From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #288 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 Friday, October 3 2003 Volume 03 : Number 288 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Don't respond, Stew can tell ["Rex.Broome" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:04:41 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] Don't respond, Stew can tell Mike B: >>Um, is my TV reception just bad or is Lucinda Williams starting to >>look like Mick Ronson? And should I be confused by the fact that I still >>found her totally hot? I dunno about the Mick Ronson thing. She certainly has good and bad days by conventional beauty standards, or so told. I'm kind of blind to it. All I see is the hot. So I guess confusion is next. DMW on "Please Kill Me": >>another very fair criticism: it's not so much about the music, more about the >>lifestyle. Yeah, I'd agree with that. It's useful and interesting in a lot of ways, but it continues to follow people living the wild life long after their songwriting or musical output had declined or basically ceased, and drops or ignores some of the more interesting musicians once there are no more drug stories about them. Which is not to say that I didn't devour it in about a day and a half... Reminds me of a thought I had when someone directed me to a website selling baby clothing in questionable taste ("My daddy is a mother fucker", etc): would there be a market for a baby t-shirt version of Hell's "Please Kill Me" shirt? Because I think that (A) it would appeal to punk-generation parents with a slightly more misantropic worldview than mine, and (B) there are certainly people who think that the behavior of the average child is a plea to do just that anyway. Tim: >>Doesn't Stew himself use the term "Blackarach" in the notes to GUEST HOST? Steve: >>Yes. "Sweet sweet Blackarach's badass songs". I've never heard Stew >>referred to as the black Bacharach, and thought that term had something >>to do with Isaac Hayes, the *first* "black Bacharach". I don't have it in front of me but I think he's quoting someone else mildly facetiously, as in "thanks to (person X)-- 'Sweet Sweetblackarach's Badasssss Song' indeed!" And yes, I'm sure he's well aware of his own press. Just listened to his new one for the first time yesterday. The arrangements have really been cranked back in favor of the lyrics, so I need to take a closer listen to really assess it. The stuff that leapt out at me was as good as ever, though... low key, but I detected less filler than on the last Negro Problem record. We'll see. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:16:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "G. Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Krauty Ketchup Poofs and Other Delights >> Yes. "Sweet sweet Blackarach's badass songs". I've never heard Stew >> referred to as the black Bacharach, and thought that term had >> something to do with Isaac Hayes, the *first* "black Bacharach". > > It's also possible that, having been referred to as the "Black > Bacharach" several times, he was taking the idea back from those > critics, or messing with it. Y'all should remember, Lamont Dozier was the BLACK BACH! Nobody's mentioned the SWEET SWEETBACKS'S BADASSSSS SONG connection, so I thought I would. And since nobody's lamented the passings of Stanley Fafara or Donald O'Connor onlist yet, I will now here do so. Plus, of course, Harry Goz. Harry, in the immortal words of Dorothy Gale, I think I'm gonna miss you most of all. "Hello, my name is Mr. Squeaky." Andy "You are Captain Murphy. You've lost your mind, but you have more fun without it." - --what I got from taking the "Which Sealab 2021 character are you?" quiz at http://quizilla.com/users/yermo/quizzes/Which%20Sealab%202021%20character%20are%20you%3F/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:49:00 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] One of Our Footnotes is Missing Me: >>Anyhoo, I have the same problem with metal that you do, so I can relate >>that back to Miles' anti-vibes'n'banjo* stance. Urk. The footnotes are going unnoted a lot these days. This one was supposed to be: * I actually seriously doubt Miles is strictly anti-banjo when the banjo is neither O'Hagan's goddam one nor a paired-with-vibes one. I do get the feeling that he may hate the vibes in and of themselves. - -Rex, just needing to make sure my banjo is safe if Miles comes over... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:38:30 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Don't respond, Stew can tell In a message dated 10/2/03 8:50:22 AM, Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com writes: << Just listened to his new one for the first time yesterday. The arrangements have really been cranked back in favor of the lyrics, so I need to take a closer listen to really assess it. The stuff that leapt out at me was as good as ever, though... low key, but I detected less filler than on the last Negro Problem record. We'll see. >> Lyrics are even included. Good as it is, though, it's true that we'd be enjoying another masterpiece if he'd held back and incorporated the best songs from "Welcome Black." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:55:09 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] It's a New Stew Review, coming right at you Here's a fresh one of the new record: "Today's lesson: love is not the instrument of pain, it's your own mind. Or so says the so-called Black Bacharach, the artist singularly known as Stew." - -Michael Evans, Bad Analogies (sic) Incidentally, looks like Scott is thanked in the liner notes... right after the Minus 5. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:36:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Don't respond, Stew can tell On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 JRT456@aol.com wrote: > Lyrics are even included. Good as it is, though, it's true that we'd be > enjoying another masterpiece if he'd held back and incorporated the best songs from > "Welcome Black." As slight as it seemed on release, WELCOME BLACK has been growing on me of late. It's not as good as PMS or GUEST HOST, but it's actually pretty good. Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:28:26 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] It's a New Stew Review, coming right at you At 12:55 PM 10/2/2003 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: >Here's a fresh one of the new record: > >"Today's lesson: love is not the instrument of pain, it's your own mind. Or >so says the so-called Black Bacharach, the artist singularly known as Stew." >-Michael Evans, Bad Analogies (sic) Or perhaps love is never having to say "what's the antecedent?" Is Evans saying: a) Stew is saying "love is your own mind" b) Stew is saying "the instrument of pain is your own mind" c) "I got a C- in Advanced Comp, baby! Tremble before my awesome verbiage!" And is Stew *plurally* known as something different than "Stew"? I've never pondered a plural form of "Stew" before, but it could be exactly the same as the singular, like "moose" or "sheep." later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:03:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Mitton Subject: [loud-fans] Emusic Help I've got an eMusic technical problem that I haven't found an answer to (and eMusic hasn't been helping either). I haven't downloaded anything in a few weeks, but I recently got broadband, so I'm excited to start downloading up a storm. But, I can't get the Download Manager to run for me. Every time it tries to run (either by me running the program directly, or emusic bringing up the program when I click to download on the website), I get this error: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Files\Emusic Download Manager\EMusic.exe abnormal program termination" I've tried reinstalling the DLM several times, running it under Windows 98 emulation mode, installing all updates from M$, but all to no avail. (I'm using XP). Does anyone have any suggestions? Offlist replies welcome.... - --Michael ===== www.openoffice.org A free, full-featured office suite that replaces Microsoft Office, but is compatibile with Office documents. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #288 *******************************