From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #245 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 Thursday, August 21 2003 Volume 03 : Number 245 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] painting [dmw ] [loud-fans] de lurk ing [Max Germer ] Re: [loud-fans] painting ["jer fairall" ] [loud-fans] Re:Painting [Jeff Downing ] [loud-fans] Art Rock! ["Rex.Broome" ] [loud-fans] Dean Quixote ["jer fairall" ] Re: [loud-fans] Dean Quixote [John Cooper ] Re: [loud-fans] de lurk ing [Dan Sallitt ] [loud-fans] Funny yet trenchant ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] [loud-fans] Springsteen question (a/k/a paging Miles...) [Jeffrey with 2 ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:32:02 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: [loud-fans] painting graham parker "mona lisa's sister"? kinks "art lover" ("like a degas ballerina") elp _pictures at an exhibition_ veda hille _here is a picture_ is a song cycle about painter emily carr with lyrics from her journals) - ------------------------------------------------- Mayo-Wells Media Workshop dmw@ http://www.mwmw.com mwmw.com Web Development * Multimedia Consulting * Hosting ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:40:43 -0700 From: Max Germer Subject: [loud-fans] de lurk ing On my stereo, "Look Through Any Window" from the Hollies Tribute. In my freind Adam Greenberg's cd collection: Days For Days. Mine. I told him he should listen to it, since he sounds so much like Scott they could share genes. You should go listen to Adam now (he's somewhere in NYC), and if you see him tell him I want my cd back. On my horizon: playing a Southern Rock tribute on Tuesday. I'll be in three bands: one portraying Tom Petty, one as Johnny Cash, one as REM. The latter may also feature Chris Collingwood. E-mail me if you can make the trip to Western Mass. In my stomach: not much, hungry. Going to fix that now. Max ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:49:51 -0400 From: "jer fairall" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] painting I haven't been paying close attention, but in skimming through my emails I don't think I've seen these two mentioned: Dan Bern, "Joe Van Gogh" (about Vincent's son) Dar Williams, "Mark Rothko Song" There has to be more... Jer np: Idlewild, 100 BROKEN WINDOWS (but the new Weakerthans just arrived! Woo hoo!) Help the planet each day! It's free and easy: http://www.Care2.com/dailyaction/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:31:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Downing Subject: [loud-fans] Re:Painting Jeff wrote: > I was listening to Queen's "The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke" the > other day, > and remembered that it's about a painting... > > You can see where this is going. (I exclude songs that use "Mona > Lisa" > without actually referring specifically to the painting, so there.) Are we making a distinction between songs about painting or songs about _a_ painting? Regardless, I made a mix along these lines late last year that included: - - "The Naked Dutch Painter" and "Bijou" by Stew ("Bijou" was inspired by a painting) - - "Painting by Numbers" - James McMurtry - - "Painting and Kissing" - Hefner - - "The Painter and the Jay" - Real Tuesday Weld - - "Picasso's Last Words" - Paul McCartney - - "Paint By Numbers" - Self - - "Wrapped in Grey" - XTC Those are the ones off the top of my head. Jeff __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:42:23 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] Art Rock! Larry: >>Anxiously anticipating the TNP show here next Wednesday! D'oh! The New Pornographers! All this time I've been seeing that abbreviation and thinking that The Negro Problem had more fans here than I would expect! Now, the painting-song thing... songs about/referring to painters come to mind much more easily than songs about paintings: "Pablo Picasso", Modern Lovers "Girlfren (sic)", Modern Lovers (mentions Cezanne) "Gone to Pable", Luka Bloom "DeChirico Street", Robyn Hitchcock "Max Ernst", Mission of Burma "Andy Warhol", David Bowie The whole "Songs for Drella" album And, umm, Jackson Pollock shows up in a Stone Roses (carnt remember which) tune with a specific painting cited... No. 9, I think, for a mutual Beatles reference? He also kind of showed up splattered all over their guitars. And since I just mentioned The Negro Problem, I'll toss out Stew's solo track "The Naked Dutch Painter" as being about, well, a painter, albeit not a Lots of Van Gogh references in songs that have more to do with his story than his art... "Some can't stand the beauty/So they cut off one ear/But you'll be okay", etc. Warhol, too, but he has rock connections, so that's a nautural. "Andy Warhol's Electic Chair" shows up in "Ghost Tarts of Stockholm" by the Minus Five, f'rinstance That's off the top of my head. I'm gonna go cheat and find some more. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:54:01 -0400 From: "jer fairall" Subject: [loud-fans] Dean Quixote Has anyone ever seen/heard of this movie? Despite the lame title, it sounds like the kind of offbeat comedy I usually enjoy. Plus, Guided By Voices are in it. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it to rent or anything anywhere. http://www.deanquixote.com/home.htm Jer np: Ben Folds, SPEED GRAPHIC (with a big thanks to aaron for the heads-up!) Help the planet each day! It's free and easy: http://www.Care2.com/dailyaction/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:51:26 -0700 From: John Cooper Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Dean Quixote Looks as if it hasn't yet found a distributor. Hopefully, it won't take as long as has BUBBA-HOTEP, the Bruce Campbell/Ossie Davis movie. > From: "jer fairall" > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:54:01 -0400 > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Subject: [loud-fans] Dean Quixote > > Has anyone ever seen/heard of this movie? > Despite the lame title, it sounds like the kind > of offbeat comedy I usually enjoy. Plus, > Guided By Voices are in it. Unfortunately, I > can't seem to find it to rent or anything > anywhere. > > http://www.deanquixote.com/home.htm > > Jer > > np: Ben Folds, SPEED GRAPHIC (with a big thanks > to aaron for the heads-up!) > > > Help the planet each day! It's free and easy: > http://www.Care2.com/dailyaction/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:02:13 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] de lurk ing > The latter > may also feature Chris Collingwood. Howdy, Max. Do you Northampton denizens have any inside tips on which Fountains of Wayne songs are written by Collingwood and which by Schlesinger, or whether they collaborate? I don't have an easy time distinguishing. - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:51:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: [loud-fans] Funny yet trenchant http://www.theonion.com/onion3932/i_have_an_ipod.html Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:02:56 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] painting dmw wrote: >graham parker "mona lisa's sister"? >kinks "art lover" ("like a degas ballerina") >elp _pictures at an exhibition_ >veda hille _here is a picture_ is a song cycle about painter emily carr >with lyrics from her journals) > > Does it have to mention a particular painting by name? Because, if not, it's hard to beat "Max Ernst" by Mission of Burma. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 01:09:06 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] Springsteen question (a/k/a paging Miles...) So I was listening to _Born to Run_ the other day, putting "She's the One" on a mix CD - and because I was listening in headphones, I remembered that, for some reason, the track's nearly in mono. Why, in 1975 or whatever, was that? Was this a sort of Spectoresque "Back to Mono" thing (which would have better suited one of the more Spectoresque tracks on the album), or some necessary accident of fouled-up recording, or what? Seems like there must be a story there... ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: I suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called "Coach" :: --William Gass ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #245 *******************************