From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #36 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 Friday, January 25 2002 Volume 02 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Learned hands [John Cooper ] Re: [loud-fans] Learned hands ["Andrew Hamlin" ] Re: [loud-fans] Handedness [John F Butland ] Re: [loud-fans] Halstead and Merritt ["amy b. lewis" ] Re: [loud-fans] Halstead and Merritt [Dana L Paoli ] [loud-fans] Re:Round and Round [john@bartlett132.screaming.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:53:51 -0800 From: John Cooper Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Learned hands Miles: >And what the f*ck is up with that demented percussion guy in the >foreground of the commercial (and apparently, in the actual video of >the song too, since I happened upon it in Target's electronics >section last weekend) who looks like Garth from Wayne's World except >he's forty years older and wearing a convict's jumper. I mean, was >sentencing for WAYNE'S WORLD II that harsh? It wasn't close to the >first movie, but two score years in prison and appearing in a Garth >Brooks commercial/video as part of your work release program seems a >little extreme. Garth's sensitivity to intellectual (okay, in this case, anti-intellectual) property theft is well known--obviously the other "Garth" bought the farm for trademark violation. Attorney arguments for pre-existing claim were dismissed by the judge, who found for the plaintiff by reason of extreme wealth. The work-release program selected was no doubt conceived as a kind of restitution. Next in the dock: Mel, Meredith and Albert Brooks. Now there's a video! John ...and whoa. Are you really telling us that the DR. PEPPER SONG IS FEATURED ON GARTH's NEW ALBUM? Is no one bothered by this? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:10:30 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Learned hands >...and whoa. Are you really telling us that the DR. PEPPER SONG IS >FEATURED ON GARTH's NEW ALBUM? Is no one bothered by this? I could cite precedent. But I'd like to teach the world to sing. Andy "Someone, perhaps Machiavelli, once said that it's better to be feared than loved. I understand that. Love is evasive. Love has its needs. You have to be giving. You have to be concerned with someone else's happiness. Power is a clearer idea, a cleaner concept. I want to walk into a restaurant and be waited on. I want to have women want me, although not necessarily because I want them. Women understand this notion very well. A woman wants to make her self as attractive as she can, with makeup, clothing, and perfume, because she wants every man to want her, although she may not be interested in any of them. I realize that I'm painting with broad strokes here, but I stand by what I'm saying." - --Gene Simmons, from KISS AND MAKE-UP ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:22:52 -0400 From: John F Butland Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Handedness I'll wade in belatedly on this. The constant with batting right (baseball) and shooting left (hockey), as most right handed people do, is that it puts the right hand on top and that is the hand that provides the fine control. best, jfb John F Butland O- butland@nbnet.nb.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:05:19 -0500 From: "amy b. lewis" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Halstead and Merritt aaron wrote: > Well, whatever. My real allegiance is to the Boston Other Music, which > doesn't seem to inspire the same sort of hatred as its forebear. yeah man! boston's other music makes me happier than any rekkid store since the princeton record exchange, though its staff are 700 times nicer/smarter/more helpful than the PRE's surlies. i must be used to their reviews. of course they want to move stock, so their write-ups of new arrivals and reissues tend toward the saliva-drenched, but i like their email updates anyoldhoohahway. of the people by the people for the people. i bid all the jaded new yorkers to come and visit OM in harvard square. then we can meet up and have chaat papri at tanjore! aimless ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:09:33 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Halstead and Merritt At 09:05 PM 1/24/02 -0500, amy b. lewis wrote: >i bid all the jaded new yorkers to come and visit OM in harvard square. And then turn the corner and go to Twisted Village, the store that makes Other Music look like Record Bar. Between the two of them, it's one of the all-time great record store crawls. S ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:01:51 -0500 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Halstead and Merritt >> Well, whatever. My real allegiance is to the Boston Other Music, >which >> doesn't seem to inspire the same sort of hatred as its forebear. >>>>>>>>>>>> On the subject of smOther Music, does anyone happen to know what inspired Mr. Kim to branch out of the laundry business, thereby making possible Other Music and all the evil that they embody? - --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: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 05:41:21 +0100 From: john@bartlett132.screaming.net Subject: [loud-fans] Re:Round and Round This was meant to go to the list, but doesn't seem to have got there..... Andy said...... Ah, wish I had that one in my arsenal! John Bartlett, you are out there still? You play five-a-side, still? I notice you haven't penned an "Introduction" yet... Still the slowest left back on the planet. Am I not too late for the intros ? > Continuing through my pile of swapped music... > > One John Bartlett, United Kingdom, sent me a swap CD > last summer which I shall review at this time. The > artwork was endearing, titled "A Rainbow" and drawn in > marker by Rachael, aged 7. Eldest daughter and heir to the Bartlett millions ; also the reason I know too much about total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage > > Evelyn Forever, "Imagine My Surprise" - (A tidy little > pop number, reminiscient of Matthew Sweet. Lyrics > include, "Eye-yi-yi-yiah" and "Wha-oh-oh-ohhh." > Catchy.) Not exactly poetry agreed, but very singable. > > XTC, "Stupidly Happy" - (God's favorite atheists play > what sounds like an earlier track in their repetoire.) Nooo . From the last studio LP, "Wasp Star". > > The Orgone Box, "Judy over the Rainbow" - (Great > pairing with previous song. Sunny 60's Brit-pop.) The whole LP sounds like a Dukes of Stratosfear project. This is reasonably representative. > > You Am I, "Get Up" (I didn't care for this song at > first but it's "emo" qualities revealed themselves > over time.) I haven't got on well with YAIs' latest, which is a disappointment to me. Back to Hourly, Daily I suppose. > > The Liquor Giants, "Town Bike" (Kind of a T.Rex feel > to this one. Good, fun track. Lyrics include the Swap > CD's title.) Its the Glitter Band on the backing track . > >> > Red Guitars, "Good Technology (12")" (Reminds me of > Suede or Pulp. I like the lyrics and dischordant > gee-tars.) I loved this mob when they were current. This from a 12" single released in 1983. >> > Let's Active, "Every Word Means No" (I'm probably one > of the only people on this list that doesn't own any > Let's Active. Cool number.) I can't remember what CD I took this track from, but I wanted to put on Blue Line, however my vinyl copy of Cypress is lost in the loft, so I didn't. > > Cherry Twister, "Maryann" (I *really* like this song. > Sunny music, clever lyrics, great pop.) I'd imagine you'd get on with the album At Home With Cherry Twister if you like this one. > > The Skids, "Working for the Yankee Dollar" (Good Irish > drinking song. Revise to "Working for the Belgian > Euro"?) They're in fact Scots. And we're not in the Euro. Yet. > > Francine, "Jet to Norway" (Not to be confused with > Jets to Brazil. Very cool space-rock guitar fills. Me > like. Excellent lyrics include, "You try to get rock > from the blood of John Tesh." More info please.) From the LP 40 On A Fall Day, this is IMHO one of just a number of stand out tracks on the LP. The same nucleus from Francine produced a previous LP as Poundcake called Aloha Via Satellite, which is also worth checking out. > > Einstein's Sister, "Solar Circle Girl" (Reminds me a > lot of Squeeze. Any relation?) No. > > Silver Sun, "I'll See You Around" (GREAT song. I need > more info on these guys too.) This mob may be defunct now, as they've been quiet for a couple of years. Scored a couple of hit singles here, but didn't set the charts afire. Start with the self-titled LP. > The Paranoids, "Real by Reel" (Zappa joins Skynyrd?) >.I see Our Man John in England is on Chalkhills (the XTC mailing list) as >well - or knows someone who is. This one's a cover of the XTC song, from >one of the list's subscriber cover compilations. I love it - esp. the bit >about the duck. A bit of a Pynchon tribute as well. (The Zappa part I >get...but Skynyrd?!?) >- --Jeff See, I try and slip some more XTC in via the back door, and I get found out ! There is a project afoot on the 'Hill to collect the previous 3 comps, along with some new covers, and release them en bloc. Skynyrd on prellies, perhaps ? > > Half-Man, Half-Biscuit, "Dickie Davis Eyes" (Another > good drinking song. ) Do you have Cadburys Flakes in the US ? Dickie Davies was the presenter of a Saturday afternoon sports programme called World of Sport. More info on the songs' references can be found HERE > The Exponents, "Why Does Love Do This to Me" (I can't > believe there are this many straight-forward pop bands > that I've never heard of!) From NZ, I believe. Got this via a mix swap on another list > > Thanks to John for an excellent disc and giving me > even more to place on my ever-expanding CD Want List. > (My wife won't be quite as thankful for the increase > in the music budget.) > My pleasure, cheers, John ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #36 ******************************