From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #168 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 22 2001 Volume 01 : Number 168 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Pickwick, Divine Comedy (ns) [Dana L Paoli ] [loud-fans] a few small things [Michael Zwirn ] [loud-fans] Gratifaction ["Bradley Skaught" ] Re: [loud-fans] Pickwick, Divine Comedy (ns) [Dan McCarthy Subject: [loud-fans] Pickwick, Divine Comedy (ns) I don't have access to the archives at home, so apologies if this is inaccurate. I think that someone had mentioned Mott the Hoople as having releases on Pickwick. This surprised me, and I checked with a friend who's of the opinion that it must either be another Pickwick (the one I was asking about was based in New Jersey) or that the records were cheapie reissues. As far as I know, Pickwick's schtick was to release cash-in records where their house band would re-record hits of the day, or songs like the hits of the day, all deceptively packaged to try to fool the non-discriminating record buyer. I've never been able to find a good history of the label though, which surprises me since they're best known for having had Lou Reed on staff at one point. I've heard Lou's Pickwick tune titled, I think, "You're Driving Me Insane" and it was surprisingly good. BTW, has anyone else picked up the Divine Comedy's "Regeneration" yet? I haven't done a ton of research, but it looks like it won't be coming out in the US anytime soon, which is too bad. It's a little uneven, especially compared with his last two, but the good parts are probably the best things he's done. And, the production is much more "now" than it used to be. I keep thinking that Magnetic Fields fans are going to discover this album and freak out, but it doesn't seem to have happened so far. - --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: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:31:15 -0400 From: "John Sharples" Subject: [loud-fans] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Re:_Re:_=5Bloud-fans=5D_RIP_Mimi_Fari=F1a?= >> At Friday 7/20/2001 12:24 AM -0400, dmw wrote: I sorta thing it was one of the short-lived SNL competitors Does anybody know why doug is suddenly speaking like Ricky Ricardo? JS ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 09:01:33 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: [loud-fans] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_=5Bloud-fans=5D_Re:_Re:_Re:_=5Bloud-fans=5D_ RIP_Mimi?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Fari=F1a?= >Does anybody know why doug is suddenly speaking like Ricky Ricardo? You've heard about that chemical spill down Baltimore way? And the southward wind... Andy "Hollywood peace is no piece of cake A crippling trike was averted, but studios are playing hardball" - --original headline and subhead from http://www.msnbc.com/news/597977.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:17:36 -0700 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] content! jenny grover wrote: > my hubby extracted the audio from the nine-up loud family webcast for me > some time back (at work) and just got around to bringing it home for > me. trouble is, he didn't write anything down from the site, and > neither did i, and now the site seems to no longer exist. does anyone > know the date and location of this show? Date: January 23, 1999 Location: Somewhere in San Francisco Even though I was in attendance, I can't recall the exact location. This was a special webcast performance inside the Nineup studio in the middle of the afternoon, not a webcast of a "regular" LF show, so it was a pretty strange experience. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:57:36 -0700 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [loud-fans] a few small things Anyone into Chris Whitley should take a look at this rather alarming article in today's Oregonian - I was planning to go to this show, but didn't, and am glad in retrospect: http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/entertainment/o regonian/al_71spot21.frame Sounds very creepy.... Also, any thoughts on the Pete Yorn album? I am really digging it - a bit conventional in some regards, but _really_ catchy and intriguingly sung. A friend of mine on a website wrote (favorably), "J Mascis sings Paul Westerberg songs." This is a bit harsh on his singing, but captures the raggedy pop appeal of the songs. Still can't get in touch with Julianne - her email bounces and her cell phone number is disconnected. Any further clues? Michael n.p. Wire, On Returning 1977-1979. First exposure, believe it or not, checked out from the library. n.e. Oven-roasted vegetable Gardenburger with cheese and avocado. YUM. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:14:31 -0700 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] Gratifaction Side Two of _Pleased To Meet Me_ is a monster. I'd nearly forgotten. The whole album's great, really, but that whole edge-of-yer-seat heaviness is beautifully in effect on side two. And somehow I never noticed before that the album was recorded digitally. Doesn't matter really, but I like to wag stuff like that in the face of annoying analog purists. Sounds great to me. That last Westerberg album was brilliant, too. I go back to it often for the purity of its sound and the general quirkiness of the songwriting. It seemed like Westerberg finally figured out how to grow up and still keep that razor edge sharp. Rumours abound of a new label deal for him--hope they pan out. Maybe it's Berkeley, but you ever notice how crazy, talking-to-themselves street people are all big Bob Dylan fans? His position as the "poet of the radical elements of the sixties" really assures that his lyrics, usually mis-interpreted, will be spilling out of the mouths of nuts for eons to come. Speaking of which, now that his next album has been officially acknowledged by his label, we're getting a lot of folks down at the record store asking for it. When you tell them it won't be out until September they look at you like you're insane.."I mean, I just read about it. I'm sure they said it's out." British folk fans should check out the new Martin Simpson album, The Bramble Briar, which sounds like what a new Nic Jones album would sound like if that was possible. By the way, it turns out the Nic Jones catalog is owned by some guy who bought it all up cheap and refuses to license it for any amount that anyone can afford. A crying shame, really, although Penguin Eggs is still in print. The Cinerama John Peel record is really nice, too. I'm surprised I like it, but he really knows how to make that ridiculously simple stuff fly, doesn't he? It's entirely possible that Anton Barbeau will have the Bevis Frond as his backing band on some future recordings--mind blowing. That last Bevis Frond album was stunning--concise, hooky, and well recorded! I'm a rambling man, B NP Black Box Recorder The Facts of Life (just picked this up. Really fantastic--creeping up the 2001 list for sure.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 03:07:45 -0400 From: Dan McCarthy Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Pickwick, Divine Comedy (ns) At 09:07 AM 7/21/01 -0400, Dana L Paoli wrote: >BTW, has anyone else picked up the Divine Comedy's "Regeneration" yet? I >haven't done a ton of research, but it looks like it won't be coming out >in the US anytime soon, which is too bad. It's a little uneven, >especially compared with his last two, but the good parts are probably >the best things he's done. And, the production is much more "now" than >it used to be. I keep thinking that Magnetic Fields fans are going to >discover this album and freak out, but it doesn't seem to have happened >so far. Some Magnetic Fields fans probably already do know of The Divine Comedy; he's done quite reverent covers of at least three songs (the titles of which elude me) by Stephin Merritt, and maybe even more than that, so he's certainly made no secret as to where his influences lie. Dan ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #168 *******************************