From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #267 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, August 7 2002 Volume 02 : Number 267 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] SF Music Scene [Boyof100lists@aol.com] [loud-fans] yet another satisfied customer [Boyof100lists@aol.com] [loud-fans] Return to the fold [] [loud-fans] band name up for use ["Roger Winston" ] Re:[loud-fans] band name up for use [dana-boy@juno.com] [loud-fans] for Merrittorious services rendered [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffr] [loud-fans] following up loudfan suggestions [Aaron Mandel From my peripheral view, the SF music scene has been going through a rebirth > period the last year or so. When I moved out here two years ago, bands were > still being thrown out of their rehearsal spaces because dot.com, nouveau > riche were still buying the buildings bands rehearsed in. Many bands were > either forced to break-up or relocate because of the situation, but there > has been some noise coming from the music clubs within the last year to > show signs of a musical nightlife. > > As far as a SF music scene, there are multiple. Glam has entrenched itself > as a musical force, but there are only a handful of bands that draw crowds. > Slowcore has loitered on the periphery, and is making itself known in the > form of a band named Waycross ("The fields are half planted, and choking on > weeds.."). Pop bands like the Orange Peels do exist, but are harder to > locate. There is a hip-hop scene in Oakland which is thriving. Yes, there > is a punk club in Berkeley (Gilman St.), but what I tend to gravitate > towards is the Dyke/Queer hard rock scene. Granted, I wish more bands could > be more melodic like the Butchies (out of NC), but there are bands here I > like: Fabulous Disaster & Dirty Power (DP is a side band for one of the > guitarists of Pansy Division, but sounds nothing like Pansy Division). I > wish I knew more of the bands here, but then again, I tend to sleep on > weekends and don't get out much here. > > Just thought I'd throw this in for a little conversational fodder. The list is so quiet. What is this, the Ellen James list? - -Mark Staples ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:08:54 EDT From: Boyof100lists@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] yet another satisfied customer I let my friend Joe, the late night coordinator at the station, borrow a CD-R of "Tinker" to give him a taste of Game Theory material (no original CDs will ever leave their protective oxygen-free vault ever again) and he loved it. I called him yesterday, and he said, "Guess what I'm listening to?" He had heard Loud Family promos that came into the station, but never GT. He liked the concept of me doing a Scott tribute show. This is the radio Scott on pirate satellite (er, public radio...same difference), - -Mark Staples np: The Psychedelic Furs (debut) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:26:15 +0000 From: Subject: [loud-fans] Return to the fold Mark wrote: >Just thought I'd throw this in for a little conversational >fodder. The list is so quiet. What is this, the Ellen >James list? 'I didn't know Jonestown was on the itinerary' - James Taylor, of all people, reacting to muted audience response... Oh, it's so good to be back after something of a crazy year. Hope you all are well. I know it's normally the way of things to thank people when you leave, but just to kick off thanks ever so much to Ian and indirectly to Joe and Sue for 'FRtR' and sundry other musical nuggets. (Ian, I will write personally at greater length soon...) So, how about them , then? peace & love phil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:56:12 -0600 From: "Roger Winston" Subject: [loud-fans] band name up for use Okay, so I was watching the local morning news this morning, and a reporter was interviewing the organizer lady of a local Fine Arts Festival. At one point she implored people to come on and down and check out their stuff, because it was: [drumroll] "Art you can live with" [/drumroll] I think this would make a great band name or album titles, so feel free. Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:20:05 GMT From: dana-boy@juno.com Subject: Re:[loud-fans] band name up for use Roger's proposed band name: [drumroll] "Art you can live with" [/drumroll] >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I was kind of surprised to discover that there's no listing in Allmusic for "The Fellatios." Even Aquarius records doesn't have a listing. I mean, someone *must* have used that, right? Anyone?? I was very happy to see that in the new Salon column, Greil Marcus gives Comet Gain's wonderful album from this year "Realistes" the biggest press that it's probably going to get. I just wish that he'd reviewed it in English. http://www.salon.com/ent/col/marc/2002/08/05/74/index.html (link to Mr. M's rock top 10) Finally, fans of Pavement, JSBX and Belle and Sebastian might want to check in on the goings on at Matador of late. - --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: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:34:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] for Merrittorious services rendered Some of you might be interested... - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:31:08 -0400 From: Josh Bloom To: Fanatic Promotion Subject: [iso-8859-1] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Three Terrors - a.k.a. Stephin [iso-8859-1] Merritt, Dudley Klute & LD Beghtol - present their 3rd a[iso-8859-1] nnual musical extravaganza! THE THREE TERRORS in "Their 1885 Transploding Styrofoam Holo-Graphic Octopus" - Songs of Drink, Drugs & Delirium Tune in, turn on and speed down to the Bowery Ballroom on Sunday, September 15th, when The Three Terrors - a.k.a. Stephin Merritt, Dudley Klute & LD Beghtol - present their 3rd annual musical extravaganza: In Their 1885 Transploding Styrofoam Holo-Graphic Octopus. After months of planning and searching, sampling and distilling, The Three Terrors have assembled a rare and exotic cocktail of tunes about their very favorite state of being: Intoxication. Featured will be radical interpretations of famous and not-so-famous songs about drink, drugs, and delirium from many eras - including most everything from 19th-century Temperance songs to mind-bending 60s psychedelia and far beyond. Old and new chemical favorites from Absinthe to Zacateces Purple will be explored during the course of this special evening. Thrill to the trippy light show and the twirling belly dancer as well the arcane musical selections and general mayhem audiences have come to expect from a Terrors event. Make sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Souls of Poets dead and gone / What Elysium have ye known / Happy field or mossy cavern / Choicer than The Mermaid Taven? - John Keats (1820) Intending to destroy the best minds of our generation, The Three Terrors will perform a kaleidoscope of solos, duets and trios to the accompaniment of ukuleles, danmos, toy pianos, vintage synths, musical saws and other esoteric instruments from their secret arsenal of sound. Featured in The Three Terrors orchestra is Kenny Mellman (of cabaret act Kiki & Herb) on keyboards, plus newcomers Ernest Adzentoivich and Marc Gartman on a variety of other instruments. Opening the night is a performance of evocative Orientale Danse by Susannah. The Three Terrors sprang out of the ether in the late 90s following the release of The Magnetic Fields triple-CD magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, which was masterminded by pop wunderkind Merritt and featured Beghtol (Flare, moth wranglers) and Klute (Kid Montana) as guest vocalists. Formed as a way of combining their shared love of obscure pop with a life-long habit of hanging out in dingy gay bars, quaffing cognac and other substances, the Terrors first took the stage in 2000, presenting a sold-out evening of "the saddest songs" they knew as a special Valentine's treat to an enrapt (and somewhat horrified) audience. Subsequent rumors of suicide attempts during the show were somewhat exaggerated. The next display of their great and terrible talents followed in 2001, when the trio presented a selection of movieland classics in The Three Terrors Go Hollywood!, which featured such greats as "Stay Awake" from Mary Poppins, "Remember My Forgotten Man" from The Gold Diggers of '33, and the seldom-heard title song from DeepThroat. By turns comic and pathetic, touching and terrifying, the magical and mysterious In Their 1885 Transploding Styrofoam Holo-Graphic Octopus promises to be The Terrors' most over-the-top, memorable performance yet. The Bowery Ballroom is located at 6 Delancy Street, New York (phone: 212.533.2111). Tickets for this 21+ event are $20, and are available at Mercury Lounge and online at boweryballroom.com. Doors open at 7 pm, Orientale Danse by Susannah is at 8 pm and The Three Terrors perform at 8:30pm. SUGGESTED DRESS CODE: Peacocks, paisleys and pajamas, Carnaby Street, Biba, Marimeko poppy prints, designer roach clips, I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet realness, Mary Quant, scarves by Vera, vintage treasures from The Fool, Baggies, Acid House and Apple nostalgia, Dashikis and Marrakech loungewear. Merry Pranksters know no codes. All prohibitions repealed. Josh ____________________ Fanatic Promotion & Co. 630 9th Ave. Suite 1012 New York, NY 10036 tele: 888-385-1231 cell: 917-744-1772 IM: FanaticPro fanaticpromotion.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 19:23:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: [loud-fans] following up loudfan suggestions Hawksley Workman: he doesn't sound anything like Rufus Wainwright to me -- nor especially gay (though I'm also not sure he sounds like the kind of person whose sexual orientation comes out in his music). I'm really glad the name was dropped onlist, though, because I'm digging For Him And The Girls, with plans to try the other one soon. There is a certain amount of playfulness that one-person bands sometimes have with arrangements, though actually, that had never struck me until today cuz I was listening to Workman and Self back to back. Laptop: Got the second album, and found it pretty awful. Musically, it's a simulation of generic Brit-pop with vocals that are clearly affected but have no particular effect. I am left somewhat confused as to why this was called "synth-pop" both times I heard it recommended. I mean, it wasn't awful awful. I don't want to scrub my ears out after playing it. I'm just not sure whether I'm missing something or if this is only for people who like some kinda thing that I don't like. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:13:38 -0400 From: jenny grover Subject: [loud-fans] [Fwd: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Three Terrors - a.k.a. Stephin Merritt, Dudley Klute & LD Beghtol - present their 3rd annual musical extravaganza!] Josh Bloom wrote: > > THE THREE TERRORS in > "Their 1885 Transploding Styrofoam Holo-Graphic Octopus" - > Songs of Drink, Drugs & Delirium > > Tune in, turn on and speed down to the Bowery Ballroom on Sunday, September > 15th, when The Three Terrors - a.k.a. Stephin Merritt, Dudley Klute & LD > Beghtol - present their 3rd annual musical extravaganza: In Their 1885 > Transploding Styrofoam Holo-Graphic Octopus. > > After months of planning and searching, sampling and distilling, The Three > Terrors have assembled a rare and exotic cocktail of tunes about their very > favorite state of being: Intoxication. Featured will be radical > interpretations of famous and not-so-famous songs about drink, drugs, and > delirium from many eras - including most everything from 19th-century > Temperance songs to mind-bending 60s psychedelia and far beyond. Old and new > chemical favorites from Absinthe to Zacateces Purple will be explored during > the course of this special evening. Thrill to the trippy light show and the > twirling belly dancer as well the arcane musical selections and general > mayhem audiences have come to expect from a Terrors event. Make sure to wear > some flowers in your hair. > > Souls of Poets dead and gone / What Elysium have ye known / > Happy field or mossy cavern / Choicer than The Mermaid Taven? > - John Keats (1820) > > Intending to destroy the best minds of our generation, The Three Terrors > will perform a kaleidoscope of solos, duets and trios to the accompaniment > of ukuleles, danmos, toy pianos, vintage synths, musical saws and other > esoteric instruments from their secret arsenal of sound. Featured in The > Three Terrors orchestra is Kenny Mellman (of cabaret act Kiki & Herb) on > keyboards, plus newcomers Ernest Adzentoivich and Marc Gartman on a variety > of other instruments. Opening the night is a performance of evocative > Orientale Danse by Susannah. > > The Three Terrors sprang out of the ether in the late 90s following the > release of The Magnetic Fields triple-CD magnum opus, 69 Love Songs, which > was masterminded by pop wunderkind Merritt and featured Beghtol (Flare, moth > wranglers) and Klute (Kid Montana) as guest vocalists. Formed as a way of > combining their shared love of obscure pop with a life-long habit of hanging > out in dingy gay bars, quaffing cognac and other substances, the Terrors > first took the stage in 2000, presenting a sold-out evening of "the saddest > songs" they knew as a special Valentine's treat to an enrapt (and somewhat > horrified) audience. Subsequent rumors of suicide attempts during the show > were somewhat exaggerated. The next display of their great and terrible > talents followed in 2001, when the trio presented a selection of movieland > classics in The Three Terrors Go Hollywood!, which featured such greats as > "Stay Awake" from Mary Poppins, "Remember My Forgotten Man" from The Gold > Diggers of '33, and the seldom-heard title song from DeepThroat. By turns > comic and pathetic, touching and terrifying, the magical and mysterious In > Their 1885 Transploding Styrofoam Holo-Graphic Octopus promises to be The > Terrors' most over-the-top, memorable performance yet. > > The Bowery Ballroom is located at 6 Delancy Street, New York (phone: > 212.533.2111). Tickets for this 21+ event are $20, and are available at > Mercury Lounge and online at boweryballroom.com. Doors open at 7 pm, > Orientale Danse by Susannah is at 8 pm and The Three Terrors perform at > 8:30pm. > > SUGGESTED DRESS CODE: Peacocks, paisleys and pajamas, Carnaby Street, Biba, > Marimeko poppy prints, designer roach clips, I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet > realness, Mary Quant, scarves by Vera, vintage treasures from The Fool, > Baggies, Acid House and Apple nostalgia, Dashikis and Marrakech loungewear. > Merry Pranksters know no codes. All prohibitions repealed. > > Josh > ____________________ > Fanatic Promotion & Co. > 630 9th Ave. Suite 1012 > New York, NY 10036 > tele: 888-385-1231 > cell: 917-744-1772 > IM: FanaticPro > fanaticpromotion.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 23:01:33 -0400 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] following up loudfan suggestions At 07:23 PM 8/6/2002 -0400, Aaron Mandel wrote: >Laptop: Got the second album, and found it pretty awful. Musically, it's a >simulation of generic Brit-pop with vocals that are clearly affected but >have no particular effect. I am left somewhat confused as to why this was >called "synth-pop" both times I heard it recommended. I mean, it wasn't >awful awful. I don't want to scrub my ears out after playing it. I'm just >not sure whether I'm missing something or if this is only for people who >like some kinda thing that I don't like. As I recall, the first Laptop album was much more electronic than the second. One of them was called OPENING CREDITS and the other one was called something like THE NEW YOU, but I don't remember which of them was which. Actually, I thought both of them were pretty crap, although the single "Opening Credits" is pretty good. S NP: FASHION CONSCIOUS -- Television Personalities ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:07:00 -0400 From: Dana Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] following up loudfan suggestions One of the Aarons wrote: > Laptop: Got the second album, and found it pretty awful...I'm > just > not sure whether I'm missing something or if this is only for people > who > like some kinda thing that I don't like. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think it may come down to how you feel about multi-leveled sarcasm pushed so far that it goes around into vulnerability and then back to sarcasm and so on. And that's including the music. FWIW, my three favorite Laptop bits are1) the end of "I'm So Happy You Failed" (which isn't on the 2nd album) when the children's choir comes in near the end singing "The whole world's happy you failed!!" while Jesse Hartman lists all of the countries that are thrilled that your bands' latest release has flopped, 2) the little bit of dialog from the last-call song "Gimme the Night" which goes something like: [boy] we could get a drink at my place [girl] I'm not going to your place [boy] why? [girl] because *you'll* be there and 3) the cover of "Whole Wide World" (or is that "Truck Train Tractor") which is just plain neat. generic Brit-pop with vocals that are clearly affected but have no particular effect >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Keep in mind that this is an affected American affecting an affected British accent. On a Norwegian label. While he has the voice to pull it off (I place him somewhere in Divine Comedy territory) there's no forgetting that he's actually a preppy from NYC who used to sing like Lou Reed, which puts a nice spin on everything. Um, so that's why I like 'em. - --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: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:21:16 -0400 From: Dana Paoli Subject: [loud-fans] following up loudfan suggestions FWIW, my three favorite Laptop bits are1) the end of "I'm So Happy You Failed" (which isn't on the 2nd album) when the children's choir comes in near the end singing "The whole world's happy you failed!!" >>>>>>>>>>>>> Shari informs me that the children are singing "We're so happy you failed" and I don't have the CD handy to double check. And she's probably right anyway. - --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/. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #267 *******************************