From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #223 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 Tuesday, September 25 2007 Volume 07 : Number 223 Today's Subjects: ----------------- re: [loud-fans] best-of candidates at the 3/4ish mark ["outbound-only ema] Re: [loud-fans] Glenn Mercer ["Dave Walker" ] Re: [loud-fans] best-of candidates at the 3/4ish mark. ["Dave Walker" ] [loud-fans] best-of candidates at the 3/4ish mark [zoom@muppetlabs.com] [loud-fans] Captain D's the king of sleaze [Scout82667@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:06:47 -0500 From: "outbound-only email address" Subject: re: [loud-fans] best-of candidates at the 3/4ish mark Andy is in quotes: Greatest Song On An Otherwise Only Okay Record: Epoxies' "Here In The > Dark," Jim Steinman down to the baion and the sultry menace. Heh. In my review I pegged it as "faux Holly Knight" Sounding Great For A Guy Who Died Six Years Ago Last July: Steve Barton You do know there are (well, were) two Steve Barton's, right? The one who used to be in Translator is alive and (afaik) well, and releasing some swell records. No Samples Available: Deerhunter (the ep), Dollyrots, Get Him Kill Him, > Glos, Laura Veirs, Volt It's Get Him EAT Him (not to be confused with That's Him! That's the Guy!). Glos actually has an umlaut over the O, which screws it up in search listings. The album is "Harmonium," if that helps. It's the new band of the songwriters (and brother/sister team) from Engine Down and Denali. No Amazon Listing (That I Could Discover) For A 2007 Release By: Chelsea > (Peter Criss' band before Kiss--a reunion?), Dents, Information, > Shepherdess This Chelsea is the first-wave UK punk band, the album is "Faster, Cheaper & Better Looking" on TKO through Red Eye. I think it's a 2007US release (more songs) of a record that came out last year in the UK. The next three are all Boston-based acts, you can check them out at their websites if you're so inclined. The Dents that I like is the split with Drag the River, "Found all the Parts," on Suburban Home. http://www.thedentsrock.com (the key here is tjat Drag the River write better songs, but the Dents perform them better) The Information are probably easier to search for if you include the "the" in the name. http://www.theinformation.net/ Shepherdess: http://shepherdessband.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:09:15 -0400 From: "Dave Walker" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Glenn Mercer I've never seen any of the spinoffs live, though I was fortunate to seethe Feelies on the "Time For A Witness" tour, and I'd rank it among the top 5 shows I've ever seen. -d.w. On 9/23/07, DOUDIE@aol.com wrote: > > They played about an hour. It was the most nostalgic i've ever felt at a > show. > > > > ************************************** > See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:27:06 -0400 From: "Dave Walker" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] best-of candidates at the 3/4ish mark. On 9/23/07, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: No Samples Available: Deerhunter (the ep) Really like this one -- every bit as strong as the full-length. > > Wondering Why Nobody's Talking About: Marillion, Mika, Peter Bjorn and > John Hey, I mentioned this one. :) -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:39:11 EDT From: DOUDIE@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Glenn Mercer They were incredible. I saw them alot on the Only Life tour and afterwards. Maybe about 15 times because it never got tired. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:30:00 -0700 From: "Steve Holtebeck" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Glenn Mercer On 9/21/07, Dave Walker wrote: > Has anyone heard the Glenn Mercer solo album that came out early this > summer? I've been generally pretty impressed with the overall quality of > the various post-Feelies output (e.g. Speed The Plough, Wake Ooloo, Wild > Carnation. The Glenn Mercer solo album is on emusic with a digital-only bonus track (a cover of "Sunday Morning"). It sounds like a Wake Ooloo album.. I saw the Feelies twice on the TIME FOR A WITNESS tour. They were pretty good, and got bonus points from me for requesting that all their shows be no smoking (almost ten years before California's inside smoking ban), but it seemed like they spent five minutes or more tuning up before every song. - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:45:41 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: [loud-fans] best-of candidates at the 3/4ish mark >You do know there are (well, were) two Steve Barton's, right? The one who >used to be in Translator is alive and (afaik) well, and releasing some >swell >records. My fault. I assumed it was the dead one who was dead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Barton Hey, another Steinman connection... >It's Get Him EAT Him (not to be confused with That's Him! That's the Guy!). Typed the wrong name into email, but I think I got the right one at Amazon. The record's called ARMS DOWN? It's listed at Amazon, but no sound samples available. Likewise, HARMONIUM by Glos shows up, but no samples. Settling into work after watching my cell phone smash in the middle of a very busy street, Andy Natural Born Killers. I couldn't even sit there while it was going on. I got up and walked around the back of the theater. I was so upset. I didn't want to leave because I felt like I had to see the whole thing if I was going to denounce it. And I was going out with this girl at the time and she said to me [in a whiny voice], "I don't understand. The Godfather was violent." And that's how I knew I wasn't going to end up with that woman. Anybody who could dismiss my horror, my physical visceral fury at Natural Born Killers by saying, "The Godfather is violent." No, there were plenty of reasons why we broke up. That and the fact that when we saw The Lady Eve, my favorite movie, she says, "I don't get it. It's not so good." Also, she was bored by McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Three strikes. - --David Edelstein, from an interview by Paul Morton at http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_08_011467.php ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:25:55 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Captain D's the king of sleaze A note of apology for last week's sleaze-fest. A button was pushed, and it set me off, making me create a post raunchier than a BYOB strip club in a redneck town. I'm feeling a combination of belated remorse and a sick bloated feeling from imbibing a large strawberry shake from McDonald's in 95 degree heat. So, if I hurt your feelings, being behind the mask of Sgt. Cockring, I'm sorry. - --Mark "I wanna be a teen pop sensation!" (Jameka, the 9-year-old I work with) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #223 *******************************