From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #15 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 Thursday, March 29 2001 Volume 01 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] hey stef (ns) [JRT456@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] (review) Semi-Literate Poppy Stuff [mbowen@samoyedsoft.co] Re: [loud-fans] loud-fans will be down Thursday ["BotServerCentral-Sector] Re: [loud-fans] RE: Wall of Sleep [Dennis_McGreevy@praxair.com] [loud-fans] loudfans down & poptones & apology ["Phil Gerrard" Sleater-Kinney without the angst That sounds sort of like "Metal Machine Music without the white noise". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:08:36 -0600 (CST) From: "BotServerCentral-Sector:Mail a/k/a 2 Fs" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] loud-fans will be down Thursday On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Roger Winston wrote: > Okay, someone needs to quickly do a "Top 10 Things To Do While The LoudFans > List Is Down" list. I already did a list, so it's someone else's turn... 1. Spend the downtime composing posts to the list, especially figuring out how to make them exceed the character limit. 2. Bother Dennis about why didn't my messages come through. 3. Become paranoid that "smoe" stands for "sanctimonious mothers outlawing ebscenities," realize that they could also learn to spell better, and imagine that too many "manly"s, "organ"s, "genitalia," etc. caused the secret content-filter to kick in. 4. Write personal e-mails to everyone on loudfans whose address I know, bugging them with my latest lame attempts at wit, bad puns, and early April Fools' Day pranks about Pavement's heavy metal album... 5. Realize that trying to come up with 45 different ways to allude to masculine stereotypes is harder than I thought (uh...ba-ding?) and deciding to drop it. 6. Compile anew my list of Stuff I Want to Hear, realize once I again I have neither money enough nor time to hear it all anyway. 7. Get to bed at a reasonable hour. 8. Amuse myself by calling myself on the now-unused (because no loudfans to read) second phone line. 9. Realize with increasing dread that trying to come up with ten interesting items to stuff this top-ten list with is more difficult than I thought, especially since I'm tired and just recovering from a cold. 10. Read up on depleted uranium and copyright law. 2,119, 2,126, 2,133... - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n matches? The Architectural Dance Society candles? www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html matches? candles? np: Verbow _White Out_ buns? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:10:58 -0500 From: Dennis_McGreevy@praxair.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RE: Wall of Sleep Re: Electric Wizard, JsgnMike sez: 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. <><><><><><><><><><><> I picked up my ticket to the Soft Boys last night, just in case I'd accidentally woken up in an alternate universe where a Soft Boys reunion show would sell out. When doing so, I inquired as to whether the show was going to be over early. With the forced nonchalance of a guy who sees people every day getting excited over things that, now that he works there, he realizes are hopelessly uncool, the guy at the Metro gift shop (yeah, that's right, a dance club with a friggin' *gift shop*) counter told me the time was on the ticket. Which it was; "8:00". I asked if there was another event scheduled for after the show. He didn't know, and basically made it clear nonverbally that knowing this was not a priority of anyone who was anyone. I asked if the club had a calendar of events. He referred me next door to the main club entrance. Which was locked. So I'm not really sure if the SBs show will end in time for the EW show. But I base my statement yesterday 'bout them having early and late events the same night on previous Metro experiences where as soon as a band has finished playing, the audience has been squeezed out to make way for an 11:00 pm dance party, so hopefully this will prove a similar display of financial ambition on the part of Joe Shannahan (who also owns the Double Door, where Electric Wizard are playing - you think he'd try to make this sort of thing easy). I'm planning on catching some of Chicago's finest Thai food at Thai Classic a few blocks south of the Metro on Clark St. prior to the Soft Boys. Anyone interested in joining me, mail off-list so I don't miss ya when the list goes down tomorrow. later, - --Dennis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:24:54 +0100 From: "Phil Gerrard" Subject: [loud-fans] loudfans down & poptones & apology My own ISP, cwcom.net, shut down just before the loud-fans list did the same, and restarted almost simultaneously with the list restarting, which I found kind of amusing - as if to say 'naah... you wont have anything worth reading for the moment, so we're going to have a rest'. Mark wrote re Poptones: >Some good bands on the label, like January and Cosmic Rough >Riders although it is really retro - a look at who McGee signed >with the Oasis millions shows that he was lucky with Oasis, >Primals, MBV and Teenage Fanclub rather than being a brilliant >talent spotter. Cosmic Rough Riders supported the Posies at Dingwalls in Camden when Ian and I saw them a couple of weeks back, and I have to say that although technically they're impeccable - the vocal harmonies were among the tightest I've ever heard live - the songwriting and playing seemed incredibly pedestrian to me. Maybe McGee is over-impressed with a very formalist view of 'craftsmanship', and is liable to overlook the true spark of inspiration/individuality which makes these things worthwhile. He's never, as far as I can see, signed a band who didn't already have all the technical ability required of them in place, but many times he's allowed that to overwhelm his instincts for *art*... I don't know, I'm one of those oddballs who'd rather sit through three hours of boredom for the sake of one transcendent moment than listen to half an hour of incontestable competence! Anyway, I also wanted to apologise for misreading the 'OT rambling'/Chinese restaurant thread of a couple of days ago... I had the impression when I dropped of the list that things had turned nastier than I wanted them to be, and as a result I maybe was a bit too over-cautious when returning, and wasn't capable of seeing the irony in the posts which came up. Sorry to all those to whom apologies are due, especially Mr JRT456... peace & love phil ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:38:03 -0600 From: steve Subject: [loud-fans] Re: Mr. Stringfellow's Left Banke On Wednesday, March 28, 2001, at 09:04 AM, dmw wrote: > And okay, where is it that Mr. Stringellow covers that Left Banke tune? SHADOWS BREAKING OVER OUR HEADS: A Tribute To The Left Banke, which you should be able to get from NotLame. - - Steve __________ Is this thing on? Sent via OS X Mail. __________ Is this thing on? Sent via OS X Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:08:57 -0800 (PST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stef=20Hurts?= Subject: [loud-fans] Moulinex/T.C. Jones Stewart Mason inquired: >> "Moulinex": >> It's from a CD called Popshopping and it's full of music from German >> commercials from the 60's and 70's. Very camp. :) > > Label, please? It's on Crippled Dick Hot Wax which can be found at > T.C. Jones was a very popular female impersonator back in the '60s. > Easiest place I know of to find him is the Monkees' film HEAD, where he > plays the waitress in the studio canteen. (Better known as the "glass > of cold gravy with a hair in it" scene.) > > This sounds to me like it's a version of an old Jim Backus record from > the '50s called "Delicious," which is pretty much exactly the same thing. Why yes, and both tracks are on the same CD: Frolic Diner Part 2 on Romulan Records. Toodlepip, - -Stef Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #15 ******************************