From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #41 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, February 10 2005 Volume 05 : Number 041 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Chris Stamey on Sirius ["Larry Tucker" ] Re: [loud-fans] This is the modern world...(sorta) [LkDylaninthmvies@aol.] [loud-fans] music by numbers [glenn mcdonald ] [loud-fans] spoken for ["Bradley Skaught" ] Re: [loud-fans] music by numbers [Michael Mitton ] RE: [loud-fans] American Dad ["Heyman, Elo A" ] Re: [loud-fans] music by numbers [Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] Chris Stamey on Sirius This may be of interest to any Sirius subscribers. I saw this on the Yep Roc Records website. If there's anyone out there that could record this for me I'd be most appreciative and can send you some goodies in return. Larry +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Stamey Live on Sirius! Chris Stamey will be performing on Vin's SIRIUS show broadcast from his home in Roseland, NJ. Sirius subscribers can check out the show at 8pm, 2/13. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:11:41 -0500 From: Michael Bowen Subject: Re: [loud-fans] This is the modern world...(sorta) Is Vanderslice the "Bill Gates Must Die" guy? I downloaded that based on the title alone, and the track left me...meh. If his newer stuff is better, it might be worth checking out. MB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:14:39 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] This is the modern world...(sorta) At Tuesday 2/8/2005 05:27 PM, LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com wrote: >I bought this album after reading a review of it last year, and I sold it >the next day. I just couldn't get into it. I know it's supposed to be >Loudfan >friendly, like New Pornagraphers, and I can't get into them, either. What a great endorsement! That's what I was looking for. That means I should pick up the Vanderslice album, since I love the "Pornagraphers". Actually I was going to do that anyway, since Jeff put a song from CELLAR DOOR (Coming and Going on Easy Street) on a recent mix CD and it activated every positive musical neuron in my brain. Still can't believe anyone here doesn't like the NPs, though I know you're not the only one. I can't imagine a more Loud-friendly band. We're well into 2005 already and MASS ROMANTIC is still my contender for Album of the Decade. Latre. --Rog - -- Distance, Redefined: http://www.reignoffrogs.com/flasshe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:44:58 -0600 From: Chris Prew Subject: Re: [loud-fans] This is the modern world...(sorta) On Feb 9, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Roger Winston wrote: > > Still can't believe anyone here doesn't like the NPs, though I know > you're not the only one. I can't imagine a more Loud-friendly band. > We're well into 2005 already and MASS ROMANTIC is still my contender > for Album of the Decade. > > It took me over 2 years to get into the Smiths first album. Mainly cuz I was listening to punk at the time and didn't have the patience for it. Wow, I guess we are about half-way through the naughties.. Any body else want to pony up their mid-decade faves? I'd have to think about mine a bit, but some possibilities would be Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights Sigur Ros, Agaertis Byrjun (1999, but released in the US in 2000) and maybe some New Porns, but I might put Electric Version on there. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:49:32 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Tinker To Evers To Esq On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Bradley Skaught wrote: > Ha ha! Sadly, no--I don't think I even realized they came in long boxes. > That _would_ be a find. Unless they were just one of those plain long > boxes with the little window in front. No, they came in full cardboard longboxes. I still have mine, though it's not intact (at some point I decided that flattening all my longboxes was a reasonable compromise between sentiment and storage space). I have to admit that Vanderslice's music hasn't charmed me as thoroughly as his personality, but I do plan to keep giving him a try. When I saw him open for Beulah, a few songs stuck with me. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:57:11 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: [loud-fans] American Dad Michael Mitton wrote: > Are you referring to American Dad, Family Guy, or both? > > That's exactly how I would describe South Park, but I often describe > Family Guy as 'South Park if it were really clever." This will never cease to confuse me. I find South Park to be very funny and fairly sophisticated. Family Guy, to me, is flat, unfunny, and devoid of anything internal to itself that demands attention (i.e. the bits where a character says a line referring to a celebrity or something, and it cuts to a quickie parody of that celebrity... it's a waste of screen time and requires the character to say something for no reason other than to set up an unrelated "gag"). It's not the "shocking" bits... it's just that it has nothing to make me care. It really adds little to the Simpsons model-- it's similar enough that I'm surprised it got approved-- and the male characters all have testicles for chins. The pissed off baby was funny, but you got the joke after seeing one promo spot, and the talking dog just makes no damned sense. I know I'm in the minority on this one, but there you go. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:32:55 EST From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] This is the modern world...(sorta) In a message dated 2/8/05 10:42:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, treesprite@earthlink.net writes: He's got a voice that isn't everyone's cup of tea right away That's what it was for me. If I don't like a vocal style I can't get around that, no matter how good the songwriting or instrumentation. If Steve Kilbey sounded like Adam Duritz, I wouldn't own a Church album. I've always thought Scott had a good singing voice, and I'd wonder why when people would say they didn't like it (being my taste is the center of the universe and all). My friend Kat's (Kat is my cohort on the tape Jen digitized) fiance Bob used to be in a band that shared several of the same Boston area billings with Ted Leo, and Bob has said how much New Pornographers sound like GT, and how similar Leo and Scott are in their execution, and Kat agrees, and I'm like, HUH? The closest band I've heard that sounded sonically like GT to me is Folksongs for the Afterlife, and they remind me of GT if GT had female vocals. - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:14:10 -0500 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: [loud-fans] music by numbers It's meta-music-geek Christmas, otherwise known as Pazz & Jop poll time. The data: www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/04/index.php The first derivative: www.furia.com/twas/twas0501tech.html glenn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:18:08 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] spoken for The Tinkers are taken! thanks, B stray songs: www.davidbowie.com/users/bjskaught/index.html No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 2/7/2005 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:33:54 -0800 From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] music by numbers > The data: www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/04/index.php > The first derivative: www.furia.com/twas/twas0501tech.html And in case anyone was wondering, using glenn's weighting system, the Loud-Fan top ten would get a score of 63.0, which would put us in 156.5 place in glenn's ranking. As you might guess, Statuesque didn't show up in Pazz & Jop at all. mm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:56:22 -0600 From: "Heyman, Elo A" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] American Dad I too am a Family Guy lover, and thought American Dad was bad. The scene with the Dad stealing the purse in the mall and running like crazy was the only funny part. Compare that to the 1st episode of Family Guy, which had the Kool Aid man, the penis named Eduardo, the Moat and Black Knight, and stealing the welfare checks -all great and original ideas. Also, I don't think any show has produced more one-liners that are great to say out of context than Family Guy has. SNL would probably be 2nd. The Simpsons maybe 3rd. I always thought the funniest part of Family Guy was the randomly thrown in tv and music comments ala "Surfside 6! Who lives there? Young co-eds!" and the vaguely offensive way Peter is a bad guy, and they never really have a lesson to rectify his badness, like South Park does. Speaking of South Park, I think that show has also dropped off to something mostly no longer funny or intelligently offensive, but they do have a great show every now and then, like "Towlie" or "They took our jobs!!" That's ok though, because to take their place, Harvey Birdman and Futurama fill in nicely. I never really liked Futurama when it was on Fox, but now that it's on with Family Guy and Sea Lab, I realize that they had some great episodes. The "Ball War" episode in particular is classic, and pretty much any episode with Zap Branigan is worth watching. Listing all of these, I think I watch more cartoons now than I did when I was a kid. Andrew ________________________________ From: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org on behalf of zoom@muppetlabs.com Sent: Tue 2/8/2005 4:54 PM To: Michael Mitton Cc: LFList Subject: Re: [loud-fans] American Dad > I also thought A.D. fell flat, and I don't see much potential in the > characters for it to become any funnier. There's not really anywhere > for the main character to go, and the jokes will run thin pretty > quickly. Interesting how *nobody* liked the East German brain transplant fish. Or the God-to-Bush call. Or how the alien sounds *exactly* like the finest "Hollywood Squares" middle-square man ever, God rest his soul. Oh well, "Quark" didn't get open arms neither, Andy "You should never, drink a 32-ounce bottle of Robitussin-DM by yourself. But I did spend six hours, staring into a gas heater, which I thought was a Pink Floyd concert. And that was awesome. That was a great show." - --guy I know ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:13:51 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] music by numbers glenn mcdonald wrote: > It's meta-music-geek Christmas, otherwise known as Pazz & Jop poll time. > > The data: www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/04/index.php > The first derivative: www.furia.com/twas/twas0501tech.html > > glenn > > Pretty lax on their release date requirements, aren't they? I saw several 2003 releases, one that's been out a good year and a half. Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #41 ******************************