From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #58 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Tuesday, April 7 1998 Volume 01 : Number 058 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] MLL = Teenage Fanclub? ["Brad Jiulianti" ] [MLL] Rolling Stone Troubadour Review [Senorita Raquelita Subject: [MLL] MLL = Teenage Fanclub? This is an ongoing thread on the Teenage Fanclub mailing list. I figured I'd forward the first few messages. Paul Lavin wrote Benjamin Xavier Kim wrote: > > Hey list. I was watching ye olde 120 Minutes on MTV last night > when Mary Lou Lord's "Lights Are Changing" cover came on, and I > was very struck at how nice n' Teenage Fanclubby it sounded. > I'm not too much of a Mary Lou Lord fan--can't get into her > voice--but this tune was really nice I thought. Anyone agree? > > Xavier > That's probably because Roger McGuinn, one of TFC's major influences played on that track (and others on the album). Ol' Roger is the the Godfather of Jingle Jangle guitar and no one quite makes a Rick 12 sound like that... Paul I hope this is interesting to you. I was surprised not to see Fanclub cropping up on lists of what people are listening to. As for me: Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Box set Phil Spector Box set The Push Kings self Titled album and their new 7" "Blowin' Up" Rocketship - A Certain Smile; A Certain Sadness the Ropers - All the Time Heavenly - Heavenly VS Satan and PUNK Girl 7" Air Miami - Airplane Rider 7" Bis Lotion's new album as well as Full Isaac Holiday - Cafe Regio The PAstels - Truckload of Trouble Ella Fitzgerald especially the Gershwin songbook Mr. T Experience - Love is Dead Tiger Trap Tiger Trap Tiger Trap Mary Lou Lord - especially the Jingle Jangle morning 7" Sissy Bar - Gin and Juice 10" Magnapop - Hot Boxing The Lemonheads - Lovey Magnetic Fields - especially the song "With Whom to Dance" and I guess I'll end with Helen Love - Disco Hits vol. 2 hope you guys find the first part interesting and indulge me on the second. Brad Jiulianti "Three passions...have ruled my life: 207 E. Maxwell St. #2 the longing for love, the search for Lexington, KY 40508 knowledge, and unbearable pity for bwjiul00@pop.uky.edu the suffering of mankind." (606) 243-0314 ---Bertrand Russell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 12:52:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Senorita Raquelita Subject: [MLL] Rolling Stone Troubadour Review "waiting for the newest Rolling Stone" as the Shawn Colvin song goes...anyway, in the new Rolling Stone (Sarah McLachlan on the cover), there's a review of Mary Lou's Troubadour show in March. Also, at that show she said how she liked Teenage Fanclub's version of "He'd Be a Diamond." There's also a photo of her singing with the caption: Mary Lou Lord: the post-grunge Linda Ronstadt?" Also, did anyone listen to the interview she gave that is up at the Sony site? I don't have Realaudio so I can't listen but I'm curious as to what she has to say there. Straight-up Strumming by Steve Hochman p.33 Watching Mary Lou Lord smile from under her blond bangs, singin' 'n' strummin' her folk-rockie tunes at this wood-grainy club, it was clear that the former Boston-subway musician is still a busker at heart. Street performers don't have time to get into subtext; the appeal has to be instant, or the passers-by simply pass on by. Focusing on material from her generally charming debut album, Got No Shadow, she and her four-man, one-woman band echoed the Byrds with inviting, shimmery guitars and chime-y choruses (most obviously on "Some Jingle Jangle Morning") as colorful light circles were projected behind them. Lord enjoys as much alterna-cred as the most ironic of indie rockers, but there was no sense of artifice as she earnestly dissected sexual politics in "His Lamest Flame" and breakup melancholy in "Two Boats." Nor was there any hidden agenda present when she jabbed winkingly at fellow performers in "His N.D. World" (a neocountry No Depression update of her old fave "His Indie World") and passionately discussed such relatively ancient history as folk singer Elizabeth Cotten and Kramer vs. Kramer with the moderately bewildered Gen Xers on hand. When she brought singer/songwriter Elliot [should be Elliott --rachel] Smith on - looking very unlike an Oscar nominee in a scruffy T-shirt and stocking cap - to accompany her on Cotten's classic "Shake Sugaree," it was no Hollywood move but a spontaneous moment of musical affection between two friends. Of course, at times Lord's lack of pretense was as much a flaw as an asset. There were no layers to peel back, no process of discovery to pursue. Maybe Lord is the post-grunge Linda Ronstadt. But, after years of self-conscious posturing, maybe that's exactly what we need. Isn't that ironic? ------------------------------ Date: 1 Oct 125 00:25:54 +0000 From: steve genge Subject: Re: [MLL] MLL = Teenage Fanclub? Hi Not sure how many non-UK listees would know (actually are there any UK listees??) but on one of the CD singles of TFC's "I Don't Want Control Of You" there is an extremely cool version of "He'd Be A Diamond" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 23:05:26 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: [MLL] SMOE.ORG LIST MEMBERS PLEASE READ: fund raiser to keep smoe.org running :-) Hello everyone on the Mary Lou Lord mailing list :-) Some of you may know me, many don't. My name is Mike Connell and I manage the Jewel and Patty Griffin lists here at smoe.org. My purpose for writing you today is to ask for your assistance in a project/fund raiser to help keep smoe.org up and running for many more years to come. A gentle bloke by the name of Jeff Wasilko owns smoe.org, and while he does have a merry band of smoe-elves to help him in various tasks in operating the system, Jeff has always paid the operating costs (NOT a small penny) and of course had paid for the expensive equipment it presently runs on. He's always offered this service for free since day one....no user fees....no list owner fees...totally free :-) Many of your favorite artists and their fans have benefited from this service as smoe.org hosts lists for such artists as Happy Rhodes, Paula Cole, Jewel, Mary Lou Lord, Patty Griffin, Tori Amos, Thomas Dolby, Poe, Susan Werner, Leah Andreone, Lucious Jackson, Maria Callas, the Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin and many, many more. Some of these once unknown artists, and more to come I'm sure, had their internet presence begin right here at smoe.org :-) For a complete list of which artists have mailing lists hosted at smoe.org, you can go to http://www.smoe.org/lists At the present moment Jeff is looking into replacing the hardware smoe.org operates on with more modern equipment, as the present workhorses are a pair of seven year old SUN Sparc stations. Being seven years old is pretty much dinosaur age in computer terminology (smoeasauruses?), and these systems are acting older than their age. This replacement is necessary to get newer and better equipment in place before the present smoe.org falls down and goes boom permanently, leaving the lists at smoe.org temporarily without a home :-) As you might imagine, this replacement is going to cost a pretty penny. On other list servers this would be no problem, as money would be used from the user fees. However since such fees don't exist here at smoe.org, we are asking for your help in the form of donations. We are not asking for buku bucks here, just whatever you can give, whether it be $1, $2, $5, $10....whatever. You can send a check, a money order, or if a buck or two or three you can send cash (that is your choice) Money orders are a piece of cake. (At least in the USA) They don't have a large fee at all, generally less than a buck, sometimes as low as 35 cents....although money orders from banks usually carry a larger fee (go figure ;-) Your best bet for a money order (in the USA) would be from the US Post Office....all money orders there have an 85 cent fee no matter what the dollar amount of the money order is. *** All checks or money orders should be made out to Jeff Wasilko :-) FOREIGN (Non-USA) LIST MEMBERS: I'm not sure at all what is the best method for you folks. We are open for suggestions. I know that the USA Post Offices cash Canadian Postal money orders, so no problem there, Jeff can cash them there. Of course, any foreign cash sent in can easily be exchanged at a bank. From what he told me, his bank has a 15$ surcharge on any overseas money order cashed, so this option is out. If you have any ideas, please write me and I'll discuss the best ones with Jeff and mention them in a follow up post to all the lists next week. ********************** HOW TO DONATE: ********************** Simple :-) Just send what you want (no Monopoly money please) to me at Mike Connell PO Box 1206 Binghamton NY 13902-1206 and I'll tally up all the figures etc and send it all on to Jeff :-) In your envelope, please include a note that contains your full name, the list(s) you belong to, and your email address you use here at smoe.org Please help in this mission to give smoe.org a new home :-) If you have any questions, please feel free to write me and ask. I thank you all in advance :-) Mike "Once a bell ringer, always a bell ringer" Connell :-) ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #58 *********************************