From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V5 #207 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 Monday, August 29 2005 Volume 05 : Number 207 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] London CD Stores ["Richard Blatherwick" ] Re: [loud-fans] Plants and Birds and Lists and Things [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] run to the hills [dc ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:12:37 +0300 From: "Richard Blatherwick" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] London CD Stores Minus Zero tends to get lots of good press. I've not actually visited the store, but the dealings I've had with them for orders via email has been great. Richard > I'm going to London in a few weeks, and traditionally I like to bury > myself in CD/record stores whenever I'm in an exciting and vibrant new > city. I was hoping that some of you would have recommendations for good > CD stores (and pubs with great ales too). > > Thanks! > > Mike > > > --------------------------------- > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:00:03 -0500 From: "Jeff Downing" Subject: [loud-fans] Plants and Birds and Lists and Things Today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a number of features on the impending demise of the album as we know/knew it. Here's the lead-in: "The album has had a good, long run, but the finish line is in sight. Before the race is over, we invited writers to identify their personal best: albums that yield a value greater than the sum of their parts, that offer coherent statements rather than simply collect individual songs. On the cover, the Beatlesb bSgt. Pepperbs Lonely Hearts Club Bandb is acknowledged as the ne plus ultra of long-players. Here are other examples, both iconic and obscure, of the album in its ideal form. In a nod to the vinyl LP, the list numbers 331b3, with the fraction represented by a five-song EP." http://tinyurl.com/94qjx Loud-fans may be interested in the entry placed between R. Kelly's "12 Play" and Radiohead's "OK Computer." Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:58:23 -0400 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [loud-fans] baseball fans? If anyone is at their computer now, I strongly urge you to watch the Little League World Series game between Curagao and Hawaii. It is among the best baseball I've seen in ages. - --------------------- Michael W. Zwirn, michael@zwirn.com (h) 202-250-5281 (c) 503-887-9800 http://zwirn.com Skype: zwirnm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:47:49 -0600 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Plants and Birds and Lists and Things At Sunday 8/28/2005 02:00 PM, Jeff Downing wrote: >Today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a number of features on the impending >demise of the album as we know/knew it. Here's the lead-in: > >"The album has had a good, long run, but the finish line is in sight. >Before the race is over, we invited writers to identify their personal >best: albums that yield a value greater than the sum of their parts, that >offer coherent statements rather than simply collect individual songs. On >the cover, the BeatlesbbSgt. Pepperbs Lonely Hearts Club Bandbis >acknowledged as the ne plus ultra of long-players. Here are other >examples, both iconic and obscure, of the album in its ideal form. In a >nod to the vinyl LP, the list numbers 331b3, with the fraction represented >by a five-song EP." > >http://tinyurl.com/94qjx > >Loud-fans may be interested in the entry placed between R. Kelly's "12 >Play" and Radiohead's "OK Computer." Courtesy of Jordan Oakes, I notice. Isn't he the Yellow Pills guy? That's pretty awesome, anyway. Thanks for the link! Latre. --Rog - -- Distance, Redefined: http://www.reignoffrogs.com/flasshe ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:13:05 -0700 From: dc Subject: Re: [loud-fans] baseball fans? On Aug 28, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Michael Zwirn wrote: > If anyone is at their computer now, I strongly urge you to watch the > Little League World Series game between Curagao and Hawaii. It is > among the best baseball I've seen in ages. Kodak finish, i'll say that for it dc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:46:11 -0700 From: dc Subject: Re: [loud-fans] run to the hills > "Ron Smallwood"? > > Man, Christopher Guest et al. couldn't have come up with a better > name... Sharon Osbourne admits role in Iron Maiden flap By Ray Waddell NASHVILLE (Billboard) - In a statement released Thursday night, Ozzfest organizer Sharon Osbourne admitted a role in the incident that marred Iron Maiden's Aug. 20 tour performance in Devore, Calif. -- specifically, that she cut off the band's sound on several occasions. Iron Maiden also was pelted with eggs and debris from the front of the pavilion during its performance, which was its last on the festival's tour. Osbourne did not take responsibility for those actions. She previously claimed that Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson repeatedly disrespected her husband Ozzy during the tour, and that other Iron Maiden members were ashamed of Dickinson's behavior. In her new statement, which doubles as an open letter to Maiden manager Rod Smallwood, she said, "For 20 shows we were forced to hear Dickinson's nightly outbursts from the stage: 'When we come back to America, we'll be back with a proper sound system' or 'We won't be playing the same old songs every night (like (Black) Sabbath),' 'We don't need a teleprompter (like Ozzy)' and 'We don't need a reality show to be legit (again, like Ozzy)."' Sharon Osbourne explained cutting Maiden's power in part by saying, "Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away with talking s++t about my family night after night? I don't think he realizes who he's dealing with." She signed the letter as the "real Iron Maiden." Earlier this week, Smallwood said he had "never seen anything anywhere near as disgusting and unprofessional as what went on that night." ####### ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V5 #207 *******************************