From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #23 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 Sunday, January 25 2004 Volume 04 : Number 023 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] 2003 Music Round-up ["Michael Zwirn" ] Re: [loud-fans] Outfogeyed by Genre-Conscious Extroverts [zoom@muppetlabs] Re: [loud-fans] 2003 Music Round-up [Dan Schmidt ] [loud-fans] Return of the Iconic Visual Signifier ["Fortissimo" ] [loud-fans] The Shalini album ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] Royalty check ["Fortissimo" ] [loud-fans] wha? ["Fortissimo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:16:43 -0800 From: "Michael Zwirn" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 2003 Music Round-up - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Winston" To: "plants & animals" Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 2003 Music Round-up > At Friday 1/23/2004 01:11 AM, Michael Zwirn wrote: > > >5. New Pornographers, Electric Version. Less enthralling than their debut > >but full of great singles. "Introducing for the first time / Pharoah on > >the microphone" is one of the great sing-along couplets in ages. > > I always heard it as "Fell on the microphone", which I admit doesn't make > much sense. So, Michael, what are the rest of they lyrics? Ha. You ask too much of me. I admit I hadn't really caught that lyric until I saw them in concert twice. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:41:06 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Outfogeyed by Genre-Conscious Extroverts >>Kinski: AIRS ABOVE YOUR STATION > > I enjoyed the mp3 samples on their website and really ought to go ahead > and buy the CD. Ah, I'm glad. A new album should be out hopefully by the end of this year. >>Richard Youngs: AIRS OF THE EAR > > I'm not as sure about him, because his list of comps is about 1/3 people I > like a lot, 1/3 people I don't like at all, and 1/3 some people that I > generally like but as "cross between artist X and Y" citations are not > reliable indicators of "Miles will probably like Hybrid Z." Listened to > the mp3 of "All My Life" at Secretly Canadian, and thought it was > intriguing (the howls of feedback providing foreboding and danger in the > middle of a simple repetitive folk figure). Would like to hear more. Comps? Do you mean "Oh My Stars?" That's the only mp3 I can find of Youngs at the site? >>Fleetwood Mac: SAY YOU WILL > > Bought it when it came out, and have liked it from the beginning. It's > about 15-20 minutes too long, but it's got some tremendous stuff on it -- > and yes, that includes Stevie's songs as well as Lindsey's. Who knew that > a Fleetwood Mac album (even one sans Christine, who, yeah, I'd like to > have on it, but that wasn't in the cards, so I might as well concentrate > on what's actually on the album rather than what's not) would ever get so > little attention, either from the public or here. I'm a little surprised that nobody's talking about it here. But in the outside world it sold enough to warrant a deluxe 2-disc edition with even more songs ('cluding a Dylan cover), videos, and all that jazz. >>Willie Nelson: CRAZY: THE DEMO SESSIONS > > I'll probably pick it up sometime, but chances are that it'll be something > I'll listen to a couple of times, think "hm, so that's what Willie had in > mind for that song," and then put it away forever. On second thought, > maybe I shouldn't get it, particularly since I'm in downsizing mode. Up to you. But, not knowing the finished versions of most of these, I'm floored in many cases by the elegance in simplicity. And at how at least two of the songs seem to be about murderers. Let's see...Kathleen Edwards we've discussed. I'm assuming I can't change your mind on Fountains of Waye--and even I, perplexed at the hatin'-on-Wayne we've had here, find it their weakest album. No commentary on the Venus Hum? They're local! Regarding Reverend Charlie Jackson, Boy, Ween, and the Hum, in case you need to know what they sound like: http://www.aumfidelity.com/home.htm (click on "CaseQuarter") http://www.speedboatracer.net/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000ADXEC/qid=1074980302/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-2844082-5270317 http://www.venushum.com/venushum/music/audiovideo/ Prepared to wait another four months (but hoping I won't have to), Andy I think that both these guys have PhDs now. You should buy their album, because if you don't, you'll never be accepted by your peer group. - --Tom Valesky on FLOWERS ON 45 by Happy Flowers ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:44:37 -0500 From: Dan Schmidt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 2003 Music Round-up Stewart Mason writes: | At 12:11 AM 1/23/2004 -0800, Michael Zwirn wrote: || 5. New Pornographers, Electric Version. Less enthralling than their || debut but full of great singles. "Introducing for the first time / || Pharoah on the microphone" is one of the great sing-along couplets in || ages. | | Oh. That *does* make a lot more sense than "Phil on the microphone," which | is how I've heard that line all along. My version was 'fell in love on the microphone', which in retrospect I'm not sure how I made it scan. Dan - -- http://www.dfan.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:14:45 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: [loud-fans] Return of the Iconic Visual Signifier Who'da thunk it - it would appear this look is fashionable again: np: The Worst Mistakes Take the Longest to Kill Us - thanks Miles! . - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:02:58 -0800 (PST) From: Gil Ray Subject: [loud-fans] Royalty check Today I got a publishing royalty check from BMI for the sum of $00.04. It's for Loud Family radio play in Finland. I'll try not to spend it all in one place. Looking forward to the bank teller's face on this one. Gil __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:47:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: [loud-fans] The Shalini album From: Shalini Chatterjee The album will be out in April (4-6 is the release date), but if anyone orders through parasol, which is cheaper, you can pre-order from parasol.com by mid-March. They'll get some before the other distributors. I know the world is not holding its breath, but just in case this is of interest to anybody... S. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:12:33 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Royalty check On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:02:58 -0800 (PST), "Gil Ray" said: > Today I got a publishing royalty check from BMI for > the sum of $00.04. It's for Loud Family radio play in > Finland. I'll try not to spend it all in one place. > Looking forward to the bank teller's face on this one. Yes, but in Finland they write digits in reverse, so it's really $4,000 (plus they use a period for the comma and place it after every second digit, not third). Find a teller dumb enough to believe that, and you'll be strikin' it rich! (So that's why no one ever titled an album or song "Big in Finland"...) - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:24:55 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: [loud-fans] wha? Here's some weirdness that maybe Matrix in particular can help me out with (by the way, where's the lawsuit for those guys stealing your name?). So I'm cataloguing my CD collection with Music Collector, and my home-burned CD of the Critics' 6-song EP - which as far as I know is simply self-titled - comes up at CDDB entitled "Waiting for the J-Card." Clever title - I wonder whose it is...but when I did a websearch on that phrase, nothing came up. Uh, so someone submitted this thing to CDDB and made up their own title? Odd... (Now that I think of it, I hear that title to the melody of the last line of "Bohemian Rhapsody"...) - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #23 ******************************