From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #228 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, November 7 2007 Volume 10 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Kind words [Fergus Kelly ] [idealcopy] Arcade Fire are............. [Ari ] Re: [idealcopy] 5 for real [Eardrumbuz@aol.com] Re: [idealcopy] Top 5...er...*sigh* ["Paul Pietromonaco" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:11:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Fergus Kelly Subject: [idealcopy] Kind words Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:46:50 -0500 From: Brian Smith Subject: Re: [idealcopy] 5 for real Allow a troll on this list to offer thanks to the Copyists for turning me onto Fergus Kelly, whose discs (well, 2 of them) I purchased on the blind and are part of my fab five. Amazing stuff that left me speechless. Also in that mix are Robert Wyatt's Comicopera and A Place to Bury Strangers ST and He Said Omala. ((( Hey, thanks a lot Brian... glad you liked 'em... Fergus http://www.roomtemperature.org http://www.asullenrelapse.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/ferguskellyrecordings http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:52:05 -0800 (PST) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] Arcade Fire are............. ... I know there's a few fans on this list (not that I 'know' their music) but they're on Austin City Limits this weekend (Wilco were on last saturday) so tune in fans.... A Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:50:38 -0600 From: "David McKenzie" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Top 5...er...*sigh* There's a pretty decent Ladytron concert radio broadcast from the Withching Hour floating about the p2ps as well. Beg to differ on Euphorica. Very much an acquired taste, but Peace wouldn't be the same with 'nice' vocals. (It's a favorite of the kid) In baseball parlance, BD are always capable of throwing a nice change-up. Unexpected, but over the plate. On 11/5/07, Andrew Walkingshaw wrote: > > On 11/5/07, Paul Pietromonaco wrote: > > >> Prepare yourself for the "Shock and Awe"...*shudder* > > >> > > >> 1. Ladytron - Witching Hour > > > > > > Tremendous record. Does your version have the Soulwax remix of > > > "Seventeen" on? It's totally braindead and completely brilliant. > > > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > No it doesn't. In the states, I think that's on the "Light & Magic" CD > - > > which I now have to buy, thank you! ^_-. > > No, actually that's just me being useless - it is here too; I was just > getting my albums confused. Both the records are pretty fabulous, > regardless. > > Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:21:26 +0000 From: Jason Rogers Subject: [idealcopy] RE: Top Five What I've been hitting most this year...2007 Top Five...1. Film School - Hideout2. The Rosebuds - Night Of The Furies3. Interpol - Our Love To Admire4. A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers5. Foreign Born - On The Wing NowReissues...Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Still (Collector's Editions)Pylon - Gyrate PlusSonic Youth - Daydream Nation Deluxe EditionI saw Anton Corbijn's Control this past weekend and really enjoyed it. Well, maybe "enjoyed" isn't the right word. I "appreciated" it. As I expected with Corbijn, virtually every pause frame of the film would make an album cover photo in its own right and the entire film is photographed beautifully. I was also impressed with the cast versions of the Joy Division tracks, as I understand that the cast members playing Ian, Peter, Bernard, and Stephen only had a few months to learn the instruments. Finally, to the lowest denominator...the actress who played Annik Honori...wow. The movie is highly recommended. Probably a cinematic stopgap, though, as I just re-read Cormac McCarthy's superb novel, No Country For Old Men, in preparation for the Coen Brothers adaptation which comes out here before long. Jason _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook  together at last. Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971 033 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:24:20 EST From: Eardrumbuz@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] 5 for real The last 5 cds I listened to: Devo - Pioneers Who Got Scalped (man, disc 2 is practically worthless. Don't think I'll ever listen to that one again. Give me Devo with guitars!) Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Erik Satie - The Complete Solo Piano Music (that's 5 discs right there! and some of the most simple and beautiful music ever recorded) The Go Team! - Proof Of Youth (keeps me feeling young...well, it also reminds me how old I am, but what the hey) Dykeenies - Nothing Means Everything (jury is still out on this. I do like some of it, but overall I am not sure) Across The Universe soundtrack (While watching the movie I enjoyed it very much (to a point, some songs more refreshing than others)...I'm thinking about buying the 2xCD, but catching it on sale may help my decision making) - -another the Paul ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:31:30 -0800 From: "Paul Pietromonaco" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Top 5...er...*sigh* > Beg to differ on Euphorica. > Very much an acquired taste, but Peace wouldn't be the same with 'nice' > vocals. > (It's a favorite of the kid) > In baseball parlance, BD are always capable of throwing a nice change-up. > Unexpected, but over the plate. > Too unexpected for me, I'm afraid. I'm not a fan of the "cut-n-paste" BD at all - I prefer the "Can from Japan" side of them more. In other words, Pshychic was nearly a perfect album to my way of thinking (except Chihuahua Punk - what the heck was that doing on there? At least it's short....) and seemed to be the ultimate step in their Krautrock obsession, picking up the threads they'd started on New Rock. It didn't hurt that the Pshychic live show was mind-blowing, either. ^_^ To say I was disappointed by Euphorica is putting it mildly. Excepting Beautiful You, I'm still finding it very difficult to listen to. It seems more of a piece with Captain Vapor Atheletes and i - something I'll listen to occaisonally, but not compulsively like New Rock and Pshychic. Makes me wonder if SuGar is spending too much time indulging her metal tendencies in Metalchicks... ^_- Still - I'm glad they're pushing boundaries, etc. This might be an album that I'll come back to in a few years, and think is amazing. Sometimes it can take a while to appreciate genius, I suppose. ^_^ Cheers, Paul ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:30:06 -0000 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] RE: Top Five - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jason Rogers Probably a cinematic stopgap, though, as I just re-read Cormac McCarthy's superb novel, No Country For Old Men, in preparation for the Coen Brothers adaptation which comes out here before long. Jason _________________________________________________________________ As have I (although a first read for me) - bloody good stuff it was too, although not at the level of 'The Road' which is one of the greatest novels I've ever read. The film of 'No Country...' doesn't hit the UK until January unfortunately. Five current listens from me: All Hour Cymbals - Yeasayer. '2080' is single of the year for me and although, on first listen, the album doesn't live up to that luscious, complex piece of post-Arcade Fire / post-Panda Bear sixties inspired flight of fancy, it will repay many listens. Comicopera - Robert Wyatt. Again, the great man delivers a fascinating, uncategorisable piece of work. Palo Santo - Shearwater. Heard this in Vinyl Exchange when visiting Manchester and bought it there and then. Like Mark Hollis was still stalking the land. In Advance of the Broken Arm - Marnie Stern. Yikes! This fairly screams from the iPod. The sort of guitar work that makes you admire guitar work. White Chalk - P J Harvey. Compelling and eerie. Another incredible piece of re-invention. This has been a fine year for releases, but let's wait a few more weeks yet before a summation. Another the Keith (awaiting December for once so I can legitimately disinter Sufjan Steven's Christmas box set and lose myself in it again) ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #228 ********************************