From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #20 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 Monday, January 26 2009 Volume 08 : Number 020 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Re: Bon Iver [GlenSarvad@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Bon Iver [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen [Andrew Hamlin ] [loud-fans] Head start on 2009? [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Head start on 2009? ["Brian Block" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:55:35 EST From: GlenSarvad@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Re: Bon Iver Andy writes: Still not sure what Bon Iver sounds like--but I can always try the Amazon samples. Still still not sure, though, if it's fair how P&J combined points from (presumably) separate Bon Iver releases, Andy Bon Iver is basically one guy, doing a very sparse acoustic thing akin to Nick Drake or quieter Neil Young. My favotite RIYL is the underappreciated Phosphorescent. For Bon Iver, check out "Flume" and "Skinny Love"- if those don't strike you, it's probably best to move on. glenn covered the separate release point- not sure how Bon Iver garnered votes in 07 since it was released in February- maybe a self-released version was floating around for awhile? That must be a more common complication these days. Best P&J example I can think of was the year Sandanista won, rolling in the numerous votes it received as an import the previous year. **************From Wall Street to Main Street and everywhere in between, stay up-to-date with the latest news. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000023) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:14:32 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Bon Iver > Bon Iver is basically one guy, doing a very sparse acoustic thing akin to > Nick Drake or quieter Neil Young. My favotite RIYL is the underappreciated > Phosphorescent. > > For Bon Iver, check out "Flume" and "Skinny Love"- if those don't strike > you, it's probably best to move on. Fond of both songs, though I'm thinking a louder quieter Neil Young more than Nick Drake. Not that I don't love Drake, but you never heard Nick pop a sweat. Or even a plosive. Okay, another album on reserve at the library--thanks G.! And since an artist hasn't arrived until a corridor full of autistic kids do a cover version--well, check my .sig, Andy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4LjR4H985g ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:47:26 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen On 1/24/09, Paul King wrote: > I didn't know that McCartney was into electronic music. In his latest LP which > I got from EMusic (which it claims is a 2009 album), the song "Sing The > Changes" sounds like he's angling for a hit, and likely attempting for his > electronic experiments to go mainstream. > > Any comments on his dabbling efforts (other than the obvious comment that he's > so famous, he could sell a million by recording his farts in the bathtub)? 2009 album indeed--on Dave Matthews' ATO label, no less. I've only heard two YouTubed songs so far, but it seems like a turnaround from earlier Fireman (singular) projects. McCartney didn't even want his name connected with the very first one, although it got out eventually. On the whole, Paul's done much more avant-garde work that he gets credit for--and sometimes, yes, he shys away from the credit. Consult the Christopher Sandford bio for details. Okay, another disc to wait six months for at the library, Andy "I honestly couldn't give a shit one way or another about 'professional' music critics, they are a sub-species at best and a parasitic infection at worst..." - --an old friend of mine on gchat ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:10:03 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: [loud-fans] Head start on 2009? Been spinning my advance of Faunts' new full-length FEEL. LOVE. THINKING. OF. (available late February) and I know I shouldn't forecast this early, but I'm thinking I got a strong candidate for this year's Top Ten. Got an advance of the new Bob Mould too, and...well, waded through a lot of dross to get to the lovely song second from the end. Maybe I'll try it again. Of course, shoulda-heards from 2008 go drifting by too. I might have given Fredrik's NA NA NI (1474 7 1) a few more spins. And I didn't get to Otis Taylor's RECAPTURING THE BANJO (442 20 1) in time... Highest charting album by a dead person (I'm pretty sure): Arthur Russell, LOVE IS OVERTAKING ME (85 125 11), Andy Steve Martin picks and grins on banjo album DETROIT (Billboard)  Steve Martin puts his new album, "The Crow: New Songs For the Five-String Banjo," "under the heading of 'I'm not getting any younger.'" The album by the actor/comedian/author/musician comes out January 27 as a three-month Amazon.com exclusive. It features 15 original Martin compositions recorded with guests such as Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Mary Black, Earl Scruggs, Tony Trischka, Tim O'Brien and Pete Wrenick. It was produced by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's John McEuen, a high school friend of Martin's. "I started (playing banjo) when I was 17," Martin told Billboard.com. "I know what my specialty is -- playing songs I write, and if I'm asked to step outside that specialty, I can get a little nervous. It's a dichotomy; on one hand I can play my own songs with anybody, but if I got into a really serious bluegrass crowd, I'd play a couple standards and retire." Martin says five of the songs on "The Crow" -- named after a track he wrote and performed on Trischka's "Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular" in 2007 -- date back to the late '60s and early '70s, while others are more recent. "Tin Roof" came along while he was filming 2003's "Cheaper by the Dozen," and "Pretty Flowers" was conceived while filming 2006's "The Pink Panther" in Boston. "I had these songs," Martin says, "and I was up to speed 'cause I sort of got back into the banjo in the last three years. And I thought, 'Now it's time.'" Martin -- whose next film is "The Pink Panther 2," which opens February 6 -- will make a number of TV appearances to promote "The Crow," including hosting "Saturday Night Live" on January 30. As for touring, he says that "if I do, it'll be in the summer," after he wraps another film role in an as-yet-untitled Nancy Meyers-directed romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. "I think I would just do a bluegrass festival or something like that," Martin says. "The word (about the album) isn't even out yet, and I don't even know what I'd do. I guess I have to get a band, right? I wouldn't even know how to do an hour show of music. I'd have to think about that." Martin, who's also working on a novel, is nominated for a Grammy Award in the best spoken album category for his audiobook version of his memoir "Born Standing Up." - --from http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090124/music_nm/us_martin;_ylt=Amqz1B2WNt6J1OWw9mP1.3VxFb8C ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:24:38 -0800 From: "Brian Block" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Head start on 2009? >Been spinning my advance of Faunts' new full-length FEEL. LOVE. >THINKING. OF.> So who are the Faunts, and what is the record like? I have my own likely best-of-2009 entry already: Cheer-Accident's FEAR DRAWS MISFORTUNE, probably my new favorite album in their widely varied 20+ year canon. There are, honestly, only a few people on this list I could see liking it. Genre-wise, it's somewhere between Rock In Opposition, heavy metal, and (I admit this reluctantly) jazz fusion, or in other words it's a bunch of highly talented instrumentalists playing strange melodies, with strange counterpoints, loud and fast. With pleasantly crooned singing. But in the off-chance that you _do_ sometimes like that sort of thing, I think this is a particularly terrific example.

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