From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #209 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, August 1 2004 Volume 04 : Number 209 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] click click flash flash [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com] [loud-fans] Jen's Mix Review [AWeiss4338@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:53:40 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] click click flash flash In a message dated 7/30/2004 4:12:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mweber@library.berkeley.edu writes: > It seems more likely to me that Kerry wants the Southern Democrat vote and > Edwards is an outreach to those voters. > Well, he's got my vote, as well as the other five or six of us. I wonder which, if any, Southern states will elect Kerry/Edwards? Is North Carolina a possibility? I think his choosing Edwards is for several reasons, looks seriously being a consideration. Kerry is a shrewd man. He's no fool, though I am kind of turned off with all the PR...the stressing of his Vietnam service, yet pretending his involvement with Vietnam Veterans Against The War, or his speech in front of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 never happened. These prior involvements make me want to vote for him, but I suppose as a potential president it's political poison, alienating Fred and Betty in Tulsa. It's like being Tori Amos and someone saying, "Didn't you used to be in a metal band?" You want to play up that you made LITTLE EARTHQUAKES, while pretending that you never wore spandex. But, deep down, you liked the way it felt against your skin. - --Mark S. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 02:39:08 EDT From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Jen's Mix Review Clever theme, twofers of each artist. I may try this myself with a mix. I liked it becuae it helped me get a little more into a band. 1,2, Carrie Crash, The last Time (I lose my Mind), Stole the Show. Christian rock at it's finest, makes you think, no preaching. Lyrically this is Sam Phillips, musically, nice melodic hard pop, zipping along smoothly, quiet singing, which adds to making you think about what the lyrics are saying. The first 6 songs are from Jen's local scene, and all 6 share members, in this case Russ Fox and Matt Gingerich. Love it. 3,4, Frauenfeld, Not Your Fault, She Might Fly. Russ and Matt are in this group too, plus a guy named Jeff Ellls. These songs sound much like Carrie Crash's musically and lyrically, and just as good. She Might Fly is where the name Carrie Crash originated, a song about a friend going down, and the main character wanting to help her. 5,6 Guinness Clark Wine, Perfect, Out For Awhile. Jeff Ellls's main band. Crunchy folk/rock, more acoustic than electric, just the way i like it. Both are breakup songs, the music floats along mornfully, perfect for the lyics. 7,8, In Passing, You're Mountain Is Waiting, Waverly. Florida band who opened for another of Jen's local bands, Audible Campaign. This is much harder rock than the bands before this one. But catchy, makes you want to jump around the room. I like that too. 9,10, Beauty Pill, Such Large Portions, Drive Down The Coast. A Dischord band, and very different. I like the latter more than the former, the latter is sung by a woman, sweetly, about an airport terminal from hell. The calm singing masks the turmoil and unease lyrically but not musically. Musically I though the CD was warped when i first played it, it's not, that's the way the band recorded it. Love it, all these guitars weaving all around the mix, making you wonder what is going on. The former is more of a sound collage, somewhat formless, but still interesting. What's the best album to get from them. 11, 12 Mogwai, Hunted By A Freak, I Know You Are, But What Am I. I've heard this band before, but they never knocked me out until now. Nice, calm music, very ambient, you can float on this music like floating in a pool. What is the best album to start with. 13, 14, Lansing-Dreiden, VI A Silent Agreement, III An Uncut Diamond. The first is ambient, softly played and sung, like a dream. The second song raves all over the place. I like the contrast, and again wonder what is the best album to start with. 15,16 Soundgarden, Flower, 4th Of July. Flower is not a Liz Phair cover, just like 4th of July isn't the Aimee Mann or X/Dave Alvin song. What they are is grunge at it's finest, slow, but hard charging, dirge like but still dancing around. Chris Cornell is some singer, making the words signify powerfully with his strong voice. What albums are these from? 17,18, Rites of Spring, For Want Of, Patience. Proto emo, from two guys, Guy Piciotto and Brendan Canty, who later joined Fugzai. I like the agonizing vocals, you never get the feeling the singer is suffering needlessly. Muscially this rocks everywhere, and hard, but is never overstated or overwrought. 19 Audible Campaign, Simpler Things. From an upcoming album by this band, another local one for Jen. The title says it all, very straightfoward lyrically and musically. The singer pulls no punches, even as he is calm, and musically hard rock that hurdles to it's conclusion nicely, not a note out of place. Thanks for a great mix Jen! Andrea ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #209 *******************************