From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #51 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 Thursday, February 19 2004 Volume 04 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Bradley's swap CD ["Fortissimo" ] [loud-fans] Swap Review: Testified to the Puma [George Mastalir ] RE: [loud-fans] Bradley's swap CD ["Angela Bennett & Ian Runeckles" Subject: [loud-fans] Bradley's swap CD Bradley Skaught sent me a very nice mix of tunes for his swap CD, titled _Show a Sign of Life_, including a couple of new things like Elliott Smith's last (?) single, "Pretty (Ugly Before)" (very nice) and a couple of exclusive Statuesque demos not yet generally available. (It's who you know, see?) Bradley appears to be exploring the '70s a bit, represented by fine tracks from Harry Nilsson, Roy Harper, The Move (very early '70s, if I remember: "Ella James"), and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. We also get some '80s action from Split Enz, Vic Godard, and Scritti Politti. Newer stuff from John Vanderslice, Ken Stringfellow, and Outrageous Cherry fill out the bill (OC, of course, still thinks it's 1966 or so...). Here's the complete track list: Statuesque "Safecracker" Split Enz "Give it a Whirl" Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel "Psychomodo" Plush "Greyhound Bus Station" Harry Nilsson "Think About Your Troubles" Eliott Smith "Pretty (Ugly Before)" Chris Knox "Friday in the Ground" Roy Harper "Home" Statuesque "Touche" FM Knives "Down the Street" John Vanderslice "They Won't Let Me Run" Scritti Politti "The Sweetest Girl" (NME c81 v.) - whatever that means! "New Musical Express"...? Vic Godard "The Water Was Bad" The Move "Ella James" The Radio Stars "Don't Waste My Time" John Vanderslice "Coming & Going on Easy Terms" The High Strung "Show a Sign of LIfe" Outrageous Cherry "Easy Come, Uneasy Glow" Ken Stringfellow "Prequel" Bon appetit! - ------------------------------- ...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: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:14:48 -0800 From: George Mastalir Subject: [loud-fans] Swap Review: Testified to the Puma A couple of months back, I received a well thought out compilation from Jeff cleverly titled "Testified to the Puma" (extra points to the person who can figure out what the title references). As always from Jeff, the disc has stellar packaging and informative liner notes. And the music was sequenced perfectly. The songs I dug the most (and played over and over again, though I enjoyed hearing all of them) were by TMBG, Bowie, Postal Service, Tris McCall and especially the McLusky tune (containing the most infectious hook of 2003). Now that I've heard The Postal Service I have to chime in as an advocate. Yeah, they sound ridiculously like Prefab Sprout circa 1984, but I loved _Steve McQueen_ in all its preciousness and will probably go our and buy _Give Up_ next time I'm cd shopping. Here is the whole disc: They Might Be Giants - I Can Hear You Moonshake - Flow Buffalo Springfield - Everydays David Bowie - New Killer Star Elbow - Any Day Now King Crimson - Exiles The Sugarplastics - Debusy and Me ELO - Look At Me Now The Residents - Boy in Love Sparks - Get in the Swing Clinic - Monkey on Your Back McLusky - Undress for Success The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York Jane Siberry - Red High Heels Pink Floyd - Cymbaline Tris McCall - Robert Menendez Basta Ya! T. Rex - Cosmic Dance Ultra Vivid Scene - This Is the Way Again, thanks Jeffrey for the great mix, - --George ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:36:34 -0500 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Swap Review: Testified to the Puma At 09:14 AM 2/18/2004 -0800, George Mastalir wrote: >Now that I've heard >The Postal Service I have to chime in as an advocate. Yeah, they sound >ridiculously like Prefab Sprout circa 1984 Can I get a confirmation of this comparison before I head out as quickly as possible to the nearest Newbury Comics? S ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:52:34 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Swap Review: Testified to the Puma At 12:36 PM 2/18/2004 -0500, Stewart Mason wrote: >At 09:14 AM 2/18/2004 -0800, George Mastalir wrote: >>Now that I've heard >>The Postal Service I have to chime in as an advocate. Yeah, they sound >>ridiculously like Prefab Sprout circa 1984 > >Can I get a confirmation of this comparison before I head out as quickly as >possible to the nearest Newbury Comics? I don't hear that at all. If GIVE UP had sounded to my ears like STEVE McQUEEN/TWO WHEELS GOOD, my copy would still be in my CD changer instead of occupying Joe Mallon's. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:02:09 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] Spouse-Rock cont'd with lap steel Chris M.: >>It did seem stressful at first, but luckily we have no aspirations of >>being very popular. Having low expectations of something is the best >>way to reduce friction. We didn't think we were gonna top the charts or anything, but I had the misfortune of already having other band members by the time the wife was elevated to lead singer status... at which point it was anything but theoretical, with gigs and sessions booked. So I had all these other personalities and expectations to mollify over whether or not the whole thing made artistic sense (it didn't, but who knew at first). Another *huge* distinction is that she was (suddenly) the frontperson... oh, it were awful. The thing basically collapsed partly because it didn't work, but also, and likely mostly, because of my lousy band-leading, personality-balancing abilities. 'Course now I'm trying to do the whole thing over again like a dumbass (cue Danny Glover "I'm getting too old for this shit" sample... oh wait, my posts to loud-fans are not wacky morning radio; sometimes I forget). >>I got a lap steel guitar for Christmas, which I always wanted for some >>reason, even though I mostly like to play garage rock. So far, I can >>make vaguely Hawaiian noises on it. Rex, I'm sure you know how to >>play one. Any tips? Actually I don't (deduct one West Virginia point, sort of, although lap steel is more of a Tennessee thing)... my skillz on slidey-instruments of any kind are rudimentary at best... sorry. Most mountain-folk are either strummers or pickers... I'm sort of the exception since I do both, but my pickin' is not that twangy. I learned the strummin' from my folkie dad, and the pickin' from rock records, so... prolly in the same zone as you with the garage rock! - -Rex "pas de dobro" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:34:15 -0800 From: George Mastalir Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Swap Review: Testified to the Puma I can't speak for the whole record, but this track has the same timbre of the songs from _Jordan_ and/or _Steve McQueen_ and the vocals are spot-on Paddy McAloon. And the pacing or tempo of the song also reminds me of the Sprouts. - --George On Feb 18, 2004, at 9:36 AM, Stewart Mason wrote: > At 09:14 AM 2/18/2004 -0800, George Mastalir wrote: >> Now that I've heard >> The Postal Service I have to chime in as an advocate. Yeah, they sound >> ridiculously like Prefab Sprout circa 1984 > > Can I get a confirmation of this comparison before I head out as > quickly as > possible to the nearest Newbury Comics? > > S ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:38:03 -0500 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Swap Review: Testified to the Puma >> The Postal Service ... sound ridiculously like Prefab Sprout circa >> 1984 > > Can I get a confirmation of this comparison before I head out as > quickly as > possible to the nearest Newbury Comics? Hmm. I've got _Two Wheels Good_ and _Give Up_ right here in iTunes (adjacent in alphabetical order, at that), and flipping back and forth between them I guess I can hear some common airiness and a kind of vocal timbre. The instrumentation seems to me, though, to have a rather fundamentally different feel. Prefab Sprout's chirpiness was cheerful and organic, sunny. The Postal Service's is beepy and jittery, citified and anxious. Fan overlap wouldn't surprise me, but I wouldn't suggest that liking one implies liking the other. glenn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:16:52 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: [loud-fans] which presidential candidate are you? Well, not really...but phrasing it as if it's one of those quizilla things is more fun: - ----- Forwarded message from "Hilbert, Rose" > > www.presidentmatch.com - ------------------------------- ...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: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:21:49 -0800 (PST) From: Phil Fleming Subject: Re: [loud-fans] which presidential candidate are you? Funny... it says Kucinich (so?) is my guy! Phil F. - --- Fortissimo wrote: > Well, not really...but phrasing it as if it's one of > those quizilla > things is more fun: > > ----- Forwarded message from "Hilbert, Rose" > > > > www.presidentmatch.com > ------------------------------- > > ...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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:29:40 -0500 From: Francis J H Park Subject: Re: [loud-fans] which presidential candidate are you? I tagged out 100% on Kerry, which I didn't imagine I would initially. Bush registered a hefty 31% and dead last at my survey, which I did expect. It's worth noting, perhaps, that of all the elections that have occurred in my time on active duty, this is the first time I've seriously entertained registering to vote. Normally I would never mix the two, but I might make an exception this time. I used to say "I don't vote, so I don't complain about my CINC." I can't legally complain about the CINC, but I'll probably vote this year. Francis J. H. Park http://home.sprintmail.com/~durandal - -- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:39:21 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: [loud-fans] Scott Miller fans in media takeover bid The new issue of _Magnet_ magazine arrived in my mailbox today (with Robyn Hitchcock on the cover, dressed as a magician), and here on the letters page is an item from one Jorge Gamboa of San Rafael, California (are you here?), decrying the omission of Game Theory from the magazine's "college rock" feature. Scroll down a few more lines, and a letter about Rufus Wainwright proves to be from none other than our own Andrea Weiss (hey, Andrea!). Keep it up - we'll have American Idol contestants covering "Erica's Word" in no time. - ------------------------------- ...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: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:02:34 -0800 From: Matt Weber Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Scott Miller fans in media takeover bid At 10:39 PM -0600 2/18/04, Fortissimo wrote: > > >Keep it up - we'll have American Idol contestants covering "Erica's Word" >in no time. Well, "star" American Idol contestant William Hung frequents the music library...perhaps I can slip him a copy and he'll go back on the show for a second chance. Matt A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. --W.H. Auden (1907-1973), Collected Poems ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:06:44 EST From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Scott Miller fans in media takeover bid In a message dated 2/18/2004 11:46:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, tonerbomb@warpmail.net writes: Scroll down a few more lines, and a letter about Rufus Wainwright proves to be from none other than our own Andrea Weiss (hey, Andrea!). Thanks! I was really excited they'd printed it. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:19:48 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: [loud-fans] Meme Plague! If only Mark E. Smith were on Loudfans, he could use that subject line as the title for the next Fall album... Anyway, an addendum to Scott Miller Fans in Media Takeover Bid: Page 32 of the same issue of _Magnet_ features a headline "Game Theory" - nothing to do with the band, but that subject was *also* what Rory Gilmore was studying on Tuesday's _Gilmore Girls_ (Stewart, have you been hobnobbing with the show's writers?)... - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:54:32 -0000 From: "Angela Bennett & Ian Runeckles" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Bradley's swap CD > Scritti Politti "The Sweetest Girl" (NME c81 v.) - whatever > that means! "New Musical Express"...? Correct - it's the version that was on a cassette given out with the NME in 1981 - probably still have it somewhere... Ian ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #51 ******************************