From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #240 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, September 3 2004 Volume 04 : Number 240 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 ["Stefaan Hurts" ] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 [Francis J H Park ] [loud-fans] DfD question [Michael Bowen ] Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? [Jenny Grover ] [loud-fans] Was: Some lame thread / Now: Something really important ( Hoodoos) ["Douglas Stanley" ] Re: [loud-fans] DfD question ["Fortissimo" ] Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? [Betsy Lescosky Way <] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 ["Fortissimo" ] Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 [John Swartzentruber ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:15:21 -0400 From: "Stefaan Hurts" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 High school, listened to a lot of punk (Rudimentary Peni, Disorder, CRASS, Flux Of Pink Indians, UK Subs, Destructors, The Ex, GBH, etc.), listened to some goth (Sex Gang Children, Bauhaus, Sisters Of Mercy, etc.), listened *a lot* to pre-Live In Tokyo Public Image Limited and thought Punishment Of Luxury was the coolest band in the world, was heavily into The Cure, saw my first real concert (The Cure in Brussels, miserable experience, cold and snowy outside, hence the thick, yes, *long* winter coat, show was sold out, very hot and humid inside, sweat dripping down my back, arms, legs, and various other parts of my body, standing too close to the speakers making it very difficult to figure out what song was actually being played, having girls behind me yell "Robert Smith, Robert Smith!" in my ears, wanted to point out to them I wasn't, despite the Robert Smith-like rat's nest on top of my head). Two years later, I would discover a show on Belgian radio that would alter and broaden my musical universe significantly, opening my ears to things like rap, Tom Waits, "world music", Butthole Surfers, etc. A year or so after that I would discover acid house, techno, house, new beat, ... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:30:11 -0400 From: Francis J H Park Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 Thankfully, Brianna breaks the ice for those who weren't in high school in 1985... I was 13 at the time. I actually listened to very little popular music at the time except for a few oddities. Most of what I was listening to at the time was classical and a lot of (instrumental) movie soundtracks. I think in a school that valued conformity above a lot of other virtues (I went to an all-boys day prep school in central Virginia). I'd gone to music camps during the summer which constituted the bulk of my annual exposure to MTV... So, if there were any records I beat to death during that year, they were: The soundtrack to Vision Quest (principally for Journey's "Only The Young") The Police, Synchronicity Journey, Frontiers Richard Wagner, excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen (Sir Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic) James Horner's soundtracks to Star Trek II and III John Williams' scores to Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back W.A. Mozart, Symphonies 40 and 41 (Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic) I also remember watching a lot of schlock shows on TV, namely "V: The Series" and "Street Hawk." (I still cringe when I hear Tangerine Dream's "Le Parc.") I was a few years behind on the current music in most cases. My take on it remains "whatever." My parents didn't get a CD player until 1988. By that time I had transitioned from mostly classical to a lot of hardcore. It wasn't until spring 1988 that I first heard Game Theory (most likely "Not Because You Can" on WDCE, the University of Richmond's station) and I started listening to Game Theory in earnest by that fall. BSC was my first Game Theory album. - -- Francis J. H. Park http://home.sprintmail.com/~durandal - -- ...your friend won't ever be dead if this place still exists, because it killed him but he died for it. - James Webb, 'A Sense of Honor' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:55:15 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Chris Murtland wrote: > 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. we tried like blazes to get that bill into our college (which would have changed the tour itinerary, and which has made a few of us feel weird through the years) but it fell through because we couldn't convince the administration that we could protect the gym floor adequately. on my way to flunking out of college and toward my so-called career, working much harder at the radio station & my part-time job than any of my classes. listening to a lotta the same stuff everybody else has mentioned (still embarrassingly deep into the alarm, for example), but also very especially, frequently, and loudly to the first squirrel bait e.p.: "i'm gonna beat you up at the end of this WAAAAUUUUURRRR!!" and also to shriekback, and to pretty much anything anyone compared to r.e.m. or with a don dixon connection: winter hours, the connells, dumptruck, kilkenny cats, translator, swimming pool q's, 10,000 maniacs, and of course don dixon ... most of whom i saw live at least once in 85-86. in 85 i saw r.e.m. (with the 3 o'clock), u2 (still one of very few worthwhile stadium shows i've seen), the firm (yawn... how embarrassing), eric clapton (boring; completely blown off the stage by the opening graham parker/steady nerves), both the alarm headlining (with long ryders; great show) and the bizarro-world alarm/pat benatar bill (meh), echo and the bunnymen, an unexpectedly terrific divinyls/cult bill, and probably a few other nationally-known/big-hall acts. (the music director for the radio station could seldom keep a girlfriend for long; i often got to be his +1.) but mostly 85 was when i started going to a whole lot of club shows -- especially 3 bands for $3 nights at the old 9:30 club and cheap nights @ a place called the warehouse. got big into a local (dc) band called kingface that were on the fringes of revolution summer (the birth of emo), also the poppier mourning glories (with the future frontman of the high back chairs; a lotta youse woulda liked them and i wish they'd done a record), but managed to miss both embrace and rites of spring (the proto-fugazi bands), the (mitch-easter produced) hyaa! and pretty much any other names much known outside the town. mine was for a while the only name on the lease in a group house which had a revolving cast of dozens, some of whom never paid rent even once, and we had outstanding eviction notices more often than not. i had a not-quite-girlfriend sitch that wreaked enormous emotional havoc. i got arrested (unless that was maybe 1986; not quite sure) and although i was only in a cell for a few hours and nothing more untoward happened than some verbal abuse from the cops, it was a really scary experience. i spent most of that summer/early fall convinced my mom was going to die of cancer as my grandmother had a few years before (although ultimately the tumor was removed successfully). possibly as a result of all this, that september i had my first tangle with the big D and got fired from my job (which ultimately turned out to be reversible). i learned what it feels like to go days with no food. i was a couple years away from my first even pseduo-real band, but the accumulated angst was boiling out into song-like forms and in november i barricaded myself in the radio station's production booth for two days and made my first sorta-multi-track recording. (i would play/sing a part into one tape recorder, and then play it back over speakers while layering the next set of parts into another tape recorder -- this is a good way to find out what "noise floor" really means.) the lesson of 1985: things can (sometimes) come back from places that look absolutely unremmitingly irredeemably shitty. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:07:01 -0400 From: Michael Bowen Subject: [loud-fans] DfD question As I was listening to DfD this weekend, I got curious - were the "ah-ah-ah"s in Untitled1/Cortex The Killer made by putting the vocals in a sampler, or was there some other studio trickery involved? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 03:18:18 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? 1985... to be honest, without doing research, which I don't have time to do these days, I can't say *exactly* what I was listening to then except where other people have offered release dates in this thread, because musically 1984-86 kind of run together for me. Larry and I had gotten married in Dec. of '82, so it was the third year of our marriage. He was in grad school in Princeton, NJ, so yeah, we were mostly broke. He had a full scholarship and living stipend, but two people can't live on that. I quit my job at Thomas Sweet chocolate shop and was working at Superfresh, a local supermarket (a job which I waved goodbye to after a mere 7 months). We were living in converted WWII army barracks (Princeton adult student housing- each barracks building was divided into 3 apartments), bright spots of which included a community garden in which to grow veggies, and just a short walk to a lake and canal in which we could fish and catch things that were safe enough to eat, as well as tasty. We had the '74 Monaco by then (had been my mom's, and is the car I learned to drive in), which I didn't part with until 1997. (That's right, 1997, not 1987. That's not a typo). I think that's the year we splurged on a Casio synthesizer. I already had a Tascam 2-track and a cheap drumkit (which, nonetheless, had taken me months of scrimping and saving to afford). We had a Mattel drum machine and a Casiotone keyboard. Larry had an old Telecaster from college (we still have it) and I had my acoustic guitar from jr. high (I don't have it anymore). I spent my spare time making home recordings, writing novels (long-hand, then typing them up in DOS later and printing them out on a dot matrix printer), and doing lots of photography and painting. Cable TV, VCR, and CD player were still well in the future (CD player still 5-6 years in the future). I would only buy music on tape if I couldn't get it any other way. It was vinyl for me. Our TV was an old portable color model my parents handed down to us, like the car. That was an upgrade from my black and white portable. MTV was something I only got to see at my in-laws' house or the occasional motel room. I was fortunate to have at my disposal the Princeton Record Exchange, King Tut's City Gardens (still the best club I've ever frequented), and the best freakin' radio station on the planet, at least at that time, WPRB, the college station. I still have yet to hear its equal. So, finally, I had access to a whole world of punk, underground, etc. that I'd only had a taste of when in college myself. I was already into stuff like the Dead Kennedys, Clash, Specials, XTC, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Wall of Voodoo, and Talking Heads from my college days. By '85 I was also into Let's Active, The Fall, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, REM, Art of Noise, Cure, Depeche Mode, Stranglers, Magazine, Wire, Bauhaus, Husker Du, the Replacements, Buzzcocks, Killing Joke, Ministry (was Twitch out yet, or was that '86?), Ralph Records stuff, the Fleshtones... the list goes on and on. I don't think I got into the Church till '86, but I'm not sure. My first Game Theory experience, that I know of, was hearing "Curse of the Frontier Land," and that was enough to seal the deal for me. WPRB played "The Young Drug" occasionally, too, but I think I heard at least parts of Real Nighttime first (I think they were playing every track off RN). Also heard Tears for Fears "Head Over Heels" in a store, and immediately was just that. I had to find out what it was. My tastes ran from new wave to punk to ska to garage revival to goth to power pop to African pop to hardcore to Paisley Underground to post-punk to post-punk Southern boho to industrial noise to art punk to art rock to reggae to Prince to... well, as you can see, I wasn't nailing myself down into any one category. I taped WPRB constantly, and I still have most of the tapes I compiled (having a 2-track meant dual well, so I could re-record just the songs I wanted to keep). With new wave, suddenly there were a few more interesting fashion options out there in the clothing stores, and I did all sorts of things with (and to) my hair. '85 must have been when I started growing my skinny little braids, since I started doing that at the grocery store after seeing a model with one very long, skinny braid on one side, in a fashion ad in a magazine in the break room. My hair was all of about 3-4 spikey inches long when I started them. And people say I have no ambition! Jen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:57:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] DfD question This will probably be of no help, but I remember arriving at the studio when this was being done, and Scott and the engineer were doing stuff to those vocal parts on a computer... Gil - --- Michael Bowen wrote: > As I was listening to DfD this weekend, I got > curious - were the > "ah-ah-ah"s in Untitled1/Cortex The Killer made by > putting the vocals > in a sampler, or was there some other studio > trickery involved? > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:20:44 -0700 From: "Douglas Stanley" Subject: [loud-fans] Was: Some lame thread / Now: Something really important ( Hoodoos) I always figured Ames was the birthplace of Larry Storch or Dawn Wells (or someone else worthy of Hoodoo-tribute). I can't imagine the Hoodoos catching on in Iowa, but I love it! In San Diego, c. 1985, I picked up Stoneage Romeos based on the cover art. I still remember what the Tower cashier said: "We got two of these in - I bought the other one". Trust me when I say the Hoodoos never caught on in San Diego despite their best efforts (including, at one point, completely blowing The Bangles off the stage). However, the band I was in loved them so much we named our oversized PA stack "The Wall of Hoodoo". We covered "I Want You Back" and later, "Bittersweet" and "Like Wow, Wipeout". Like a Phil Spector nightmare, Doug - ------------------- Chris Prew 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: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:40:36 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 In a message dated 9/2/04 9:56:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, d0mw@mwmw.com writes: > things can (sometimes) come back from > places that look absolutely unremmitingly irredeemably shitty. I hear ya. Good writing, btw. I may have to quote this line from you in an e-mail or two. - --Mark S. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:15:05 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] 1985: It haunts us still... Glenn: >>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 Whoa, almost thought I'd imagined that band/record. I remember reading good things about them in (I think) the LA Weekly, finding the cassette in a cutout bin, and being really disappointed, although I can't remember why (more keyboardy than I expected?)... ditched the tape eventually, but wonder if I would find it okay now. My mental file on the band seems to have gotten corrupted, because I eventually started to think I remembered them being 2nd or 3rd string Paisley Underground, but I never see them mentioned in anything regarding the PU, so I think I was wrong about that. Oh, well. Now that I think about it, this kind of thing is probably why I instituted my policy of not selling any records back, even the disappointing ones... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:12:05 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? In a message dated 9/2/04 11:54:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sleeveless@zoominternet.net writes: > I was already into > stuff like the Dead Kennedys, Clash, Specials, XTC, Joe Jackson, Elvis > Costello, Wall of Voodoo, and Talking Heads from my college days. By > '85 I was also into Let's Active, The Fall, The Smiths, Echo and the > Bunnymen, REM, Art of Noise, Cure, Depeche Mode, Stranglers, Magazine, > Wire, Bauhaus, Husker Du, the Replacements, Buzzcocks, Killing Joke, > Ministry (was Twitch out yet, or was that '86?), Ralph Records stuff, > the Fleshtones... the list goes on and on. Maybe its a generational prejudice, but I listened to college radio until 1995, when I'd go visit my sister in Columbia, SC and listen to WUSC, (I never was lucky enough to attend a college with a radio station) and the music on college radio was MUCH better as a whole IMO in the '80s. True, I was in my twenties through most of the nineties, so I had some miles on my aural odometer, but, overall, music on college radio in the eighties just seemed much more exciting/sounded better. I don't know how to put it into words...something just died somewhere in the collective musical consciousness or something. My friend Kat moved to Austin for a while in the early nineties, and came back and would do this impression of the vocalist of a band she saw, I think they were called Screw, and it sounded like some sort of demonic growl. I would laugh hysterically, but then I started hearing stuff like this constantly on WUSC, and I was like, what the hell happened to melody, harmony and verse-chorus-verse on this station? So much of it sounded essentially like Screw. I started switching the station off on visits more and more. I think that we were damned lucky to live through and enjoy a fantastic time in music. I wouldn't want to be 18 now in today's musical climate...and I can base my opinions on hearing underground stuff coming into WNCW for the late night shift. I'll get a stack of new arrivals and play a track and be like, "NEXT!!" I find myself saying this a lot. - --Mark S. (I have to take my computer in for service, so I may be gone for a day or two) p.s. STAY AWAY from upgradeability.com. I ordered a chip from them almost two weeks ago...money debited...no chip or response to my e-mails ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:20:07 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Was: Some lame thread / Now: Something really important ( Hoo... In a message dated 9/2/04 12:30:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dstanley@broadcom.com writes: > In San Diego, c. 1985, I picked up Stoneage Romeos based on the cover art. > I > still remember what the Tower cashier said: "We got two of these in - I > bought the other one". Trust me when I say the Hoodoos never caught on in > San Diego despite their best efforts (including, at one point, completely > blowing The Bangles off the stage). > > However, the band I was in loved them so much we named our oversized PA > stack "The Wall of Hoodoo". We covered "I Want You Back" and later, > "Bittersweet" and "Like Wow, Wipeout". > > > Like a Phil Spector nightmare, > > Doug > > I have the CD of that one from Bigtime. It's the only album of theirs I still own. That's a fantastic record. Case in point of how exciting music was back then. - --Mark S. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:30:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Tim Walters" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] DfD question Michael Bowen wrote: > As I was listening to DfD this weekend, I got curious - were the > "ah-ah-ah"s in Untitled1/Cortex The Killer made by putting the vocals > in a sampler, or was there some other studio trickery involved? No sampler--I automated the volume of the (continuous) vocal track, switching instanteously from fully up to fully down and vice versa, in time with the rhythm section. Quite easy except for the ritard at the end. There are some snippets of conversation mixed in with the vocals at the beginning, and subject to the same process. This is one where Scott described exactly what he wanted, and all I had to do was realize it. #3 does the same thing, but in quarter notes instead of eighth notes, and with a lot of extra reverb and stuff. I recommend listening to this one in headphones--there's some binaural processing on Scott's spoken vocals, which gives the track a somewhat 3-D quality. - -- THE DOUBTFUL PALACE Free exquisite music http://www.doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:12:08 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] DfD question On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:30:54 -0700 (PDT), "Tim Walters" said: > Michael Bowen wrote: > > As I was listening to DfD this weekend, I got curious - were the > > "ah-ah-ah"s in Untitled1/Cortex The Killer made by putting the vocals > > in a sampler, or was there some other studio trickery involved? > > No sampler--I automated the volume of the (continuous) vocal track, > switching instanteously from fully up to fully down and vice versa, in > time with the rhythm section. Quite easy except for the ritard at the > end. Hey, that's not very nice to call Gil that. Oh - "ritard," as in "ritardando." Never mind. - ------------------------------- ...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: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:43:25 -0400 From: Betsy Lescosky Way Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985... why did it have to be 1985? Hmm, I guess that would be 8th/9th grade for me. An embarrassing, highly edited stroll through my old journals reveals: Music stuff: We lived in south Georgia, not really a hub of musical excitement. My best friend at the time was just getting into hardcore, which was kind of bewildering to me (Lydia Lunch? Nick Cave? WTF is that?!). The next year I had another friend who introduced me to the Cure, the Fun Boy 3, Bauhaus, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Smiths -- much more palatable. My brother, an undergrad student at the University of Georgia, brought me piles of records from Wuxtry -- REM, Pylon, Oh OK, Kilkenny Cats, Love Tractor, etc. He took me to see REM that fall, with the Minutemen opening. I saw REM at the Fox in Atlanta probably four times total, with the dBs and Let's Active too. Pretty much everything I bought was on vinyl, with the occasional cassette. My family bought a VCR in 1985, and I am sure I have tapes of MTV from that era in a box upstairs. Oh, my brother was dating a girl who took me to see Rick Springfield with 'til Tuesday in our little town. Weird stuff: I remember my parents going to the dog races in Florida with my mom's redneck boss a lot, and not really understanding what that was all about; I have three (ex-racing) greyhounds of my own now. - --betsy betsy lescosky way pantone_367@mac.com homepage.mac.com/pantone_367 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:46:11 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 > 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 Oddly enough, we heard "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" driving to work this morning, on WARM 107-FM. But don't you mean "Kyrie Eleison"? God bless Dominique Dunne... Strange memories of brooding loveless in the Taco Time to "Broken Wings," Andy Steven Ward: Do you have fond memories of any particular Hit Parader interviews you did and working with the Hit Parader staff? Father Charley: While most rock stars only wanted to talk about their new album or tour, there were a few people I interviewed over and over again because they knew how to make themselves interesting. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss, Ted Nugent, Ozzy Osbourne and Rick James are a few that I really got close to because of how many times I interviewed them. Rick James flew me up and let me stay over in his house in Buffalo many times. I remember Ted Nugent flying me up to Syracuse on my birthday once when he was the celebrity driver in some sort of Big Wheels obstacle race. He had the most beautiful girlfriend in the world at that time, Pele. They were laying in the hotel bed cuddling up and watching the Tony Awards, while Ted and I were talking. He pulled out a small pistol and offered to give it to me. Not only did I not want this gift, how could he think I could get on the plane with a weapon--unregistered at that! I don't think I ever published that information. - --Father Charley Crespo, from http://www.rockcritics.com/interview/fathercharleycrespo.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:03:40 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:46:11 -0700 (PDT), zoom@muppetlabs.com said: > > 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 > But don't you mean "Kyrie Eleison"? No - he means that synthpop hit by Men Without Pants at Work about a guy contracting radiation poisoning after a secret love affair with Marie Curie. You mean to tell me you don't remember that song? - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:18:34 -0400 From: John Swartzentruber Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 On 9/2/2004 4:03 PM Fortissimo wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:46:11 -0700 (PDT), zoom@muppetlabs.com said: > >>>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 > > > >>But don't you mean "Kyrie Eleison"? > > > No - he means that synthpop hit by Men Without Pants at Work about a guy > contracting radiation poisoning after a secret love affair with Marie > Curie. > > You mean to tell me you don't remember that song? Lord have mercy! So that's what that song was about. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:36:51 -0700 From: Matthew Weber Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 At 04:18 PM 9/2/2004 -0400, John Swartzentruber wrote: >On 9/2/2004 4:03 PM Fortissimo wrote: >>On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:46:11 -0700 (PDT), zoom@muppetlabs.com said: >> >>>>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 >> >>>But don't you mean "Kyrie Eleison"? >> >>No - he means that synthpop hit by Men Without Pants at Work about a guy >>contracting radiation poisoning after a secret love affair with Marie >>Curie. >>You mean to tell me you don't remember that song? > >Lord have mercy! *snicker* Matthew Weber Curatorial Assistant Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library University of California, Berkeley His mouth is most sweet : yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. The Holy Bible (The Old Testament): The Song of Solomon 5:16 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:45:46 -0700 From: "me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 yeah, i was just too lazy to look it up. which shows how much i listened to/understood the lyrics. - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "me" Cc: ; Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Goodbye to 1985 > > 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 > > Oddly enough, we heard "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" driving to work > this morning, on WARM 107-FM. > > But don't you mean "Kyrie Eleison"? > > God bless Dominique Dunne... > > Strange memories of brooding loveless in the Taco Time to "Broken Wings," > > Andy > > > Steven Ward: Do you have fond memories of any particular Hit Parader > interviews you did and working with the Hit Parader staff? > > Father Charley: While most rock stars only wanted to talk about their new > album or tour, there were a few people I interviewed over and over again > because they knew how to make themselves interesting. Gene Simmons and > Paul Stanley of Kiss, Ted Nugent, Ozzy Osbourne and Rick James are a few > that I really got close to because of how many times I interviewed them. > Rick James flew me up and let me stay over in his house in Buffalo many > times. I remember Ted Nugent flying me up to Syracuse on my birthday once > when he was the celebrity driver in some sort of Big Wheels obstacle race. > He had the most beautiful girlfriend in the world at that time, Pele. They > were laying in the hotel bed cuddling up and watching the Tony Awards, > while Ted and I were talking. He pulled out a small pistol and offered to > give it to me. Not only did I not want this gift, how could he think I > could get on the plane with a weapon--unregistered at that! I don't think > I ever published that information. > > --Father Charley Crespo, from > http://www.rockcritics.com/interview/fathercharleycrespo.html ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #240 *******************************