From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #13 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, March 28 2001 Volume 01 : Number 013 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Ghost World [AWeiss4338@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] RE: Wall of Sleep ["md.robbins" Does anyone know if this song may have been inspired by the "Ghost World" > serial in "Eightball" comics? > > Yes it was. Although if you read the comic, it's more emotional inspiration rather then plot or character simularity. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:41:08 +0100 From: "md.robbins" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RE: Wall of Sleep Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote- > Furthermore, isn't there a Black Sabbath song with a similar title? > Yeah, you must be thinking about 'Behind The Shawl Of Weep.' md. np - the unbelievably sublime Owsley album. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:11:33 -0800 From: Cindy Alvarez Subject: Re: [loud-fans] (review) Semi-Literate Poppy Stuff >Cindy Alvarez wrote- >> "I had a lover / but it's so hard to risk another" is a great line. >> >The Nico version [on her first album - the weirdest folk rock], not to say >the Jackson Browne 'original' version are great too. >Great line, eh? >You're not kidding. well, great when fountains of wayne are singing. I wouldn't tolerate that sort of slant from someone who took themselves more seriously. surely you understand different tolerances for different artists? c "Tapping the can is absolutely the best method of preventing foaming out when you open the can. The reason is that, by tapping, you let the bubbles know you're coming in and don't frighten them when you pop the top. And frightened bubbles stampede." - --snopes.com messageboard ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:49:39 -0500 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] (review) Semi-Literate Poppy Stuff >From: Cindy Alvarez >2) Meet Me on the Ledge - Continental Drifters >This has a lovely sleepy quality. Like the Beatles' Blue Album or anything >Crowded House, it has the feel of just-barely-tipsiness. Is all of their >stuff like this? I need more mellow drinking music. Ah yes, one of my favorite bands. I think a lot of there stuff as this slow simmering rootsy sound. Probably has something to do with being residents of New Orleans. If you like this mellower side check out their s/t first album which has just been remastered and reissued on Razot & Ties Records. It's beautiful. My personal fave though is 1999's VERMILION which as a little something for everyone. An amzing album. They have new album due in June. The Drifters are a supergroup of sorts with: Peter Holspapple - dB's Susan Cowsill - Cowsills Vicki Peterson - Bangles Robert Mache - Steve Wynn Band Mark Walton - Dream Syndicate Russ Broussard - I forget????? - -Larry _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:50:06 +0100 From: "md.robbins" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] (review) Semi-Literate Poppy Stuff > >Cindy Alvarez wrote- > > >> "I had a lover / but it's so hard to risk another" is a great line. > >> > >The Nico version [on her first album - the weirdest folk rock], not to say > >the Jackson Browne 'original' version are great too. > >Great line, eh? > >You're not kidding. > > well, great when fountains of wayne are singing. I wouldn't tolerate that > sort of slant from someone who took themselves more seriously. > > surely you understand different tolerances for different artists? > Oh surely: I was merely remarking, in passing, that it's a great line full stop. Not sure if I could tolerate that slant from anyone who didn't take themselves seriously though : what would be the point? md ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:43:05 EST From: MarkWStaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The children's hour In a message dated 3/27/01 12:05:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, tomaq@mindspring.com writes: << But the truth is, with >only a few exceptions (B-52s Rock lobster), the only music they get >excited about is "kids music." >> Your kids have good taste. M ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:48:28 EST From: MarkWStaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] What reading Hunter Davies makes you sing to your kid In a message dated 3/27/01 12:06:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, tomaq@mindspring.com writes: << A future Ramones fan, no doubt. (Like Dad.) >> Did you see that episode of GROUNDED FOR LIFE where the dad makes his kids go to see the Ramones with him for an educational experience? He ends up having a debate with the nun/headmistress of the school where his young son goes, who tells him that "Rock n' Roll High School sounds just like "Rockaway Beach." It was hilarious. The good sister even complained that the Ramones were over the hill. M ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:18:39 EST From: MarkWStaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RE: Wall of Sleep In a message dated 3/27/01 5:21:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, jenor@csd.uwm.edu writes: << Furthermore, isn't there a Black Sabbath song with a similar title? >> That would be "Behind the Blood of Bats." Just say Ozzy, - -Mark "...any kid who sacrifices a tuna fish sandwich to the devil, Ozzy immediately gets the blame" (from my friend Kat's unpublished book CONFESSIONS OF THE WHITE GIRL BUDDHA (1995) ) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:24:59 EST From: MarkWStaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] (review) Semi-Literate Poppy Stuff In a message dated 3/27/01 6:47:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, calvarez@teamsphere.com writes: << Porpoise Song - Wondermints I keep tuning this song out, probably because it's flanked by such standouts. >> If this is the theme from the Monkees' movie HEAD, there is a good version done by the Chuch on the release from a couple of years back, called BOX OF BIRDS. M ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:28:07 EST From: MarkWStaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] (review) Semi-Literate Poppy Stuff In a message dated 3/27/01 6:55:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, dfan@harmonixmusic.com writes: << np: STEPHEN MALKMUS, which I like a lot. It sort of feels halfway between Pavement and Beck (in his more MUTATIONS-y mode). >> Stephen Malkmus is so perfect looking, he could be a Bobby Sherman for the new millineum. My friend Dana at school today asked me if I got his new record and I said no, but that "his hair has a new e.p. out." M ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:32:50 -0600 (CST) From: "BotServerCentral-Sector:Mail a/k/a 2 Fs" Subject: [loud-fans] Loaf Used in Manly Fashion (pt. 1) There's recently been some confusion on this list as to the gender of our own Stef Hurts, Belgium's contribution to Loudfanhood. To clarify, Stef recently sent me a 2-CD swap contribution that was just *bulging* with testosterone, entitled "Use Your Loaf." Herein, I shall describe them in detail. CD 1: "intro": a bit of dialogue from...a bad movie?...in which a dominatrix appears to assert her mastery over her new "dog," whom she calls "Spot" but sounds much more like "Sput" (which I like better). The punchline? the guy responds, "No thanks - I already have a wife." Ba-dum-shnnnggg! Another Las Vegas comedian is proud! And so's Frank Sinatra, therefore - and who could be more manly than Frank? Jimmy Bo Horne "Dance Across the Floor": One of several disco-like tracks scattered across these two CDs, this one's dominated by horns and organ. It brings a fair degree of funk, making it among the more successful of these types of tracks (some aren't). And what kind of organ is it? A Hammond - a very big organ indeed. Say no more... P.J. Olsson "Good Dream": Nice, rapid, sweaty pulsations in the drums, a briskly strummed acoustic guitar, and some abstract philosophical backwards-guitar sounding noises in the background: Stef mixes the pelvic with the cerebral to get...pelevral? Brainy yet brawny, with soulful brown eyes as well? A winner! Jesse Harnell "Casper the Friendly Ghost": The cartoon theme song done in the style of Elvis Presley. The "pelvis" theme continues... Nicole Willis "Gonna Get Yours": The opening rhythm sorta reminds me of Soft Cell's version of "Tainted Love," and indeed this is a sort of electronic soul track, buoyed by Willis's full-bodied vocals. Me-OWW! Melt-Banana "Circle-Jack": So many of these insane, manic bands in Japan, it's no wonder they have earthquakes. And what's Stef saying with that title? *Say no more, nudge-nudge, wink-wink!* "Moulinex": Presumably from an ad for the food-processor - another discoid number that, alas, goes on way too long, with cooing femme vocals, strings, and horns giving it a vintage '70s sound (hey, maybe it is for all I know). Ryuichi Sakamoto "Riot in Lagos": Electronic number with a slightly stodgy beat, but redeemed by careful arranging and clever sonic palette. I have only one of Sakamoto's recordings (not counting his work with David Sylvian, no?), which is _Smoochy_: this is a bit more dancey and less loungey. U.K. Subs "Endangered Species": Some vintage late '70s punk, to me about halfway between the Clash (chord progression, lead guitar) and Sex Pistols (the vocal sneer, although nowhere near as snotty as Rotten), to name two obvious points of reference. Evocative of manly gobbing and the jostling of sweaty punk bodies. Sandy Dillon "Too Much Fun": One of those cool beats that jostles duple and triple eighth notes up against one another (a fave trick of NRBQ). Sort of a rockabilly, more toward the country blues end. I resist the temptation to describe Ms. Dillon's voice as "sandy" - but it is. There's a cool acoustic slide solo in the middle with a sort of tack-piano backdrop, plus percussion that sounds like someone beating on a cardboard box. Nice... (Manly Man score? Hey, give hte lyrics a listen...) The Fantastic Johnny C "Boogaloo Down Broadway": This sounds as if I've heard it - midsixties gutbucket R&B - but I don't think I actually have. But that's one of those styles that I like sort of indifferently - that is, I like it well enough, but I'm not sure I'm much on distinguishing what makes one track better than another. This one's got a brass chart that emphasizes its trombone parts - a fairly distinctive sound, that. Keep those slides working, boys! Mary Schneider "Yodelling Overture": Okay, this is completely insane. It's pretty much what you'd guess from the title: Schneider yodels the themes to various well-known classical overtures, including the _William Tell_ overture and the can-can thing (Offenbach?) beloved of Bugs Bunny, if I'm not mistaken. Near the end, she goes totally batshit, yodelling 16th notes like someone put an on/off switch in her throat. I've no idea how one does that - but, rather like the circus-freak guys who lift cinderblocks with wires attached to their genital piercings, I'd rather not know. More to come... - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::[clever or pithy quote]:: __[source of quote]__ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:39:33 EST From: MarkWStaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] (review) Semi-Literate Poppy Stuff In a message dated 3/27/01 11:36:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, MarkWStaples@aol.com writes: << the Chuch >> um, that would be The Church, in case you didn't figure it out (duh). The Chuch is a band that totally rips off the stylings of spazz-poppers Smoe. M ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:39:50 -0600 (CST) From: "BotServerCentral-Sector:Mail a/k/a 2 Fs" Subject: [loud-fans] Loaf Used in Manly Fashion (pt. 2) More of CD-1 from Stef's swap CD double-disc set: Motorpsycho "Big Surprises": Is there more than one band called "Motorpsycho"? Cuz I thought they were one of those Swedish garage-rockers a la Hellacopters - but this is a sort of Beatley/Beach Boys slightly psychedelic number. The singer sounds kinda like Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips. The bridge shifts into 3/4 for a clever effect, then multiple ba-ba-ba vocals - surf's up! Nice counterpoint on the chorus between an echoey, high-register piano in one channel and in the other...a big Hammond organ. The Three Sons "Danny's Inferno": Okay, read the title out loud. Geddit? Okay...this is an arrangement of Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" more or less, as orchestrated by Spike Jones and Esquivel after about a baker's dozen martinis apiece. And I ask you: is not "Spike" among the more manly names imaginable? And the suavity of the Latin Esquivel, confident enough to wear those dorky glasses with no regard for what others might think. Macho, punch-in-the-gut tympani...and yes, another Hammond organ makes an appearance! Model 500 "Be Brave" main vocal mix: Nice jumpy beat, spelled out on...dammit, the theme of this tape is clearly organ, okay? A nice slow-moving synth part contrasts with the rhythm track, and some soulful female vocals. Kind of a jazzy feel, accentuated by some appropriately beret-wearing harmonies. But it really didn't have to be nine minutes long... Electric Prunes, wah-wah pedal ad: Oh dear: the announcer is beside himself extolling the virtues of the titular device, as the immortal Prunes wax ecstatic in the background. Yes, they use the pedal - but that horde-of-angry-bees tremolo, now *that's* cool. Most hilarious moment: the announcer claims you can even make your guitar sound like a sitar, as the Prunes guitarist launches into a vaguely Eastern scale, in a totally other key, which sounds not a whole lot like a sitar at all but more like someone illicitly encouraging a goose. Emmet Swimming "Arlington": A live version of this slightly amusing putdown of suburban punkers. Yes, it mentions tattoos and piercings within the first verse. Best moment: for no apparent reason, the band launches into a bit of the "Addams Family" theme: the guitarist's lick in the break seems to have reminded him of that number, the rest of the band follows suit, and the vocalist suavely enunciates "chic...unique" followed by "sight Fugazi!" (Oh yeah: is not Gomez Addams a paradigm of sophisticated manlihood? N'est-ce pas?) Bjork Gudmundsdottir & Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar "Gling-Glo": What you can't see here is that several of those "d"s and most of the "o"s are those special Icelandic characters, the "d" that starts heading northwest and grows a mustache and the "o" with the accent acute. Brawny Icelanders hewed those special letters from the very granite they drew from the earth with their bare, leathery, strong masculine hands. The music? Bjork is Bjork; the trio alternates between a sort of nursery rhyme thing and, uh, jazz trio (piano, ac. bass, drums). Go figure. Mardi Gras BB "Under Control": Stef presumably made this tape under the influence of the titular holiday...anyway, we got funky brass, one of those several-guys-making-up- a-drumkit you see in New Orleans parade ensembles, and playing so muscular the tape gets distorted. You know - manly. The Woodentops "Stop This Car": Stef wins some sort of prize: although I have a studio version of the Emmet Swimming track that came my way on a promo copy, this is the first track on the CD that I actually own in the version on this CD. You wouldn't want to put these folks and the early Feelies in the same room with only one coffee-maker - things would get ugly, believe me. There's a violin sawing away on top, a crazy solo that sounds like a traffic jam, and an organ - but it's not a Hammond, sorry. By coincidence, I'd just listened to the album this one's on and had resolved to put a track from it on a mix tape soon (I'd chosen a different track, though). Memphis Slim "El Capitan": Classic boogie-woogie piano backdrop to this blues number. That's more or less what makes it tolerable: I'm just very happy it's not your typical low-grade quasi-Chicago-style blues that all the yuppies dig to prove they're in touch with something other than their cell phones. (Did I mention that blues fans bug me?) Herbert "Freeze": Another disco number, with the classic "dig my mustache and leather chaps, ugh" four-on-the-floor beat. Sort of a pseudo-Rhodes sound to the keyboard backdrop...nice enough, but as is typical for dance-oriented stuff, this one takes a logn time (7 1/2 minutes) to get nowhere in particular if all you're doing is listening. (Or as Stewart would say, much more briefly: "eh.") CD 2 forthcoming. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::glibby glop gloopy nibby nobby noopy la la la la lo:: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:41:29 -0600 (CST) From: "BotServerCentral-Sector:Mail a/k/a 2 Fs" Subject: [loud-fans] Return of the Loaf (Stef's mix CD - pt. 3) The second CD of Stef's _Use Your Loaf_ swap mix begins with another song featuring...The Instrument Which Shall Not Be Named In This Post. It's called "Lo Bianco Theme," by Sam Paglia, and must be the theme to a Belgian cop show, I dunno. Kinda funky, nice soloing on the...oregano. Then... Chrome "TV as Eyes": I'm not sure what these guys do with their guitars, but it almost certainly violates the guidelines of the ASPCG (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Guitars...You mangy mutt)! The drums are noisy indeed...and then halfway through, some aliens take over the record with some ominous synth noises while strange chatter rackets away in the background. Then it ends. Cool. Punishment of Luxury "British Baboon": More disco beat - this time with that odd, I'm-swallowing-a-bass-guitar sound, but also with a sawing rhtyhm guitar part that makes me think this is from the very early '80s... A worthy addition to the next version of one of my "!Apefest!" tapes (composed entirely of songs about monkeys, gorillas, and the occasional banana so I could include Anton Barbeau). The Residents "Godsong": If you're keeping score, this is only song no. 2 on these CDs that I already owned. I forget if this is from _Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen_ or _Fingerprince_, but it's from the Residents' "pop" period, when they focused on shorter songs that displayed a twisted sense of melody and popcraft - twisted, but effective. My favorite period of theirs. This song features a piano part that might be the alcoholic cousin of that piano part in "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog." Hmm...d-o-g, g-o-d...ya think? Also worth noting is that "Iggy Pop" backwards is "Pop Yggi" - his Icelandic doppelganger. Space Ghost, with "something to think about": Okay, I will. "Put your best foot forward!" Medium 21 "Build a Stage, Burn it Down": Some things I like about this, others put it in a sort of Style Council-esque limbo. Not sure yet... Minus 8 "Badman & Throbin": And the dance hits just keep on comin'... Pretty much the one riff throughout, with textural changes to keep interest including some rapid electro-percussion, an electric piano solo in the middle as everything drops out, and some Oregon. Okay - but again a bit less successful here in my study than on some hypothetical dancefloor. (No, this is not the Minus 5 with three extra members - or would that be three fewer members?) Johnny Dowd "Vengeance Is Mine": Mr. Dowd here submerges his querulous, plegmatic vocals in favor of his backing vocalists - who sound astonishingly like the backing singers on the Residents' _God in Three Persons_. The music is sort of a backwoods interbreeding between Portishead and Tom Waits - works as a complement to Dowd's typically cheerful and upbeat lyrical concerns. (That's called irony, son - irony.) The Incredible Moses Leroy "The 4A": Actually, I have this song - it came my way on a review CD a while back - but, uh, I didn't remember it. Nice enough, acoustic guitar-based, tremulous vocals...but I still don't remember it once it's over - except that parts remind me of "Dust in the Wind." Willie Nelson "The Dance Master": I'm sure this isn't the IRS's Willie Nelson - although imagining leathery old Willie shakin' his stuff to this disco number is kind of...not, actually it's rather disturbing. The weirdest part is when Willie (or whoever) speaks the title in the break, with a basso lisp that sounds like Barry White crossed with Richard Simmons... This leaves us with but one post remaining to cover the rest of disc 2... - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::"Shut up, you truculent lout, and let the cute little pixie sing!":: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:44:09 -0600 (CST) From: "BotServerCentral-Sector:Mail a/k/a 2 Fs" Subject: [loud-fans] Return of the Loaf (Stef's mix CD - pt. 4) The conclusion of the sprawling epic that is: the review of Stef Hurts's sprawlingly epical two-disc set, _Use Your Loaf_: The Nightingales "Use Your Loaf": Our title track places a sliding electro-acoustic guitar riff against a lurching, off-center bassline. Sounds sorta like the Embarrassment covering the Fall or vice versa. Pretty cool! Everything but the Girl "Corcovado": Yes, the Brazilian classic, which proves well-suited to a sort of trip-hoppy treatment. The reharmonization (over two chords instead of the original's longer sequence) works well to recontextualize the melody, and the instrumental feel - with an electric piano sound, lots of percussion, and a beefy, near-acoustic bass sound - also fits the original's mood and feel while updating it effectively. Lolitas "Ne me regarde pas comme ca": French new-wave with female vocals and one of those tweezed guitar sounds that says "late seventies" to me. Tom Waits "Tabletop Joe": From the bootleg recording of his '90s "opera" with Robert Wilson, the heartwarming tale of a musician with no arms or legs. Based around a repeating part that sounds as if someone sampled himself running a stick along a metal gate, this is sort of amusing at first but grows irksome pretty quickly. Wookie "Get Enuff": Dance fever continues - I'm not sure my taste for it does, alas. Driving Stupid "Reality of Air-Fried Borsk": Peculiar little faux-blues number that doesn't wear out its welcome - I have no idea what he's on about... dEUS "Sister Dew": I thought they were generally much noisier than this - but this is a pleasant, quieter little number. The second phrase of the verse sounds *exactly* like Freedy Johnston. Very well arranged, too: cello enters on the second verse, then in the third verse there's some sort of odd, squeakily repeating riff that could almost be a strange violin effect, then an instrumental break with something run through a Leslie... Where's this from? A highlight of the discs for me. T.C. Jones "Champagne Cocktails": The vocal approach and faux-romantic "jazz" backdrop suggest this is supposed to be humorous...basically one person keeps pouring the titular drink, asking "you like it?" while the other one gets drunker and says "delicious" in an affected manner... I'm wondering: is this from some TV skit or something? Because I could imagine it working with visuals - but as sound only, it doesn't stand up to repeated listening. Fatboy Slim (featuring Bootsy Collins) "Weapon of Choice": Less "big beat" than I'd expect from the Slim One - actually, the beat sorta reminds me of Yello, of all people. Some of the samples are from sort of loungey funk - I'm not sure I hear Bootsy that much, but this works pretty well. Evil Twin "Apple of the Eye Show" Thumping bass drum, scratchy rhythm guitar, vocals with artificial harmonies in parallel motion, then all of a sudden a double-time drum part makes it almost country...wot the hell? Oh yeah - and then the vocals become the Residents playing a team of singing cats, while someone else growls like a dog beneath them. Very strange - but there's enough going on, and enough to grab onto and remember, that it works rather than just makes one arch the eyebrows and say "how odd" (and then ignore it). More info...? anon. "put your sox on Mama!": Uh, this must be a sequel of sorts to the Space Ghost track earlier: intentionally awful singing over rudimentary guitar - blues for the developmentally arrested or something. Could this be Stef himself? Scary... Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson "Army Ants in Your Pants": Weren't we discussing these folks on the list some time ago? Deeply odd...a loosely "educational" number about army ants, presumably designed to scare little kids silly. The music is sort of an Eastern European electro-hoedown. "I'm not pinching you!" Overall, a wonderfully eclectic and eclectically wonderful couple of CDs from Stef - wins my award for "fewest songs in my collection" hands down, with only 3 (and a half - alt. version) songs. This is especially impressive considering the massiveness of Stef's selection: about 150 minutes! - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Some see things as they are, and say "Why?" ::Some see things as they could be, and say "Why not?" ::Some see things that aren't there, and say "Huh?" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:45:57 -0600 (CST) From: "BotServerCentral-Sector:Mail a/k/a 2 Fs" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] (review) Semi-Literate Poppy Stuff On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 MarkWStaples@aol.com wrote: > Stephen Malkmus is so perfect looking, he could be a Bobby Sherman for the > new millineum. The new perineum? I had Malkmus over at my house once - I accidentally brushed my sleeve against one of his cheekbones, and it cut the sleeve right off. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::the sea is the night asleep in the daytime:: __Robert Desnos__ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:48:49 EST From: MarkWStaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: [Loud-fans] Best Video Store in America?(& other stuff) In a message dated 3/27/01 1:43:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, OptionsR@aol.com writes: << Fairies wear boots, you've gotta believe me, Just some guy named Mike >> I can't speak for anyone else, but THIS fairy only wears boots when he's feeling really butch. ;O) M ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:44:39 EST From: OptionsR@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RE: Wall of Sleep In a message dated 3/27/01 4:25:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time, jmmallon@joescafe.com writes: << Has anyone heard anything by Electric Wizard? Thoughts? Word is they're very Sabslike. >> I've got "Come My Fanatics" and am going to arm-wrestle someone for our store's promo of the new one "Dopethrone". Listening to them is like trying to inhale a glacier through a straw. If bands like Sleep and Goatsnake are your cup of concrete, you'll have no problem with EW. Seeing them live immediately after seeing The Soft Boys this Friday ought to leave my synapses pretty bewildered. Other moments of Sabbra-vu besides "Behind The Wall Of Sleep": "Paranoid" (also the title of a song by Grand Funk Railroad), "The Thrill Of It All" (not a Roxy Music cover), "Who Are You" (later used by The Who), "Rock & Roll Doctor" (Little Feat), and Neil Diamond's "Disturbing The Priest" (not being a Neil fan, I can't verify the accuracy of that last one). Treating people just like pawns in chess, Just some guy named Mike ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:01:17 +0100 From: "Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] new free design, etc (ns) Re Orgone Box, Grahame writes: > > That's VERY interesting... Bill sold me a copy of the Orange single "Judy > Over The Rainbow" in (goes over to CD shelf, finds single) 1994 (!) -- he > was raving about it and playing it at top volume over and over in > the shop. You'll be pleased to know that Rick has re-recorded Judy for The Orgone Box, then! As far as I'm aware this new album was recorded in 1996 and was gathering dust until Bill heard about it and then completely "flipped" (his word) when he heard the music. There's more info on www.minuszerorecords.com Ian ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #13 ******************************