From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #278 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 Tuesday, October 23 2001 Volume 01 : Number 278 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] The Strokes ["Aaron Milenski" ] [loud-fans] block block block [dmw ] [loud-fans] strange brew [jenny grover ] [loud-fans] Hey Paul.....hang up the bass, take a good song, and make it shit-like ["O Geier" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Strokes >Could anyone tell me if The Strokes album is worth buying. I've been >hearing >the hype, and I like it, but I want to know if they live up to it. I have a feeling someone on this list will contradict me, but I think it's very average and way overhyped, completely unoriginal both musically and lyrically. They do have a decent ear for melody and some very nice bass parts, but if this is all critics have to rave about the music scene is very sad indeed right now. I also think the vocal mix (muffled) is atrocious and ruins what good melodies they have. Aaron _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:44:04 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: [loud-fans] block block block On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Richard Gagnon wrote: > I know it's how you feel about them, but, I'm curious, which ones do > you think are lesser books? They just seem (to me) from Ginmill and > on, to get better with time, as the characters are developed further, > especially Scudder's irish mobster best friend. The last two, "Even > the Wicked" and "Everybody dies" were especially fine and satisfying. > (doug? what do *you* think?) I still haven't read _Everybody Dies_, though I have a copy. It's not the sort of title that makes me eager to pick up the book. I thought "A Dance at the Slaughterhouse" was the peak in terms of character development (it did deepen the mobster buddy considerably, that one). The ones after that felt increasingly formulaic. Serial killers also bore me to tears; I thought the earlier volumes were much stronger/more interesting as mysteries/novels of suspense, because they weren't nearly so reliant on that particular tired trope. However, I read them (through _Even the Wicked_) all in a row with hardly any interruption -- not the kindest way to read a series, since increases one's awareness of formulaic aspects considerably. I read three Bernie Rhodenbarr's in a row, began to have the same problem, and decided to save the rest for later. nr: silverlock just finished: the chess garden up next: perdido street station ...so it's just loudfans recommendations month 'round here in the caverns of former pathos, is what it is. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:44:51 -0400 From: jenny grover Subject: [loud-fans] strange brew For those of you who appreciate the dark and strange side of indie, I highly recommend the new Desert Sessions (vol. 7&8 packaged together). Think the dark side of Eleven meets the strange side of Queens of the Stoneage, no holds barred. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:41:18 +0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: [loud-fans] Hey Paul.....hang up the bass, take a good song, and make it shit-like Sad concert Saturday Night on VH1. The 'buffoons' attempting humor (Sandler, Will Ferell, the other SNL bozo, Jim Carrey) seem to keep forgetting that unless your audience is within 50 feet of you, your 'hijinks' or 'monkeyshines' are going to be lost on it. So when they don't laugh, they try harder, and fail. The music.......hmmmm. Backstreet Boys?, Density's I mean Destiny's Child? Am I alone in thinking that the only acts that had it together was James Taylor or The Who, who got the longest set? Goo Goo Dolls popularity continues to dumbfound me. One hit seems to be enough to be invited to perform at EVERYTHING. John Rzeznik couldn't even nail the vocals. Also, was that a 'gut' he was sporting 'neath that black Beefy-T? Poor Paul McCartney learned nothing from John Hiatt's 'Perfectly Good Guitar'. Surrounding yourself with 20-somethings isn't going to make you young again. Also living in castles and being driven to one private secure fuction after another isn't going to give you much real life fodder for songwriting. At least he can write about missing Linda, that might make it better, better, betTER, beTTER, bETTER, BETTER, WOW!!!!! Another subject....Anybody on list got episodes of NBC's 'DEADLINE' on VHS??? - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:18:59 -0400 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: [loud-fans] Magnetic Fields cover alert For those of you who keep track of such things, the Australian trio Tugboat's debut album _All Day_, which just came out on Library Records, includes a lovely lo-fi cover of "Love Goes Home to Paris in the Spring". ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #278 *******************************