From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #7 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 Saturday, January 10 2004 Volume 04 : Number 007 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Best of 2003 ["RichardBlatherwick" ] Re: [loud-fans] how do you use iTunes? [Elizabeth Brion Subject: [loud-fans] Best of 2003 So how normal a loud-fan will this lot make me this year? guess I'll have to wait for the poll results, but here's my list anyway. 5pts Wrens - Meadowlands 4pts Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music 4pts Thrills - So Much For The City 3pts Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers 3pts Steve Wynn - Static Transmissions 3pts Calexico - Feast of Wire 2pts Thorns - s/t 2pts Church - Forget Yourself 2pts Pernice Brothers - Yours Mine & Ours 2pts Bluetones - Luxembourg 1pt Persian Rugs - Turkish Delight 1pt Bangles - Doll Revolution 1pt Tindersticks - Waiting for the Moon 1pt Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun 1pt Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism Nada Surf - Let Go would have made it high up there if it hadn't been a 2002 release over here. Also, following reccommendations from the list I'm waiting on the new Jupiter Affect, Shins & Owsley releases. And on the shameful self-promotion bit, I could have gone for Powder Monkeys - Give Me the Gun and Say It Again (see www.thepowdermonkeys.com for details), but that might have been a bit too much. Richard ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:00:33 -0800 From: "me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] When Guitarists Attack, Part II (Of Fear) LOL - that'd be worth the price of admission and then some. you should e-mail them the idea. when searching for the exact words for the following: Prince By-Tor appears to battle for freedom from chains of long years. or Prince Alex appears to battle for freedom from chains of long arms. i found this (thank you Google) http://www.short-story-stats.com/lyrics_music_song/lyrics_10/3483_the_nec.htm (breaks the lyrics down word by word statistically, in an attmept to determine the negativity, horror, romance, etc. included in the lyrics.) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Wells" To: Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [loud-fans] When Guitarists Attack, Part II (Of Fear) > brianna writes: > > i love that there is the obligatory Rush fan in the background of the > > bloody-shirt-picture. FREE ALEX, huh? funny. so simply stated. > > I know. I'm getting a FREE ALEX t-shirt made up tomorrow. > > > shouldn't the sign say something much more wordy and ethereal? he must > not be that big of a fan. there are any number of Rush songs that offer > quotes for a situation like that... > > Totally. I'd also like to see this re-enacted on their tour this year...as > Alex steps up to the mic to do his nightly improvised rant during "La Villa > Strangiato," five leggy models in skimpy cop outfits suddenly leap from > behind Neil's drum kit and start clubbing to the floor. A dozen security > guards borrowed from 'Jerry Springer' storm the stage and the house lights > go down on the chaos...long enough for Alex to reappear in a bloodstained > shirt, standing on his amplifiers in a solo spotlight and launching into 'I > Think I'm Going Bald' as "FREE ALEX" flashes on the video screen. Then my > head explodes. > > "I looked in the mirror today > My eyes just didn't seem so bright > I've lost a few more hairs > I think I'm going bald" > > Michael "that's what I'd do, but they haven't asked me yet" Wells > whose saw the 10th, 20th and now 30th anniversary tours ;) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:48:21 -0500 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Best of 2003 Albums, as submitted for the poll: 1. Haha Sound - Broadcast 2. All Your Summer Songs - Saturday Looks Good To Me 3. A Strangely Isolated Place - Ulrich Schnauss 4. Hate - the Delgados 5. Sheath - LFO 6. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast 7. Hearts of Oak - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 8. Give Up - The Postal Service 9. Room On Fire - the Strokes 10. Up In Flames - Manitoba 11. One Step More And You Die - Mono (JP) 12. The Decline of British Sea Power - British Sea Power 13. The 21st Door - G D Luxxe 14. Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle & Sebastian 15. Chigliak - Adam Johnson and "singles", as blogged and later amended: 1. Hey Ya! - Outkast Saturation airplay diminished the impact, of course, but nothing can take away from me the first time I heard it. A truly genius pop song, from the unlikeliest of directions. 2. On My Own - Ulrich Schnauss Like Slowdive with hooks. How could anyone resist? 3. All You Need Is Hate - The Delgados Perhaps too clever for it's own good, but maybe that's what I love about it. 4. Ultimate Stars - Saturday Looks Good To Me One of several genius songs from this record, this was the one that was most fun to sing along to. 5. Freak - LFO Monstrous, dirty, buzzy bleep techno that distills what it was like to be completely and happily off your face in a commandeered warehouse in 1992. 6. Milkshake - Kelis The first time I heard this was on a mistuned radio on speakers in surround mode on the other side of the house, so as that huge synth riff fired off the speakers were cutting in and out and it sounded for all the world like Kodos and Kang had come in via the fireplace and were seriously fucking shit up. That's a _good_ thing. 7. House of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture Shake down! It's great to see music obviously influenced by early PiL, Liquid Liquid, etc. making such a big splash. 8. Before We Begin - Broadcast I could have picked a half dozen songs from this record easily, but this one was actually released as a single, so... anyway it's mixture of noise and sweetness is pretty representative. 9. 12:51 - The Strokes If you're going to steal, steal the right stuff, and few things are as "right" as early Cars. The handclaps are the winning touch. 10. Hendrix With Ko - Manitoba More explorations on the shoegazer/IDM axis, complete with "fa fa fa"'s 11. Frontin - Pharrell feat. Jay-Z Another victim of overexposure, but I couldn't get over how preternaturally _crisp_ everything sounds. It sounds more sculpted than sung or played. 12. Pass The Dutch - Missy Elliot OK, so it's basically "Work It 2003", but I love the huge, monophonically surging bass and the skip-rope beats, and all the weird little accents and effects. 13. Set Your Ass On Fire - Busta Rhymes Sounds "eh" on a small system, but comes to life when the Escalade that nearly flattened you on the way around the corner has it pouring out of the windows and you hear it rattling doors up and down the block. 14. Childhood Memories - British Sea Power The song where BSP actually earn the Echo & the Bunnymen comparisons, it could have been an _Ocean Rain_ outtake. 15. Black Math (Live) - The White Stripes (from the iTunes Music Store) Guaranteed air guitar fodder, unless you're dead or something. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:38:45 -0800 From: Elizabeth Brion Subject: Re: [loud-fans] how do you use iTunes? On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 07:44 PM, Jenny Grover wrote: > Elizabeth Brion wrote: > >> Well, didn't I speak too soon? I came home today to a Mysterious >> Package; my father-in-law bought me a 20gb iPod. (I had a recent >> personal crisis and people seem to be responding to it by buying me >> audio equipment.) > > > Wow. How cool is that! Next time I have a personal crisis, I want to > have it around these people. Yeah... some girls get sympathy flowers, I get the trappings of music geekery. (And a vacation, too - we're going to Hawaii, which neither of us has ever done before, so any travel advice is welcome. We're planning to stay in Waikiki, since trips to anywhere that isn't fairly densely populated tend to turn into long days of trying to find vegan-friendly cuisine, but that's about all we know so far.) I highly recommend marrying into a family of musicians if you can swing it. E ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:26:18 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: [loud-fans] The Dreaded Sports Thread, New and Improved with Music Content! From an MLB.com interview with Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, who was the subject of Michael Lewis' book MONEYBALL and a great deal of media attention this year. Even before MONEYBALL, Beane had the rep of being one of the smartest GMs in the game. For Jeff's sake, I won't get into why, though it might be entertaining to see him attempt to figure out what OPS stands for. ;-) Anyway, here's the part that made me think "hm, let's forward this info to these here lists" (btw, I don't think music was ever discussed in MONEYBALL, even though its author is married to Tabitha Soren): ============ MLB.com: What are the last three CDs you bought, and what did you think of them? Beane: Let's see, that's tough. I get a lot of free CDs, so I have to think about that. One is by a band called Let's Active, an '80s group from Athens, Georgia. They're kind of in the R.E.M genre. It was a compilation. Another, I think is a compilation from The Clash, a best-of kind of thing. And then, probably something by a band named Drop Kick Murphy's, out of Boston. I actually went to see them the last time we were in Boston. They're awesome. Unbelievable. It's kind of hard to describe. I guess Celtic punk. It's punk-like, but they mix in bagpipes and stuff. It's really cool. ============ I wonder if someone did a homemade Let's Active mix for Beane, or if he's just thinking of the afoot/CYPRESS CD as a compilation. Anyway, somebody get that man a Scott Miller CD pronto! For the full interview, see http://tinyurl.com/2s9o9 later, Miles ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #7 *****************************