From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #147 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, June 3 2006 Volume 09 : Number 147 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] In the Aeroplane over the sea [giluz ] [idealcopy] Nightingales / Dead Cowboys / Benny Profane ["Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] In the Aeroplane over the sea Isn't this the same guy who later formed a Hack and a Hacksaw? On 6/2/06, Keith Knight wrote: > > 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 > - -- Now playing: http://www.last.fm/user/giluz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:36:09 +0100 From: "Keith A" Subject: [idealcopy] Nightingales / Dead Cowboys / Benny Profane I missed the start of the Benny Profane set at the small seedy basement Magnet Club in Liverpool, as I'd gone to the bar upstairs as the club one hadn't opened and stayed up there a while. It was only when I saw the former Peel favourites onstage for this one-off reunion that I realised that the guy who had stamped my hand was singer Dave Jackson! Anyway, they were on good form - OK, they cocked the ending of one number up, but as Jackson pointed out it is 16 years since they split up. Otherwise, apart from Jackson struggling a little on the high notes (and his dancing veering towards embarrassing uncle at a wedding at times!), I enjoyed them, particularly when they were at their most Velvet-like. And it was good to hear the likes of Devil Laughing again. A short time later, Jackson and Stringer returned with their current band, The Dead Cowboys, and once again treated us to some fine material with Stringer providing some great basslines. Id not heard The Dead Cowboys before, but I was converted early on. No surprise there though  Jackson and Stringer have been coming up with quality goods since their time in The Room more than twenty years ago. The wedge hairstyle might have long gone, but as with Robert Lloyd and his merry men, theres life in the old dog yet The last time I saw the Nightingales some 18 months ago, they treated us to a greatest hits selection  Paraffin Brain, The Crunch, How To Live and lots of their other 80s favourites. But now, with a new drummer who was dressed for a Stray Cats re-union and their new guitarist who doesnt look a day over 12, if they were to appear on Stars In Your Eyes, they would be saying, Tonight Matthew, were going to be Captain Beefheart. From the very start, this set was about Lloyd spouting his border-line surrealism over intricate little riffs playing against each other, just as the old Don used to do. None of the aforementioned old favourites were included  indeed I must admit I was unfamiliar with something like a good two thirds of the set  although we were treated to the old acapella fave that is Well Done Underdog (though unfortunately the new, updated version doesnt include the fab final line about having free phones in Cuba!!). They ended with a rollicking rendition of their excellent new rockabilly styled single, Lets Think About Living, which in an ideal world would be troubling the charts as we speak. Indeed, if they persisted with this more Nightingale-lite style theyd no doubt be playing bigger venues, but then they wouldnt be half as interesting. Forget all these NME Band of the Week types, who make out they dont care, they wont compromise, etc, whilst wearing the same indie uniform and churning out the same tired old riffs. They dont need your attention. The Nightingales do. Because rocknroll rarely gets more uncompromising than this. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:54:17 +0100 (BST) From: Monochromatic Man Subject: [idealcopy] OT: New Post-Punk cd compilation WITHOUT Wire... No Wire, but a decent selection. big url: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FOPQ46/ref%3Dpd%5Fsim%5Fpm%5Fdp%5F3/202-0457869-5562208 - -or- http://tinyurl.com/ftwr7 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 20:51:15 +0100 From: "Clements, Bruno - BUP" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] OT: New Post-Punk cd compilation WITHOUT Wire... Good spot, Billy. Mr Morley wrote an interesting piece in the Independent (or was it the Guardian?) the other week about the music scene in the region he comes from and this is obviously released in conjunction with other projects he's got going. [[[ North By North West: Liverpool & Manchester from Punk to Post-Punk & Beyond 1976-1983/Compiled By Paul Morley/Limited Edition [Limited Edition] [Box set] ]]] Wire as a London/Watford/West(ish) (well Newbury's West of London if not really West Country as in, oooh, arhhh, I luvs me zider) outfit wouldn't fit into this. I have the Big in Japan EP mouldering away in my attic - something I'd like to have in digi format one day (even though they were not greatly liked by people at the time - something to do with being an obnoxious bunch of poseurs, I think). - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Monochromatic Man Sent: 02 June 2006 19:54 To: idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: [idealcopy] OT: New Post-Punk cd compilation WITHOUT Wire... No Wire, but a decent selection. big url: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FOPQ46/ref%3Dpd%5Fsim%5Fpm%5Fdp %5F3/202-0457869-5562208 - -or- http://tinyurl.com/ftwr7 ********************************************************************** 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: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 20:43:03 EDT From: MarkBursa@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: New Post-Punk cd compilation WITHOUT Wire... [[ North By North West: Liverpool & Manchester from Punk to Post-Punk & Beyond 1976-1983/Compiled By Paul Morley/Limited Edition [Limited Edition] [Box set] http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FOPQ46/ref%3Dpd%5Fsim%5Fpm%5Fdp %5F3/202-0457869-5562208 - -or- http://tinyurl.com/ftwr7 ]]] Contains one band from neither Liverpool nor Manchester. But which one, pop kids? Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 07:44:49 +0100 From: "Andy Lumbard" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] OT: New Post-Punk cd compilation WITHOUT Wire... Weren't Slaughter & The Dogs from Leeds? AndyL - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of MarkBursa@aol.com Sent: 03 June 2006 01:43 To: B.Clements@bepp.co.uk; xj23@yahoo.com Cc: idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: New Post-Punk cd compilation WITHOUT Wire... [[ North By North West: Liverpool & Manchester from Punk to Post-Punk & Beyond 1976-1983/Compiled By Paul Morley/Limited Edition [Limited Edition] [Box set] http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FOPQ46/ref%3Dpd%5Fsim%5Fpm%5Fdp %5F3/202-0457869-5562208 - -or- http://tinyurl.com/ftwr7 ]]] Contains one band from neither Liverpool nor Manchester. But which one, pop kids? Mark - -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.4/351 - Release Date: 29/05/2006 - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.4/351 - Release Date: 29/05/2006 ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #147 *******************************