From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #178 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, July 21 2005 Volume 05 : Number 178 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] NP/NS How stupid... ["Stefaan Hurts" ] [loud-fans] Scotty beamed up [Jeff ] [loud-fans] soof yawn ["Bradley Skaught" ] Re: [loud-fans] soof yawn [JRT456@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:47:40 -0400 From: "Stefaan Hurts" Subject: [loud-fans] NP/NS How stupid... ...can you get? (to quote Adrian Mole) "A Seattle man died after engaging in anal sex with a horse at a farm suspected of being a gathering place for people seeking to have sex with livestock, police said Friday. The horse involved in the incident was not harmed, and an autopsy of the unnamed man concluded that the manner of death was accidental ... due to perforation of the colon, a police spokesman said." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:03:32 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: [loud-fans] Scotty beamed up (Simply appalling that those folks over at Fegmaniax haven't used this subject line yet...) - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:31:47 -0700 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] soof yawn I'm mighty impressed by the new Sufjan Stevens' album, Come On Feel The Illionise. It's super widescreen pop--dense layers and fantastic hooks everywhere. It reminds me a bit of Jump/Tokyo Rose-era Van Dyke Parks in that it sounds like a fractured broadway production (although less Van Dyke's lush Hollywood and more Gershwin's syncopated orchestral "jazz".) Think XTC's Apple Venus if every song was like "River of Orchids"! Or maybe The Polyphonic Spree with some substance and less bombast.The arrangements are stunning and ambitious. Underneath it are good songs, too--solid, Elliott Smith-like folk songs and some of that moody, Mamas and the Papas "I Saw Her Again"-type stuff. The concept of singing about Illinois doesn't get old, either--the lyrics are really diverse and intelligent (although I think the last verse of the otherwise brilliant "John Wayne Gacy Jr." drops the ball a bit.) Some of the subjects are thematic launching points and others are interesting enough subjects to hold up on their own. I really recommend this very highly! Also, Collector's Choice has started reissuing the Everly Brothers' Warner catalog, and I recommend checking out _Two Yanks In England_. The songs were mostly written by The Hollies (and the claim is that the Hollies are backing them, too, but i'm not even convinced they played on their own records!) It's really neat to hear The Everly's in a British Invasion context--fuzz guitars, rocking drums, the works. It's really a great lost album--no hits or even obvious covers (a couple odd Manfred Mann and Spencer Davis songs). It's like finding a new great mid-60's British invasion harmony group! love, B ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:35:36 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] soof yawn In a message dated 7/20/05 10:43:16 PM, treesprite@earthlink.net writes: > Also, Collector's Choice has started reissuing the Everly Brothers' Warner > catalog, and I recommend checking out _Two Yanks In England_. > Hip-OSelect.com also just started advance orders for their complete collection of the Everly's '80s recordings for Mercury. They're about two months overdue for releasing a similar collection from The Waitresses. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #178 *******************************