From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #390 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, May 24 2008 Volume 10 : Number 390 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] re: GIGS [TnA ] Fwd: [idealcopy] Why Don't You Give It To Me? ["johnny clash" Subject: [idealcopy] re: GIGS If you live in, or can travel in May and June to, Switzerland or France or If you live in, or can travel in August to, Boston, D.C., Chicago or NYC, the EX with Getatchew Mekuria (Ethiopian 'jazz' sax + well, the EX: need I say more? Tim ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 06:40:50 -0700 From: "johnny clash" Subject: Fwd: [idealcopy] Why Don't You Give It To Me? - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: johnny clash Date: Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Why Don't You Give It To Me? To: Keith i thought it was great too. the review was quite interesting to boot. thanks for sharing. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Keith wrote: > Those of you know who know me, will know that I'm also a bit of a Julian > Cope fan. > > > > Now with Julian being a bit of a 'fan' himself, he has a page on his > website > where he chooses an album of the month, writes about it with a typically > Cope-like 'wow man' enthusiasm, and streams it for people to hear it > themselves. As the soundcard on my old pc was knackered for about the last > years of its tired existence, I wasn't able to listen to it and owing to > Cope's love of all things heavy in recent years, I wasn't gonna put my > money > where my mouth was and buy 'em! > > > > > But I've just checked out this months AOTM. > > > > > > Nathaniel Mayer > Why Don't You Give It To Me? > > > Released 2007 on Alive Records > > > > .and even though I haven't even reached the end yet, I feel moved to > enthuse > about it here. > > > > Apparently, NM is a 'veteran Detroit R&B star' who in MES style has > enlisted > some musicians at least 25 years younger than himself, and thereby (in > Cope's words) 'lifted himself out of the worthy but Old Timer > Chicken-in-a-Basket Soul Revue scene'. > > > > The opening title track is fab - indeed I'd ordered it off the net before > it > had even finished. There's something of a 60's garage-like feel with NM's > souly voice over the top. Anyone who likes Can Delay 68 is surely gonna > love > this track (and much else here). OK, not everything is as great as that - > some of the later guitar wig outs might not be to everybody's taste here! - > but what the hell. That opening track is possibly the best thing I've heard > in a while! > > > > Check it out on the link below, pop pickers! > > > > http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/1885 > > > > Keith ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #390 ********************************