From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #153 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 Sunday, June 19 2005 Volume 05 : Number 153 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] eno ass? [Jim Davies ] Re: [loud-fans] eno ass? [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] eno ass? [Gil Ray ] Re: [loud-fans] re: Fiery Furnaces/ May Loudswap [Michael Mitton Subject: [loud-fans] eno ass? Oh, I don't think so. It's much loved in this house. A whole bunch of people have said: "I like this, what is it?". I would put it in the top four eno vocal albums, above Wrong Way Up and Here Come the Warm Jets. Ellie would rate it at #2, after Another Green World. I would almost go for that, but experience tells me that Taking Tiger Mountain and Before and After Science would retake #2 and #3 eventually. It's a long-delayed squelch, and it's lovely. It could the soundtrack to a Wim Wenders film. A good one. x Jim ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:25:15 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] eno ass? > It's a long-delayed squelch, and it's lovely. It could the soundtrack > to a Wim Wenders film. A good one. Wenders, incidentally, has a new film, DON'T COME KNOCKING, although sadly I wasn't able to catch it at the Film Festival. And who'd have thought Bergman would come out of retirement? Andy "I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programs a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature, to which I reply and say, 'Well, it's funny that the people, when they say that this is evidence of the almighty, always quote beautiful things, they always quote orchids and hummingbirds and butterflies and roses.' But I always have to think too of a little boy sitting on the banks of a river in west Africa who has a worm boring through his eyeball, turning him blind before he's five years old, and I reply and say, 'Well presumably the god you speak about created the worm as well,' and now, I find that baffling to credit a merciful god with that action, and therefore it seems to me safer to show things that I know to be truth, truthful and factual, and allow people to make up their own minds about the moralities of this thing, or indeed the theology of this thing." - --Sir David Attenborough, from http://randi.org/jr/061705like.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:04:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] eno ass? eno ass? Best subject header. Ever. Gil - --- Jim Davies wrote: > Oh, I don't think so. It's much loved in this > house. A whole bunch > of people have said: "I like this, what is it?". > > I would put it in the top four eno vocal albums, > above Wrong Way Up > and Here Come the Warm Jets. > > Ellie would rate it at #2, after Another Green > World. I would almost > go for that, but experience tells me that Taking > Tiger Mountain and > Before and After Science would retake #2 and #3 > eventually. > > It's a long-delayed squelch, and it's lovely. It > could the soundtrack > to a Wim Wenders film. A good one. > > x Jim > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:28:33 -0600 From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] re: Fiery Furnaces/ May Loudswap Brian's paragraph, verbatim, is what I would have said about Fiery Furnaces. 2nd, top ten so far, etc. I think the main complaint that's been voiced here before is that melodies can be monotonous, in the sense that they don't necessarily get around to using all the notes an octave provides. I agree with this complaint on Gallowsbird Park; I disagree but understand it for Blueberry Boat; and completely disagree for EP. At least in that sense, I do think they've improved. But how about Architecture in Helsinki? If Blueberry was the funnest record of last year, In Case We die is making a strong case for funnest record of this year. On 6/17/05, Brian Block wrote: > >>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. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:02:59 -0400 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] re: Fiery Furnaces/ May Loudswap - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Mitton" > But how about Architecture in Helsinki? If Blueberry was the > funnest > record of last year, In Case We die is making a strong case for > funnest record of this year. On the first couple of listens, I found it kind of disappointing in comparison to last year's FINGERS CROSSED, and I havn't had time to revisit it since. I'm disappointed that I had to miss seeing them play a little club just up the street last weekend, though. S ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #153 *******************************