From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #335 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, December 10 2001 Volume 01 : Number 335 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Van der graaf generator [Tim_Walters@digidesign.com] Re: [loud-fans] Christmas Tuneage [Tim_Walters@digidesign.com] [loud-fans] Van der Graaf Generator [GlenSarvad@aol.com] [loud-fans] French and Saunders [Vivebonpop@aol.com] [loud-fans] RE: xmas tuneage ["Brett Milano" ] [loud-fans] AthensMusic.net [Vivebonpop@aol.com] [loud-fans] Eno (ns) [Jer Fairall ] Re: [loud-fans] AthensMusic.net [jenny grover ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:05:59 -0800 From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Van der graaf generator My favorite album is GODBLUFF, from the period Stewart thinks is blah but I think is weirder, darker, and edgier than the earlier period. Go figure. After that I'd go for PAWN HEARTS (despite "Man-Erg"), THE LEAST WE COULD DO... (despite "White Hammer"), STILL LIFE (despite "Still Life"), and H TO HE (despite "Lost"), in that order (although given your expressed liking for "House With No Door" you might start with H TO HE and follow up with LEAST). As you can probably guess from my caveats, I find most of their albums a bit uneven, but the good parts are really good. AEROSOL GREY MACHINE and WORLD RECORD have one great song each and not much else. THE QUIET ZONE/THE PLEASURE DOME is, well, blah. They called the live album VITAL, but they should have called it STRICTLY FOR COMPLETISTS. Although it's probably the punkiest prog album. Is that a good thing? A lot of people swear by Hammill's solo albums, but the most I can muster is a tepid interest in THE FUTURE NOW. Without the band, it's mope-o-rama. And not the good Elliott Smith kind either. The band without him, however, did a very nice instrumental album called THE LONG HELLO (not to be confused with THE LONG HELLO VOL. 2, which is, well, blah). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:17:38 -0800 From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Christmas Tuneage I don't know if it's the best, but it's the freshest: my Christmas tune for this year is a synth-pop version of Franklin Bruno's "Invisible Mistletoe," featuring vocals laid down this afternoon by the fabulous Megan Lynch. It's hot off the mixing board at: http://www.doubtfulpalace.com/artists/Mercaptan/invismis.mp3 Ho ho ho! (What did you call me?) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 08:16:36 EST From: GlenSarvad@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Van der Graaf Generator While we're on the subject, let me point out that Peter Hammill made some really good solo records in the early 80s. "Sitting Targets" comes to mind. It came out originally on PVC, and used to be a staple in used vinyl bins. Hammill has/had a rare voice that could be affecting in soft passages and menacing while shrieking. At one point he subbed as a voaclist in the Stranglers. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 14:48:14 EST From: Vivebonpop@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] French and Saunders BBC Video has a collection of French and Saunders programs available. I saw some clips of this program, and it looked extremely funny. Anyone on the list have any of these tapes? Which would be the best one to get first? Mark np Steve Kilbey "Dabble" "Our lives are geared mainly to deflect the darts thrown at us by the laws of probablility. The moment we're able, we insulate ourselves from random acts of hate and destruction. It's always been there--in the neighborhoods we build, the walls between our houses, the wariness with which we treat the unknown. One person in six million will be struck by lightning. Fifteen people in a hundred will experience clinical depression. One woman in sixteen will experience breast cancer. One child in 30,000 will experience a serious limb deformity. One American in five will be a victim of violent crime. A day in which nothing bad happens is a miracle, a day in which all the things that could have gone wrong didn't. The dull day is a triumph of the human spirit, and boredom is a luxury unprecedented in the history of our species." (from _All Families are Psychotic_ by Douglas Coupland, 2001) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:33:09 -0500 From: "Brett Milano" Subject: [loud-fans] RE: xmas tuneage Someons said of "White Christmas": ** It's actually by one of the early incarnations of the Drifters, with the amazing voice of Clyde McPhatter on lead. Was that before or after Vicki and Susan joined? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 23:12:35 EST From: Vivebonpop@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] AthensMusic.net I stumbled across a site, AthensMusic.net, that may be of interest to Loudfans. If it's from Athens GEE AY, they can probably hook you up. (though I'm STILL trying to find some kind of recording by the infamous Limbo District...no dice) Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:15:22 -0800 (PST) From: Jer Fairall Subject: [loud-fans] Eno (ns) I just saw the movie TRAFFIC (which months of hype, surprisingly, didn't manage to spoil) and loved that Brian Eno piece that plays over the final scene ("Ascent (An Ending)"). Instead of buying the soundtrack, though, I figure that I should use this as an opportunity to educate myself on Eno. So, if I like this will I like the rest? Which album is it on? Is it good/representative? Discuss. Jer np: Teenage Fanclub, SONGS FROM NORTHERN BRITAIN ===== Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:09:40 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] AthensMusic.net Vivebonpop@aol.com wrote: > > I'm STILL trying to find some kind of recording by the infamous Limbo > District...no dice) That makes two of us! Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #335 *******************************