From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #74 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, March 12 2004 Volume 04 : Number 074 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Dave Blood, ex-Dead Milkmen, dies [Dave Walker ] Re: [loud-fans] Get me to the Church on time... [Miles Goosens ] [loud-fans] Jeffrey's Freaky CD Trade Thingy... ["Michael Wells" Subject: [loud-fans] Dave Blood, ex-Dead Milkmen, dies http://tinyurl.com/3yjde -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:45:10 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] Get me to the Church on time... Miles: >>I'm also hoping that the "best in a decade" raves aren't just rounding errors and >>are actually indicative that there are more people than me who really enjoyed >>the album that came out in 1994, SOMETIME ANYWHERE (sorry, Rog). I've barely ever listened to my copy; it just never caught on with me. Possible prejudice due to the lack of Koppes, granted, but I also think that everything I heard on that album that was "a new direction" for the Church was far less engaging than the similar stuff Kilbey had just done with Grant Maclennan as Jack Frost (the, um, Kilbey/Maclennan collaboration as opposed to the rapper). I do stand up for some interrim Church, though. Hologram of Baal is inconsistent but contains their best songs in ages (yo, are those hooks?), and the covers record is fun. Wish they'd done a Television song other than the one the Bunnymen had already claimed, but Cortez the Killer? Sweeeeeet. I'm fairly sure "Tantalized" was in the set the last time I saw the Church... four, five years ago? The Hologram tour, anyhow. But "You Took", that's a new old one... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:37:13 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Curley Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Get me to the Church on time... I also think the Church covers album is a lot of fun. I especially enjoy the three song run from The Beatles' "It's All Too Much" to Ultravox's "Hiroshima Mon Amour" to The Monkees' "The Porpoise Song." And if that's not enough, they cover Hawkwind's "Silver Machine." Hearing Marty Willson-Piper screech "Silver Machine!" is worth the price of the disc. Mike "Rex.Broome" wrote: and the covers record is fun. Wish they'd done a Television song other than the one the Bunnymen had already claimed, but Cortez the Killer? Sweeeeeet. Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:38:37 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: [loud-fans] attn: Smiths fans... Attempted content to dissuade spam-spotters: The word "pillowgoat" is disturbing. > - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:50:21 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Get me to the Church on time... At 10:45 AM 3/11/2004 -0800, Rex.Broome wrote: >Miles: >>>I'm also hoping that the "best in a decade" raves aren't just rounding >errors and >>>are actually indicative that there are more people than me who really >enjoyed >>>the album that came out in 1994, SOMETIME ANYWHERE (sorry, Rog). > >I've barely ever listened to my copy; it just never caught on with me. >Possible prejudice due to the lack of Koppes, granted, but I also think that >everything I heard on that album that was "a new direction" for the Church >was far less engaging than the similar stuff Kilbey had just done with Grant >Maclennan as Jack Frost (the, um, Kilbey/Maclennan collaboration as opposed >to the rapper). Whereas I have trouble remembering anything off the Jack Frost album, but know most of SOMETIME ANYWHERE by heart. >I'm fairly sure "Tantalized" was in the set the last time I saw the >Church... four, five years ago? The Hologram tour, anyhow. But "You Took", >that's a new old one... "You Took" was the final song of the '88 show I saw. Opening act Verlaine came out on electric to create a three-guitar din. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:32:26 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: [loud-fans] Nice remembrance of Spalding... http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/03/11/spalding_gray/ Sorry you'll have to click through the commerical (unless you're a member), Andy Tuesday, March 09, 2004 Posted 7:47 PM by Anthony The three things I didn't like about School Of Rock: 1) If you're going to have a bunch of nerdy schoolchildren play AC/DC's "Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock'n'Roll)," there's no reason to excise the bagpipe solo. Wouldn't keeping it make the scene funnier? 2) Rebecca Brown, who played the cool-as-hell looking bass player, did NOT get a solo. 3) I wanted them to exploit Joan Cusack's unprecedented cinematic hotness more. Otherwise, it was easily the sweetest film I've seen in ages. - --from www.anthonyisright.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:04:47 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Toren Subject: [loud-fans] Comments on Love concert/Cambridge U.K. (Karen Eng) Ex-loudlister Karen Eng recently saw Love in Cambridge. She asked me if loudfans liked Love, I said 'Yes!'& offered to post any comments on the show. RT +++++++++ Love: every time another song started, I got a rush of well-being and excitement. I recognized almost every tune. They played a lot of Da Capo, which was my first Love album. I know they did Forever Changes in a concert complete with strings and horns, but this time it was just guitars. It was amazing how well the guitars (3) filled in the string and horn arrangements and kept the melodies while altering the texture. Arthur seemed very old and sometimes had trouble with high notes, but overall he could still belt it out, soulfully. There was a lot of dead time between songs--I once counted 15 seconds--where he'd walk over to a water bottle, pick it up, drink, put it down, come back... It reminded me of Pete Seeger, who used to lie down between songs, when Arlo Guthrie would take a turn playing a tune. Anyway, it was a great experience. Better than Big Star, even. Lots of people showed up. Not quite sold out, but I'd say about 300? A UCLA lecture-hall's worth? I was surprised because I had never known many Love fans even in the States. (It was when I walked into Tower as a teenager and asked an old hippie guy for Little Red Book--which I'd heard in the middle of the night on the radio in Marin--that they hired me pretty much on the spot. He looked at me hard, said, "How old are you?" And then he went to get the boss. I didn't even know it was a '60s band.) Apparently, though, they had a big following here. Who knew? ===== http://www.angrylambie.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:40:28 -0800 From: dc Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Church on tour On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 09:15 AM, Larry Tucker wrote: > Very psychedelic > and loud. Marty Wilson-Piper appeared at times as though he would shred > his Rickenbacker to pieces. i'm surprised at this turn, as last year's semi-acoustic tour was said to be the result of Kilbey's tinnitus, and an attempt to mitigate further hearing damage. so much for that! but i've seen them on each of the last three tours (Baal, the covers album, After Everything), and i enjoyed the quieter, more nuanced set the best, by far. ...not that i won't be at next week's "very psychedelic and loud" show in Seattle, mind. as to the "oldies" in the current set list, they've been pretty good about mining the back catalog of late. and they surprised all with two songs off the overlooked "Magician Among the Spirits" last time out -- a much better record (particularly in its expanded release) than "Sometime Anywhere," which sans Koppes i have trouble considering a Church album proper. doug c ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:59:42 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: [loud-fans] Jeffrey's Freaky CD Trade Thingy... It's much past time for a big thumbs up to Steve H. for a great Janswap disc. He admirably fulfilled my wish of being conceptually weird by constructing a mix built around the 'Pharaoh' line from The New Pornographers "Laws Have Changed:" 1. Israel's People in Egypt (read by Charlton Heston) 2. Laws Have Changed (The New Pornographers) 3. Egyptomania (The Angry Samoans) 4. Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore (Beulah) 5. Birth School Work Death (The Godfathers) 6. All You Zombies (The Hooters) 7. Seven Seas - live (Echo and the Bunnymen) 8. Oceanside (The Decemberists) 9. Let's Go Trippin' (Dick Dale and the Del-Tones) 10. The Ten Commandments (The Fugs) 11. I Often Dream of Trains (Firewater) 12. Egyptian Cream - live (Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians) 13. Satelllite - live (Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians) 14. Egyptian Reggae (Modern Lovers) 15. King Tut (Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons) 16. Oh God (Steven Duffy and the Lilac Time) 17. The Good Book Song (New Main Street Singers - Mighty Wind) 18. Put Your Hand in the Hand (Ocean) 19. Baby in Two (The Pernice Brothers) 20. Let My People Go-Go (The Rainmakers) 21. Redemption Song (Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer) 22. Torn in Two (The Schramms) 23. She Ain't No Egyptian (The Smugglers) 24. Somewhere in My Heart (The Volebeats) 25. The Whole of the Law (Yo La Tengo) There are some really great combinations here, esp. Beulah leading into The Godfathers and Steven Duffy changing the mood after Steve Martin (since the disc arrived, "King Tut" has become a regular on the CD player for the wife and twins to dance around to). Steve and I also seem to share humor sensibilities, for I found the little audio overlays of Bill Cosby's "Noah" hilarious. I had never heard the Firewater cover of Robyn, and found it rather flat, but otherwise this was a great, and most enjoyable disc all the way 'round. All hats - er, fez's - off for a job well done, Steve! Michael "I'll give you ten for the gourd" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:04:57 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Get me to the Church on time... > I also think the Church covers album is a lot of fun. I > especially enjoy the three song run from The Beatles' > "It's All Too Much" My favorite cover of "It's All Too Much" is the House of Love version--beautifully done! B - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.616 / Virus Database: 395 - Release Date: 3/8/2004 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:52:49 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Curley Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Get me to the Church on time... Where can I find the House of Love Version? I have most of their albums, but I don't have that song. Mike Bradley Skaught wrote: My favorite cover of "It's All Too Much" is the House of Love version--beautifully done! B Yahoo! 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