From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #149 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 Wednesday, April 24 2002 Volume 02 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] 3 Steps From the Complete Catalog... [Semstark@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] CD storage, once again [mick ] [loud-fans] Murray ["Vallor" ] Re: [loud-fans] Murray [Dan Sallitt ] Re: [loud-fans] Just for kicks, something on-topic ["Francis J H Park" ] [loud-fans] Magnetic Fields [AWeiss4338@aol.com] RE: [loud-fans] NS: wedding garb and kids ["Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennet] Re: [loud-fans] NS: wedding garb and kids [jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] CD storage, once again >From: "Kunkel, Mark" > >I seem to ask this question every 6 months or so, and this time (since I'm >moving soon), I won't misplace your recommendations. Anyway, do you have >any suggestions on CD storage units? Worth a look: http://amos.catalogcity.com/cc.class/cc?a=a&pcd=1695247&prd=2896552&ccsyn=117 (If this doesn't work, go to http://www.alsto.com/ and search on "cd"). I went with the 1000 CD unit in oak (holds 1000 standard jewel cases). There's a photo of it on the site. Looks nice, does the job. I stack more cds on top of it, in vertical stacks, and my 6x12 box sets fit nicely up there as well. I also have a 500 unit that I bought locally, but the oak veneer looks nicer on the Alsto one. mick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:16:43 -0400 From: "Vallor" Subject: [loud-fans] Murray > >Mention of Bangkok prompts me to ask: is BUFFY's Anthony Stewart > >Head kin to Murray ("One Night in Bangkok") Head? Surely they're > >from the same tribe of all-singing, all-dancing Heads. > > Anthony Stewart is Murray's younger brother. He's also the father of > the unfortunately-named Daisy May Head. (Not that there's a double > entendre there; it's just an unfortunate name.) The Head patriarch is > named Seafield Head. Ouch, Rush Eeew Eeek !! On Scott topic with regards to Murray Head, both Scott & I are quite smitten with a pair of albums Murray recorded back in the 70's. 1972's impressive Nigel Lived is cut into the up side and the down side in a sort of diary format of a naive village boy who lands in the city and gradually falls apart. The closer "Junk" is an amazing bit of emotional wreckage. The album is similar to Cat Stevens more emotionally damaged moments or to some extent Big Star's 3rd (the important PVC gray covered sequence). 1975's Say It Ain't So includes "Say It Ain't So, Joe" which was covered by Roger Daltrey and was a mild hit for him. It's a fine song and a favorite of Scott's. The album has some great stuff but isn't the caliber of the first one. Somewhere I have a studio session tape from KALX where Scott does a Murray Head medley including "Say It Ain't So, Joe" and either "Heavens on Their Minds" or "Superstar" from Head's role as Judas in JCS. When GT hit the road in 1984, Scott and I were amazed that all the record stored were well stocked with unheard (by us) Murray LP's. Head was also great as Peter Finch's other lover in "Sunday Bloody Sunday". Since you all are pretty savvy at finding tough to find CD's, I'd be really keen on getting my hands on these (I know many are a monster to find)... Big Dipper- Heavens The Beat Farmers- Tales Of The New West Peter Blegvad- Knights Like These Peter Blegvad- King Strut Christmas- In Excelsior Dayglo Elliot Easton- Change No Change Even As We Speak- Feral Pop Frenzy Tav Falco's Panther Burns- Behind The Magnolia Curtain The Field Mice- Skywriting The Field Mice- For Keeps Giant Sand- Storm Robin Gibb- Robin's Reign Guadalcanal Diary- Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man Guadalcanal Diary- Jamboree Let's Active- Cypress Let's Active- Big Plans For Everybody Mission Of Burma- Let Them Be Burma UK CD The Motorcycle Boy any CD's but the UK band Plasticland- Salon The Primitives- Lazy '86-'88 The Primitives- Galore Radio Birdman- Under The Ashes double CD Radio Birdman- Radio Appears double CD Shop Assistants- Overground Records retrospective Spiritualized- Anyway That You Want Me CD single Tom Verlaine- first album Wall Of Voodoo- Dark Continent LP Wednesday Week- What We Had The Windbreakers- At Home With Bobby And Tim Various- Rainy Day LP Any help would be adored. Also, is the bonus track on the Ryko Richard And Linda Thompson's Shoot Out The Lights any good? It's a bit steep at Ameoba with that track. You go Rush fans- Dan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:18:49 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Murray > Also, is the bonus track on the Ryko Richard And Linda Thompson's Shoot Out > The Lights any good? It's a bit steep at Ameoba with that track. "Living in Luxury"? I'm fond of it, but most people don't care much about it, and it certainly lacks the emotional scope of most of the songs on that album - hard to put it anywhere without ruining the flow. I think it was Joe Boyd who joked that the cut should be removed and a sticker placed on the front of the album saying, "Now without bonus tracks." - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:31:37 -0400 From: "Francis J H Park" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Just for kicks, something on-topic My $0.02 for GT/LF... I remember during college very much selling one of my friends (at a different school) on PABARAT. I think I was able to do that because it was thematically a lot closer to Game Theory than any of the other LF albums I know... Of the LF songs: Sword Swallower Idiot Son Inverness Last Honest Face The Come On It Just Wouldn't Be Christmas I'm Not Really A Spring Top Dollar Survivalist Hardware Years of Wrong Impressions (which Significant is the omission of anything from DFD. I was also in the middle of moving around at the time, so I didn't quite get as familiar with that album as the others. It also coincided with my discovery of about 4 or 5 other bands that summer and consequently, I suspect it got buried under a few other discoveries and I never got back around to it. I can say a lot more conceretely about GT songs since I've put them on more mixes. Shark Pretty 24 Real Nighttime I Turned Her Away I've Tried Subtlety Crash Into June The Only Lesson Learned Not Because You Can Slip Last Day That We're Young (my standard "transition from one chapter of my life to another" song) Room For One More, Honey (which really appeals to me with its gargantuan allusions to US history - my college major) In A Delorean I've found, though, that certain albums are forever imprinted with various parts of my life. Game Theory albums are significant mostly because of their timing for me. I associate most of Tinkers (and incidentally, Let's Active's 'Every Dog Has His Day) to the first semester of my freshman year in college, since I collectively beat both of those albums to death during that time. Likewise, I associate 2 Steps with my senior year in high school - which coincided with an extremely messy breakup. Francis J. H. Park http://home.sprintmail.com/~durandal - -- "Ask for my honesty and you'll have my loyalty. Ask for my loyalty and you'll (only) have my honesty." - COL(Ret) John R. Boyd, USAF (1927-1997) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:25:17 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Richard >"Living in Luxury"? I'm fond of it, but most people don't care much >about it, and it certainly lacks the emotional scope of most of the >songs on that album - hard to put it anywhere without ruining the flow. >I think it was Joe Boyd who joked that the cut should be removed and a >sticker placed on the front of the album saying, "Now without bonus >tracks." If I recall correctly, Mr. Thompson wanted "Living In Luxury" and Mr. Boyd wanted "Wall Of Death," respectively, for the closer on the original LP. Mr. Boyd won. Mr. Thompson had obviously ingested far too many cubensis that day. And frankly, I could have lived without "Luxury" as a bonus track. "Wall Of Death"'s two-stroke cutoff, a straightrazor flick across a recently stilled visage, goes into my book as one of the All-Time Top Five Album Endings. Time to go spin records, Andy "I fucking hate patriotism. It's a round world last time I checked." - --Bill Hicks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:29:46 EDT From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Magnetic Fields In the article about Wilco that was in last week's NY Times, they had gotten to the part about the band signing to Nonsuch, and how Warners was paying for it twice since it's a part of that label. The article mentioned recent signings by Nonsuch and that the Magnetic Fields were one of them. So I suspect an album from Stephen Merrit and co. is on the way at some point, and was a little surprised about how they had signed with them. I'm glad they did though, his work will have a new audience now, and while I don't expect them to have #1 hits, I suspect they will do quite well. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:33:01 +0100 From: "Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] NS: wedding garb and kids Francis says: > Since Maura just brought out our second (and probably last) > kid last week, I've found that my monomaniac fury for work > has abated quite a bit, since I have a relatively new life > beyond jumping out of planes and shooting stuff. > > My caveat to kids is that my effective mobility drops to > virtually nil aside from required trips. I think it'll be > easier when Elizabeth (my first girl) and Alexandra (my > second) get a little older. By that time I'll have both of > them playing lacrosse, learning the 8 steady hold factors of > rifle marksmanship, and listening to Kristin Hersh. Until > then, the number of shows I can attend is veerrrrrrrrrry limited. I love Francis's posts!!! Ang and I have never bothered to do the wedding thing (expensive!) and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we established very early on that we didn't want to have children. A few people have asked us about marriage but we've some sort of excuse. My parents also never asked about weddings or kids - my brother's got 2 kids so that keeps my Mum happy! I like being with my niece and nephew but we're always relieved when we can hand 'em back return to our quiet little house. Two cats in the yard, Ian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:47:12 -0400 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] NS: wedding garb and kids Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett wrote: > > Ang and I have never bothered to do the wedding thing (expensive!) Weddings don't have to be expensive. Mine wasn't. Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #149 *******************************