From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #241 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 Monday, October 15 2007 Volume 07 : Number 241 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] ALRN and Blaze of Glory [Scout82667@aol.com] [loud-fans] re: Mika [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] re: Mika ["Stewart Mason" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:56:53 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] ALRN and Blaze of Glory In a message dated 10/8/2007 1:33:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dennis.sacks@gmail.com writes: I fell in love with 0PB back when I bought and listened to 'Power Trips Down Lovers Lane' based on a loud fan's recommendation. I bought that one from a review in AP (before I aged out of their demographic), and I no longer own it, but regret it now. Music aside, it was worth keeping merely for the Koko Pop label's logo (Kramer's slogan was, "It's not a fuckin' cereal!"). - --Mark How could you possibly be alive and on earth and have a set of eyes and ears and a brain and not figure out that some kind of end is near? It's in the tap water. It's in the freshness-sealed pound of bacon you bought last week. It pulsates in the air every time Blair's cellphone rings with her lame 1980s retro Madonna "Holiday" ring tone. (from Bethany's journal in THE GUM THIEF) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:45:45 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: [loud-fans] re: Mika I'm three times through LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION so far, and while a vague sense that he's more interested in the toys of melody, harmony, and arrangement than pathos lingers, it's growing murkier at the bottom of the pool of all that melody, harmony, and arrangement. Certainly the most (mostly-) upbeat and chiming orchestral pop I've heard in a long time. Your thoughts? Granted, I don't remember MARS PENNSYLVANIA real well, Andy "DO NOT USE - FLAMES CAN COME OUT" - --note stuck to a computer at work the other day ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:54:54 -0400 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] re: Mika - ----- Original Message ----- From: > I'm three times through LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION so far, and while a > vague > sense that he's more interested in the toys of melody, harmony, and > arrangement than pathos lingers, it's growing murkier at the bottom > of the > pool of all that melody, harmony, and arrangement. Certainly the > most > (mostly-) upbeat and chiming orchestral pop I've heard in a long > time. > Your thoughts? > > Granted, I don't remember MARS PENNSYLVANIA real well, That's an intriguing comparison, given how much I adore MARS PENNSYLVANIA. Frankly, all I've heard so far is "Grace Kelly," which led Charity to ask "Who's this guy and why's he sound so much like Sparks?" Which that song at least totally does, circa their glam phase. I'll have to explore further. S ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #241 *******************************