From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #71 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 Sunday, February 17 2002 Volume 02 : Number 071 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Pazz/Jop, RockRap, New Pornos, & The Reputation ["Andrew ] RE: [loud-fans] Pazz/Jop, RockRap, New Pornos, & The Reputation ["glenn m] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Pazz/Jop, RockRap [jenny grover ] [loud-fans] [Miles had a bad time at the show] [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey] [loud-fans] semi-new recommendation [Stewart Mason ] FW: [loud-fans] semi-new recommendation [Michael Zwirn Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Pazz/Jop, RockRap, New Pornos, & The Reputation >(the Canadian >Eye poll's top 10 reliably includes a couple of Canadian artists that >don't appear on either American poll; so much for the R&RC's >"international"). Change the structure or methodology. Recruit >differently. R&RC doesn't do that, so of course they end up the same. Hm...not so sure about that... Canadian Eye: 1 THE STROKES Is This It (RCA/BMG) 2177 (25) 2 BJORK Vespertine (Warner) 1307 (16) 3 BOB DYLAN Love and Theft (Sony) 1080 (12) 4 THE CONSTANTINES (Three Gut/Outside) 1068 (13) 5 RADIOHEAD Amnesiac (Parlophone/EMI) 913 (11) 6 THE WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry) 794 (9) 7 BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB (Virgin) 782 (9) 8 SPIRITUALIZED Let It Come Down (BMG) 775 (9) 9 THE AVALANCHES Since I Left You (Sire/Warner) 758 (9) 10 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Rings Around the World (Epic/Sony) 728 (8) Pazz & Jop: 1 Bob Dylan "Love and Theft" Columbia 3010(235) 2 The Strokes Is This It RCA 1618(158) 3 Bjork Vespertine Elektra 1295(121) 4 The White Stripes White Blood Cells Sympathy for the Record Industry 1214(106) 5 Radiohead Amnesiac Capitol 1063(98) 6 Ryan Adams Gold Lost Highway 808(80) 7 Jay-Z The Blueprint Roc-A-Fella 802(65) 8 The Coup Party Music 75 Ark 740(65) 9 Lucinda Williams Essence Lost Highway 725(66) 10 Rufus Wainwright Poses DreamWorks 630(64) Rock & Rap Confidential: Bob Dylan Love and Theft Columbia 148 The Strokes Is This It RCA 96 White Stripes White Blood Cells Sympathy for the Rec 56 Ryan Adams Gold Universal 48 Lucinda Williams Essence Lost Highway 46 Radiohead Amnesiac Capitol 45 Bjork Vespertine Elektra 43 Jay-Z The Blueprint Def Jam 36 Alicia Keyes Songs in A Minor J Records 35 Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator) Acony 30 Of the five acts I see on the first Top Ten that aren't on either of the other two, only one of those acts is Canadian. It does bespeak a wider variety, though. When will Emm Gryner get her due? Andy "They don't glorify Hitler or Nazis. How can they glorify anything when there are only 50? If I were mass marketing them at the toy store, that would be another story." - --New York state toymaker Mike Fosella, on his controversial limited-edition Nazi action figures (Hitler, Mengele, and others), from an article by Robert Ingrassia at http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-02-15/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-14150 7.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:01:56 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Pazz/Jop, RockRap, New Pornos, & The Reputation > >(the Canadian Eye poll's top 10 reliably includes a couple of Canadian > > artists that don't appear on either American poll > Hm...not so sure about that... OK, so "a couple" this year meant one. But looking through the rest of the Eye top 30 you'll find five more Canadian artists only two or three votes out of the top ten. And anyway, Super Furry Animals are Welsh, which is close enough. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:00:10 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Pazz/Jop, RockRap GlenSarvad@aol.com wrote: > > I realize there's hyperbole at work here, but I don't understand why the P&J > triggers such vitriol. Anything that winds up getting positioned as the > "poll of record" is bound to take some slings and arrows, but aside from a > brief early 90s flirtation with the Ajax poll I haven't found another that's > more sympatico with my tastes. And if it were less "elitist" it would mean > more correlation with the Billboard charts, not more Paula Carino and Ken > Stringfellow. Actually, I don't see why anyone even cares about these polls and lists. Sure, it's annoying that many good bands get short shrift and crap gets hyped, but it's always been that way and I think most people realize that. I can't take any of these lists seriously, no matter who publishes them. I take the Loud-fans Top Ten seriously, within it's range. I can use it as a sort of qualified list of things I might want to check out if I haven't heard them already, but I've never viewed the big polls that way. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:10:54 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: [loud-fans] anyone want another upaid job? I'm launching an online mag soon (registered the domain name and set up service today) and I need movie and book reviewers. Sorry, I can't pay you anything or even provide you movie tickets or books, but if you like to write and want a chance to expound publicly, contact me offlist and let me know. I'm also accepting concert/show reviews (and photos you took yourself are a big plus, but not a necessity). It would be nice to have some regular, dependable movie/book reviewers, but less commitment is needed from concert reviewers. Music-related editorial essays will be published, too, at the rate of one per issue, so if you have a good idea for one you would like to write, let me know. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:49:24 -0500 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jay Farrar and Brian Henneman @ 12th & Porter, Nashville, 2/15/02 (Pt. 2) [Miles had a bad time at the show] >>>>>>>>>>>> Sad to hear about that. I'm often glad that in NYC, for whatever reason, the people going to the shows that I go to always seem to be pretty nice. I guess there's something to be said for liking unpopular bands who play unpopular clubs on weekdays. FWIW, though, I just got back from seeing Luna at the Brooklyn Museum where they were playing for free as part of some city-wide music festival. You couldn't really ask for a better behaved audience...pins were heard to drop in between songs, and each song was followed by appreciative applause. The entire audience was seated, and there was no smoking. But, in a strange way it was a little depressing. The band seemed to be wondering what they were doing there at 2:00pm on a Saturday afternoon, and it just felt stilted and weird. Luna always (in my experience) put on a good show, but I'm not being sarcastic when I say that that it would have been improved by a little more club atmosphere, even if that consisted of smoke, beer and tall guys. Grass always greener, etc. They debuted a couple of new songs from their forthcoming album (which is on Jetset records and comes out in April, I think. Dean said that it's coming out on eBay. There's also an ep of covers due shortly.) and one of them was pretty good. As a nice coincidence, I got home to find a message on my answering maching from the guy who owns my local records store, telling me that he has a promo copy of the new Luna CD that he's holding for me. I tell you, if you go to the same store every day M-F on your lunch break, you do start to see some perks. Can anyone tell me about a band called "The Friends of Distinction"? I found a used copy of an album of theirs called "Real Friends" which is making me really happy. Kind of Chicago/5th Dimension/Sly and the Family Stone. Came out in 1970 on RCA. Is there more? --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: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:07:12 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: [loud-fans] Friends of Distinction At 05:49 PM 2/16/02 -0500, Dana L Paoli wrote: >Can anyone tell me about a band called "The Friends of Distinction"? I >found a used copy of an album of theirs called "Real Friends" which is >making me really happy. Kind of Chicago/5th Dimension/Sly and the Family >Stone. Came out in 1970 on RCA. Is there more? They were the second-string Fifth Dimension. (Seriously: the founders of the 5D had been in a band with the founders of the Friends of Distinction - -- note the deliberate similarity of initials -- and this group was founded as a direct response to their former cohorts' success.) I don't know how many albums they had total, but they're best known for their first single, a remake of Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass" that adds really dopey lyrics to what had been a cool little single. All together now: "grazin' in the grass is a gas, baby, can you dig it." For all its dopeiness, though, it's a cute and happy little song, and I think most of their stuff actually fits in that category. Stewart NP: BLUE HORSE--The Be Good Tanyas ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:24:29 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] [Miles had a bad time at the show] I've experienced a lot of what you're talking about, Miles - although perhaps because I don't go to a lot of solo acoustic shows, usually the music's loud enough to drown out all but the most annoying chatterlings. But your posts provide an encyclopedic description of a lot that's wrong w/the way music is presented - not only in terms of "fans" (which, I'm afraid, can't be helped) but in terms of club policies. I've been to way too many shows at which it's completely apparent that the club regards its patrons as idiot sheep only good because they bleed money onto the bar. Don't even think of, say, opening the doors at the advertised time, or hiring a sound person who knows what he's doing (or who will actually listen to someone telling him that, say, no one can hear the backup singer, or that the volume's so loud as to be distorted - w/o his giving you the glare-based equivalent of "fuck you"), or doesn't think that providing exactly two choices for beer (so-called: really, MGD and Lite aren't beer, are they) and charging twice what any bar in the area charges for stupid plastic cups that lose the beer's chill immediately is a good way to treat its patrons. Not to mention: why the hell does everyone who attends shows need to smoke seven hundred cigarettes? These problems, though, aren't limited to rock shows: I think I've told the story of the church choir director (!) babbling throughout a performance of the Bulgarian Women's Chorus, who then threatened to kick my ass after I asked him to be quiet... - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::American people like their politics like Pez - small, sweet, and ::coming out of a funny plastic head. __Dennis Miller__ np: Meisha _Meisha Returns Meisha Forever_ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:09:31 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: [loud-fans] semi-new recommendation I had one of those rare experiences yesterday afternoon where I actually heard a new song I liked on the radio, so much so that when I was out and about this afternoon, I popped into one of my neighborhood stores and picked up the album. It's BLUE TRAIN, by a Vancouver trio called the Be Good Tanyas, and according to AMG, it actually came out last September. Anyway, I've been playing it ever since I got home, and I'm really digging it. They're an all-female group, with all three singing and playing guitar (acoustic and electric), mandolin and banjo, with a little fiddle and the barest minimum of percussion, but because this actually came out in Canada in late 2000, it's well before the current outbreak of O Brother Where Art Thou? fever, and there's not much of a bluegrass feel to the album. Maybe a distaff Uncle Tupelo, a tiny little bit of Victoria Williams minus the preciousness, and some of my beloved Erin McKeown: folky-poppy-countryish, in other words. Most of the album is originals, and the covers are interesting simply because they're so commonplace: trad-folk basics like "The Coo Coo Bird," "Lakes of Pontchartrain, "Rain and Snow" and even that campside clichi "Oh Susanna," all of which are actually a lot more interesting than you might think from their overfamiliarity. (The opening track, "The Littlest Birds," betrays a more unexpected influence, setting an entire verse from Syd Barrett's "Jugband Blues" into an otherwise original song.) Anyway, it's an utterly charming record, and I know there's them who dig this sort of thing here. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:23:08 -0800 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: FW: [loud-fans] semi-new recommendation n On 2/16/02 5:09 PM, Stewart Mason wrote: > I had one of those rare experiences yesterday afternoon where I actually > heard a new song I liked on the radio, so much so that when I was out and > about this afternoon, I popped into one of my neighborhood stores and > picked up the album. It's BLUE TRAIN, by a Vancouver trio called the Be > Good Tanyas, and according to AMG, it actually came out last September I have to back this up, with the caveat that this is actually a Portland (OR) - Vancouver (BC) project. I saw them here in Portland on Oct. 15th or so at The Blackbird with Oh Susannah, who really is a BC-based artist, and it was a great show, one that made my abbreviated best-of-2001 list. I have shared them with some of my friends interested in variants of roots music and old-timey forms. Both Oh Susannah and the Be Good Tanyas records are very good. In my write-up of their concert together, I wrote: "I saw Oh Susanna and the Be Good Tanyas last night at the Blackbird, a small club in Northeast Portland, and really enjoyed it. These are two Vancouver (BC) acts, both in a rural vein. Oh Susanna is a young woman whose name, I believe, actually is Suzie. She has a careful, nuanced lyrical approach and some nicely picked acoustic guitar, with an overall kinda Sarah Harmer/Emily Saliers/Neil Youngish vibe. One highlight was a rural version of the Stones' "Dead Flowers," a song that had strong country roots. The Be Good Tanyas, on Nettwerk, are a four-piece in which three women share mandolin, guitar, ukulele, banjo, harmonica, fiddle and vocals. Each woman has a distinctive vocal approach, but they harmonize beautifully on some old-timey material, and new songs that fit the vein. Collectively, they are more in the Victoria Williams/O Brother Where Art Thou/country gospel realm." By the way, I first heard the Be Good Tanyas when they were doing a live on-air show for KBOO (90.7 Portland, transmitted throughout the state on other frequencies) and it was one of the few genuine highlights of 4 days listening to radio almost constantly as I drove from Indianapolis to Portland. I picked up the BGT and Oh Susannah records on my New Year's trip to Vancouver, BC. Michael just finished: Lanterna, s/t - -- "No one told me you were lovely - I just decided it was so You've got that glow Like sunlight on the windows of an empty room Like television snow" JudyBats ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:45:07 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: [loud-fans] Tape swap review: Jen Grover's Valentunes I got Jen's swap in yesterday's mail, so I've been listening to it in between playings of the Be Good Tonyas album. Since I'm hee, I thought I might as well break with my long-established tradition and actually post a prompt review. Side one: "Keeping the Sparks" -- The Waxwings This is actually the first time I've heard the Waxwings, who are much beloved in Audities circles. They sound a little like the Go-Betweens in some ways, which is definitely a good thing. "February" -- Jen Trynin Can't go wrong with Jen -- I was heartened to learn recently that she's finally restarting her solo career. If any Aimee Mann fans haven't found Jen's COCKAMAMIE album (a great record bungled by a clueless label) in their local remainder bins, seek it out. "I Live" -- Jason Falkner Nice segue from the Jen Trynin song. I'm not one of the many "Jason Falkner is God" types, but I do really like most of his stuff, and this is up there with "Miss Understanding" as one of my faves by him. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" -- Beach Boys A classic, of course. Hearing this after the Falkner song shows up how Brian-influenced the verses of Falkner's song are, something I don't think I'd noticed before. Ah, and it's the mono mix, without that slightly off-key bridge that's in the stereo mix. Yes, I'm a geek. And? "Field Song"/"Low" -- Mark Lanegan My friend Michael Henningson is way into Mark Lanegan, but I don't think I've ever heard his solo stuff before, because I really didn't like Screaming Trees much at all. "Field Song" reminds me a little of Lee Hazlewood, especially in the lead vocals. Cool '70s guitar effects, too. "Low" is a little less memorable, but I still kinda like it. Are these songs representative? "Antisocial Love Ballad #3" -- Bell From the title, I'd assumed this would be one of those too-clever-by-half Ben Folds-type things, but it turns out to be a female vocalist with an oddly bluesy sound doing a kind of throwback to the grunge-era quiet-to-loud dynamic. Not something I'd buy for myself, but better than I expected. "Fortune Valentines" -- Pete Krebs I keep thinking I've heard of this guy, but I think I'm always confusing him with Pete Yorn, who I don't think has this much of a solo acoustic thing happening. Cool electric solo towards the end, but it's a little *too* low-key for my tastes. "Cupid's Trick" -- Elliott Smith As always, eh. I just haven't much liked the guy since he left Heatmiser, and I secretly think that it was actually Sam Coombs who I liked in that band. "Valentine" -- The Dark Fantastic I didn't like this at all the first time I heard it, but it's growing on me. The vaguely psychedelic pedal steel is the main attraction, I think. Sounds just a little tiny bit like Beachwood Sparks -- who are they? "I'm In Love" -- The dB's Yet another of the classics. I love how so many dB's songs sound so purely poppy, yet when you listen to them, you notice that actually they're really weirdly constructed. The choruses are almost never where you expect them to be. "Zodiac Love Team" -- Girls Against Boys Makes no impression on me one way or the other. "Angel In My Pocket" -- James Mastro I know Richard Barone gets all the attention, but you can't discount James Mastro's contributions to the Bongos. This is a little quick little end to the side. Side two: "Four Letters" -- Volcano Suns Again, one of the classics. Much as I love Birdsongs and Roger Miller's other post-Burma projects, Volcano Suns are the true heirs, I think. "Valentine" -- The Replacements There seems to be an ongoing debate about PLEASED TO MEET ME: some (like me) think it's the best 'Mats album bar none, with Paul's most consistent songwriting (yes, the high points on LET IT BE and TIM are probably higher, but both of those albums are plagued with filler) and a good balance between sloppy and punchy in the production. Others see it as the first step of the decline. I'm right. "He's the One" -- Love Nancy Sugar Cool band name. I'm a sucker for organ, acoustic rhythm guitars and breathy female vocals, and therefore, this is absolutely up my alley. This is the find of the tape for me: who are they and where do I start? "May This Be Love" -- Jimi Hendrix I realize this is a moderately heretical position, but Hendrix is always at his most palatable to me in situations like this when he's actually making the attempt to work within the structures of the three-minute pop song; maybe this is just because I'm hearing them in retrospect, but his solos are not intrinsically that interesting to me. He did get cool sounds, but his solos are really kinda blah. He didn't have the compositional sense that a good jazz improviser does, and he's also not committed enough to the whole ambient sound-for-sounds-sake thing that he seems to be reaching towards on side three of ELECTRIC LADYLAND. (It is side three, right, the "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" side?) "Truly Madly Deeply" -- Bakers Pink I think I would like this more if the singer didn't overemote so much, especially when the chorus finally rolls around, because other than that, I quite like this. "(Tonight) Are You Trying To Fall In Love Again" -- Tindersticks Okay, so is this guy trying to sound like the bastard son of Scott Walker and Leonard Cohen? A little over the top vocally, but I have always had a weakness for vibraphones, so I'm happy. "Second Lovers Song" -- Mike Johnson I forget, what band did this guy used to be in? I have a friend who's just mad for him. I like the violin a lot, but this is another song that makes little impression beyond "okay." "Beyond Love" -- The The I just heard this again two minutes ago and I have lost all memory of it. "Bed of Roses" -- Screaming Trees Hm. This sounds nothing like the Screaming Trees stuff I heard back when they were on the radio and the like. This is actually really good, sort of like Rain Parade with more balls. Where's it from? "Lovelife" -- Lush I always liked Lush, though I kind of preferred the first couple of albums to this one. I'd forgotten what a good song this was, though. It's much less amorphous than the best songs on the earlier albums. "Sweetheart Contract" -- Magazine Between this tape and looking over the track listing of a Magazine comp I saw in the store today, I've been reminded of how really good Magazine could be. (Though they were awfully spotty at times too.) I really should pull out their records sometime when I have a spare evening. "Tripping On A Hole in a Paper Heart" -- Stone Temple Pilots Okay, I'm willing to re-evaluate Screaming Trees, but this song gives me no reason to re-examine my long-held feelings about this band. "Romeo's Escape" -- Dave Alvin Cool little neo-rockabilly raveup to finish things off. I like Dave Alvin's songs when I hear them, I don't know why I've never bothered to buy any of his albums? What's this one from? Thanks to Jen for a great tape! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:00:38 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Tape swap review: Jen Grover's Valentunes Stewart Mason wrote: > > "Field Song"/"Low" -- Mark Lanegan > > My friend Michael Henningson is way into Mark Lanegan, but I don't think > I've ever heard his solo stuff before, because I really didn't like > Screaming Trees much at all. "Field Song" reminds me a little of Lee > Hazlewood, especially in the lead vocals. Cool '70s guitar effects, too. > "Low" is a little less memorable, but I still kinda like it. Are these > songs representative? I would say so. His voice has gotten a bit rougher over the years, and his first solo album, "The Winding Sheet" is more spare in arrangements. He's got 5 solo albums out now and I like them all. His solo style in general is less rock and more rootsy than the Trees. > "Antisocial Love Ballad #3" -- Bell > > >From the title, I'd assumed this would be one of those too-clever-by-half > Ben Folds-type things, but it turns out to be a female vocalist with an > oddly bluesy sound doing a kind of throwback to the grunge-era > quiet-to-loud dynamic. Not something I'd buy for myself, but better than I > expected. Bell is no more, but Vanessa Vaselka is currently in the Pinkoes and Seamstress Union, along with former Bell guitarist Damon Romero, and former Bell bassist Sue Larson, who joined after the album this song is from. Vanessa also sings back-up on "When Night Lost Meaning" by Dark Fantastic. > "Fortune Valentines" -- Pete Krebs > > I keep thinking I've heard of this guy, but I think I'm always confusing > him with Pete Yorn, who I don't think has this much of a solo acoustic > thing happening. Cool electric solo towards the end, but it's a little > *too* low-key for my tastes. Some of Pete's stuff is livelier, and he used to be in Hazel and Golden Delicious. A nice guy and enjoyable to see live. He usually plays solo acoustic live, but the Gossamer Wings album and revolving cast of characters live show was more of an electric, full band sound. > "Valentine" -- The Dark Fantastic > > I didn't like this at all the first time I heard it, but it's growing on > me. The vaguely psychedelic pedal steel is the main attraction, I think. > Sounds just a little tiny bit like Beachwood Sparks -- who are they? This isn't one of my favorites, but it fit the theme. "They" is mostly "he"- Mark Pickerel, who was the Screaming Trees drummer before Barrett Martin, and also 1/3 of Truly. This is from his first Dark Fantastic album (self-titled). Most of his stuff is darker and more melancholy. > "He's the One" -- Love Nancy Sugar > > Cool band name. I'm a sucker for organ, acoustic rhythm guitars and > breathy female vocals, and therefore, this is absolutely up my alley. This > is the find of the tape for me: who are they and where do I start? Well, I started by getting this in one of those Loud-fan free giveaways :) I don't know anything about them, really. The album is "Neo Retro Eroti Pop" and it's on Rainforest Records, dated 1997. > "(Tonight) Are You Trying To Fall In Love Again" -- Tindersticks > > Okay, so is this guy trying to sound like the bastard son of Scott Walker > and Leonard Cohen? A little over the top vocally, but I have always had a > weakness for vibraphones, so I'm happy. I think the vocals are what people first notice about this band. I mostly like his vocals (I always thought he had a sort lower register Brian Ferry quality) and they have grown on me, but I can see where he could irritate the heck out of someone, too. I like the overall sound of this band as well as their tunes and lyrics, so that adds up nicely for me. > "Second Lovers Song" -- Mike Johnson > > I forget, what band did this guy used to be in? I have a friend who's just > mad for him. I like the violin a lot, but this is another song that makes > little impression beyond "okay." He's played bass in Dinosaur Jr. and Caustic Resin, is the lead guitarist on all of Mark Lanegan's solo albums, and is a permanent fixture in Lanegan's live backing band, as well as having his own long-standing solo career. The fiddle player is David Krueger, who also has played with Lanegan, both live and on his albums. This song is a Townes Van Zandt cover. > "Beyond Love" -- The The > > I just heard this again two minutes ago and I have lost all memory of it. It doesn't stick with me much either, to be honest. > "Bed of Roses" -- Screaming Trees > > Hm. This sounds nothing like the Screaming Trees stuff I heard back when > they were on the radio and the like. This is actually really good, sort of > like Rain Parade with more balls. Where's it from? It's actually a pretty typical Trees song. It's off "Uncle Anesthesia." > "Tripping On A Hole in a Paper Heart" -- Stone Temple Pilots > > Okay, I'm willing to re-evaluate Screaming Trees, but this song gives me no > reason to re-examine my long-held feelings about this band. They are a really uneven band. They do songs I like and songs I consider quite disposable. I put this song in the okay but not wearing so well category. > "Romeo's Escape" -- Dave Alvin > > Cool little neo-rockabilly raveup to finish things off. I like Dave > Alvin's songs when I hear them, I don't know why I've never bothered to buy > any of his albums? What's this one from? "Romeo's Escape" > Thanks to Jen for a great tape! Glad you're enjoying it! Hopefully I can get the tape you sent to me reviewed before too awful long. Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #71 ******************************