From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #149 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 Thursday, August 3 2006 Volume 06 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] namedropping [2fs ] Re: [loud-fans] namedropping [Matthew Weber ] Re: [loud-fans] namedropping [Aaron Mandel ] [loud-fans] LF show promoted at famed mp3 blog [2fs Subject: [loud-fans] namedropping I recently picked up a copy of Momus' Stars Forever (the 2-disc "patronage" set, for which people or groups paid to have a song written about them: the money was to bail out the record company after the inane Walter/Wendy Carlos lawsuit...). One track is called "The Indie Pop List" (all tracks are named after their patrons), which briefly names several participants in that list, including Aaron Mandel (here rhymed with "scandal": is that right?) - which means I now own two songs that mention people I know who would otherwise not seem likely song subjects. (The other song is the inexplicable "Stewart Mason" by Anton Barbeau.) Unless, of course, I'm forgetting anyone. Anyone else here mentioned by name in a song? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:51:56 -0700 From: Matthew Weber Subject: Re: [loud-fans] namedropping At 08:19 AM 8/2/2006, 2fs wrote: >I recently picked up a copy of Momus' Stars Forever (the 2-disc "patronage" >set, for which people or groups paid to have a song written about them: the >money was to bail out the record company after the inane Walter/Wendy Carlos >lawsuit...). One track is called "The Indie Pop List" (all tracks are named >after their patrons), which briefly names several participants in that list, >including Aaron Mandel (here rhymed with "scandal": is that right?) - which >means I now own two songs that mention people I know who would otherwise not >seem likely song subjects. (The other song is the inexplicable "Stewart >Mason" by Anton Barbeau.) > >Unless, of course, I'm forgetting anyone. Anyone else here mentioned by name >in a song? > >-- > >...Jeff Norman > I suppose it doesn't count if it's a song you wrote yourself...? Matthew Weber Curatorial Assistant Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library University of California, Berkeley For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. The Holy Bible (The New Testament): The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, 3:17 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:14:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] namedropping On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, 2fs wrote: > including Aaron Mandel (here rhymed with "scandal": is that right?) No; he sent out rough-cut versions of the songs to patrons, asking if there were any problems, but I was lazy and didn't listen to it. Oh well. Still a decent way to spend $25. Unrelatedly, my current musical crush: a Dutch guy called About. http://whataboutabout.com/home.php?nav=3 Rob Mitchum commented in Pitchfork that it sounded like a laptop noise jockey trying to become the dB's, which sounds about right. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:43:52 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: [loud-fans] LF show promoted at famed mp3 blog jefitoblog.com (hey, it's "famed" to me - - and our own Joe Mallon is a frequent contributor) plugs tonight's Hotel Utah show (with an outdated photo* - but hey) * Local alt-weekly promoted last week's Sonic Youth show with a photo of the 5-person formation - amusingly, since O'Rourke was on the far right (or left) of the image, it easily could have been cropped to show the current incarnation. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #149 *******************************