From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #92 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, March 30 2003 Volume 03 : Number 092 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] stew [Aaron Mandel ] Re: [loud-fans] stew ["me" ] Re: [loud-fans] stew [dana-boy@juno.com] Re: [loud-fans] stewger [JRT456@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] stewthorpe ["G. Andrew Hamlin" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 03:07:21 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] stew On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, me wrote: > so, given that i love the title track, and am vaguely interested in the > rest of the album, where do i go from here? which is more indicative of > his style? There are two kinds of Stew fans: people who like his 'story' songs and his vaguely-dismissive portraits of characters (usually women), and people who like his more lyrically open-ended songs. Both types of fans seem to end up with all of his albums anyway, but I suspect you want Guest Host and TNP's Post-Minstrel Syndrome first. a ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:35:34 -0800 From: "me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] stew ooh! and if i go to his website, i see the building i used to live in! neat! looks like Stew is playing Lincoln Center. the samples on Amazon are pretty non-impressive, but i'll wait for the recommendations to roll in,a nd we'll see what rises to the top. i know there are other Stew fans out there... b - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Mandel" To: "me" Cc: "LoudFans" Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 12:07 AM Subject: Re: [loud-fans] stew > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, me wrote: > > > so, given that i love the title track, and am vaguely interested in the > > rest of the album, where do i go from here? which is more indicative of > > his style? > > There are two kinds of Stew fans: people who like his 'story' songs and > his vaguely-dismissive portraits of characters (usually women), and people > who like his more lyrically open-ended songs. Both types of fans seem to > end up with all of his albums anyway, but I suspect you want Guest Host > and TNP's Post-Minstrel Syndrome first. > > a ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:38:16 -0500 From: dana-boy@juno.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] stew > > There are two kinds of Stew fans: people who like his 'story' > songs and > > his vaguely-dismissive portraits of characters (usually women), > and people > > who like his more lyrically open-ended songs. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> May I offer myself as an example of the special and rare "third type" of fan, who's on record saying all sorts of horrible things about TNP and Stew, but has to admit that "Guest Host" is decent enough to overcome his geeky voice and lyrics. BTW, "Guest Host" and "Naked..." as well as a couple of TNP albums are on emusic, so you can check them out easily. - --dana, who discovered last night that a couple of songs from Bob Seger's first album are dead ringers for Love. Who knew?? ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:04:36 EST From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] stewger In a message dated 3/29/03 6:41:03 AM, dana-boy@juno.com writes: << -dana, who discovered last night that a couple of songs from Bob Seger's first album are dead ringers for Love. Who knew?? >> There are lots of rock fans ready to complain about how Seger's great early work isn't easily available. The rights have been in dispute since the late '70s. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:32:07 -0800 (PST) From: "G. Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] stewthorpe > the samples on Amazon are pretty non-impressive, but i'll wait for the recommendations to roll in,a nd we'll see what rises to the top. i know there are other Stew fans out there... The Negro Problem's first album POST-MINSTREL SYNDROME is my Album Of The Year 1997, so count that as a recommendation. As to your other question, I get the quotes from: www.peltorro.com though the man does have an official web site as well: http://www.lionel-fanthorpe.com/ It may not surprise you to learn that this prose came from a man dictating non-stop into a tape recorder with a blanket over his head. It may surprise you to learn that he made his living in this way, with approximately 180 books to his credit over roughly fifteen years. More details at the earlier web page. Happy black blackness, Andy "She hurried to the tiny bathroom and splashed rather than washed; flying upstairs again she dressed with breathless haste and flew through into the kitchenette of her minature flat. Cornflakes spilled into a Swedish-modern plastic bowl like coins from a perverted Mint. Milk drenched the gold, dissolving it into a miry bog of gooey, yellow white mud. Sugar descended like badly thrown artificial snow in a provincial pantomime. It sank as snowflakes sink into river banks where there is not quite enough frost to freeze ugly mud and provide a safe anchorage for the miniature white stars. Estelle's spoon dipped into the milk-sugar-grain sog and her even white teeth made some sort of pretence at catching the mouthfuls as they went through. Any relationship between the frenzied gulping and normal mastication was purely co-incidental." - --from THE GIRL FROM TOMORROW by R. Lionel Fanthorpe ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #92 ******************************