From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #488 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, August 26 2008 Volume 07 : Number 488 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] same ol' theme... ["Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] same ol' theme... The new Kathleen Edwards, ASKING FOR FLOWERS, rocks pretty righteously and makes poetic use of the word "bullshit." I think Miles was standing up for that one, but I can't recall anyone else... Also of interest: REPENTANCE, in which Lee "Scratch" Perry gets into bed with Andrew W.K., Moby, *and* Don Fleming. Not to mention Sasha Grey. Yeah, that's gonna take some digesting... ...hopefully he's railing against "chimps," not "Chinks"... Andy "Mr Higginson, Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive? The Mind is so near itself  it cannot see, distinctly  and I have none to ask  Should you think it breathed  and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude  If I make the mistake  that you dared to tell me  would give me sincerer honor  toward you  I enclose my name  asking you, if you please  Sir  to tell me what is true? That you will not betray me  it is needless to ask  since Honor is it's [sic] own pawn " - --Emily Dickinson, a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, circa April 1862, in response to Higginson's advice for aspiring writers published in "The Atlantic Monthly" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:00:06 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] same ol' theme... Miles hasn't owned a Kathleen Edwards album since the first one, and sold it long ago. It wasn't bad by any means, but it didn't grab me. I haven't followed her since. I owe Bradley and lots of other folks some off-list e-mail... but to address a question asked in one of these, the new Wire is good but hasn't sunk its hooks into me yet. Canonically it seems merit-wise like a more concise MANSCAPE, i.e., worth keeping but not worth getting as excited over as its predecessors. In this sequence, SEND is THE IDEAL COPY, and last year's spiffy Githead album ART POP is A BELL IS A CUP. I'm probably leaving out a 2008 album or two but here's what I gots that I recall: 1) Goldfrapp, SEVENTH TREE (still wonderful, still beatable) 2) Local H, 12 ANGRY MONTHS 3) Radiohead, IN RAINBOWS (yeah, I'm counting it in 2008, not picky if you put it in 2007) 4) Wire, OBJECT 47 5) Todd Steed & the Suns of Phere, ESKIMO HAIR 6) The Mattoid, THE GLORY HOLY Yeah, I haven't bought much this year, nor barring a windfall do I anticipate doing so. I don't have the new Dandy Warhols, which sounded expansively, grandly great when I heard an advance copy at Grimey's a few weeks ago. Next forthcoming contender is the new Features on Sept. 30th (speaking of Grimey's, their drummer Rollum Haas works there), and free download "GMF" is splendiforous. Also wanting to hear the new Eno/Byrne, and have heard and liked their free pre-release track as well. later, Miles On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > The new Kathleen Edwards, ASKING FOR FLOWERS, rocks pretty righteously > and makes poetic use of the word "bullshit." I think Miles was > standing up for that one, but I can't recall anyone else... ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #488 *******************************