From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #278 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 Sunday, December 9 2007 Volume 07 : Number 278 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote [Gil Ray ] Re: [loud-fans] weighing in late [zoom@muppetlabs.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:27:56 EST From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote In a message dated 12/8/2007 1:30:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ggilray@yahoo.com writes: Yes. Weird...we would sell out a club in Ann Arbor and play to 20 people in Detroit. Chicago great, Milwaukee terrible. Hoboken fabulous, NY not. Regardless, I for one loved the handful. Married one! Gil It probably has a lot to do with demographics. If you had The Supremes backing you in Detroit, it would've been a sell out. Ann Arbor I believe is higher up on the demographic pole than Detroit (and you don't even have to wear a bullet proof vest there!--making these assumptions from my brother, who lived in Flint when he went to school at General Motors Institute, and would tell of Michigan). Second City Chicago is pretty hip with the arts, Milwaukee, well, I'm thinking it's probably a blue collar, arts unfriendly place--more sports oriented--Hoboken I don't know, but thinking it's probably more like Ann Arbor. NYC well, aren't they famous for ennui? Perhaps if Scott set himself aflame or something (one show only!) they would've come out. I can drive an hour to Asheville and it's a different world from here. I can drive two hours to Athens and same deal. But, in G-ville's defense, we've come a long way. Thanks to a great guy running a great record store, we get Shalini, Aimee Mann, The Swimming Pool Q's, John Doe and others coming through here and playing (and vowing NEVER to return--lol). - --Mark **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:29:14 -0800 (PST) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote - --- Jenny Grover wrote: > Gil Ray wrote: > > Regardless, I for > > one loved the handful. Married one! > > > > Wait, Gil... are you saying Stacey is a handful? lol! It's probably more the other way around! (poor dear...) Gil ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 15:24:15 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] weighing in late > And needless to say, I like the Shalini and Mitch discs quite a bit. But > what surprised me was how much I liked the latest TMBG (THE ELSE). Oh, I've been waiting to hear that one. What stands out about it, Rog? Patty Griffin's CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH sounds about like I thought it would from the sound samples, and if that sounds like faint praise, it isn't meant so. An album everyone should listen to, and I'm confident successive playings shall attune me more acutely to its ambiance of mystery. Even if one song swipes most of its guts from "You Send Me." Surprise delight of the season: PJ Harvey's WHITE CHALK. YouTube bits didn't grab me, and one wag wrote in to point out how the title track resembles Smashing Pumpkins' "Blank Page," and after YouTubing that, I agreed. The studio tracks sound far more confident and multifaceted than the live YouTube stuff, though, and given how I didn't have much invested in "Blank Page" to begin with, that part ceased to bother me. If you stuck DREAMING-era Kate Bush in a flat with a four-track and feed her on true crime books, you might end up with something like this album. Still haven't heard the Fogerty, though... Andy "It was a long short week." - --Mom on Thanksgiving week ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #278 *******************************