From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #357 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 Tuesday, December 9 2003 Volume 03 : Number 357 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] More overdue swaps [Stewart Mason ] [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments ["Fortissimo" ] Re: [loud-fans] More overdue swaps [Aaron Mandel ] Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments [Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More overdue swaps At 03:14 PM 12/7/2003 GMT, John wrote: >Are the Lucky Bishops and Astrid tracks typical ? If so, I'll have to >look out for more. I was half tempted by the Astrid LP when it came >out, but didn't buy in the end. Yes, they're both good representations of the bands. The Lucky Bishops are signed to Nick Saloman's Woronzow label and were one of the highlights of last year's Terrastock V. At least in the States, it's relatively easy to find the Astrid album in the remainder bins, so you shouldn't have to pay much for it. >Please tell me more about The Telepathic Butterflies and Permanent >Green Light. Also, where's the Sloan track from ? The Telepathic Butterflies are Canadian -- I think they're from Montreal -- and are signed to the estimable Rainbow Quartz label. Their first album, INTRODUCING THE TELEPATHIC BUTTERFLIES, came out last year, in a cover that rips off the jacket design of Vonnegut's BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS. Permanent Green Light were Michael Quercio's band in between the Three O'Clock and the Jupiter Affect. Although their high points were high -- their first single, "We Could Just Die," is the best song Quercio has ever written -- both of their records are very uneven, largely because the other songwriter wasn't very good. The Sloan song is from SMEARED, their first record. It sounds really dated in retrospect because of the seriously grunge-era production, but "Underwhelmed" and "I Am the Cancer" are among the group's best songs. >Cheers for a couple of good discs, Stewart. You're very welcome! S ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:33:56 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments >>13- She Lives in a Time of Her Own- 13th Floor Elevators >>Still very cool. That's an all-time favorite of mine... I think the Judybats cover is the only Judybats song I've ever heard (sorry, Miles) on the Roky tribute album, but it is a highlight of that set for sure. >>15- Bedazzled- Peter Cook and Dudley Moore >>Quite strange, and funny. See also the Bongwater cover... nice. (WVa namedrop for Ann Magnuson as per tradition) >>03: The Cyrkle, "Turn Down Day" >>Steve says this is their followup hit to "Red Rubber Ball," "more minor but >>better." Last night I was out on my 15th Annual Phony Record Buying Gift Exchange with two of my best friends, and I almost picked up a Cyrkle compilation. Despite Miles panning this, I now kind of regret leaving it behind. I must confess, though, to preferring the Seekers' version of "Red Rubber Ball" (pipey organ cool, twelve-string better) and I think the tune is a co-write between Paul Simon and the head Seeker, whose name escapes me right now. >>23: Baby Lemonade, "Summer Song" >>Keeping it in the Arthur Lee family, sorta. Doesn't suffer from >>overorchestration, but seems like another victim of its associated side >>effect, midtempoitis. I should have something by "LA's Own Baby Lemonade", based on their localness, the (tenuous) Barrett and (solid) Lee connections, and the fact that one of their songwriters, LA's Own Mike Randle, has the same name as one of my best friends, LA's Own Michael Randle (see gift exchange note above, not to mention that a work acquaintance of mine is engaged to yet another Michael Randle). But it's a daunting back catalog... any recommendations of where to start? >>09: The Byrds, "Ballad of Easy Rider" >>For someone who likes the spiritual descendants of the Byrds and >>Gram Parsons so much, I've remained surprisingly indifferent to the >>originals. Gotta fix that. Don't start with "Notorious Byrds Brothers", though. Never thought I'd say that to anyone, but care is required here. "Easy Rider" is not a fave of mine, though. It cruises on association with the film and the dubious Dylan co-writing credit. >>[LA's Own] Downy Mildew, "Leaving on a Jet Plane/Sunday Morning" Whoa. Where's this from? >>19: The Loud Family, "Horse With No Name" >>And everyone knows that this is where PABARAT got its name, right? >>Yes, because of the "pabarat" sound the maracas make. Yeah, but it took me an embarassingly long time to realize that. I actually thought it was a Tom Verlaine reference, to "One Time at Sundown" from Flash Light, which starts with Tom muttering something like "My sweetheart wrote me this poem, about plants and trees and gemstones and things" (approx)... in my defense, PABARAT *does* have a Verlaine quote right there on the first track; I think that reinforced my misimpression for a while. >>21: Pavement, "The Killing Moon" >>What are you doing here, trying to kill me? Yo... it's better than their cover of "Camera". >>1. Lush "De-Luxe": one of my favorite Lush songs, from the _Gala_ >>compilation, in all its detuned glory. Fegmaniax listers may recall that I just mentioned this tune and followed it up with a lengthy description of my efforts to look like Mike Berenyi after seeing this video. Shan't repeat it, though. >>3. The Mummies "Your Ass Is Next in Line": Rude, noisy, poorly >>recorded, and dubiously in tune. In other words, great stuff. Haven't heard a mention of these guys for years. Used to know their manager. Yes, they dressed in bandages onstage. >>18. Freur "Doot-Doot": Somehow I'd avoided having this song anywhere >>in my collection until now. Picked up the reissue/comp of Freur stuff that came out during a brief spate of Underwold completism. Don't remember anything else memorable other than the single. So what did I pick up during that gift exchange? Well, LA's Own Michael Randle (1) strongarmed me into letting him buy me the Queens of the Stone Age record* (Merry Christmas and Happy QOTSA, I guess), which I will probably semi-grudgingly like, I figure. Other stuff: two overdue Golden Palominos compilations on different labels appearing to encompass non-overlapping years and maybe two albums apiece. Weird, I rarely see GP's stuff used and here I found two records in one store, cheap (were these issued more recently than I realize)? Old Syd Straw record to go along with 'em. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, that BBC Cambridge Folk Fest thing I never bothered with before, 'cuz it was dirt cheap. Hoodoo Gurus, the one with "Come Anytime" on it, because I already have the full length albums with all the other HG's songs I really like, so this was better than shelling out for a compilation. And I took flyers on cheapies from a few bands that keep coming up as recommended: Long Winters and Iron and Wine. In both cases, I think it was their next-to-last records, but couldn't swear to it. So lots to listen to, not all of it ancient. The weekend also brought a new washing machine and My First Cell Phone, which I purchased in a near fury after melting down during Christmas shopping, so I could call the wife and ask her about gift choices I was making. She was happy. I still kind of hate myself. - -Rex *the mechanics of this very odd annual gift exchange are probably not worth going into, but it involves me, LA's Own Michael Randle (1), and LA's Own Nona Liegeois (the only one as far as I know) going to a record store and picking out records for each other to take home immediately, wrap as artistically and humorously as possible, and exchange and open immediately. It's now the longest standing unbroken tradition in my life at this point and soon to be something I've been doing for half my life. Weird. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:02:14 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More overdue swaps On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:00:03 -0500, "Stewart Mason" said: > The Sloan song is from SMEARED, their first record. It sounds really > dated > in retrospect because of the seriously grunge-era production, but > "Underwhelmed" and "I Am the Cancer" are among the group's best songs. First full-length, anyway - there's an EP with different versions of a couple tracks from _Smeared_ and a few others. _Smeared_ is a bit dated...although I'd call it a halfway-cross between grunge-era and post-MBV production - which ends up being pretty interesting. Haven't listened to it for a while, but I remember liking it. ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:11:33 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:33:56 -0800, "Rex.Broome" said: > fact that one of their songwriters, LA's Own Mike Randle, has the same > name as one of my best friends, LA's Own Michael Randle (see gift > exchange note above, not to mention that a work acquaintance of mine is > engaged to yet another Michael Randle). What? That's seriously weird...it's not as if "Randle" (so spelled) is that common a name. Is it the LA equivalent of the variously spelled Shifletts in and around Charlottesville, VA? > Fegmaniax listers may recall that I just mentioned this tune and followed > it up with a lengthy description of my efforts to look like Mike Berenyi > after seeing this video. Shan't repeat it, though. That's Miki's brother, right? I omitted the anecdote about sorta having a minor crush on her, and more of one on Emma Whatsername, until I saw them at an in-store and noticed they had teddible British skin. They photographed well, though, didn't they. > The weekend also brought a new washing machine and My First Cell Phone Is that the plastic one with the extra-large buttons? ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:28:08 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More overdue swaps On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Fortissimo wrote: > _Smeared_ is a bit dated...although I'd call it a halfway-cross between > grunge-era and post-MBV production - which ends up being pretty > interesting. Haven't listened to it for a while, but I remember liking > it. Yeah, I think I actually like it better than where Sloan went afterward, though one or two songs on One Thing To Another caught my attention. "Underwhelmed" will definitely be on Rhino's "90's alt-rock explosion!" compilation, when they do it. Assuming they ever do. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:39:15 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More overdue swaps On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Aaron Mandel wrote: > Yeah, I think I actually like it better than where Sloan went afterward, > though one or two songs on One Thing To Another caught my attention. That's "One Chord To Another", of course. Sorry. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:39:59 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments At 01:11 PM 12/8/2003 -0600, Fortissimo wrote: >What? That's seriously weird...it's not as if "Randle" (so spelled) is >that common a name. Is it the LA equivalent of the variously spelled >Shifletts in and around Charlottesville, VA? Lenny Randle was a utility player with a number of teams (including the expansion Washington Senators) in the '70s and early '80s. He was best known for a 1981 play where, while playing third base for the Mariners, he tried to *blow* a bunted ball foul. His bio says he's from Long Beach, so he could be one of L.A.'s own... Oops, brought up sports... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 14:48:30 -0500 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Yet another swap review At 12:31 PM 12/6/2003 -0600, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >Stewart Mason sent me a collection aptly entitled _Much Better than >the Prefabricated Concrete Coal Bunker_ - aptly since the phrase is >from the Bonzo Dog Band's "Trouser Press," and the content of the >mix >was chosen by using the "random entry" feature at >http://www.trouserpress.com. (The magazine was named after the >Bonzos track, no?) Indeed it was! >1. Lush "De-Luxe": one of my favorite Lush songs, from the _Gala_ >compilation, in all its detuned glory. This was the first Lush song I ever heard, and I never did like anything else of theirs nearly as much. >3. The Mummies "Your Ass Is Next in Line": Rude, noisy, poorly >recorded, and dubiously in tune. In other words, great stuff. Surprising career move: head Mummy Larry Winther later joined the much less abrasive Orange Peels. >4. Human Hands "Hex": There was that period in the early or >mid-eighties when all kinds of bands suddenly decided to do these >spooky, vaguely mid-sixties-TV-horror-anthology-show theme songs. >This one's got the requisite sideways chord progression and spooky >organ tone, plus a grunting bass to add a different color. The Human Hands were one of those groups where most everyone went off to do bigger things after they broke up: Dennis Duck joined the Dream Syndicate and Juan Gomez was in the first lineup of Opal. This is from a posthumous anthology (literally -- it came out after the singer-songwriter, whose name I'm blanking on, died) on Independent Project. Amusing side note: Charity and I were in a liquor store a couple of weeks ago buying a couple of bottles for my brother-in-law for Christmas when I saw a wine label and thought "Wait, that paper and graphic design looks really familiar." Turned the bottle over and sure enough, labels designed and printed by Bruce Licher at Independent Project Press. >7. Monsoon "Third Eye and Tikka TV": Normally I wouldn't like this >sort of proto-worldbeat stuff, but I think the fact that it comes by >its Indian influences organically, and its somewhat homemade sound >(not overslick), mitigate that predisposition - but also, it's just >catchy. Monsoon's THIRD EYE, even more so than Sheila Chandra's solo records (most of which are co-written and produced by the same guys who were the other 2/3s of Monsoon), is a favorite of mine from its era, once of the few pop albums that properly integrated Indian music as more than just a neat color. >11. Zones "Mourning Star": This was on one of Rhino's DIY series, >right? I'm too lazy to look up which one, but the vocalist sounds >familiar... It's got that horse-gallop rhythm similar to that of >"Get >Back," and kind of an anthemic sort of melody on its oddly-phrased >chorus. > >12. Starjets "Schooldays": Or is this one from the DIY records? >(Maybe both...) Anyway, both sound pretty familiar to me. Pretty >good >power-pop with a slight punky edge. Irish, I think? Think so. Yes, bizarrely, these two artists came up one after another, and the only songs I had by either were on the same DIY comp! >13. The Comsat Angels "Independence Day": Whoa, that tweezy flanged >guitar harmonic thing is tres '80s! From vinyl, I'm guessing - a >little off-center. Achieves a nice twitchiness, fitting the tagline >"I can't relax 'cause I haven't done a thing / And I can't do a >thing >'cause I can't relax." The second go-round of the chorus features >this cool little bell-like sound - a nicely put-together song. Although their ealier albums were probably better overall, "Independence Day" (this is the second recording, from their 1983 US debut LAND -- they'd released an earlier version on a UK single, I believe) is the Comsat Angels' career high point. I'm surprised it's not on more of those hits of the 80s comps. >17. The Raincoats "Lurking in the Shadows": Trouser Press led >Stewart >only to the bands; the songs were his choice. I'm guessing the >presence of The Lurkers' "Shadow" led to this particular Raincoats >track being chosen. Um...I'm chagrined to report that I never made that connection at all until you pointed it out. I chose this only because it's among my faves of their songs. >Is this from one of their later, reunion >releases? It doesn't sound much like the stuff from their first one, >the only one I have. Snarly, compressed guitar, vocals from a >tincan, >and a curious keyboard in the other channel...I like it. Yeah, it's from their 1996 reunion album LOOKING IN THE SHADOWS...which now that I'm looking at it is also the title of the song, so I must have made the connection to the Lurkers song mentally when I was writing up the track listing! S ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:11:57 -0600 (GMT-06:00) From: wsilvers@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments Miles notes: Lenny Randle was a utility player with a number of teams (including the expansion Washington Senators) in the '70s and early '80s. He was best known for a 1981 play where, while playing third base for the Mariners, he tried to *blow* a bunted ball foul. - --- Now, see, I'd have said he was best known for punching out Frank Lucchesi. But that stretches "best known" out of shape a bit, huh? From Baseball Library.com: >The acrobatic switch-hitter had played seven positions in five years with Texas when, in spring training of 1977, angry that the second base job was going to rookie Bump Wills, Randle punched out 49-year-old manager Frank Lucchesi. Randle said Lucchesi provoked him by calling him a "punk." The manager needed plastic surgery, and the usually good-natured Randle was suspended, fined, and shipped to New York; he led the Mets in six offensive categories that year. Back in the AL as a free agent, Randle got down on all fours to try to blow a slow roller foul in the Kingdome in 1981. (JCA) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 14:42:10 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] overdue mix review (which weighs more?) At 12:44 PM 12/7/2003 -0800, Steve Holtebeck wrote: >Since Miles reviewed my swap discs, I should review his.. Earlier this >year, he sent me a two-disc compilation called WHICH WEIGHS MORE?, with >one disc of songs from 1983 and one disc from 2002. > >The 1983 volume was almost entirely "by request", because I sent Miles a >list of songs from that year that I needed for my 20th H.S. reunion >earlier this year (including about 2/3rds of these tunes). More like 8 of 21, so I'm responsible for the rest. Steve actually had more to do with shaping the 2002 disc -- though it had only two specific song requests (two covers, Fl. Oz.'s "She Blinded Me With Science" and Plant's "Song To the Siren"), Steve was curious to hear some things from 2002 releases that he didn't have, so 11 or 12 of those were from albums Steve mentioned he'd like to know more about. Back to '83: >>From the ones I didn't request, I'm already familiar with the Stones, >Ramones, Replacements, and Neil Young songs, inspired choices all, See, I do like the Replacements! :-) >don't find myself skipping anything except the P'O song >(Wire spinoff, right? Right. Graham Lewis does the singing on that one. >I'd probably like it more if it weren't harshing >my Jersey-pop buzz between the Smithereens and the Bongos) I guess I still think of each disc as a really long vinyl album, so to my sense of flow, the P'o track was a Side One ender, with "Numbers With Wings" being the kick-start to Side Two. That makes for 40-minute sides, but still, the vinyl mindset is there. >and "Saved By >Zero" (don't like that song.. my favorite one-word Fixx review: >"Suxx!"). As much as I loved that one-word review, and as much as I take Cy Curnin for a pretentious jerk, I also admit to thinking that their singles were damn catchy: "Red Skies at Night," "One Thing Leads To Another," and "Saved By Zero" in particular. I'm still waiting for people to fall in love with Red Guitars' "Good Technology," but none of my comp victims ever seem to flip for it... >The 2002 disc doesn't weigh as much as the 1983 disc, This e-mail is turning into ex post facto liner notes, but what I had in mind with the WHICH WEIGHS MORE? title was the Kids in the Hall Skit, where Mark McKinney is "The Preacher Character," holding a giant bible in one hand and slender texts from other religions (the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita) in the other. Which reminds me, the Season One KIDS IN THE HALL DVDs are in the mail to me this week, hooray! Plus FIREFLY's out too... >but I enjoyed it >too. My favorites were Kylie's "Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head" >(her big hit mashed with New Order's "Blue Monday" which came out in .. >wait for it.. 1983) and Fluid Ounces' cover of "She Blinded Me With >Science" (which may have also been a request if I remember.. and guess >what year that come out?). Good catch on me continuing the '83 theme on the 2002 disc -- though of course the latter song was indeed a direct request. Hey, where are my mad props for my oh-so-clever intro and outro to the 1983 disc? :-) (The "intro" was a snippet of Jimi Hendrix' "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)," the "outro" was a snippet of Soft Cell's Hendrix medley from '83. Cue Master Thespian voice: "GENIUS!") >For future swap reference, I do like other >things besides power-pop, but thumbs down in Sigur Ros (that song is too >long!) I'm tickled by that, because I chose *that* Sigur Ros track entirely because it was the *shortest* one on their parenthetically titled 2002 album! Steve, thanks for the review, and I'm glad that you enjoyed the discs! later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 14:46:07 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments At 02:11 PM 12/8/2003 -0600, wsilvers@earthlink.net wrote: >Now, see, I'd have said he was best known for punching out Frank Lucchesi. >But that stretches "best known" out of shape a bit, huh? I'd forgotten about the Lucchesi incident -- but I guess there wasn't footage of it either, whereas the moving pictures of Lenny trying to blow the ball foul will be on THIS WEEK IN BASEBALL forever. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:07:05 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:11:57 -0600 (GMT-06:00), wsilvers@earthlink.net said: > usually good-natured Randle was suspended, fined, and shipped to New York; he led the Mets in six offensive > categories that year. Back in the AL as a free agent, Randle got down on all fours to try to blow a slow roller > foul in the Kingdome in 1981. I would have thought trying to blow a slow roller *was* an offensive category. ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:22:59 -0800 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments > >>03: The Cyrkle, "Turn Down Day" > >>Steve says this is their followup hit to "Red Rubber Ball," "more minor but > >>better." > > Last night I was out on my 15th Annual Phony Record Buying Gift > Exchange with two of my best friends, and I almost picked up a Cyrkle > compilation. Despite Miles panning this, I now kind of regret leaving > it behind. I must confess, though, to preferring the Seekers' version > of "Red Rubber Ball" (pipey organ cool, twelve-string better) and I > think the tune is a co-write between Paul Simon and the head Seeker, > whose name escapes me right now. Bruce Woodley.. The Cyrkle covered a couple more Simon/Woodley songs: "Cloudy" and "I Wish You Could Be Here". The compilation (RED RUBBER BALL) is surprisingly good, not just two hits plus a bunch of filler. After watching the second "This Land Is Your Land" concert on PBS this weekend, I've decided I need to buy a Seekers compilation, and don't know how I've made it this long in life without owning one. Probably just lingering childhood memories of that Coca Cola commercial (which was by the NEW Seekers, an almost entirely different group!). I also need to buy a Trini Lopez record. > > I should have something by "LA's Own Baby Lemonade", based on their > localness, the (tenuous) Barrett and (solid) Lee connections, and the > fact that one of their songwriters, LA's Own Mike Randle, has the same > name as one of my best friends, LA's Own Michael Randle.. But it's a > daunting back catalog... any recommendations of where to start? "Summer Song" is on EXPLORING MUSIC, which is pretty easy to find on the cheap since it came out on Big Deal, but it's not that good. The one after it (HIGH LIFE DEAL) is pretty good (and available on EMusic for those so inclined, as is their first one 68% PURE IMAGINATION). I saw Mike Randle (the Baby Lemonade guy, not Rex's friend) playing a solo set with Scott (Scott MILLER.. remember that band Game Theory?) earlier this year at Highland Grounds in L.A. The first three words out of his mouth were "I'm really intoxicated" and things went downhill from there! > >>09: The Byrds, "Ballad of Easy Rider" > >>For someone who likes the spiritual descendants of the Byrds and > >>Gram Parsons so much, I've remained surprisingly indifferent to the > >>originals. > > Gotta fix that. Unlike ignorance, indifference is hard to fix. Anyone who likes Tom Petty, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, et.al. but doesn't like the Byrds is missing a puzzle piece somewhere, but I guess people like things for different reasons. > >>[LA's Own] Downy Mildew, "Leaving on a Jet Plane/Sunday Morning" > > Whoa. Where's this from? A 7-inch 45RPM single from 1990, which also includes a cover of "Walk On By" (Back when Bacharach wasn't as cool). I seem to put both of those on a lot of swap discs and tapes since I've digitized it. > >>21: Pavement, "The Killing Moon" > >>What are you doing here, trying to kill me? > Yo... it's better than their cover of "Camera". Proving the pervasive Echo & the Bunnymen influence, the first time I saw Pavement live at the Warfield in SF, Malkmus told a story of him and Spiral Stairs sneaking down to the main floor at an Echo show at the Warfield in 1984, before launching into "The Killing Moon". TAFKA Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Stewart Mason sent me a collection aptly entitled _Much Better than > the Prefabricated Concrete Coal Bunker_ - aptly since the phrase is > from the Bonzo Dog Band's "Trouser Press," and the content of the > mix was chosen by using the "random entry" feature at > http://www.trouserpress.com. (The magazine was named after the > Bonzos track, no?) Be warned that this technique works best for people with Jeff/Stewart sized CD collections. I tried it and it took me 12 rolls of the dice to find something I owned! Randomness is always a good thing though. Miles: > Hey, where are my mad props for my oh-so-clever intro and outro to the > 1983 disc? :-) (The "intro" was a snippet of Jimi Hendrix' "1983 (A > Merman I Should Turn To Be)," the "outro" was a snippet of Soft Cell's > Hendrix medley from '83. Cue Master Thespian voice: "GENIUS!") Oh yeah, I forgot about the intro and the outro.. I didn't catch the connection, but that was inspired. - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:09:23 EST From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments In a message dated 12/8/03 1:33:34 PM, smholt@ix.netcom.com writes: << The Cyrkle covered a couple more Simon/Woodley songs: "Cloudy" and "I Wish You Could Be Here". The compilation (RED RUBBER BALL) is surprisingly good, not just two hits plus a bunch of filler. >> Sundazed recently did a fine job reissuing the Cyrkle catalogue, including the hidden track on that RED RUBBER BALL comp. You might not be inspired to upgrade from your vinyl copy of THE MINX soundtrack, though. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:19:08 -0500 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments At 01:22 PM 12/8/2003 -0800, Steve Holtebeck wrote: >After watching the second "This Land Is Your Land" concert on PBS this >weekend, I've decided I need to buy a Seekers compilation, and don't >know how I've made it this long in life without owning one. Probably >just lingering childhood memories of that Coca Cola commercial (which >was by the NEW Seekers, an almost entirely different group!). I also >need to buy a Trini Lopez record. The Seekers comps I've seen have basically been interchangeable, so whichever's cheapest. >TAFKA Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: Shouldn't that new handle be FFortissimo, anyway? >> Stewart Mason sent me a collection aptly entitled _Much Better than >> the Prefabricated Concrete Coal Bunker_ - aptly since the phrase is >> from the Bonzo Dog Band's "Trouser Press," and the content of the >> mix was chosen by using the "random entry" feature at >> http://www.trouserpress.com. (The magazine was named after the >> Bonzos track, no?) > >Be warned that this technique works best for people with Jeff/Stewart >sized CD collections. I tried it and it took me 12 rolls of the dice to >find something I owned! Randomness is always a good thing though. As I told Jeff, it helped immeasurably that after I first bought a Trouser Press Guide, I spent basically the next two years picking up any used record I saw at Ralph's that I knew had been mentioned in the TPRG. S ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:23:08 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Round up of mix round up comments Rex.Broome wrote: >*the mechanics of this very odd annual gift exchange are probably not worth going into, but it involves me, LA's Own Michael Randle (1), and LA's Own Nona Liegeois (the only one as far as I know) going to a record store and picking out records for each other to take home immediately, wrap as artistically and humorously as possible, and exchange and open immediately. It's now the longest standing unbroken tradition in my life at this point and soon to be something I've been doing for half my life. Weird. > >- > Wow! What a very cool tradition. This sounds like lots of fun. Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #357 *******************************