From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #339 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 Tuesday, December 21 2004 Volume 04 : Number 339 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] new Judybats songs [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] House of Flying Daggers sucked [LeftyZ@aol.com] [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting ["Paul King" ] [loud-fans] Aimee Mann DVD [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:27:38 EST From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] new Judybats songs Jeff Heiskell, singer/songwriter for the Judybats, has sent me two more new 'bats songs in rough version. He is similar to Scott in that he can write an incredibly good pop song with lyrics that stay with you. The differences being that Jeff is more concrete and of the Southern storyteller tradition. If you've never heard 1992's DOWN IN THE SHACKS WHERE THE SATELLITE DISHES GROW, then you've missed out on what I think was the best pop album to come out that year (happy to burn it for you...no longer in print). Thanks to a cultural shift since then, Jeff is much less ambiguous in his songwriting, writing from a gay perspective. If you'd like to hear the songs, e-mail me off-list and I'll send them to you. He'd love for people like Loudfans/people who liked older 'bats songs to hear them. About this song, he says: Was in a park several years ago and happened on a group of children playing. One was a boy who incredibly effeminate. My eyes happened to meet those of his mother for a moment at which I believe we had a common thought: that boy is going to grow up to be a fruitcake. In this song I imagine his life going forward from that moment. The Death Of Knoxville Cool Trolling in the park today I spied a little boy so fey His mother's misty eyes meet mine, this instant where we both divine: That boy will grow up to be a big girl someday, you'll see Driving his poor mom to drink; she worries what the neighbor's think Friday's poker games, he hopes they never end; the crushes on his father's friends Losing his virginity to one of them at fourteen - ante up to the mean Hotlanta where he'll settle down, a favorite with that Buckhead crowd; a showgirl clever as a mule His stage name: The Death of Knoxville Cool Pennies save for the change, redneck boyfriend down in Lagrange Aint life crazy strange - --Mark, meeting the fifth grade class he's student teaching next semester for the first time tomorrow...nervous 'cause this is a wealthy, upper middle class school with "concerned" parents who make phone calls to certain people in power regarding who is teaching their Ashleys and Braxtons...imagine the Harper Valley PTA with money ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:07:17 EST From: LeftyZ@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] House of Flying Daggers sucked In a message dated 12/19/04 10:57:38 AM, xgamesters2000@yahoo.com writes: << The Incredibles, however, rocked. >> I'll second this one. Left ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:52:16 -0500 From: "Paul King" Subject: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting Top 100 of all time: http://top40.about.com/library/weekly/aatop100e.htm Warning: cheesy. But seriously, I think it is the result of a vote, because they take a survey at then end. However, they don't say how many votes they had. Web surveys are notoriously unreliable at any rate. There is also a list of "Top 100 one-hit wonders" that consist of many artists that had more than one hit. For example, they have A-Ha (Take on Me) as one example. I supposed that they had their radios off every time "The Sun Always Shines on TV" was played. I also recall Suzi Quatro having at least two hits (her follow-up hit, "Stumbling In" is listed). I would also shy away from calling prog rock groups "One-Hit Wonders". Like Iron Butterfly. And some bands such as Dexys Midnight Wonders, Chumbawumba or The Crash Test Dummies can't be called "One-Hit Wonders" simply because they only had one hit in the U.S. (I am not sure of Chumbawumba, but "Look No Strings" (not listed) is a strong contender for an early 90s/late 80s hit in the UK - any Brits on the list please correct me). These are only a few examples off the top of my head. Any more and I would have to lunge for my battered copy of Ted Kennedy's Music Charts, but I can't be bothered. If anyone else wishes to pick at the cavernous flaws on this song list, there's plently to go around, and Christmas is a time of sharing: http://top40.about.com/library/weekly/aaonehite.htm Later ========================================================= Paul King http://www3.sympatico.ca/pking123/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:50:45 EST From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Aimee Mann DVD Got it today. 17 bucks spent very well. My only complaint is that the banter she says is pretty much the same banter she had in Asheville at The Orange Peel, as well as the same set list and outfit (but no cool fat clown tie for us...it was humid). The encore and the keyboard-played song were the same as well, I think. Still, a very good show, and the DVD is a memory of it...the night that I drove home from Asheville in my I-just-saw-and-met-Aimee-Mann-daze to find that lightning had destroyed my Presario and sliced and killed the huge old tree in the backyard (which cost 3000 dollars to remove...eek ) I suppose Aimee saved my life. The lightening went from the tree to the house through my bedroom. Thank you Aimee, now finish that Scott collaboration, - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:28:51 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Accidental list sighting On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:52:16 -0500, Paul King wrote: > There is also a list of "Top 100 one-hit wonders" that consist of many artists > that had more than one hit. For example, they have A-Ha (Take on Me) as one > example. I supposed that they had their radios off every time "The Sun Always > Shines on TV" was played Don't know that one... I also recall Suzi Quatro having at least two hits > (her follow-up hit, "Stumbling In" is listed). Can't say as I know this one either... > http://top40.about.com/library/weekly/aaonehite.htm The real distinction for me is between one-hit wonders in eras where singles were more or less coin of the realm, and one-hit wonders from people in album-based eras who had reasonable careers but only hit the singles charts once (Sinead O'Connor, say). The first, to me, seems more like what we mean: presumably, those folks had their hit and disappeared. The people who continued to put out albums don't seem the same thing to me. Oh - and since the list mentions Big Country, it may be that glenn mcdonald is lured from his list dormancy to defend that band as more than just one-hit wonders... - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #339 *******************************