From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #344 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, March 4 2008 Volume 07 : Number 344 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] album twofers ["Tom Marcinko" ] [loud-fans] Simon through the sliding doors with relevance [Markwstaples@] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 07:41:22 -0700 From: "Tom Marcinko" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] album twofers All good choices. 2 STEPS is one of my favorites. On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Dan Stillwell wrote: > Back-to-back, these work for me: > > Roxy Music's Country Life and Siren. > > The Doors and Strange Days > > Nirvana's Nevermind and In Utero > > Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town > > And I kinda like that Miller guy's Lolita Nation and 2 Steps from the > Middle Ages. > > Dan from WV ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:48:14 EST From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Simon through the sliding doors with relevance I've felt kind of bad about what I said about Paul Simon not being relevant and getting back with Art Garfunkel, who I also said wasn't relevant. I don't think I was wrong in my criticisms, but it was rather harsh. I think it's more frustration with their not doing more together (or, maybe I'm just sore that Tony Lacey got Annie Hall and not Alvie--lol). I mean, for God's sake, get your creative catalyst back! And, not once every decade--ALL THE TIME!! In the '60s, Simon was the poet of his generation (I'm not much of a Dylan fan), and then we went rather quickly to what I think of as boring crap by the end of the seventies. Sorry, but I even thought the highly touted GRACELAND was and is a snoozer/borer, but BOOKENDS? Masterful. THE RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS? Sorry, but if I want to hear great drumming I still have my old Sandy Nelson record from when I was a kid around here somewhere. I've got Garfunkel vinyl, like SCISSORS CUT, but, let's face it--give me and a million others a choice, and I'll play PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY AND THYME 50 times before I'd ever think of playing that one. Simon and Garfunkel need each other, like Lennon and McCartney did ("Let 'Em In" vs. "A Day in the Life"--no contest). It is sad to think of all the great music we were robbed of, because of the pridefulness of Lennon and McCartney with each other. "How do you sleep, you cunt?" Ouch. Who knows--maybe if they had been together as working partners and friends Mark David Chapman may not have had a chance to kill Lennon. Or, the motives to do so may have never come into being. Who knows what the ramifications are from our smallest daily decisions. - --Mark, who loves rock like a rock **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #344 *******************************