From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #260 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 Wednesday, September 22 2004 Volume 04 : Number 260 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] What a tangled Webb we weave... ["Rex.Broome" ] [loud-fans] new Matthew Sweet [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] new Matthew Sweet [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux (John Southworth) [Stewart Mason Subject: [loud-fans] What a tangled Webb we weave... Stewart: >>Scott never had that hardcore Jimmy Webb fetish that Carl Newman has, though. Interesting... I hadn't detected that. Is Webb-o-philia a prerequisite for fronting a vaguely offensively-named yet pop-oriented band with the initials TNP (cf. Stew)? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:26:02 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] What a tangled Webb we weave... On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:50:13 -0700, "Rex.Broome" said: > Stewart: > >>Scott never had that hardcore Jimmy Webb fetish that Carl Newman has, though. > > Interesting... I hadn't detected that. It's not that evident in TNP - but Newman's old band, Zumpano, displayed it in spades. - ------------------------------- ...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: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:38:35 -0400 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] What a tangled Webb we weave... At 09:50 AM 9/21/2004 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: >Stewart: >>>Scott never had that hardcore Jimmy Webb fetish that Carl Newman has, though. > >Interesting... I hadn't detected that. Is Webb-o-philia a prerequisite for >fronting a vaguely offensively-named yet pop-oriented band with the initials >TNP (cf. Stew)? Go back and find the two albums by Carl's previous band, Zumpano (which you should do anyway, because they're terrific) -- the Webb influence is much more pronounced there, especially on songs like "Oh That Atkinson Girl." They even cover one of his songs, "Rosecrans Blvd," on LOOK WHAT THE ROOKIE DID. S ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:59:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: [loud-fans] Wilsonians, start your streaming http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/wilson_brian/762766/album.jhtml Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:23:15 -0700 From: Elizabeth Brion Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux On Monday, September 20, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Stewart Mason wrote: > > NP: YOSEMITE -- John Southworth And how's that going? E ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:59:48 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] new Matthew Sweet I got this today (now I'm quite broke), and I think it shouldn't disappoint the long time MS fan, though I'm not a big fan of steel drums (yeah mon, they're on there). This record sounds like St. John's Wort's effects made into music to me. I heard that new Tears For Fears song that sounds like the La's...also sounds like a lost Pernice Brothers track to these ears. - --Mark S. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:09:50 EDT From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] new Matthew Sweet In a message dated 9/22/04 12:05:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com writes: > I got this today I'm sorry! The album is called LIVING THINGS. - --Mark S., who can't believe he sold (if I did, what the hell was I thinking?) his Ace of Hearts CD of LYRES LYRES...I can't find it...maybe somebody stole it? The Matador one doesn't have as cool a cover...argh ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:58:42 -0400 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux (John Southworth) At 07:23 PM 9/21/2004 -0700, Elizabeth Brion wrote: >On Monday, September 20, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Stewart Mason wrote: > >> >> NP: YOSEMITE -- John Southworth > >And how's that going? Splendidly. Without question, his best album since MARS PENNSYLVANIA. It's got a sort of early '70s California pop feel to it in spots (acoustic guitars, organ, handclaps, mellowness...you know, a little CSN&Y, a little SURF'S UP-era Beach Boys, a little Partridge Family album tracks -- there's no reason that anyone who loves the Thrills wouldn't be all over this), but it's still, y'know, John Southworth. Those lyrics, that voice, both of which are love-it-or-hate-it propositions, much like the supposed subject of this list. In retrospect, I've grown to really like SEDONA ARIZONA, the album he recorded with Hawksley Workman. (Incidentally, I learned last week that Workman played the drums on MARS PENNSYLVANIA under his real name, Ryan Corrigan.) The weirdness of its sound is oddly appealing, even though it's clearly not doing the songs any favors -- it sort of reminds me of all of those late '70s/early '80s albums by first-wave UK punk and new wave bands, the ones where they'd outgrown the three-chord ramalama but clearly had no idea what to replace it with, so they were making these weird, distant-sounding, experimental records. After I heard the later, bluegrass-based versions of these songs, they made a lot more sense to me. I still think BANFF SPRINGS TRANSYLVANIA is too low-key for my tastes, though. But again, the new one's just excellent. "General Store" and "Old-Fashioned Rivers of Rhyme" in particular are fantastic, as good as any of his best. Available now at www.johnsouthworth.ca, or in Canadian retail sometime in the next month or so -- no US release planned. S ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:40:52 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux (John Southworth) Stewart Mason wrote: >there's >no reason that anyone who loves the Thrills wouldn't be all over this > Is there someone who loves the Thrills? I got suckered into picking up that album (thankfully at a very low price) and I almost couldn't stand to listen to it all the way through. Could they be less Thrilling if they tried? Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #260 *******************************