From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #367 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, December 19 2003 Volume 03 : Number 367 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [loud-fans] LotR music ["Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett" ] RE: [loud-fans] LotR music [Miles Goosens ] [loud-fans] LF content [glenn mcdonald ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:58:18 -0000 From: "Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] LotR music Brianna wrote: > but the point here is that in all three movies, i've > been hugely impressed with the music. the underscoring > is consistantly just about perfect (although it seems > to be missing in a few places) the 'songs' - like the > hobbits' drinking songs - are well done and make sense > musically, etc., c. Must admit that the thing that put me off the first film was the cod-Irishness of the music in the opening scenes. Following on from Miles's post re Amazon's top 100, an album that Time Out here in London is giving high praise to is British Sea Power - which doesn't appear in their list. Anyone any opinions? I think that I'm probably too old and curmudgeonly to take much notice of these sort of lists any longer but am vaguely interested... Ian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:22:26 -0800 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: [loud-fans] Fw: year end list Forwarded from Bradley Skaught (who seems to be cheating by bundling multiple releases by the same artist together). Can anyone clue me in on the Thrills? I like their song on the latest MOJO cd, and they seem to be on a lot of year end lists (including Bradley's and Amazon's), but haven't been mentioned on loud-fans yet, so I'm not 100% sure if I'm supposed to like them or not.. ;) - -Steve - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: year end list Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:36:04 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" To: I assume it's list time? Here's mine--could you send this along to loud-fans for me? 1.Ted Leo/Pharmacists Hearts of Oak/Tell Balgeary...ep 2.Plush Fed 3.David Bowie Reality 4.Super Furry Animals Phantom Power 5.Guided By Voices Earthquake Glue/Lifeguards Mist King Urth 6.Beulah Yoko 7.Outrageous Cherry Supernatural Equinox 8.Stephen Duffy/Lilac Time Keep Going 9.Jon Langford and His Sadies Mayors of the Moon 10.Paddy Mcaloon I Trawl The Megahertz 11.Anton Barbeau King of Missouri/Guladong 12.Mark Eitzel Ugly American 13.Pernice Brothers Yours Mine and Ours 14.Minus 5 Down With Wilco/I Don't Know Who I Am 15.The Strokes Room on Fire 16.John Cale Hobo Sapiens/Five Tracks ep 17.The Lilys Precollection 18.Cobra Verde Easy Listening 19.Black Box Recorder Passionoia 20.Octavius Audio Noir 21.Gillian Welch Soul Journey 22.Dandy Warhols Welcome to the Monkey House 23.The Go-Betweens Bright Yellow Bright Orange 24.Robyn Hitchcock Luxor 25.Fountains of Wayne Welcome Innerstate Managers 26.Dwight Yoakam Population Me 27.The Tyde Twice 28.Belle & Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress 29.Ryan Adams Rock and Roll/Love is Hell 30.Moore Brothers On & Out 31.Cinerama John Peel Sessions 2 32.Rufus Wainwright Want One 33.You Am I Deliverance 34.Chris Von Sneidern The Wild Horse 35.The Thrills So Much For The City 36.Luke Haines/Auteurs Das Capitol 37.Girl Trouble The Illusion of Excitement 38.Heavenly States s/t 39.Jon Auer/Ken Stringfellow Private Sides 40.Gerald Collier Breakin' Down ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:07:24 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: RE: [loud-fans] LotR music At 08:58 AM 12/18/2003 +0000, Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett wrote: >Following on from Miles's post re Amazon's top 100, an album that Time >Out here in London is giving high praise to is British Sea Power - which >doesn't appear in their list. Anyone any opinions? I think that I'm >probably too old and curmudgeonly to take much notice of these sort of >lists any longer but am vaguely interested... I mentioned it onlist a while back, but (I think) only got into detail about why I didn't like it in an offlist conversation. Here's the relevant part: >Most >of the raves have come from the Wire list, though I've read about them >everywhere over the last few months, and the gang at Grimey's is ga-ga over >'em. The sticker on the U.S. CD quotes an NME comparison to the Bunnymen, >and they're on tour with Interpol. > >But to me, I don't hear Interpol or the Bunnymen, though if you hold your >head just right you'll hear the noisier side of shoegaze, Superchunk, the >Wedding Present, and the more kinetic parts of SLANTED AND ENCHANTED. Since >I like #1 and #3 but don't care so much for #2 and #4, you can see where I'd >find it to be a mixed bag at best. Plus for most of the album, the lead >singer, Yan (yup, just Yan), annoys me with his clipped, sharp, harsh >vocalizations, and Lead Singer Voice Annoyance coming into play doesn't bode >well for the band's prospects with me. In fact, if they had a stronger, >more charismatic vocal presence in the center of the mix, I'd probably enjoy >the record a lot more, the way that Stew's lyrics and presence transcends >his thang for Burt B. and allow me to enjoy Stew/TNP albums. > >Ah, but back to British Sea Power. As Melissa said, "at least they play >fast." They also have intriguing song titles. And to be fair to Yan, when >a couple of the later tracks on the album (I think they're the U.S. bonus >tracks) stretch out into more elegiac territory not unworthy of the Bunnymen >comparison, he delivers a more nuanced performance that suits these new >surroundings, so I suppose there's hope. But my collection hardly needs >another highly-touted CD where at best I have faint praise for two or three >songs. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:59:08 -0500 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: [loud-fans] LF content http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/cellars/documents/03421413.asp ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #367 *******************************