From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #193 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 Friday, August 12 2005 Volume 05 : Number 193 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Stewart's Mixes ["Bradley Skaught" ] Re: [loud-fans] Stewart's Mixes ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:47:11 -0700 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Stewart's Mixes > Sleeping Rough Paddy McAloon, Had no idea the > ex leader of Prefab Sprout had > a solo album out. Good folk pop. I loved the Fab. I've put this song on a ton of mixes--such a beautiful track. The album it comes from (I Trawl The Megahertz) is supremely odd and, believe it or not, the only track he actually sings on! Most of the album is instrumental, with a few tracks featuring spoken dialogue of lines taken from talk radio. Apparently, while Paddy was recovering from eye surgery he would lie in bed and listen to talk radio. He was really taken with how much real, naked human emotional experience people were willing to unload over the airwaves and so he started writing down particularily interesting phrases. I really love the album--it isn't like much i've heard before, and it's not much like what I usually go for, but I find it very compelling and beautiful. That said, i'd love to have a new album with Paddy singing--he's got one of my very favorite singing voices. Prefab Sprout is one of the great "lost" bands, I think. I've been playing _Protest Songs_ a lot lately and marvelling at how wonderful and unique they were. B > > Lichtenstein Painting Telision Personalities Great old fashioned new wave. > > Tonight on the WB The Commas Fun power pop, love the title. > > Thanks Swetert for the mixes! > > Andrea > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.10.2/65 - Release Date: 8/7/2005 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:47:02 -0400 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Stewart's Mixes > Briget Stereolab. Fun synth pop This has been my favorite Stereolab song for close to a decade, but until the OSCILLONS FROM THE ANTI-SUN collection came out, it was next to impossible to find. > Joanna Newsom The Sprout and the Bean. A very nice surprise > considering that > i wasn't sure what to think about what I'd heard about her. Very > good Alt > folk, reminds me of the Roches at their strangest. Which albul is > the one to > start with? She only has one so far, THE MILK-EYED MENDER. > > Patricia Barber A man and a woman. Quirky jazz, and a bit > unexpected, > everything else that I'd heard from her was more straightfoward. > Nice, > again,,what's the best album to start with her. The only album I have by her is NIGHTCLUB, from 2000, which is entirely jazz standards. > Bucky Done Gun MIA. So this is what she sounds like. Interesting > rap, I like > this better than most rap. As I might have mentioned here before, this song is like the Bizarro World version of Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl." > > Pasadena Goldie Hawn She can sing, and this is a great novelty song. > What > movie soundtrack is this from. It's not from a soundtrack, but from an album she recorded in 1972 that I found on eMusic a while back. > > Side Two Dressy bessy, more good early Bangles like pop. Do all > their songs > sound this good? Each Dressy Bessy album is better than the one that came before, and the new one, ELECTRIFIED (which this is from), is their best yet. > When All's Well Everything but the girl. Is this from their early > jazz pop > albums? Nice song. Yes, this is the leadoff track from their second album, LOVE NOT MONEY, which I think is hugely underrated. > Tonight on the WB The Commas Fun power pop, love the title. The story behind the song and the album it's from, CONDUCTOR, is that the lead singer of the Comas used to date an actress who was one of the stars of Dawson's Creek -- not the one who's now engaged to the batshit-crazy midget, but one of the others, whose name I don't remember because I never watched that show -- and the entire album is about their breakup. Specifically, this song is about seeing your ex-girlfriend on TV every week. I'm glad you enjoyed them, Andrea! S ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:24:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Stewart's Mixes On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Stewart Mason wrote: > > When All's Well Everything but the girl. Is this from their early > > jazz pop > > albums? Nice song. > > Yes, this is the leadoff track from their second album, LOVE NOT > MONEY, which I think is hugely underrated. I agree. They've taken a very strange path, from folk to big band to electronica, but Tracey Thorn's voice is still beautiful throughout. Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:28:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: [loud-fans] fall out boy I've been really enjoying the new album by this band Fall Out Boy who play the kind of music I normally have trouble getting excited about even when I like it-- Jimmy Eat World-ish pop punk. They're on a major, but I've heard of them exactly once: in the Aquarius Records newsletter than turned me on to them... http://www.aquariusrecords.org/audio/falloutboyof.m3u http://www.aquariusrecords.org/audio/falloutboyi.m3u http://www.aquariusrecords.org/audio/falloutboyour.m3u That first link, "Of All The Gin Joints In All The World", is particularly good. a ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #193 *******************************