From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #96 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 Sunday, May 21 2006 Volume 06 : Number 096 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Big Star & GT/LF [jontv@ksu.edu] Re: [loud-fans] Big Star & GT/LF [Tim Walters ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:56:58 -0500 From: jontv@ksu.edu Subject: [loud-fans] Big Star & GT/LF Quoting Jeff: > That's funny - because it seems like every review of GT feels > compelled to mention Big Star. Yet I really don't hear it - or > rather, it's not as if any GT is a Big Star tribute act in the > way, say, Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque is. I see the comparison a lot, too, especially with Game Theory. Surely the prominent Big Star cover on Real Nighttime has something to do with it. Many of the covers Scott has recorded are very close to the originals, and in the case of "You Can't Have Me", it fits in very well with the other stuff on that album. There are some similarities, musically, in the two bodies of work, but they aren't really obvious, to me. Both Scott and Alex are influenced by both the Beatles Brit-pop tradition and the American rock/blues tradition. But both like to mess with the pop formulas in a way that makes them hard to pin down. So maybe they get lumped together by association, because neither of them are easy to pigeonhole. It could also be that the content of Game Theory songs reminds people of Big Star than the music. Both Chilton and Miller tend to write from what seems to be the personal experiences of smart, sensitive artists in a world where neither of those things is particularly welcome. Just a few thoughts on a Saturday afternoon.... Jon, on the digest now, so forgive me for conversation lag. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:03:17 -0700 From: Tim Walters Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Big Star & GT/LF On May 20, 2006, at 10:56 AM, jontv@ksu.edu wrote: > I see the comparison a lot, too, especially with Game Theory. Surely > the prominent Big Star cover on Real Nighttime has something to do > with > it. Many of the covers Scott has recorded are very close to the > originals, and in the case of "You Can't Have Me", it fits in very > well > with the other stuff on that album. I think my reply yesterday went only to Michael, so I'll say it again: the situation is the same between 10,000 Maniacs and Fairport. Their cover of "Just As The Tide Was A-Flowing" (actually by Fairport relative the Albion Band) is both reasonably close to the original and a lot like the rest of THE WISHING CHAIR. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 18:42:39 -0400 From: "Grahame Davies" Subject: [loud-fans] Photo Robert's LF DVD hi folks Robert was kind enough to send me a copy of the DVD he produced of The Loud Family live in '91 and '92, plus some studio shenanigans, and it is well worth a look -- there's some great stuff here. So if you're interested, and you should be...first ten people to send me their address get a DVD copy from me. Thanks to Robert for sharing this. - -- Grahame ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #96 ******************************