From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #185 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, August 6 2001 Volume 01 : Number 185 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] online cd sale [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] Those Wacky Canadians [Tim_Walters@digidesign.com] [loud-fans] RE: bad music movie trivia ["Brett Milano" ] Re: [loud-fans] bad movie music trivia ["Andrew Hamlin" Subject: [loud-fans] online cd sale I don't much like stumping for online retailers, especially one that has given me some problems in the past, but I wanted to point out that Express.com is having a big sale right now. They are supposedly under new ownership and are blowing out their old overstock for 50%-75% off. I picked up a few DVDs at really good prices, and it looks like they've got thousands of CDs (new, not used, mostly major label stuff) in the $6-$8 range. The only problem is that it's incredibly time-consuming to look through the entire list: http://www.express.com/halfoff/default.asp?type=musicnc So, if you've always wanted that Richard Thompson MOCK TUDOR album, for example, and didn't want to pay $15, they've got it for $6.79. Or They Might Be Giants' FLOOD for $7.19. Or Todd Rundgren's ONE LONG YEAR for $7.19. THE FUTURE by Leonard Cohen for $4.79. You get the picture. I'm sure you could find most of this stuff for around the same price used if you looked around, but hey... One caveat: Order ONLY what's marked "In Stock". Also, it's taking them a long time to process orders, since they've gotten a big response to this sale. I ordered my in-stock DVDs last Monday and they finally shipped out on Friday. Have fun. Later. --Rog - -- When toads are not enough: http://www.reignoffrogs.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:07:15 -0700 From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Those Wacky Canadians >Played a gig last night, and had some folks visiting from Halifax, Nova >Scotia request a song called 'Barret's Privateers', which I never heard of. >They said it's a real crowd pleaser, and gets everybody singing along. Do I >chalk this one up to bad Canadian taste, or can someone vouch for this >song's credibility?? I find all of Stan Rogers' songs to be contrived, but this one bugs me less than most, and I can vouch for its popularity among folkies. If you're doing the right kind of gig, which it sounds like you are, it will go down a storm. Nobody can resist a chorus that starts with "God damn them all!" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 13:06:35 -0400 From: "Brett Milano" Subject: [loud-fans] RE: bad music movie trivia The original, '60s hit version of "The In Crowd" was by one Dobie Grey, same guy who hit with "Drift Away" a half-decade later. It sounds like the version Jenny describes, being done in a Motown-type style. The Ramsey Lewis version was instrumental cover that was done about a year later. And the best-ever version of this song was of course done by Bryan Ferry. SPeaking of "Drift Away," I have a friend who thought for years that the words to the chorus were "Give me the Beach Boys, and free my soul..." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 11:17:49 -0600 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RE: bad music movie trivia At 01:06 PM 8/5/01 -0400, Brett Milano wrote: >The original, '60s hit version of "The In Crowd" was by one Dobie Grey, same >guy who hit with "Drift Away" a half-decade later. It sounds like the >version Jenny describes, being done in a Motown-type style. The Ramsey Lewis >version was instrumental cover that was done about a year later. The cool thing about the Ramsey Lewis version is that it speeds up and slows down a lot, and during the faster bits, you realize that "The In Crowd" is basically a slowed-down rewrite of the Capitols' "Cool Jerk." S ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:46:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: [loud-fans] Emergency: Needed: Brianna Bradley's cell phone number! Please! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:57:14 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: [loud-fans] rare treat JeFF (or one of his bots?) @ irc.eskimo.com. plus me, and jer, if his connection lets him back on. and thee? = i do what i am told. i am not opinionated. i accept without | dmw@ = questioning. i do not make a fuss. i am a good consumer. |radix.net = pathetic-caverns.com * fecklessbeast.com * shoddyworkmanship.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 21:11:43 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] bad movie music trivia >I found it! Man, it was a tortuous path through convoluted searches, >though. The only movie that searches turned up is some new one that's >apparently a sex thriller! And it proves how poorly amazon.com's search >engine works, since a song search didn't turn it up, but an artist album >search did. Hmmm.... Anyway, it appears to be Dobie Gray who did it in >the movie, credited as being written by Billy Page. Thought I'd mention the one other version of this song I know of: Marshall Crenshaw, from his 1996 album MIRACLE OF SCIENCE. Well, she did say the guy sounded white, Andy "To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea--'cruising,' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about." - --Sterling Hayden, from WANDERER ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 01:24:08 -0400 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] bad movie music trivia Andrew Hamlin wrote: > > Thought I'd mention the one other version of this song I know of: Marshall > Crenshaw, from his 1996 album MIRACLE OF SCIENCE. > > Well, she did say the guy sounded white, LOL! Not quite that white. It just didn't sound as soulful as a lot of songs of that era by black artists did, more like Franki Valli when he wasn't singing falsetto. I downloaded the Dobie Gray version from LimeWire last night and it's definitely the one I was looking for. Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #185 *******************************