From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #88 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, May 12 2006 Volume 06 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Re: loud-fans-digest V6 #87 [GlenSarvad@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Re: loud-fans-digest V6 #87 [Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: loud-fans-digest V6 #87 On Thu, 11 May 2006, GlenSarvad@aol.com wrote: > Can anyone vouch for the audio quality of the Hex Enduction Hour disc? > It's my favorite Fall album (along with This Nation's Saving Grace) > and I've been thinking of springing for the reissue. The Cog Sinister version from a few years back sounded good to me; I'd never really liked Hex Enduction Hour until I heard that. I don't know anything about the recent Castle reissue. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:59:26 -0400 From: "don't mine me" Subject: [loud-fans] Chris Prew's currently unseasonable swap disc jefortissimorey: > 14. Dwindle "No. 1 Winter Priority" - Ooh - that feedback at the opening > ... kinda sounds like some of those bands in the early '90s that (a) > Thurston Moore > championed and (b) thereby got signed to Geffen/DGC and (c) nearly > bankrupted the company by selling 17 copies each. I went on a J. Robbins (Jawbox/Burning Airlines/etc.) semi-completist tear a couple years ago -- he recorded most of Dwindle's catalog, which is available cheap on CD Baby. Their final recording is available as cheaply as possible (ie., free) at http://www.guiltriddenpop.com/artists/dwindle/index.php. One of Robbins' current projects is Channels. Their EP "Open" from a few years ago was one of those records that screamed to me "People who love Game Theory would really dig this," although my track record for correlating what I think Scott-fans would like, and they do like is kinda poor (well, except for that band with Bejar, Case and Newman in it). If it sways you at all, the Channels EP includes a weird cover of John Cale's "Fear is a Man's Best Friend." The long-awaited full length is due this summer, I think. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:35:27 -0500 From: Chris Prew Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Chris Prew's currently unseasonable swap disc On May 10, 2006, at 7:30 PM, 2fs wrote: > Way back when it more plausibly could be described as apt, a CD > from Chris > Prew called All My Winter Songs made its way to my mailbox as part > of the > last swap. (Yes, there will be another shortly - been busy...) This was one of those swap mixes that utilized iTunes to its fullest: 1) I'm in a hurry, I'm leaving town for several weeks 2) Hmm, lets search for a word. How about "Winter" 3) Need a few more tracks..."Snow" & "Cold" should suffice. 3) Burn. > > > > 4. For Stars "NY Gets Cold" - I have a few tracks by these folks - > but I can > never remember what they sound like, possibly because "For Stars" > is an > awful name, if for no other reason than I confuse it with other > "stars" > bands or even that pan-flash For Squirrels band (were they the ones > that > died?). Anyway: slow, quiet number whose first line is "it's pretty > here" - > and it is! I'm trying to decide if it was a good idea or a bad one > for the > singer to use so much of his very highest register. I always crack up when I read reviews of this band and they garner comparisons to Radiohead. The music sounds nothing like them, but he's got the Thom Yorke thing down cold. > > > 6. Oneida "The Winter Shaker" - Great, clangorous guitar opening. > Takes > quite a while to get going - not sure it's worth it, but I suspect > that > playing this really loud would annoy the pants off my neighbors. > Not that I > want them pantsless. Well, not most of them anyway. Onieda's an interesting band, you never know what you're going to get with them. Sometimes clangorous, sometimes sludgy stoner jams, sometimes keyboard pop. They have a lot of stuff on Emusic if anyones interested. > > > * 15. The Fall "Winter, pt. 2" - Most people don't know that Mark > E. Smith > is also an accomplished jazz-rock flautist. A I can't picture him with anything other than a cig or a pint in his mouth. > > 16. Mineral "Waking to Winter" - Snowy Day Real Estate An apt summation, but I like Mineral better. The lead singer went on to form the Gloria Record, which had a good single prior to disappearing. > > 17. The Microphones "I Want to Be Cold" - Curiously, I recently > downloaded > the other "I Want..." track from this album (from another mp3 > blog). Anyway, > it's the Microphones: distorted guitars, overheard vocals, but > somehow a bit > greater than its parts separately might suggest. > > 18. House of Large Sizes "Cold-Train" - Doesn't do much for me. Not > quite > boogie, but not much else really. Sorry. If House of Large Sizes would have appeared post White Stripes, rather than than in Iowa in the late 80's, they would have been huge. Still one of the best live bands I've ever seen. This isn't even close to their best song, but alas, the only one with the word "Cold" in the title. > > 21. Low "Last Snowstorm of the Year" - Before I write about this > song, I'm > going to write a bit about The Great Destroyer, Low's most recent > record. I > think I know what it is that kept Low songs compelling to me, even > though > their surface of slow, doomy downcastness might have turned me way > off. What > that something is is that there's also a real edge there, a raw > anger that's > kept tightly wrapped - but it comes out on The Great Destroyer > which is, > sonically at the least, a very mean record indeed. Quite often, it > sounds > like the guy next to you at the bar who's been nice enough till now > but > suddenly turns on you, smashes an empty bottle, and holds it up > against your > throat. Then laughs and claims he was just kidding. Anyway: it was > good that > Alan Sparhawk got past that "mopey nice guy" thing. Probably helped > (or > rather, didn't help - for Sparhawk personally) that he had been in > fact > suffering from crippling depression. So, to this track: it's > amazing, given > all that, how like a carefree, sunny snowy winter's day this song is. Agreed and agreed. If you love Low, and haven't heard Great Destroyer, you haven't heard Low. > > Fred Frith "Spring Any Day Now" - Indeed! Several guitars and a > piano in > unison lines that leap and frolic, somewhat unpredictably. A jazzy > sort of > interlude - this could have been on the soundtrack to a Peanuts > special, but > without the horrific kiddy choir crap. Then there's a chorus of those > munchkin saxophones that were apparently shipped in great numbers to > Cambridge in England during the early '70s, and back to the theme. > There's a > second, jumpy interlude in some odd meter, 5/8 or something (it's > already > over, and I wasn't counting), and once more to our joyous little > Spring > theme. Thanks for the review. I should probably review some of the ones I've reciev....oh, forget I said anything. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 23:09:09 +0000 From: anthony.miloscia@comcast.net Subject: [loud-fans] S.F. Radio Stations Hello All, I am in San Fran on vacation. Can someone tell me some good radio stations. Hope all is well, Ant ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #88 ******************************