From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #152 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 Saturday, June 18 2005 Volume 05 : Number 152 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] May Loudswap [basher132 ] [loud-fans] re: Fiery Furnaces/ May Loudswap ["Brian Block" ] Re: [loud-fans] eno [zoom@muppetlabs.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:17:46 +0100 From: basher132 Subject: [loud-fans] May Loudswap Hello all, This is the track listing of the swap disc sent to me by Brad Skaught Any opinions on the Firery Furnaces Would be appreciated 1. Cass McCombs - Sacred Heart 2. Statuesque - Ex Hubris 3. Clearlake - I Want To live In A dream 4.The Reigning Sound - If You Can't Give Me Everything 5. Outrageous Cherry - Why Don't We Talk About Something Else 6. The Lucksmiths - The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Fransisco 7. The Go betweens - Boundary Rider 8. Spoon - Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine 9. Firery Furnaces - Tropical Iceland 10. The Muttonbirds - Ten Feet Tall 11. Chuck Prophet - Don't It Make You Want To go Home 12. House Of Love - Gotta Be That Way 13. Beulah - Night Is The Day Turned Inside Out Cheers, John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:22:56 +0000 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] re: Fiery Furnaces/ May Loudswap >>Any opinions on the Fiery Furnaces Would be appreciated>> Short opinion: they're wonderful, John: playful and tuneful and experimental and fun, plus good storytellers. BLUEBERRY BOAT was my 2nd-favorite album of 2004 (out of around eighty albums that i genuinely enjoyed), and EP - their full-length new album from which "Tropical Iceland" is taken - is a simpler album that's somewhere, so far, in my 2005 Top Ten. My fuller and more detailed opinion, if you're curious, is at http://www.epinions.com/content_184634019460 cheers, - - Brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:27:41 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] re: Fiery Furnaces/ May Loudswap I wasn't aware the Loudswaps still went on. Haven't seen a review in a long time. Then again, I've been out of town. Heading back into town tomorrow. Did the list ever get a new archive, and/or do I just keep forgetting where it is? Anybody wants to help out, offlist is fine. And I promise to write it in a safe place this time, Andy Suicide Bridge Where bodies fall from the sky. By Denise Grollmus Published: Wednesday, June 8, 2005 So many bodies have fallen from the sky into Juliet Shreve's neighborhood that she can't remember specifics. They blend together into one limp, anonymous figure. "They never came one after another," she says. "They'd always catch you by surprise." She must sift through her memory before one sticks out. It was June 27, 1990. Her children were still in grade school. The dense woods around her house were thick with trees and bushes, overgrown with vines and dogwoods. She was sitting in the still shade of her 1912 colonial, dwarfed by the colossal concrete legs of the All-America Bridge, more commonly known as the Y-Bridge. It's a massive 3,400-foot snake of concrete that slithers over the lush Little Cuyahoga Valley and splits into a Y as it approaches downtown Akron. Its arched steel frame sits 150 feet in the air, bleeding rust onto the thick concrete limbs that rise above the surrounding greenery. Below, Shreve's street is seldom traveled. A narrow, one-way passage on the edge of a steep hill, East Lods Street is tucked between the bustle of downtown and the Italian restaurants of North Hill. The bridge protects Shreve and her neighbors from the scorching sun and the harsh winter snow. As her kids played in its shade, Shreve relaxed to the sound of cars whooshing by overhead. Then, she heard the rustle of trees and a heavy thud. "Someone hollered, 'A body!'" she recalls. She ran to her backyard, her daughter and two sons at her side. They came upon a man splayed out in the grass, next to the bushes. Shreve remembers the middle-aged white guy lying on his stomach, his head busted open. His name was James Lehman. He was 33 years old. Her children stared at his brains, which oozed into the spikes of green and yellow grass. More neighbors gathered. Then the police. An hour or so later, the body was carted away. Shreve knew the routine. After all, she lives beneath the suicide bridge. Since its construction in 1981, the Y-Bridge has served as the launch site for 43 suicides and countless more attempts. But unlike most bridges that seduce jumpers, the bodies here don't fall into rivers, lakes, or forests. They fall onto buildings and houses, and into backyards, like some weird, ominous plague. On a sunny May afternoon, life in the valley is idyllic. Children zigzag on bikes, while old ladies hang laundry out to dry and a man meticulously edges his lawn. Sandra Babcock has lived below the bridge for more than 23 years. She's a resident of the Elizabeth Park housing project. Its rows of brick apartments sit just beneath the split in the bridge's Y, where bodies have fallen within feet of a children's playground set. Sitting in the sun, waiting for her ride, Babcock recounts the story of one Thanksgiving. As she placed the turkey on the dinner table, she heard the sirens. Before she could stop him, her teenage son, Larry, ran outside to find the body. When he returned, he refused to eat. "The guy's head was splattered all over the place," she says. "It was a younger fella that had jumped off the bridge. It shook us all up -- someone that young. He was only 20 or 21." Ever since, Babcock refuses to look out her window when she hears the thuds and sirens, though the thought of jumpers never leaves her mind. For others, it's much harder to ignore the somber shower. The Oriana House, a community corrections service that also treats substance abuse, has had two bodies land on its property in the past two years. One was that of 33-year-old nurse Anita Weaver, who suffered from manic depression. The other was that of 71-year-old James Cummings. He'd parked his car at St. Thomas Hospital, which sits at the bridge's northern tip. He had planned to get treatment for depression, but decided to jump instead. His body was discovered by an Oriana staffer headed to work. "It's pretty hard on the staff when they see that going on," says Bernie Rochford, Oriana's executive vice president. "Unfortunately, we seem to be the place of choice." Other valley dwellers are less queasy. Many residents simply shrug their shoulders. After all, there's nothing they can do about it. [--read the rest at http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2005-06-08/news/feature.html ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:57:40 -0400 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] eno On Jun 15, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Aaron Mandel wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Chris Prew wrote: > > >> Anyone heard the new Brian Eno "pop" album? >> > > Yes. Save your money. I'm not just saying that because it's a Scott > song > title. The record is ass. It's also happens to be ass that's on Emusic, so you can try it out for about $2.50, if you're so inclined. -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:28:07 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] eno > It's also happens to be ass that's on Emusic, so you can try it out for about > $2.50, if you're so inclined. Hm...these sound samples I'm picking up from Amazon sound intriguing enough for me. The by-now-obvious albeit still-scintillating Eno textures, plus morbid-sounding musings. Sort of like spending the weekend hiding out from torrential precipitation in a threatened rain forest. Perhaps we need to ask Mr. Mandel for a working definition of "ass." Glad I now know what "off the heezy" means, Andy Guero [Interscope, 2005] Is that the world ending in his rearview mirror, or just his career? ("Rental Car," "Earthquake Weather," "Qui Onda, Guero"). *** - --Robert Christgau on Beck's latest album ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #152 *******************************