This resembled some form of rodent (I guess a groundhog) with a large, trumpet-shaped nose (from which eminated varoous sounds). I think it had wheels too, for no apparent reason, which would make it a distant relative of the contemporary armadillo-tank hybrid on the cover of Emerson Lake & Palmer's Tarkus. The Soundhog in retrospect was probably more like the fruits of a union between a rat and the Direct Line mobile telephone. Playing the flugelhorn. Come to think of it, I might be getting confused with the Dunlop Groundhog character, which advertised tyres and was like a rodent Formula 1 car. Soundhogs were rubbish tapes too, but they weren't BASF. Think they were EMI. Mind you, BASF tapes were rubbish too - nowhere near as good as Maxell or TDK. Mark (lost in hazy nostalgia and becoming what Mark E Smith describes as "a look-back bore") ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:57:49 -0000 From: "Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Memory banks > wonder whether I ever made a better tape subsequently (despite the ropy > start): > > Side 1 > > Baby Baby - Vibrators Just reading that tracklisting takes you back to a different time, doesn't it. Must admit I like Baby Baby myself though. K. np the Dears - protest ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:55:14 -0000 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: [idealcopy] OT - New Orleans article Been meaning to bring this excellent piece by Nik Cohn on New Orleans to people's attention - best description I've read of what it was like during the aftermath of Katrina: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1686412,00.html another the Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:50:18 -0800 From: "nowhere_man" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT - New Orleans article be careful the uh oh squad will come after you like they did me months ago. nice to see you dood... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Knight" To: "Idealcopy" Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 4:55 PM Subject: [idealcopy] OT - New Orleans article > Been meaning to bring this excellent piece by Nik Cohn on New Orleans to > people's attention - best description I've read of what it was like > during the aftermath of Katrina: > > http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1686412,00.html > > another the Keith ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #22 ******************************