From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #395 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, November 13 2002 Volume 02 : Number 395 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? ["Kunkel, Mark" ] Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: OT -- Now RR [steve ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:43:50 -0600 From: "Kunkel, Mark" Subject: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? We are having a party for a coworker who is having a baby. You know any (happy) songs with childbirth themes that I might include on a party tape? (Unhappy songs would include "Bodies" by the Sex Pistols. Don't recommend that.) Email me directly, if any occur to you. (All that I can think of, off the top of my head, is "Having My Baby". Yuck.) Thanks! - -- Mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:58:17 -0500 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? At 11:43 AM 11/12/2002 -0600, Kunkel, Mark wrote: >We are having a party for a coworker who is having a baby. You know any >(happy) songs with childbirth themes that I might include on a party tape? >(Unhappy songs would include "Bodies" by the Sex Pistols. Don't recommend >that.) I don't know if it *quite* qualifies as "happy" -- the emotional tenor of the lyrics is more like "Pregnant? Me? Holy crap!" -- but Heavenly's "Sperm Meets Egg, So What?" (from the flat-out brilliant THE DECLINE AND FALL OF HEAVENLY) is the best pop song about impending motherhood I've ever seen, and it's certainly musically perky as all get out. S ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:05:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Tim Walters" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? Loudon Wainwright III, "Dilated To Meet You." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:42:53 -0500 From: Janet Ingraham Dwyer Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? At 11:43 AM 11/12/2002 -0600, Kunkel, Mark wrote: >We are having a party for a coworker who is having a baby. You know any (happy) songs with childbirth themes that I might include on a party tape? (Unhappy songs would include "Bodies" by the Sex Pistols. Don't recommend that.) > >Email me directly, if any occur to you. (All that I can think of, off the top of my head, is "Having My Baby". Yuck.) Do you know if it's a girl? Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely?" would be the classic in this microgenre, I think. Kate Bush's "Breathing" and "This Woman's Work", well, neither'd qualify as happy, but given how micro the genre is, may as well mention them. I'm out of ideas. Now, if you want songs for babies, give a holler. janet ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:50:05 -0500 From: "Aaron Milenski" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? >Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely?" would be >the classic in this microgenre, I think. I guess it would, but...yuck. Anonymous has an absolutely beautiful song about a man's love for his wife, reflected through their young child. It's called "Up To You." I doubt this can be downloaded online anywhere though. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:59:07 -0500 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? Orbital's "Belfast" (an instrumental) was written to be played during the delivery of one of the brothers' children. -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:01:57 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Kunkel, Mark wrote: > We are having a party for a coworker who is having a baby. You know any > (happy) songs with childbirth themes that I might include on a party > tape? The only song I can think of with a *childbirth* theme is the Dribbling Darts' "Stuck Inside The Birth Canal". There must be lots of happy songs about the actual resultant babies, though, like "Connor, Welcome" by Atom & His Package. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:24:28 -0500 From: "David Seldin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? Yeah, but it's about deciding *not* to have the baby! Sheesh Stewart! The only one that comes readily to my mind is the speculative Lou Reed song, "Beginning of a Great Adventure" from "New York". John Hiatt's always good for some upbeat, treacle-free fatherhood songs. "Your Dad Did" stands out, but it's not about babies per se. How was the weekend, Fling? David - ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Stewart Mason Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:58:17 -0500 >At 11:43 AM 11/12/2002 -0600, Kunkel, Mark wrote: >>We are having a party for a coworker who is having a baby. You know any >>(happy) songs with childbirth themes that I might include on a party tape? >>(Unhappy songs would include "Bodies" by the Sex Pistols. Don't recommend >>that.) > >I don't know if it *quite* qualifies as "happy" -- the emotional tenor of >the lyrics is more like "Pregnant? Me? Holy crap!" -- but Heavenly's >"Sperm Meets Egg, So What?" (from the flat-out brilliant THE DECLINE AND >FALL OF HEAVENLY) is the best pop song about impending motherhood I've ever >seen, and it's certainly musically perky as all get out. > >S ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:34:31 EST From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? Talking Heads All Night Long. One of the sweetest baby songs I know of. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:06:05 -0700 From: "Roger Winston" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? AWeiss4338@aol.com on 11/12/2002 12:34:31 PM wrote: > Talking Heads All Night Long. One of the sweetest baby songs I know of. Or "Creatures Of Love", for that matter. "Little creatures all come out..." Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:37:28 GMT From: dana-boy@juno.com Subject: [loud-fans] baby Did anyone suggest "The Baby Song" by Husker Du? - --dana, very upset at being precluded from suggesting "Bodies" ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:43:37 -0000 From: "Phil Gerrard" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs about child birth? Squeeze, 'Up the Junction'. Actually, in its way, not much more appropriate than 'Bodies'. OK, scratch that. 'Beginning of a Great Adventure', by Lou Reed, only slightly disqualified by the fact that he hasn't yet produced the sprogs about whom he was daydreaming. 'Bono Reed', indeed... peace & love phil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:22:30 EST From: Cardinal007@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: OT -- Ignorance is Strength: Big Brother in Libraries In a message dated 11/11/02 9:14:51 AM, jsharple@brooklaw.edu writes: >> Anyone wishing to bridge that seemingly impassable chasm between a right > >> believing "that it's not the government's job to tell people what to >do" > >> and > >> the right's long record of attempting (often succeeding) the forceful > >> governmental dictation of what people should, or should not: read, view, > >> hear, compute, think, have done to their own bodies... > > > >Don't forget enforced prayer in public schools, one of my favorites... Damn; I stay off for months at a time, and come back into the room just a day late. I'm so sorry not to have taken part in whatever this little discussion was about. Prayer in school is one of my pet . . . concerns, and it's one of the few areas where the Supremes have been relatively willing to prohibit state action as violative of the Establishment Clause. The problem with saying "the Right," btw, is that it is a unique characteristic of the Religious Right (please note the caps) to dictate on these issues, where "the Right" without religious affiliation has tagged along to keep the liberal horde out of office. ' You know, I'd do better to READ some of these posts before commenting. But hey, that wouldn't be me . . . Anyone wanna discuss the Lemon Test? The Endorsement Test? The Coercio Test? Beuller? Anyone . . .? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:48:58 EST From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: OT -- Ignorance is Strength: Big Brother in Libraries In a message dated 11/12/02 7:23:49 PM, Cardinal007@aol.com writes: << Damn; I stay off for months at a time, and come back into the room just a day late. >> And here I return from a pleasant trip down South (where topics discussed including the lameness of leftist Yankees who insist on pretending that the Southern Democrats of the '50s and '60s weren't dedicated leftists themselves) to find Cardinal giving me a chance to jump back in on the conversation....except I'm not that interested. I've spent the past few days mourning the Democrats' inability to transcend greed and rediscover their principles, but it's probably best if the party keeps choosing panic over a coherent message. Keep telling yourselves that all Republicans are evil racists. Make it that much easier for us in 2004. (But you folks on the left might want to keep it to yourself when you complain about how the welfare system has been a real problem for black people. Here's a clue: It's not just black people on welfare.) More importantly, I just spent some time hanging out with my brother. I've never mentioned it, but he's been good friends with Douglas Coupland ever since they found themselves working the same circuit while out promoting novels in Europe several years ago. I sure could tell some charming Coupland stories here, but that would probably necessitate someone actually posting who might be interested. Yes, it's a shame that some people just choose to lurk.... And I've just deleted most of the posts from the past few days, so maybe somebody has already mentioned Billy Paul's "Let's Make A Baby" for that suggested song thread. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:56:18 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: OT -- Ignorance is Strength: Big Brother in Libraries JRT456@aol.com wrote: > > Here's a clue: It's not just > black people on welfare.) And nowhere will you realize that more than in Appalachia. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:48:40 -0500 From: "Chris Murtland" Subject: [loud-fans] fun for ages 7-10 www.googlism.com A site that lets you input data into a form field (of type text), submit the form, and view results based on your input. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:19:35 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Fwd: OT -- Now RR On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 09:22 PM, Cardinal007@aol.com wrote: > The problem with saying "the Right," btw, is that it is a unique > characteristic of the Religious Right (please note the caps) to > dictate on > these issues, where "the Right" without religious affiliation has > tagged > along to keep the liberal horde out of office. So some of us on "the left" vote to mitigate the power of the Religious Right and some of you on "the right" vote to fend off the Liberal Horde. But when do you part company with your fellow travelers? After they get their two new Justices to overturn Roe but before they can begin to attack birth control? And what if those two Justices think that school prayer is a matter best left to the states? - - Steve __________ "We're not attacking Islam, but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God," the Rev. Franklin Graham, who spoke at President Bush's inauguration, said recently. "He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion." ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #395 *******************************