From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #113 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, April 25 2004 Volume 04 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] more tour dates ["Bradley Skaught" ] Re: [loud-fans] worst song ever ["Fortissimo" ] Re: [loud-fans] worst song ever [Phil Fleming ] Re: [loud-fans] worst song ever [zoom@muppetlabs.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 08:56:51 -0700 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] more tour dates I'm really in the mood to post tour dates! I just saw Outrageous Cherry for the first time last night, and they were absolutely amazing--anyone in, or near, these towns should try to go see them if they can! 4/24/2004 Nocturnal Portland OR USA 4/25/2004 Funhouse Seattle WA USA 4/26/2004 Brickyard Vancouver BC CAN 4/28/2004 The Ritz Missoula MT USA 4/30/2004 Cactus Club Milwaukee WI USA 5/1/2004 Bottom Lounge Chicago IL USA - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.662 / Virus Database: 425 - Release Date: 4/20/2004 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:31:24 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] worst song ever On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 00:45:23 -0400, "Paul King" said: > Yeah, Chicago was a 4-disc live set. It peaked at number 3, apparently, > so it > couldn't have been that bad. Uh...lots and lots of truly awful records peaked at number 3 - or higher. > > > 6 MILLI VANILLI - The Remix Album > > > > Uh, "don't touch minor artists"? No *way* Milli Vanilli is anything but a > > minor artist - I'm not sure the last word even counts. > > What I meant is that the *critics* would not touch minor artists, out of > the > thinking that any marginally-talented person like the guy next door can > walk > into a studio and produce a crappy record. So O'Donnell et al would only > go for > serious artists. We seem to be miscommunicating here. If "O'Donnell et al would only go for serious artists" in naming their worst albums, what is Milli Vanilli doing on the list - since there's no reasonable def. of "serious artists" that would include them? I mean, okay, MV are more a "serious artist" than the twelve-year-old down the block with a Radio Shack cassette player who records a horrifyingly awful song about his little sister's snot - but no one *expected* anything but shlock from MV (did they?) so in a way, it'd be better not to count them in the "worst albums" thing. I tend to think that a huge gulf between potential and achievement is one of the main factors in "worst." - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: crumple zones:: :: harmful or fatal if swallowed :: :: small-craft warning :: ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 10:59:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Fleming Subject: Re: [loud-fans] worst song ever Allmusic.com has this record peaking at #130. - --- Paul King wrote: > > > > 1 ELVIS PRESLEY - Having Fun With Elvis On > Stage > For the record, > this album didn't chart when it was released in 1974 > (O'Donell et al says it > charted at #150 -- I don't think Billboard goes that > far down, so I don't know > what chart they must be referring to, unless this is > their sardonic way of > saying that it didn't chart at all). > ========================================================= > Paul King http://www3.sympatico.ca/pking123/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25" http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:16:51 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] worst song ever >> Yeah, Chicago was a 4-disc live set. It peaked at number 3, apparently, >> so it >> couldn't have been that bad. > > Uh...lots and lots of truly awful records peaked at number 3 - or higher. This is the live at Carnegie Hall album, right? Lester Bangs' artful disembowelment of it was what made me fall in love with Lester. For anyone who wishes to debate major-artist-versus-minor artist: www.guterman.com The bio of Jerry Lee looks good (every single word of it, right on the web), Andy One of the things I discovered from spending time with Jeff is that the world of "celebrity journalism"and Jeff calls himself a "celebrity photographer," not a paparazzois dominated by its own news agenda. In this universe, if a star gets pregnant or gives birth, that's news. Often, though, what's newsworthy is determined by something less tangible. For instance, at any one time, some female celebrity or another will be rumored to be suffering from an eating disorder. If Jeff can get a picture of that person looking gaunt and unhealthy, he'll be able to sell it around the world. This week, the name in the frame is Mary Kate Olsen, and the previous day Jeff had spotted her emerging from the bathroom in the restaurant where he was having breakfast. "I sold that in Australia for $750," he said. "Wasn't bad. Paid for breakfast." - --Toby Young, from http://slate.msn.com/id/2098960/entry/0/ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #113 *******************************