From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #492 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, August 31 2008 Volume 07 : Number 492 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Re: Feelies [Markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Feelies [Markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Sweet Feelies [Richard Blatherwick ] Re: [loud-fans] Sweet Feelies [Steve Schiavo ] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Feelies [Gil Ray ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:10:16 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Feelies In a message dated 8/29/2008 8:14:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, dwalker@freeke.org writes: With all the Feelies talk, I got out my A&M "Only Life", and the sound is quite respectable -- decent separation on the instruments (I'd never noticed how intricate Brenda Sauter's basslines were) and actual dynamics, as compared with a lot of today's WALL OF LOUDNESS cds. I have the CD of THE GOOD EARTH--I played "The High Road" from it on my last show, and damn, that record sounds good in the studio on that top-end equipment. I remember thinking when I was recording the last show (before the gods showed their unhappiness with Of Montreal and struck the console with lightning) how good and warm and clean that record sounds. I'm a tad wary of them remastering it for reissue. That isn't always a good thing. The Jetset remaster of The Go-Betweens' BEFORE HOLLYWOOD isn't good to me, though it was worth getting for the bonus disc with video and extra tracks. I kept my Rough Trade CD of it, as the sound quality is much warmer and cleaner. On the flip side of the coin, the Rough Trade CD of Kilbey's THE SLOW CRACK was the pits--the vinyl I replaced with it was even pittier, and the Karmic Hit CD I got a few weeks ago is like Laurie Anderson's paradise--exactly like where you are right now, but much--much--BETTER. But the question remains--when are they ever going to reissue the dismally bad sounding MEAT IS MURDER? I have the '80s Rough Trade version of this that was pressed in France, if memory serves--I wonder if the Sire version is better. I don't know. - --Mark **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:25:04 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Feelies It just occurred to me--the first Feelies album was recorded direct to the board. Was THE GOOD EARTH as well? - -Mark **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:19:25 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Blatherwick Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sweet Feelies For me ALTERED BEAST could do with a bit of an edit too - although Devil with... and Someone to Pull the Trigger are among my favourite of his songs. I'd go for either 100% FUN or BLUE SKY ON MARS - the latter definitely 1st if it didn't open with Come to California, which I REALLY don't get along with. The only Sweet solo album I have a hard time with is LIVING THINGS which has failed to improve very much at all from its original poor rating despite numerous attempts to get into it. From all this I may be giving the impression that I don't think that the guy is all that good, but I think for me the problem is that when he is good he is amazing - as on many songs from all his 90s albums - but when he isn't it seems a HUGE letdown. np Seem to be having major return to loving the Wannadies at the moment, so playing BAGSY ME again! - --- Andrew Hamlin wrote: > > I'm the weirdo who still likes ALTERED BEAST best, > and I had to have the > > dino-green colored cover. And I think the best > album the GIRLFRIEND band > > made was Lloyd Cole's wonderful self-titled one > (or maybe it's called "X," > > heck, 18 years later and I still don't know for > sure). > > Didn't Miles have one of his patented reductios for > GIRLFRIEND? > > Coming up next, ladies and gentlemen, the White > Album down to a 45! > > Okay, but, does Miles want "Back In The U.S.S.R." > b/w "Good Night" > *or* "Wild Honey Pie" b/w "Revolution 9"? > > Andy > > > "The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, > And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. > The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, > And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears." > > --Sir Walter Scott, from "Lady Of The Lake" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:13:12 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Feelies Staples: > But the question remains--when are they ever going to reissue the dismally > bad sounding MEAT IS MURDER? I have the '80s Rough Trade version of this > that > was pressed in France, if memory serves--I wonder if the Sire version is > better. I don't know. I can't say if the Sire version sounds better than the Rough Trade version, but the Sire version is standard c. 1990 catalog CD sound, so don't get your hopes up for too much of an improvement. I see at Amazon there's a bunch of Smiths import versions with a purported release date of January 2008, but they don't have user comments or bonus tracks or anything else that says "remaster!" Dunno. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:01:22 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sweet Feelies I think Kimi Ga Suki Raifu can't be beat, especially if you're in a turn it up mood. Looking forward to Under the Covers 2, which should include a version of Ive Seen All Good People with Steve Howe on guitar. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Feelies By the way...the hold-up on the Feelies "Crazy Rhythms" is confusion as to who actually "owns" it. Universal had the rights to the other one on Water, but apparently they do not have the rights to this one. Gil - --- On Sat, 8/30/08, Markwstaples@aol.com wrote: > From: Markwstaples@aol.com > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Feelies > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 6:25 AM > It just occurred to me--the first Feelies album was recorded > direct to the > board. Was THE GOOD EARTH as well? > > -Mark > > > > **************It's only a deal if it's where you > want to go. Find your travel > deal here. > (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #492 *******************************