From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #56 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 Monday, April 30 2001 Volume 01 : Number 056 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Alison Goldfrapp [Carolyn Dorsey ] [loud-fans] Alison Goldfrapp [Carolyn Dorsey ] [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations [Michael Zwirn ] Re: [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations [Jer Fairall ] Re: [loud-fans] The Luzhin Defence [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] Alison Goldfrapp Has anyone heard her record Felt Mountain? I've heard a couple songs on the radio and like what I've heard. Carolyn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:12:12 -0700 From: Carolyn Dorsey Subject: [loud-fans] Alison Goldfrapp Has anyone heard her record Felt Mountain? I've heard a couple songs on the radio and like what I've heard. Carolyn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:36:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations Haven't had time to buy or listen to music much in the past few months, but I turned in my thesis Friday and was skimming through the used racks at Disc Diggers today. Can anyone offer opinions on: Danielle Howle, Catalog (doug?) Martin Phillips, Sketchbook Panoply Academy Glee Club (Aaron?) rinocerose, Installation Sonore Idaho, Hearts of Palm Over the Rhine, Films for Radio Spottiswoode and His Enemies (doug?) Teddy Thompson Victoria Williams, Water to Drink (doug?) Beautiful South, Painting It Red (A classic case of diminishing returns, but I usually buy their records anyway) Emily Bezar, Four Walls Bending Blake Babies, God Bless the Blake Babies The Caribbean, Verse by Berse Sandy Denny, "Gold Dust" Final Concert Recording - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Zwirn mzwirn01@tufts.edu ICQ #12755821 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford MA - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 16:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Michael Zwirn wrote: > Martin Phillips, Sketchbook huge disappointment. if you don't unquestioningly buy everything he does just because it's him, don't buy that. i *think* it's poor songwriting, not the muddy production, that ruins it, but it's hard to tell. (info on the new Chills rarities box should be at www.softbomb.com. mine has not yet arrived.) > Panoply Academy Glee Club (Aaron?) sorry, never noticed them. > Idaho, Hearts of Palm another big disappointment, but i forget why. i think it was just very different from the Red House Painters-y Idaho records i'd heard. > Beautiful South, Painting It Red (A classic case of diminishing > returns, but I usually buy their records anyway) better than Quench, but still awful. > The Caribbean, Verse by Berse i'm glad i like something on your list, lest i seem too mean. this is the singer from Townies on a very well-produced sleepy pop record. a ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:26:13 -0600 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations At 03:36 PM 4/29/01 -0400, Michael Zwirn wrote: >rinocerose, Installation Sonore Pass. The press kit made a really big deal about how this was techno music made entirely on guitars, but the results are so heavily processed that it just sounds like the usual keyboards. >Blake Babies, God Bless the Blake Babies Highly recommended if you liked their earlier albums--it sounds so much like the follow-up to SUNBURN that it's amazing that 10 years passed between the albums. >The Caribbean, Verse by Berse Haven't heard it, but Aaron's mention that it involves the singer from the Townies piques my interest--I really like the CD I have (had?) by them. S ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:38:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jer Fairall Subject: [loud-fans] Chat Hey loud fans! I'll be hanging around in the irc.eskimo.com (#loudfans) room for a while tonight if anyone wants to drop by... Jer np: Atom & His Package, REDEFINING MUSIC Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:49:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jer Fairall Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations > Blake Babies, God Bless the Blake Babies I'm really liking this record, which may be saying a lot as I've had somewhat erratic results with Juliana's albums in the past. Not having heard any other Blake Babies records, though, I can't really see how this one differs all that much from Juliana's solo work, except for the occasional appearance of a male vocalist. Jer np: still Atom & His Package ===== Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:47:58 -0400 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations Blake Babies, God Bless the Blake Babies >>>>>>>>> Very nice, picks up right where they left off. High level of songwriting, does not break new ground. Sort of makes me realize how much "indie" has changed in the intervening years: contains no Beach Boys, Krautrock, Bossa Nova, French Pop, Post-anything, Pavement, etc. Imagine if the Replacements reunited and put out an album almost on par with Let It Be in '01. What would we make of it? This one raises similar existential questions. Whenever I play it on my CD Walkman, I start scanning the newstands for the new issue of Sassy. - --dana ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:26:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Mitton Subject: [loud-fans] The Luzhin Defence As a big fan of Nabokov, I wasn't sure whether to be excited or frightened for this new movie based on The Defense. If I were forced to make a film based on a Nabokov book, this wouldn't even be close to the one I would choose, so it seems like an odd choice to me. It's played some festivals and is now in limited release. Has anyone seen it? Any comments? I consider this post ON topic, since Nabokov wrote Lolita and Scott wrote Lolita Nation. Having just written that, it occurrs to me that we could have a 5 degrees of separation Loud-Fan game. Can you tie your post back to Scott in less than five steps? - --Michael np Young Fresh Fellows "Because We Hate You", which is fronted by Scott McCaughey who played with REM who worked with Mitch Easter who Produced some Scott records. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:30:27 -0700 (PDT) From: glenn mcdonald Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations Emily Bezar is wonderful; complex, sometimes ethereal, arresting voice. Review on my site... Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:34:16 -0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Luzhin Defence I probably could, but won't this time, but I saw the preview for this movie today, when I saw Memento. What a great film, however a plot hole that nagged me is that he had to photograph 'his' car so he'd know which one was 'his', yet he always remembered where he parked it. Hmm, photo, car......Sounds like Erica's Word 'you always like the photo of us, sitting in our car'. Close enough?? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:57:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Luzhin Defence On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, O Geier wrote: > I probably could, but won't this time, but I saw the preview for this movie > today, when I saw Memento. What a great film, however a plot hole that > nagged me is that he had to photograph 'his' car so he'd know which one was > 'his', yet he always remembered where he parked it. I'd like to see _Memento_ again...but w/o giving too much away to those who haven't seen it, I think this is less a plot *hole* than a situational *clue* - that is, once you realize the two absolutely major "plot holes," what is consistent and what is inconsistent nearly switch places. - --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 ::a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous...got me? __Captain Beefheart__ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:04:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Looking for recommendations On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Michael Zwirn wrote: > The Caribbean, Verse by Berse I'll second Aaron's approval - the Caribbean also have a self-titled EP that preceded _Verse by Verse_. What I like about this is that it brings not only songs but interesting arrnaging and recording ideas that aren't much influenced by hip-hop, for once. Not to put down hip-hop - in fact, its innovations in arranging and producing have been so fruitful that by now they're suffering from being ommipresent. Full-dress reviews at the usual URL of both the EP and the full-length. I would also highly recommend Spoon's latest - Britt Daniels seems to have discovered keyboards and moved the band's sound *way* beyond the Pixies influence that permeated the first records. I"ll have to re-listen to _A Series of Sneaks_ more often - that one never grabbed me as mujch as _Telephono_. There's one track on the new one ("Lines in the Suit") that could have been a Beatles b-side in late '64 or early '65 - something about the harmonies and the brittle piano sound. - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::I can bellow like a clown school drill instructor:: __Brian Block__ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #56 ******************************