From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #36 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, February 10 2006 Volume 06 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] epidemic of offlist on-topicness unabated [2fs ] Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos - Mammoth Gardens vocals [rob] Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos [2fs ] Re: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos - Mammoth Gardens vocals [Gil Ray ] Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos [zoom@muppetlabs.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:14:39 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: [loud-fans] epidemic of offlist on-topicness unabated Check the first entry: - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:06:43 -0500 From: "Paul King" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos I have no problem with "strident". I think she's trying too hard to sound like Belinda Carlisle. But just the same, not so hard that it's annoying. At least not to me. Paul King On 9 Feb 2006 at 1:33, Stewart Mason (Stewart Mason ) spaketh these wourdes: > I have to say that these demos have caused to mildly revise a > longstanding belief. I remain steadfast in my opinion that "Mammoth > Gardens" is the worst song on LOLITA NATION, but hearing the demo > suggests that a big part of my problem with the album version is that > its production is terrible. This rougher-sounding, more "live" take > is much preferable, although it still has the song's other big > problem: I like Donnette's harmonies fine, but her lead vocal style > bugs the crap out of me. It just gets so strident. > > S > > __________ NOD32 1.1402 (20060209) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:19:45 -0800 (PST) From: robert toren Subject: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos - Mammoth Gardens vocals From: "Stewart Mason" re: "Mammoth IGardens" >> hearing the demo >> suggests that a big part of my problem with the album version is that >> production is terrible. This rougher-sounding, more "live" take >> much preferable, although it still has the song's other big >> problem: I like Donnette's harmonies fine, but her lead vocal style >> bugs the crap out of me. It just gets so strident. Gil, correct me if i'm wrong; during the recording, didn't Donnette complain about the stress of having to do her vocals under intense time constraints - during the original recording sessions - while Scott had much more time to do his vocal tracks later on? for the record, I've always felt that the production on Nothing New took most of the guts out of it - it was a heavy, grungy (sp?) song- (if my memory serves me, years later I mentioned this to Scott, and he agreed) Robert - --------------------------------- What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:29:48 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos On 2/9/06, Paul King wrote: > I have no problem with "strident". I think she's trying too hard to sound like > Belinda Carlisle. But just the same, not so hard that it's annoying. At least not > to me. But she doesn't. "We can daa-aance! We can daa-aaance!! We can dance dance! Dance! DANCE! DANCE!! DANCE!!! DAA-AAAANNNCE!!!! OOH-WHOA-OO-WHOA-OHHHH!!!" Ouch. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:30:06 -0800 (PST) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos - Mammoth Gardens vocals - --- robert toren wrote: > Gil, > correct me if i'm wrong; > during the recording, didn't Donnette complain > about the stress of having to do her vocals under > intense time constraints - during the original > recording sessions - while Scott had much more time > to do his vocal tracks later on? I don't remember. But guess what?! Donnette may be visiting the Bay Area later this month and I can ask her if she remembers! (You, Gui and Shalini will be there, right?) ;-) Gil ps: and while we're at it..I saw Shelley last night and sold her back the DX-7 ....(boo hoo....) Now, if I can just see Quercio and Nancy B, the GT chick reunion will be complete! > > --------------------------------- > > What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! > Autos ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:11:25 -0700 From: Dennis Subject: [loud-fans] donnette This is old news, but at one point Donnette was lurking on the list. I don't recall how long she stayed, but it has been quite a number of years now. Dennis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 23:15:14 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory Demos >"We can daa-aance! We can daa-aaance!! We can dance dance! Dance! >DANCE! DANCE!! DANCE!!! DAA-AAAANNNCE!!!! OOH-WHOA-OO-WHOA-OHHHH!!!" Is this the part where I bring up the goddamn hit single around that same time with dangerously near the same hook, about which nobody hauls the Hooters' trash; and then the much-revered-on-this list singer/songwriter who penned and sang, and I quote, "You do/you do/you do/you really do"? Why yes. It would seem so. Not really angry, more amused, at how we do this at least once a year, if indeed not more. Lurking? I thought Donnette worked for the Water Department. Don't ask me which Water Department. Had no idea her sister acted. But is Abbott Henderson Thayer her ancestor? Andy Q: What's your favourite Game Theory album & song? A: Favorite Album: Lolita Nation, favorite song: all of Lolita Nation. I played Lolita Nation for Steve shortly after it came out, and he liked it very much. He complained about how he would never be able to put out a sprawling record like that, much as he would have liked to. He said that his project was being restricted by Greg Ladanyi to the guitar song format, and he had to stick with archetypal pop songs like Under the Milky Way on his unassuming little record Starfish. Poor Steve. (To be fair, Steve also credited Greg Ladanyi at that time with having an amazing amount of music savvy, and had a sense that the work they were doing on Starfish would take him for quite a ride.) - --Donnette Thayer, from an interview by Cyril Wong at http://church.real.tristesse.com:81/dthayer/questions/dtself.htm ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #36 ******************************