From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #239 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 Thursday, September 2 2004 Volume 04 : Number 239 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 [Chris Murtland ] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 ["Fortissimo" ] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 ["me" ] Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? [LkDylaninthmvies@aol] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 [Stewart Mason ] [loud-fans] Rosebuds on tour/thanks! [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:23:24 -0400 From: Chris Murtland Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 I'd have to check filing cabinets or something to remember what albums I was listening to in 1985, but I do remember seeing REM and The Minutemen at the Reynolds High School Auditorium, a week or two before D. Boon went on to the big all-ages show in the sky. Oddly enough, I remember even less about what I was doing in 1995. murt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 06:05:11 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 In a message dated 9/1/04 1:58:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jacklip@charter.net writes: > Around Christmas of '84, found copies of "Underwater Moonlight" and A. > More's "Flying Doesn't Help" which inspired me in '85 to hunt out > Hitchcock's solo stuff (much harder to find at the time than it was later) > > Remembered getting annoyed at our local morning-shock-radio rock DJ for > panning Katrina Leskanich's vocals, yet was totally accepting of Stevie > Nicks without batting an earlobe. > > > I'd personally much rather hear Katrina's vocals myself. I thought they were energetic and honest. I never cared for Nicks' vocal style. Too let's-throw-lace-doilies-on-everything-and-sit-with-the-cat-in-the-bay-window for my tastes. He probably had a thing for Nicks. I didn't discover Hitchcock until ELEMENT OF LIGHT was his latest, and that remains my favorite of his. It has a moodiness to it that makes me think of being at the ocean in autumn, that I never quite heard him capture again. A great record. - --Mark S. Return-Path: Received: from rly-xl03.mx.aol.com (rly-xl03.mail.aol.com [172.20.83.72]) by air-xl02.mail.aol.com (v101_r1.3) with ESMTP id MAILINXL21-5c1413564f9303; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:58:19 -0400 Received: from smoe.org (jane.smoe.org [199.201.145.78]) by rly-xl03.mx.aol.com (v101_r1.2) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXL33-5c1413564f9303; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:58:18 -0400 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i815uaUt013657 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:56:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i815uakt013656 for loud-fans-outgoing; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:56:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-loud-fans@smoe.org using -f Received: from mxsf22.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf22.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.222]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i815uXUt013639 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:56:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mxip15.cluster1.charter.net (mxip15a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.145]) by mxsf22.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i815invo010330 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:44:49 -0400 Received: from overland10k.mo24.107.30.236.charter-stl.com (HELO Narcissus.charter.net) (24.107.30.236) by mxip15.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 01 Sep 2004 01:44:49 -0400 X-Ironport-AV: i="3.84,120,1091419200"; d="scan'208"; a="260976362:sNHT21715132" Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20040901002814.02e7d7d0@pop.charter.net> X-Sender: jacklip@pop.charter.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:44:47 -0500 To: loud-fans@smoe.org From: Jack Lippold Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 In-Reply-To: <1e5.2968448d.2e667c6d@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on jane.smoe.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.2 (smoe.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:56:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Greylist: Delayed for 00:11:36 by milter-greylist-1.5.2 (smoe.org [199.201.145.78]); Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:56:35 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-AOL-IP: 199.201.145.78 Around Christmas of '84, found copies of "Underwater Moonlight" and A. More's "Flying Doesn't Help" which inspired me in '85 to hunt out Hitchcock's solo stuff (much harder to find at the time than it was later) and to buy a copy of Slapp Happy's "Desperate Straights" that I stumbled across. Also got into Captain Sensible's first 2 solo releases (imports). Continued checking out the Julian Cope legacy that I started checking in '84. Found his solo stuff to be much more interesting than the Teardrop records (still do). Remembered getting annoyed at our local morning-shock-radio rock DJ for panning Katrina Leskanich's vocals, yet was totally accepting of Stevie Nicks without batting an earlobe. Quite a pop year for someone who just turned 30. Scott would not be familiar to these ears for at least 2 years. >I've never heard Bowling For Soup or 1985 (but I found the lyrics online and >read them) but I thought it would be interesting and hopefully fun for >Loudfans to recall what they were doing/listening to that year? Please >don't leave me >stranded on this one! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:31:49 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com wrote: > and still bought 45s... > I still buy 45's. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:22:22 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? >>I've never heard Bowling For Soup or 1985 (but I found the lyrics online and >>read them) but I thought it would be interesting and hopefully fun for >>Loudfans to recall what they were doing/listening to that year? Please don't leave me >>stranded on this one! God, you couldn't have picked a more embarassing year. Eighth grade. All my music at the time was driven entirely by the dorky movies and British TV etc. I was into at the time, so lots of film scores and probably some parody records that made fun of the pop music I purportedly hated. The only marginally cool thing I might have had (and I think this was actually probably later) was Talking Heads, and that was only because they showed the video for "Once in a Lifetime" on the late-night SCTV reruns to which I was addicted. Possibly Pet Shop Boys if "West End Girls" was '85; can't remember. Cable TV either hadn't penetrated my neck of the (literal) woods yet or I was totally ignoring MTV, can't recall which. Within a year I would spend a few months trying to decipher pop music based on which videos were cool (the film thing again) and when the answer turned out to be "Fall On Me", it was off to 120 Minutes, Creem magazine, special ordering Velvets and Television albums from Camelot Music at the mall, that kind of thing, in pretty rapid order. I seriously went from condemning all pop music to briefly finding Phil Collins palatable to being harcore college-rock/post-punk/proto-punk/'60's -psych snob in well under half a year. Switchover to CD's: still seven years off (this being The Cassette Era). Time to discovery of GT/Scott: nearly a decade away, astonishingly. What was I doing otherwise? Nothing, really. Making a lot of video movies with my dorky friends, drawing ever-more-elaborate comic strips, being a self-important little pseudo-intellectual twit, getting my ass kicked for all the above. Plus ca change, eh? - -Rex NP (random iPod selection): "West Virginia Gals", Al Hopkins and His Buck... (something something Boys, one assumes) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:06:06 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? >>I've never heard Bowling For Soup or 1985 (but I found the lyrics online and >>read them) but I thought it would be interesting and hopefully fun for >>Loudfans to recall what they were doing/listening to that year? Please don't leave me >>stranded on this one! I graduated from high school and started college. I remember listening to The Cure 'Head on the Door' much more than a human being should - also The Costello Show's "King of America" and the Pogues' "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash." The 'Weird Science' soundtrack also spent more time on my turntable than it probably should have. "Why Don't Pretty Girls Look At Me," indeed. All LPs and Cassettes, of course - I didn't get my first CD player until the following year. The most important thing musically for me was that I started doing college radio. I remember sorting and alphabetizing all of the 45s at WRBC, Lewiston, Maine - and doing more than my share of taping all of the music from that station. Ah, long before napster, I was a threat to the music industry. As a result of WRBC, I was finally able to track down "24" by game Theory, one of my all time favorite songs from when I was listening to WXCI, WestConn's station, near where I grew up, which, of course, led to my discovering the rest of Game Theory's catalog. As far as concerts go, the first of my two major ones right before college was REM with The Three O'Clock at the West Hartford Ballroom. I remember Michael Querico berating the audience at one point. He said something like "this is my life" or "this is my art" when people weren't responding the way he'd wanted. The show itself was awesome - I thought "Her Head's Revolving" was one of the best songs I'd ever heard live. REM's set that night is online (http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~darryl74/1985.html) curiously enough. The next night (or the night before - I can no longer remember) I saw Squeeze, The Hooters and The Truth. The West Hartford Ballroom marquee read 'Squeeze Hooters,' which I thought was unfortunate, albeit funny. "Singles, 45s and Under" was, of course, all the rage among us hip kids and I remember feeling very fortunate because I had seen them play 'their last song' on Saturday Night Live a few years earlier and figured I'd never have a chance to see them. Ah, youth. R. Kevin Doyle Honolulu, HI ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:21:58 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? In a message dated 9/1/04 2:23:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com writes: > God, you couldn't have picked a more embarassing year. Eighth grade. All > my music at the time was driven entirely by the dorky movies and British TV > etc. I was into at the time, so lots of film scores and probably some parody > records that made fun of the pop music I purportedly hated. The only > marginally cool thing I might have had (and I think this was actually probably > later) was Talking Heads, and that was only because they showed the video for > "Once in a Lifetime" on the late-night SCTV reruns to which I was addicted. > Possibly Pet Shop Boys if "West End Girls" was '85; can't remember. Cable TV > either hadn't penetrated my neck of the (literal) woods yet or I was totally > ignoring MTV, can't recall which. > > Within a year I would spend a few months trying to decipher pop music based > on which videos were cool (the film thing again) and when the answer turned > out to be "Fall On Me", it was off to 120 Minutes, Creem magazine, special > ordering Velvets and Television albums from Camelot Music at the mall, that kind > of thing, in pretty rapid order. I seriously went from condemning all pop > music to briefly finding Phil Collins palatable to being harcore > college-rock/post-punk/proto-punk/'60's -psych snob in well under half a year. Switchover > to CD's: still seven years off (this being The Cassette Era). Time to > discovery of GT/Scott: nearly a decade away, astonishingly. > > What was I doing otherwise? Nothing, really. Making a lot of video movies > with my dorky friends, drawing ever-more-elaborate comic strips, being a > self-important little pseudo-intellectual twit, getting my ass kicked for all the > above. Plus ca change, eh? > > -Rex > I picked 1985 because we are close to the beginning of '05, so I thought it would be good to revisit what we were doing a score of years ago. Joe Pernice's book is set in '85, there's that Neilson Hubbard song "it was 1985..." and of course our beloved Bowling For Soup. It seems like '85 is a popular place to visit right now, so that's why. "West End Girls" was definitely '85. I used to work at Camelot Music in the Greenville Mall, in 1988/89. We had to wear ties (why God, why?) My boss didn't like me and he fired me shortly after Christmas. Later on in '89, I applied for a job at Manifest Discs and Tapes and on the application it asked for previous record store experience and who my boss was and I put down "Ricky Wiener." His name was Richard Weiner. It turned out that the guy quit Camelot and became a mid-level management guy for Manifest. And it got back to him. ROFL. My friend Kat used to make videos for fun back then at home...some of her better ones were interviewing Guillaume Morrisson (played by her brother) of his band The French Doors ("born to be French") and spoofs of Mentos commercials, and my perennial favorite, BIPPY. Bippy was this teenage death rocker pyromaniac girl that Kat had created/played and her Ozzie and Harriet parents were played by a couple of friends. After Bippy had done her latest damage, like burn down the garage, Bippy's dad would look in the camera with that "What's a father to do?" shrug and say, with a brain on life support smile, "Something must done....about Bippy." I laughed so hard I cried. Hold on to those videos and comics. You may appreiate them more as time passes. - --Mark S. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:33:17 -0500 From: Chris Prew Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? On Sep 1, 2004, at 2:06 PM, R. Kevin Doyle wrote: >>> I've never heard Bowling For Soup or 1985 (but I found the lyrics >>> online > and >>> read them) but I thought it would be interesting and hopefully fun >>> for >>> Loudfans to recall what they were doing/listening to that year? >>> Please > don't leave me >>> stranded on this one! >>> Oh, I'll bite -- since I haven't posted in forever. 2nd year of college...Reading Maximum Rock & Roll in the dorm, so I was in my punk phase...(but I was too insecure to do anything about my fashion sense, so i still dressed like a suburban dork).... Husker Du - Zen Arcade Volcano Suns - Bright Orange Years Replacements - Let it Be Violent Femmes (..I was in college!) Dead Kennedys Mission of Burma Black Flag NOTA, and a few other more generic and since forgotten hardcore bands and the Residents Also the usual suspects, REM, Furs, Smiths, Cure, Hoodoo Gurus, Clash. I think I had just discovered Let's Active. Didn't get into Game Theory till 86 when I worked at the radio station -- that's when my listening really expanded. Chris P.S. Maybe the Gurus weren't a usual suspect everywhere in 85...I went to Iowa State University, and ISU was so rabid for "Stoneage Romeos" that they thanked Ames, IA in the liner notes for Mars Needs Guitars. Everybody listened to the Gurus. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:44:19 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? >> My friend Kat used to make videos for fun back then at home...some of her >> better ones were interviewing Guillaume Morrisson (played by her brother) of his band The >> French Doors ("born to be French") and spoofs of Mentos commercials, Ours were mostly horror movie spoofs and then progressively more polished parodies of other stuff. And some of them are pretty funny. One favorite is a nominal world history project for the unit on Russia combined with a Trek parody called "Tsar Trek" which is pretty damned surreal and features some occasionally successful jerry-rigged transporter effects. >> Hold on to those videos and comics. You may appreiate them more as time passes. I still have most of 'em and me and the other dorks occasionally watch them when I'm back "home". Those and the comics and all the recorded documents of our various "bands" from later on. One of the other guys in the nerd crowd lost a lot of his stuff in a fire some years back, so he and I have done a bit of archiving (scanning the artwork, digitizing the remaining tunes, consolidating the videos, etc.) to forestall losing it all forever... all told, lame as it is, it's an impressive body of work for a bunch of yokels living in the sticks at a time when home video and audio equipment was still fairly exotic. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:45:58 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: [loud-fans] Sparklefest 2004 Just wanted to let everyone about this year's model. Mike Nicholson has done another fine job lining up acts. Any folks in the NC should consider checking it out. This year it will be at the Martin Street Music Hall in Raleigh. www.sparklefest.com Among the bands on the current line-up: OCT. 7th The Never Sleepsound The Pink Slips Shalini Adam McIntyre & The Pinks The Rachel Nevadas Poor Valentine The Bleeding Hearts OCT. 8th Kick the Future (Robert Kirkland of Arrogance) International Orange (Robert Sledge & Snuzz of Ben Folds) Terry Anderson and The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team The Grip Weeds Let's Get Mikey The Saving Graces Velvet The Van Deleckis (Jamie Hoover of The Spongetones) Tim Lee & In-Line Six OCT. 9th The Chris Stamey Experience The Shazam Walter Clevenger and The Dairy Kings Cliff Hillis Stratocruiser (Mike Nicholson's own band) The Breaks Eugene Edwards Jeremy Dipsomaniacs The Hanks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:32:41 -0400 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 Well, according to my database here are all the full albums with 1985 copyright dates on them that I owned as of May, 1986. Discretionary income was scarce that year (end of high school, beginning of college), but this is a pretty good sample of what I was paying closest attention to: A Drop in the Gray: Certain Sculptures Alarm, The: Strength Clannad: Macalla Game Theory: Real Nighttime Propaganda: Secret Wish REM: Fables of the Reconstruction... Replacements, The: Tim Rush: Power Windows Smiths, The: Meat is Murder Squeeze: Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti Three O'Clock, The: Arrive Without Travelling Waterboys, The: This is the Sea glenn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:41:26 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 1985: a year or so out of college. Lived with Rose (we'd been together one-two years at this point) in Madison: through the August 15 Universal Moving Date in a flat on Jenifer Street we shared with one decent guy who was never there (computer science major), his annoying "nice" girlfriend who was there alla time (except when she took off weekends unannounced, leaving notes on the fridge to take care of her cats - whom she neglected terribly), a very odd woman who took over Decent Guy's spot when he moved in with his sister in her place nearer the computer lab, and occasional VOW's obnoxious BF Russell, The Ugliest Man in the World. Post 8/15, moved into a large house on Johnson Street - one roommate proved to be manic-depressive, another was H. Hughes-level reclusive, one was just a bit obsessive in her privacy, and one was decent. Decent Guy 2 absented himself from the house as often as possible, due to strife caused by other roommates. (Granted, we were obnoxious about it too: after a while, various activities that seemed legitimated by roommate-induced annoyance included: tossing pennies at door of one roomie, playing atonal feedback-laced guitar-detuning exercises (I'd bought a guitar and amp that year), and wandering, with several friends in tow, nearly nude into the house after skinny-dipping expedition in one of Madison's lakes. (We knew this would freak out the roommate most likely to experience it, so...) Music? Hmm... R.E.M., Talking Heads, Smiths...a friend had introduced me to the Cure and Robyn Hitchcock. I don't think there was much out-of-the-1985-way for me - I could consult the massive "Best of '85" 4-disc set that a friend of mine burned, since a lot of it echoed my own interests...but I'm lazy. I think, though, I was still in my Ralph Records phase, buying about everything they put out. - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:11:13 -0700 From: "me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 oh, fine. i was... depending on the time of year, 11 or 12. i got my first very own casette as a birthday present for my 12th birthday - Bryan Adams, Reckless. i almost immediately afterwards asked a friend of mine to copy the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack onto a blank tape - he put AC/DC's Who Made Who on the back, and i was hooked. later that year, i bought the St. Elmo's Fire soundtrack. some time during that year, i think, i ended up with Wham! Make it Big on vinyl, and somethign else i can't remember. i loved A-ha (Morten Haarket was my one and only celebrity crush) and some how also found Depeche Mode and latched onto Black Celebration (i even did a solo lip sync and dance to Fly on the Windscreen at the school lip sync contest, which involved backing out on my 2 closest friends and leaving them to do some lame-ass girl band song without me; i think my choice of music - and outfit/makeup [think dr. caligari's cesare) probably caused a phone call to my parents, considering i was otherwise, and always had been, a very quite, suburban, hard-working student - who like commas). in carpool, it seemed like we heard the following every single day: Curie Liaison, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Don't You Forget About Me, and Shout - which i liked a lot and Lady in Red - which i detested so there ya go. brianna - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 > In a message dated 8/31/04 3:59:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > zoom@muppetlabs.com writes: > > > > And I'm talking, of course, about Bowling For Soup's "1985." > > > > > > I've never heard Bowling For Soup or 1985 (but I found the lyrics online and > read them) but I thought it would be interesting and hopefully fun for > Loudfans to recall what they were doing/listening to that year? Please don't leave me > stranded on this one! > > me: > Still one year away from discovering Game Theory (dammit). > > Listened to music on a silver (then everything went black...now back to > silver) Panasonic stereo with the radio and tape player built in...you pushed a > button next to the "stop" one and it popped out sort of like a DVD player, but > without electrical help. It contained the absolute biggest piece of shite record > player in the world, complete with red plastic cartridge containing sapphire > needle...upgraded to Realistic component speakers from Radio Shack and a > diamond needle that year with Christmas money...two years away from a CD player > (LOLITA NATION was, I think, the third CD I ever bought). > > Saw THE BREAKFAST CLUB with my German exchange student girlfriend in the > theater the spring before h.s. graduation. > > Graduated from high school (Go Wade Hampton Marching Generals...yay.). Thanks > for not preparing me properly for college in math or science! > > Listened to PSYCHOCANDY import (cost 20 bucks on vinyl!), FABLES OF THE > RECONSTRUCTION, DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLES (which skipped horribly on said record > player) LOW LIFE, THE HEAD ON THE DOOR and still bought 45s...got tapes from my > older brother who had a CD player, like LITTLE CREATURES and the Jam's COMPACT > SNAP > > Went to College of Charleston that fall, had a dorm room (a converted motor > hotel downtown by the campus) BELOW sea level (not kidding...records and stereo > and all possessions ended up on my bed once after a storm)...roommate had a > Kathy Smith poster, which was it for his decor, except for bamboo rug which > began to REEK after said storm > > Got very upset when Ricky Wilson died...blew off classes, and went to the > beach to walk around. > > > Hope this didn't bore you, but I'd love to know what you guys were up > to/listening to, in 1985. Anyone in a band then? > > --Mark S. > > p.s. > I made all this up. I was driving around in my primered Camaro and listening > to Dokken and playing with my rattail while chainsmoking Marlboro reds ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 02:10:09 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? In a message dated 9/1/04 3:19:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rkdoyle@midpac.edu writes: > He said something like > "this is my life" or "this is my art" when people weren't responding the way > he'd wanted. The show itself was awesome - I thought "Her Head's Revolving" > was one of the best songs I'd ever heard live. How do you think he wanted them to respond? I listened to that Cure record way too much myself. - --Mark S. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 02:09:23 -0400 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 1985: Lived in Lubbock, turned 16, sophomore/junior in high school, mostly hung out with the other theatre kids or with my older brother, worked afternoons and weekends at my dad's store, mostly spent my paychecks at Ralph's Records and University Records near the Tech campus. Big musical discoveries of the time included Everything But the Girl, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Prefab Sprout, the 4AD bands (this was the period where the Cocteau Twins seemingly had a new record out every three weeks), that sort of thing. On the US side, KTXT played the hell out of Naked Raygun's THROB THROB, the mighty trilogy of ZEN ARCADE/NEW DAY RISING/FLIP YOUR WIG, the Minutemen's DOUBLE NICKELS and PROJECT: MERSH, the Replacements' LET IT BE and, slightly later, the first Squirrel Bait album, all of which made me more interested in punk music than I'd been since I was 12. Had occasionally heard one Game Theory song on KTXT, "I Wanna Get Hit By A Car." (I assume that they played songs from REAL NIGHTTIME too, but all I remember hearing was that one and, later, "Erica's Word.") Stopped watching MTV almost entirely in January because we moved to a new house on the edge of town and didn't find out until it was too late that the cable company had not gotten as far as our new subdivision yet (and wouldn't until the fall of 1986), so I could only occasionally see it when I was hanging out at my brother's apartment, but kept up with the mainstream via Magic 99.5, the inescapable local Top 40 station: between Prince, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and a variety of one- and two-hit wonders, the mainstream was still perfectly listenable most of the time. S ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 02:36:06 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Rosebuds on tour/thanks! The Rosebuds are touring right now, and here's where. They're a lot of fun to see. And, thanks very much everyone for sharing what you were up to/into in '85. I'm enjoying it! - --Mark S. From the Merge Records Site: Thu Sep 2nd 2004 Myrtle Beach, SC @ Lime Light Fri Sep 3rd 2004 Wilmington, NC @ Soapbox Lounge Sat Sep 4th 2004 Charleston, SC @ Cumberlands Pub Wed Sep 8th 2004 Washington, DC @ DC 9 Thu Sep 9th 2004 Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant St. Fri Sep 10th 2004 Wilkes-Barre, PA @ Cafe Metropolis Sat Sep 11th 2004 Akron, OH @ Lime Spider Sun Sep 12th 2004 Champaign, IL @ Cowboy Monkey Mon Sep 13th 2004 Bloomington, IN @ Second Story Tue Sep 14th 2004 Chicago, IL @ Double Door Wed Sep 15th 2004 Madison, WI @ Catacombs Coffee House Thu Sep 16th 2004 Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews Fri Sep 17th 2004 Omaha, NE @ O'Leavers Sat Sep 18th 2004 Denver, CO @ Lion's Lair Mon Sep 20th 2004 Spokane, WA @ The Shop Tue Sep 21st 2004 Seattle, WA @ Hideaway Wed Sep 22nd 2004 Portland, OR @ Holocene Thu Sep 23rd 2004 Chico, CA @ Moxie's Cafe & Gallery Fri Sep 24th 2004 San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord Sat Sep 25th 2004 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory Mon Sep 27th 2004 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah Tue Sep 28th 2004 Phoenix, AZ @ Modified Wed Sep 29th 2004 Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture Mon Oct 4th 2004 Baton Rouge, LA @ Red Star Tue Oct 5th 2004 Tallahassee, FL @ Florida State/Club Downunder Thu Oct 7th 2004 Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Cafe Tue Oct 12th 2004 Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber Wed Oct 13th 2004 New York City, NY @ Mercury Lounge Thu Oct 21st 2004 Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge Fri Oct 22nd 2004 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl Sat Oct 23rd 2004 Greensboro, NC @ Gate City Noise ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #239 *******************************