From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #146 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, June 2 2006 Volume 09 : Number 146 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] This Heat box ["Clements, Bruno - BUP" Subject: [idealcopy] This Heat box Well it finally arrived, on June 1 (the revised issue release date). Most of the discs are 2001 remastered, so there's been a fair time to think over the packaging/booklet, but I still think it's fair to say it's one of the best independent box sets I've ever seen (including the other major release which many on this list will have invested in). Haven't had a chance to investigate the live recording, or subscription-only 3-inch disc, yet but the Blue and Yellow/Deceit discs sound superb. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:44:18 +0800 From: "First Last" Subject: Re: FW: [idealcopy] videos This works: http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php Playback with VLC Player Tim NP Tackhead (Remember Them!?) Slash & Mix CD Thus turning into a On-U retrospective week. On 5/31/06, Clements, Bruno - BUP wrote: > Useful. Thanks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org]On > Behalf Of Andrew Walkingshaw > Sent: 31 May 2006 15:33 > To: idealcopy@smoe.org > Subject: Re: [idealcopy] videos > > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:44:42PM +0100, Clements, Bruno - BUP wrote: > > ...isn't there a program called Total Recorder, which will record > anything? > > Haven't tried it myself but it might be the answer. > > Youtube stores videos as .flv files, which VLC > (http://www.videolan.org/) will play. Google for "youtube downloader" > to get the files - the easiest thing to use is probably the Firefox > extension. Google Video - just choose the download option on the right... > > Andrew > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.clearswift.com > ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:33:54 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: [idealcopy] In the Aeroplane over the sea So there I am in Rough Trade Covent Garden buying the new Handsome Family album and there's something playing on the stereo which worms its way into my attention as I'm browsing the racks. I ask the bloke behind the desk what it is and he shows me this CD I've never heard of - 'In the Aeroplane over the Sea' by Neutral Milk Hotel. It's just been re-released he says - 7.99. He points to the other employee in the shop - - "He reckons it's the best album ever released" he says. "Oh yeah" I say - "Better than Rock Bottom?" But I buy it anyway because I like the sound of it, it's reasonably cheap and the new mortgage hasn't kicked in yet so I'm in a phoney war with my wallet. It's not until the day after that I look at it. There's quotes on the sleeve from Robert Hardy of Franz Ferdinand - "it was the only cassette I had in my car for two years. It's amazing" - Richard Reed Parry of The Arcade Fire - "one of the most completely inspiring rock records I've ever heard" and someone called Boom Bip - "the one album I would take on a deserted island if I only had one choice". Crikey. So I put it on. The first song, 'The King of Carrot Flowers part 1' is immediately engaging and sing-along with the singer Jeff Mangum belting out a winning lyric - "we would lay and learn what each others bodies were for and this is the room one afternoon I knew I could love you and from above you how I sank into your soul into that secret place where no one dares to go" - over a descending refrain. The track two comes on - 'The King of Carrot Flowers parts two and three' - and Mangum yells at the top of his voice "I Love you Jesus Christ" three of four times while the band cranks up beneath him, trumpet swinging. Jeez indeed, what is this some kind of Christian rock? But the rest of the album has no obvious Christian motif being full of impressively poetic lyric-writing which seems after a while to be focussing on - strangely and interestingly - Anne Frank - "will she remember me 50 years later I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine". Musically the palate is fascinating, largely acoustic based, sounding at times like early Bowie but with an Earlies-type range of instruments including lots of brass, saw and uilleann pipes. And these are songs which don't reveal themselves immediately but slowly worm themselves in over repeated plays. Bits of music - like the brass section at the start of 'The Fool', sounding like folk supergroup Brass Monkey - keep crashing in forcing you to keep up. I can understand that quote about keeping it in your car for two years. So how come I've never heard of this band before? Crap name apart, lack of attention I suspect and doubtless half of you already have it and have been extolling its virtues here while I've been diverted elsewhere. A bit of Internet research reveals that it came out in 1998 and was voted fourth best album of the decade on pitchforkmedia ( one place higher than 'Slanted and Enchanted' fact fans). Mangum appears to have largely disappeared since which endears him to me even more. As you can tell, I'm rather enamoured of this album. Meanwhile the poor Handsome Family have to wait their time. Another the Keith ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:30:40 -0400 From: k erickson Subject: Re: [idealcopy] In the Aeroplane over the sea I'll second Keith's opinion, this is definitely a great cd. i assumed it was well known, but things here in the states often are less known across the pond & vice versa. if you don't know it, it is well worth finding. and for 7.99 you can afford to test our opinions! i would also recommend his earlier effort, On Avery Island, which is a bit less cohesive but still quite good in that same style. that's one thing that can't be duplicated in online shopping -- hearing the record store play something you've never heard but so compelling you have to find out about it. good find, Keith! kristoph. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #146 *******************************