From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #89 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, March 28 2004 Volume 04 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] more on fundamentalism ["Fortissimo" ] Re: [loud-fans] more on audio quality [Aaron Mandel Subject: [loud-fans] more on fundamentalism follow-up to our conversations a few weeks back: http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:59396 - ------------------------------- ...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: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:18:05 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] more on audio quality On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, glenn mcdonald wrote: > While we're pondering Fleetwood Mac, anybody A/Bed the _Fleetwood Mac_ > and _Rumors_ reissues, or spent any time with the bonus stuff on those? This was my first encounter with Rumours, but I played the main album a few times before listening to the demos and largely found the Buckingham songs less striking in early form, (some of) the others more striking. In particular, the early "Dreams" seems sad and personal in a way that the album version does not. The bonuses on the s/t album are mostly "single versions" and not of particular interest. The liner notes mention with great approval how the band "punched up" songs for radio and hired an independent promoter, two things which honestly made me flinch... I don't labor under any delusion that Fleetwood Mac were secretly an indie band yearning to be free, but it freaks me out to hear aspects of the industry that have such destructive effects slobbered over just because (I guess) they're part of the machinery that only care about superstars and thus, by association, represent superstardom. (See also: the choice to have Weezer's *A&R GUY* write the notes for the blue album's reissue...) a ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:26:01 EST From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] more on audio quality In a message dated 3/27/04 10:20:31 PM, aaron@eecs.harvard.edu writes: > The liner notes mention with great approval how the > band "punched up" songs for radio and hired an independent promoter, two > things which honestly made me flinch... > In the case of Fleetwood Mac, though, that made for an amazing success story for two fine acts that had already been written off by most of the industry. You must fight to survive on the Planet of the Apes. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:39:41 EST From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] more on fundamentalism In a message dated 3/27/04 6:27:21 PM, tonerbomb@warpmail.net writes: > follow-up to our conversations a few weeks back: > > http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:59396 > Is that supposedly in response to the topic of gay marriage? Of the many polls I've seen, all suggest that it's not an issue of the Right vs. the Left. It also seems strange to assume that only conservative missionaries are putting themselves at risk in Iraq...although it's true that the Religious Left showed more interest in signing up to be human shields for Saddam's oil wells. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #89 ******************************