From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #49 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, February 1 2002 Volume 02 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] actual music content [Steve Holtebeck ] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Names ["John Sharples" ] Re: [loud-fans] Names (ns) [Dan Sallitt ] Re: [loud-fans] Names (ns) [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] The Wake [Stewart Mason ] RE: [loud-fans] Names (ns) ["Chris Murtland" ] [loud-fans] Stef swap pt. 2 ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] RE: [loud-fans] Names (ns) ["Chris Murtland" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:50:27 -0800 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] actual music content jenny grover wrote: > Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > > So who constitutes "Big Star" these days? > > As far as I know, it's still Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens, Jon Auer, and > Ken Stringfellow. Playing intermittently, the 90s/00s Big Star lineup has now lasted four times longer than the original band. This show is part of the 2002 S.F. Noise Pop Festival, which has a bundle of great shows between Feb 26 and Mar 3. I'm one of the biggest Big Star fanatics I know, and would be there with bells on if one of the best live bands on this planet, The New Pornographers, weren't playing the same night (3/2) a few blocks away at the Great American Music Hall (a much nicer venue) for a lot less green, ($12 versus $28.50 for Big Star). $28.50! Who do they think they are, the Eagles? - --Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:54:13 -0500 From: "Vallor" Subject: [loud-fans] Re: Names >Back in college, I dated a lovely girl named, of all things, Daisy >Fresh. What were her parents thinking, etc... I told my wife I wanted to name our children Spatula if it's a girl and "America's Favorite Teen" if it's a boy...I'm given to understand we won't be having children. As for Daisy, I like the idea of naming your child Daisy and when she's old enough to understand, showing her Kubrick's 2001 and telling her that's where you got her name...that ought make her wonder. - - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:50:11 -0500 From: "John Sharples" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Names Vallor: >I told my wife I wanted to name our children Spatula if it's a girl and >"America's Favorite Teen" if it's a boy...I'm given to understand we won't >be having children. My ex-wife wanted to name our first-born male "T-Bone." I'm still married to that idea, if not to her (she recently had her first and named her Mallory....which is.....fine). >As for Daisy, I like the idea of naming your child Daisy and when she's old >enough to understand, showing her Kubrick's 2001 and telling her that's >where you got her name...that ought make her wonder. My dad's mom was Daisy, and she died while giving birth to his younger sister, my aunt....Daisy. It's a beautiful name. JS PS "Rae" is a great girl's name, too, as Grahame would tell you. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:08:42 -0500 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names (ns) > Another game involves naming Radio, Screen and Stage Stars. In case > anyone wants to try, here's a list of some of the easiest ones, which > score only one or two points out of a possible ten for difficulty: > > Brian Aherne > F.F. Gosden > C.J. Correll > Richard Arlen > George Arliss > Constance Bennett > Mary Boland > Major Edward Bowes > Bobby Breen > Joe E. Brown > George M. Cohan > Ronald Colman > Mitzi Green > Hugh Herbert > Sonja Henie > Elsie Janis > Wayne King > Una Merkel > Paul Muni > Jack Oakie > Merle Oberon > Parkyakarkus > Joe Penner > Rosa Ponselle > Al Ritz > Lewis Stone > Gladys Swarthout > Constance Talmadge But you already named them. What's left for us to do? - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:59:22 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Names (ns) At Friday 2/1/2002 12:08 AM -0500, Dan Sallitt wrote: >But you already named them. What's left for us to do? - Dan I agree with Dan. This game sucks! Can we go back to dissin' James Taylor? We haven't even discussed his marriage to (and divorce from) Carly Simon yet. Later. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:27:37 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Wake At 06:12 PM 1/31/02 -0800, Jer Fairall wrote: >This week's list of Siren Disc releases includes three >discs by the former Sarah band The Wake: ASSEMBLY (a >mostly live, it seems, compilation), HERE COMES >EVERYBODY/SINGLES (a reissue of their second album >from 1985 b/w their 1984-7 singles output) and >HOLYHEADS (which combines their two Sarah albums, >1991's MAKE IT LOUD and 1994's TIDAL WAVE OF HYPE). >So, do you any of >you Sarah people have any track listings for these >records? There's track listings of all their releases at their All Music Guide entry: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B1z8j1v02zzca S ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:33:59 -0500 From: "Chris Murtland" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Names (ns) Oh, Rog, you're so vain - you probably think this post is about you, don't you (don't you)? |I agree with Dan. This game sucks! Can we go back to dissin' James |Taylor? We haven't even discussed his marriage to (and |divorce from) Carly |Simon yet. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:58:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: [loud-fans] Stef swap pt. 2 The long-awaited (at least by Stef, I hope) review of disc 2 of Stef Hurts' TRAGEDY OF THE SOFTROCKER (including the title song): (01) Shantel: Backwood Wonderfully swingy mood music reminiscent of "Packt Like Sardines" from INSOMNIAC (02) Motorpsycho: The Other Fool Orchestral hyperdramatic music. And my, it does go on. (03) The Bonzo Dog Band: Hunting Tigers Out In "INDIAH" Again, I don't get it. (04) Stratosphere: Power Pop Song (demo) Nice rough girl-rock-pop. The title says it all. (05) Oliver Reed: Ecstacy What the...? Paging Golden Throats! (06) Green: She's Heaven Generock w/ fey vocals. Are these the folks that did the REM EP in '89? (07) Cambodian Rocks: A2 Sounds a little like the song at the beginning of GHOST WORLD. "Exotica" or rock & roll? Both! (08) Jon Brion: I Believe She's Lying Made our best-of-2001 CD for a reason. (09) Dean Carter: Jailhouse Rock Dirty & discordant, just like a jail. (10) The Staple Singers: Respect Yourself Classic soul. It doesn't get any better. (11) Einstrzende Neubauten: Zebulon Much different from my other EN experience: HALBER MENSCH. Very lovely and melodic, until the banging-on-things half kicks in. (12) The George Baker Selection: Little Green Bag Sounds like a lot of Tony Orlando-style early '70s Rhino-collected songs. Does it have anything to do with the consortium that generated Edison Lighthouse & such? (13) Tom Lehrer: The Old Dope Peddler Tom is a singular talent. The Rhino box set is 1 disc too many (live & studio versions of all the songs?), but you can't live without it. (14) Junkhouse: Brown Shoe Ba(d|r) rock. (15) Jack Malmsten: Satan Takes A Holiday A jaunty little organ solo. Very loungy. (16) Guster: What You Wish For Delicate folk-rock. Nice, but not memorable. (17) Katerine: Je Vous Emmerde Wacky French folks singing new-wavey musik w/ a vocal filter. (18) The Sea And Cake: Afternoon Speaker Skittery and lovely, with a proggy back end. I thought they were like Tortoise, who put me to sleep. I was very wrong, based on this track. (19) Splitsville: Aliceanna More great pop. There seems to be an unending supply of light pop these days. Who knew Pablo Cruise was such an influence? (20) Neil & Iraiza: Tragedy Of The Softrocker Zingy piano, slammy drums, and filtered vox. Japanese, apparently, which explains the ESL lyrics. Still lots of fun, though. What The White Stripes should sound like. (21) Squarepusher: Tomorrow World Drums-and-bass, or house, or some such. Owes quite a bit to Tangerine Dream. (22) Outer Space Love Project: Glitterdays Yet more pop music from the early '70s as made in 200. Slid right by. (23) Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.: Bridge Over Troubled Water What the...? pt. 2. How else could this sound? Like your grandfather happening across the lyric sheet and testing his new reading glasses. J. Mallon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 02:18:07 -0500 From: "Chris Murtland" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Names (ns) I, too, have been through a divorce with Carly, and it's not pretty. |I agree with Dan. This game sucks! Can we go back to dissin' James |Taylor? We haven't even discussed his marriage to (and |divorce from) Carly |Simon yet. | |Later. --Rog | ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #49 ******************************