From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #154 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 Sunday, July 8 2001 Volume 01 : Number 154 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] J-pop Josie ["glenn mcdonald" ] [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: [loud-fans] mooning the spoons (tape swap a go go) [jsharple@bls.broo] [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (2) [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: [loud-fans] mooning the spoons (tape swap a go go) ["Andrew Hamlin" <] Re: [loud-fans] J-pop Josie ["Andrew Hamlin" ] RE: [loud-fans] Cultural differences - ["Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett" ] Re: [loud-fans] We're only half as far as we need to go [John F Butland <] Re: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) [Dan Sallitt ] [loud-fans] Gravel Pit [Dan Sallitt ] Re: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) [Michael Mitton ] Re: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) [Dan McCarthy ] Re: [loud-fans] cardinal (not cardinal)(ns) [Stewart Mason ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 03:05:43 -0400 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: [loud-fans] J-pop Josie If you enjoyed the power-pop-writers-doing-bubblegum of the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack, you might want to keep an ear out for _Spike_, the latest album by Japanese duo Puffy Ami Yumi, which features four songs written, produced and played on by Andy Sturmer of Jellyfish. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:38:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) This message contains no opinions about religion or driving. Instead, it contains a list of songs and musicians that filled the last handful of swap tapes I sent out to various people, and hopes to encourage discussion about said musicians and songs (perhaps even by the people who've heard the tapes) without reference to musicians' driving habits, modes of worship, or beliefs that the First Amendment does not encompass private diaries concerning socially unacceptable fantasies. With just this sentence's further ado, I present: Title: Like a Baby in a Bathysphere... Backstory: most artists per request of swappee based on my reviews page side a: "Campaign Song" Nothing Painted Blue "Charge of the Light Brigade" W.A.C.O. "A Perfect Sonnet" Bright Eyes "I Can See" Chris Von Sneidern "Late Night Thinking" Sleepyhead "Tomorrow" Abunai! "Nothing Left to Say" Tram "Heavens" Pinetop Seven "Climb" Star Period Star "Lone Star" Grant Lee Buffalo "Prairie Rose" Roxy Music "Wheats" Mazarin "Ridiculous" Cecil Seaskull "Hurley" Pinback side b: "Silver Dagger" Styrenes "Red Haired Girl" His Name Is Alive "Matador" Starlight Mints "Empty Ships" Creeper Lagoon "It's a GD Car in the Preacher Belt" Fondly "Sleeping in the Beetle Bug" Of Montreal "Baby You're a Rich Freak," "The Holographic Horse," "Soldier Lover" Chevy Heston (all 3) "El Cajon" Seely "Reborn" Velocette "Ask the Space Invader" From Bubblegum to Sky "Capital City" Macha "The Vivian Girls" Snakefinger "Little Red Record Co." Damon and Naomi "Red River Anger Management Society" Sixteen Deluxe - ------------- Title: 'Round Yon Version Backstory: second in a series of tapes entirely comprised of covers side a: "The Star Spangled Banner" The Posies "The Stars and Stripes Forever" The Residents "Won't You Keep Us Working?" Charming Hostess "Love Is the Drug" MAdM "I Want Your Sex" Jailbait "Into the Groove(y)" Ciccone Youth "Angel" Long Fin Killie "Who Do You Love" The Fire Show "Diddy Wah Diddy" Last Four (4) Digits "Tell Her" The Movement "Dancing in the Streets" The Who "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" Tuxedomoon "Like Someone in Love" Blanket "All Mixed Up" Red House Painters "Wiggly World" The Posies side b: "Paint it Black" Half Japanese "Chorale from the Ninth Symphony" Pete Seeger "Bach Is Dead" Idiot Flesh "Don't Go" Rita and the Sweets "Sand" Einsturzende Neubauten "Winter Song" Ultra Vivid Scene "I Found a Reason" Cat Power "Black-Eyed Dog" Ivory Library "What's Happening?!?" Sixteen Deluxe "Sweet Child o' Mine" The Aluminum Group "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" The Falling Wallendas "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" The Residents "Born, Never Asked" Spiritualized "The Candyman" Cibo Matto "I've Got a Golden Ticket" The Harmony Rockets more later... - --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__ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 11:36:11 -0400 (EDT) From: jsharple@bls.brooklaw.edu Subject: Re: [loud-fans] mooning the spoons (tape swap a go go) Quoting Dan Schmidt : > np: The Gravel Pit, MASS AVENUE FREEZE-OUT. Have I pushed these guys > on you all already? Can't second you on this one, Dan. The play very well, but the material has never grabbed me and the lead singer really gets on my nerves. It seems like he only knows a few notes, and they are all very close together. But I know the bass player and he is a fine fellow. JS - ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: bls.brooklaw.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:43:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (2) More contents of swap tapes I've sent out. Discuss: Title: The Sugar of Lead Technology Backstory: just stuff i thought of and wrote down between swap tapes side a: "It to Get" Photon Band "Picasso Visita la Planete de los Simios" Adam Ant "Have You Thought About Turning Pro?" The Caribbean "The Nude" Catherine Wheel "Bill Gates Must Die" John Vanderslice "Come Into" Enon "Back in N.Y.C." Genesis "Billion Dollar Babies" Alice Cooper "She Cracked" Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers "Into Me" Stew "The L.S. Bumblebee" Peter Cook and Dudley Moore "Mr. Apollo" The Bonzo Dog Band "Tuesday Wednesday" The Woodentops side b: "Cruisers Creek" The Fall "What?" The Move "Spin Label" The Fletcher Pratt "M.C. Escher" Momus "A B & C" Death by Chocolate "Won't Make You (Sleepy)" Lilys "Rack" Microdisney "The Apprentice" Alison Faith Levy "Curious State" Those Bastard Souls "Johnny Mathis' Feet" American Music Club "The Romance of the Telescope" Orchestra Manoeuvres in the Dark - ---- Title: 24810 6 Backstory: alternate film soundtrack side a: "Hurricane Fighter Plane" Future Pilot vs. The Pastels "The Number Knows Its Name" All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors "Dream within a Dream" Elysian Fields "The Gingerbread House" Plasticland "Thrak" King Crimson untitled eleventh track - The Frosted Ambassador "Promise of Love" MX-80 "If Not This Time" Fifty Foot Hose "In Limbo" Radiohead "Lantern Marsh" Brian Eno "Where Water Flows" Calexico side b: "I Am the Mosque" The Caribbean "Green Gold Rolling Skull" Oranger "Sama-Sama" Macha "Then She Remembers" The Dream Syndicate "The Pink Room" David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti "Slush" The Bonzo Dog Band "Come to Daddy (Poppy Mix)" Aphex Twin "Vietrmx21" Autechre Prelude no. 2 in A minor - Frederic Chopin (Russell Sherman, piano) "Easter" Patti Smith Group - -------- Title: Love Is Just a Four-Letter Band (out in today's mail) Backstory: duh! side a: Devo "Clockout" Self "Stewardess" Ride "Seagull" Spot "Straight through the Sun's Head" Blur "Strange News from Another Star" Pulp "Common People" Lush "De-Luxe" 10cc "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" NRBQ "It Was a Accident" Moon "Branded" Beck "Cold Brains" side b: P. Hux "Simple Things" T. Rex "Highway Knees" Opal "Supernova" Wire "A Question of Degree" Cell "Camera" Easy "Cloud Chamber" Lamb "Closer" Bows "Girls Lips Glitter" Tram "Nothing Left to Say" Stew "The Stepford Lives" Love "Alone Again Or" - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Sting, where is thy death?:: __Alan Gray_ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:56:34 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] mooning the spoons (tape swap a go go) >The play very well, but the material has >never grabbed me and the lead singer really gets on my nerves. It seems like he >only knows a few notes, and they are all very close together. A Henri Padovani of the mike, mayhap? Amazing what you learn from those VH-1 "Behind The Music" marathons, Andy "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." - --Thomas Gray, from "Elgy Written In A Country Churchyard" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:06:03 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] J-pop Josie >If you enjoyed the power-pop-writers-doing-bubblegum of the Josie and the >Pussycats soundtrack, you might want to keep an ear out for _Spike_, the >latest album by Japanese duo Puffy Ami Yumi, which features four songs >written, produced and played on by Andy Sturmer of Jellyfish. They sound intriguing! Just found out, BTW, that the best-selling act in Japan is two guys called B'z, whom I'd call a Japanese Savage Garden except that they've been at it a lot longer. Anybody heard them? Opinions? And I last saw that Bluehearts tape around...1993? Andy "The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces." - --Anatole France, from LA VIE LITTERAIRE ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 19:11:31 +0100 From: "Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Cultural differences - Aaron then Phil: > >In the world of US/UK cultural differences, what I'm dying to find > >out is what the Lindisfarne lyric "slap them down and slap it on > >their smalls" means. > > 'Smalls' rings a bell, but damned if I can say why: I think it's passe > now. I'm sure Harry Shearer could enlighten. Well, we think 'smalls' is underwear although the resident Geordie can't throw *too* much light on what the lyric means as she says that she never really knew what Hull, Jackson and co were on about most of the time... Too much Newkie broon ale probably. Totally uninteresting fact: I once eat at Lady Eleanor's restaurant which was owned by a member of Lindisfarne, not sure which one - it was situated on the banks of the Tyne next to the ferry which runs across to south Shields - it was decorated with Lindsifarne-abilia, the food was good, had excellent music playing in the background - it promptly went bust... Earlier Dana wrote: >4. Barely Legal -- The Strokes I'm on an anti-Strokes campaign. Maybe their album will be better. As it is, I don't know what's in the Bovril over in England, but it's messin' up their minds if they think this band is the next big thing... The Strokes were on Top of the Pops tonight and New York City Cop sounded distinctly "Iggy meets the New Wave in CBGBs circa 1976" to me... Mind you, it was possibly the best thing on there apart from the unbelievable Backyard Dog doing their rap meets ska rave-up. Yikes! Oh, and I still have no idea why James bother. Ian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:03:23 -0300 From: John F Butland Subject: Re: [loud-fans] We're only half as far as we need to go At 10:38 AM 01-07-06 -0500, Wes_Vokes@eFunds.Com wrote: >Ah yes, Mama Digdowns Brass Junction, from that creole music hotbed of >Madison, Wisconsin.. >I've seen these guys several times in clubs.. very cool.. They march in, >play some tunes and then march out... >Wes Madison? Really? All the info with it indicates it was recorded and mastered in New Orleans. And they tak about the music, culture and people of New Orleans. You sure it's the same bunch - ain't no Junction in the name. I suppose they could be transplants and changed their name. best, jfb John F Butland O- butland@nbnet.nb.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:01:58 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) > Instead, it > contains a list of songs and musicians that filled the last handful of > swap tapes I sent out to various people, and hopes to encourage discussion > about said musicians and songs I will contribute a few modest comments. > "Red Haired Girl" His Name Is Alive I picked up FT. LAKE recently and was sort of impressed - I can't say I like everything they do, and can't say I wasn't bored at times, but there were a lot of juicy musical moments. How do their other albums compare? > "Little Red Record Co." Damon and Naomi New Yorkers may be interested in a Damon and Naomi/Kristen Hersh bill coming up at the Knitting Factory on July 11. I have a bad conscience about Kristen Hersh - I stopped getting her albums a while ago because her presentation started getting on my nerves, but I'm afraid I'm missing some good stuff. > "The Nude" Catherine Wheel I keep wishing more people would come out as Catherine Wheel fans. The early albums were sort of shoe-gazey, and then they turned more Pink Floydy sometime around HAPPY DAYS. I don't usually like shoegazing music and I don't like Pink Floyd much either, but the later Catherine Wheel albums often thrill me with their raw emotionality. ADAM AND EVE is the greatest, in my opinion. - - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:05:29 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: [loud-fans] Gravel Pit > >The play very well, but the material has > >never grabbed me and the lead singer really gets on my nerves. It seems > like he > >only knows a few notes, and they are all very close together. I heard a Gravel Pit song called "Yellow Light Purple" on a Boston area compilation, and liked it enough to make a note of the name. - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:57:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Dan Sallitt wrote: > I keep wishing more people would come out as Catherine Wheel fans. The > early albums were sort of shoe-gazey, and then they turned more Pink > Floydy sometime around HAPPY DAYS. I don't usually like shoegazing > music and I don't like Pink Floyd much either, but the later Catherine > Wheel albums often thrill me with their raw emotionality. ADAM AND EVE > is the greatest, in my opinion. I'll certainly come out as a fan, or perhaps an anti-fan, as I particularly like the earlier stuff. I never was able to get into ADAM AND EVE, and so haven't heard anything since, but I love everything from HAPPY DAYS and earlier. HAPPY DAYS has my two favorite CW songs--"Heal" which is far more affecting to me than a song should be on an album that basically rocks out, and "Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck" which is, I think, the only song with the word "Fuck" in the title that I actually like. - --Michael Results of the Prologue of the 2001 Tour de France: 1. Cristophe Moreau (Festina) 9'20" 2. Igor Galdeano (ONCE) 3" 3. Lance Armstron (USPS) 4" 4. Jan Ullrich (Telekom) 7" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:56:17 -0400 From: Dan McCarthy Subject: Re: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) Never made my fandom a secret. Their breakup earlier this year lead to much consternation and gnashing of teeth on my part. I agree that Adam and Eve is greatest of their newer albums (in fact, I didn't really like the very grunge-motivated "Happy Days" very much), and for my money "Chrome" is their best early record, and probably my favourite of their canon were I forced to choose. I probably wouldn't draw a Pink Floyd comparison, but the vocals remind me of Bush- the band, not the president- albeit a "good" Bush, if that oxymoron could ever be made correct in any of its incarnations. Dan >- Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:58:22 -0400 From: Dan McCarthy Subject: Re: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) >I'll certainly come out as a fan, or perhaps an anti-fan, as I >particularly like the earlier stuff. I never was able to get into ADAM >AND EVE, and so haven't heard anything since, but I love everything from >HAPPY DAYS and earlier. HAPPY DAYS has my two favorite CW songs--"Heal" >which is far more affecting to me than a song should be on an album that >basically rocks out, and "Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck" which is, I >think, the only song with the word "Fuck" in the title that I actually >like. If you like "Heal" and you've not got it already, it's probably worth getting their b-sides/unreleased tracks collection "Like Cats and Dogs"... fairly unbalanced and most of the songs are stripped down, somewhere between Adam and Eve and Happy Days- which makes sense, since that's when the album was released, I think. I could be wrong, it might have followed Adam and Eve. Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:29:11 -0600 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] cardinal (not cardinal)(ns) At 08:29 PM 7/6/01 -0400, Dana L Paoli wrote: >>From parasol: > >Cardinal S/T (AVAILABLE late-July) PS, US Reissue w/prev unreleased >trx! Beautifully lush pop from Eric Matthews & Richard Davies. Classic >pop >a la Zombies, Love, Beach Boys, Beatles... GernBlandsten-056 CD >$10.25 > >First reaction...how many of my goddamn albums am I going to have to buy >multiple times? What does "trx" mean? One track? Two? That unissued >triple live album that they always wanted to put out? And finally, who >or what is GernBlandsten, who seem(s) to be intent on re-releasing >everything that Richard Davies was involved with. When in doubt, see if they have a URL: www.gernstandsten.com -- they say they've been around since 1992. The only other band names I recognize are All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors, who I think used to be on K or maybe Kill Rock Stars, and the Van Pelt, who a couple of the guys at the record store down the street are mad for. The page says that the Cardinal reissue has 5 bonus tracks, but doesn't say what they are. I assume one of them is that Christmas song they had on a sampler. The reissues of THERE'S NEVER BEEN A CROWD LIKE THIS and (yep) INSTINCT don't seem to have any bonus tracks, which makes sense, since if there were any extra songs from those sessions, the albums themselves wouldn't be so short. INSINCT is like 25 minutes long. >And what happened to Flydaddy? The story I've heard, from someone who used to work with the label: They left their distro deal with Sub Pop because V2 Records offered them more money in an attempt to gain immediate indie cred as they were starting up in the US. Then V2 dropped the distro deal because none of the records sold squat and Flydaddy went out of business not long after. I *think* their A&R guy went to Kindercore, which is why the Olivia Tremor Control and Richard Davies (and maybe others?) ended up there, but I'm not sure about that. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 19:41:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] cardinal (not cardinal)(ns) On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stewart Mason wrote: > The only other band names I recognize are All Natural Lemon and Lime > Flavors, who I think used to be on K or maybe Kill Rock Stars, and the > Van Pelt, who a couple of the guys at the record store down the street > are mad for. They've also got Chisel and Pharmacists (both the work of Ted Leo), who sound much like the New Pornographers, only not as amazing. I'd recommend Chisel's "Set You Free" and the Pharmacists' "The Tyranny Of Distance" (the latter on Lookout, I think) if you're giving them a shot. emusic subscribers can get a bunch of Ted Leo stuff thence. I didn't mean to sound *quite* so tepid there... I enjoy most of Ted Leo's records a lot, but the NPs are the best sonic comparison I can think of, right down to the occasionally-sounding-like-Game-Theory part, and the fact is that Leo doesn't measure up *that* far. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:56:14 -0600 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] cardinal (not cardinal)(ns) At 07:41 PM 7/7/01 -0400, Aaron Mandel wrote: >They've also got Chisel and Pharmacists (both the work of Ted Leo), who >sound much like the New Pornographers, only not as amazing. I'd recommend >Chisel's "Set You Free" and the Pharmacists' "The Tyranny Of Distance" >(the latter on Lookout, I think) if you're giving them a shot. emusic >subscribers can get a bunch of Ted Leo stuff thence. > >I didn't mean to sound *quite* so tepid there... I enjoy most of Ted Leo's >records a lot, but the NPs are the best sonic comparison I can think of, >right down to the occasionally-sounding-like-Game-Theory part, and the >fact is that Leo doesn't measure up *that* far. Can a Zumpano comparison be made? If he's even up to that level, sounds like something I could get behind. S ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 19:51:47 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] We're only half as far as we need to go At shortly after the half, it's... 1. Jandek--PUT MY DREAM ON THIS PLANET 2. Otis Taylor--WHITE AFRICAN 3. David Thomas And Two Pale Boys--SURF'S UP! 4. Marillion--ANORAKOPHOBIA 5. Shearwater--THE DISSOLVING ROOM 6. Dolly Parton--LITTLE SPARROW 7. Low--THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE 8. Kinski--BE GENTLE WITH THE WARM TURTLE 9. Johnny Dowd--TEMPORARY SHELTER 10. Richard Youngs--MAKING PAPER (thanks to Brian and glenn for helping me discover Richard Youngs) Knocking me out lately, could make this count later in the year: Blink 182, TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS AND JACKET; HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (movie soundtrack) Bubbling under: Sheila Chandra, THIS SENTENCE IS TRUE (THE PREVIOUS SENTENCE IS FALSE); Robert Creeley, ROBERT CREELEY; Kristin Hersh, SUNNY BORDER BLUE; Ian Hunter, RANT; Joe Henry, SCAR. Looking forward to hearing: Melissa Etheridge, SKIN; Ike Turner, HERE AND NOW; Steve Wynn, HERE COME THE MIRACLES; Tricky, BLOWBACK; Low and The Dirty Three, IN THE FISHTANK (a collaboration, this time); Brian Eno and Peter Schwalm, DRAWN FROM LIFE; whatever Alanis Morissette's new one's called; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, FINAL STUDIO RECORDINGS; John Phillips, PAY PACK & FOLLOW and PHILLIPS 66; Nick Drake, TANNWORTH-IN-ARDEN; the Liz Phair soundtrack thing; Donna De Lory, BLISS; Shea Seger, THE MAY STREET PROJECT; Runrig, THE STAMPING GROUND; Emm Gryner, GIRL VERSIONS; Tori Amos, STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS; Alejandro Escovedo, A MAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE Favorite song that isn't on any of the above: Probably Spanner Banner's cover of "Fire" (with Tanya Stephens), abolishing the chord changes and any sense of sex fanning into love through one flathanded smack. I'm awestruck. Are we ready for Tori covering Eminem? Andy Oh Baracus, who was in 'Nam, Mr. T be thy name. Thy van will come with Face and Hannibal, on Earth as it is on TV-Land. Give us this day, our daily milk, and pity us fools, as we pity the fools who cross us. Lead us not into airplanes, and deliver us from Murdock. For thine is the Mohawk and the Van, and the Gold Chains, forever, or at least until the mid-80's Amen (courtesy Doug Taylor) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:52:36 -0400 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] PSA w/gtr (1) I have a bad conscience about Kristen Hersh - I stopped getting her albums a while ago because her presentation started getting on my nerves, but I'm afraid I'm missing some good stuff. >>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm pretty fond of the new one, which hits a nice balance between her recent folkie tendencies and her older, more unhinged side. To be honest, the moments I live for are the ones where she starts caterwaling about something that pissed her off. There are a few on "Sunny Border Blue", and most of the folk songs have some sort of added sonic element that keeps them out of the voice/guitar rut that she can slip into. I never did get Sky Motel, for no good reason, and am fairly convinced that it too is good, on the basis of the *excellent* single that accompanied it, which features her covering "Everybody's Got Something to Hide..." [Beatles] and "Pennyroyal Tea" [Nirvana]. It's one of those rare, extremely essential singles, and made me want to hear her tackle more rock covers. - --dana np: The Divine Comedy/Regeneration (after getting fed up waiting for a domestic release...with my luck it's due out next week on Gern Blandsten, with bonus tracks) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! 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