From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #431 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, June 28 2008 Volume 07 : Number 431 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] good cover versions synchronicity ["outbound-only email addre] [loud-fans] Destroying - Creating ["Larry Tucker" ] [loud-fans] noise canceling headaches? [Jenny Grover ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:36:42 -0400 From: "outbound-only email address" Subject: [loud-fans] good cover versions synchronicity I didn't save the message, but someone wanted to segue from weird cover versions (did that thread expire before anyone mentioned laibach? their "let it be" is pretty demented) to good cover versions. today i just happen to have queued up screamfeeder's "home age" an all-covers release with an ace selection including the jam, the who, david bowie, husker du, and neutral milk hotel. screamfeeder is the latest in the long series of "how did i miss hearing a band i'd like >this< much for >so< long?" discoveries. the generic grunge-lite name has a lot to do with it, i think, as does their relatively low profile on the north american continent. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:58:12 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: [loud-fans] Destroying - Creating Out of lurkdom for a couple of things that might be of interest. Since there are a number of loud-fans on the west coast, if you get the chance check out I Was Totally Destroying It on their tour west and back to NC. I saw them this past Wednesday night at their Chapel Hill sendoff and thought they were pretty great. I can hear the influences of Superchunk, but their sound is heavier on the pop and lighter on the punk/grunge. Keyboard sound right out of the 80's Interesting that the band member's ages range from 18 to 35. http://www.reverbnation.com/iwastotallydestroyingit http://www.myspace.com/iwtdi Also there was this cool blog post by Peter Holsapple to the NY Times about songwriting. http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/ Larry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:22:40 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] noise canceling headaches? I got a nice pair of noise canceling earbuds for my birthday. They sound great, they do reduce noise, they are very comfortable in my ears. However, when I have the noise canceling feature turned on, it's only moments before I start developing a mild headache in my forehead and feel a bit lightheaded, even a tiny bit queasy. If there isn't any music turned on, just the noise canceling feature vs. ambient sound in the room, it feels like my head is building up pressure inside. Has anyone else here had this problem? Is it something you can just work through and get used to? Would it have anything to do with my hypersensitivity to ultrasonic frequencies, which can cause me to get very faint very quickly if they happen to be the wrong sort (evil culprits include ultrasonic humidifiers, ultrasonic jewelry cleaning machines, and certain frequencies of large fluorescent tube lights, as well as artificially generated sounds [I found out I had this interesting affliction in a physics class, and the professor was familiar with it])? Jen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:07:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Destroying - Creating - --- Larry Tucker wrote: > Also there was this cool blog post by Peter > Holsapple to the NY Times about > songwriting. > http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/ > Larry I enjoyed that also, Larry. Very cool indeed! Gil ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #431 *******************************