From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #260 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 Wednesday, October 10 2001 Volume 01 : Number 260 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] highschool obscurantism ["Pete O." ] [loud-fans] Interesting CD, CD-R, etc. info page [Dana L Paoli ] Re: [loud-fans] Rush (the fat one) is Deaf ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] nice package (ns) [Dan McCarthy ] [loud-fans] trushiumph [dmw ] [loud-fans] Aquaquake [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] Aquaquake [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 06:43:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Pete O." Subject: Re: [loud-fans] highschool obscurantism - --- dmw wrote: > in 12th grade i'm pretty sure my favorite band was still triumph, although > i was getting regular doses of harder stuff, like the dreadful first few > albums on metal blade, ufo and of course, cirith ungol. triumph was my > first concert, in 11th grade, the night before i kicked ass on the PSAT. > also first contact high; coincidence?. foghat opened; i spent their whole > set trying to figure out when they were playing "slow ride" and when they > were playing something else -- it wasn't easy. > Triumph played my high school twice before they recorded their first album. Live bands were banned after those concerts. God, I'm old! NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:27:21 -0400 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: [loud-fans] Interesting CD, CD-R, etc. info page Totally unrelated to anything going on, but I just stumbled across a very nice information page on CDs, CDRs, and so on. For the most part it's easy to understand, and includes some interesting stuff. http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq01.html#S1-2 It also gets into some of the methods of copy protection being currently tested. Apologies if this has been posted previously. - --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/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:46:33 -0400 From: Michael Bowen Subject: Re: [loud-fans] highschool obscurantism At 07:17 PM 10/8/2001 -0400, dmw wrote: >esp. since i have it >on pretty good authority that Jones & Dixon have been trying to get rights >to _Unsophisticated Time_ for a while... Oh, they've already gotten around to reissuing it on the DAR (Dixon Archival Remnants) label. I bought my copy at a live show, but it's available online from some folkie outfit - someone posted the URL a few months ago. MB http://www.savemonroe.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:20:59 -0700 From: "Brandon J. Carder" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] audio weenie So, does this God Ween Satan reissue portend more Twin/Tone records to come? Me, I would like to hear Robyn Hitchcock's brilliant EYE in 46 shimmering linear phases, remastered throughout the 39 bits. (and while they're at it, the liner notes could use some work, too). np. eleventh dream day _prairie school freakout_ - ----- Original Message ----- > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Dana L Paoli wrote: > > > was actually recorded in 1976. Which makes me wonder if there's such a > > thing as 39-bit remastering or T-Base Pro Linear '46' Phasing. Because, > > based on the results displayed here, 39-bit remastering and T-Base Pro > > Linear '46' Phasing are capable of making my microcassette recording of > > the mastering realm is very esoteric and i don't know that much about it, > and "T-Base Pro Linear '46' Phasing" sounds *almost* credible, tho > seriously fishy -- for one thing, phasing is not something you usually use > much of in mastering, since a lot of the engineers job is to keep things > IN phase for the most part -- but i'd bet hefty sums that "39-bit > remastering" is purest b-s. 20-bit, 24-bit, 40-bit, 48-bit, yes, but an > odd number wordlength? never. even CYBERs, perhaps one of the weirdest > computer architectures of all time, could only get as weird as a 60-bit > word. > > by the way, you probably just sold a copy of the cd to me. especially if > i really am just about to get paid by my current snsulting gig. "the > check's in the mail," my friend says. > > -- d. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 17:50:52 +0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: [loud-fans] Rush (the fat one) is Deaf Limbaugh Says He's Nearly Deaf - ------------------------------ By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh surprised his listeners with the revelation that he has gone almost completely deaf over the past few months. Limbaugh, whose nationally syndicated talk show reaches some 20 million people on nearly 600 stations, said Monday that he wants to continue his show despite his impaired hearing. ``All I've lost is my ability to hear,'' he said, ``but it doesn't mean I've lost my ability to communicate. Those are two different things, given the technological advances we have in this country today.'' _end_ 'What does it mean, Number 6?' 'It means what it is' - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:57:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Rush (the fat one) is Deaf On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, O Geier wrote: > Limbaugh Says He's Nearly Deaf > ------------------------------ > > By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer > > NEW YORK (AP) - Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh surprised his listeners > with the revelation that he has gone almost completely deaf over the past > few months. > > Limbaugh, whose nationally syndicated talk show reaches some 20 million > people on nearly 600 stations, said Monday that he wants to continue his > show despite his impaired hearing. > > ``All I've lost is my ability to hear,'' he said, ``but it doesn't mean > I've lost my ability to communicate. Those are two different things, > given the technological advances we have in this country today.'' To take the obvious poke here, he never did listen much anyway, so no real loss. J. Mallon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 14:45:12 -0400 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] audio weenie On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:20:59 -0700 "Brandon J. Carder" writes: > So, does this God Ween Satan reissue portend more Twin/Tone records > to come? Looks like the Replacements are up next. http://www.restless.com/indexx.html - --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/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:18:44 -0400 From: Dan McCarthy Subject: Re: [loud-fans] nice package (ns) >I actually like the new one, but I'm wondering what happened to Jason's >voice (which sounds very different -- is it actually him singing I >wonder). Also, the lyrics to the first song are really pretty terrible. >Something about being on fire and there's not enough water to quench the >fire. After that, things improve, but unless it's some sort of a joke >that I'm not getting, it's a really horrible way to start an album. Yeah, I'm not a fan of the rockier numbers on the album, but songs like "The Straight and the Narrow" more than make up for it. Simply beautiful in my opinion. The limited edition is kinda cool- especially since the CD inside is a purty little gold one- but whenever I confront editions like that (or like Radiohead's "Kid A" ltd. ed.), I wonder if I'm missing anything by getting the limited edition instead of the regular old plain-vanilla version that has a full set of liner notes. I'm a liner-notes fiend, I have to say. Anyone bought the regular version of the new Spiritualized and can confirm that the lyric book is just a couple sheets of paper thick and nothing very interesting, so I can assuage my troubled mind? - -Dan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:16:30 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: [loud-fans] trushiumph On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, glenn mcdonald wrote: > There were people who liked Triumph better than Rush? That's crazy. But OK, > I'll get _Allied Forces_ out and listen to it again. Hey, what's so bad > about this? "Magic Power" is still one of the all-time great stupid > power-of-radio songs, and the rest of it sounds perfectly respectable. > Plant/Lee-wannabee vocals, boomy early-Eighties production, silly guitar > histrionics, lots of power chords. It's not System of a Down or anything, > but it still gets a big "If you can't find your copy of _Permanent Waves_" > thumbs-up from me. hrm. first, i never saw why the two bands were compared beyond the "canadian-power-trio" point. rush quit being a zep rip band with, what, album two or three? i had occasion to listen to rsh's _moving pictures_ last week (scarily young and tall new coworker sez he's a rush fan, but had never heard it, so i dragged it into the workplace -- four semi-pro musicians in one room, 3/4 'appreciate' rush) and while some of the production aspects sound a bit dated for sure, there's nothing embarrassing about it. now that i more-or-less know how to play the guitar, emmett's riffs sound tired and de3rivative, the songs harmonically uninteresting and only mildly hooky, and the lyrics are almost equally goofy when they're vaugely do-good-y, crassly sexist, or when they're from the 'tonight i'm going to rock you tonight' school. "the denim army's working, consolidate their might/wargames, manoeuvers, rehearsals in the night/allied forces of rock and rowowowowooll" PUH-LEEZE! seems like almost all the other stuff i used to listen to in vaguely the same vein -- rush, boc, ufo -- has held up a lot better. > album was recently re-released with a pile of bonus tracks. Listening to it > reminded me a) how much better _Blue Tomorrow_ was, and b) how much better > Guadalcanal Diary always were, anyway. agreed on point a, if not b, but it's better than nothing and still pretty good. plus it gave me a good reason to contact my dad, a man who loves stingrays and who would definitely agree that model trains are better than rock'n'roll, since he loathes the latter. - -- d. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:44:25 -0600 From: Roger Winston Subject: [loud-fans] Aquaquake Today I listened to Paula Carino's AQUACADE, and enjoyed it immensely. I'm amazed at how quickly the melodies burrowed into my head. My only complaint is that the songs are too short and there's not enough of them. And I would've prefered a few more full-band songs. Anyway, I heard somewhere that it can be purchased at the 125 Records website (http://www.125records.com), and I hope that's right. Buy! George W. Bush wants you to spend. As an added bonus, in the liner notes there's a picture of Paula in the bathtub. Later. --Rog - -- When toads are not enough: http://www.reignoffrogs.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:53:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Aquaquake On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Roger Winston wrote: > somewhere that it can be purchased at the 125 Records website > (http://www.125records.com), and I hope that's right. Buy! George W. Bush > wants you to spend. > > As an added bonus, in the liner notes there's a picture of Paula in the > bathtub. As usual, Rog's post is a farrago of half-truths, distortions, obfuscations, arboreta, and fanciful eleemosynary deputations. (Okay - he'd never done one of the latter before.) Yes, _Aquacade_ is available through the fine folks at 125 Records - but it is not the case (as Rog's message states when displayed in the Wingdings font) that Dr. Seuss has come back from the dead as a part-time traffic cop in Windsor, Ontario. Yes, George W. Bush wants us to spend - but not (as one of Rog's previous messages suggested) in the form of a gift case of Crown Royal for Jenna and Barbara Jr. Finally, Rog insinuates that suggestive images of a nude Paula lounging seductively in a bathtub may be viewed for merely the purchase of this CD. This is a gross untruth and an inflammatory slighting of Paula's moral probity: it's actually a kiddie swimming pool. Besides, she's wearing one white sweatsock. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey, normalcy in the form of Jenna Bush jokes J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Drive ten thousand miles across America and you will know more about ::the country than all the institutes of sociology and political science ::put together. __Jean Baudrillard__ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #260 *******************************