From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #52 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, February 20 2004 Volume 04 : Number 052 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Scott Miller fans in media takeover bid ["Bradley Skaught] Re: [loud-fans] Bradley's swap CD ["Bradley Skaught" ] [loud-fans] re: which presidential candidate are you? ["Rex.Broome" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Scott Miller fans in media takeover bid I don't buy Magnet very often, but I have this "vote with my feet" kind of mentality when it comes to music magazines and I pretty much have to buy any magazine that puts Robyn Hitchcock on the cover. Especially now when there really is no reason to do it except that someone in the organization must just be a huge fan! B ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:52:55 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bradley's swap CD > Correct - it's the version that was on a cassette given > out with the NME in > 1981 Those of us who are big Scritti Politti devotees generally swear by this version over the album version. It's a bit trippier and more successfully "dub". The fact that it's only ever culled from a cassette source gives it a nice feel, too--a kind of scrunched, four-track type quality. Some resourceful bootleggers in the Berkeley area have actually put together a fantastic CD-R of all the pre-Cupid & Psyche Scritti Politti releases. I'm not saying there's a record store here that maybe carries it, but i'm not not saying it either. Boom! There he was, B ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:19:45 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bradley's swap CD On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Bradley Skaught wrote: > Some resourceful bootleggers in the Berkeley area have actually put > together a fantastic CD-R of all the pre-Cupid & Psyche Scritti Politti > releases. I'm not saying there's a record store here that maybe carries > it, but i'm not not saying it either. Interesting. Does the kind of store that doesn't have a record like that do mail order? Oh, also -- have you heard Rekindle's "Ice Skating Girl" (as seen on Output Records' _Channel 2_ compilation, and probably on a vinyl 12")? Seems like it would appeal to any Scritti Politti fan. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:37:27 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] re: which presidential candidate are you? Kucinich for me, no surprise... most of my responses were in the hard left or hard right columns. Bush at the bottom with a whopping 1%. Not quite sure what to do in these primaries next week... might be deciding in the booth this time, foregone conclusion and all... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:46:32 -0500 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Scott Miller fans in media takeover bid At 09:02 PM 2/18/2004 -0800, Matt Weber wrote: >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. Do it quick and it can be his first video: "UNDERDOG SHINES: American Idol wannabe William Hung, who failed to impress with his rendition of "She Bangs," being offered a $25,000 recording deal with Fuse Music Network." -- E! Online News S ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:54:41 -0800 From: Matthew Weber Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Scott Miller fans in media takeover bid At 12:46 PM 2/19/2004 -0500, Stewart Mason wrote: >At 09:02 PM 2/18/2004 -0800, Matt Weber wrote: > > >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. > >Do it quick and it can be his first video: > >"UNDERDOG SHINES: American Idol wannabe William Hung, who failed to >impress with his rendition of "She Bangs," being offered a $25,000 >recording deal with Fuse Music Network." -- E! Online News Yeah, he was presented a check last night. He had a gig entertaining the crowd at a Cal basketball game. Strange days... Matthew Weber Curatorial Assistant Music Library University of California, Berkeley A word spoken in due season, how good is it! The Holy Bible (The Old Testament): _The Proverbs_ 15:23 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:20:07 EST From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] re: which presidential candidate are you? The useless thing about the survey, of course, is that it can't consider the candidates' policies. Dennis Kucinich made a better-than-expected showing with me the first time I took the survey. I'm sure we'd all like to live in his fantasyland, but what would we do about Witchiepoo? Magnet readers might want to keep in mind that the editors allow their writers to hack out rave reviews for each other's albums. It's nice that they put Robyn Hitchcock on the cover, though. Whatever coverage they'd promised someone else in return for ad dollars must have fallen through. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:07:23 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] Luke using the force and Phil Spector's still "got it" I never get tired of Luke Haines! It took me awhile to warm to Das Capitol (genius title) as it's just re-recordings of old Auteurs songs, but it's finally sunk in as a great work in its own right. It's not really _just_ re-recordings--it's like some bizarre, technicolor re-casting with gigantic string arrangements. It ends up sounding like an enormously more sinister Starsailor or something. Equally enjoyable are the liner notes in which Haines reviews all of his own records and, of course, raves about them. Might be the funniest thing he's done since declaring a "National Pop Strike" granting artists a limited time amnesty to turn in their music and not be punished for thier crimes against pop music. Speaking of Starsailor, there is a notable difference between the two Phil Spector tracks and the rest of the new record. It makes a case that even now, after decades of silence, Spector has some hard-to-define but undeniable gift for simply creating a depth of sound--a sense of definition of space and timbre that is really stunning. It's obvious that Starsailor tried to make all the songs match, and Spector certainly wasn't involved in the mixing of those tracks, but as soon as they come on there's a fantastic "opening up"--like the man has some natural knack for taking any band in any situation and working his magic to some recocgnizable degree. I found it quite inspiring despite Starsailor not being a particularily great band. B ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #52 ******************************