From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #132 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, June 7 2007 Volume 07 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] 80s trendy, hip trivia questions [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] one question answered [Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] 80s trendy, hip trivia questions Does anyone remember a funny hardcore song from around 1984 called "Red Light, Green Light"? No, not that pop ditty about "that's the way the traffic goes". In this one, the vocalist shouted "green light" at regular intervals as the band played at break-neck speed. Then he would shout "red light" and they would instantly stop. The it was "green light" and they would play again, etc. Then he said, "yell-ow li-i-ght" and they played slow as long as he said that. Then it was back to "green light" and, of course, the song stopped when he said "red light". So... who was that? I can't for the life of me remember what band it was, and I haven't been able to turn up anything online. Also, there was a funny song called "Trendy and Hip" done to the music of the Addams Family theme song. Who did that one? Jen ps. Once again I am having to resend a post that tried unsuccessfully to be delivered for days before coming back to me as undeliverable. Anyone else having trouble with Smoe? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:16:46 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 80s trendy, hip trivia questions Your questions made me think of a song that pops into my head every now and again that I haven't actually heard in 23 years, since watching the video on WTBS' "NIght Tracks"--"Black Stations/White Stations." Googling revealed it was M+M, aka Martha and the Muffins, who are best known for "Echo Beach," that Robert Forster did an excellent version of (better than the original in my opinion). So, thanks Jen. - --Mark ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:19:19 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 80s trendy, hip trivia questions >>M+M, aka Martha and the Muffins, who are best known for "Echo Beach," > that Robert Forster did an excellent version of (better than the original > in my > opinion). I never followed the Go-Betweens, but I loved Forster's album of covers, I HAD A NEW YORK GIRLFRIEND, from 1994. Obscure Dylan, Keith Richards, Grant Hart, and country songs, stuff from all over the map but all tossed off elegantly. He even turns Heart's lovably-bombastic "Alone" into an insomniac solo-piano exercise. Listen carefully and you'll hear Dylan praise "3 a.m." in DON'T LOOK BACK, Andy New Pac Man For Xbox Is Swan Song For Founder By Reuters InformationWeek Tue Jun 5, 5:29 PM ET ADVERTISEMENT NEW YORK - Pac Man will be reborn on Microsoft's Xbox Live online service Wednesday as a final tribute for designer Toru Iwatani, who is retiring from the $30 billion games industry he helped ignite. The new version of the iconic arcade game is a faithful interpretation of the addictive 27-year-old original, where players wrenched joystick controllers to race a character -- resembling a yellow pizza missing a slice -- around a digital maze to chomp white pellets and chase multicolored "ghosts." The new game, "Pac Man Championship Edition," is the second and final version Iwatani personally designed, and was created for the final round of the Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship in New York, when nine finalists played it for the first time. Iwatani, 52, an employee of Japan's Namco Bandai Holdings , said in an interview he will retire from active duty at Namco and spend more time teaching the next generation of game designers at Tokyo Polytechnic University. He said there were no immediate plans for another version of Pac Man, but that he could work with Namco in a supervisory position or work on a new version with his students. The new game, which pulses to dance music and has mazes that change shapes, marks Iwatani's swan song from electronic interactive entertainment, an industry with annual revenue that now tops U.S. box office movie sales. But Iwatani said the future of the games industry, where development budgets now rival those of some feature-length movies, lies not with professional creators, but outsiders. The designer of "Tetris was not from the industry. He was a scientist," he said, referring to another legendary 1980s game, in which players organize falling blocks, designed by Russian scientist Alexey Pajitnov in 1985. "For someone thinking outside of the industry, they can have a fresh new idea," Iwatani said. Despite the last decade's advances in computer graphics technology and design, Iwatani created the new Pac Man as he did the original -- in two-dimensions. "I wanted to stay with the original simple rules of Pac Man," he said. The new version also reshuffles older formats. In one mode, called "Dark mode,' most of the maze is hidden from view with players guided only by a flashlight lighting Pac Man's path. "Pac Man Championship Edition" will be sold for about $10 as a download on the Xbox Live service, starting Wednesday. By: Kenneth Li [from http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070606/tc_cmp/199901449 ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:13:27 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] one question answered Found out who did "Red Light, Green Light". It was Plain Wrap. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:15:37 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] one question answered On 6/6/07, Jenny Grover wrote: > > Found out who did "Red Light, Green Light". It was Plain Wrap. > You know, your description of the song reminds me of a little number the Violent Femmes used to do, called (amusingly) "Theme and Variations": It was one note in the bass, one chord on the guitar, played straight eighth-notes for as long as they felt like it (yr basic percussion on top snare on 2 and 4). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:15:07 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] one question answered 2fs wrote: > On 6/6/07, Jenny Grover wrote: > >> Found out who did "Red Light, Green Light". It was Plain Wrap. >> >> > > You know, your description of the song reminds me of a little number the > Violent Femmes used to do, called (amusingly) "Theme and Variations": It was > one note in the bass, one chord on the guitar, played straight eighth-notes > for as long as they felt like it (yr basic percussion on top snare on 2 and > 4). > > Ah. Well, "Red Light..." was more musically complex than that. Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #132 *******************************