From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #271 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 Saturday, December 1 2007 Volume 07 : Number 271 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] a zillion volumes of andy partridge's fuzzy warbles on emusic [zoom@muppetl] Re: [loud-fans] a zillion volumes of andy partridge's fuzzy warbles on emusic ["Michael W. Zwirn" ] Re: [loud-fans] Power Pop book finally out [Jenny Grover Also there as of this morning is Bar-None's label sampler "Time for a > Change," which introduced me to Freedy Johnston and Brian Dewan, among > others; > also features Glass Eye (Kathy McCarty's old band, The Embarrassment > (proto-Big Dipper), etc.. Lotsy of quirky rock/pop/alt-folk goodness > there. Ahhhhh...TIME FOR A CHANGE. I've probably still got my cassette buried in the morass. A CD copy came up for sale or giveaway on the list, years ago, but I think Doug rang in before I could. At Evergreen's KAOS-FM, we spun the station's CD copy plenty. I have zero recollections on some of those songs, but a love for TMBG lead me to their backing vocals on Otis Ball's beloved "Walk On Water." Brian Dewan's feral "99 Cops" got plenty of play, though I couldn't believe, until I saw him live, that he was actually playing electric zither. "The Man With The Four-Stroke Heart" lead me to Freedy, indeed--hear him pour it all out onto the floor until two people clap listlessly at the end. Later, when I met Freedy and asked him for that song, he said he didn't real play "those songs with all those words" anymore. Pity. Don't forget, of course, Luka Bloom's plaintive "Trains," and Kathy McCarty's "Living Life" (later featured in BEFORE SUNRISE), her first Daniel Johnston cover, but not her last. When I met her, she said that tune pretty much paid for her tour. Recently I've read some fine music writing from around the web--in a rare display of restraint, I'm not gonna cut-and-paste these into .sigs, but I recommend'em. Brian Barr on growing up with the Misfits: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-10-31/music/the-misfits-are-for-every-nobody-anywhere.php ...Jonathan Zwickel on not growing up with Billy Joel: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=433738 ...Carrie Brownstein on rocking or not with "Rock Band": http://www.slate.com/id/2177432/fr/flyout ...and finally, Stephen King (who better?) on the picks that click him this year: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_en_ce/people_stephen_king_2 I see me and Uncle Stevie have exactly nothing in common (though I'd still like to hear the Fogerty), Andy "I hate foreigners, man...everything about their culture is just so weird." - --overheard at work recently ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:04:35 -0500 From: "Michael W. Zwirn" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] a zillion volumes of andy partridge's fuzzy warbles on emusic On Nov 30, 2007, at 7:53 PM, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: >> Also there as of this morning is Bar-None's label sampler "Time for a >> Change," which introduced me to Freedy Johnston and Brian Dewan, >> among >> others; >> also features Glass Eye (Kathy McCarty's old band, The Embarrassment >> (proto-Big Dipper), etc.. Lotsy of quirky rock/pop/alt-folk goodness >> there. > > Ahhhhh...TIME FOR A CHANGE. I've probably still got my cassette > buried in > the morass. A CD copy came up for sale or giveaway on the list, years > ago, but I think Doug rang in before I could. > > Don't forget, of course, Luka Bloom's plaintive "Trains," and Kathy > McCarty's "Living Life" (later featured in BEFORE SUNRISE), her first > Daniel Johnston cover, but not her last. When I met her, she said > that > tune pretty much paid for her tour. > This is random but I saw Kathy McCarty interviewed on a TV in the background of some show talking about Austin counterculture, maybe two weeks ago. I love the Johnston covers album - "Living Life" is my favorite - but I have have heard nothing else from her. Points to begin with? last played: Coverville podcast newly arrived from lala.com: Sarah Dougher, Day One ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:14:17 -0800 (PST) From: Gil Ray Subject: [loud-fans] Power Pop book finally out I got to love a book that that puts GT's BSC at #16 on a list of the best 200 power pop albums of all time! LF's Plants at #105. It's a new book out that Stacey just got. I have not really read any of it, but it looks very fun! Gil http://www.notlame.com/Page_1/PBPOWERPOPBOOK.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:04:23 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Power Pop book finally out Gil Ray wrote: > I got to love a book that that puts GT's BSC at #16 on > a list of the best 200 power pop albums of all time! > LF's Plants at #105. It's a new book out that Stacey > just got. I have not really read any of it, but it > looks very fun! > Gil > > http://www.notlame.com/Page_1/PBPOWERPOPBOOK.html > > Cool! So how is the disc? I have to admit that I have never heard of a lot of those bands/people. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:24:18 -0500 From: Aaron Milenski Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Power Pop book finally out > > I got to love a book that that puts GT's BSC at #16 on> > a list of the best 200 power pop albums of all time!> > LF's Plants at #105. Interesting...we've debated these things here before, and I will continue to always think of LOLITA NATION as the true GT/LF masterpiece, but I suppose it's less "power pop" than BSC (or REAL NIGHTTIME), whatever that means. I don't have the book yet, but aparently the top 200 was not compiled by a panel of power pop experts, but was acutally put together by just one: John Borack. John is one of the most knowledgeable power pop guys out there, so he's as qualified as anyone, but any list made by one person will necessarily have biases. If I was writing a book like that I'd never let myself finalize the list---I'd maybe make a list and ask some others to look over it and add whatever "classics" I may have left out,and if they happen to be albums I don't personally like, I'd let them write about them... Then again, I'm saying this not yet havig seen the list. For all I know, Borack purposely put in albums he didn't like because he knew they were deserving. It would have been fun if David Bash wrote the top 200 list...only, if he did it would become a top 4000 list or something! Bash once told me that "Together Now Very minor" was one of his top 10 favorite songs of all time even though he's not a big GT fan. _________________________________________________________________ Your smile counts. The more smiles you share, the more we donate. Join in. www.windowslive.com/smile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_oprsmilewlhmtagline ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:31:11 -0800 (PST) From: "\[The Arch-Villain\] West" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Power Pop book finally out Great Scott! (No pun intended.) I've been waiting for this book to come out forever -- Not Lame announced it well over a year ago, and since then there's been nothing but delays... which, come to think of it, is kinda not not lame. I had just about given up hope of ever getting one. I've just placed my order -- this book will be my Christmas present! (The Robyn Hitchcock box set is my Hannukah present. [The "Blade Runner" box set is my Kwanzaa present.]) Thanks for the heads-up, Daddy-o! West - --- Gil Ray wrote: > I got to love a book that that puts GT's BSC at #16 on > a list of the best 200 power pop albums of all time! > LF's Plants at #105. It's a new book out that Stacey > just got. I have not really read any of it, but it > looks very fun! > Gil > > http://www.notlame.com/Page_1/PBPOWERPOPBOOK.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:40:45 EST From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Power Pop book finally out In a message dated 11/30/2007 9:23:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ggilray@yahoo.com writes: I got to love a book that that puts GT's BSC at #16 on a list of the best 200 power pop albums of all time! And rightfully so. That must mean you were beaten out only by the big boys, like Big Star and Badfinger and Cheap Trick--I'm so happy for you! Three gazillion Scott chords (loosely paraphrasing Aimee Mann) and a cloud of Mitch Easter 16-track analog dust, - --Mark, aging pizza whore (switched to Papa John's and making like, double what I used to on the weekends--should've changed my pimp years ago!) **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:16:43 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Power Pop book finally out [The Arch-Villain] West wrote: > Great Scott! (No pun intended.) I've been waiting for this book to come out forever -- Not Lame > announced it well over a year ago, and since then there's been nothing but delays... which, come > to think of it, is kinda not not lame. I had just about given up hope of ever getting one. I've > just placed my order -- this book will be my Christmas present! (The Robyn Hitchcock box set is > my Hannukah present. [The "Blade Runner" box set is my Kwanzaa present.]) Thanks for the > heads-up, Daddy-o! > What's your Solstice present? Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #271 *******************************